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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1898)
4V jAk jAl jCk. - . .. - "Nebraska TRotcs Aebron is hustling for a telephone system. A farmer's institute will 1 held at j Auburn January 11. I A revival at hi wood has brought ;0 ; people to a realization ol tht'ir lout con- j dition. ; There is a religious revival in progress ! t the Grand Island soldiers' aii'l sail ors' Lome. Five men have been arrested at Lodge Pole on the charge of stealing coal Iroiu railroad cars. The bachelors of Alliance braced up the oilier t v.-nii,g ami gave the un married ladies a baiujuet. A switchman at Wymore got his fin pera badly pinched recently woile trying to make a swift coupling. It aa fifteen years the first ol Janu ary since tlie Grand Island Independent wan first published ih a daily. In North wi-Ht Nebraska several stock men are vaccinating their cattle an a preventive fur black leg. Pawnee p' opl" have run the Mot ma chines out of town and now they pro pose to jmt a stop to raffles. Jolm Mtistenuan, a loy working in the Norfolk sugar f.ictory fell down a pair of stairs and broke hi.- leg. Someone entered the house of Mrs. S. Kier.-tead of Tildon during her tempo rary absence and stole rfi'i in money. Farms are changing h ;iidn in Co! fa county, five sales being made wit-.in a week in the vicinity of ta'igh and at g'Kid prices. The Nebra-ka Tele; hone company is figuring with the i ople of West Point on the iic.-l ion of a telephone exchange lor thai. city. An examination of the records of Hooker county furnished iincontestiblo proof that the treasurer in an honest man. Table KocU is paying the do tor bills i! people injured by bad sidewalk rather than to chance dan age. sniU in jourt. The coal dealers of (i rand I-land ad vertise that tle-y will hereafter give full weigh tH for the money. What have they yen doinjr? It is reported that. George Kairbroiher the former editor of the Talmage Tri Dune, is to again lake charge of that paper. A stranger in Grand Island, while taking a bath was robbed of $1" that should have been in bin inside pocket, hut wan tucked away in bin vet. The saloon at North i'latte have been compelled to take dow n their blinds and tiitplcra must t.ike their drinks in full view of the public. Work on the ere. meryand cheese fac to ry for l'ender will begin at once, rioine twelve or til'tcen carpenters will be employed. The Chadron a a leuiy has reduced it") rates of tuition IS) per cent and also made a reduction in rent of rooms in the aeademy building. So miyiy cattle are Ixring fed this win ter in the vicinity of I'onca, that far mers there are predicting a scarcity of Corn In-lore spring comes. A rhi d of Chat ieu Snooks, living at Kim Cr ek, fell over a p . n of hot coa H running her hand and arm m the pan, burning the hand hat tlie hkin and finger nai s fell oil'. A Norf' ik physician thought ho was divorced l. day In-fore he was anil txik a second wib. lie had two wives for a few hours until the decree of divorce was entered on n c rd. Times semi to be reasonably good on the frontier The treasurer of Banner county sent out b)i notices to delinquent tax payers, and all hut a half dozen ealh d anil janl up all delinquencies. Jasner I'jwers of Gchring was driving home with! loads of goods for the local me'chants when Uith wagon tiiMi! ovvr Rt"l went into a narrow can yon breiking up crockery in a frightful manner. The potheiiburg Power and Irriga tioti C' inpaiiy has succeeded in making ,Hk pay a dividend the pant year ud priposc'1 to Kjiend about f'KJ.OOi) neit Htring iit enlarging and improving the w.ks. ,,, ry I.animers, the insane farmer ol Cmni.V county, woo walked all the waj home from a private asylum at St. lmh about a month ago, has reco vered hni mental equililieruui and t hl: to attend to bis farm work. flie Winnebago Indians have just had diiiribuled to them by the governineril tie sum of $1,(XH. There are I -JIM per Bms in the iribe making an average ol flxut $1"' to each buck, piaw ami pa pxie. Next month the Oniiihas will get an allowance of S er head from an in terest fund. This trilw numlierH 1,282. (iothenbiirg has a proposition for I half million dollar sugar factory and th Citizen are working with might and main to secure the bonus required to se cure It. The land of the big red apple had m cliariim for Oscar Fowler of Sidney, win has Just returned overland from Arkan sas to Cheyenne county and i glad t jet home attain, even if Cheyenne coun ty la not in the agricultural section o the state. m He Ul k Itlltl N i h Piihiok.av, Vi., J -n. r V' a re mit o' a "wirrooin tVtit, in Inc i Hon FitzsimiiK n, cbni'i-..i"n henvy Ae't'bt pujilist of h w-hl, Mart.n Hti.'he, a wll k iov n al'oiin-y, Cliari H Swiu ill, i miii of Jw!t Wi : am II. !-r,niiin ol t1 e I i . 1 1 I s i H ' re ri. i l K lit H. Mcliniiil.-, .. e. l I, li..i) i.. I .t. i-.m-mons' tl eatrii-al company, were impli ated, Attorney Ilm l.es ii. s in a pre -a--ious com!n."i:i and there are si u.e loubts as to l is r- overy. Tlie trouble irew out of a eritici 'in a-e 1 mi Ft t ! inmoiiB' enow by 1 lui ta. which as esented by Mcliaiuele, who, it is id ged, glru k the attorney over the ye, rupturing a vein from which blood 3ow--d freelv, To M Iwaukee doctors "Th niuiui uied to atitnd Iluheu' in juries. Ml'rlii-M VVnt to Hfc-lit. Ni-w Vohk, Jan. 5 Following is a etter fi jm I'eny Moore, the father in aw of Charley MiU bel!, who desiies to jorreet the iiLpresaion that the F.ng'ii-h- man ever lieclined to meet Kid McCoy. With the letter is a challenge from Mit- ;hell to McCoy. "As Kid McCoy has beaten Creed-n, md as he says Char:ey Mitchell would lot light him while he as in Kr.gland. foil will oblige by in erting the follow-. ng challenge in your valuable paper, j ist to s' ow the fp'-rting public wdio I miked out of a match. Yours sincerely, l'o.W Moo UK. On Heh.ilf of Charley Mitchell." riie following 'f Mnchell's challenge: "To Kid Mi :Coy : Chariey Mitchell iereby challenge.H Kid McCoy to tight lim for any mm from 00 nrnvards l"l the best purse- (r red. '1 j i,'mp c, :'ub of I!i-tnintrti mi in Kngla-id will ive a pur e of 1 1,000 for the match to :a';e place on the -'1hI of February. This purse is good enough for nie and sh iuld ttlit McCoy. Iloiinii Met Joy will accept ;hih t halle ge and come to England at nice, I remain, yours truly, Cmahi.ky Mitch km,. "P. P. I will allow McCoy 1U0 ex penses. Itl Moio-y anil Itisr Hiea. New Yokk, Jan, fi. Acording to the Herald, a lace for one hour o- an o it- o r track, sci n'ilicaliy cur v;d, he- ween the lour fastest middle distmeo bicyclists in the world, with uulimiieil taicemak i n v, and for a pnre of f 20,0110 is what the New Yorkers will be treated early next summer if negotiations n iw pending do nit miocariy. l. e race should be the irent,est, in the his ory of cyelinr. James M ehael nect-s-arily will be one the quartet of compet itors and the other three will oe evolved from two seriee of trial heats, which wid he open to the w orld, and for which Jpecial prizs will be offered. As at present pro;xsed, all the foreign era ks including I.ncien Lesna of Switzerland, F. Iward Tayiore ol France, Tomlingon, J. W. St'ikca and . A. Chase of F.ng iand, will be invited to compete in one he e series, wni'e all the likely Amer ran riders, including W. W, Hamilton, Arthur llanluicr, K. A. Mc Dullie, John -i. Jolo - in, A. C. Merlins, W. C. banger and J F. Marbuck, will be invited to c imps e in the other series Ine dinners of these two series and a third rider selected according to merit, will then meet Michael in the final. For that final the best riders in the world will be secured for pacemakiiig purposes and the manager of e.ich com petitor may employ ai many multicycles is he sees tit. F(,o. hull fat ,1 ty Maiiysvii i.g, Cal. Jan. 5 W. C. Man well of the Stanford loothall team, who w is injured in the g line w ith the Marv -Vil iadiletie learn last Sa'.ur lay, died it 2 o'chx-k yes' nlay u orning. lie re c ived un injury to the spinal cord op p ism the sixth cervical vertebrae, which caused paralysis from the seat ol injury downward. There was also some in ternal injury in the region of the chest. A short time before his death young Minwell said : "I was playing quarter back and tackled one of the Maryiville men. In lining Bo I cHUght li'in above the knee. Then I fell, my head resting on the leg of the man I tsckled, and my bixly on the ground. W hen the players began to pile upon us in the scri'nm igo I (nit my neck crack and then the -rowd pdu 1 oir. I cried 'Oh, my neck,' and turned over on my lia k. That is all I rem em her." A frpi-ralA Attrtttpt. Miwnkai'oi.im, Jan. 6 John Mooch ik, t murderer, condemned to death, made a (lespeate attempt to escape from the jonnty jail on the top floor ol the court house building yestriiy morning. He threw baud ml of ciar ashes in the eyes )l Special Watchinah Peterson and heat him into insensibility with a long iron In ok aken from hi bedstead. Then, locking the door, he made his way into the corridor and the hallway. Th ! only in- de ol egress to th" street lielow it the jail elevator, and Mo-chik rang the bell hoping to take the elevator man by sur prise He was foiled in this, as the operator recognize' the fellow. He dropped his car, and Moschik was cinglit and returned to his cell. Peter son' wounds are serious, hut not fatal. I rr nii-s w Wpnltliy Mm, Nkw Yohk, Jan. 6 The Herald today will say! The appel ite division of the upreme court has handed down a decis ion In (he unit of W W. Averille against Amzi ilarlxsr ami others, awarding the old veteran nearly 700,000. The suit rowi out of a reorganization of the Bar ber Asphalt company and the decision was concurred in by the four judges of .ue apH-late division and is tlnal. By it leoeral Averill be.--, net a wealthy nian dter enduring pover y for many yeara. ll e m br r of . U ( Itti:trtll7 II Ot A FATAL CJiASU Upper Floor of tha 0: Lr Hail at Lon. (ton, 0r.it.. Gi?n Awaj. IWENTY KILLED AND MANY INJURLT JIa 1 i- Cn.irfii. I t e. r Hi I. am K-xl ut .-iuu c. ... -nip i..A!l ti'i liiiica In Due Aufu t'liiHii lo tlie Unor Hl-.w. London, Out , Jan. 4. Twenty per sons are known to have been killed and rtiiiiy injured by th" col apse of a floor in tlie city had last night. f,-st night ch H- d tit no nicii al cam laiin and the .... .o,. In) to hem the B ldres-.ej oi the pucceesful cundi- drltes. flow many were injured will never be known, as tho-e who suffered but sl't'hly at once ma in fi r their homes or were eared tor by friends. Th jse w bu were more seriously in j'i ed were cm r e I to neiglitjrirg drug stores, whence tiny were taken the hospili,! or to t heir homes after tiieir in juries had been ut 'i ded to. The dead were taken to the commit teeman rooms o! Alderman Parnell, the defeated e-jnrlidate for major, directly acr se the H reet. At. the close of the polls, the crowd gathered in lb" city hall, where it has been the custom for yeais iia--t for the successful candi latea to address the electors. The build ng was) crowed to the very doors, probably 2,000 people being jammed ii: its narrow space. There was a lull in the proceedings when the audience eidled for -ever.o of the newly elected aldermen at once, and there w is some delay in securing a speaker to Hildress tneni. Alderman Carruthers jo:ne '. the may -r in an i ffoit to si-cure quiet. In response to numerous calls R. M. Tootle wrs pushed forward to the plat forrr on wh'ch t he e pt-akers stood. As Ii'-reSched it there was an ominous cracking and the ra'sed platform on which the tnavor ai:-l newly-elected al ertiicii were seated teemed to pitch forward to the 11 tor. Thare a a sagging of timbers and ti e next moment 100 piople were hurled twenty feet to the floor below. A beam rnonii g t w enty fi ei across the hall had l i-n way and the crowded mass stand oig above mat section of the floor was thrown in a heap to the bottom. A large sn:e sic d in one corner of the hall, and with a hugesleam coil, weighing half a ton, came crashing down on the head ol the victims. Following the crash there wat a wild ru-h for the door. At the south door, where the majority of the crowd had en tete !, there wa- a terrible panic. Those in front wi re throw down by the on coming rush, shr:ei- ing and fighting for the do rand salety Only one half of the rear door, a spue of probably three ft ft, was open, and n the mad rush no one through the open door In its entire ty, and o()0 pe p:e snuggled through the narrow space, the strong bearing dow n the weaker. Within a moment aflcr the floor had fallen in theiewere not more than three persons in the halt on that portion of i he floor w hich had lallen. From nntler tin mas-ive weight of ihe b.-oki n beams ime many cries for help. Tlie windows on the ground floor were broken in and the living and the dead we re tenderly passed to the wait ing ambulance. An investigation of the wreck after the catastrophe di-'obh! the fact that t whole section ol tin llc-or had dropped, the joists having he. n so neatlv cut off us though the work had been done with a saw. The building wa an o'd one, having been f reeled as early as the 60's and of late yi ars aihlil iona storieb have beey placed on the old walls. In the grand opera house, which al joins the wrecked building, a panic a imminent, hut w as averted by the acton and ushers, and the people quietly left the building. I n toy WoniHii Klili Itmrlf. New Yohk, Jan. i.in unknowi woman committed filicide last night it the Hotel Windsor, on Fifty avenue, by taking carbolic acid. Hhe was about thirty yea-s of age, a brunette, hand some and richly dresed. Who she wai or where she came om, no one knows. She was not registered. All of hei clothing seemed new and expensive. Nothing was found tha. miht lead to identification. A l.ileky I iiuII.Iohmii. PnaTi.AM), 'Ore., Jan. 4.-Clarein: llanvers Havenport, a young English man who has beii leading a hand fo mouth exn-tence In Portland since Au gust, has become a baronet. He re reived a cablegram announcing the death .if his uncle, Sir Ki hard Danvers Court Lincolnshire, Kngland. and Informing nim that he had succeeded to the estate .ml title. He lias I-it here to take poa ession of his inheritance, Want to right. Nkw Yoas, Jan. 4. Tom O'Rourka 'js posted with the Police Gazette acer tifie I check for $5,000 as a guarantee for a match letween Ji, Walcott and Kio MeCov. No Imiiiiie In !li Kliintlika. Biatti.k, Wash., Jan. 4. Korty-flvt Klond kers arrived hire on the steamer Corona, from Skiugmiy mid Dyna. They brought no late news, as all of them lift Hawson previ-us to November 25. Th ey confirm the stories of last wt ek'i arrivali that there v ill Iw no famine this winter though ptovision, are learce. It will lie necessary, however, thty think, to (end supplies in the spring. Among tho cnuii from Dawao was Dr. Van Zandt. Peoria. III. Sit Mrtubem or ln K loM-h minll- ( I . iiii-id In fcuiiflaf Ktre. Nkw Yokk, Jan. 3 Six members ol one family we.e killed by flames and smoke in a fire that occurred early yeg. terday morning in Jersey City. The lend are : A loh h Keinseh, forty-two years old, iea l ol the lam .y. Km ma Keinseli, forty-two years old, in ith-r. Til'ie K.di.seh, twenty-two years old, M nie lieinsch, ai;ed fifteen. Albert K'-iiiH -h, ai;ed fourteen. i iti-tav K -inscii, ated eight. O hers were injured and it may b" :hat Sigiiiund ReinHch, nineteen yuais il, will die, as he is badly burned. John Conway, chief of the Jersey City lire department, was very badly h rued. He fell through a burning floor as very badly turned and was rescued w ith dittic ilty. Henry A. Keinseh, aged seventeen, scape I with bad burns on the neck, ice and hands, but be is not seriously inj red. Ado'.ph 1,'einsch was a -al estate ng nt ;ind weil-to- o, living in a pleas- a i b use oi three stories at 317 tier in in a avenu -. HTABIKO IN TUB HABKMKNT. It is beiu-ved that the fire broke out from a In ater in the bsn-enient, and it worked its way up to the thiid flooi win-re the e.leeoii g apartments of the (.imily were located. Henry A. Keinseh faiii it was late when the family retired, the evening have b. en spent in entertaining New Year's Cillers. Kai ly in the morning he w as awakt tied by ehotits. Uunning into tne bail he saw the smokb and Humes in the lower nail. His father was theie and they managed to get out of the house in their night clothes. Young ReiuKch ran down the street and t'.ive the alar :n. When he relumed hie hither was nowhere to be seen, but one !)' his brothers, Siguiund, was there, but. badly burned. Several companies responded promptly to the alarm and ten minutes later the tire was on'. Then lag in the peach w idch disclosed three charred bodies Hgsinst the wall at the foot of tne stairs. They were those ol Adolph Keinseh, h;.s (brighter T'llie, and little G;;Htav. The fathi r had fallen upon the daughter and his son was in his arms. They were burin d almost be yond recognition. In the basement ol the house the seacl ing party stumbled over the re niHins of Minnie and Albert, two black ened corpses with arma entwined. For t ons ol the hinba bad Wen entirely burned away t.nd the faces were horri bly distur ed. The mo her was found in the dining room. She was but slightly burned, 'she undoubtedly died from suffocation, A IIOieless 'I'A k. Havana, via Key West, Fla., Jan. 3 The insurgent general, Franeisco Carillo with I ,t)00 men, has entered Matanzaa piovince. near Hanabuna, and is sup posed to b on the way to unite with the ci no -titrated insurgent forceB under Krigadi.r-'i. neral Suparez and Separo in Havana piovince. The Diano de la Marina culls the at tention of the authorities to the pitiable condition ol the people in the town of Alon.o Uoja-t, in Pinardel Rio province, lmring the first ten days of December 10 person-i died. Whole families of eig t and t -n persons have perished. 01 ninety-two volunteers only nineteen are It hr duty, the remainder being sick n i h small-pox. Al Santo Domingo. Santa Clara prov ince, and in districts of Jicotes Menacas fc.,d the central plantation of Esparanta smallpox is raging among the concent ra il of, in riny of wl.o.ii have died. Most of the concentrados are without medical attention, food and otherences'-it ies ol life. The government has for a second lim J sect $10,1100 for the relief of the cor.ceiitrados in M.iUnzaa province. PtKDO DISIIKATKNKD. 3t is reported from Santiago de Cuba that tieneral I'ando is greatly disheart ened on account of the obstacles which preventeJ a successful campaign against the insurgents in that province. He de clares that he has no base of operations, the insurgents' control being so com plete that it is impossible to convey sun plies to Spanish columns operating in the interior ol the province. Genera; I'ando is said to bo convinced that the insurgents of Santiago de Cuba province will nut Accept autonomy. Il is reported that General Sagua, operating is Santiago de Cuba, has been unable to agree with his superior officers and will return to Spain by next mail steamer. Seuor Canalejtis, the editor, who has been investigating llie situation in Cuba is said to be thoroughly discouraged with the outlook, llu will return to Spain shortly. Senor Amblard is said to take the iaine hopeless view of the situation as vnor Canalejas ami t is stated that he will decline the proff red appointment of secretary of tiie Cuban autonomist cabinet. Senor Capnles, governor of fautiago de Cuba, has icsigned, being unwilling to make appointments dictated to him by the government. Klttic IllBlllled. San Fmam iki o, Ji n. 3 The American (lag that is reported to have been hauled down by the Mexican murines at Clip p-Tton island is the one that was taken from this city by Paul K. Ilennig, an employe ol the Oceanic Phosphate com pany. Unas hoisted above the coral rim byllennig and two other men by Jirection of the company that has for several years been marketing the plios pl ales. The American claimants willask their government to protect their rights. x v:ie NOT i l 11 Possible Conflict Between tie Powtn aDd Ohina Doesn't LfTcct U. b. THE TIME MAY COME WHEN f WILL We Will 'Ink, m iliind M hen cesBry illp oui .is at u-hint;ioi hih (.re ttly luleri Kled In 111 Outlook tu the far taut. Washington, Dae. 30. The rpid movement of events in the far east con ii iiues to be an absorbing topic in dip lomatic circl -s here, principally at the euibasoies and legations of the powers, which are anxio s for an apparent struggle for Chinese territory. There ,s no further talk of the United States is d. possible factor in the contest, as Ihe recent understanding at the cabinet meeting is accepted as removing tire government from the field of contro versy. At ti e name time, an eminent uithoritv on international affair-i said yesterday that a situation might develop when tlie United States would be called upon to go much further? than protect American interests at .he treaty ports of China. This situation would come, he said, if the scramble for China ter ritory went to the extent ot the ex tinction of China and the complete ab sorption of the empire by foreign na tions. Such is the apparent drift ol the present movement, he said, arid il it became a reality then a condition would arise similar to the extermina tion of Poland. Until this finai -wiove-meiit tveurred, however, it was plain that the United States had no interest In the fencing of Kurojiean nations and Japan for coaling stations and ports on the Asiatic coast. In ihe meantime, howe-er, the diplo mats arejnucli concerned in the move ments of their respective governments. V leading Japanese diplomat said to day : ' I do not look f.t the quewtion as in volving the partition of China, and no event has occurred thus far to indi cite that China is about to be divided among the powers. The only tangible act ia that Germany has occupied Kiao Ohaii bay and RusBia has a fleet at Port Arthur. But Germany's action was taken to collect an indemnity for an indignity to German mis.-ionaries, jiiHt as she inforced indemnity from Ilayti. Beyi nd this Germany may seek lo establish a naval station at Kiao Chau and thus have a navl base of perations on the Pacific. But. that does not it vol ve the taking o-l any con siderable portion of Chinese territory, jnd it is yet to be shown that Germany will lake more than a coast, port and such land immediately adjacent as to ive the port roper facilities. Tre Lunches t School. Si'KiNGii'iKLn, III. Dec 30 At a meet ng of tiie Illinois state teachers' associa tion the principal address of the morn ing was that delivered by President E. B -njiunin Andrews of Brwwn university Providence, R. 1., on "The Public School Sytem as an Instrumentality of Social Advance." The address was a masterly dFort. President Andrews took ad v need ground in regard to the advisa bility of having school Architecture, aes ii.etic in character and conducive to the most perfet t ventilation and physi ial comfort to the pupils, lie strongly orged the text boolt system and free lunches in the schools, lie slid every thing that would assist In making schools pleasant for the pupils would do much to elevate the social and moral character of the people. President Andrews believed that the a ithorities snouiu arrange in uie cuies for the furnishing of lunches to the scholars if not free, at very low pricee. These, he said, should be palatable, we!l-co ked and served in the school room or in a building under the super visioa of the teachers of principal. One purpose, he said, in having these lunch e served under the supervision of the teacher was to give to tbe children of the poor such experience iit the way of tabU life and etupiet as would be benencial. Besides this he held that the palatable food served in these lunches would be just what so many poor children tiead. He impressed on Iiib atnlience the bene- tits to he poor children of good food. neatly served by lad8 or gentlemen, and the training detived therefr:-m President Andrews tho ight free lunches would be better adapts to large cities than to the country, as ll many instances it is hard for the child lo get home to dinner throngh the crowded streets, etc. Mo Soft Cull 4'onihliift. Clrvkland, 0., Dec. 30. Judge Stev enson Burke denies the report from New York that ho has be-n authorized to Complete the necessa.y legal forms of p-oceiinre for a combisatton of the Ohio oft coa) railroads to maintain freight rates. It was reporte 1 that the repre sentatives of all (oft cial carrying roads reached an uiiilerstHtiding whereby oni lorm carrying rates trim the mines to market were to be tslt.hlished. AftMtiN net Wo -th Al ti nit. Boston, Dec, 30 By order of the Un ited States court the remaining as els of the defunct Maverick National bank were sold at auction. The securities which were in the nature of unpaid notes executions and judgments, amounting to $l Oti6,M0 brought just $49. Some ol the n tca ranged as high as $40,000 and many of them were signed by office boys and poMons of no financial responsibil ity. ' The depositors cf the hank have rce.vd 7-, T cent of tneir claim. 1 I . A....", .- i Hi. A W I L L hIUUk four Tlniii-url I uumia ! la tk llrMll Itiiiji Miirmtiou. HaTana. (via Ke West, Fla,,) Ie. 31. The corri-spoi cut of the Madrid lo.pnr.ial, who ha ridden over the t r -Ht-r part of the isUi d, writes to his pipi r that he saw at San Jose Lajas, this province, 4 ol 0 rrconcentrados tliron .ntii tha meets or dying in wretched lulls, mere living skeletons. He stated that 10,000 havo died within a year Several correspondents of El Dlario de ia Marina de-cribes the horrible misery due to fever and sickness, in tliiierent towns in tiie provinces of riant Clara. They are abandoned witho shelter or medical assistance.' Ihe w.iuer season increases the suffer ing among them. The women are half nude, wuh thvir naked infants wasted with cold and nunger. The insurgents have burned 30,000 tons of sugar cane-on the plantations iiiSmta Rita, Andrea and . Bermejo, Matanzas province. General Ben al, in the provii Cr of Ainar del Kio, ordered several compa nies to reconnoiter mid to engagegroups of insurgents, but the troops met bands 'f some 150 and others 2o0 strong and experienced un.isiial loss. The bands are augumenied by p.ic.fios and concen tra.los who have lately joined the in-i-urgents. tin Sunday in this province, Leader Louis Delgado was assassinated by two ol IiIb neighbors, w ho had induced him to confer with him. Jt is supposed they were government agents. Jiidf-e Aks Thriii to Fight. Kansib City, Dec. 31. If Judge Wof ford aoheies to hie intention that he has announced from the bench there will be edifying spectacle of prize flh'.s between belligerent attorneys ot the criminal court in future. Opposing attorneys in this court late y have been using uncomplimentary anguuge toward each other and yester iay, after a tilt of this nature between li e prosecntiop attorney and At'orney McCoy, Judge Woffo.d, calling them to order, said : "Hereafter when lawyers xalk about fighting in this court I shall adjourn court and let, them fight it out. If you fellows want to light I'll just adjourn court and you can come in this room' and fluht it out. I'll see that there's air play. Now, if you are in earnest come right along and let's have it over with." They didn't accept the judge's offer, however, but apologized instead. Trial Will he Long. Chicago, Dec. 31. Unable to con vince the court that the prosecution in! the Luetgert case, should furnish the de-, fense with a duplicate stenographer's report of the eviilence on account of the inability of Luetgert to pay for steno-' graphere, the attorneys for the big sail suge manufacturer have commenced trying to take a verbatim report of the testimony in long hand. The conee-, quence was that very little progress was made. Mr. Harmen says he will take the proceedings verbatim if it takes six month", and in case Luetgert is unable to make arrangements for stenographers to do the work the trial, from present indications, may he stretched out in definitely. Ariel- a IVal. street Man. New Yokk, Dec. 31. A warrant is Dtit for the arrest of Henry Oliver Gold smith, one of the best know n men of wall street. Tho spe -.iflc charge against him is grand larceny in the firBt aegre ior appropriating a cktck for $3,000, the property of Oscar A. Wiessner of Brook lyn, The officials of the district attor ney's flice say that Goldsmith has managed to get away with something like $500,000. Goldsmith was indicted Tuesday last. Detectives have followed dues all over New Jersey, Pennsylvania Boston and oilier places, but Goldsmith h-s eluded them. He and a man named Webster operated under the arm name t( Hoyt & Co. 7 Koun I Murdered. Layfayetib, Ind , Dec. 31. James Kirkley, the treasurer of Benton coun' :v, was found d ad in his office at Fow er at 1 o'clock Wednesday morning. He was shot through the temple. A. jistol whs lyiiiK by his side, his rerolver being tound in his desk. The drawers jf his desk and safe were opened nd contents scattered about the office. There is great excitement and a post of citizens are out searching for the murderers. Thrraleneil With Lynching. El Reno, O. T Doc. 31. GustavThe lan, president of the Stock Exchange bank : Michael Eiehoff, cashier; Charlei A. Newman, assistant cashier and Louie Kichoff, director, have been arrested on the charge of receiving deposits when the bank was known to be insolvent. A meeting of the stockholders was held, at which several of the speakers de clared they were ready to lead a lynch ing party. A Fatal KuiiHwajr. Bt. Jok, Mo Dec. 31. Miss Jennie Edwards, aged nineloen, and Arch Mo Walters, aged twenty-four, members of wealthy families living near here, were killed in a runaway near this city. Ornr-ri l.ra-wn a Mine. Mh.wa.ukkk, Wis., Dec. 81. Th Oliver Mining company, owned and controlled by the Carnegie company, has jusl secured control ol a nesrly de veloped iron mine near Ely, Minn., om ihe Vermillion range. The terms at n ,t yet fully known, but it is beliere4 in mining circles that the Oliver com nany has secured a tweuty-year lease f ihe mine, upon a loyalty of 80 oenti a ,ton, with a bonus for tbe lease of 'XO, nun The Carnegie interests, it is said assume control on January 1. 11 j t k.. i. - v---" U mvm s w-s t'V,.il-.-iiieiJ' ru. . v A . - . Y -" nihi 'if miii