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
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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.
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