IRebraska tflotee i
Rushville now has a curfew ordinance
in force.
An athletic club has been organised
t Crete.
The Burnett Maacott baa commenced
its tenth year.
The McCock Courier bu started on
volume nineteen.
The CUrki Leader bM changed it
nam to the Enterprise.
Pilger people are taking slept to build
and operate a creamery.
J. 0. Guilinger bag sold the Burcbard
Times to J. T. and J. B. Pope.
Four hundred and fifty bushels of pop
corn were marketed at Hebron before
the holidays.
The wife of L. H. Thorn burg, editor
of the Alexandria Argus, presented him
with twins.
The output of sugar from tha Grand
Island factory last season was equivalent
to 33,750 parrels.
B. B. Smith, a well known newspaper
man, baa purchased and assumed con
trol of '.be Long Pine Journal.
Thus far the weather during the month
of January has been as exceptionally
fine as that of December waa rough
H. Hoffat of Plainvew was so badly
injured in a runaway accident that am
putation of one band was necessary,
The outgoing treasurer of Cuming
county turned $25,000 over to his suc
cessor and turned it over in cold cash
The editor of (be Mead Advocate
threshed a young man for insulting his
sister, but had to liquidate with a fine,
The newspapers at Schuyler are en
gained in a perpetual personal warfare
that must be very weariog to the gen
eral public.
The Schuyler council proposes to take
steps to discourage tinhorn gambling
that is carried on in various placet about
town.
Z. M. Baird has sold the Hartington
Leader to Ezra Boad well, and will here'
after exercise his lungs crying auction
sales.
"Joseph Mullen of Pender took a shot
t a rabbit but instead put thirty-nine
of the leaden pellets in the legs of his
brother Mike.
The Presbyterians of York subscribed
almost a thousand dollars in asingleday
to pay off a debt accrued in building
their parsonage.
Stock on the western Nebraska range
is now apparently none the worse for the
early storms and is in fair order for the
time of the year.
The Wymore Arbor State which ha
completed ita twenty-third volume, has
been edited by Colonel Dodds for the
past sixteen years.
The village board ol Gibbon has or
dered fifteen-horse power gasoline en
fine, which will be placed in the fire
house for use in time of fire.
The annual meeting of the Interstate
flwine Breeders' association at Red
Cloud has been postponed from Janu
ary 11 to February I and 2.
A special agent of the land office has
been in Kimball county investigating
complaints that private parties havt
been fencing in government land.
An e-timate of the number of cattle
sow being fed in Am elope county made
by men thoroughly informed upon th
whole subject, places the total at 5,000,
The Logan county farmer whose repu
tation for morality need repairs, was
lately made a target for rifle practice at
long range and barely minded getting a
bullet pat through his neck.
Clinton Grant a 9-year-old boy of
Hayes Center, was seriously injured by
horse falling on blm. When found
he was unconscious and is supposed to
be lying in tbat condition for several
hours.
The number of marriage licenses in
Dixon county during 1897 increased over
hatoflH06. In 189(1 there were fifty
live licenses issued by Judge Rose, while
in the year just cloied there were sixty
tour. There is some talk of calling a grand
jury for the next term of court in Nuck
folia county. It is believed there is much
' Illegitimate business going on through
out the county that cannot be reached
In any other way.
Firm Ransom of Minden is gathering
ap a load of draft hoJses which he in
tends to ship to Chicago. He has on
hand now nearly a carload af them,
which are said to be tha best bunch of
horses over gathered together in tha
country.
Frank Fisher, jr., of Norden lost sev
enty bushels of wheat in the Niobraia
river. Bsveral teams had crossed safely
head f him, but his load waa so great
that it caused the ice to give way, upset
ting the wagon and spilling the contents
In the river. The wheat belonged to M.
P. Meholin who waa the loser.
Receiver McDonald of the United
State land office at North Platte states
that the entries for government land
had been one per day during the last
weak. There still remain ronalderabl
' In the county which is subject to entry,
bat by the way business I starting in
this year it will not long remain vacant.
The Baptist at Halting hare de
cided to bnild new house of worship.
Hon. Frank Bacon, better known as
Alfalfa Bacon, say the Gothenburg In-
ependent, tbrehsd 360 bushels ol al
lib Mtd last week that will bring $1,000
He ha loft tht hay which will lewd 100
haad of cattle, and hi hog are thriving
to lu roughness. That iMalfa I a good
paying crop needs no better demonstra
tion than the above (bowing. Thl was
m eighty acrtti ! land three mile oath
t Ik ur.
GLADSTONE IS SICK
ENGLISH PRESS SHOWS ANXIETY
AS TO HIS HEALTH.
Report m to Ilia Critical Conditio,!! Be
lieved to be Over IJruwn The Grand
Old Man HuftVnt Tuln From Facial J'eu-ralg-la
but U Hound OthnrwUe.
London, Jan. 20. The Pall Mall Ga
sette yesteiday afternoon makes the fol
owing announcement in big type:
"With deep regret we learn on most
jxce lent authority that Mr. Gladstone's
health causes the gravest anxiety to
thote about him. His sojourn at Can
nes has not bad the effect of fortifying
bis strength as anticipated."
The news placards of tbe Pall Mall
Gazette reads: "Critical condition of
Mr. Gladstone."
The announcement is causing muci
excitement.
The publication caused numbers of
inquiries at the residence of Henry
Gladstone, the aged statesman's son,
Mrs. Henry Gladstone and George Ar
mi stead, an intimate friend of the fam
ily, both said there waa nothing in the'
latest information -.ey had received to
justify the alarmist reports.
M-. Gladstone has been suffering
from a return of bin neuralgia, but a
letter received said he was better.
A dispatch from Cannes says; "The
health of Mr. Gladstone is fairly satis
factory. He went out for a drive yee
terday." 1113 AGR AGAINST HIM.
The Westminister Gazette, though
minimizing the alarming reports con
cerning the health f Mr. Gladstone, is
"constrained to admit the fact that Mr.
Gladstone has suffered great pain most
of the time he has been at Cannes, be
ing unable to leave iia Bofa. So far the
vital organs are concerned, however, he
is no worse. On the other hand, con
tinuous pain in a man of Mr. Glad
stone's age is undoubtedly a symptom
to cause anxiety. ,
An official medical statement issued
last night reasserts that there is no
cause for alarm as to Mr. Gladstone's
health, although it i not benefitted as
much as has been hoped at Cannes. The
facial neuralgia pains persist with daily
fluctuations owing to the cold winds and
wet weather, but tht complaint is quite
local, His pbysica powers have not
suffered ; his strength is good ; his ap
petite excellent; ' joins the family 1 1
meals and takes rear drives, weath. r
permitting.
Lord Stuart Rendel, with whom Mr
Gladstone is visiting, telegraphed last
night at H-A) that Mr. Gladstone'
b ,'alth waa unchanged.
IVn.ialii-tit Gold Field.
Seattle, Jan. 20 The !news brought
Dy the treasure laden miners who have
arrived from the Klondike on the steatn-
er Corona ii important chiefly in that it
U confirmatory of the discovery of the
great mother lode. Welch, Coffin and
Burt are authority for the statement
that the original strike was made at the
upper end of claim No. 30, Eldorado,
while two st' inner, one at-No. 27 and
another yet lower down, were subse
quently located Throughout the din-
tr.ct tne discovery is accepted as insur
ance of the permanency of the district
ss a rich gold mining field. As to the
placer diggings, tbey continue rich.
Powder creek, an aflluent of Quartz
creek, has bean having a boom, p xu of
13.75 and $4 being a common thing. Of
course the stream was located as soon as
the first important discovery was made.
All Gold creek shows pans of 10 to $100
while the miners on flanker creek, Hen
derson, Dominion, the big Salmon and
the Stewart all declare themselves satis
fied with I he prospect. One of the first
men to strike ground on the Eldorado
and the very last man out of tho Klon
dike country is Andrew Olsen, better
known as "The Big Swede." He is no
table as beinc; the owner of the claim on
which the biggest Klondike nugget has
yet been found. The lump was valued
at 58(5.
In answer to a request for an estimate
of tbe winter's gold dust output of the
camp, Joe Campbell, one of the return
ing miners, said: "We bave done a
great deal of figuring on that and it now
appears thai the output notwithstand
ing the scarcity of food and light, will
be from 112,000,000 to $15,000,000."
Molw Mllll llitve I'arU.
Paris, Jan. 20. Two hundred stu
dent parade the Boulevard des Ca
put: bines with the intention of making
a demonstration before the military
club, but were dispersed.
A thousand students took part in a
demonstration before the Pantheon,
The students shouted against Zola and
the Hebrews. They were driven away
by the police, who split the mob up in
to noisy groups, wbicii then began para
ding the various parts of the Latin Quar
ter, where there waa much excitement.
as a precaution to prevent disturb
ances the bridges of the Latin Quaker
were ytslerday guarded by police, a
also were toe In uses of Mattbieii Drey
lus and Kmilo Zola guarded.
There have been renewed demonstra
tion at Marseilles and other provincial
towns.
Vlrlnrjr For rx mM'l-.
Dg.svKM, Colo.. Jan. 20 Tne fight be
tween the Denver newspapers and th
large department store of the city' re
tarding advertising rates, which began
nine daya ag", ended tonight with th
unconstitutional surrender of tbe mer
chant' association. Since th merchant
withdrew their advertisement the pro
prietors of the paper have agreed npon
new icale somewhat higher than tha
previon one and this bu been accepted
by tha me-rbtnt,, - ,-- -
COTTOxN MILLS CLOSED
GREAT STRIKE OF COTTON WEAV
ERS IS NOW ON.
Reduction In Wijw )la Opened the Gap
and l!iS, OOO Kffiiliyt go Out- Hi run
to Areept Reduction and Mill Kow
Staud Idle No KeriouM KIoIb Vet.
Boston, Mas., Jan. -18. Reduction
in the wages of ab-ut '25,000 operative
employed in the cotton mills of Ken-
England, which the manufacturers d
cided on as a temporary cure for the
depression in the cotto.: industry in the
north, went into effect tod y. In sev
eral mill centres, namely New Bed
ford, Mass., and B.ii.loford, 8aco and
Lewiston, Me., dissatisfaction among
the mill hands is intense and strikos
are on. The eighteen mills of tbe 1st
ter city, which give employment to
about 9,000, have been shut down, be
cause the operat:ves have refused to ac
cept the reduction, and the contest
thus inaugurated promises to be one of
tbe most stubborn in the history of tbe
textile industry. Tne situation in New
Bedford is very gloomy. Business there
had not recovered from the depression
which lollowed the failure of six mill
corporations last spring.
The 3,500 employes at the Lacon and
Pepperhill mills in Biddeford refuse to
go to work yesterday morning under the
new schedule, and it is thought the
strike there will not be easily settled.
Some of the employes of the York mills,
Saco, also joined the Biddeford move
nitnt.
The Androscoggin mills in Boston and
the King Philip plant, in Fa'I River were
handicapi-d by a strike of a number of
hands and tbe Queen City mills in Bur
lington, Vt., closed on account of a
strike which followed the posting of
notices of reduction.
FIRST OVERT ACTS.
An incident at tht Acushnet mills in
New Bedford, in which dirt and stones
were thrown at the managers without
doing any harm, was the nearest ap.
proach to serious trouble. Yesterday
afternoon quiet prevailed in all sections
and the stores and streets were almost
deserted.
On January 3, the reduction took ef-
lect in mills employing about 35,000
hands. The reduction today affected
the cotton mills of Maine, Mhode Island,
Connecticut, tho mills d iN'ew Bedford,
Lowell and a numb of other smaller
places in this state d New Hampshire.
Tne Atlantic and Pac.fi corporation of
Lawrence and the ither cotton mills
there and in one or two places elsewhere
will make a cut next Monday.
Ti e cut amounts t i about 10 per cent
in many places, bu'. in sev ral centres
it is II 1-! per cent and even higher,
while in a f w small mills it is only 5
per cent. The New lied ford strikers will
be supported financially by the opera
tives in o:he' centres and it is said they
are prepared to hold out until spring.
The national organization of textile un
ions has also voted to support the New
I Jed ford strike.
It is estimated tiiat the reduction
means a loss of between $75,P00and $85
000 a week to the wage-eariieis in the
hi states and the additional loss to
strikers in the various centres if they
remain idle even for a short time wi 1
swell the amount to a much larger
figure.
Whole Family Killed.
New York, Jun. 18. John Matthews,
a ptitail grocer, come time between last
.Saturday night ai d Monday morning
murdered his wii'e and two children, a
b 'V ten years old and a uirl of twelve.
by backing them to death with a
lalchet Matthews then committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head.
Before shooting bim-elf Matthews
turned on the gas witli the intention
that asphyxiation should complete his
murderous work. ' he crime was com
mitted in a small bedroom in the rear
of the store kept by Matthews, It in
supposed that Matthews had becot
despondent from pecuniary dllliculties
Tbe tragedy was discovered through
the odor of escaping gas, which prompt
ed a milkman to call a policeman. On
the floor of the sleeping room the offiier
found the corpse of Matthews. In h a
hand was a revolver and there was a
bullet hole just above his mouth. There
were two beds in the room. On one of
them lay Matthews' wife. Her head
was chopped and mangled beyond recog
nition. On the other the two children
lay side by side. Their faces, too, were
frightfully cut and backed.
That the murder and suicide wir
premeditated was evident, as Matthews
had waited until his wife and children
were asleep. Then he striped himself
to the waist, took the haihet and brain
id his wife. After that he attacked his
children.
From a letter left it waa ascertained
that for some time Matthew had in
tended to end his own life. He had
lxr, in the dry goods business further
up town and had failed. A few months
ago he opened the grocey store and had
met with Utile success. His wife a
pretly little woman, had recently under
gone a severe operation. It was these
tilings, evidently, that prompted Mat
thew to do the horrible deed.
A Mob Mrnmnslratlra.
Viesha, Jan. 18 Five thousand so
cialist workmen made a demonstration
here today in front of the ralhaus, be
cause Dr. Luegei, the burgomaster, had
forbidden them to hold a meeting in th
building. The police dispersed them end
made several arrest. There are omin
on tumor of trouble In Hungary and
Bohemia. Tho agrarian socialist
move
ment in Hungary I serious, especially
In lb Ssabolobe diitriet, when th land
0nor A e menaced.
EX-SENATOR'S DAUGHTER MAY DIE
the Knot Henelf lu her Boom at Wash
lngUm. Washington, Jan. 17. Mrs. Lucile
Lane, youngest daughter of ex-Senator
Blackburn of Kentucky, shot herself in
her apartments at the Wellington hotel
last night about midnight, just as she
was preparing for bed. The statement
iven out by the family is that the shoot
ing was accidental and was caused by a
imall pistol, which, catching in same
aces in the drawer, fell as she lifted
hem and fxplcded by the hammer
striking the edge of the drawer. The
sound is in the left breast and is prob
tbly fatal. Mrs. Lane is suffering from
he shock so severely tbat tbe physi
cians have not yot made any attempt to
ocate the bullet.
The most precise statement that the
physicians would make last night was
'.hat Mr. Lane would probably live till
morning. At tbe request of the family
the block in which tne hotel is situated
tias been roped off.
Senator Blackburn is deeply affected
"y the occurrence.
Lucile was the younger of Senator
Blackburn's two (laughters. She was
married in 18115 to Thomas F. Lane, a
prominent business man and politic' n
if Summit, N. S. The Lanes bed appar
iutly always an abundance of money,
which they spent treely, living at a
fashionable ho'el and seeming to lack
none of tbe good things of life. Mr. and
Mrs. Lane, according to those who saw
them every day, were unvarying affec
tionate and attentive to each other, and
'he, while of slight physique, was in
excellent health.
Mrs. Blackburn, who is not In the
:ity, has been telegraphed for.
Murders a Baby.
Philadelphia, Jan. 17. A case was
reported to tbe central police headquar
ters yesterday which bears every indica
tion of subsequent developments, show
ing that a five-year-old boy has been
murdered by a youth of fifteen years.
Percy Lockyear, aged five, who resid
ed in the outskirts of West Philadelphia
did not return home Friday evening and
vigilant search failed to discover his
whereabouts.
Saturday it was learned that Samuel
Henderson, aged fifteen, had been seen
in the woods with little Percy. He at
first denied having seen the child, but
an being closely questioned by the police
be admitted that while he was whittling
i stick with a large knife, Percy had ac
cidently fallen against the blade and the
child fell dead. Fearing he would be
arrested Henderson said he threw the
body into a creek which nova through
the woods. In coi.fi rmation of his story
he lead the searchers to where the boy's
hat and coat had been hidden. They
were identified by the parents. He also
pointed out the place in the creek where
he had thrown tbe body. The creek
was dragged for quite a distance, but tbe
body waa not fouud. The police believes
the story of the child's death and are
of the opinion tbat the killing waa the
deliberate act of Henderson. Hender
son is in custody and tbe search is be
ing prosecuted. Z-
Swindle tbe Hants Fe.
St. Josei h, Mo., Jan. 17. A long aer
ies of railroad tickets forgers have come
to light here, which are believed to bave
been carried on a number of years. The
alleged forged tickets were over the At
chison & Santa Fe road and connecting
line. A warrant ha been issued here
fer the arrest of August , Arabs of St.
Louis, who, until two years ago, was
engaged in the ticket scalping business
hire.
The fraudulent tickets were sold while
Walter Young was city ticket agent for
the Santa Fe in this city. Young com
mitted suicide nearly four years ago,
and left nothing to explain the act. It
is thought he may have known some
thing about the forged tickets.
After Ambs become financially embar
rassed he deposited the tickets as col
att ral in the National bank of St Jos
eph. He was unable to redeem thorn
and they were placed on sale by another
broker. The sale of the tickets was slow
and that is tbe reason that fraud was so
long In being discovered. The loss rep
resented by i he tickets runs up into the
thousands, although it is not known how
many of them were disposed of
Matt r reeumn in Free.
GiTHHiK, Okl., Jan. 17. Matt Free
man, the oldest oi the Zipp Wyatt gang
of outlaws, escaped from jail at Taolga
Friday night, it was learned Saturday,
for the second time in a year. Freeman
and wife formerly conducted a gang in
the Glass mountains, and it was the
headquarters for the gang. Mrs. Free
man waa Wyatt's most trusty lieuten
ant. One time the gang was heseiged
for a week by deputy marshals. Hhe
rode the gauntlet of their bullets and
escaped to bring reinforcements and
ammunition. Later h was captured
and spent a year in the federal jail here.
She was converted while in jail and s
now travelling as an evangelist.
Hteamer a Wretik.
Nw Yokk, Jan. 17. On board the
steamer Antilia. which arrived here last
evening from Nassau, were the mate
and nine seamen of the crew of the Ital
ian brisantine Celestinn. which was lost
on the south side of Watlina's Island
while on a voyage from Venice to Sa
vannah. Tha vessel was a total loss,
No lives were lost.
Ohio Hlver Rtai,K,
Oincumati, Jan. 17. The Ohio river
at this point at 10 o'clock Sundae .
forty-two feet ton inchns and rising one
inch per hour. It may roach the gov
ernment danger line of forty-five feet
before it recedes.
The danger at forty-flve feet and even
at fifty feat is meiely nominal. At the
latter stage a few cellars will be inun
dated, but navigation will not ho em
harassed In the least. Not th alight
Mt damage has bean done h"r. . .
FIGHT OVER M'KJfiSflA
SENATE IS NOT WILLING TO RATIFY
HIS NOMINATION.
Keaator A'len Ladn the Opponltlon to Hla
Confirmation Kellgloue Matters are
Mixed up With the DiKcugKiou and thf
A. k, A. lit liouudly Scored.
Wakington, Jan. 16. Almost the en
tire four hours of the executive session
of the senate yesterday were devoted
to the indirect consideration of the
nomination of Hon. Joseph McKenna,
now attorn' y-general, to be associate
justice of tbe supreme court. The dis
cussion wrs the result of hn effort on the
part of Senator Allen of Nebraska tc
secure a postponement for two weeks.
In the end a compromise was reached,
de:erring consideration until a week
from today on condition that the Ne
braska senator should agree to allow a
vote to be taken on that day. The
Hawaiian treaty was not touched upon
during the session.
The debate upon Mr. McKenna's
nomination was participated by Sena
tor Hoar, chairman of the judiciary
committee, who called up the nomina
tion in accordance with his notice of
yesterday and asked for immediate ac
tion. In doing this Mr. Hoar spoke
briefly of the opposition to Mr. M
Kenna, saying that the judiciary com
mittee had investigated the mo t of ti e
charges made and had reached the con
clusion that they were without founda
tion. He said that the greater number
of charges had been made by the mem
tiers of the American Protective associ
ation, and as they had been founded
solely upon tbe fact that Mr. McKenna
was a Catholic in religion they had not
been deemed worthy of serious consider
ation. Mr. Hoar dwelt at length upon
this point, excoriating any man who
would attempt to inject a qui st cn of i e
ligion into a controversy over a man's
fitne-s for office He said tbat such an
effort was entirely un-American and
unpatriotic and should not for a mo
ment receive the consideration of fair
minded men.
Times ar Tightening In Havana.
Havana, Jan. 15 A decree has been
published prohibiting the publication in
daily newspapers cf cable dispatches
without previous censorship and with
out twelve hours notice of their receipt.
In addition, in future, the postoffice here
will detain national and foreign news
papers not having been previously cen
sored. Publishers are warned that they
are under military jurisdiction. Anoth
er edict will be issued forbidding the
gathering in groups of more than four
persons either in the streets or in the
stores.
New Y'okk, Jan. 15 A dispatch to the
World from Tampa, Fla., says: Among
tha passengers from Havana was W. L.
Fulton, a cattle dealer. When tbe riot
started in Havana he was near the first
newspaper office attacked. He says the
mob was led by officers of tbe Spanish
volunteers who had become en raged over
the autonomist articles in the papers.
They attacked the officers of La Discus
sion and La Dairo de la Marina, totally
wrecking them. News of the riot reached
Blanco and he sent officers from his per
sonal staff to quell the mob. There was
a platoon of regulars in charge of a
Spanish colonel, and as soon as he spoke
the mob recognized him and made a
demonstration against bim. Words en
sued and some of the volunteers slapped
the colonel's face. He was then seized
and his badge torn off and trampled on
the ground, the crowd all the time cry
ing, "Vive Spain." The colonel's uni
form was torn off. The crowd then pro
ceeded to the office of La Lucba, a eemi
government organ, smashed its presses
and threw the type into the street. El
Reconcentrados suffered the same fate a
few moments Inter. This was all done
because tin ee papers tavired autonomy,
About three minutes before the Olivette
on which Fulton sailed, left, a patsenger
was brought aboard who said as he was
leaving he heard that an American wo
man had been shot during the riot.
Madrid, Jan. 15 The police precau
tions have been redoubled in the vicini
ty of the United States legation and
around the residence of tho United
S?at" minister, General Stewart L,
Woodford.
Would IIOl tiMHIlt JtefjulMltion.
Jkfkkrson City, Mo., Jan. 15. Gov
ernor Steptiens yesterday refused to
honor the -equisition of Governor Tan
ner of Illinois for the extradition of Dr.
William Smith for the school of osteo
pathy at Kirksville, wanted in connec
tion with the body-stealing charge. The
papers presented charged Smith with
stealing four sheets worth $4, a petit
larceny charge.
l(ol l.clli r Ito-tes.
Nkw York, .'an. 15. The banks of
this city were notified that a large num
ber of checks had been stolen from let
ter boxes in Detroit, Bulfalo, Minnea
polis, St. Pa- 1, Toledo, Cleveland, Kan
sas City snd Milwaukee, by an organ
ized gang af thieves, some of the checks
having been raised and altered by
means of acids. In several instances
thieves have been successful in getting
the checks cashed.
Organi-H for Culm.
Nkw York, Jan. 15. The Culmn
American lergue has sent out a rin-nla s
requesting the mayor of ev;y city in
the United States and the sheriff or
ranking oilier in every county to at
once appoint a committee from each
ward in the city and each township of
the county to organise a local branch of
the Cuban-American league, in order to
arouse public opinion to demand the in
stant passage of the senate's vlliger
ency resolution now pending.
STORM OVER CUBA.
If embers of tho i
tempt to Override tbe Kolas.
Washington, Jan. 19. Cuba bad a
hearing ia tbe house yesterday and for a
time it looked as if parliamentary pre
cedent would be set aside and the sen
ate resolution recogn'zing the insur
gents as belligerents would be attached
as a rider to tbe diplomatic and consu
lar appropriation bill. Mr. DeArmond
appealed. He urged the republicans
who had professed friendship for tbe
struggling Cubans to override the de
blOlUU III IIIC UllMt HQ L.11C CUIUUO U
of securing action on the proposition.
Mr. Bailey, the leader of the minority,
and other democrats joined in tbe ap
peal. The excitement became intense,
but tbe appeals of Mr. Dingley, the floor
leader of tbe majority, as well as other
republican leaders, to their associates
not to join in the program, succeeded.
Mr. Colson, rep., Ky., warned his side
that unless he was toon given an oppor
tunity to vote his sentiments on the
Cuban question he would co-operate in
any revolutionary method to secure a
tion.
The republican tactics kept to tbe
front the point that the minority were
seeking to override t he rules of the house
and they got every republican vote, sus
tained the chair by a vote of 152 to 114.
One democrat, Mr. Fleming of Georgia,
voted with them on the ground tbat he
could not violate his oath by voting
against upholding the rules. During
the debate Mr. Bailey challenged Mr.
Hitt to give tbe house any assurance
that an opportunity would be offered to
vote on the resolution passed by the sen
ato at the last session, but he received
n reply. Before the diplomatic, bill
came up ti e army bill was paesed.
A Kace for 20O,()OO.
Tacoma, Jan. 19 With the ther
mometer 30 degrees below rero a mid
night race over thirty-five miles of rough
m untain country in the heart of the
Klondike has earned for George Gra
ham, a Shelton logger, the first prize of
staking off overlooked and unregistered
placer claims valued at $200,000. Gra
ham was at the Canadian register'
office on the afternoon of November 15,
when a man ruBhed in and filed a claim
on French Pete creek, which adjoins
the richest part of Eldorado. He had
discovered that in the rush to stake the
Klondike district five claims on French
Pete cteek bad been overlooked. Gra
ham rushed to locat tbe others, having
given the tip to thrje of hie friends.
Tbey were followed in a wild race by
200 other miners, bin succeeded in get
'ing on the coveted ground first.
New l'lan Unpopular.
Chicago, Jan. 19. The executive
c timittee of the century road club has
r used to approve tbe new rule pro
posed by A. O. McGarrett, chairman of
the road record'e committee relative to
the checking of century riding. This
action was taken at a meeting of t e
committee held at 'he Great Northein
hotel and at which President Skinkle
and Second Vice President Bentley were
present. Tbe rule v ich is thus made
inoperative provided that century riders
must get the signati re at least every
twenty-five miles oi the ride of some
one who saw tbem making tbe century.
The executive committee refused to give
it approval, mainly because it would in
terfere with night centuries and with
fast records, ,
Twelve .lull ltlnl Kitrape.
Sioam Si'RiNGH, Ark., Jan. 19.
Through a wholesale jail delivery at
Bentonville, a dozen prisoners gained
their liberty. Among them waa the
notorious Dick Brandt, supposed train
robber, burglar, house thief and mur
derer. He is wanted in Texas and In
dian territory. Two other prisoners
with criminal records were Jim Merrill
and Lum Carter. They battered down
one of the prison doors and made good
their escape. Brandt stole a horse just
outside the town limits and made for
tbe Indian territory. He is a desperate
man and is supposed to belong to a gang
of territory train robbers. Officers sp
in pursuit.
Suicide Invalidates Insurance.
Washington, Jan. 19. In the su
preme court yesterday Justice Harlan
handed down in an opinion in the case,
Howard Ritter, executor of William M.
R'inke, vs. the Mutual Life Insurance
company of New York, involving the
ques'ion of whether the heirs of a man
who commits suicide when in sound
mind can recover an insurance policy.
The court held they could not.
Ills Wife I iiiiim Hark.
Ciik'aoo, Jan. 10 A special from tbe
VallevView, Ky., s.iyu Dora Richardson
Olav, bespattered ith mud, her hair
dishevelled and sc;- ely able to stand,
has returned to Whitehall. She was
met at the yard g by Jim L ttrell,
who let her in. Littrell says the old
man held his wife l close embrace for
several minutes and then led her into
the house. He tiling General Ciay will
not allow Dora to le ) Whitehall again
It is generally both i d that the gener 1
a , 11 have Clem Richardson arrested for
shooting at liora.
To Furl her I Html Project.
Kansas City, Jai. 19 A con ventioa
living for its objeui the .'iirth ranee of
the Nicaragua can, project convemd
h'-re. About 100 delegates, the appoin
tees of governors, mayorof the cities and
commercial bodies of the south and
west were in attendance. Kx-Governor
Kishbsck of Arkansas was made chair
man. Tne leal ure ( the day's proceed
ing was an address on the Nicaragua
canal by A. K. Stli well, yreidntof
the Pittsburg A Gulf road.
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