The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899, February 09, 1899, Image 3
RELY ON AMERICANS la Hi. (J Iterance. Leimea, Jan. 30. Right Hon Welter Jin me Long, president of ihe toardo agriculture, addressing the farmer' dub t Newcastle Saturday, used the word Mll snce" in icfernng to the future relat one between Gret Britain i-! the Uni e l tatei. Tbe fraLk entp oyment of thia trrm by member ol the government it like ly to evoke niuch di-cuoon, not all uf which will be of the fuendltest charac ter, inasmuch a- seek inn an alliance to fight En. laud's batths m not regirded an the best tolicv to promote an Anglo American entente. Mr. Long, w bo bad been discussing the propoxals to establish national grantries and sai.t that "after all and as iaai resort, England's safety depended ,, having a navy strong enough to meet aiiy pos i!i t'.ouitiinatioo the iia luiis could bring aga.ntl her," pru wli as follows : "1 am 1 ad o4 our improved rela Ion wuh our Amercan ou-in-,, be c urv I hebete the true meaning of thai iiu r.ad. d Iri ndlinei-e i ttial lh" Aineiicins have rea!u.i our blood re aiivimhip ami have limily resolve.. I hat 1 final iiiraiu la called upon li faie dilliculnra ftliei all iiol luce in mi lone, but in al huice with her Wealth il l va-lly pop .Ions sister country, the r. public ot tin- I ni ed ritie.4. 1 am Ci tihil.tiil, ( i' 1 nal the two countries r- p .rm.iMfc. Hi -uii- policy and have the mme end.i in v n. They iiiiiBl be ditn i, lirui and tnie Ik ne another." ( lit, mm I line A i'I.imi1mI. Havana Jan. iUI.- Four thousand pt r his piond amid a poun nr ruin iu ('aula square to.1 iy li-uniug to an in-(eni-elv pain In eulnuit-i) upon Jo-t Marti, the Cuban patruil and lirst pres ident of the I'lih.iu r.'vuliii urn u y n 1 v- srniiictit. A tablet Ik i.i, memory as nnve.lod ai li.c In. 11 e where he wa lorn, iua tiled maiby, and eighty to eoci ties, ton isling of 2,H) per tons with iMiinein, Hags ami live bands matched Ihrot.gn the riucipal thor-lughlait-s li e tendency of all the speeches Oiade was lowiinl Ihe ulliuiale inde p initio e of ('una, which the oraiors t- cognized an a hut not yet a copied. Ihey d, t -lured that all Cubana should utile lore. ill lint grt at end, to make their ilesnes keowti In the world and to claim ind- pi n b in;;-an a right when ihe proper tune hi rived All the releieitC' a lo Cuba I. due were pplauded ai d Marti wan held up an h an example for all Cuban. Only two Spanish flags were 011 vie throughout In: day, one over building used by the k C'l'iwh steamship line and the other Dver the Hanoi Es anul. Hie plan ol ieneral li -i In mute the Spaniards 111 Cuba with Lie Ctilian proper, b se pialf.riii hiiu'il he Ihe indeoei. deuce ol ihe isla-d, dm s not altogether thrive in the Spanish iniuil. As for the Bnin ilioiiii, U ey ar-oub-'poken in ll.tvana, but more ie eerved in the interior ol the islandH w here Ihey are onliuiiir eri d and la from the protiiMiou ol the American troops The iiiat.iiiB of I'inar del Km bus caused some Hp rehehfinti among Ihe .Spaniards by the assertion tint during his recent vis t to the liuited Hales he became convinced that the American government did not intend to hold Cul permanently. Spanish hanker awd merchants decline to lend money 01 to uive lilu nil credits liei iiihh they (ear that the American occupation will he brief and II te-coiiHtriiclion ol the insular eyslMii ol government will lie retarded in consequence. hlrurk lijr m I ,h-iihmii l Ai.toon, l'a., Jan. ;tll.-A gang of twenty-six track repairmen h work ing on Ihe railroad al the western open ing ol the (oilht.in tunnel at .'o'clock yesterday alletnoon when they heard the apjirositb of a loi oointi ve, which, was running west through the tunnel. ihe workrien nil stepped from the north track, on which westbound trains move to the south track. Tl e smoke in Ihe tunnel prevented (hem l.om see ing the approaching locomotive, which in O'der to svoid obslructions on the north Irm k. was running on the south track. One man wns instantly killed, one died in the Alto ma hospital and til fen were morn or less ceriou-ly in- jureo. none raped without iripuy. I he ib ad are : liid Wilt, awed forty, Thomas W. banker, aged twenty, five. ' Galla'xin is the home of ad the men. The locomotive ibst struck the men was running empty iroui Alloona to Conemaiigb Am AIhIim MnII ICmiI. SiATTLf. Wash., .Ian. :). I'rivate adviies Mate that the government will end three detachments of soldiers into the Copiur r.ver district of Alaska next spring to lay cut a mail route to the Yucoii river and to establish a line of posts. The purpose it to establish an all Aoier can route to ihe Yukon. It III extend Irom the mouth of Copper river to KagleCily, sixty ilea below Dawson. It I'rlMMier Kmwb Coir-nan., ()., Jan. 29 A special to th BUl Journal from Canton, O., says: Bis prisoners eat aped from the county fill (bis morning. James Campbell, a "IfMtjr," pretended to l.ek the cell doora fetardmy O ftit, fnit instead he ttTMd Ihe keys with the ItolU outside tfMfrrofrt, allowing the men lh liberty f ilia sorrldor. The hart of a rear wln- weie sawed and tha priaonera as- AKMY BILL DEBATED OPPOSITION TO PENDING MEASURE CROPS OUT . 8lztj Thtuuil Mo Placed M the Limit With Pow er Ultra Prcaldrnt to lo- Aniwvr 10 Johnson Kiab Uru Kank Divided. Wasfiihoton, Jid. 28. The opposi tion to the army rroiganization billon the republican si 'e of tne tmu-e has become s i s'rorg tlint today Cnsinuan Hull, after Mr. H'-ndereon of Iowa, one of the flo ir leaders of the aiajo'ity, had tlirtittt-n A t(i VA A tt vAIAmiml Ihn roll . . , . . . , ' flarifliin It wnlilil Iia wiba In nMu, 1s secure its j a ea;e, to abandon the idea of providing directly for a regular army of 100.000 men. tie an-oniicd on the door that 'be committee would ffer amendments to redu e the number of enlisted men to about 60,000, hut iodg-? in the pre id?nt's discretion the author ity tn increase the armv to a m.tzi'nuni ol lOJOOil. Three amendments have been prepared. They provi !e that the president niay, in lii discretion, enlist only sixty ai n in the infantry com panies an i sixty in the cavalr trtssps. By the terms of tne bill t ere are to I e thirty infiiiitry regiments ot ten com panies ech with a etreng h of 145 men and twelve legimenta 01 cavalry of ten troops each, w th a stienutli of 100 men. Thia Oi crelion, if the president, would exercise it, wou d reduce the number of enlisted men about 31 000 and practi cally leave intact the organ z.ttion provided iu the bill "o far as flicets are concerned. How f ir this proposed modification will alar the oppo itiou remains to be een. III'.MIKUBON ANHWKHS JOHNSON The principal spc.-ch oi thh day was made by Mend- rson ol Iowa, in which he waru.ly defend.-d tin p esulent ai d excoriated Join son of lnd ana It had 1 1. en charged, Mr. Hunderfcon said, that the o immission appointed to invteti'a'e the war was "stacked," He eulogized all tint members of the commission. Chairman Dodge by name, paying nig'i tribute to his incor ruptible and feu lees character. Adver ting to Mr. Johnson's speech on Wed nesday be said that not in s x ei n years' experience bad he I eard a speech so de s rvmg of the condemnation of pitriottc hearts. Wnat c: ime had t lie pr- siden committed? The president bad done everything possible to reveut the war. Was that a criuir? There was not enough i owner in the country U last our gun tweny four hour-; there were neither am s, ambulances, surgical in struments or other equ pment. When war came be quickly stl tactories and arsenals in motion. I i en be lo ced the fighting in two hemispheres and in 113 days he had whip ed thejenemy or. land and sea and had wound up the war be fore the people of the ounlry bad fully realized that it bad begun. Was that a crime? He had driven the enemy fr..m Cuba, he had seized Portt K co and the rich est island of the La rones. Was that a crime? By Ihe guns of his country and by the treaty he hud terminated the war. Was that a crime? The treaty div.-8'ed Sp;n of sovereignty of the Philippines After .t was ratified new problem would come. Until it was ratified it was legally sti.l in progress During the war it h id been t! e duty of the president as '.be commander in- chief of the army to strike the enemy where the blow wouUl hurt. He bad struck him in tl e Philippine and the echo of that, blow would ring through o-jming ages. Until the treaty was ratified the president must bold what we had tal-eu. "But," said he with deliberation, "I say frankly that I entertain grave doubts us to the wisdom cl holding the Philippines aga nst their will." While this was his present opinion, however, be added that w hen the tune came to determine this question he must know what bis duty to bis country was. Mr. Giow (rep., Pa.) argued that the future of the Philippines was a ques tion for 'he future. Neither Filipinos nor the Porto Kicans, said he, had t'e right to haul down the American flag. It bad been planted by the American people and it mm-t stand until the I American p -ople replaced it. Mr. Prince (rep., la.), in support of the bill, did not touch the Philippine question. He eaid that the iu Ik in the coc anut of the npp intt'in to this bill was its increase in the manifestation of federal authority. "Any articulation of the national spirit is regarded by some people as the voice ol tyranny," said he, "but if a patriotic manifestation of federal authority or assertion of the national spirit is a threat at personal liberty and a menace at our Institutions then the very existence of the national spirit must tie an inherent evil. I have not lived long enough to have learned ol anything in the history of the exploits of American soldiery or of their service to justify that suspicion which is cast uooq the institution known aa the re gular army of Ilia United States, the Imputation that It could ever tie used as a menace to the liberties ol Ameri ca! eit.'sensiiip. rarer aelf-Oneernaiaot Ram Jsa Da ToaTO Rico, Jan. 28. Senor Munoz Rivera, leader of tbe local government, speaking for the people of Porto Ko and referring to the reported a, pointment ol tba colonial commission, says: "It produces general satisfaction. All Porto R eam desire ael( governmeat and appl tud the disposition of the aa- morales at aanington to grant tne I tame. It will win profound sympathy aaioog our people lot America." DEFENSE Maaf tcrnaer of th CoDiiaiasary UeneraL, WiisuisoToN, Jan. 27. When the H'H;n court-martial reassembled yes terday Judge Advocate 1'avis stated that be submitted formally the testi mony of General Miles re d VVedneslay is an eihibi: in this tria and with this ita'ement, be eaid, the prosecution rested 't- case. Mr. Worthington, counsel for General Eagan, read seve-a' f i iibits in connec tion with the testimony read at Wed riewlay's seiirion of the court. These included the correspnndence btween Ul.ni.ral VI , 1.. ...I ' I 1.'.. ' I through the adjutant geueial, in which c the latter asked as to whether the int r view published in a New York news paper, in which (ienerl Mihs is alleged to have seveie'y criticised the commissary-genera 1'a department, Was autnoritative. Extracts from the al leged interview were also read and suli oi tted as a part of the record. O .1, W. L Aiexan ler.U. S A., of the suhsisleno departmen'., w.ts the fi'rft witness c I'eil by tiie defense. lie said he r-turned to W.isbinglon from Jamaica on the morning of the day General Kagnu gave bis testimony lie fore the war inve tiguting commission. G.-neral Kagiii, he said was hastily zniug over the papers in connec ion with b s tetimony ami sl.oaed sii;ns of gr at excitement. General Eagan ncrvotislv handed Ihe papers and wit nes- bad rarely peen a n an in biHi a nervous condiiiou. His manner was so ex eptional that he asked Colonel Davis of Hie coiumissaiy department, who was pre-ent, w hethei ttieg 'iieial was not ill. He bad been in iiuately con nected with (ifi eral Eagan, but nesei before, had he seen him in such a condi tion. General Met nil neke.1 whether, to his kuovlelge, (ie ieral Kayan bad consulted anyone as to Ihe siiostame o! his testimony to be presented to the commis-ion Colonel Alexander ans wered that eo (ar as he knew General E ga-i ba l not, UNAHI.H I'O lIKPOKM 1 1 IS 0DTIE8. Col. (i It. Davis, assistant to Com missary General Eagan, was the next witness. He testifies that he bad been v-ry closely a sociated w,th General Eagan during the last ceveial mouth's. He was iu his othce the day General Mihs gave his testimony before the commi-si'iii and ag soon as General Ea gm saw the published slaleninut of his testimony he became cons. durably ex cited and nui's to General Miles asking as to tho truth of an interview publish ed with G neral V1j!es As tune went on hts excitement increased to such an extent that be dm not attend to the mutine duti'-s of his ofliie. Later ou General Kagan reached such a stale that be could not attend to any business The day h-(ore (.eneml E.gan appeared before the commission he riad ids statf merit over To ihe wi-ness, who urged bini to modify it soniewl at, but be WOllId nut llHten. Ami uullinir n d0Ari ,,,,.;,,,, .,,, n, , ,,.. a WonJ ol it. Newspaper clippings weie , conlirit'y being received criticming j (J. neral Maan and thee giratly in i cieased hi einitemenl Homo of these .clipping carried the idea th I Generil Kagan was a murderer and that he had acted corruptly in sending until (ood to the army. During thegtt days the wit ness said General Eigati was wholly un fitted to perform the ordin.iry dnlles Ot his Office Up to this time the general had been a hard worker ami never be fore had exhibited any signs of nervous strain. In answer In a question Colonel Davis said that General Kazan's con lect of bis olnce was perfectly h-mest and he bad always hail the go d o( the soldier at heart, mum ho than any other com- I nvssary gi neral of whoir he bad eve known or bea.d. The w.t a, again referring to General r ain's lentiuiony before tbe com mission said thai l.e hail not been consulted iu its pri-iaiatioii, K..I ..- .'. ... .. . . uu, .... in,,, .lh K,,(.,iei i some of the records had no oriiKit am in hhk. The general bud ai-ked him at one time as to Ins judgement concerning the argument he had prepared for the com mission and tbn w tness replied that il was a complete answer to the cnliri-ms which had been made against him. but he bad advised that some parts of il. be omit'ed. General K.igan was greatly exc ted ami witness thought be won! iring me mailer to run attention more urgently Ihe i.ext morning, but witness diil not then have a gixxl opportunity General Eagan had told tbe witness that be was prevented Irom proceeding in military lashion ausiust General Miles by the president's .iider ot immu nity of witness, lint Ibat he hoped lo be able lo pnxteed in the mallei in the civil courts Mian Millard, General K'iguii s sten ograyber, was then called. She bad taken nearly all of the gmieial'ii dicta tions since Sept 15 laai, anil testified that she took (he d'ctaiiim ol the gen eral's statement before the commission. Thn witness tl ghl that the general had nevei li ahle lo read the state nient through as a whole from (he time it was beirnu oiil.il il . read to tbn commission C.i-illlli.ea (lotting W ,,.. Colon, Columbia, Ian 5!li - Mailers in conneulion with lb strike of dock men and tail way employee here end at Pan in are growing wo se rather than belter. All busmen, li, paralysed. There have been t, freight train Irom Panama tod,. Tbe niihlair were ordered in charm a roobof Hpanianls attempting to pre vent passenger tiaina lnm leaving Pan ama. Police are rutin on ail n.. ,w,tcn umnm. IN EAGAN'S NO FEAR OF FUTURE- Senator Gray Says Ihe Treaty Should Be BaliUrd. Washington, fab. 1. Senators Gray an I Money occupied the entire executive s ssion of the e nate yesterday in ipee lies on the peace treaty, f-'enator Money opp i-in it. Kt-nator Gray was tf e third of the Paiis commies. oners to speak. He ad m tte I that in the beginning of ihe ne got ations he had been opposed to the arquisitii n of the Philippine archipela go, and i-aid that he had freely and frankly advised the president and his fell iw commissioners of his belief that it would lie unwise to attempt to shape its ile tiny. He had used his best en deavors to bring them to ace pt his views, but had utteily fai ed. He had at last reached the conclusion ibat be would either have to join with the ma jority or see the treaty fail and the war continue. In the meantime he had been largely wen over by the a tuments of his colleagues and by thi- logic of the situation and he had at last concluded to "i.n the treaty. Having 'aken his position he was here now to defend the tr aty as a wise lOnclnsion of a most delicate diploma ic uncle raking. Si nator Gray did not advocate per manent occupancy of the eastern islands but said that the duration of our exercise of sovereign1 y there should be settled in the future and not at present. W0UI.0 FIX NO 1IMK In reply to a question by Senator Ma-on he ea;d that he w uld not at tempt to fix a time tht this only could be done after we had had an op portunity to s'udy the sitmtion, to know the people und learn their ca pacities. He I ad every confidence in the American people, and be believed that this would not only give the na tives their fr. edom when they bad 1 shown a capacity for taki.ig care of themselves as a nation of the world, but that they would inanngi' the affairs of -he i'laml wisely and well while they 0 n trollt d therr. They would give tie islar dets a fair etrt in civilization be fore turning them loose to shift for themse ves. Semi tor Money attacked the acquisi tion of the islands as contrary to the spirit of Amer ctin institutions and as unconstitutional. H had been an ad vo ate of the interiention in the i ase of Cuba, but fr 'in this f.ict it did not fol low t' at he was willing to transfer the Philippines from Spanish vassalage to a dependency of the United States. He did not consider that we were tspe j cially cone 'rned a to the future of the I Philippines, and si far ag he was con i ccrned he should leave thum to work ; out 'heir own salvatio i. This would lm(far preferable to as umlng repon- eibility for them and making them citi ' xens of the United Stites, ai they 1 would in vilably com' to be if th I treaty should be ra'ilied. We had ! nia !e al ies of them in 'he Pptinish war j by the acts of our own agent", and in the interest ol fair dealing h n'd let them arhi'-ve their indep n !ence if they could r'o so. S nator Mason, in a few wordp, in 'd rped Kenator Money's position lhat the Filipino? w- uld be nude citizens hy the ratification of the. treatv, and i penator Jt rejrynder cr-ntrove -ting his position, sa' tng that an act of congress to fix their s'atii' poldic S'ena'or would lie necessary towards the body Hoar also indorsed Senator M wy'e "0"it'ri. Two Men Foully Murdered. Kingman, Ariz , Feb. 1-The b dies of two men have been found murdered near Hackbeiry, a pmall town east of here. The bodies had been exposed three days. The throats were cut snd the heads beaten to a jelly with stones. The remains have been identified as those of .lames Dowd. a miner and (Jrhn I'.Inke, a Vo-mon teamst. r from V ,,h. Plukl lea ve a widow n 'id chir d reti. Both men had ' eon il 1 kin? fir t-etirnl c'avs and Tbu-x dv ninht '. . . d.iapi careil. Throe Movcans who were . in town mm night iirinkina and trarah- urg also (tif-apneareit ami t is supposed that tley murdered the men The murderers built a fire near the bodies and burn"d the bloody clothing. Part of a lett'r, written in Spaninh, was found in the ashes. '1 be Mex cms have lieen caught and are here in jail. There is talk of lynching. Tim holies were brutally mutilated sf er death, Blake's head was nearly' severed f-om Ihe body. He was robbed of a watch and a small amount of money. Having Manias ltnn Amurk. Nkw York, Feb. 1. Thomas Rey nolds of Belleville, N. J., became a rav ing maniac and ran through the streeta with a knife in his hand, striking at ev ry one he met. Most of the people escapi-d from him, but two wore serious ly injured. They are Mary Coyne, whose skull wns fractured, and who will probably die, and Miss Manning, a vnnno irirl wKi nam l.a.ll.f I I.. I D. , . ...... , ' ', Reynolds smashed windows and ran into hou-es and stores, driving out the occui ants. He wascantured hv trrnvrl of citizens, who put a rope around his neck n nd threatened to lynch him. He was lescued by some of the cooler head ed residents of tbe place, and landed in tne jail. Owe Npain an Apology. Coli'mbis, 0., Feb. I. Dr. W. 8. Scott, ez-president of the Ohio state university, lecturing on the ethics of 1 the late war, declared that the inva sion of Porto Rico waa unjustifiable. The naval battle at Manila waa with-' out Justifiable excuse and Spain should ( noticed to us Porto Rico and the Philip-( pines. Ha aaid any argument which would justify the keeping of the island I would Justify human slavery. i MEETING IN HAVANA SULOGIES TO MARTI DELIVERED A RAINSTORM- IN Hankers and Mercli iota Fear American Occupation Will be Uriel and Duv a eroiu P. nod Will Follow A ppuwwrt for Cuba I.ibre Havana, Jan. 31. Four thousand persons stood amid a pouring rain in P. ula square yesterday listening to sis intensely patiiotic eulogies upon Jose Marti, the Cuban patriot and first presi dent of the Cuban revolutionary govern ment. A tablet to his memory waa un veiled at the house where he was born, in a street Dearby, and eighty-two toe etie3, consisting ot 2,500 pertona with banners, flags and five bauds marched through the principal thoroughfares. The tendency olall the speeches made was toward the ultimate independence of Cuba, which the ora'ors recognized as a fact not yet a cepted. They de clared that all Cubans should unite to reach that great end, to make their de s -en know i. t i the world and to claim independence as a right when the pro per time arrived. All the references to Cuba Libre were applauded and Marti was held up as an example for all Cubans, Only two frpanish flags were on view throughout the day, one over a building used by the Spanish steamship line and the o'ln r ov. r the Banco Es. an 1. The plan of Geneial Gomez to unite the Spaniard iu Cuba with the Cubans proper, whose platform should l.e the independence of the island, does not al together thrive in the Spanish mind. As for the annexationists, they are out spoken in Havana, but more reservi d in the in'erior of the islands, where they are ou numbcred and far from pro tection of the Am rican troops. The marqu s of Pinar del Rio has caused tome apprehension among the S aniiirda by the assertion that during his recent visit to tho United States he became convinced that the Ametican government did not intend to hold Cuba permanently. Spanish bankers and merchants decline to lend money or to give liberal crtdits because they lear that the American occupation will be brief and the re-eon at ruction of the insuiar system of government will be rttarded in consequence. This promisee to be a lively week in Cuban politics. The special commis sion from the Cuban military assem bly will return to Havana after its in terviews with the Washington govern ment and popular interest ib increasing in the preparations for the mass meet ing on February 6 at the Tncon theatre, when a B'pera'ist party, proclaiming the principle of independen ce will be founded under the direction of sncb men as Senor Giberga, a noted autono mist; General I.eyte Vidal, General Lacret, and other opponents of annexa tion. Dreyfus Agi atioo Reopened. Pahis, Jan. 31 The government'! decision to submit to the cl amber ol dput:es a bill providing that cases ol trial revision ehall be brought before the united fections of ihe court ol cassation, has reopened the flood gates of the Dreyfus agitation. The situation appears more co' fusing and menacing ti an ever. For days the anti-D eyfusites have been clamoring lo have the case re ferred lo the united sic'.ions, bt cause they have considered it certain that among more than thirty judges, they could reiy upon an anti-Dreyfusite majority. In Sunday's Echo de Paris, M Ques- nav de Beaurenaire. who on .January! 9 resigned the presidency of the civil I Clera RooP ot Blu,J Springs came to section of the court of cassation as a I Wymore late Tuesday evening. He went protest against the way in which the i t0 8 Chinese laundry and entered by go criminal section, under tbe presidency I InK through a largo gl iss head first, of M. Lowe, was conducting the Dret-! which so badly frightened Roy Lee, the fus proceedings, again iostific his ac asserts tion in a screaming ecredand that the ministers hold a decisive document. M. Leewe, president of tbe criminal chamber, who was asked hie opinion rrgarding the government's proposal, sai 1 : "I am glad to be relieved of tbe re sponsibility, but the government's ac tion is ri volutionary." The anti-revisionist papers are jubi lant; but the most serions and imp ar tial journals deprecate the government's weakness. In all political centers ther has been unusual exci'ement and activity. It is thought is some quarters ttiat the senate w ill refuse to accept the hill, thus producing a constitutional crisis. The disturbance at the Nouveau thiatre last Friday evening, when, at the conclusion of the performance of the j play "The King of Rome," the Bona. pur lists in the home hoisted a tri colored flag, surmounted by an imperial eagle, ami shouted "viva I'ernpereur" was very siumficaot of tbe attitude .. th" "erialisU take in the c.rcum- stances, Fire Followed a Aermoa. Schantom, Pa., Jan. 31, The First Baptist church of this city was destroy-; sum for the continuation of the Omaha ed byfireSunday.lt was the oldest exposition sbis year, church of that failh in this vicinity. Kecord for i7 Three of the volunteers of Hebron, "r 1 who went with Co. O. to Manila bava Gai.kna, Kns, Jan. 31. Yesterday ninroed. Ne,rly 1,000 people were H irvty Brooks was shot and killed by ,t the depot to welcome them, beaded Flossie Riley, a notorious negress, while by tne Uebron Military band and mem he was trying o enter her place. u o( lhe G A Rf T, wtn William Bulluigton, aged twenty m.-. r. m nu u two, a at n of ex- Marshal R. Bulllngton, waa arrested by Policeman Charles Barker, for disturbing tbe peace. On! the way to the station Btillington sbot Barker in the groin, producing a serious bat not fatal wound, and was himself hot twit by Barker, dying iotUatly. J NEBRASKA NOTES. VTTH The three-year-old aon of Mike Kropa, of Osmond, met a painful death yester day. The child's cl itning caught fire while alone in the house and before help arrived his month a-'d lungs were f-igntfully burned. Tie ci.ii t lived only a few hours after the accident. Miss Eva Hughes of Fremont, baa been elected teacher of the Swaburg schools. The Security Mutual Life Insurance company of Fremont, has mo ita office to Lincoln. J. A. Welton, who is to oe manager of the Margaret k Stephens implement bouse at Fremont, has moved his family there from Lincoln and has taken the Meyer cottage, West Fifth street. The preliminary hear ng of Oscar Kohlsdorf was h-ld this morning at Fremont, before County Judge Winter steen and he was bound over to the district court. There are two charges against him. The first ia horse stealing and the second robbery. Rev. L. W. Madden, who for the paat two years or more has served faith fully and acceptably as pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian church of Nebraska Citv, has tendered his resig nation and will leave the city Mareii 1. His many friends, both in and oat of the church, regret his action. The settlement of the estate of the late Thomas Smith of Hendricks pre cinct was heard in probate court at NebraBka City. The peculiar feature of the case is a contest by a eon of Mr. Smith, who, bv the prov eions of the father's will, was to have certain prop erty, provided he should be named Find lay and known by that name until he reached his majority. He left h me some years ago and lecently r turned to ciaim his share ol the property. At the hearing Judte Joyce, after hearing the evidence, decided that the young man has been known all bis life and received his mail u ..iter the name of Bent F. Smith and was entitle! to no share of the roperty, but that it should be divided equally among the heirs. The caee will he appealed to the higher courts. L. Westgate,,an employe of the state industrial school at Kearney, has lost his mental facu ties, the r suit of grip and financial worrying. His people have been notified and ate expected from near Kansas City Thursday. No official action will be taken in his oase until their arrival. Four ne n are re quired to be with him night and day. The Woodmen and Workmen are caring for him, as he is a member of both orders. Tbe city authorities of Kearney som pelled Pauline, the hypnotist, to re-tore a lady to consciousness after she h id lain in a store window from 10 last night until noon Wedne.-day under threat oi taking charge of her and piecing him under arrest. What almost proved to be a fatal accident happened to one of Dr. Britt's little boys recently. He in company with other boys, was skating on the mill pond nearCreigbton, when in some way he slipped into an air bo'e. The water was quite deep, but he just hap pened to come up at the edge of the hole, and though small, he courageous ly climbed onto the ice and started to skate to the shore, but be again went through the ice, this time about neck deep. He was compelled to break tne ice from there to the bhore, when he crawled out and ran home. only occupant of the building, that he lost no time in making his escape through a rear door. Lee cam) up town and had Roop arrested and in the police court was fined $10 and costs. Ernest H iwland, who saw service in tbe the First Nebraska at Manila and who recently teceived his discharge, arrived at his home in Osceola and was given a hearty welcome. 6everal hundred people collected at the B. A M. depot at Geneva to welcome the returning soldiers from Manila, Onl v four of I he boys a-ri ved, the others being still on the road. They were ex hausted and glad to get home. Peter Massoth of Friend was throw from a wagon and was pitked up on- conscious. Fred Williamson of Auburn, of the iflt Nebraska volunteers, surprised hi friends tbe other day. He was one of the first to enlist and he has naoanH through the .amnaien without a ...'. sickness. A petition signed hy about fifty busi ness firms of Falls City has been for warded to Congressman Strode petition ing against congress appropriating any carriage and then welcomed home by a short address by Hon. 0. 8. Richards, There ia considerable excitement ia Ord over the diacovery of what il pro bounced by the doctors to be a oaaa of genuine smallpox. Tba school cbildfM inod. li,' ... ,V If) "SP VI Vtl U i i awaftawaiaNMawM V' Cj. it: