THE NORTHWESTERX. BENNCIIOTF.K * GIBSON. Ed* ami Fab*. LOUP CITY. - _- NEIt NEBRASKA ’ Jnne *1 will be Illinois day at the exposition. Harness thieves hava been operat ing at Beatrice. Several bad cnses of scarlet fever are reported from Berlin. Mr. Shivley. and old and prominent citizen of Fremont, died last week. Farmers of Banner county are be hind with their work because of a surplus of rain. Cal Rains of Beatrice, charged with sodomy, was arraigned before Judge Enlow, and pleaded not guilty. The recent heavy rains have done considerable damage to the Irrigat ing ditches In the western part of the state. An effort Is being made at York to organize a company for the heavy ar tillery. About twenty-five members have so far been secured. Ex-members of the Thurston rifles et Omaha are organizing a company to be known as the Thurston Juniors which Is to be ready for the next call ior troops. Fruit prospects In Stanton county are excellent. The apple trees are full of blossoms and other kinds of trees are fully as promising of a big crop as the apples. Freeman 31111s of Gordon Is the champion cattle brander of the north • west. He branded 545 head In just five hours. Can anyone beat this rec ord? Freeman thinks nothing of go ing out and branding 160 head of calves before breakfast. The Farmers’ Co-operative associa tion of Cedar Bluffs Hied articles of Incorporation with the secretary of ww__will Lnt> and ao)l farm produce, live stock and Imple ments. The Incorporators are Tho-c.va Lorengen, John E. Tawney, Eric Ol Bon and John F. Thomsen. The cap ital stoek Is 112,000. C. E. Bessey of the University of Nebiaska is busy making the final ar rangements for the scientific section of the educational council to be held In Omaha June 29 and 30. It Is the intention to dismiss work In the uni versity summer school during these two days thUB giving all teachers a chance to attend the meeting. Paul Pschelden, a Hungarian arrest ed on the charge of rape, was found dead In his cell In the Jail at Crete, having hanged himself by placing a handkerchief around his neck and at taching It to a bar In the steel cage. He was supposed by some to have been innocent of the crime as charged, but the general opinion was that he was guilty. Auditor Cornell has received a com plaint from Nebraska City against, blstnese firms of that place being al lowed to transact fire insurance busi ness through "underground”and “over-; head” channels. It Is claimed that' the stock yards company and the ce real mills at Nebraska City are In sured In Chicago in companies that are not authorised to do business in Nebraska. This is the report made to; Auditor Cornell. Since the saloons were closed In Humboldt, considerable red liquor has been manifest in that city and the temperance people made up their minds to locate the source. If possible. Accordingly they procured a search warrant and made a thorough search through the billiard hall, but the effort to locate the booze was futile, nothing but empty cases, and kegs being found in the cellar of, the suspected house. Miss Hannah Thomburn of Lincoln left last week for New York, from which place she will sail immediately for Carthagena, United States of Co lumbia. for the purpose of bringing the remains of Harry Hotchkiss, who died in that vicinity about two years ago. Hotchkiss was well known throughout Nebraska a: d bad been grand master of the Nebraska grand iwufic hi i. w. v/. r . jii.- > i m i iiuui u and Hotchkiss were engaged to b^ married at the time he left. A Washington dispatch Biys: The secretary of the interior today in formed Representative Mercer that he had written to the managers of the exposition authorizing tnero to make arrangements for the Indian congress upon the arrangements proposed sev eral days ago. The exposition author ities are by this plan to deposit In a designated hank the sum of $45,000 to the order of Commissioner Jones, of the ludtan bureau, who w'll expend the sam« hi gathering the Indians to gether and preparing for the exhibit Representative Stark of Nebraaka railed upon the pavmaater-general of the army for Information respecting the position to he taken by the gov ernment as to Its willingness to must Reins for the mobilisation rtul mua tertag In of troops tiene al Stanton Informed Mr Stark that the govern meat would bear th« expenses of transportation and aubei.Unr* of troop* from enrollment and ua'll mustered In and would In addition pay the expense of transpottatlon t Ibrlr homes If Vett ted lie edited that the governmeet could no glv< per diem pay to any t»|»* t«d appll vanto. J 0k PVrguaon died la Chlevmi of tube*euU<*ta of the thrott from who > he had auMvrvd foe the lest two v.a * lie was well known la nUtetf riyel-s having leea th »hs ewploe id the I'noMt hwlik at Heatrbe %» « • umsr sal agent until re. eatlj |l|ch glaadTf* ' returned t * Hum hold* with hu « XM *1 h si# s «‘en »r. n the httehtn* r*. k Msy I The police of Kansas CM# <«»< >># I t * iht«f and held Ik* hsn uattl lie nan. er ran* »• *4n4» K Th* *ntif t'hau* MeMrinn. hailing l»«« Isstsaesnk K»n. t* kelng held hr **•'<« Tucks# ai fnW* Chi. The President Appoints a Missouri an General of Volunteers. PRACTICALLY A DARK HORSE. Ki-Srutof Matthew C. Untie# of Month Carolina. Major General — Fre.l llell ’a Major — Theodorlu* nothin and J. W. Fooler of Kanaaa Given Flare*. Washington, May 30.—The President to-day sent these nominations to the Senate: To be major general of volunteers— Matthew C. liutler of South Carolina. To be brigadier generals of volun teers—.fames 11. Wattes of Texas. Nel son Cole of Missouri, William C. Oates of Alabama. To be assistant adjutant general with rank of major—Fred Hell of Missouri. To lie chief surgeon with rank of ma jor—Frank S. Bourns of Georgia. To be assistant adjutant general with rank of captain—Theodosius Botkin of Kansas; Frederick J. Kountze of Ohio; First Lieutenant William Scott, First cavalry. To be additional paymasters—John Townsend of Missouri. John W. Fogler of Kansas, Beverly Waugh Coiner of Washington. Colonel Cole was practically a dark horse in the race for brigadier. Con gressmen Pierce and Joy of St. Louis went Vo General Schofield, the Presi dent's military adviser, April Jfl*. and made strong recommendation of Col onel Cole for the place. General Scho field and Colonel Cole were associated throughout the civil war and Schofield espoused Cole's cause at once. He went to the President with the recom mendation. The new brigadier general Is a na tive of Dutchess county, N. Y. He went to St. Louis in 1834 and entered the government service in the civil war as captain of Company A. Fifth Missouri volunteer infantry, for three months, in the Command of General Fremont, on April 21, 1861, and was assigned to duty at the St. Louis arse nal. He participated in the capture of Camp Jackson, and was placed in com mand of an expedition in Southeast Missouri on May 10 following. Subse quently lie was transferred to the First Missouri volunteer infantry for three years' service on June 10, 1861. The designation of the regiment was changed to the Missouri light artillery in September, 1861. On February 82. 1862, Mr. Cole was commissioned major of the regiment. He was recommissioned major on August 10, 1863. On October 2, 1863, he was transferred to the Second Mis souri light artillery as lieutenant col onel, and was promoted to colonel on February 27, 1864. Mr. Cole participated in nearly all the battles and skirmishes in South western Missouri and Northern Arkan sas. Including Wilson's creek, in which he was wounded in the left jaw. He also saw active service in Wcste-in Mis souri. participating in engagements at fyexington. Little Illue, Independence, Westport and Marias des Cygnes. On June 4. 1863, he was ordered to Vicksburg, where he remained until after the surrender. He was then or dered to report to General Schofield and in the fall of 1864 he was in pursuit of Price, who was muking a raid through Missouri. General Schofield went Fast and Mr. Cole was made chief of artillerj on the staff of General Pleasanton, and after General Dodge relieved Kosecrans Mr. Cole was chief of artillery on his staff. At the close of the war Colonel Cole was placed in command of the l’owder river expedition through the Indian country in the Northwest, taking com mand on June 16. 1863. The expedition went to Fort Laramie, opening up the Indian country, and returned to Fort Leavenworth in the fall. Colonel Cole lior 13, l»f>Y after a continuous service of four yerrs ami seven months. He is an active member of the (J. A. It. ami of the Loyal legion. Theodosius liotkin. one of the Kan sans to lie given a military appoint ment by the President, served in an Ohio regiment during the war. For many years he was one of the best known Republican campaign speakers in Kansas. As judgu of a Western Kansas district he figured in the Hugo ton county scat war, and was the lender of the opposition to tblonel Sam Wood, the founder of Wuudsdale. A deadly enmity Misled between the men until Wood was assassinated by James Hrennon J. W. Kogler, the other Kansan given an appointment, is vice presideut of the First National bank of Iwaven worth. He earn* to Kausaa from Maine a number of y ars ago and la a Republican Tbrle "lloaur" Mat MI«k»>S4. M tiiHin, May kt Vaur (aatelar the Republican leader, in an interview upon the subject of alliances, la quoted a* declaring that he favors Mpaiu a Is Utlua lie rvts•tumenda 'a policy of resignation now and the greatest pru •letter, economy and energy in the fu tnrv ' In conclusion, hraui (aatelar rvnsiiiisl ' After all, the Yankees may bks-kade our UUa-bk. t-ut they ran t bhss.nl* our honor ' The 11 or a ms ISnol Itsmta. Has Ittmsn, May to Irving M hwott of the I nkoa Iron worhs has gone to at IVtervhnrg t«* ssnu t with the taar a government regarding the building of Russian wsrshipa in this elty Fast f uesday he revel ml a w< tags from at tVUrahurg eongralulai n the peefbrmatwu of the tiragwu and ashing him to go to that rlty. CADIZ RESERVE FLEET SAILS, Condemned Holler* on the Pelayo— Crulncr* Without (inn*. Madrid, May 30.—It is officially an nouncod that the Spanish reserve squadron, commanded by Admiral Camaras, has left Cadiz, before going to its destination the squadron will maneuver probably for several days in the open sea, afterwards immediately sailing for the Philippine islands, Cuba or the United States, as the govern ment mny judge most opportune. The squadron Is understood to be composed of ten or twelve vessels. □ New York, May 28.—A dispatch to the New York World from London says: The chief officer of a steamer just in from Cadiz said last night: "When we left Cadiz last Friday the only Spanish warships there were the battleship Pelayo, the cruiser Emper ador Carlos V., one torpedo boat and the converted cruisers Patriota and ltapido. The cruisers were at the ar senal. “Everything bore the appearance of unreadiness. The l’elayo's boilers, re cently put in at Toulon, had just been condemned by the superintending en gineer at Cadiz, on the ground that they were of insufficient strength. She was, however, coaling. The Kapido and Patriota had not been fitted with guns and neither had a crew. “There was no belief in the reports that the fleet was going to Manila or anywhere else for some weeks at least.” MORTARSTO SHELL "MORROS.” A New Weapon to lie led In Cuban Klegea. Ket Wert, Fla., May 30.—A new weapon in modern war, and as yet one untried, arrived here yesterday. This is the 13-inch rifled mortar. They are nine feet long, and are used in shell ing high places when modern guns are useless. The old 13-inch mortar was a picturesque sort of weapon, but of not much use except on rare occasions. The modern inortur has a range of seven miles, and its fire can be directed w lin almost us muni directness as tnac of any of the new model heavy guns. There are eight of these mortars and they can be landed anywhere near Morro castle, Havana, and its garrison shelled out at the leisure of the mortar battery's operatives, who can be sta tioned behind a hill 100 feet high, where the besieged garrison cannot see them. Captain James M. Rockwell, ord nance department, is in charge of the battery with 100 men as gunners, who understand the new arm to perfection, as they have been practicing with it for the last six months. The quantity of siege train equip ment and machinery for military mines would indicate that some of the “Mor ros” (which means a high place in bpanibh) are to be undermined aixft blown up. This species of warfare has not been practiced since the Napoleonic sieges in the first decade of this century, and much interest is manifested in its practical workings by military engineers. OREGON HOLDS THE RECORD. No Brltlfth Ship Him Equaled Her Run— 5,000 Miles Without a Stop. Washington, May 30.—“I think the country should know of the great run made by the Oregon,” said Captain Crowinshield, chief of the bureau of navigation. “She is the first battleship built on the Pacific coast. The Union Iron works of San Francisco, the firm that built the Olympia, constructed her. She is 10,200 tons, with a main battery of four 13-ineh, eight 8-inch and four 0-inch rifles. She has made a run that by far exceeds any ever attempted by a similar vessel in Europe or America. The flagship of the English fleet in Chinese waters, the Bellerophon, made a run of 12.000 nautical miles, or from Portsmouth, England, to Canton, last year, and the incident was heralded all over the has made u run of 17,500 nautical miles and her captain reports to me that she is in absolutely perfect condition. Nut even a grate bar is burnt out. “Then her speed is remarkable. She made a run of 2,000 miles averaging thirteen knots, and the distance from San Francisco to Callao, nearly 5.000 miles, was made without stopping the enginea once. Not since the invention of steam-propelling machinery has thla ever been equaled or attempted.” A SAD FEELING IN SPAIN. 1b« llitprlrMRMd of ||»« Hll nation U tiro*tug on lit* I unity. May in Tim Madrid mr* n^poiuWut of th«* Tini«**». t*»ui* inoiitm^ on th<* of atottuv* lirt'vailiittr in nay*; It U I«*m tin of nilnUtfrial diat*rn*ioft», vbhicli are not rvnlly Mtrloua, than on lo'itunt of a fuller A|*|*rt ht n^iou of the i «)ift1t ultu'M of thr »itnation, itatovly that it l» h«»|u*S«*M to i'IjhtI any aa»fAt« .in % from Kurujir. arm I'raiu^* and ■ Umni* ktrinif *.»»c* Mr. 4 ham bar lain'• ipmtbt ifrlir t*i ntiiOontf |o pro ||4. lata oimjilutiiii.io, n«w mi that %hr mu*! tnot to Krulf *Un*« in . an umtjMdil Miu^Up th.%t t an harr only i otm and. THE BROOKLYN IN A FIGHT. ««•*#** *4*4 tutu *uM bm |4*4»4 I . ImH* lNl«M*g*«i \»n 4 i*iti Vl »| *» V tlittnl^H hun Kay Ha*! ««)« ibrtr la a r*|*>rt th*t* that th«* I'fwitif Ike* tub IY n wf v iHUii**' i dor* %*hW) * tha t Ub U4 a larg* «|nan* till of arm* **u‘H4«atHu*i an I ihtfaul i Wafiatia i Hfahy Thla la audd bt ha** W»« •!•«# ihri a f|M In * hu>h thr f**rl ua iImi wotth *|*hr »tf i iKaha 0m na* t**4i) «hi M*i|t*«| I Im »» la araai a]fvg*‘d I** hat* h» i* a ttfbi bat a mm I iatiumaii *ad a M»« «*f non a lab 1 t a*Air) . Urn Ultv# ht«| 4afnat«d Schlsy Is Practically Certain He as Trapped Cervera. A SHIP FROM SCHLEY’S FLEET. Wc<')•(*• l lb* nmW Ubluv aI tb* ^AMindb wilK ah im (Wi>*»> h*9 t »44» • I nit \MoMo |t to Mb) bt ♦ »4 | |ImI W«A(bt» HfitMtnl of lt»««*•>*v)t I h * |%«« t*t"kl |«k t«AbA I **tbl A* IftAtu«H v Alt by ut» Iblnol K*f Tin»t*b bud it|M( tlwff It* l.vwt rbi w Ha fly* ---—i i r GORMAN FOR BONDS. Makes a Strong Argument In Behalf of Issuing Them Wasiiinoton, May 30.—A notable speech on the war revenue measure was delivered in the Senate yesterday by Mr. Dorman, Democrat, of Mary land. In the course of an argument in support of a tax on corporations, he denounced as "infamous” the decision of the supreme court declaring the in come tax law of 1N04 unconstitutional. The warning sounded hy some sena tors that if a tax were placed upon corporations it would be pronounced unconstitutional by the supreme court had, he said, no effect upon him. A do cision against such an enactment would not destroy the financial structure, hut it would destroy the court which should hand it down. Mr. Dorman took decided issue with the majority of his fellow Democrats upon their proposi tions to coin the silver seigniorage and to issue legal tender notes and mude a powerful argument in favor of the is suance of bonds to raise funds with which to prosecute the war. Mr. Teller, silver Republican of Col orado, concluded his speech advocating the coinage of the seigniorage, the levying of an income tax and the issue of legal tender notes, and opposed the issue of bonds. Mr. Nelson, Republican, of Minne sota presented a caregully prepared ar gument against the issue of legal ten der notes. In a speech of two hours, Mr. Cock rell, Democrat, of Missouri discussed the financial question in contention between the Democratic and Repub lican parties. He urged that the bill as reported by the majority of the finance committee ought to be enacted into a law. BEEF IS UP AT MANILA. It Coflti 92.HO ft Pound—TUrce Offlten of Dewey's Squadron Arc 111. Hong Koku, May SO.—The United State* auxiliary gunboat Sealire, form erly a British inurchunt steamer, but now commissioned, mounting four guns and in charge of a lieutenant commander of the United States navy, has just arrived herefrom Manila, hav ing on board the captain of the first class cruiser Olympia, the flagship of Rear Admiral Dewey, and two officers who have been invalided. The situa tion at Manila is unchanged. The in surgents are quiet. Beef costs 82.50 a pound at Manila. The report that the commander of the Spanish boat Callao was tried by court martial and shot for not firing on the American ships which captured the Callao is untrue. WAR NEWS FROM BLANCO. Says Admiral Orvcra's Squadron Is Still at Santiago. ■Madrid, May 30.—General Blanco cables from Havana that the torpedo boat destroyer Terror, from Martin ique, has arrived at Fajardo, on the east coast of Porto Rico. She intended to go to San Juan, but found four American warships cruising in front of the harbor and changed her course. General Blanco's dispatch says that Admiral Cervora's squadron is still at Santiago, that the bulk of Admiral Sampson's squadron is blockading that port, that Commodore Schley's squad ron is watching the Yucatan passage, that the American vessels have left Cienfuegos and that the American fleet of blockaders remains in sight of Ha vana. SAYS WE CAN'T TAKE MANILA. Ex-Captain General of the Philippine* ProphoHle* Our Defeat. Madrid, May 30.—In the senate yes terday Marshal Primo de Rivera, for mer captain general of the Philippines, defended his administration of the col ony. 11c said he could not believe his at Cavite, adding: “That rag called the American flag shall never float over the walla of Manila. The Yankees are deceiving themselves,” Marshal de Hi vera declared, "as to the situation at the l'liilippincit. It is absolutely im possible that they should become mas ters of the islands, for the natives, to an immense majority, are determined to defend the territory to the last and to muiutaiu Spunish sovereignty.” TO ANNEX HAWAII. rrtoUluo* Tar ll Mails a tinier to War llrtenue lilll. WjtauiNaTo*. May JO. The Hawaiian annexation question assumed definite sbajs- in the Senate yestentay, when Senator, l.slge and Morgan offered amendments to the war revenue bill bearing directly upon the subject Sen ator !.rd Palmerston, was ren dered an imposing spectacle by the magnificence of the building in which it was solemnized. The coffin rested on an elevated bier before the altar, almost hidden beneath a pall of white and gold embroidered with tho text, “Eequiescat In pace.” BLANCO READY FOR INVADERS. Troop* Concentrated on the Coast*—Hos pital* Crowded With Slrh Soldier*. Nkw Yoke, May 30.—A dispatch to the New York World from Madrid says: General Blanco believes that he can easily face any landing in Cuba by Americans, aw his forces are ready to concentrate ami full upon the invaders in the four western provinces. The greater part of tho troops on the island are concentrated near the const wherever it is thought that an attempt to land might lie made. The Spanish forces watch the coast so vigilantly now that tho Cuban in surgents are said to be prevented from receiving supplies. General Blanco re ports that he has provisions and am munition enough to last five months, having ordered the military authorities to lie very sparing with ammunition, only using it when it is indispensable to do so. General Blanco and the home gov ernment are occupied now with the question of sending home the invalid soldiers. The sick and the wounded at this season are crowding the hospitals and crippling the colony’s resource*. DEWEY IN NEED OF SUPPLIES. Short on Provisions sod A mimiultIon — Another Cubic Cut. Hewn Komo, May 30.—There is abso lutely no truth in the report that the United States cruiser Baltimore, now at Manila, has been damaged by an in ternal explosion. The United States nuxilllary cruiser Zeaflro, which arrived here at mid night yesterday reports that Bear Ad miral Dewey is short of provisions and ammunition. The Havilo-Manila cable, it is said, was cut by the Americans May 23. Aguinaldo, the insurgent leader, is with the insurgents between the Amer icans and the Spaniards. The incen diary fires continue. The priests and nuns at Manila have been removed to I.aguna. All the coast towns are re ported to Vie held by Spanish troops. The Americans are repairing the slip at Cavite. THE POWERS WILL KEEP OUT. A tier man Paper Intimate* tho Power* ■■■ ti ran Bkhi.in, May ao.—An article in the Berlin Boat says; It is declared semi officially that tlic recent rumors as to tiie transfer of the Bhilipptno islands to France or to Germany or to their partition among the Kuropean powers with interests in the Far Kast, have no foundation whatever. America is not yet in possession, it is true, and it in quite possible she may never occupy them. But any laying of handa on the islands at present would l>e a hostile net against America, nor would it be tolerated by the other Kuropean pow er* having interests there. This utterance may bo taken aa ea plieit proof that the t'oiiliucntal pow er* have route to an agreoiucut on the subject to await further action by America. lews I* Stiert I,a to Men. Wvunvii tog. May in. Adjutant General i'orldn announced la*t night that volunteer* to the uumtier of ISO, { ’-U had Ish-ii mustered into the Butted Mute* o-rviee. This nuiuts-r Include* some cavalry in aildltkou to the first eaii for lri«i|at ’t lu re is yet a short age in tlie rail from the variou* states of A i.U men, distributeil as follow* Alabama. I.jvt, Iowa, l.nto, kentm-kv, I 1 .'i», Mississippi, l,1**1, aud North i*i-Au* |i«< t atr*«Ms*iWut a Mli for IW** u»>re usru A — uigaiir >4 l*i men ha* i *i realty i**s organised here