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THE NORTHWESTERN. BENHCHOTKK * GIIISOM, Eds and Tabs. LOUP CITY, _- neb. NEBRASKA NEWS. Wm. McDaniel* of Oto county was quit* severely burned while olavlng Santa Claua Permission ha» been granted Thno dor* Miller, formerly leader of the band at Hnstlng*, to recruit the organ ization for mu ter In as ttho i*g menial band of the reorganized Second Uegi ment, Nebraska national guard. The weather In Chase county hue been very mild for the last month, and stock, men report that their cattle are doing well. With the exception of three or four days In November they have had to do no feedirj •• »*» this winter. C. L. Patterson of Superior struck his wife with a dinner plate, Inflicting a severe gash at the bane of the skull. Patterson Is believed to be insane and 1a under guard. Mra. Patterson is in a dangerous condition, and in th* care of friends. D. M. Underwood, proprietor of tba railroad eating house at Cody, com mitted suicide by shooting himself In the head with a revolver. He was about 40 years old, and leavrw a wife and three daughters. The cause was despondency. The Platte tiounty bank of Platte Center was chartered last week by the state banking board. It has a capital stock of $10,000 paid up. The officers are: R. S. Dickinson, president; Max Hrurkner, vice-president; Christian Orunther, cashier. The freight, rooms of the Burlington depot In Superior were destroyed by fire. The entire east end of the build ing burned to the ground, and the re mainder of the depot would likewise have been, but for the efficient work of the fire department. 10. I). Marcellos lies sold hie 200-arce farm one iuul one-half miles from York to Arternu* Miller for f 10,000, There have lx#«n a number of aalee of York county farm* lately at advanced price* over what the same land was offered at one year ago. A McCook dispatch say* that wheat thl* year yielded l*otter than had been •xpeeted, and, considering the acreage, the amount gathered was Immense. At time* the elevator nion could n<H find room for the storage. The corn crop was also satisfactory, and It was unusually free from weeds. The ylald of millet was heavy. Max Ran da, an old settler near Ni obrara. was adjudged Insane last w<ek. He baa been brooding over Imaginary losses, the death of his brother a few months ago having apparently unbal anced him. A sister In Bohemia had recently sent him transportation to the old country, which he burned with other valuable papers. Mrs. Charles McDonald, one of the earliest settlers In Lincoln county, and the mother of the first white child bom in Lincoln county, died aX her home in North Platte last week. Mr*. Mc Donald was a sister of Brs. James E. Iloyd, wifo of ex-Gov. Boyd of Omaha, and was well known to many of the pioneer citizens of that city. Bishop A. U. Graves has suspended Rev. Tyrer of Ord because of a series of sermons recently delivered from his pulpit. He Is said to have declared himself an evolutionist and a disbe liever In many portions of both the new and old testaments. The Episco pal community Is excited over the ver dict and, as Rev. Tyrer Is popular, many declare they will support him In opposition to the will of the bishop. Attorney General Smyth 1* prepar ing for an appeal to the supreme court of the suit of the state against the Omaha National bank over the Bartley check for $201,000, drawn to redeem the Chemical National t>ank warrant. A motion for a new trial was filed last week. The action of Judge Baker in refusing to entertain Mr. Smyth's mo tion for a dismissal without prejudloe at the last minute Is made the basts of the motion. Mrs. John Eckman, the widow of the Cbadron sheepman who was shot and killed last September by a band of cattlemen of Kali River county, South Dakota, while he was engaged In mov ing his l>an<l of sheep from Nebraska Into South Dakota, was presented with >a check for $1,000 by the thirty-one cattlemen who were indicted for mi l’ slaughter, as a result of the Eckman killing, but who were released from custody at their trial In Hot Springs. Thu young man who committed sui cide on the B. A M. railroad track near Axtell, by kneeling on the track and then shooting himself wan Identi fied ae William Johnson tar Mu Mlur, The only means of ld»ntlflcation were Itla clothe* and a letter found In his pocket, which he hail started to Wilcox to mail Johnson was 23 years of age, and lived with his father, eight tulle* west of Wilcox, No reason < an be as signed for his action excepting tem porary derangement. Adjutant Oeneral Harry said that he had wired to Colonel Stark at Wash ington requesting the latter to inquire at the war department regarding tha evident Intention of the federal au thorities to only bring tbs tick men rnim the First Nbraska as far as Han Francisco, as Was Indicated by Dsp taln Ickers' telegram dated Nagasaki and sent on December 33 The theory of army officers at Omaha that the object of the government la to bring the levy* l» Han Francisco and there put them In the government hospital for treatment, and that therefore there t# no necessity for iha o'n eiprne* of transportation to the homes of the nick men. dues not tellers the anstety of the state officials The report la regard u* eevaa case* of smallpox at Wllaoavllle Is falsa. There Is only one tans, and that le thoroughly *uar*aite*d and the patient la recosting fob l orn, the big Huma Indian was last week liberated from pul la fbnd rotr He new I Hi ,.ut leaves and their squaws rsa* down from IMae Hidge le speed I "hr 1st mas and pib bed ibelr lapses just la Ike suburbs On fbrut teas algbt fob fora sent home t« big tepee kite* eitb flt*w»i«r end beat hie sguaw and kb bed hie pat**ws t« bia hearts coo lent Its was mw after ward teh«n sad put la aafe heaping till be sobersd up A Warn Tine Over the Report Recom mending a Ticket. THE OUTCOME FINALLY. Some I’ulnla In Mia IIIwumIuu ul Various HulfjouU—I'npcra KmiI Uy a Nunilwr of UalaiatM—Tli« lt«< ouiiueiiUatlous for i.eslalaOou. There wait a warm time at the an nual election of the State Teacher*’ association In Lincoln. The nomnuU lug committee brought In a report recommending the election of the fol lowing officers: President, C. F. B«<k deputy atate superintendent of Instruc tion, executive committeeman, J. vV. Idnsmore of Beatrice; secretary, Annie IS. Neeland of Box Butte; treasurer, J. fcl Laly,el I of Lexington. The light for first place, which loomed up last night, at once became apparent. No sooner had the report of tlie committee boon read than the amendment was offered substituting the name of Prof. Charles Fordyce of Wesleyan university for that of O. V. Beck. When the its*(sta tion emerged from the Are of motions, appeals and polnta of order which fol lowed, It was found that the Kordyoe faction was at the top of the heap. An amendment was adopted creating a section for superintendents and principals of schools. The constitu tion was also changed to allow (sn h section to select It* own members of the educational council as had been the rule until last year. The first paper on the program wan "How Can We Prevent Overcrowded Courses of Study?" by Superintendent J. T. Moray of Kearney. He ftrwptBi! the parallel often drawn between the school lyttm and a machine and agreed that the results ware much the same In that each tried to turn out articles of uniform quality and poli-h. The manufacturer and superintendent alike are made miserable by the genius with bis constant claims for new things with merits yet to be tested. Mr. Morey dwelt at some length on th« acknowledged defects of the pros wnt cramming system, and gave much advice to patrons, teachers am] school boards, but left tho problem he was supposed to solve In the same unset tled stale us In the beginning. The address by Miss Barah C, Brooks, supervisor of primary work In ftlbe schools of Kt. Paul, Minn., was heard with much Interest. She took for her subject, "School Environment." Miss Ilrooks laid great, stress on tluB help to be derived from good picture. Accurate copies of great paintings may sometimes be secured at small cost, but even these are often beyond the reach of schools. Photographs are valuable becuuse they follow nature dowdy In everything except color, and we expect to have that later. The | great point in the strict Ion of pictures | is that they shall be true to nature, 1 that the child may not form wrong Im pressions. The custom of celebrating the birthdays of prominent men and women was warmly commended. Prof. U. 8. Conu of Wayne took up the question as to how far economy should be taught In the public schools. As a remedy for tbe lack of thrift m many pupils the savings bank plan was urged. This had been tried In several localities with more or leas success. Superintendent Moulton of York, who discussed the paper, said he did not agree wholly os to making the getting of money so Important in the eyes of the child. More than enough of that greed for flnanc.al gain comes to him from outside force*. He favored teaching economy in regard to the care and use of school property. The educational council submitted a report from Its committee on legisla tion, recommending the passage of schools laws In the order of their im portance as follows: 1. Free high school attendance law. 2. Effective compulsory education law. 8. Bill establishing school district libraries. 4. BUI for providing suitable and separate out-housea. 6. Removal of slx-mlle limit, to en able the formation of large districts. 6. Teachers' examination quarterly. 7. BUI relating to endorsement of county certificates. 8. Bird day concurrent resolution. 9. Kindergarten certificate,* In Btate Normal school. 10. Requiring districts to file Item ised reports. AgalMI Any I'ardiui. Lincoln dispatch? The Mill* oane from Harlan county has tiguiu couie to tty front on account of the Miron* efforts being made to Induce Governor Holcouib to either i*rdun or parole Mills. The flrat movement lu this di rection waa made a copuie of months ago and many of the grand army peo ple took an Interned In It. It seems that there waa no polltlca In the move, aa one of the moat piomlnent worke;a to secure the |iardon waa alao one of the moat prominent fusion iste of thU county, and who la kuown u> aland very clone to the governor. The plan advanced by the workers In Mills’ be half waa that the family of the im prisoned man la In doatitute circuit) rtan<-*«. that hta wife la In delicate health, and that the offense uimmi which the sentence was baaed waa el aggregated It la aald that Governor Holcomb felt dtaptated to grant a parole on account of the good ahowtng made The new* of the movement created a great atlr In Harlan county, however, and It waa ascertained I ha* the sent I meat there waa strongly agatnai Mills. Prominent people from that county have recently called on the governor end entered strong protests aaaiaai anv eet of etemea-sy Me Mwa Awawee. ' They have arrested we, but t have done nothing to justify on n treat went, remark ad r J Vaaderietg w bo waa brought tu Omaha Inna Mcmi t*Hy by Imputy Halted dtnin* Marshal Tracy, turned over to Marshal thorn tael and lodged in the Intugta* •» mat > Jail to await trial In the t'ntlcd Htatcw court Vnndartwrg Is undwr Indictment having been charged with ueiag the mails to defraud. Last winter he came here an the promoter of a com mercial college in which he wan the president, secretary, board of directors and the w'hole tiling. He sent out large quantities of letters, promising to furnish by mall the necessary in struction for acquiring a business edu cation. He clutrged from $0 to $15, and at the same time agreed to furnish books which give all the Information required. For this money he sent out some leaflets and circulars, and that was all that his students ever received. In November, 1887, lie was arrested by Deputy United States Marshal Homan, and when his room was searched sev eral bushels of hUers from his dupes were secured. All of these, which had contained money, drafts or postal or ders, had been opened. The others had not l»e«n touched. He was taken before a commissioner, and after hav ing lieen given a hearing was held to court In IKinds of $1,500 At the Inst, session of the grand Jury he was In dicted, and when officers went to lo cate him It was discovered that he had Jumped his bond A search was made and It was learned that he was In Iowa, where hh was arrested. There Is an indictment against Van derlierg In Iowa, where he Is accused of the same erlme that stands against htm here. If he Is not convicted In Nebraska, he will h« taken to Iowa for trial. nm;r»»iiit i»f WMliliiftofi. Spatial to the Lincoln Journal: An Interesting rumor Is afloat thut one of the members of the delegation of the upper house will shortly contract a marriage with the daughter of a leading citizen of Omaha. Thl* was hinted In one of the Washington papers yesterday, and Is • uif u* union < his colleagues. Another item of gos sip of Interest to Nebraskans Is that the widow of uu ex-senator of our state who re-si dee In the oast will shortly marry a prominent citizen of Haline county. General Colby, commanding the Sec ond brigade of the Second division of the Fourth corps at Anniston, Ala., is In the city on a short leave of absence. General Colby Is anxious that hla bri gade shall not lie mustered out of the service until the last, and hopes that he will he successful In his efforts to prevent such action on account of the excellent standing which the brigade has at the war department, A, H. Swart, formerly editor of the Tecumseb Chief Man, and later editor of the i>lxon, HI., Star, has been ap pointed to a temporary clerkship In the war department. ChxcrleH G, Hoyt of Beatrice, Neb., of the Indian commission Is making a visit to Washington in connection with the ratification of the Fort Hall Ban nock Indian treaty. Judge Strode has asked of the war department to muster out Sergeant Frank S. Hutchison, company A, Third Nebraska Volunteers. Sergeant. Hutch ison is 111 and desires to quit the serv ice. All 111 Ki-ndlneitii. A Lincoln (O. rc p rd ait writes: The senate chamber and the representative iiaxli are now In trim condition ready for occupancy. Members of the legis lature frequently call and try their voices in the big halls. This la gener ally done by yelling at a workman who may be engagel in brightening up the brass ornaments on the speaker s desk. If the workman yells back It is a sign that lie has heard and the call er Is at liberty to pick out a seut where he stands. One old member surprised some of the newer ones by keeping perfectly still. No motion was appar ent except a slight movement of the left eyelid. He explained that he was simply practicing on catching the sjieaker's eye, as he had found that plan more effective than a loud noise. He admitted, however, that the signal code might be changed at this session, but did not lielleve he would be slow In catching on. New malting has been laid In the corridor* so that the tramp of feet will not disturb the legislative quiet OH c:.rpets have been renovated and all the furniture shines with a fresh coat ing that Is guaranteed not to stick to the trousers of even the heaviest mem ber. Inquiries at the hotels reveals that most members have written that they will occupy their rooms Monday. Many members now In the city boll *va the early bird Is most successful. They think nearly all memliers will lie In IAncotn by Saturday night. Thu Nynit*in CrUUIn«*«|. lu the Nebrasau todm annual conven tion lion. toeary Sautn, u-sui>enu Umdcmt of the lowu achoo.a, epose oa the subject: "A New (Josput of lOtu catioa, " ami showed up wliat he deems the lullactes of the ny»Uan uow la vogue. He made a plea for leva talk about detractor building and more work to aaaiat character growth. Sur round the child with good Influences and nature will aee to hU character. He la entitled to more llutu sc lea tide teaching, fur he la an Immortal, i« sponalble being. Out of inalructloa iHtatva atreugth. Kvery child should draw from It power to do ita very beat, the enthusiasm which makes life worth living, ami com ag • to fa e every situation. Mr Sabin found much good in soiue of the tow methods, but urged that they should not hide tire teacher. The living Impersonation of the teacher tiehtnd la what makes any met hist worth using Th« g owing tendency to push the child fa.ter than he can well go was cite I as one of 'he worst evils of our present sydern Two Important things have yet to l>s ton rued itr»t reaps? I for the laditrid ualtty of the child, and se ood. respect for the Intllvlduallly of ihe teacher, Hejolus Uts Msfltoest. t otpotal John Jacobs. of the Twelfth regular lulaatry. w ho lougtit In a I < f 1 the thibau baltlea. less beeu h>Hi.« at West Ihdnt for several in u.ha a»d left last week lu tutu his rsgltucut, w no a is « • ' ini'll at jcn«m «« tur racks. Mo lie taws houtc on thirty days sick brave la August hat had to have hla leave evtended several Ulrica .at acvciuut of hla severe iliaea ita • sprits to leave svhi fur Manilla I'UtM I'aclge tug.Me No lid bau Hi a string **f t • at > loaded fte ght i«n from tirand Island t.< Mouth tMasha taking forty feet as Ihv average length of the .are la the train tip total length would he uearly half « Wile I be w • glae bawl led the train with «wna. jCl* DEC:DE 10 YIEID. Evacuation Celebrations in Havana to Be Postponed. UNCLE SAM IS TO BE OBEYED. Thn Patriotic Committee of 150 • Mmilfmlw lit l-lna Wltli Ouneral I,ml1»«v'* Wishes—-Cuban Mol.llers Are •till ICselte.l. » — Havana, Jl. —The Cuban Patri otic league. cons.sling of 150 leading Cubans, law ,crs, doctor* and business men, at a meeting which ladled until 4 o'clock this morning, decided to yield without reservation to the wishes of Ucneral Brooke and General Ludlow in the matter of postponing the six days' celebrations they had planned for the evacuation. The committee has approved a manifesto to the Cuban population of Havana, on the lines of General Ludlow's reply on the subject of the proposed celebrations, quoting some portions of it and paraphrasing others. Au order has been issued closing the saloons forbidding parades and pro hibiting the carrying of firearms. The Cuban citizens In Havana and the Cuban soldiers outside the city are intensely excited, but tne patriotic committee and the military chiefs of the Cubans think they can quiet tnis feeling and prevent violent incidents. The force of Zoo insurgents doing police duty at Vudado under Colonel Uerandez.has been withdrawn because the United States military authority dould not recogni/.c them except as in dividuals. A misunderstanding be tween Generals Lou and Ludlow re garding American troops made the entrance of the insurgents to do police duty necessary. a niner irom woinez nai just ticen received here He said that he could not come to Havana unless he came as tiie commander-in-chief of tliu Cuban army of itburatton. and if tiie men who had fought with lorn for three years wore not good enough to come he preferred staying with them. Ho scouted the idea that tiie presence of the Cuban troops would result tu dis order. He trusted the American peo ple and feared the politicians were working against Cuban liberty. The Americans are divided in senti ment, many believing that a great mistake has been made in uot giving the Cubans an opportunity to cele brate the event for which they have fought so many years. General Lee was In favor of granting permission for the insurgents to parade and rec ognizing Gomez as the head of the Cuban army. (Since General Brooke gave his decision Lee has, of course, refused to express himself. Tiie evacuation program for Sunday is as follows: At 11 a. in. the American commis sioners. Generals Wade. Clous and Butler, with their staffs, will leave the Trocha hotel at Vedado for the palace on horseback, in full uniform, but without a cavalry escort. They will arrive at the reception room of the palace at 11:45, where they will meet Generals Brooke, Lee and Ludlow and their staffs. Captain-General Castellanos, Admir al Minterola. and the Spanish evacua tion commissioners and tliotr staffs, will stand in the throne room, the throne having been removed. At noon General Caatellanos will, in a few words, turn over the command to Gen eral Brooke, There will then be a short reception to the outgoing and Incoming gen erals, and immediately afterward Gen eral Castellanos will start for Caval iers wharf, escorted by General Clous. After Castellanos’s departure all Americans are expected to pay their respecta to General Brooke. The gen eral will then go to the Hotel Ingle terra. One division of Lee's Seventh corps wilt, in tiie meantime, he massed at the Lea end of the I’rado, and these troops, 8,000 strong, under General Keifer, will march on review. Three flags will bo officially raised — at the palace, at Morro and at Cabanas —by Lieutennuts Lee and Wade and Major Butler, ail aons of generals. Tiie saluting will be with the bronze guns of Cabanas, made in 1740. Amer ican artillerymen will first salute the falling Spanish flag and the Spanish artillerymen will use the same guns to salute the American flag Promptly at noon United States reg lare will patrol the eulire oity DREYFUS MAY BE IN FRANCE. A K*|mri That lha Kalla Malta.! fur Hama Ihraa Waalta A fa. Nkw Yomr. Deo. SI. —A diapatoh to the New York Herald from Para maribo, Hutch Mutaua, by way of llaytt awya It ia reported here that | oi-Captaln Dreyfua, who for the Uet three yearn haa been kept iu aolitary aad t'loae oonliiimmtul on Uevil'e let : and. one of the Salut group a frw j mtlee eaat of here, waa removed from hU ieiand prla.ni to Cayenne, Kreuoh Ouiaua. and tailed from there for franc*, iKcemher t. on a eouv.et trauaporl t'ayeune ia about j.vai utiiea from franc*. and with fair weather the transport ehould already hare reached a french port A to IhftH l!*«e In MehraaMa b»»Mt, Neb lh« II -The merewry dropped about 11 decreet here laat night and a m«rth*r preralia The wind ia driving a light enow before U. lte|H.(i« from other towaa la tire etate , Indicate a fail of 40 degreea It W »• I! W*lew la n Iteaaala Wee* horen « Win Dee ti tit o'clock thia morning the thermometer aboard it depreee below eero, end e reeved of M WWe fur the night waa • eperted fhie ia the eat dee I day fur ' thia wlatar POSTS TO BE ABANDONED. Furti Iie»v«i)w»rth im<l Crook 1 Ikcly to Do No More. VVAHiilNo io.N, Dec. 31 —It is practi cally decided that a number of the Western military posts will be aban doned when the army is increased, and that this contemplated arrangement includes the abandonment, among others, of Fort Leavenworth and Fort Crook, at Omaha. From what can be learued at the War Department as to the yet imperfect plans touching this matter, neither of these forts will be permanently abandoned at present, but will bo denuded of their troops until the services of a portion of the troops now needed for garrison duty in the Philippines and in Cuba and I’orto Rico can be dispensed with and the troops returned to the military sta tions in this country. Ainoug other infantry stations af fected are Jefferson barracks at 8t. Louis: Fort bnelllng, Minn.: Fort Hheridan, 111., and Colymbus barracks, Ohio. Tha intention of the military au thorities to garrison places in the Philippines as toon as possible and the necessity that will come of mustering out a large number of volunteers when peace is formally declared will com pel the war department to tend prac tically all its regular infantry and some of tho artillery and cavalry out of the country. Posts adjacent to Indian reservations will be maintained for cavalry de tachments, and practically all the bat teriea of the seven artillery regiments —certainly all the heavy batteries— will be kept at the coast stations. The artillery will be very much scattered, however. Probably no regiment will be kept intact at one post. MUST BE SEATED. Nulhlni, It la Haiti. Can Keep Roberta Out of Coti|r«M — May He KipelletL Washington. Duo. SI.— Represent ative-elect Roberts, the Mormon Con gressman from Utah, will probably be confronted upon hit* arrival in Wash ington to take his seat in the Fifty sixth congress by a proposition of ex pulsion because of his alleged polyga mous practices. Some of the ablest constitutional lawyers in the House who have studied this now celebrated case declare that tiiere is nothing In the constitution of the United States to prevent Mr. Roberts from taking his seat, but they add that the [louse, by a two-thirds vote, may expel him on the ground that he is living in vio lation of the general laws which govern the United Stales. Retiring SpanUh Colo. Washington, Dec. 31— After a con ference with Mr, Robert P. Porter, special commissioner of the United States to Cuba and Porto Rico, the President approved an executive order which had already been signed by Sec retary (>age. 'to the effect that on and after January 1. all customs, taxes, public and postal dues in tho island of Cuba shall be paid in United States money or in foreign gold coin. The order gives the rates at which the for eign gold coin shall lie accepted. It provides for the retirement of the leading Spanish silver coins now in circulation and specifies values cred ited to them in the payment of taxes, customs, dues, etc. Young Doctor Murders • Woman. IlLonMFHCLn, Ind., Deo. 31.—Yester day afternoon I)r. F. F. Gray killed Mrs. Lizzie Skinner on the streets, within 100 feet of the depot, in plain view of many people. Ha stabbed her four times with a surgical knife and she died Instantly. He mads threats that he would kill her. He was watch ing for her at the depot as she was coming to take the train. After the killing he immediately gave himself up, Mrs. Skinuer left a former hus band on account of the doctor, and he has deserted a wife and family for her. Dr. Gray is about 30 years of age, and a son of J. W. Gray, one of the promi nent physicians of the county. The New Filipino Cabinet. Lojcnow, Dec. SI. —From a Filipino source it is learned that the new Filip ino cabinet is much stronger from an insurgent point of view than the last, inasmuch as all the new ministers are pledged to insist upon the indepen dent}# of tho islands and to refuse to liberate the Spanish prisoners. It Is added ttiat the Fillpiuoa will never re lease these prisoners "while thousands of Filipinos are dying in the Spanish convict settlements of Fernando l’o, the I ^id rones and the Caroline lalanda " Marry - l.*ou Draw. I>aVBMi-i.Hr, Iowa, Dm St.—Jimmy Harry, the bantam weight champion, and hta old-time rival, (a* per I .eon, foughi a faal twenty-round tight to a draw iaat night before the Tri-tig Athletic Club. The tight wm an eve one from atari to Itniah In the up-n ion of many of the kpst-lntora I »|> uut|miuted hie man, but ltarrp**lly pareutty auperter atrengtb evened matter* Omaha'* tee* Birwiue^eilai OwaMA. Neb., He* It - A 'reater of the elonkbotdere of tg '14 Iaat America • apoelllott waa '**'• dt night and a board of twgtlie woel rector* elected, repreeetillg ,u the prograeetve boaieeaa i*y •tat* pilot. Uh aaeo.eeo tn a »'• f*ero* 1 {.oaiHta He* SI Tho M# uu# to 1 Perdieaed KethaehUd let < the Ivlin* hoepdel ft »*fb lie i founded la memory of h^* aharli* I al» mad* other voneidef * able begueeta Appendicitis Fatal to the M< Ambassador to America] AN ABLE DIPLOMAT III* Diplomatic Career In Wul] Hr*«n Forty Years t(o-Wui Friend of l.lncnla anil Grant a| of Mexico's Wlseat Patriots. Washington, Dec. .tl.—Senol Matins Romero, the Mexican am* (lor to the United States, died embassy here at 4 10 o’clock this ml in|f- Wednesday an operation for pendicttia was performed upon the am bassador, and, although the operation was entirely successful, the resulting shock proved greater than )te could bear. For the last thirty-five years Romero has been one of the leading officials of the various governments of Mexico. As early aa 185(1—during the ad min is tratlon of President lluchanan—he was connected with the Mexican lega tion. He was at that time only 29 years of age. lie fore he was 25 he had charge of the interests of Mexico In the United Soatus He was secretary of the Mexican treasury during the administrations of Juarez, the first president of Mexico, and Diaz, when he succeeded Juarez; was a member of the Mexican congress, an officer in the Mexican army, and then again minis ter, and, later, ambassador to the United .States. He was known in Washington as one of the shrewdest and ablest of the foreign diplomatists. The most important treaties with Mex ico were made by tho United States through Senor Romero. He had many friendships among prominent Americans. Among them was a strong attachment between Gen eral Grant and him. He also was on intimate terms with President Lincoln and .Secretary Seward. In 1868, when he returned to Mexico, Secretary Sew ard furnished him a United States government vessel as a mark of dis Unction. The legation was, by a concurrent arrangement of tho two governments, within tho last month, raised to the grade of an embassy, and next day had been fixed upon as the when Senor Romero was to ins credentials to President as ambassador extraordinary plenli>otentiary. Hu was a contributor to the magazines country, confining his labors tides relative to Mexico, last few months the first vol work from his pen appeared, "Mexico and was a study of political, lations. NOT TO PAY COLLINS Onm Company Hold* Murder Invalidates Insurant'* for All Beneflcluriee. TorKKA, Kan., Dec. 31.—The Pre ferred Accident Insurance company, one of the companies which carried 85.O00 insurance on the life of J. 8. Collins in favor of John Ilenry Collins and (Irace Collins jointly, and was sued because it refused to pay, has filed an answer which indicates aa in tention to fight the claims of all bene ficiaries alike. The answer denies that the plaintiff has made a proof of lost as provided in the policy and denies that the com pany lias waived the production of such proof; it sets forth the facts of the arj rest, trial and conviction of John Henry Collins for the murder of his father, and refers to James S. Collins as having been "murdered by John H. Collins, one of the beneficiaries of thif policy." The next clause, which is the vita, part of the answer, is as follows: “The defendant, for a further defense, alleges that the plaintiffs, John Henry Collins and Orace M. Collins, have an equal, joint and undivided interest in said policy, and that by reason of the facts above allegod, said policy has be come veld and the plaintiffs cannot re cover thereon.” Hecause odd of the beneficiaries is convicted of the crime of murdering the holder of tho policy, it Is claimed that the policy is ren dered void for all the other beuefleh artes as well as for the one to con vtcted. !•»'««• Than Anjr In (he Navy. San Francisco, Deo. 31.—Work on the battleship Ohio has begun at the Union Iron works The Ohio will be the largest ship ever built on the ooast aud one of the three biggest to be built In the American navy. She will have a displacement of 13,sou tons, and her dimensions will be as follows: Uenglh, SSv feet; breadth. 73 feet I inches; draught, 33 feet U inches. I !»• f1#’ jII«0M.Tj|riJr ofr»Sn«iy"¥"f^ u> I ha noUn*, llu. 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