THE NORTHWESTERN. m NSOlO I EK tt GIHSON, Kd* »nil Tob*. LOUP CITY, - - NEB. NEBRASKA NEWS. SIIbt Springer, thirty-seven years a resident of Douglas county, and for thirty-four years in one precinct, Jled last week. Morgan Rice, a young man formerly residing at Dixon, but now of Wake field, attempted suicide b» taking a dose of poison Tom Smith, foreman of the Laverty cattle ranch, four miles northeast of Ashland, was accidentally thrown in to a feed grinder and had his left leg terribly mangled Exeter proposes having an old fashioned Fourth of July celebra'ion, with as good an orator as can b« found in the west. While breaking a colt Jesse Fos ter, residing ten miles north of aid ney, aged 27 years, was violently thrown to the ground and sustained Injuries which will undoubtedly prove fatal. His spine was dislocated and an arm broken. At the last regular session of the Plattsmouth city council the most Important business transacted was the passing by a unanimous vote an ordi nance providing that all telephone wires on Main street be carried in cables under the ground. Eighteen years ago Sunday the little village of Wymore was incorporated. At that time there was little more than the name to Indicate that a town was located there. The town has slowly but steadily and healthfully grown, until it now has as progressive a city of 4,000 people as can be found in the west. Nemaha county has at last for ever settled the long-talked of and repeatedly voted on question of i court house. By a majority vote of about 800 the citizens of the county voted bonds, according to the proposi- J tlon of the county commissioners, to ! the amount of $40,000, 4Vfe per cent, running five years, with option to pa> the principal In two, three, four or five years. Much comment has neen occasioned by the recent newspaper dispatches to the effect that the entire winter wheat crop was a failure in Platte 1 county. Diligent inquiries of relia ble farmers show that while there is , an absolute failure in certain locali ties not to exceed 45 per cent of the ! winter wheat crop of Platte county will be lost unless further disaster ' should come to it. A reception and banquet was given ' the boys of company H, Third Nebras ka, at Stromsburg A musical and | literary program was rendered at the , opera house. The banquet was served in the spacious dining room of the Park hotel. A number of the boys ! had not arrived home, but about six ty of the bronzed young soldiers sat around the tables and went through an elaborate bill of fare. The three-year-old daughter of 8. Carson, living at Eden, was instantly killed by being stepped upon by a heavy horse. The horses had been turned loose In a lane leading from the highway to the barnyard to feed upon the grass Towards night the boys went to drive them up to feed them grain. In a frolicking m >od one of the horses stepped upon tha lit tle girl with results alreauy given John Singer, who lives south of Webster City, died last week. He was wrestling in a spirit of fun with his brother and was thrown to the ground in such a way that his ankle was so wrenched that it produced lockjaw. The actions of the injured man were something terrible. He would throw his head back and Anally in great misery, with a convulsive movement, every muscle and bone set. the end came. A trip of at>out four hundred nrles overland through Nebraska, says a Creighton dispatch, revealed the fact that winter wheat is almost an abso lute failure. Nearly every held sown to wheat last fall is being plowed up and planted to corn. A very few pieces are still standing, but look as though they would hardly yield the amount of seed sown to the acre. Oth er crops are looking very prosperous, corn mostly planted and some Acids coming up. The Commercial club of Tekatnab has in form a definite proposition to make the proposed Sioux City & Omu ha railroad, in consideration of their touchings with that city with tuelr proposed air line between the cHes named. It 1» proposed to vote flO.OOd 4 per cent bonds to be delivered to the company providing the road is built and in operation within two years and providing it has no ronne-tiou whatever with the C, St. H., M & <)., the railroad at present operating lit Hurt county, or with tile Chicago Ac Northwestern system. Sheriff Simmering of Adams coun ty and an officer from Webster county have succeeded in unearthing a rob hers' roost near lloaanoat anil re uv •red about 11.-"O worth of s'olen goods The officers placed Hill la-tcb, a Koaetmuit merchant, under arrest, as they ba<« strong evidence whlcn implicates him with the gang It is thought he Is one of the head men of (he organisation and that he simply ran the store to dl»|">*e of the st »!• n goods. I hiring the last year war* j i fiauts at Trumbull, UlenvUle, lirout Acid. Ayr Kunh Aurora and other email towns hate had their stores roll lied hut the Ihntta hare al'*a>t escaped. Morgan Hlie of WaheReld i nmmitt *1 suicide by drinking concentrated let He bad been in Hi health tom* tim* j and was despondent I>et per month, aa It does not tneap.ic tale him front earning eohaistrnce hy manual labor "Ho In a rate of dr,if news A std th>r who la suffering from a degree of deaf nesa entitling hint under the general law to I to or (IS per month, has no pensionable status under the a< t «■! I sett, aa the alight dvgree of deaf net* in question lines not incapacitate him from earning a support by manual in b-*r A widow la pensioned under the general taw regardless of her pw»s •litas, while trader ih» s.t of i«hi im employment of aa Income In excess d the amount eh* would receive as pea #!><• la a bar U* pension under the «ri Now. when them different utsdiiitwi arise la the name neighborhood net* pie seldom stop to inquire as to ih. law nnder which application is mads and when a claim u allowed w|J#» l the general law at a high rate f. r a degree at deafness which dues not sn lltle la a re'tag under the a** >a« J it necessarily results in criticism of \ the commissioner. And when a widow I who is in affluent circumstances H granted a pension under the general law, while a claimant not nearly so well off is denied a pension under the new law, because she is not without other means of support than her daily labor, it seems to the public to be an unjust discrimination on the part of this bureau. Yet the law creates the«e conditions and It is not within our power to do otherwise than exe-ute the law as construed by the depart ment. but in nearly ail these cases the pension office gets the blame when it atempts to carry out the law as it exists. "The disability which entitles to the maximum pension ($12 per month) under the new law is substantially the same as would entitle to a pension of $30 per month under the old law. Yet w’e And that under the old law only 51,691 soldiers are pensioned at $30 per month, while under the new law 163.367 are drawing the maximum rate of $12 per month. Under the old law only 47,657 soldiers receive $12 per month. As an index to the growth of the work of the bureau it may be stated that during the fiscal year 1896 there were 2,162,581 pieces of mall received and sent. For the year 1897 there were 5.056,789 and for the year 1898 there were 6,566,967, being more than 300 per cent over the year 1896. "During President Grant's first term from 1869 to 1872, there were allowed in all 71,462 claims, and during his second term there were allowed 47, 359 claims, and during President Hayes' term, from 1877 to 1880, 39, 945 claims were allowed. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, 52. 684 original claims were allowed. It will be seen that the number of al lowances for the year 1898 was great er than the number of allowances for the entire four years of President Grant’s second term and the entire administration of President Hayes* "The commissioner, both deputy commissioners, the medical referee, chief of the board of review and nine of the chiefs of division and mos'„ of the other clerks who fill the important places in the bureau are all ex-un Ion soldiers, and as you well know the entire organization of the bur?au is controlled by men who served the "soldiers bureau’ and In all masters pertaining to the organization of the different divisions, in appointments and promotions, the ex-union so'dier always has the preference. The dif ferent commanders of the department of the Grand Army of the Republic have all commended the pension bu reau for its faithful observance of the statute which gives preference to the soldiers of the rebellion." In another letter received by Sen ator Hayward the commissioner of pensions has the following to say con cerning the fee charged by attorneys for securing pensions. "Under what is known as the gen eral law the attorney gets a fee of *25. Under the act of 1890 his fee is only $10. It has got to be quite a custom with attorneys to file a claim under the act of 1890, get the pension allow ed under that law and then fil<» a claim under the general laws, so they will get two fees. 1 had a case, for instance, the other day reinstating a man who enlisted in the war with Spain. He was drawing a pension under the act of 1890 at $10—he had formerly draw-n a pension for slight disability under the general law at $0 —be fell Into the hands of an attorney and made application for reinstate ment under the general law and tneu filed a claim for disability Incurred in the war with Spain, which w-as the same as he was pensioned for under the act of 1890. This would have giv en the attorney two fees, but it would not have given the man the $10 pen sion that he was drawing when he enlisted.” Smothered In a Hmlger Hole. 'mm Greeley center dispatch: Yester (lay evening between 4 and 6 o’clock John Gannon, the 17-year-old son of Thomas Gannon, residing near this town, went out Into the field about a quarter of a mile from the h ruse to dig out a badger that was supposed to be In his hole, taking with him >wo large dogs. After 6 o’clock his two brothers went after the cows and passed near the place where Gannon had goni to get the badger and saw the bogs lig ging and scratching the earth. Reich ing the spot they found their brother lying on his face. dead. He had Jug the hole larger than it was and then entered it with his head and part of his body, when the earth caved in and smothered him. His faithful dogs did not leave him. but scratched the dirt from off his body and head and hail It completely removed when fvuid by his brothers, but life was extinct. Gannon was a promising young nan and would have graduated at the Greo ly high school next year. IMlIon Owing Well. Information was reecived at the governor's office the other day from the War depmtment concerning the condition of Captain Thomas H |»t|. Ion of Hotith Omaha, now at Manila with the First Montana volunteers, who Is reported to have almost re covered from a wound received in (,ua of the recent tmtlb- with the llislifg enls No definite Information was re telved h|r the Nebrii'kit hillttarv au thorities as to the manner in which the man »»< wounded hut relatives in t*oi|lh Omaha requested the War de partment through the gowrno - of Ho to ascertain hi* present «ondition. tieneral Otis cabled that iHlloti was doing Well. IIIMMI Hrttttd I* Hrtnift tiMt»4tft*r t»f th# National dheep and Cattle .otuptnv. Ole of the best known Sloth Men of Nehtssba and Wyoming. aaa drowned in Indian creek near Harrison. Neb., e at lamp '•at b Mr Itrnwn was »ne of |,ta * >.*aoag Hough Holers under Co. one* Origehy and dtaliaguuthed Utm aelf in tbe Vltsstssii.pl wrath 'vs* summer when be *a««d many lives The I.ln> >in Usil company ntli atal eight* eard on ihe north and at on # put tba same on tha marhet Filipinos Take a New Crip on the Situation. ENCOURAGED BY THE WET SEASON They Conttnne to Harr*** Oar Troop#— Continual Menacing of I'nltetl State* Line*, Canning Much Anxiety—Food Frovlalon Mum he Made for the Friendly Native*. MANILA, May 29.—Special to the | New York World: General Otis says, i contradicting the g« neral impression, that the campaign against the Fill plno insurgents will be prosecucod by the American forces with the utraoit aggressiveness possible during the rainy season. General Ihiwton is convinced that an early settlement of the troubles and close of hostilities depends on the Americans giving thorough protection to the working classes in their p°ace ful occupations, while waging inces sant war against the armed forces of the enemy from this time forth, by means of guerrilla warfare. “We will show the insurgents by vigorous ac tion on the rivers, lakes and moun tains," he says, "that their belief that we cannot campaign in the rainy sea son or in the mountains is un*rue. Later it is possible that the changing conditions may demand garrisoning by districts so that it will be safe fo. the investment of capital and the pros ecution of industries until American! are completely dominant.” Quick transportation of the cavalry and the pack mules is desirable as a means of rounding up the insurgents. The cable ship Recorder, while pick ing up the cable between the islands of Negros and Cebut, went to the town of Escalante on the former island. She landed a party in her launch, con sisting of the commander, second of ficer and several of the crew, and also Captain Tilly of the signal corps, who was present aboard the ship to observo the cable operations. A flag of truce had been hoisted by the rebels, who waited until ♦he party had landed, and then treacher ously poured a murderous volley upon them. Captain Tilly and one of the men at once threw themselves into the water. The commander of the Recorder, run ning a great risk, managed to reacn the launch and put off from the buna to save it from being captured by the rebels Meanwhile a rain of bullets was fait ing all around the fugitives. The sec ond mate was picked up by the launch Just as he was sinking, but was alive. He said that the last he saw of Captain Tilly the later was swimming fee,bly by his side. The steamer was far out from shore, but those on board could see that the other Malay seamen were caught by the rebels and flogged and then cut to pieces. The ship returned to Iloilo, stopped, and within an hour troops were dis patched to the scene of the attacit. An Associated Press dispatch from Manila says: The approach of the wet season finds the insurrection tak ing a new lease of life. All along the American lines the rebels are showing more aggressive ac tivity in their guerrilla style than at any time before since the fall of Ma lolos. They keep the United States troops in the trenches, sleeping in their clothing and constantly on the alert against dashes on our outposts, and they make life warm for the American garrisons in the towns. the bands of General Luna and Gen eral Mascardo, which retreated toward Tarlac when they feared they would be caught between General MacArthur and General Lawton, have returned In force to their old trenches around San Fernando, where there are dally col lisions. Opposite our lines on the south, pro tecting Manila, all the way around to San Pedro Macati, the Filipinos aave three rows of trenches most of tl ) distance. Reports from prisoners indicate that the insurgents construe the peace ne gotiations to mean that the Americans have had enough of fighting (HATH IN I tit WIND. Seven reroute Inotnolljr Kllletl liy » South Ifukotu Cyclone. CHAMBERLAIN, S. I)., May 29.— Word has Just reached town of a dis aatroua and fatal cyclone w hich passed across the country in the vicinity ol Bijou Hills, twenty-five miles soutn of this city, yesterday afternoon, be tween 4 and ft o'clock, resultink in the death of seven persons and the serious injury of two others The killed are. Charles Peterson. Six children, of ; Charles Peterson, the latter being | three boys and three girls, ranging from 3 to Ift years of age. The witi and two remaining children werj so fatally Injured that they may also die. The cyclone formed on a shoot sec tion In plain view of hundreds and moved In a southerly course, the first place reached bet us that of Arf Co tl»#, which was totally destroyed The storm then destroyed a church and school house, after which It reai ami the |V>terson place, where the execti lion done was simply appalling The dead and Injured were strewn all about the premises all being bruis ed and maimed la a shot king manner, while the buildings were smashed taio splinter*. • lb* ft I ti. MlM|« NEW YORK May fl II ward Krett, a young man about 31 years of M* who says he u an art student of the Arad«m* of |w«ign tn this city made a startling and sut<«aeful leap from the Brooklyn bridge before duah this evening and tame out of the river uninjured He said he had been read lag n booh un theosophy and that he wanted in demonstrate that a man by etervtalag his will power, could do anything he wished without injury to Hi—sit. ACCIDENT ON THE RAIL DWhg! rftim KfMUltN of a Washout on an Iona Kallroml. CEDAR RAPIDS, la., Mav 29.—The worst wreck In the history of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern railway occurred at 1.23 yesterday morning, when train No. 5, the Chica go and Minneapolis train, ran into a washout two miles north of Wash burn. The entire train was wrecked, nine people were killed, seven of them almost Instantly, and about twenty injured, twelve of them badly. The greatest casualties occurred in the first sleeper. The third coach tel escoped this car, the floor of the coach passing through the sleeper Just about on a level with the lower berths in the sleeper when they were made up. The passengers in the sleeper were nearly all caught and crushed to death almost instantly. One man was killed so quickly that he died with a smile on his lips. It was necessary to chop nearly all out of this car. The most terrible incident of the wreck was the manner in which Will iam Scholian of Waterloo suffered. He was caught In the sleeper and pinned down so that escape was impossible, one arm being pinioned so solidly that it was impossible to release him. The passengers worked with all their might to release him, but without avail. In the meantime the water was ris ing up around him, and in a short time the unfortunate man must drown like a rat in a cage. He begged those about him to cut his arm off. There was not a physician on the train, and all hesitated to do anything. Finally an old saw was secured and his arm was sawed off. It was a horrible and sickening sight, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the operation was per formed. Scholian never utterd a word, but the strain was too great, and be died shortly after being taken to his home In Waterloo. The track has been repaired and trains are once more run over it. The Northwestern has all its trains tied up in this city. There is a bad washout between Watkins and Blairs town, and it is impossible to run trains over it. The Milwaukee agreed to take the trains around by the way of Marion over the main line to Tama, but its track is in bad shape near Vin ing and the road was compelled to rescind the order. The list of dead is as follows: E. L. Arnold, lumberman, Minneapolis, Minn.; W. A. McLaughlin, Muskegon, Mich.; R. H. Schwette, Alton, 111.; David Hallo, Minneapolis; F. S. Car penter, St. Louis; -Hawkins, Pull man conductor; George Wainwright, train conductor; Will Scholian of Wat erloo; one unknown person. Among the injured were: S. E. Bentley, Waterloo, la.; Reuben Odell, Waterloo, la.; Herman Klein Dent, Waterloo. Ia.; 8. H. Bashoor, Water loo, la.; Miss Anna NJoss, from Nor way, right leg badly bruised: Miss Os trando, Norwegian, hand and face bad ly bruised; Ornon Norredy, Norweg ian, serious injury to chest; John E. Johnson, Norwegian, serious Injury to head and face. Oen. Oil* Iteport*. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29.—The war department today made public the following dispatch from General Otis commanding at Manila : MANILA. May 28.—Two battaliona of the Twenty-third infantry are in the quiet possession of Jolo. The Spanish troops have withdrawn from Zamboanga after a battle with the in surgents, with severe loss to the 'al ter. The Spanish loss is nine killed and twenty-seven wounded, among whom was Commanding General Mon tero, who died from his wounds and was buried here yesterday. The in surgents used the rifles, artillery and ammunition captured from the gun boats, expending the major part of the ammunition. A conference followed between General Rios, who went from Manila to withdraw the troops, and insurgents. The latter stated to him that he w-otild not oppose the landing of Americans, but would accept the conditions in Luzon- The Spanish troops withdrawn are now here and will depart for Spain tomorrow. A feeble attack by the insurgents on the inhabitants of the southeast por tion of Negros necessitated the sending of a battalion of troops from Manila there. They will soon restore order. Insurgent falsehoods circulated in the southern islands of overwhelming in surgent victories in Luzon keep up an excitement In that section among the more Ignorant classes, although the in telligent people know' that American arms have never n.et a reverse and I they call for I'nlted States protection. Have turned over to the navy for use on the coast of the southern is lands a number of purchased Spanish gunboats, from which excellent result* are expected. OllS. I>r*«t Wfft'ft V»i»ir« mi tli«* Holla. HAVANA, May 29.- Th#*r#» wpp 111 j applicants yesterday for shares in the ' i fa.ooo.ooo Which the I'nlted States has j offered to the Cuban troops Thirty | were given ITU each The others were j not on the rolls, although they had i guns which they Were ready to turn j •it and certificates of service. I he I’nlted States military author!* ; ] ties consider that the rolls are very ! unreliable. In dee, I, the opinion is j freely expressed that large proportion of the hamea are Aetltiuu*. t'Hyelrlan (ml. MU I If,. KANSAS CITY. May »!» Hr H'rh i ntoud Cornwall, a prominent local phy* , ( ah iati. with a varied caree r, commit [ led suicide at the home of his brother i in law. Hr J C Whittier, today, ah.ml* i | lMg himself through the head and >ly* 1 | lug almost Instantly He left a nota j i saying that despondency (ltrr flnatt j dal affair* prompted the act. IH4MIIWW I ».!..«« |H >,0,(1,. CKNTKAI. CITY, Neb May JJ The Bloat deelru live t.ydotte It th* history of weatera Nenrasha »e*pi the northern pan of Hamilton rouaiy *»d vracks left hy the terrlffe tw.rley ha«* lass coming into Central city, along with home leas fagilllaa, wh> re aided la the path of the storm Stray ing of hitman life wea the et ran feet freah <4 the rydune Not on# Ufa waa loet and only a few people wera la fared, and t hose a«t »*n “Buffalo,” said a mau from that city | recently, “Is going to have the finest J railway station in the United States, and probably the most magnificent in the world. Architecturally, It will bo a delight and an ornament to the town, its great tower of the cathedral style rising to the altitudeof 300 feet. It in to cost $8,000,000, but it will exceed in size and beauty the Union depot at St. I^ouis, on which was expended $8,500, 000, and It will make Chicago's $2, 000,000 station look cheap." 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