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A 'utfc outbreak of baboutr plagv.e
b r'at Alexandria
\te her death due to bubume
La* iwrurred i*mvrna Tur
key.
Ha-1 to the depth of three lathe's
f«.t m the a'Jtvt western suburb* «'
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f l.« Hater sttvoy* a T.l visit Omaha
ina • pa «u*e* of I.a. than a quarter
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The republbaa* of Kansas «iU tu t
f-pm thetr speaking campaign until
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Kune breath banker* have offered
u ******* fth.UUW.twd. m the Veneaue
lan p imaea!
Army < .fiber* in Havana Indignant
ly deny the charge* that they are liv
ing »*tra»a**«: >.
Sir* Elisabeth lietning IHier King,
who vac formerly a leader in New
York society. m dead at the age of k?
year*
TIN senate cop mi*tee on finsrre ir
tLor **d a favorable report on the
h*m*e ton »rto«f the la* nn.ni
tag the taxation ue beer «o as to elim
Jetie Mb.
A statement at the treasury bal
ance* in the genera! fund, exclusive
*4 u*e tlls.Me «»* gold reserve in :h*
dm»ion at redemption on *ae soth.
► I »* Available i*l ilame* |1 *C -
laS.lTY; gu*d fas.tc:, Tf.«.
At spritflrd. 111., tonstderable rot
stemaiton was <rested at toe state
Louse t-y Secretary of Mate Hose dir
«Larging nineteen clerks and jan.iora.
None of those d.s Larged affected to
know the reason for the wholesale
cleaning out. and Secretary Hose was
equally no*-commuon ative. only say
ing that the service* of so many were
no longer needed
Postmaster General emitb ha* t«
cetved a report frt*m the director of
f st* at The Philippine island*, under
date of April 14, in vffcich he states
that With all expem-e* paid there Will
t* a rrotf of over Il4.h« for the
• leten months fn.m May 1. !«•*. This,
t- -* make- «• .te’y < * rt a: * the
mat. a name of the set vice until June
without a deficit.
»fce San Juan. Porto Rico, school
term util t Wise oa June 27. and th«
lecig three months vacation will begin.
1 he * do* at tonal department has ae
compiished moth during the last year,
although It 1* still at loggerheads with
some natives mho do not take to the
American edu«att< rial system. Ameri
can m*thot> text books in lio-h lan
# am tea there have teeti intro
dared.
Admiral IVvej La* arranged to j
leave Washington on June j for a trip
that mill tarry him as far as Grand
R—psds. Mich. It is a purely social
trip in response to invitations issued
some months ago by toe citizen* of
three mestera cities mhtch Admiral
U»ry had accepted bcfotf the an
nouncement of his : andida* y for the i
presidency. The trip has no political
significance
The attending physicians now cor- i
re*t the impression 'hat Mrs. Glad- j
•tone is paralyzed They say there has
been no seizure and that her state is
merely the result of eat feme weak ness.
A H. • Shanghai • Pierce, the t attle
kmg and H II Kirkpatrick. of Sher
man. Teams have sold to Milton H.
Smith, president of the Louisville A
Nashville railroad, 1<* '«*' acres of Land
fronting on West Galveston bay.
Se. retary Hay has received a cable
gram from Consul ' uine at Smyrna
saying that the plague has made its
apparrar. e at that port.
Col. John H Stevens, the first white
art tier in Minneapolis, is dead. He
went to Minnesota and took up a farm
overlooking St. Anthony Falls, in 1m9.
At Phillip* Wi* * ue Flam!* i Pa
per Company's mills were uestroved by
fire, entailing a torn of
Attorney General Smith has begun
proceedings in the district court at
Omaha to dissolve the i«e trust of That
city. Aa order was iet-ued directing
th * trust to show cause w hy an in
junction should not be granted.
The Cbo* tow tnbal autnonius, who
attempted to collect th« tribal tax
fr< m non-* itizen* at Sterret. I. 'ien
countered resistance.
H'Utrke Coc hrane of New York has
made a donation of %**' to the work
«*f th- Tuskegee notmai and industrial
irstitatr at Tuskcgec, Ala.
Some <a»es of yellow fever have ap
P are*, in Havana.
At a meeting held in oatigor. Me.,
the Eastern l-um her Manufacturers'
Aswcfiaticas voted to curtail produ« tion
at ie- vt wm per cent in July and Au
gust. and to reduce pri es awmewhat
from the schedule adopted early .n
th* >prtng
The Cleveland Header rays ttiat
Mark Hanna will not be chairman of
the new national oommittre.
iWtwrn cun a sleeping egr of the
Miee<.-ar* Parifb train *>''h '.eft Kali
an* «':*■ mere held up a • r» bt • d be
tween Pa!la City. Xeiit. and St *11* by
one highwayman
J. ft. Sbowalter was renominated
for imgrim by the republican* in the
T«*c:j fnt district of Pennsylvania.
Kansas want* 2tU** men to help
ant*- ter cBtinaoui wheat crop. State
Grata Inspector Mi krnxa says the
ttat# will hari»->t l.uhCs
and that the fcarveMiog »j|l begin ia
southern Kansas by June 12.
B’.igiar* bbw op*a me safe at the
Clark Em hangs at Sturgeon. Mo., and
(Hunt **.«** ta currency and escaped,
leaving no rite.
fifteen laborers la a foundry at
Joeekarath. Germany, were deluged
wtih liquid hot iron, seven died and
the survivor* were horribly burned.
Superintendent fiat id Griffith - of the
Reput lie Iron and Steel eompnay's
plant Springfield. III., received word
frttas the company stating tk.t owing
to shortage ia orders and a genera:
duap in iron, the works at that place
would be enclosed entirely June 1. and
woold remain dosed for an indefinite
time
The supreme court of the l otted
Male* has adjourned for the term and
wfl not sit again until neat October.
I It inn dir Heron, ea secretary of the
infifnnn mate board of agriculture, is
dmri at Indianapolis. He was born in
Baltimore ia lt2S. and moved to Con
ner* vtllr lnd.. in 1K35.
Ex Queen Uiluokalina sailed for
fionoituu on the steamer City o.' Pe
kin. The ea-nueen does not look well,
nod it ia said she is going borne to die.
Aii the medics! skill of the ea.1 could
siot hkir her and as sewn as the news
wnx t'Token to her she decided to
hasten home and end her days among
her • si people.
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Ax-.r emu Bnikt Believtd to Have Reach- j
tii Filipino Lead r
I*IS HCRSL COHRtD WiTfi BLOOD
**O*' ■•frb.wHh Ortirlinirni of Thirty
third Krgliurnt, thiriakm I iMturt;<-nL
Tarty After ■ L<ui£ Tur*uit Ttiruurb
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the Kata.
V1GAX, Luzon, \ia Manila. June 3L
—Major Manh. with his detachment
of the Thirty-third regiment, over
tmk what is believed to have been
hguinahio's party on May IJj at La
Gat. a!-out 100 miles northeast of Yi
yan. The Americans killed or wound
ed an offb er. supposed to be Agui~
n&ldo. whose body was removed by
hi* followers Aguinaldo had 100
men. Major March 1
The American commander reached
Iasboagan. whither Aguinaldo had
made his headquarters since March 6.
on May 7. Aguinaldo had fled seven
hours before, leaving all the beaten
trails and traveling through the for
est. along the lieds of streams. To
ward evening. May 13. Major March
>lru k Aguiualdo's outpost about a
mile outside ot Iji Gat. Killing tour
'ilipinos and capturing two. From
he latter he learned that Aguinaldo
had camped there for the night, al
though exhausted and half starved.
Major March's men entered La Gat
on the run. They saw the insurgents
Mattering into the bushes or over the
plateau. A thousand yards beyond
the town, on the mountain side, the
fig ures of twenty-five Filipinos, dress
ed in white, with their leader on a
gray horse, were silhouetted against
the sunset. The Americans flred a vol
ley and saw the officer drop from his
horse. His followers fled, carrying
the body.
The Americans, on reaching the
spot, caught the horse, which was
rt( hly saddled. Blood from a badly
wounded man was on the animal and
on the ground. The saddle bags con
tained Aguinablo’s diary and some
• papers, including proclama
tions. One of these was addressed:
“To the Civilized Nations." It pro
tested against the American occupa
tion of the Philippines. There were
also found copies of Senator Bever
idges speech, translated into Spanish,
and entitled “The Death knell of the
Filipino People.'*
Major March, believing that the Fil- |
ipinos had taken to a river which is i
a Tributary to the Chico, followed il !
for two days, reaching Tiao. where he i
learned that a party of Filipinos had
d* - ended the river May 21* on a raft, j
w:rh the body of a dead or wounded '
man upon a litter, covered with palm
leaves.
There Major March reviewed his
mman I. shoeless and exhausted, and
pi ked out twenty-four of the fresh- j
est men. v ith w hom he beat the sur
rounding country for six days longer,
but without finding any trace of the
insurgents. The Americans pushed
on and arrived at Aparri May 29.
The officer shot was either Agul
naldo or h:s adjutant, and as the horse
was richly caparisoned it is a fair
pre-umj tion that it was Aguinaldo.
UIARTH Of PRETORIA NEWS.
CoBi rritatof Opinion iliut (lie Boer* Will
Ssmndcr.
IX1NDON, June 4.-4 a. m.—There is
no dire« t news from Pretoria of later
date than Thursday evening. General
French'* cavalry were then at Irene,
eigbt miles south of Pretoria, and firing
was heard there. Lord Roberts' mes
sage about secondary operations else
where and the situation at Johannes
burg. dated at Orange Grove, a farm
four miles northeast of Johannesburg,
show that on Saturday at 9:10 p. m.
he was twenty-nve miles from Preto
ria.
The correspondents with Ixird Rob
erts have not got through a line about
th» operations after the occupation of
Johannesburg. Official messages con
tinue to come through, but press tele
grams are held up. probably to avo.»d
their giving even a hint as to what may
be the 'tending operations. From the
other siuc and their followers through
I.ourenzo Marque* comes a mass of
statements, some contradictory, others
obviously improbable, but ail purport
ing to be facts.
Boring .trtmian Welt*.
PIERRE. S. D., June 4.—S. A. Coch
rane. state engineer of irrigation, has
returned from bulljr county, where he
located sites for two artesian wells in
t*ear! township. It is expected to have
ihe wells flowing before winter. An
other well is being sunk in Sully coun
ty on the ranch of C. D. Banton. east
of Onida, and the wells just located
will make four for the county. The
well sunk last year on the King ranch,
near Onida. has demonstrated that the
artesian flow ean be secured in that
county in sections where the different
geological survey* have demonstrated
bv theory that such wells could not be
•ecured.
Itrllit Ko* U ln**nv.
NEW YORK, June 4.—Della May
Ftrx. th«* well known actress, was com
mitted by Justice Me Adam in the su
preme court today to the insane asy
lum at Wave Crest. Astoria. L. I., on
th«* petition of her brother. William
II. Fox. and on the evidence of Drs.
Au-tin Flint, jr.. and Edward D. Fish
I er. whi h showed that she is laboring
under delusions.
Uif-h Zinc Strike In Kdim).
GALENA. Kan.. June 3.—What is
represented to be the rickest jack strike
ever made is reported from one of the
properties of the Combination Zinc
j Mining company's properties. At a
depth of sixty-two feet drillers on the
i Sadie Hell shaft ran into 25 per cent
jack and are said to have gone through
| ten feet solid
Seely Taper* arc Maned.
NEW YotiK. .June 4.—Governor
Roosevelt has signed the Neely extra
i dition papers and they were forwarded
to Washington tonight.
('lark's Body at St. I.oula.
ST. LOUIS, June 4.—The special car
from Asheville, N. C., bearing the body
of the late S. H. H. Clark, former pres
ident of the Missouri Pacific and Union
Pacific railroad systems, arrived in this
city at S o'clock tonight. It was met
by a large number of railroad officials,
friends and relatives of the deceased.
The car was at once attached to the
special train of the Missouri Pacific
which is to carry the funeral party to
Omaha, where the burial will take
place tomorrow afternoon.
INDIA’S DEPLORABLE CONDITION.
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Lout* Klop*cli Makes St itrmcnt of
•Sp'-nes in E’>glauri's Drpenileucy.
BOMBAY, June 3.—Ixtuis Klopsch
of New York, publisher cf the Chris
tian Herald, who arrived here May
14 and started at once on a tour of
the (amine stri ken districts, has re
turned. after traveling through the
most severely smitten portions of the
Bombay presidency, including Gujer
rat and Barolda. He makes the fol
lowing statement regarding his obser
vations:
"Everywhere I met the most shock
ing and revolting scenes. The famine
camps have been swept by cholera and
smallpox. Fugitives, scattering in all
directions and stricken in flight, were
found dying in the fields and roadside
ditches. The numbers at one relief
j station were Increasing at ihe rate of
10.000 per (lav.
'"At Godhera there were 3.000
deaths from cholera within four days,
and at Dohad 2.500 in the same period
The hospital death rate at Godhera
and Dohad was 90 per cent. The con
dition of the stricken simply beggars
description. Air and water were im
pregnated with an intolerable stench
of corpses. At Ahmedabad the death
rate in the poor house was 10 *»er
cent. Every day I saw new patients
placed face to face with corpses. In
every fourth cot there was a corpse.
"The thermometer read 115 in the
shade. Millions of flies hovered
around the uncleaned dysentery pa
tients. I visited the smallpox and
cholera wards at Viragam. All the
patients were lying on the ground,
there being no cots. Otherwise their
condition was fair.
"I can fully verify the reports that
the vultures, dogs and jackals are de
vouring the dead. Dogs have been
seen running about with children’s
limbs in their jaws.
"The government is doing its best,
but the native oulcials are hopelessly
and heartlessly inefficient. Between
the famine, the plague and the chol
era the condition of Bombay presi
dency is now worse than it has been
at any previous period in the nine
teenth century. Whole families have
J been blotted out. The spirit of the
people has been broken and there may
be something still worse to come
when the monsoon breaks."
MYRCH TO GATES OE PEKIN.
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Armed Bodies of Seven Nutious Will De
mand AUmi-ciion to the City.
TIEN TSIN. June 4.—A special train
started for Pekin this atteruoon with
i the following forces:
I Americans, seven officers and flfty
| six men.
British, three officers and seventy
two men.
Italians, three officers and thirty
; nine men.
French, three officers and seventy
two men.
Russian, four officers and seventy
one men.
Japanese, two officers and twenty
; foui men.
The foreign contingent also took
with it five quick-firing guns.
It is rumored that foreign troops will
b? opposed at the first gate of the Chi
nese capital, outside the wall.
Promotions in the volunteer army:
I All of the Thirty-first infantry—Ma
jor Lloyd M. Brett, to he lieutenant
colonel; Captain C. P. Stivers, to be
major; First Lieutenant Benjamin
Stark, jr.. to be captain; Second Lieu
tenant Wilford Tw.vman. to be first
lieutenant; also Sergeant D. W.
Strong, company A. Thirty-fifth infan
try, to be second lieutenant.
ST. LOUS SINDAY RECORD.
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Dynamite i:\plosiori Stops Car Line and
Kills Bystander.
ST. LOUIS. Mo., June 4.—A riot of
small proportions, during the progress
of which a boy was fatally shot and a
d> namite explosion marred what would
have otherwise have been an unevent
ful Sabbath. As a car on the lower
Grove line of the St. Louis Transit
company was passing the corner of
Twenty-eighth and Calhoun streets a
crowd of strike sympathizers began
throwing rocks at it. An unknown man
leaned from one of the windows of
the car and fired a shot from a revol
ver toward the unruly crowd. The bul
let sped over the heads of the mob and
found lodgment in the breast of Peter
Frank, a lG-year-old boy who was sit
ting in the doorway of his father's
house, an interested spectator of the
demonstration. A detachment of police
dispersed the rioters and carried young
Frank to the city hospital. The physi
cians say that the wound will prove
fatal.
KruRer Near the Border.
LCURENZO MARQUEZ. June 3.—
Saturday, "President i^ruger was still at
Machadodorp, about half way between
Pretoria and the Portuguese frontier,
on the railroad between the Transvaal
capital and Delagoa bay. Boer com
mands totaling about 10,000 men held
Thursday all the position and hills
around Pretoria. Another large com
mand was at Bronkhurst's spruit, about
fifty miles from Pretoria, on the rail
road leading to Delagoa bay.
iirur £ ivoys at Clevelantl.
CLEVELAND, O., June 4—The Boer
envoys arrived here at 11 o’clock to
night from Buffalo. They were met at
the train by a big reception committee
and delegation of citizens on foot and
in carriages and headed by a ba^rr
passed through the principal downtown
streets. Tomorrow evening the en
voys will address a mass meeting at
the Gray's armory.
Fatal Wreck at l ima.
LIMA, O., June 3.—This afternoon
about 3 o’clock as an eastbound freight
train on the Lake Erie & Western
road was running at full speed, about
eighteen miles this side of Sandusky
City, the tires came off of one of the
driving wheels, ditching the engine
and piling about twenty cars on top
of it. Fireman Enoch Bowsher and
Head Brakeman J. W. Purtell, who
were in the engine, were crushed to
death, and Engineer Harry Bell had
a leg broken and was seriously hurt
internally. The men killed and En
gineer Bell live here.
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Highwayman still at Large.
RAYMOND. Cal., June 4.—The lune
highwayman who yesterday held up
three Yosemite stages and two wagons
and two United States cavalrymen is
still at large. Additional details re
veal that the number of people held
up was thirty-two, twenty-seven men
and five women. Major Rucker and
Captain Wood, United States army,
with sixty men of Troop F, who were
on the way to Yosemite, reached the
scene just as the robber was about tc
open the express box. Seeing the
troopers he disappeared iu the bush.
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BOERS HOLD PRETORIA
Siege of the Capital of the Transvaal.
However, in Progress.
THE PEACE COMMITTEE OVERRULED
General liottia ami Followers Probably
Determined to Fight On — Nothing
From Lord Roberts for a Day—C011
llictiug Reports of the Situation Are
iieatd at Loureuzo Marquez.
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LONDON, June 2.—Lord Roberts
continues silent regarding Pretoria.
Loureuzo Marquez, where all the
news from the Boer side is rehandled,
cables that communication with Pre
toria is now suspended.
Some messages by courier have
.'eaehed Loureuzo Marquez, but none
of later date than Wednesday. These
assert that the burghers are in a state
•Ml panic and that Pretoria is being
controlled by a vigilance committee.
Lourenzo Marquez again senus the
report that President Kruger has been
captured.
The news blank gives rise to a sus
picion tnat a citizens' committee a;
Pretoria may not have been able to
carry out its plans for securing the
peaceful entry of Lord Roberts and
sparing the city the horrors of a siege.
A piece party appeared to be in the
ascendant a.nd as soon as President
Kruger and his cabinet left Pretoria to
organize u new capital the citizens’
committee persuaded the commandants
of tlie forts to withdraw some of the
troops from the defenses, perhaps with
the view of keeping order in the town.
If messengers were sent to the Brit
ish or the British, being two hours'
march from Pretoria ou Wednesday,
entered it at any time prior to Friday
noon. Lord Roberts would certainly
have telegraphed this fact. Hence it
looks, as though there was a Boer force
between Pretoria and Johannesburg.
These soldiers, trekking back toward
Pretoria, some of them fresh from the
fight with General Hamilton, would
have brought a new element into the
situation and probably have overruled
the peace committee, taking the direc
tion of affairs out of their hands. If
this has happened the British may. as
the Daily Chronicle says, see some
“hard fighting” beiore the British flag
flies over Pretoria, for if the Boers
held only three forts standing close
together on the hills south of the town
they would be in a position to stand a
siege.
The Boers, according to a special dis
patch from Lourenzo Marquez, have
re-entered the northeastern territory
of the Free State and are engaged with
the British near Vcntersburg and Har
rismith.
It is reported from Amsterdam that
the best rooms at one of the principal
hotels there have been engaged for
President Kruger’s occupancy from
June 25.
The Times has the following from
Lourenzo Marquez, dated June 1:
“Reports of the most conflicting
character are current here, due to the
activity of the Boer agents. While one
section declares that President Kruger
has returned to Pretoria for the pur
pose of arranging terms of surrender,
another asserts that the British have
been repulsed outside of Pretoria.
Nothing autnentic is known here re
garding Mr. Kruger’s whereabouts or
the situation in the Transvaal.”
EIJNDS TO TIGHT THE PlAGtE.
Men of San Francisco Start Ont
to Collect Money.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 2—In or
der to set at rest all reports that
there is further danger from the bu
bonic plague and to protect their
business interests the merchants of
this city have decided to raise $50,000,
which is to be expended in purifying
the Chinese quarter. At a meeting
this afternoon $30,000 was subscribed
and a committee appointed to increase
the amount to $50,000. More money
will be raised if it is necessary, as
the business men are in earnest and
announce their purpose of prosecut
ing the work of cleansing to such
an extent that no one can say the
slightest trace of plague remains.
The Trust Amendment Defeated.
WASHINGTON, June 2.—The house
of representatives today, after a lively
debate extending over two days, de
feated the joint resolution proposing a
constitutional amendment empowering
congress to regulate trusts. It requires
a two-thirds vote under the constitu
tion to adopt an amendment to the
I constitution. The vote stood: Ayes.
154; nays, 131. The affirmative vote,
therefore, was thirty-eight short of the
requisite two-thirds. 192.
Five democrats, Campbell of Mon
tana, Naphen of Massachusetts. Scud
der of New York. Sibley of Pennsylva
nia and Thayer of Massachusetts, and
one silverrte, Newlands of Nevada,
vtoed with the republicans for the res
olution and two republicans. Loud of
California and McCall of Massachu
setts, with the democrats. These were
the only breaks from party lines. The
populists voted solidly against the res
olution.
fimiiHii Sngnr Trust’s M'«*rk.
MADGEBURG. Prussia. June 2.—As
the German Sugar trust starts opera
tions today the refineries have with
1rawn all their offers from the mar
ets. There will be no further sales
or twelve days, then the trust will
the prices for home trade.
Hnrr an<l tmith Made Rrieadiera.
WASHINGTON. June 2.—The presi
dent today appointed Colonel Luther
H. Hare of the Thirty-third volunteer
infantry (captain Seventh cavalry)
and Colonel J. H. Smith of the Sev
enteenth infantry, to be brigadier gen
erals of volunteers, in recognition of
their distinguished services in the
campaign in the Philippines. This ac
tion fills the only vacancies in the
volunteer brigadier rank. They were
kept open in order to permit the pres
ident to bestow the appointments upon
specially deserving officers in the
field.
Revenue Stamp Fraud.
NEW YORK, June 2.—Behind the ar
rest of three young men in Brooklyn,
the police believe is a revenue stamp
swindle of proportions. The men are
George and Charles Morgan and Wil
liam Brower. They were arrested as
suspicious characters, and in a fur
nished room which they recently rent
ed was found a large number of can
celed and uncanceled revenue stamps
ranging in denomination from 10 cents
to $10. The detectives asserted that
some of the stamps had been freed of
the cancellation mark.
i S. n. H. Cl AUK PASSES AWAY. '
I Well Known Railroad .Man Dies at Ashe
ville, North Carolina.
OMAHA, June 2.—S. H. H. Clark, a
director of the Missouri Pacific Rail
road company, its former vice presi
dent and general manager, first vice
president of the Texas & Pacific and
the International & Great Northern,
and formerly president and general
manager of the Union Pacific, died
! yesterday at Asheville, N. C. Mr.
I Clark had been ailing for several
i years and since the reorganization of
■ the Union Pacific road had remained
! in retirement at his residence at St.
I Louis. He was advised to go to Ashe
! ville early in fhe spring, but his rela
i tives and friends felt that the end
was near. He passed away in the
presence of his wife and son. Mr.
i Clark was in his ’GSth year.
Mr. Clark had been in poor health
for more than a dozen years, but had
' kept actively at work until about
I three years ago. During the Union
i Pacific receivership he was directed
j by Judge Henry Clay Caldwell to take
i a vacation and for several months he
: was at rest. He soon resumed the
| active direction of the affairs of the
| road as chief of the receivers and
i kept steadily in the harness until the
receivership was terminated in the
sale under foreclosure in November,
1S9S. Since that time he has been
connected with the other roads of the
Gould system, but has not been abli
to do a great deal of work.
BILL LIMITS PECK'S POWER.
Uei>tv*ent:itiv^ Levy I’roptjse* Plan for
Ace Jtintiug for Money.
WASHINGTON, June 2.—Represen
tative Levy of New York today intvo
duced the following bill in the house:
“That on and after the passage of
this act the power vested in the com
missioner general of the United States
to the Paris exposition of 1900 to em
ploy experts and other necessary offi
cers or clerks and to disburse appro
priations incident to the participation
of the United States in said exposition
is hereby transferred to the secretary
! of state, who^hall make such appont
ments and disburse such money as may
| be now or hereafter appropriated.
“The commissioner general for the
United States to the Paris exposition
! of 1900 is hereby directed to render a
monthly report to the secretary of
| state of the number of employes, their
occupation and salaries. That the re
port authorized under the act of June
30. 1S99, giving the results of the expo
; sitian. shall be prepared under the di
j rection of the secretary of state.”
DISFRANCHISING THE NEGRO.
i
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Senate ComnlttW Likely to Investigate
Conditions in the South.
WASHINGTON, June 2.—The senate
| committee on privileges and elections
i today had under consideration Senator
| Pritchard's resolution declaring exclu
| sion from the privilege of the franchise
| because of race to be unconstitutional.
! The committee decided to recommend
1 the adoption of a substitute directing
l the committee to investigate whether
| such exclusion is antagonistic to the
constitution. The substitute passed
the committee by a party vote and if it
! is agreed to by the senate the investi
j gation will be undertaken by the com
j mittec.
—
R» tik Robber* Arrested.
I CHICAGO. June 2.—Three men, said
to be known to the police all over the
United States and Canada as expert
safe blowers, were arrested in their
apartments at Ogden avenue and Ash
land boulevard today, after a hard
struggle. The men under arrest are
Frank Dwyer, alias Rutledge, of On
tario. Canada, wno has served time at
Canon City. Colo., for safe robbery;
Thomas Jons and Fred Harris. The
men are wanted for the alleged rob
bery of two banks at Aurora, a town
near Toronto, Canada, where they are
said to have secured $900. and several
thousand dollars worth of mining
stock.
Meviro's CitpitHl Fears PUjor.
CITY OF MEXICO. June 2.—The
president of the republic, at the in
stance of the board of health, has au
thorized additions to the general sani
tary code of Mexico, with a view to
prevent the introduction of the bubonic
plague. Any vessels carrying persons
who are plague-stricken or any vessel
that in the last ten days has touched
at a port where plague exists is to go
; into quarantine off Vera Cruz if ap
! proaching the gulf ports, or off Aca
! pulco if approaching the Pacific coast.
| The quarantine is to continue up to
ten days and all wearing apparel and
| effects are to be disinfected.
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I
Robfrtu » Cheyenne Boy.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 2.—Cap
; tain Charles H. Roberts of the Thirty
I fifth volunteer infantry, who. with two
of his men. is reported to have been
captured by the Filipinos near San
Miguel de Mayo, was reared in Chey
enne. Ho is a son of Lieutenant Col
j one! Cyrus S. Robertc. He was grad
j uated from the Cheyenne High school
1891 and was appointed tc West
1 Point in 1894 and was graduated with
1 high honors two yea^3 ago.
rhrlttlan* Mnrdrrxl Dally.
LONDON, June 2.—The Pekin cor
respondent of the Times, telegraphing
j Wednesday, says: “The damage to the
| railroad is estimated at £30.000. The
government supports rather than con
demns the ‘Boxers.* Not one has been
arrested yet. No foreigner has been
seriously injured, though murders of
native Christians are reported daily
from the country.”
In Keorpuii/imr Militia.
FRANKFORT. Kv., June 2.—Gover
nor Beckham this afternoon issued an
order mustering out ten companies of
the state guard. All except two of
them are located in mountain towns
and were among those mustered into
service during the political excitement
just before and immediately following
the state election last fall. It is un
derstood that a number of other com
panies are also to be disbanded, as
the governor holds that the various
regiments nowr have double their quota
of companies in them.
Fifteen British Are Killed.
CAPETOWN. June 2.—General War
ren, with 700 men, occupied a strong
defensive position at Fabersput on
May 29. At dawn he found that he
was surrounded and he was fiercely
attacked by 1,000 rebels.
The horses were stampeded, but the
force concentrated and the Boers were
repulsed. A small party in a garden
continued to fight tenaciously, but
evacuated as the charge began, leav
ing a number of wounded.
The British lost fifteen killed. In
cluding Colonel Spence, and thirty
wounded.
' THE MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. |
I -
! Quotations From New Ycrfc. Chicago,
South Omaha anti El ice where.
SOUTH OMAHA LIVE STOCK.
SOUTH OMAHA. June A.—CATTLE—
This market on all kinds of killing cattle
was in exceedingly good shape as com
pared with other markets. There was a
good deal said about the market because
of its lateness, buyers hanging back, but
when the market did open it was very
active and the cattle were all sold in
lair season at prices that would compare
most favorably with every other maraet.
In fact there is .10 other market in the
country any better than this
market. Beet steers. $5.25#3.lU; cows,
$_.5b#4.40: cows and heilers $4.10#4.50;
hellers, *4.10vi 1.50; heifers. $2.u0?i 4.60; bulls.
$3.25#4.20; calves. $5.i>0#ti.75: stags. $3.35
#4.lo; stock cows and neifers, $2.75#4.U5;
stockers and ft'dors. $3-5**#4.50.
HOoa—Keceipts were ot pretty good
size, but there was an active demand
and at the same time a more encourag
ing outlook in eastern markets, so tnat
the market here opened 21*#5c higher.
At the tunning hogs sold largely at $4>5
#4.874. then ii strengthened uv> and for
a time good loads commanded $4,874#
4 90. A little later t’huago came easier
anti the market at tide point eased off
again and closed about where it opened.
SHEEP—There were seven carloads of
Colorado lambs and three loads ot clipped
western iambs in the yarus, besides tour
loads of sheep bought on the Kansas
City market and shipped direct to pack
ers." Quotations: Cupped wethers, fed.
$5.0)# 5.10: clipped yeaning*, ted, $5.00#
5.4u: clipped ewes, good to choice, fed.
$4.3.>#4.75: fair to good clipped ewes. $4.u0
#4.35; good to choice A uiorado wooled
lambs. ?7.0e#7.25: fair to gootl Colorado
wooled lambs, Jti.SSf'7.0,1; got.d to choice
clippetl lambs, $5. i5#<>.00; lair to good
clipped lambs, $5.35#5.60.
KANSAS CITY LIVE STOCK.
KANSAS CITY, June 4.—CATTLE—
Good killers, steady; common grassers,
shade easier; heavy native steers, $4.55#
r.Uo; stockers ai.u feeders, $3.75# 5.25;
butchers 'cows and heiters. $3.25# 4.541;
canners. $2.75#3.2>; fed westerns, $4.20#
4.75: 'lexans. $3.35414.60.
HOGS?—Market a.five, 5# hi- higher;
heavy. 4$.:5#5.u5: i.Hxed, $4.8,4#5.00; light,
$4.85#4.924: pigs. $4.tin#4.80.
SHEEP AND LAMBS—Good demand,
firm prices; spr.ng lambs. $ti.75,i7.25; clip
ped Iambs, $5.(0# 7.. 73; clipped muttons,
$4.75t;5.33; grassers. $4.*-0-i4.t»5; feeders,
$3.50#4.50; culls. $3 00#LOO.
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET.
CHICAGO. June 4 -CATTLE—Butch
ers' stock slow and shade lower; best on
sale today, live cars Kansas at $5.20; na
tives. good to prime steers. $4.00#4.60;
poor to medium. fL4 #4.M); selected feed
ers. $4.25#4.95: mixed stockers S3.504t4.I0;
cows. $3.00: stockers. $4.25: heifers, $3.15#
4.65; earners. $2.1 ■ #2.90; l>ulls. $2.75414.25;
calves. $5.00#7.tv»; Texes, fed steers. $4.50
#5.10; Texas grass steers, $3.75'«i4.4U; Tex
as bulls 53.10# 3.0-1.
HOGS—Strong to 5- higher; closing
weak: top. $5.23: mixed and butchers.
$5.<<0#5.20: gootl to choice heavy. $5.1047
5.20; rough heavy. $4.95# 5.05: lights, $4.95
#5.174; bulk of sales, $5.1->#5.15.
SHEEP AND LA M tiS—Sheep and
I: mbs. weak to luc lower, except for
choice: rood to 1 hoice wethers. $3.00#
3.50: fair to choice mixed, $4.25-.5.00; west
er?! sheep. $5. TO# 5.40; yearlings, $5.40#’
5.90: native lambs. $5.00#7.0‘; western
iambs. $*v«i#7.k>; spring lambs, lies;,
steady, others weak, at $5.00#7.30.
NEW YORK GRAIN MARKET.
NEW YORK. June 4.—WH EAT—Spot,
steady: No. 2 red. 8:’4o. f. o. b., afloat,
spet. nominal: No. 2 red. 7.-„c in eleva
tor; No. 1 northern. Duluth, 75c, f. o.
b.. afloat, prompt: No. I hard. Duluth,
774c. afloat, to arrive.
CORN—Closed steady at unchanged
prices; July. 42 l-k#42 5-16c, closing at
4 4c; September. 424# 424c. closing at
424c.
At ATS—Spot, quiet: No. 2, 2G4c: No. 3,
2tic: No. 2 white. 27,«c: No. 3 white. 27c;
on track, mixed western. 264# 28c; on
track, white. 27#344c. Options slow and
featureless.
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SAYS MEAT BILL WILL BE LAW.
German Ambassador Thinks Iliuidesmtli
Will 1’ass It.
CHICAGO, June 4—John W. Spring
er, president of the National Live Stock
association, which represents an in
vested capital of $600,000, has returned
from Washington, where he saw the
German ambassador and notified him
that should the German bundesrath see
fit to pass the meat bill recently adopt
ed by the reichstag. the United States
congress would retaliate with a meas
ure which would affect German inter
ests to the extent of millions of dollars
each year.
"In reply,” said Mr. Springer, "the
ambassador said the reichstag bill was
the result of a compromise between the
crown and the agrarian interests, the
former being compelled to secure need
ed appropriations for the imperial
navy, and furthermore, he was rather
certain—he put all this n his diplo
matic way. of course—that the bundes
rath would also pass the reichstag
measure.
“Then I notified the ambassador that
the United States would certainly
adopt retaliatory measures against
Germany as a means of self-defense:
that German merchants would suffer
more in the end than the live sto^k
and packing interests of the United
States. After leaving the ambassador
1 drafted a bill, which was afterward
introduced in the house of representa
tives by Congressman Bailey of Texas,
defining the new policy of the United
States."
.lane Wiley Lloyd Wins.
CHICAGO. June 4.—The second trial
of the case of Jane Wiley Lloyd against
the supreme lodge of the Knights of
Pythias involving the intoxicant
clause in the insurance policies of that
order, resulted today in a verdict of
$3,475 for the plaintiff. Judge Kohl
saat in the United States circuit court
rendered the decision. A policy for
$3,000 was issued to Walter Lloyd in
I8S9. He died.in March. 1897, and the
supreme lodge refused to pay because
his death was said to have resulted
from intoxicants. It was claimed that
this provision was not in Mr. Lloyd’s
policy, and that it was inserted two
years later. The court of appeals re
versed the first judgment on that
ground, that the clause was retroactive.
Namrd by the President.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. June 4.—
Nominations by the president today:
Clifton R. Breckinridge of Arkansas,
to be a commissioner to negotiate
with the Indians of the Cherokee,
Choctaw. Chickasaw. Muscogee (or
Creek) and Seminole nations, vice A.
S. McKennon. resigned.
l*ubllo Debt Statement.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 4.—The
monthly statement of the public debt
show's that at the close of business
May 31, 1900, the debt, less cash in th*
treasury, amounted to $1,122,608,811,
a decrease for the month of $2,193,274,
which is accounted for by the redemp
tion af bonds. The debt is recapitu
lated as follows: Interest bearing debt,
$1,026,482,990; debt on which interest
has ceased since maturity, $1,181,880;
debt bearing no interest, $390,727,479;
total, $1,418,392,128.
General Strike 1m Ordered.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. June 4.—A
general strike of all the building
trades in Kansas City tomorrow morn
ing was effected tonight at a meeting
yt the Building Trades council. It is
said that over 5.000 workmen will be
involved.
The strike order follows the lock
nut declared about two w’eeks ago by
the Builders’ club, an organization of
:ontractors. The contractors, after
continued troubles with sympathetic
strikes, announced that no members
of unions affiliated with the Building
Trades council would be employed.
1 4 .
Better Blood
Better Health
If you don’t feel wall today you can bo
made to feel better by making your blood
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pure blood maker. That is how it cures
that tired feeling, pimples, sores, salt
rheum, scrofula and catarrh. Get a bottle
of this great medicine and begin taking it
at once and see how quickly it will bring
your blood up to the Good Health point.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Is America’s Greatest Blood Medicine.
DISEASE NEW TO SCIENCE.
The Canker Which Killing Apple
Tree*.
There are some diseases of the ap
ple that affect the fruit only, and thera
are others that destroy the trees. The
New York apple tree canker is of the
latter class. Its insidiousness is in
creased by the fact that in its fir.it
stages it is exceedingly inconspicuous,
and the first sign of trouble, except to
practiced eyes, is the withering of the
leaves that announces the death of
limb or tree. Experts in the New York
agricultural experiment station in
Geneva have been investigating this
killing disease and have issued a pam
phlet announcing how it should be
treated. Though the disease is new
to science, having been under inves
tigation only two years, vet it is like
ly that there are few orchards in the
state where it cannot be found. This
canker is caused by the same tiny
plant, or fungus, as that which pro
duces the black rot of the apple,quince
and pear fruits. These spores, like
those of all fungi, germinate in any
moist place in which they happen to
fall, and this usually takes place in
the spring. The countless spores are
scattered by the winds, and seed new
areas with the disease when the
spring’s warmth germinates them. As
to the prevention of the canker, -what
is known as the Bordeaux mixture is
declared to be the almost infallible
specific for the trouble. If a limb is
bady affected by canker it should be
cut off and burned. In regions where
canker is severe it will be well to sup
plement all these measures by wash
ing the trees with whitewash; a wash
of whale oil soap (one pint), slacked
lime (three pints), water (four gal
lons), and wood ashes to thicken as
desired; or some similar mixture
with gas tar added.—New York Press.
WAS TRUE BLUE
And Wllllnc to Overlook Any of His
Minor Shortcoming:*.
“The time has come for me to
speak.” he said, going over to the
mantelpiece and lean'ng his head ab
stractedly against the cold, hard
brick. “My dear, before we are mar
ried, and while there is yet time to
pause, my conscience bids me tell
you the truth about myself. I have *
deceived you. I am not the noble
hearted, unselfish, refined, and alto
gether desirable man you have been
led to believe. I have deceived you
even about my age. Not only am I
forty, instead of thirty-four, but I am
a widower. I stay out nights when T
feel like it. I smoke all over the
house, am a crank about my meals,
find fault all the time, hector the ser
vants. never go anywhere to oblige
anyone else, drink more than I ought
to, swear regularly, and, in fact, am
a vulgar, disagreeable, hidebound,
gruff, inhospitable, irritable, inconsid
erate, insufferable nuisance.” “Tell
me,” said the fair creature he address
ed, repressing with a conscious look
of pride an inward shudder, “you
own the house and grounds that you
showed me, don't you?” “I do.” "And
the beautiful government bonds you
asked me to look at, the 500 shares of
D. A. B., the 200 X. Y. Z., the 400 U.
P. W. debentures, and four acres in
the heart of the Manhattan shopping
district are all yours, aren't they?”
“They are, dearest.” "Then." said the
undismayed, and still radiant creature
by his side, “my darling, with all
your faults, I love you still.”—Life.
The Value of a Title.
The following story of the late Sir
John Millais is contributed by Lord
James of Hereford, to a recently pub
lished biography of the great English
artist: Shortly after his title was con
ferred upon him Millais paid a profes
sional visit to Manchester. Upon his
return, addressing some friends in his
cheery way, he said: “You fellows
think it is nothing to be made a baco
net, but I can tell you that it means a
great deal, and I like it. Here you see
I went to the hotel in Manchester, and
1 said to a beautiful young person at
the office counter: 'I want a bed room
with a fire in it.’ Off she went to a
pipe and said: ‘Whist! No. 238, and a
fire.’ She then asked me to write my
name, which I did. Looking at me she
said: 'Are you Sir John Millais?’ Upon
my answering ‘Yes,’ back to the same
pipe she went and said: ‘Whist, No.
23S. No. 23, and a good fire in it.'
Now you see the use of being a baro
net. my boys!”—St. Louis Globe
Democrat. _
lie Liked “.loan of Arc.”
An amusing little story is told in
Civics by a worker on the East Side.
She had taken a party of children to
the art museum, and a few days later
a boy said shyly: “I told me mother
about the picture we saw at the muse
um and she said she wished she could
see it, too.” The teacher asked what
picture he meant. “Was it ‘Columbus
Before Isabella’ or ‘Washington Cross
ing the Delaware?’ ” The boy answer
ed promptly. “Oh. no, ma’am. The
girl in an old dress standin’ under a
tree, listenin’. The one that went to.
war and saved her country. I forgot
the name of her. Oh. yes; I remember
now’. It was ‘Noah’s Ark.’ ”—Detroit
Free Press.
What We're All Coining; To.
Chronicle-Telegraph: “What, mind
ing the baby?” said Northside, as he
entered Manchester’s home and found
his friend agitating the cradle.
“Yes,” replied Manchester. “I’ve got
down to bedrock.”
Same Old Story.
Harper’s Bazar: First Deaf Mute—
“We all have our troubles.”
Second Deaf Mute—“That’s so; I
have to tie my wife’s hands so sha
won’t talk in her sleep.”