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NEBRASKA.
A WEEK'S NEWS.
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CONGRESSIONAL
In tho Senate, on the"10tb, tho Cbair ap
pointed as Visitors to tho annual examination
of tho Naval Academy, Senators Miller. (CaL)
and Pendleton. (O.). Mr. Farley, or California,
presentod a concurrent resolution from the
Lcpislature of California relative to appro
priations already made by Congress for im
provement of the Sacramento River, but
which, according to the resolution, the Secre
tary of War refuses to permit to be ex
pended on the ground that the amount of de
bris constantly lloatinjr in the river makes tho
expenditure of money useless. The resolutions
urge the expenditure of money. At a few
minutes before one o'clock proceedings wero
suspended to permit the attendance of Sena
tors at the unveiling of the statue of Chief
Justice Marshall The House was not in
cession.
In the Senate, on tho 12th, Mr. Plumb in
troduced a resolution to donate from the pub
lic lands the cemetcry.site to the city ol Kir
win. Kits. Referred. Mr. Van Wyck moved
to take up his resolution directing the Secre
tary of the Intcrior'to withhold from the
Northern Pacitlc Railroad patents to
certain land, grants. Tho matter went over
and the Indian Appropriation bill
wu3 taken up. After debate Mr.
Frye moved that tho Shipping bill be taken
up. in order to retain its place as unfinished
business. Agreed to. Adjourned In the
Houso, Mr. Poland, by request, introduced a
bill to regulate commerce among the several
States aud to codify a law relating to bills of
exchange. This is substantially an English
law, and the bill is an English print with
amendments necessary to extend its provi
sions to this country- The Senate bill was
passed to prevent and punish counterfeiting
within the United States of securities of for
eign Governments. The other business tran
sacted was principally with relorence to the
District of Columbia.
The Senate, on tho 13th, received a com
munication from the Secretary of Avar rec
ommending an appropriation of $'J0,00O for re
pairsof the JacksonIarracks. at New Orleans.
Mr. Logan, from tho Committee on Military
Affairs, reported favorably the bill to place
General Grant on the retired list. Mr. Logan
uskwl that tho bill be put at once upon its
passage. Unanimous consent was given and
the bill was at once read the third time and
passed. The bill provides that in recognition
of distinguished services rendered the United
8tates, U. S. Grant, late General of the Army.
bA placed upon the retired list, with the rank
una full pay t.-f General of the Army....
In tho House Mr. Post submitted the views of
tho minority of the Committee on Pacitlc
Railroads on the bill to amend the Thurman
sinking fiiud act. Placed on the House cal
endar. The House then went into Committed
of the Whole on the bill providlnir for a civil
government for the Territory of Alaska, and
the bill was passed without amendment. The
next measure considered was the Toivnshend
bill, providing that hereafter no Territory
shall form a constitution or apply for admis
sion as a Stato into the Union until it shall
contain a permanent population equal to that
requiicd in a Congressional District, in order
to entitle it to representation inthc.House. Mr.
Hammond moved to lay the bill on the table;
agreed to KO to 15. The bill passed extending
the jurisdiction of justices of tho peace in
Wyoming, and providing that hereatter tho
Legislature of Dakota shall consist of twenty
four members of the Council, and forty-eight
members of the Houso.
Is the Senate, on the 14th, Mr. Call in
troduced a bill, which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary, authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to overrule and re
verse the decision of inferior officers of the
Treasury Department in respect to all matters
of account. A bill passed authorizing the
construction of a pontoon wagon bridge over
tho Mississippi near Dubuque. Mr. Illalr
moved to take up the House bill pro
viding for the establishment ot a
bureau of labor statistics. Agreed
to. Adjourned In the House a
lal was reported favorably for a
mint at St. Louis. The House went Into Com
mittee of the Whole on the Consular and Dip
lomatic Appropriation bill. Mr. Robinson, of
New York, moved to abolish tho otlice of Min
ister to Great Britain. The motion was lost
and tho Committee rose. Mr. Sprinrcr asked
unanimous consent to put on Its passage the
bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasurv
to purchase about HOtW.OuO In bonds with
crconbachs held in the Treasury for the re
aemptioiCof retired National bunk circulation,
which would relievo the money market to tho
extent or adding ff.GOO.oOO to the circulation.
Mr. Wcller objected. Adjourned.
Is the Senate, on tho 15th, Mr. Morgan of
fered a resolution which, under the rule,
went OTer one day, directing the Committee
on Finance to examine into the causes of the
failures of such of the National Banks in the
City of New York as have suspentled buines
in May, KM. ami report whether the said fail
ures have to any and what extent, resulted
from any violation of laws or regulations reg
ulating their conduct. Mr.CuIlom iutroducid
a bill which was referred to the Committee on
Finance to prevent speculation on
the part of officials of the National
Hanking Association. Tho bill giving
I.(XW.0dd to the New Orleans Exposition
passed. Adjourned till the lflth TheHoue
went Into Committee of tho Whole on the Dip
lomatic and Consular Appropriation bill.
Amendments relating to tho missions of
Itoumania. Servia and Greece and various
amendments for increasing or maintaining
salaries in certain cases, were all rejected.
There being no quorum the committee rose.
The Senate amendments to the bill for the
World's Centennial and Cotton Exposition at
New Orleans were concurred in. Adlourncd.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The Secretaries of War and Navy have
appointed General John Newton, Chief of
Engineers of the United States Army, and
Colonel F. A. Gilmore of the Corps of En
gineers of the United States Navy, mem
bers of the Board created by a resolution
of the House of Representatives to con
f lder the expediency of the construction of
a line of interior waterways for the pro
tection of the seaboard of the Atlantic and
Gulf States.
As passed by tho Sonate there is added
to tho Indian Appropriation bill about
585,000 more than the amount reported by
the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
Ts'he American Fish Culture Association
began its thirteenth annual session at the
National Museum building, Washiugton,
on the 13tb.
The Comptroller of the Currency ap
pointed Walter S. Johnson Receiver of the
Marine National Bank, of New York.
Johnson was Receiver of the National
Bank of the State of Missouri at St. Louis.
The House Committee on Elections in
the contested election case of English vs.
Poelle, of Indiana, decided by a vote of five
to three to report in favor of English.
Those voting in favor of English were J.
i. Adams, Lowery, Robinson, Converse
and Bennett. Those in favor of Peele,
Hart, Pettibono and Hesburn.
The President has issued a proclama
tion restoring to tho public domain the
lands set apart by the executive order as a
reservation for the Jeirell Apache Indians
in the Northwestern part of New Mexico,
mbracing 300,000 acres.
THE EAST.
Mbchakicbvtlle, N. Y., depot was de
stroyed by fire the other night.
It was said in New York by people who
tutvo seen the just-completed accounts of
Manager Abbsy that bis personal losses at
th new opera house aggregated no less
than 3,000. This i probably the largest
amount ever lost in one season, as even
Maurice Strakosch, in his most disastrous
year, lost only $125,000.
The Murray6ville riot cases came to a
dose at Greensburg, Pa., by Judge John
Hot! ordering a change of venue to Alle-
gheny County for Milton Weston,
' -. r-l .,1 Dt-l-nl.r rt Pittclilirt II- A.
M. Bower of Irwin Station, and Johnston,
McFarland, Remaley and Miller, of Greens
urg. Tha remaining sixteen persons, who
R-fer to be tried in Westmoreland County,
CiMinot have their trials until after the Al
legheny trials.
Isaac D. Edrehi, a New York chemist,
recently shot his wife fatally because she
refused to live with him.
Hon. Butler B. Strong, a Republican
politician of Westfield, Pa., killed himself
recently with a revolver, because cl ill
health.
The reported defalcation in the Second
National Bank in New York was denied
by President Eno.
At the church extension meeting of the
Methodist Church at Philadelphia recently
$51,000 were raised to build churches on
tho frontier.
Ciiakles O'Conor, the well-known New
York lawyer and Democratic politician,
died at Nantucket on the 12th, aged eighty.
Jcdgk Wallace, of New York, has re
moved Shipping Commissioner C. C. Dun
can for not having properly performed his
duties, and appointed James C. Reed in his
place.
A high-pressure boiler exploded in the
Pennsylvania Railway machine shop nt
Altoona, Pa., recently. The two firemen
worn blown to atoms, one of them not bo
ing found nt all. A sick man lying in bed
in an adjoining tenement house was struck
by a piecu of the flying wreck and fatally
injured. Two little girls wero also in
jured.
Withis a few days a woman and a child
at Pittsburg, Pa., havo lost their lives by
the blunders of drug clerks. One of the
latter has been held for murder.
A construction train and a freight
train collided on tho Baltimore & Ohio on
the morning of the 14th near Counellsville,
Pa. The construction train was conveying
some day laborers to work when tho nc
cident'.'occurrod. Immediately after the
accident tho wreck caught fire, and when
tho debris was cleared away tho charred
and mangled bodies of fourteen or fifteen
persons kiiLjd were discovered. Twelve
others were injured, some badly.
The tobacco-growers of New England
have started a movement to secure the re
peal of all internal revenue taxes on their
product, and they expect aid from Southern
and Western politicians and tobacco men.
THE WEST.
The Studcbaker Brothers' Manufacturing
Company say that the report that they
havo bought a college., in Mount Morris, 111.,
and intend converting it into wagon shops
"has not the slightest foundatiou in fact."
A good deal of excitement was raised iu
Denver tho other day. A new City Clerk
had been elected by tho Council and the
otlice was refused to him by the old Cl-rk,
who thought the election was a fraud. Tho
new Clerk, aided by his friends, forcibly
took possession of the office and stood the
old Clerk iu the street.
Mrs. Roger M. Shermas, eldest daugh
ter of the late Governor Bagley, obtained
a decree of divorce from her husband in
the courts of Detroit, Mich., recently, and
was awarded the custody of her two
children.
The war on Eastern passenger rates at
Denver was severe on tho 14th. The fol
lowing were the rates bulletined: Missouri
River points, distance C35 miles, "; St.
Louis, !j5; Chicago, $7; New Yoik, $25.
Pioportional rates to other Eastern points.
It was stated that scalpers wero selling to
New York for $20.
The old Van Buren tavern, nt Findlay,
O., for years a famous stopping-place for
stage-coaches, before tho day of railroads,
was burned to the ground the other morn
ing. The loss was $3,000. It was insured
for$l,m
A colored porter in Chicago went to a
gambling house the other evening to get
change for a fifty dollar bill, and was given
ten notes of five hundred dollars each.
When ho returned to havo the mistake cor
rected, he was not even thanked.
Two swindlers have been canvassing for
insurance in Fountain and Warren Coun
ties, Ind., securing a bankable note at the
bottom of each application. Recently
they sold $700 of these notes to a bank at
Attica, stole a horse and buggy, and dis
appeared. As exciting scene occurred in the Senato
tho other day. Van Wyck severely criti
cised Blair for something he had done iu
comraittoe. He was repeatedly called to
order by the President of the S-mate.
Blair said that Van Wyck was either
grossly mistaken or an intentional falsifier.
David E. Harbaugh, for many years
Revenue Collector and Police Justice at
Detroit, Mich., died recently in the insane
asylum at Pontiac.aged seventy-six years.
The annual financial statement of the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad
Company for 1883 shows earnings, ?V,01t,
212; an increase of 14 05-100 per eent. Not
earnings, $S37,C70; an increase of 11 (M -100
per cent.
The Colorado railroad rates to points
East have been restored.
The bone factory of A. B. Meyer, St.
Louis, burned the other morning. Loss,
Soj.OOO; insurance, $9,000.
Several times lately people at Racine,
Wis., claim to have seen an animal dis
porting in Lake Michigan and resembling
a sea-lion. It has been conjectured that
the animal might possibly be the sea-lion
lost from a menagerie several years ago.
Over one hundred persons saw the strange
animal the other day.
Another diamond has been found at
Eagle, Wis.
A Glesdive, M. T., special says: While
United States Paymaster Whipple was en
route to Fort Buford from Glendive re
cently, about forty miles out, he was at
tacked by road agents. Sergeant Conrad
was killed and two privates seriously
wounded. The mules attached to the am
bulance in which the paymaster, clerk and
treasurer's box were, ran away and thus
made their escape.
The Duluth and Superior City ferry-boat
Mary Martin, collided recently with a sail
boat used as ferry between Rice's Point.
Dulutn, and Connor's Point, Wis., and
smashed it up. Twenty-one persons were
in the sail-boat at the time. Isadora Plum
madore, who ran it, and three Swedes,
dock laborers, names unknown, were
drowned.
THE SOUTH.
Tcllt R. Wise, a prominent attorney,
and brother of George D. Wise, a member
of Congress from Virginia, died at San
Francisco recently.
A HAZLEnunsT, Copiah County, MI?s.,
special says: "The jury in tho case of E.
B. Wheeler, for the murder of J. P. Mat
thews, was out about an hour and returned
a verdict of not guilty."
Judge Richard Reed, of Mount Ster
ling, Ky., committed suicide recently. H
had been complaining of a pain in tho head
when he suddenly shot himself. No other
reason except that he was insane was
given for the act.
A large number of land seekers from
the Northwest wero in Western Tennesee
lately looking for locations.
A special from Cheraw, S. C, says: W.
Bogan Cash, the fugitive murderer-of Mar
shal Richards, was killed the other morn
ing while resisting arrest by a posse in
charge of Deputy Sheriff King. One of the
posso was slightly wounded, and one of
Cash's associates was seriously wounded.
UEXEKAL.
The Emperor of Germany refused to
sanction the betrothal of Princess Victoria,
daughter of tho Crown Prince, to Alexan
der I. of Bulgaria.
A iii:ig-rigged steamer was recently
seen ashore off tho island of Anticosti, in
the mouth of the St. Lawrence.
The treaty between Franco ami China
has been signed. The terms were favora
ble for France.
A petition signed by Florence Night
ingale, Mrs. Kendall and many other ladies
was sent to tlie English House of Commons
asking the passage of laws for the en
franchisement of women.
The Gladstone ministry was sustained
by 303 to 275 iu a recent motion to censure
tho foreign policy of the English Govern
ment. The Paris newspapers wero jubilant over
the signing of tho Franco-Chinese treaty.
Three regiments were recalled from Tou
quin. It was reported that tho African ex
pedition under Joseph Thompson had
reached Uganda, in the region ruled by
King Mtcsa. It was believed that Thomp
son's presence at Uganda will increase
General Gordon's chances for safety in
case he should be compelled to try to
escape from Khartoum by going to the
southward.
Prisce Bismarck has ordered tho Br
lin correspondent of the Paris newspaper
La France to be expelled from Germany
because of statements in his dispatches to
the etfectthat tho German Chancellor was
intriguing to produce a rupture between
France and England on the Egyptian ques
tion. Several Servians we.ro wounded by the
military at Stuhlweissenburg, in South
eastern Hungary, in dispersing a meeting
recently.
The British Houso of Commons rejected
the motion for a second reading of the
Channel Tunnel bill by a vote of 222 to 84.
In an attack upon friendly tribos near
Tamauieb recently, Osman Digna and his
men killed twenty-one of tho friendly
Arabs, took forty women prisoners and
captured many cattle. Of tho rebels only
five were killed. The tribes attacked are
able to muster G.OCO men. They are deter
mined to avenge toe death of their com
rades and recover their women.
Secretary Lincoln, General Sheridan,
General Stager, John McCullough Gen
eral C. II. Tbompkins, Bishop McLuin and
others to the number of fifty, went to Pelee
Inland, Canada, recently, to fish for black
Las-;.
Cablegrams report that Woolwich ar
senal narrowly escaped destruction by
dynamito recently, as detonators and ex
plosives wore found under the walls.
A recent railroad accident near Paris
caused tho death of the engineer and the
injury of thirty -one passengers.
Romero, the Mexican Minister, has in
formed the Department of State that he had
received official notification from his Gov
ernment of tho ratification by the Mexican
Sonateofthe reciprocity treaty between
tho United States and Mexico.
The Berlin correspondent of the London
Times is authorized to announce tho mor
ganatic marriage of Grand Duke Louis ol
Hesse, at Darmstadt, with Madame Kola
mirick, legally dissolved.
Ex-Secretary Wisdom, who was in
Paris recently, will sail for homo early is
June, after a brief visit to England.
THE LATEST.
THawrair shops of tho New York &
Hirlnr Railroad Company at New York
wsrfl FMrned recently. Tho building cov
arert fl large area and contained the ma
f lii'ie shops and work rooms where all the
repairing of tho rolling stock was done.
Spxrls from the burning building set fire
to several small dwellings. Loss, $200,000.
Ti"!e Siamese Embassy left Washington
for New York receutly, with the intention
of making a tour of the country.
Recent advices from Vera Cruz state
that that city was remarkably healthy and
exceptionally tk-im. Tho inhabitants did
not fear an epidemic this season, notwith
standing the fact that yellow fever existed
it certain points lelow, on the coast.
The King of Greece entertained the
American Legation at lunch on the ISth.
Schuyler, the American Minister, gave a
garden parly to the Diplomatic Corps.
W. G Halibciiton, telegraph editor of
he Baltimore Evening Xeics, died sudden
ly the other evening. He was discovered
In an unconscious condition and before a
doctor reached him, expired. He was
forty -two yars of age.
The Senate was not in session on the
18th. The House was occupied with minor
matters. Business seemed to lag or was
neglected, for, in tho debate upon the ques
tion of dividing the Judical Districts of
Missouri, a quorum was wanted and the
House adjourned.
Ernest Hokfler, of St. LouN, missing
in New York for several days, had a large
amount of money when he disappeared.
Hoeller and his wife only recently returned
from Germany.
Lord St. Leonards, of England, arrested
on a charge of assaulting a maid servant
of his host, demands a trial by his peois.
The Treasurer of the United States for
warded $8,000,000 in legal tenders to the
Assistant Treasurer iu New York, receutly,
for use in case of necessity.
A nephew of Henry Ward Beecher was
a member of one of the firms that failed in
Now York during the recent panic
The Secretary of the Navy re
cently received a telegram from Commo
dore Batcheler, commanding the Galena
at Key West, 'saying the threats against
the life of the Spanish Consul at that place
were made in a bar-room by two or three
drunken Cubans, but that neither the Con
sul nor the authorities there attach much
importance to them.
A Dennisos, Tex., special says: A
freight on the Missouri Pacific was derailed
near the city limits and the fireman, en
gineer and brakemtm seriously injured.
A tornado, on the 13:h, was reported to
have done con-iderablo damage in the
vicinity of Qaincy, III.
The Stadt Theater at Vienna was noc
totally destroyed. Tho library and some
wardiobes wero saved bv iron doors.
NEBBASKA STATU NEWS.
Qukstio.v asked: "Is Nebraska to bo
come the slugger's paradise'.''
Ex-Sknator Paddock, it is stated, lias
withdrawn his resignation as a member of
the Utah Commission.
Postoffice changes ill Nebraska dtiriut:
Ihe week ended may 10, 1SS I : Established
Purdtmi. Sioux County: Geo. I, l'urdum.
postmaster. Name changed Sand Hill,
Franklin County, to Alpine. Postmasters
apjKiintetl Alpine, Franklin County, Chas.
A. Griswold; Freeman, Gage County, Eliz
abeth Mumford; Lone Star, Butler County,
Chas. S. Stevens: Book Bluff. Cass County,
Chas. L. Graves; Willow Springs, Wheeler
Comity, Richard C. MeCIiniaus.
Ri:ckntly Clayton Johnson and Fr?d
Maberliu got to quarreling over a board bdl
at Ida Grove and .lolm-on shot Haberlin.tho
ball striking him iu the abdomen, causing a
fatal wound. Johnson is a young man who
has borne a good reputation, and the sympa
thy of the community appears to be largely
with him.
Two amateur pugilists recently left the
Nebraska side, crossing the river into Iowa
to light. One was "sent to grass" twice,
whereupon they concluded to light it out
some other time.
Elijah Walters, fugitive from Iowa,
was recently arrested near Milford and
taken back by officers from Iowa. Walters
is wanted iu Polk County, Iowa, to answer
the charge of embezzlement from his em
ployers. The whercalhjuts of Walters
would never have been known had he not
been betiayed by his brother who was also
arrested at Omaha as a fugitive from justice.
These men broke jail iu l)es Moines by pry
ing out several stones from the wall o
their jail room by means of a crowbar
handed to them from the outside by their
friends in the ab-ence of the jailor. Fif
teen in all escaped, but nearly all of them
have been recaptured.
Two roughs recently severely beat Mr. Z.
Adams at Omaha and pursued him into his
own house, when Adams seized a gun
loaded with duck-shot and fired the charge
into one of his assailants. The roughs es
caped. The Greenback State Convention recently
met at Lincoln and elected the following
delegates to the National Convention: S.
C. Pace, Lincoln; C. W. Wheeler, Nemaha,
Ed. J. Hall. Saunders County. The dele
gates are uuiustructcd, but supiioscd to favor
Butler.
Many people left Omaha to witness the
recent prize light between Fell and Hanley.
near Clear Creek. On the return trip, as on
the outward one, there were lights at everj
half dozen miles, but always iuelled with
out more than a blark eye or a cut cheek
bone. When Hearing Milliaid many hard
lidit? occurred in one of the cars, in which
several revolvers were discharged and
three men fell severely injured. One was
shot through the head and another through
the face and the third under the arm. Two
of the wounded men are John Marks and
John MeUlellan. The third is unk-.iown.
The train was stopped, half of the people
deciding to wait till the next one and She re
mainder got otF at intervals before Omaha
was reached, and when the train arrived
there were but six excursionists and tiiree
men aboard.
Tiik Grand Jury of Saunders County in-,
dieted Jim Fell and Jack Hanley, principals'
in the recent prize fight in that count,, and
Hanley wasarrcsted in Omaha aud lodged In
jail. An officer was sent to Missouri for Fell.
The penalty for prize lighting in Nebraska
is from three to live years in the jwniten
tiary. Several newspaier reporters have
been suppowiaed as witnesses.
Thl' State Medical Society recently vlosed
its fifteenth annual meeting at Omaha. A
vote of thanks w;ts tendered the outgoing
officers for their labors during the yea ? just
passed, anil to the various railroad cnnpa
nies for their courtesies to the Association.
Resolutions on the death of Willard Parker,
Samuel D. Gross and J. Marion Situs, tlnve
world renowned men in the science of medi
cine and surgery, who have died iu th; past
year, were adopted. A resolution was also
adopted by which the various nicmb'rsof
the Association are to be furnished with
blanks for births, deaths, contagious and
epidemic diseases. These when iilleS out
f.re to be sent to Dr. Mansfield, of PlatLs
luotttli, Secretary of the Association, who
will compile them and send his repor; to
the Governor of tho State each year. The
Governor, it is said, has agreed, to transmit
these reporLs to the Legislature with his
recommendations. On the evening of the
adjournment the members attended a ban
quet given them by the citizens.
Senator Van Wyck had a tilt with Sen
ator Blair in the Senate the other day while
a pension bill was under consideration. Ne
braska's Senator took exceptions to Mr.
Iilair being too liberal with committee se
crets. A Yocxn man named James E. Bailey
was receutly arrested at Omaha on the
charge of forgery. II Ls crime was forging
his employer's name to an order for a suit
of clothes.
B. W. Downing, a teacher in the Council
Blufis Deaf and Dumb Asylum, visited
Omaha the other day and was shown the
sights by two soldiers named Williams and
Patten, and while walking on the railroad
track Downing received a terrible blow
from one of his companions, felling
him to the earth. He attempted
to rise but was again struck down. He
begged piteously for his life, but his com
panions still continued to beat him. When
Downing saw that resistance was useless ho
feigned insensibility. After his soldiei
companions saw that he was unconscious
they rilled his pockets, taking his watch
and seventy dollars in money. When they
had finished their work, Patten made the
remark, ''If I thought he wasn't dead I
would kill him." The soldiers then started
toward the city, leaving their victim be
tween the rails. Hearing the moans of the
wounded man, who began to feel some as
surance of life, they ran with all ixwsil-le
speed from him. When Downing felt it
was safe to venture, he arose and crawled to
the city. His assailants were arrested a,'id
jailed.
A lady was recently run over and seri
ously injured by a team driven by two reck
less colored boys at Omaha.
Tin-: Omaha Ticc threatens to sting a pro
les'jioual "masher" if be don't subside.
Omaha was recently disturbed by tbe
appearance of a mad ucg on the streets. The
bnHe was shot.
Preparations are being made to prop
erly observe Decoration Day throughout the
State.
A soinER of ladies recently met at Odd
Fellows' Hall in Liucoln for the purpose of
organizing a branch of the Woman's Relief
Corps, auxiliary of Farragut Post O. A. R.
Officers were elected and the association
placed iu working order.
A.FIKK in Funk's crockery store at Lin
coln recently damaged the store aud stock
to the extent of one thousand dollars.
Somi: unknown persons broke into the
depot at Franklin the other evening and
carried away S512 in money, of which S500
was express money. No elue.
A telegraph operator named Bare
skipped from Lincoln the other day, leaving
'lis landlord minus a board bill.
Dixon County has sixty-one school dis
tricts, lifty;eigt:t school-houses, and 2,2t0
children of school age.
WASHINGTON WAIFS.
Report or the House Committee or Public
Lands Decline li Government lionds
ISutler on Labor Inili atrial Kxposition
Threatening a Consul.
Washington, May li. A report has
been snhinUted to accompany the bill re
ported from the House Committee on Public
Iands, providing for the repeal of the Pre
emption and Timber Culture laws, ami an
amendment to the Homestead law. The
committee says: We believe it should be
the policy of the Government to give those
of our citizens who are without homes, such
amount of the public domain as will make
them comfortable homesteads, where they
enter upon it iu good faith, intending to
make it their homes, and cultivate and live
upon the same for a fixed period of time,
and we believe one hundred aud sixty acres
should be the maximum under the Pre-emption
Homestead and Timber Culture laws.
As they now stand one person may become
the owner of four hundred and eighty acres
of the public domain, one hundred and sixty
acres under each. This is too large an
amount of land, in our opinion, for any one
person to acquire in tins manner. We
think the policy of the Government should
be to furnish as many of its citizens with
comfortable homes as long in the future as
possible, and one hundred and sixty acres is
Mttlietent for this purpose. By giving them
this amount it will not be many years until
all our public domain will be taken tip.
The Pre-emption law was pa-sed in 1S4I,
the Homestead law in lJt'-2 and the Timber
Culture law in ISTa. When the Homestead
law was enacted the Pre-emption law should
have been repealed. The Timber Culture
law should never have Ix.'en passed. We
have, therefore, in the substitute, provided
for the repeal of the Pre-emption and Tim
bee Culture enactments and amended the
Homestead law.
DECLINE IN GOVERNMENT I'.OSDS.
Some astonishment is expressed at the
Treasury Departniennt over tin- decline in
Government securities, and is only accounted
for on tlie theory that bonds were being
rapidly t oaverted into money to lc use I in
more profitable investments. Secretary Fol
ger said he had received no information
from New York on the subject, and w;is
consequently unable to explain the decline. I
The fact that only SlOl',000 worth or called
bonds were offered for redemption in New
Yotk is regarded as an indication that peo-'
pie w!o hold bonds are not in great need ! j
monev at present. A conference was held
at the Treasury Department as to the best
method of relieving tlie financial pressure.iu
New York. In view of the decline in foui
per cent, bonds, it wxs proposed the Secre
tary authorize the purchase of these bondi
in open market. It was virtually decided to
pursue this course in case the decline con
tinues. GENERAL HITLER ON LAHOR-
Gcneral 15. F. Butler addressed the Sen
ate Committee on Education aud Iibor on
the general features of the labor problem.
He asserted that the present ditficultic
Avere due to over-production. We had, lu
said, a year's crop of grain on hand anil
were within three mouths of another crop,
nearly a year's crop of cotton was now
stored in the warehouses. After referring
to other commodities which were in stwk
in excess of current requirements, he said :
"Whywehae a twenty years supply of
whisky on hand." He was factiously re
minded that this was a delicate subject, and
admitted that for one who was supposed to
be a Presidentialcandidate it was necessary
to be cautious.
THE INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION.
The Board of Management of the World
industrial Exposition elected Dr. G. U.
luring. Commissioner of Agriculture, a;
Chief of the Department of Agriculture:
John Eaton. New Hampshire, as Chief ol
the Dejiartment of Education and Instruc
tion ; Captain .lames IJ. Eads, Special Com
missioner to the Great Britain and London
Exposition. The American Exeliange. it
Europe, limited, was appointed to act as tin
agent for the Exposition in Europe, Asia,
Africa, Australia, South America and West
India Island for the distribution of informa
tion and forwarding exhibits.
THREATENING A SPANISH CONSUL.
The Secretary of the Treasury has re
ceived a telegram from Sjiecial Agent
Hubbs, at Key West, saying a mob there
interested in the Cuban insurrection have
publicly announced their purpose of using
personal violence to the Spanish Consul at
that place, and he had ollered the Consul
the protection of his hou-e, but the offei
was declined. Secretary Folger telegraphed
the special agent to confer with the nar.il
authorities at Key West and co-operate with
them in protecting the life and property of
the Spanish Consul.
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New York, May 17, 12:30 p. in. The
morning passed quietly. Confidence seems
restored. There is no trace of excitement,
and affairs are progressing -in a fair waj
toward a speedy recovery of values in stocks.
The advance of the morning was well main
tained, tlie movement being merely checked
at intervals by the usual sales of small hold
ers to secure a profit. The bank statement
is favorable, showing an excess abovt; the
legal requirements of over three millions,
ind the opinions of leading financiers is
ilsst a gradual improvement Ls certain,
rhere is no danger of another backward
Uep.
Wall Stkeet, 1 p. si. There was no
:rowd at Russell Sage's loan committee at
;he Chearing House. Hatch & Burnham
ay they liquidated over Sl,000,000 indebt
.Miuess and the firm will resume soon.
The Xenn Brother Trial.
Hazeliiurst, Miss.. May 17. The trial
if the brothers 1L G. Penn and II. B. Penn,
for the murder of R. B. Rials, in this place,
n April Sth, elicits almost as much interest
is the Wheeler-Mathews trial, just concluded
hi the Copiah County Circuit Court. The
Penns killed Rials upon the streets of Ha
lelhurst. There is no political significance
in the killing, the act being the result of a
feud of some montlis' standing. General
Charles E. Hooker and J. L. Meade, Esq.,
represent the accused, and endeavored to
ETCi the trial continued until next term. The
Court overruled the application, exceptions
were taken by counsel for defense and the
impaneling of a jury began. George S.
I Dodds. Esq.. was appointed District Attor
ney, Mr. Muler being very sick.
Very Heavy Kalm.
Galveston, May 17. Specials from
Sherman, Dallas, Tyler, Corsicana, Melissa,
and other points in Northeastern Texas, re
port another very heavy rain in the past
twenty-four hours. The Northeastern sec
tion embraces tlie largest cultivated area in
the State; hence the farmers are becomina
apprehensive about crops. All dispatches
agree that too much rain has fallen in thai
section. WherS rust has set in in some por
tious, and cotton cultivation is retarded
from two to four weeks. In sime instances
the cotton plants are flooded out, and wiL
necessitate new planting. Further imme
diate rains iu that sectiou will cauyj la
mense damage.
SHOCKING DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
.WroBsmlHasbanU KltU the Invader b
Oie Sanctity of HU Homo Together witfc,
th Partner of tho 5uiity LUuion Two
1'aniiliea Fluugetl in Mourning-
Columbia. III.. May 17.
A terrible tragedy occurred at the resi
dence of Monroe Gray, ten miles southeast
of this place, yesterday morning, which,
has plunged two families into deep
mourning. An erring wife and an !4i
priucipled husband have been hurried'to
uutimely graves.
Mouroe Gray, with his wife and two
childreu, a girl of ten aud a boy of twelve
lived on a farm which he rented from
Win. Ditch, a wealty farmer who
lived on the eastern outskirts of the
village. Until a few months ago Gray
lived in this town. His eye
had been diseased and ho had used up
nearly all of his money iu having them.
treated in East St. Louis. He finally de
cided to go to farming again and as he
had little or no money he applied to Ditch,
who advanced him funds and let him go
on the farm where the tragedy occurred.
Thursday Gray drove to Ditch's house
and asked him to go with him to tiy
(Gray's) farm to see about repairing a
dike a few miles to the east. Ditch ac
companied Gray back to his home aud re
mained there all night. It was arranged
that yesterday morning they should go over
to the house of a contractor named A.xi'yr
a few miles east ot Gray's, to engage uiiu
to do some work.
About eight o'clock ('ray went outto
his barn to hitch up his team and loft
Ditch sitting with Mrs. Gray in the sitting-room
of the small three-room house
Gray had been iu the barn but a short
time, when, in reachiug up to take down
some harness, some timothy seed fell iu
one of his eyes. He placed his hand over
the optic ami started back to the house
to have his wife get the seed out. As tie
opened the sitting-room door he saw that
the room was empty, and instantly his
suspicions were aroused. He hail heard,
that Ditch had been m questionable rela
tions with the wives of other men, but
never suspected that his home circle
would be invaded.
He stealthily entered the room, crossed
it to the east side, pushed open the doclr
ot his wife's bedroom and there witnessed
a sight that aroused all his manhood to
the highest pitch. He closed the door of
the bed-room aud crossed to the west side
of the sitting-room to a stand, in the
drawer of which were two largo navy re
volvers. As he grasped the capons the
door of the bed-room opened, and Ditch
appeared. The latter immediately irraspV
a chair with which to defend himself, and
as he did so Mrs. Grsy also came out auo
begged her husband not to shoot.
tjray, however, took deliberate aim
with one of the weapons and lired two
shots, both of which took effect iu the
body of Ditch. As the latter fell to the
Uoor Mrs. Gray again appealed to lyr
husband to sjuire her UL-, but he refund
to listen to her. He tired and the ball
from the large 44-calibre weapon passed
through her abdomen and she fell by the
sideot her paramour. The rirst bullet
tired at Ditch entered his right side just
below the nipple, and the second posd.
through his abdomen.
Gray left his wife and Ditch lying on
the floor living, and started with his tw;
children to the house of a neighbor, to
whom he told the details of the tragedy. .
When he returned :iu hour later, both vic
tims were lying dead iu almost the same
position in which Gray had left them.
Then the news of th;.- affair spread over
the country like wildlire and before noon
the little cottage was tilled with fanner,
and in the yard outside stood tittle kuoqs
of people discussing in subdued touei
the details of the horrible drama that had
been enacted.
Mrs. Ditch, the wife of the murdered
man, was informed by a messenger of the
death of her husband, ami nut being ad
vised of the particulars visited the house
of Gray, where a most touching scene
was enacted. No one had told her of the ,
cause of the shootiug: she had simply'
been told that Gray had shot her hus
band; but when she reached the house
the nature ot the tragedy dawned upon
her and she burst into a violent til of
weeping. She embraced the body of her
husband aud seemed to have lorgotteu
everything but that he had been ruthless
ly taken from her, and lo have forgiven
him for his iutldeltty to her. Friends j
took her away and soon after she accom
panied the doad body ol her husbaud back
to their now desolate home iu the vil
lage. The Coroner was not iu the county and
his Deputy held an inquest, which was
rather an impromptu affair aud developed
nothing beyond what has, beeu given
above. He decitted to require Gray
to give bond in 51,000 for his abear
ance before the Grand Jury, but' this
did not seem to be necessary as
Gray showed no inclination to
make his escape. He seems to
feel fully the nature of his 1tct
aud displays no grief over it. He acts as
if he was convinced that he had iieait
justly with those who had so deeply
wrotigrd him. He is willing to take ail
the legitimate consequences, aud will
stay here until wanted.
Sheriff Wilsou went down to Gray's
farm as soou as he was notified, but did
not offer to make an arrest, as he felt
confident tliat Gray would not attempt to
leave the country.
Ht-IVa Wantrd.
ItoooitousK, III.. May 17.
Sheriff W. M. Morrow received a
telegram yesterday morning from
Deputy Sheriff Phillips of Louis
ville, Clay County, this State,
telling him that he had Newton Fields
uuder arrest aud to come and get him. It
will be remembered tbht Fields got into
a ditliculty some time last winter with his,
father, A. J. R. Fields, and a brother)
Louis J., just north of this city, shooting
both, and made his escape. He was in
dicted bv the Grand Jury at the bust term
of our Circuit Court. Sheriff Morrow
left on the first train.
Triple Lynching,
Little Rock. Auk.. Jmy 1L
A peddler named Ward left Prescorrt
recently aud entered Howard Couuty, but
not returning when expected, his brother
went in search. He learned of su.-tpicious-circunistances
which led to the arrest of
the two Pope brothers and King hjeudall..
One of the Popes confessed, glviVg the
details of the shooting of Ward kt the
back of the tead and burning thwbodyr
Tf la mmirttul Ti-r t?ii ,nrkt-fiTiKf. tHtt !
the citizens of Howard County toK the
three men out and promptly IiaugeiV
them.
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