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THE WOKLD'S DOINGS
A Summary of the Daily Newi.
CURRENT COMMENT.
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academy to teach the Aztec
Las been started m the City
of Mexico.
janjniajje
A New Yokk dairyman was fined two
hundred dollars recently for feeding his
cows swill.
The country receives about -?lo0,-000,000
a year from the New York Cus
tom House.
President Barrios, of Guatemala,
proposes to give to the Mexican National
Library the original manuscript of
Bernal's "Conquest of Mexico,'' which
is now in the librarv of Guatemala.
Tire historic island of St. Helena is
reported to be in a bad way, the aban
donment of the Cape route since the
opening of the Suez canal having taken
away its trade in refitting and victuai
iug ships.
In Marlborough County, South Caro
lina, the other day. Trial Justice
Knight met a couple in the highway
who wanted to get married. He stopped
under the shade of a tree, tied the nup
tial knot, and the happy couple went oc
their way rejoicing.
It is said that only one small herd of
buffaloes remain in Texas. This has
been feeding on the Pecos River, in the
Staked Plains region, but a baud ojj
hunters is hovering about it continually,
Ifflling the animals as fast as the meat
an be cared for, and its days are num
bered. This is the remnant of what
was known a few years ago as "the
great southern herd."
Montana has on her ranged 600,000
Dead of cattle, and will ship eastward
125,000 to 140,000 steers for beef during
the present year. On the other hand,
some of the stockmen of the Territory are
large buyers of cows and calves in Iowa
and other Western States, shipping
them to their ranches for the purpose of
obtaining breeding animals more ranid
ly than by depending upon the natural
increase of their herds.
A cable from London says: The ex
citement in artistic and esthetic circles
is "intense' over the fact that at the
alc of the Fontaine collection a porce
lain dish of Limoges enamel, on which
was painted a subject after Raphael,
with portraits ot Henri II. of France
and two of his mistresses, was sold for
7,000 guineas (.siG,7oO). No such price
has ever been paid for a piece of Limo
ges ware before, jut the specimen id
baid to be unique.
Friends of nature had been troubled
by the disappearance of some raro
species of plants in the Alpine regions.
In order to prevent the extinction of
;ertain species, a garden of acclimation
had been founded at Geneva, in which
Alpine plants are cultivated and sold.
The result of that propaganda has been
thus far quite satisfactory. The Garden
of Acclimation at Geneva is nourishing,
and the sale of its products on the mar
ket finds nianv customers.
The deep-sea fishes taken by the
United States fish commission steamer
during its late cruise in the Caribbean
Sea are exciting much interest at the
Smithsonian Intitute, Washington.
Curiosity is intensified by these speci
mens of deep-sea fishes which are nearly
or entirely blind the eyes becoming
atrophied or obsolete from disuse, like
those of the fish inhabiting the
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky whilo
others have large eyes, and the blind
fish of the cave are allied to some super
ficial marine fishes that have well
developad eyes.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
Is the Senate, on tho lG'h, Mr. Plumb,
from the Committee on Appropriations re
ported the Army Appropriation bill as agreed
upon by the coiniiijttce. It appropriate
fcS.lOQ more than the Hou.-e bill. The St-late
resumed consideration of the Utah bill. Mr.
Iirown having the tloor. A vote beinjr taken
on Mr. I'ronn's amendment, prrnrittinc
divorce only for one cause in iilutcp where
the United States has exclusive jurisdiction,
it was rejected yeas,4 Li row u. Hutlcr.Gcorce
and Van Wyek; nay?. 4-...In the Hou-e
Mr. Randall moved that the House po into
Committee of the Whole on the Ilefieieucy
Appropriation bill. Mr. Randall's motion was
a creed to by a vote of KM to . and the House
-eut into committee as indicated. An item
of $li".0u) for horses ami other propertvlost
in military servico prior to July I. ItM." con
tained a provio rcirulatinjr service"! and fees
or claim agent. Mr. Keifer moved to strike
out the proviso as wronsr in policy. Rejected.
Mr. Lonfr offered an amendment appropriat
ing the following sums for refunding State
expense incurred in raNinjr volunteers:
Ohio. fi-CUMO; New York, .'UUi; Michigan.
$.:M.i: Massachusetts, fcS.CsO. Adopted.
Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 17th, Mr. Brown
brought up the question of privilege in which
he had been attacked the day previously by
Mr. Imralls. After ome further personal remark?-,
on motion of Mr. Sherman Mr. Incut's'
motion to expunge the words complaint. i ot
w laid on the table. Mr Sherman, in call
ing up Mr. Rutler's resolution of inquiry into
the condition of New York batik.-, made a
verbal report from theCommitteeon Finance.
Alter some debate the matter went over,
and the Utah bill was placed before the
Senate. The question pemlmir wa- on the
amendment of Mr. Vest, providing that in
nocae shall a lawful husband or wife be
a competent witness, except a- to the Tuct as
to lawful inarriatre having been contracted
Rejected Is to:ai.. In the House the confer
ence teport on the Fit. John Porter bill was
agreed to by a vote ol I.Vto(iI. Mr. P.ivson.
from the Committeeon Public Lands, i eported
back the bill to re-toroall hinds held in indem
nity limb for railroad and wairon road iiur-
K)se. The House went into Committee of
the Whole. Mr. Dr.nr in the Chair, on the I)e-
aciencybin. Alter amendment the bill passed.
Some further business relating to the for
feiture of Pacini, railroad land grants was
transacted, when the House adjourned.
Coxsidfratiox of the Utah bill was re
sinned is the Senate on the Isth. Mr. Hoar
olIen.Nl mi amendment to strike out theclause
abolishing woman suffrage in Utah. Rejected
by IT ayes to at noes. The bill tlien pai-cd. :ti
yeas, la nays In the House a further con
ference was ordered on the I'ofo!hce bill,
and Mcptr. Townchcnd, Hohnan and Horr
unpointed on the part of the House. The
Heuse refused to consider the Ohio aud Mis
sissippi contested election cases, and pro
ceeded to consideration of the Pacific Railroad
bill, known as the Thunnan nmendnient bill.
A lonjrdiscussiou ensued until adjournment.
In the Senate, on the 19th, Mr. Hutler
called up his resolution providing for an in
quiry into the condition of the New York Na
tional banks, and after a debate the matter
went over. The bill to prevent the importa
tion of tea dust into the United States was
pased. The Mexican Pension bill was then
taken up. Pending debate the Senate went
into eAecutive session and soon adjourned..
The Hoiice met in continuation of Wednes
day's session and resumed consideration of
the Pacific Railroad bill. The first question
na an amendment, offered by Mr. Thomp
son, to make the aggregate yearly contri
bution of the Central Pacific Company fifty
tlc instead of thirty-five per cent, of
the net earning, and that or the
Kansas Pacific forty-five percent. The amend
ment was agreed to. The question whj then
taken on the minority bill. It was rejected.
Thursday's sevion then began. Mr. Hopkins,
from theCommitt'eon I.abor.calIed up the bill
prohibiting the importation and migration ot
foreigners and aliens under contract to per
form labor. The bill passed without divi
sion. Mr. Lowry called up the con
tested election case of Campbell vs. Morey,
and tho time for debate was limited to four
hours. After a speech by Mr. Lowry in sup
port of the claim of the contestant, the
iiousm aujourneu.
In the Senate, on the 20th, Mr. Morrill,
from the Committee on Finance, reported
favorably the bill amending the act of June,
lssn, relating- to the immediate transportation
cf dutiable goods. Mr. Groome present d the
credentials of Ephraim K. Wilson. u is-nator
elect from Maryland, for a term of six years,
bet-inning March , 1SX. Mr. Yoorhees'
resolution, heretofore offered, calling for in
formation as to Indian beef contracts was
agreed to. The Mexican Pension bill
.t taken up aim debated In the
Hoiice. Mr. Decker, from the Committee
on Judiciary, submitted a report on the
en" of Hallett Kilb'iurne vs. CA-Serffcant-at-Arms
Thompson. Referred to the Com
mittee on Apnropriations. The report says:
"Your committee think it better to let the
judgment stand without further litigation,
and as the judgment against defendant was
for acts done by him under orders of the
House cf Representatives, the committee
recommend that un appropriation be made to
pay the amount thcreor in relief of defen
dant " The majority resolution seating
Campbell, in the contested election case of
latnptieii r. Morey, was agreed to. and that
gentleman appeared at the bar or the House
and took the oath of otlice.
cnant Abercrombla Bnimback and Dr.
Robinson, With M. Homaoi, topograpbiea
assistant, to explore the Copper River.
Alaska. The expedition was considered e
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.
Otto Isi.ek, six years old, fell from a
stair-landing at Lincoln, the oiher day. and
dangerous one, as the Copper River coun-; so badly fractured his arm that amputation
try is occupied by Indians who have nevei
allowed white men to explore it.
The Fiyaro's correspondent at Rome
says President Arthur has instructed the
American Minister there to act in oncert
with the Ministers of England, Austria and
Spain in an effort to obtain from the Ital
ian Minister of Foreign Affairs a mitiga
gation of the decision of the Court of Cas
sation in regard to properties of the Propa
ganda. The Canadian Pacific Railway authori
ties have made arrangements to obtain tLv
Montana cattle trade for shipment by way
of Montreal.
TnE Mormons are very much incensed at
theUtahbill recently passed by the Senate.
They say it was framed for the purpose ol
breaking up their religion, and that many
of its provisions will not stand judicial
examination.
The French committee appointed to con
sider the advisability of widening the Sues
canal or building a parallel one decided in
favor of the former plan.
Five men were recently arrested at Pola
Austria, having dynamite In their posses
sion. Tho military also announced thai
thirty kilogrammes of dynamite had beer,
stolen from Fort Valmaggion.
The receivers of the abash road are
sustained by legal authority in refusing tc
accept tickets from St. Louis to Chicago
sold at reduced rates during the railroad
war of 1SS-).
When the Mexican Pension bill cam? up
recently in Congress, Mr. Beck said tht
amendments proposed would, in the
opinion of the Committee on Pensions, in
volve an outlay of $-MG,000,000.
Comhodouk C. K. Gaiuuson made an as
sigiimeist for the benefit of his creditors al
New York on theSt'th. The liabilities were
stated to amount to $r,00O,(K)O.
The embezzling manager of the Cantonal
Hank at Neufchatel, Switzerland, closed
his career by suicide.
In the English House of Commons, re
cently, Fitzmaurice, Under Secretary, ir
answer to a question by Arthur Arnold re
garding the alleged abduction of an
English citizen named Sheldon, at Kansas
City, stated that the British Minister at
Washington had been instructed to act is
the case. Some time would elapse before
the report would be received.
The failures for the week ending June
19 were: United States, 1S2; Canada, 23.
The casualties continue numerous on the
Pacific Coast and in the South and South
west. Gardner it Copp, cotton factors of New
Orleans, and Gardner fc Gates, of Mobile,
have suspended The firm claimed thai
their assets exceeded their liabilities. Card
ner was President of the National Cotton
Exchange.
Rev. a. i Vedder was exnelled froic
the Presbytery of Albany, N. Y., recently,
on the serious charges of adultery and
committing abortion.
A miscreant recently cut a rope, leaving
only one straud, at the new court house
buildingat Charlotte, Mich., in consequence
of which a mason was seriously injured bj
a fall. The misct eant was not discovered.
A contractor named Dalgren recently
undertook to unload a lumber barge al
Chicago, at prices offensive to certait
rneinbr'rs of the union, who waylaid and
lieat lnni until he was nearl3 dead.
A dispatch from Hagerstown, Md..
states that Mine. Dahlgren, the authoress,
met with a ver serious accident there the
oiher day by being thrown from a carriage,
and it was feared she would not recover.
The Catholic Church at Sandoval, 111.
was struck by lightning, recently, and
considerably damaged.
W. J. Dkm'I'K, of Stnuut-nn, 111., was
killed by lightuing on the 19th.
Philip Emery, a member of the Salva
tion army, lecame insane from excitement
and drowned himself recently at Gut-lph,
Ont.
Mr. J. W. Crawford, of Pendleton,
in Anderson, County, S. C, has a half
Shetland and half English turf pony,
which was sent as a present to a gentle
man in Charleston, "hefore the war,"
by an English nobleman, and is now
thirty-seven years of age. Mr. Craw
ford brags of its speed for a short dis
tance, with -jnc hundred or less pounds
weight. The pony weighs about four
hundred and fifty pounds, and was origi
nally black, which is its present color,
except its head, which has turned white
from age. Othenvise the pony shows
no signs of age.
The school statistics of San Francisco
show that the native clement is gaining
in that city. Of all the children in the
city 20,904 are the children of native
parents; 14,874 are of mixed parentage
and 48,216 of foreign parentage. The
number of foreign-born children is only
888. In 1880-81 the figures stood as
follows: Children of native parentage,
15,653; of mixed parentage, 10,440, and
of foreign.parentage, 50,238. The in
crease this year in the children of native
parents is in round numbers 20 per
cent.; in.tho children of mixed parent
age, 40 percent., with a decrease of 4
per cent, in the children of foreign par-,
entage. Not long ago the children of
foreign parentage were two to one of
the natives. It is delieved that by 1890
the children of native parents will be
largely in excess of the others. The
same change is going on in the voting
population.
POMTICAI. AND I'KKSONAL.
A jubilee in honor of the fiftieth birth
day of Rev. Charles II. Spurgeon was
given in London on the ISth.
The New York Democrats, in convention
at Saratoga on the ISth, decided to put no
tariff plank in the State platform. The
delegates appointed to Chicago were re
ported to be in favor of Cleveland.
Wood Benson, a veteran actor engaged
with the McVicker's Company, died at
Minneapolis the other morning. The night
before he appeared in his role at the thea
ter with tho tremors of death already on
him. He was seventy j-ears of age.
The death of John Gustavus Droyson,
the eminent professor of bistorv at the
University at Berlin, was announced.
General Sherman intimates that he
may b compelled to remove from St.
L uis, where he has again been pestered by
water inspectors. They reported him for
using a lawn hose, and he showed that the
water came from his cistern.
Miss Mary Anderson has arrived at
Turin in her holiday tour of Italy, aud pio
poses to remain home days in the beautiful
Piedmontese eupital.
1 HE Prohibition and Anti-Masonic party,
in convention at Chicago, on the 20th, nom
inated S. C. Pomeroy for Presi lent.
General Sui'evintedent Breed, of the
St. Paul & Dulutii Railroad, has tendered
his resignation, to tako effect as soon as a
successor is appointed.
MIKCELLANKOUH.
TnE dedication of the AVashington mon
ument will take place on the 2.'M of next
February. Extensive preparations are
being made for tho event.
The nineteenth anniversary of emanci
pation day was generally celebrated at
Galveston by the colored people.
Mrs. Warren, of Denver, has donntcd
!?100,0'JO to Denver University for the es
tablishment of a department of divinity to
be known as the "Iliff School of Divinity,"
on condition that others endow a professor
sir p.
The riot at Krivorage, Russia, in which
Jews' houses were wrecked, was sup
pressed by the military.
On a West Shorn train, near Syracuse,
N. Y., pickpockets took $.7U0 from Dr. M.
Angelbrow, of Minneapolis.
One car of new wheat in good milling
rder, about No. 2 grade, from Waco, Tx.,
ii'W at auction on 'change in St. L'uis on
the 19th at $1.21.
Advices from Vancouver Island recently
jaid that General Mile., commanding the
District of tLeColumlia, had detailed Lieut-
ADDITIONAL. DISFATCIIES.
The King of Holland died on the 2lt
His death opened un tjos'.ible corsnh'ca-
tlons of tho European jjiwers over the
rfght of succession to the Duchy of Luxem
burg. Several foreign anarchists have been
arres'sd at Vienna. In their possession
was a dynamite bomb sufficient to blow up
the largest public buildiug in Vienna.
The large wholesale bakeiy establish
ment of A. D. Hayman, at Willinmsourg,
N. Y., was destroyed by fire recently. Two
firemen were killed by falling walls. The
loss was estimated at $100,000.
The funeral of General McCandless took
place with full military honors at Wash
ingtou on the i!2 I in charge of the Pennsyl
vania reserve volunteer corps, and the ser
vices of burial were conducted by the
Freemasons.
I:; the S-nate on the 21st the bill amend
ing the Thunnan act was. referred to the
Judiciary Committee. The bill granting
right of way through the Indian Territory
to the Gnlf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad
was passed. The Electoral Count bill was
taken up in the House, but no immediate
action was taken.
The steamer Montana, on a trip from St.
Louis to Kansas City, struck the St. Charles
bridge on the morning of th22d, and sunk.
She had on board five hundred tons of as
sorted freight, the boat being valued at
$32,000.
The recent inundations in Galicia, Aus
tria, suspended all railway ti afiic and in
terfered with all kinds of business. It was
rumored that two hundred and fifty sol
diers wtro drowned.
Elder Smoot, Mormon missionary, has
been expelled from Bavaria by order of the
Minister of State. Smoot had succeeded
in making many converts, whom he was
preparing to send to Utah, but this plan
ha been broken up for the present.
A severe hail storm, accompanied by
lightning, visited Central City, Col., re
centlj A game of base ball was in pro
gress at the Academy Hill. The lightning
struck and killed Nicholas Newniayer,
and probably fatally injured James Lick
and Frank Osborn. A mirier at Mountain
City was also struck, but will recover. The
engine house of the Prirs mine near Cen
tral City was demolished, and five miners
at work badly stunned. It was thought
thy would recover.
From all paTts of the Pennsylvania oil
regions reports favorable to the proposed
shut down mov-ment were being received
and except with wells already under way
worfc was being suspended m Allegheny
and Bradford in the middle field, aud
Macksburg in the latter district. All the
operators but one had joined the move
ment. S-i complete was the shut down re
gnrdeel to be that soinf drillers an.i tool
dress.-rs weie preparing to leavu the region.
wiw necesary
Thk first Israelite Church ever built in
Nebraska was commenced lately at Omaha.
It is to cost $10,000.
TiiKMaor and Marshal of Omaha were
recently indicted by the Grand Jury of Doug
las County for malfeasance in office.
A late storm did considerable dam.tge
in Dakota County. Bridges were washed
away and considerable damage was tlone to
fences, feed yardi, gardens and crops in the
vicinity of Potter's and Clapp's. The val
ley lying west of William Claim's was all
covered witli water three hours after the
rain, doing considerable ilamage to the
growing crops in the immediate vicinity.
The belfry on the Industrial School build
ing at tiic Wimiebaso Agency was struck
by lightning, tearing and shattering up one
side of it to quite an extent. Numerous
trees in the vicinity were struck by
lightning.
Gkoi:i:i: Prxiiam" sale ami stock stables
at Lincoln burned the other nieut Nine
horses jKirislied in the flames with other
blooded stock. The building was totally
destroyed. A veterinary surgeon of doubt
ful repute was arrested charged with firing
the stables. Loss about 0,000.
Jonx Ditxhek, a laborer, while recently
excavating at Omaha was buried to his
neck bv falling earth, but received no
serious injury.
At the late meeting of tho Board of Re
gents of the State University several new
professors weie added to the faculty.
Jionwrr Covin, a boy. was drowned while
recently bathing in a small stream at Flor
ence.
Too much whisky caused the sudfen
death of David Couglar, at Omaha, lately.
BrFPAi.o County rcjKirts good crop pros
pects of all kinds "of products. The fruit
crop never promised as well before.
Two prisoners escaped from the Lincoln
jail recently. One of them was Churchill,
the late penitentiary guard, awaiting trial
niton the charge ot conspiring to permit a
convict to escape for a money considera
tion. Thk stable of Judge Webber, at Wahoo,
was burned recently and several horses were
badly injured. The fire was started by Mr.
Webber's little hoy playing with matches.
Posr-oFKici: changes in Nebraska during
the week ended June 14: Established-
Athens, Cuming County. William II.
Ransom. P.M.: Bordeaux, Sioux Countv,
Peter B. Nelson, P. M.; Chappell,
Cheyenne County. John O'Neill, P. M.;
Chase. Greeley Comity, Rebecca A. Lain
lert, P. M.: Phillips Station, Hamilton
County, James O. Baker. P. M.; Poten, Cus
ter County. Jacob Roten. P. M. ; Swauton,
Saline County, Joseph T. Cook. Discon
tinuedHooker, Gage County. Names
changed Pilmi, Sattiiders County. toPlasi.
Postmasters appointed Belmont, Cass
County. Mrs. Melissinth P. Stone: Sand
Cree, Saunders County. John Gidley.
Tuk telegraph editor of the Omaha Bee
was the victim of a cowardlyvassault the
other evening. Two tramp printers met
him and asked ''the chances for work.'
He asked them "over to take something"'
when they attacked and beat him in a cow
ardly maimer without notice or provo
cation. The tramps lit out aud he was
taken home by an officer.
All the hands who have been working in
the Union Pacific shops at Grand Island,
except six. have been eliseharged.
The residence of Walter Moore, at Kes
terson, was burned while the family was
recently attending a circus.
Recently the beautiful residence of Mr.
S. Henckle, three miles northeast of Hol
Ienberg. was burned to the ground with
everything that it contained.
A r.it.vKEM.vx named Milton A. Robin
son, whose parents reside on Elm Island,
was recently run over and killed by the cart
on the Laramie Dhision of the Union Paci
fic Railroad, near Gibbon.
A youxc; man named Maxwell, of Ham
ilton County, was recently shot and killed
in Grant County. Wisconsin, where he wac
visiting, liie murderer was arrestee!.
Jokpii Damon, wife and two children
were recently arrested in Franklin County
for robbery, and a large amount of stolen
property recovered. Their latest act wai
robbing the house of Bvron Dunn. Treasurcx
of the Sunday School in North Franklin
Precinct, while he was attending Sunday
School.
The Nebraska Christian Ministerial As
sociation held an interesting session at Lin
coln, recently.
A cat's head, with teeth well preserveel,
has been found in a well in Furnas County,
at a depth of ninety feet.
The acreage of corn in Cumings County
is rejwrn-d one-fourth greater than last year,
and the prosiects for a full crop are Hatter
rug. Jesse Heekxei:, a fourteen-year-old son
of Augustus Heefner, of Grand Island, was
recently terribly mangled in the Goshen
mill ny ms clothes being caught by the
machinery. One ami was torn out of it
socket.
Five additional indictments have Iki
found against Major Chase and Marsnal
Guthrie, of Omaha, and at last accounts the
Grand Jury showed no signs of abatement
J. M. Gresiiam, who slept with and
robbed Shaw, a painter, at Omaha recenth,
ui si.i Honors, wiissiiustrqueiuiv captured ut
Sioux City. The thief not only confessed
his guilt, but said he was a nephew ol
Postmaster-General Greshain.
Miltox Vante was recently arrested al
Lincoln and taken to Otoe County upon the
charge of forgery.
The residence of I). Mills, of Omaha, a
conductor on the Union Pacific road, burned
recently. A gasoline stove was the cause.
The building cost about $:;,000 and was
owned by Judge Neville.
At the uupicst held upon the body ol
James Cowan, the eight-year-old hoy re
cently drowned at Florence the jury rendered
a verdict that the boy "came to his death by
drowning while under the influence of beer,
sold by A. Robier." Florence people were
very indignant over the affair.
Efforts arc being made by Lincoln cap
italists to scctiie a barocet wire manufactory.
Pcnnv Platt, of Johnson County, re
cently sold one hundred and twohogsvvhich
averaged three hundred and twelve pounds
"c'i and netted him the round sum of
1,643. .
umaiia wants a City Hall.
Oxe night recently a fire broke out in
Stuart's skating rink, at Wahoo. The rink
with its contents was entirely consumed.
Loss, $2,000. The fire communicated tc
Lubker's saloon and residence which were
consumed. The loss on the buildings
was about Si,S00. Baldwin & Ranee's
auction store was aIo burned, the loss be
ing S1.500 on the steick and 3500 on the
building, and Frank Dean's law office met a
similar fate, tho loss being $400.
Jonx LuxnciiEX's granary and ston
house in Cuming County were struck by
lightning elirring a late storm, and the build
ing and contents, valued at $1,400, de
stroye!
rOHEROi FOR PRESIDENT.
At
for
Another National Convention Sleet
Cliicnco ami Nominates a Canillilate
President It Platform.
Chicago, June 21. The American Pro
hibition and Anti-Masonic party met again
yesterday morning and appointed a commit
tee, with ex-Senator Pomeroy as Chairman,
to formulate a platform. At the afternoon
session the platform was adopted. It de
clares that God of the Christian scriptures is
the author of civil government; it favors the
v.sa of the Bible in schools; asserts that God
requires and man needs the use of the Sab
bath; demands strict prohibition laws; the
withdrawal of ail charters to secret lodges
and thst their oaths be prohibited by law.
It opposes prison and imported contract
labor; favors a revision of the jatent
laws; pledges the party to vote foi
woman's siilfrago and asserts that civil
equality is granted by the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments,
and should be extendeet to Indians
ami Chinamen: that international differ
ence's should be settled by arbitration: that
land and other monopolies should be dis
cotinigeel: that the Government should fur
nish a sound currency: that the tariff should
be reduced as fast ;ls the necessity of reve
nue and vested interests will allow; that
polygamy should at once be suppressed, and
that tiie "Republican party is censurable for
its long neglect f its duty in respect to this
evil.'' It demands a direct vote for Presi
dent and Vice-President of the United
States. The preamble adopted by the Na
tional Christian Association in 175 was
also adopted. The convention then pro
ceeded with the nomination fer President
of the United States. S. Chenery. of Kan
sas. Governor St. John, of the same State,
and Rev. J. Blanc-hard, of Illinois, were
named. Of the seventy-seven votes cast
Pomeroy received seveuty-f.vo. and his
nomination was made unanimous-. For
Vice-President J. A. Conant, of Connecti
cut, was nominated on acclamation. The
National Committee by State- was then
nominated. The meeting held in the
evening was addressed by Senator Pomeroy
and others.
SUICIDE.
THE T?TAH BILL.
I39s
Jnctgre Sharp, or Wyandotte, Ivrs.. After a
Lonjr Sickness, shoots Himself With a
Revolver.
Wyandotte. Kas., June 21. Early this
morning, Judge Sharp, a leading citizen of
this place, arose from his bed, dressed and
went to breakfast, seemingly in good spirits,
although he had been somewhat indisposed
ever since January last. At breakfast he
complained of having a poor appetite, tell
ing his wife that he cared for nothing.
After the family had finished the meal the
Judge got up from his seat at the table and
started to go up stairs. His wife followed
him, she having a slight suspicion that the
long continued illness might liavt
some effect on his mind and might
lead him to take some terrible step. She
asked him if he did not' want to lay down
on the sofa, which he said he would do.
and then continued on his way up stairs
Mrs. Sharp returning to the dining room.
In about three minutes they wee startled
by the report of a pistol and the sound of
something.dropping to the tloor. His son.
Clarence, immediately rushed 'up stairs.
quickly followed by his mother, to the
room from which the pistol shot came.
When the door was openeil a terrible
sight confronted them. The father and
husband was sitting in a large rock
ing chair, to all appearance lifeless save
a slight twitching of the hviy. His head
droopeel ovtir a tt iVa of the chair and a
Ig SJfara of blooel poured from an ugly
wound back of his right ear. Off a little
distance on the flenir was the revolver, and
these sights told only too plainly the story.
He died in half an hour from the effects of
the wound. Judge Sharp came to Wyan
dotte in lS.r9, and was one of the foremost
in securing the adoption of the Wyandotte
constitution in 1SC1.
A DEAD KLG.
Main Features of the Utah IU11 ;
bv th- Senate.
Washtxctox, Jtme 20. The Utah bill
as passed by the Senate provides that thf
lawful husband or wife may be compete'
to testify in a pre)secut;n t"or brgj- ..
polygamy or unlawful cohabitation. Ir
such prosecutions an attachment for a Wit
ness may be issueel w ith a previous .
ixena. when it shall appear t the .Lit.,-
that witness would unlawfully fail toi n
a subpoena. Prosecutions may b. commence "
within five years after the commission of t.
offense. Every marriage ceremony inir
Territory ef the United States shall be e tr -
tied in writing, which writing shall state V
full names ofall persems taking part in t! .
ceremony, and shall le signed by them, ar I
shall, by the erilicer eir priest solemniz.iig'r-c
marriage, be filed with and rceoreled in t:
iTobate Court Such certificate shall l
prima facie evidence of the facts stated in
it. Any violation of this provision is p' ..
ished by a fine of not more than $1,000. cr
imprisonment for net more than two years,
or by both. Every such certificate and
record shall be at all reasonable times open
to the inspection of eithce-rs of justice
of the United States under like penalty lot
refusal to exhibit for inspection. Womer
shall not be entitled to vote in Utah. All
measures of Territorial Legislature- providing
for numbering or identifying votes of elect!
are elisapproveel ami annulled, but this pi
vision is not to preclude the lawful registra
tion of votes, or any other provis.ons tit
securing a fair election that do not invo'vt
the elisclosiire of the person for whom the
elector voteel. The Probate Court is dej
prived of all jurisdiction except a to estate
of deceased thtsohs and the gtiardiansLip i.t
the persons and property of infants and
lunatics. All laws of the Territory of I'tal.
conferring the rights of inheritance on ill
gitituate children are annulled. Territorial
laws providing that proseeutiews for adul
tery can only be comnii'iiced on complaii t
of the husband or wife are annulled, and a!I
such prosecutions may hereafter beiuu
tuteel in the same way that prosociitiems for
other crimes are. Territorial laws iucirio
rating, continuing or providing for the enr
oration known as "Tho Church of Jesii
Christ of letter Day Saint-," and ordi
nances of the so-called General Assem
bly of the State- of Deseret incor
porating such church are annulled,
so fat as they may pre-chuie the ap
pointment of trustees by the Unite! States.
The President of the United States, with the
advice of the Senate, shall appoint fourteen
trustees ot said corporation, who shall have
full powers. Trustees anel assistant trus
tees, provided for in the act creating that
roqioration. shall hold office two years, and
shall each give bond in an amount to be
fixed by the Secretary of the Interior. The
General Assembly eif Utah shall not have
power to change the Jaws reMw-e-tingconxir-ations
without the approval of Congress.
In all proceedings for the enforcement of
the law ag.tinst corjioratioiis or associations
holding preqerty in any Territory in (-xce-s
of the amount limited by law the courts
shall have power to summarily compel the- i
production of all books and accounts belong- '
ing to any trustee or manager of property
in which such corporation may have any
right title or interest All laws of Utah
relating to the Perpetual Emigrating Fund
Company are annulled, and it is rendered
unlawful feir the Territory to create or recog- -,
nize any corporation or asseciation having
for its object tin; bringing of persons inte
the Territory for any purpose what
ever. The Attorney Gein'ral is directed to
institute in the Supreme Cemrt of the Terri
tory proceedings to dissolve the company 4
named, and disjmse of its property and as
sets according to law. such property and as
sets in excess of debts and lawful claims
established by the court shall escheat to the
United States and shall be used bv the Sec
retary of the Interior under the- direction or
the President for the benefit ef the common,
schools of the Territory.
The Kins or Holli-nil l'aise Away Pos
sible Complication)- with Germany.
The Hagi-e, June 2:;. The Prince of
Orange passed a calm night and a jieaceful
mowing before his collapse. In the forej
noon Saturday, he seeuieel so well that the
doctors talked of sending him to the South
of France. At eleven o'clock, he suddenly
exhibited sympoms of extreme weakness
and fainted. His respiration became
greatly enfeebled, but subsequently a
slight recovery was noticeable, but his lungs
seemed paralysed. From this time until his
death the Prince remained unconscious. The
King has returned from Carlsbad and helel a
conference with the Cabinet The Presi
dent of the Council lias convoked a general
State Council. The Cabinet has decided to
resort to the pnivisions of the
law of November 30, 1!:4, and will
convene the Chambers, forming the States
general in plenary Congress of 7S Sen
ators instead of ::t,and 172 deputies instead
of S3. This Congress will proclaim Prin
cess Wilhelniine successor, under the Coun
cil, to the regnancy, with Queen Emma as
regent and President of the Council as
Chancellor. The Cabinet has determined
to refuse to share tutelage with any Ger
man branch of the royal family.
Death on the Rait.
Slatixotox, Pa., June 21. A shocking
accident occurred near here in which two
well-known and highly respectable ladies
lost their lives. Mrs. Dtuiel Kooiw, of
Waliintjiort, lesiding opposite Slatington.
.vho was the mother of T. B. Koons, the
seneral agent of the Lehigh & Susquehanna
division if the Reading road, and Mrs.
Stem, the mother of Harry and William
Stem, proprietors of the Steinton iron-works
near Easton, were walking on the tracks of
tiie Reading road in Walnutport last evening
when Mn. Stem stumbled and fell. See
ing an approaching train Mrs. Koons enelea
veiretl to pull the unfortunate lady from the
track, but before she sae-ceeded m dragging
her from the rails the train, which was oT
the Lehigh &. Susquehanna Road, came
ujion them, and both ladies were killed.
The body of Mrs. Koons. it is said, was
shockingly mangled, and she died instantly.
Mrs. Stem lived alout an Iiotir. Jlrs. Stem
resided in Kempton, aud was on a visit to
Mrs. Koons. The news spread rapidly, and
the remains of the unfortunate ladies were
picked up and taken home.
FrnxA County has taxable property u
the amount, of one million dollars, aod
fcaline county over three millions.
The Oh! Pool Continued.
New Yokk, June 21. A close session of
the joint executive committee of the rail
road managers adjourned until the 15th of
July, after again extending the old passen
ger pool contract until the 1st of August
This additional extension i said to have
been rendered necessary because outside
roads, including the Chicago A; Grand Trunk,
the Delaware. Lackawanna & Western. In
dianapolis Bloniuinztoii & Western, West
Shore, Chicago A- Alton and the Nickel
Plate, have not jet agreeel to enter tiie pool,
neit being satisfied with the terms of thecon
tract No changes have teeii made in the
percentages so far. ami thediscus-ion of the
readjustment under the ne.w cemtrAct w
postponed until the July meeting.
Itailrnnil Accident.
ATCmsox, Kas., June 19. Reports are
at hand of two accidents to the cannon-ball
train on the Burlington & Missouri River
Railroad, being through trains to and from.
Denver from here. The midnight train go
ing west met a washed piece of track near
Falls City which causeel the rails to spread,
ditching the entire train. The jasengers
were badly shaken up, anil some bruised
and badly injured, but nothing more serious.
The east-bound train was not so fortunate.
As they approacheel within three miles of
Ilubbell, Neb., it appears that seime mis
creants had removed the spiko from the
rails and taken out the fishplates which hold
the rails horizontally in their holes. They
had fasteneel barbed wire and carrying it
beneath the track made it fast to a
telegraph pole and as the train approached
pulled the rails apart. This w:is tlont
about sixty feet from the approach to a bridge
150 feet long. The engine loft the track,,
but crossed the bridge on the tiew. the jolt
ing causing the bridge to weaken. Thei-ars-followed
at once, thetr combined weight
causing it to fall in,the entire train eif en
gine, tender, baggage, smeiking car, day
coach and Pullman car going to the bottom,
a total wreck. There were upwards ot
thirty persons injured. A spex-ia! train r
brought nine of these here who are in ther '
hospital and at tiie heitcR The injured
are: . II. Mcai-ghton, epre-s mess n
ger, now at IJe-el Cloud, badly injured; con
tusion in the base of the brain; if not elead
now he will die. Florilla Super, Gardner.
Kas., now at Duyniore. severe sprains anef
contusions; may ilie. W. H. Bailey , White
field, N. II., left ear cut eitf; head much,
cut W. Jacob, Virginia City, IIL,
knees badly injured. P. 11. Ly
man, conductor of the train. Atchi
son, Kas., now at home, both legs brokei
below the knees ami other severe btHhlv
injuries; Alexander Stuart, engineer of
tke train at Wymore, leg broken ; M. A
Wadleigh, Stevens Point Wis., head, eyes
and arms injured; F. B. Ward, Conner
ville, Ind.. back injured: badly hurt Hi
wife same; F L. Story. Chicago, condnctor
Pullman car, hip. thigh and back injured.
William C. Cook, aged eighty-nine, I'loom
ington, HI., hurt in breast, head and liodv.
in hospital and will die. Others injured
not so severely are: J. Davis, Pavvtieer
City, Neb.: Thomas Morris-. fc-andia. Kas.;.
Catherine-, Jane and Matthew Sears, Bra
zil. IntL; James O'Brien. Kau-as City; IL
Harris, St Josenh; O. S. Harris, Lincoln z
G. E. Brown, Boston. Mass.; Louisa Pem
berton, Hamilton. Net.; Lizzie Hartley,.
St Louis, Mo.; Jane Foster, Chicago, HI.
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Charge of JSI-tckjtt-tlf.
Kansas City, June 20. W. Scott Ford"
nd L. C. Neal, of the "Merchants' Detec
tive Association," appeared before Justice
Teasdale yesterday when a decision was
rendered in the case in which tn-y are
chargcui with compounding a misdemeanor
and attempting to compound a misdemeanor
by taking money from the proprietors of
certain houses on Fourth and Third street-
on the grounds that for such payments the-y
would protect them against jxilice raids.
The charge of attempting t compound a
misdemeanor wa eiismissvd anel o:. the
other charge a fine of litiy elollars ws Im
posed on each defendant Notice of appev.!
was given.
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