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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1888)
ns-i, .. , f hijlIiiji j WtWMilW 'j!lTT1 t r j-3ar-: fec ay-i i : Vt ,1 BED CLOUD CHIEF A. C. HOSMER, Proprietor. RED CLOUD. ... NEBRASKA. CURRENT COMMENT. Cotton worms and grasshoppers are 1 doing great damage in the great Mex , icun cotton region of the State of J Durango. saanRnanananananannnananaanMBnnB i The Pope is said to be suffering from a liver complaint and losing '- htrength. He has been ordered to take miuenil water before breakfast. According to Pittsburgh reports the soap manufacturers of this country are discussing the formation of a trust to regulate prices and productfcL. Fakmeks in New Jersey ale about instituting "bug days," wherein a con certed effort will be made to extermi nate the insects that play havoc with fruit and vegetables. Large numbers of Chinese are re ported making their way into the United States from British Columbia by way of tho frontier placer mines, which are principally in the hands of Chinamen. Pror. TsciiAKEirr, of the Konigs- berg University, has discovered in the library numerous hitherto unknown f manuscripts of sermons and com ' incntaries written by Martin Luther in the period from 1519 to 152.1. Representative Piielan's bill to prevent discrimination in the selling of newspapers, magazines nnd literary matter on Inter-State railways and steamships has been acted on favorably by the House Committee on Commerce. By the apportionment of the school 5 yund among the several counties made by the State Auditor it is discovered that the school population of Iowa has ; Increased only 570 during tho year. i This is the smallest increase in any year since lows became a State. The suit of the Webster Loom Com phiy vs. . S. Higgins & Co., for in fringement of a patent process of car pet weaving, which has been pending for fourtisen years, wjis decided at New York on the 27th in favor of the plain tiff, but only six cents damages was awarded, instead of $3,000,000 wanted. General Harrison's maternal great grandfather, John Cleves Symmes, who purchased from the Government the site of the city of Cincinnati, was not the promulgator of the "Symmes hole'" notion, but was the uncle and namesake of that fantastic theorist. He was a Colonel in New Jersey's rev olutionary army and was afterward a Justice of the Supreme Court of that State. At a mass meeting under tho aus pices c! the various trades unions in the Metropolitan Temple at San Fran cisco the other night speeches were m-de attaching the course pursued by the United States Judges in landing Chinese and a memorial was adopted declaring that every device was resorts ed to to evade the restriction law. The following was also adopted: "We de mand the impeachment and removal of Lorenzo Sawyer, Judge of the United States Circuit Court of the Ninth cir cuit and George M. Sabin, District Judge for Nevada." Ik the case of Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle and others vs. the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, involv ing oil rates from Cleveland, O., to various taints, the Inter-State Com merce Commission has decided that there is an unlawful preference given by the carrier in favor of oil ship ments in tank car lots as against like shipments in barrels, car load lots, which is ordered to be corrected and the mode prescribed by which this must be done by giving the same rates on each per pound. The opinion is by Commissioner Bragg. A diamond merchant in New York Is reported as saying that when the African mines were discovered there was very nearly a panic, which was averted by a combination of large dealers, who had banded together and I bought a control of all the diamond I mines. Two great companies, the t Central Diamond Mining Company and the Kimburly Company, practically j control the diamond market of the I world, and no new diamonds are put on the market except as they permit, and the price is kept where it is by the combination and is not influenced bv ?upply or demand. Tun Attorney-General has trans- I xnitted to the House a communication from tho Acting Commissioner of the Land-office calling attention to the great injustice of compelling witnesses to appear and testify before United States Courts in tho Territories at the present insufficient rate of compensa tion, $1.50 per day and Qve cents por Imile. He says that upon some routes of travel the witnesses are compelled to pay at the rate of ten cents per mile each way for transportation, and from f 1 to f 1.50 per day more forsubsistence than the legal allowance for the pur pose. Tho effect is highly prejudicial to the interests of the United Suites in tbe investigation of fraudulent trans actions in tho public lands and depre dations upon the public timber, as it is impossible to induce persons to admit 5 that they have any Kno wieage oi fraudulent actions when it will result in loss of cimo and money to them- felves- NEWS OF THE WEEK. Gloanod by Telograph and MoJL CONGBXSSIOKAL. Ik the Senate on the 23d tbe conference report on tbe River and Harbor bill wm pre sented and agreed to. Tbe Fisheries treaty was then taken up in open session and Senators Dawes and Stewart spoke In opposition. Ad journed.... In the House the Senate bill to per fect the quarantine service of the United States was taken up and passe.i. District of Columbia business occupied most of the session. The conference report on the bill requiring the Pa cific roads to construct and operate separate telegraph lines was presented and agreed to and the House adjourned. Is the Senate on the 24th the resolution io print 5,0 additional copies of the report of the Senate Committee on Pensions, on the subject of vetoed pension bills, was taken up, the ques tion being on Senator CockreH's amendment print 10rt,tti0 copies of Presidential vetoes in the last and present Concres. A long wrangle fol lowed and the matter passed over without action. Senator Sherman reported un amend ment to the Sundry Civil bill incorporating a provision to refund to the States the direct tax. Keferred The Naval Appropriation hill was then under consideration until adjournment In the House the Senate bill passed to prohibit the transmission th-ougU the mails of certain matter in trans parent envelope. Afier passing several bills or a local character, the House went into Com mittee of the Whole on the Oklahoma MIL Mr. Warner, of Missouri, spoke in favor ot the bilL No final action was reached. At the evening session several land bills passed, among them a bill authorizing the sale of certain lauds in Southwestern Kansas to tbe Methodist College Association, and the bill authorizing the certifi cation of lands to the State of Kansas for agri cultural purposes, Ix the Senate on the 2.1th Mr. Cullom o(Terc: a resolution of inquiry as to the effect on interstate commerce of the possession by the Canadian Pacific railway of certain roads penetrating United States territory in Minne sota. The Naval Appropriation bill was then considered and passed, and the Senate Al lentown (Pa.) Appropriation bill was passed. The private pension bills on tbe calendar, 127 in number, were passed. Ad journed. ...Iu the House the Senate bill for holding terms of the United States District Court at Salina, Kan., was passed. After disposing of various private bills, the House took up the bill to establish a United States land court to adjudicate private land claims in Arizona. New Mexico and Colorado. After debate Arizona was exempted from the provisions of the bill and it passed. The Okla homa bill was taken up in Committee of the Whole, but nothing done. No measure of pub lic interest was acted upon before the House adjourned. After the report of committees in the Senate on the th the Army Appropriation bill was taken up and after some discussion passed. The Fisheries treaty was then taken up. Senator Wilson spoke in favor of and Senator Teller against the treaty. Adjourned without final action. ...In the Housea joint resolution was passed providing temporarily for the army. In the morning hour the bill to provide a plan for post-ofnee buildings was considered. The Oklahoma bill was then considered in Com mittee of the Whole until recess. At the even ing se;-sion bills reported by tbe Judiciary Com mittee were considered and several passed. After routine business in the Senate on the 27th the Fisheries treaty was again under consideration in open executive session and Senator Saulsbury spoke in favor of the treaty. The Sundry Civil bill was then considered until adjournment The attendance in tbe House was small and the only business transacted was the consideration of bills on the private calendar. At the evening session thirty-six pri vate pension bills passed. PERSONAL AND POUTICAX. EursROR William sailed from St. Peters burg od the 24th. Cocst Herbert Bismarck is expected to visit England in September in connection with bis approaching marriage. A dispatch from Rome says it Is as serted that the Italian Government has been officially notified that Emperor Wil liam will visit Rome and that it is prob able that Emperor Francis Joseph will come at the same time. Ret. John F. Brooks, a noted Presby terian divine and seminary teacher of Springfield, 111., and one of the founders of tbe Illinois College at Jacksonville, died recently, aged eighty-seven. Wisconsin Union Labor men declined to fuse with the Democrats and nominated Dr. Powell, of La Crosse, for Governor. The Republican Senators in caucus have decided unanimously to pass at this ses sion a tariff reduction and revision bill. This, it is thought, will prevent an early adjournment of Congress. Colonel James Stevenson, of the United States Geological Survey, died recently. He was formerly connected with the Smith sonian Institution. Owen G. Lovejot, son of the noted Abolitionist, has been nominated for Con gress by the Democrats of the Seventh Illinois district. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone celebrated their golden wedding on the 25th. Congressman O'Ferrall has been re nominated by the Democrats of the Seventh Virginia district. The Emjieror of Germany has bestowed decorations upon several distinguished members of the Italian navy. Mr. Fuller, the new Chief Justice, and Mrs. Fuller, arrived in Washington on the 20th. Mr. Fuller declined tosee any callers or to be interviewed. The President left Washington on the 2th for a yachting trip to last four days. Congressman O'Neill and Miss Kate Robinson were married at St- Louis re cently without any trouble on account of Mrs. Moore, who had declared herself O'Neill's wife. The remains of Courtland Palmer, after Agnostic services at his late residence on East Twenty-first street, New York, at which Robert G. Ingersoll read au address, were taken to the crematory at Fresh Pond and incinerated. A private dispatch from London says that the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough have had the legality of their marriage es tablished in England. They went before the registrar and had their marriage duly recorded. The Empress of Germany was delivered of a son at the royal palace at Potsdam on the 27th. MI8CKIXAXEOCS. A few days ago A. Lund and brother and four others left San Pedro, Cal., in an open boat for a trip around tho Catalina islands. Later the boat was found bottom up on the island, and it was thought the six persons were drowned. A burolar entered the suburban resi dence of Hon. Columbus Delano, ex-Secretary of the Interior, at Mount Vernon,0.,the other night. The noise aroused the house hold and the venerable Secretary, now in his eightieth year, arose, procured a re volver, confronted the intruder and dive him from the premises. Six tramps were found smothered to death in a box car of grain on tbe Omaha & Republican Valley road, forty miles from Omaha, Neb., on the 20th. Tbe car had been derailed and overturned in an acci dent, Indiana White Caps, after whippingtwo women in Crawford County were fired on and put to flight by citizens in ambush. Three of the White Caps were seriously wounded. The Burliagton offer to compromise the strike was rejected by the conference te cently held at St. Joseph, Mo. The Congressional investigation into im migration matters commenced at New York on the 25th, agents of steamships being un der examination. A German crank named Clotten has been arrested for threatening Mr. Glad stone. He had sent a manuscript for Mrs. Gladstone to read and because it was mis laid or thrown away he wanted some blood. Near Bentonia, Miss., recently the daughter of Dolph Miles, colored, poisoned her father and three brothers. Two of the brothers were dead. Family trouble was the cause. Two of the three Chinamen who were detained at Plattsburg, N. Y., on the ground that their entry papers were ir regular or forged, were taken back to Mont real in charge or a United States .Marshal. Having entered Canada in bond, they were liable to a duty of $50 a head. The money was paid and the two celestials were set at liberty. Major Downs, of New York, who began the crusade against the bob-tail car by re fusing to put his fare in the box, was lined $1. The case was appealed. A train on the Alabama Great Southern railway was ditched near Titusville re cently by the breaking of the driving wheel of the engine. Two men, a fireman and a brakeman, were caught under a car load of steel rails and killed. Juoue Brewer has granted a temporary injunction against the Iowa Railroad Com missioners. He laid down the law that unlimited power did not exist in the Legis lature or in the Board to fix rates. The President has approved the Post office Appropriation bill; the act for a bridge across the Mississippi river at Wa basha, Minn.; the act to construct a road to the National Cemetery at Baton Rouge, La.; the joint resolution electing manager! of the National Home for Disabled Vol unteer Soldiers; the act for a bridge across the Arkansas near Cummings Landing, Ark. A special from Brighton, ninety-six miles east of Buffalo, N. Y., says a serious break ban occurred in the three-mile level of the Erie canal. Several boats were broken in two and all of the east boats delayed. From evidence in possession of tho Treasury Department it is said that about $30,000,000 worth of Confederate property is in possession of parties in England, and $ti,000,U00 worth in the possession of parties in the United States. Tns United States steamer Juniata, which went ashore near Gough Island while on her way to Chemulpo, Corea, to protect American Consuls from Corean mobs, got safely off the mud bank with the tide on the night of July 22, and pro ceeded again to Seoul. A volcanic eruption at Bandalsan, fifty leagues from Yokohnma, bus destroyed several villages and killed 1.000 persons, including 100 visitors at the Thermal springs. Nineteen emigration agents were ar rested at Cracow, Austrian Galicia, re cently, for inciting natives of the district to emigrate to America to avoid military service. Similar arrests were made at Brady and Czernomits. Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended July 20 numbered for the United States. 199; Canada. 22. The Texas traffic fines' representatives. who were in New York endeavoring to ef fect an organization as public carriers, are reported to have agreed. H. U. McElrot, chief clerk of the freight department of the Mexican Central rail way, has been arrested at Vera Cruz charged with defalcation. G. L. Prcden, assistant secretary to the President, has received intelligence that bis son, aged sixteen, was killed in an ac cident on a farm in Virginia, where he was spending a short vacation. There was a report in Los Angeles, Cal., on the 27th that Henry W. Moore and Mrs. Norton, tbe runaway couple, were in that city. The services of volunteers to assist in putting down the Indian troubles in the Northwest Territory have been declined by the Canadian authorities as not needed. ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES. The Senate on the 30th passed the day in considering the Sun-lry Civil bill. The House was in committee on tbe Deficiency bill. An eight-year-old daughter of William Holland was burned to death by the explo sion of a can of kerosene at Pittsburgh, Pa., the other morning, aud Mrs. Lillie McLaughlin received fatal injuries from a iruilar explosion in the afternoon. Rol 'anil's house caught tire but it wa extin guished without much damage. The resi dence of Mrs. McLaughlin was totally de stroyed. The steamer Rdward J. Gay, belonging to the Packers' & Merchants' Packet Com pany of New Orleans, was burned to tho water's edge recently. Loss, 100,000. Bartley Campbell, the well-known playwright, died at Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, N. ., on the ;fc)tb. He had been an inmate of tbe asylum for almost a year. He was ooru in Allegheny L-ity, Pa., on August 12, ISIS. As Deputy Sheriff Witt was reaffing a warrant to Fred Conway, a farmer living eighteen miles north of Conway, Ark., re cently, Conway drew a knife and stablicd aheoiheer in tho left side. Conway's wife and two sons then attacked Witt, who drew his pistol and fired at Conway, but the ball struck Deputy Sheriff Lloyd in the breast, inflicting a fatal wound. Witt was exhausted from loss of blood, and it vvus said that neither ollieer could recover. The local board of steamboat inspectors at Baltimore, Md., ou the 30th decided at to the cause of the collision between the yacht Gleam and the steamboat Joppa in which Mr. T. Harrison Garrett lost his mo on Juue 7, that Captain Torre, of the Gleam, was guilty of unskillful navigation end revoked his license. Tub War Department on the 30th re ceived a dispatch from San Curios, Ariz., stating that a party ef Apache Indians had gone on the war path. Some fighting had taken place, a grazing camp bad been attacked and one Indian had been killed. The other morning the steamer Belle view Bank to the bottom of the Mississippi a few miles below Winona, Minn. There were on board over W excursionists, hut no lives were lost. One of the paddle wheels broke off, letting in water in great quantities. It is stated in Canadian official circles that in consequence of the protest of tbe American authorities agaiust tho existing regulations with icspect to the tolls on the Welland and St. l.awrence canals, the Government will remove the present dis crimination in favor of grain bound for Montreal. Representative Wheeler, of Alabama, has introduced a bill directing the Super intendent of the Eleventh Census to ascer nv description or character of the human race who are found in the United States, as well as of mulattos, quadroons and octoroons. tain and publisu tue uinn anu utam ram among whites and among negroes, China .,. Indians, half-breeds or hybrids of NEBRASKA STATE NEWS. Tax other morning, while the wife and daughter of Judge Pattenger, of Platts moutb, were engaged about the house, Mrs. Pattenger was seriously burned about the face and arms. She bad placed a boiler of water on the stove, preparing to do a small washing, when her daughter, having heard that benzine in the water lightened the labor, threw a quantity into the boiler. This caused au instantaneous explosion and Mrs. Pattenger seized the boiler to carry it to the door, when the flames communicated to ber dress. During a storm at York the other night the house of R. C. Swartz was struck by a liall of lightning, which passed down the chimney and entered the bedroom. The fluid made a complete circuit of the room, following the gilt molding under the border and taking all the gilt from it. The ball, which appeared to be about four inches iu diameter, after exploring the room, and frightening its occupants to ' its entire satisfaction, finally passed out at the corner of the room, making a very small hole, but injuring no one. Patents lately issued to Nebraska in ventors: Churn, Joseph E. Benjamin, Hnbbell; welding bench for plows, Jerry Dion, North Bend; reversible trestle, Wil liam II. Phillips. Lincoln: calf-weaner, William H. Pmlmore, Walworth: toast-iug-pan, William F. VanDoni, Lincoln. Durino a drunken row at a recent Ger man gathering near Nebrusku City, at the house of John Meyer, Charles HofTraeyer had his skull crushed and was fatally in- j jured, Juke Young received a shot through his right arm and John Hart was shot in the right side. His wound might result fatally. Meyers was arrested for the shooting. Ed Carr, for the murder of Warren Long, was recently found guilty of murder in the second degree at Albion, and sentenced to prison for life at hard labor. On a farm four miles northeast of John ston, John P. Anderson went down into a well the other day with the intention of cleaning it out and repairing the curbing. While down at a depth of about sixty-five feet he discovered tho walls caving in and raised an alarm. He was drawn up about twenty-five feet, when the wall completely I closod in, burying him alive. Willing - bands were at work to rescue him. Mrs. Bauma, the wife of a prosperous farmer in Lancaster County, committed suicide the other night by hanging herself. I She bad been sick for some time with tbe care of a large family. She waited until ' her husliand was asleep and then went to the barn aud committed the deed. I At De Witt the other day Eck Hawes and James Hoagland were fixing bridles on a reaper team when the horses became frightened. Hoagland was knocked sense less before he knew any thing was wrong. Returning consciousness found him hold ing the body of Hawes, whose skull was cut to the brain in two places. He was also nearly scalped and his neck was broken. Hawes' body was dragged ninety feet and Hoagland's escape was a miracle. The dead man leaves a wife and family. Articles of incorporation were recently filed with the Secretary of State for tbe State banks of Ganily and Arcadia, the former located at Gnndy, Logan County, and the latter at Arcadia, Valley County. These banks both have an authorized capi tal of $,ooo. John Bauer, of Alcove, had a powder keg which he wished cleaned out, and he applied a lighted match to the same, hat ing previously taken the precaution to put a little powder in the keg. He was picked . up several rods from the scene of the ex- i plosion, a mutilated but wiser man. The vigilantes at North Bend are get ting out their ropes and halters for the members of a gang of thieves who are com mitting numerous depredations in that vi cinity. The recent escape of a prisoner caused the people of Fierce County to seriously consider the idea of building a jail. The hog buyers for the Farmers' Union, at Oakland, paid out $1,040 for hogs in one day recently. Most of the railroads of the State have filed answers to the order of the Board of Transportation giving the reasons why they can not comply with the order of the board relative to distance tariffs. Three boys, O'Brien, Sutton and Hayes, were drowned in the Missouri river oppo site the smelting works at Omaha the other ; evening, none of them beingable to swim. They had got beyond their depth. The Grand Island canning works put ua 150,300 cans of peas this season. During a recent storm at Grand Island the German Lutheran Church was struck by lightning and set on lire, but the flames were put out before serious damage was done, the loss being about $200. Services , were being held at the time, but no one was injured. A new town has been started by Ger mnus in Dawes County, where the Cotton wood empties into the Niobrara. Dcrinu a severe thunder storm at Fuller ton the other day, while several men were sitting in front of a store, a shaft of light ning came down the screen door nnd more or less stunned the whole party. A youth of twenty-one and a blooming widow of forty-eight were recently mar ried at Cambridge. There is talk of Ord, Loup City and St. Paul pooling for a firemen's tournament this fall at the latter named place. Greeley County is said to be the sports men's paradise. Grant's boom has just commenced, with a $10,000 brick hotel for a starter, two churches, costing $2,000 each, two large and commodious eleva'f-s, a $7,000 school bouse and a $10,000 water plant. There improvements wiil be completed before fall. It is stated that Ed O'Donnell and George Kane, residents of Morrilville, Knox County, bad a bard tussle with a tornado recently. They were riding over the prai ries in their buggies when overtaken by the storm. Kane was the first to recover his senses and found that his buggy was entirely wrecked and O'Donnell was lying on the prairie apparently dead, while the horses bad disappeared. What became of the latter' buggy is unknown, as only part of a wheel was found after a pro longed search. The horses were blown Into a ravine aliout a mile away, but were uninjured. O'Donnell returned to con sciousness about two hours after. Norfolk has a base-ball association. The nine-year-old son of R. B. Wind him, of Plattsmonth, met with a painful accident the other day. While playing near a flight of stairs he fell in such a way as to bite his tongue, nearly severing it. Chadron has secured the college which is to be built under the auspices of the Northwestern Association of the Congre gational Church. There were a number of competing points, but Chadron secured the prize. Her offer was $7,000 in cash. $3,500 la band, and tho Western Town Lot Com pany gave fifty lots, valued at $7,500, mak ing a total of $lt,000. The buildings, whea completed, will cost $25,000, with grounds estimated to be worth $2.",000 more. The Prohibitionists of theFirrt Nebraska district have nominated Rev. E. B. Gra ham for Congress. TARIFF CONFERENCE. rh Kepabllean Senators Hold m C nee an tho Tariff A Bill to be Yreaeateo! and Its Passage Pressed. Washington, July 20. A tariff confer ence of the Republican Senators was held at Senator Evarts' residence last night, at which a decision was reached that the Fi nance Committee should prepare a Tariff bill as a substitute to the Mills bill aud that it should then lie reported to tho Sen ate and taken up and passed regardless of the length of time this might require. Various propositions looking to an early adjournment and a postiionement of the tariff battle until December were sug gested, but tho arguments advnuccd by the advocates of the policy of passing a bill ami making the direct issue as early as iossihIe were so strong that tho assemblage became emphatically unani mous in favor of the course finally adopted. It was urged that the Democratic House had taken its time and consumed many months in framing and debating f ho measure it had put forth and that the he publican Senate would not be curtailed of its full libertv of action on a question j which so vitally affected the interests of the country ana ot the Kepuitucau party, j The Finance Committee was instiucted to continue its work and bring it to a con I Iummii as speedily as it could consistently 1 with a careful pei formance of the task ni ! lotted to it. The bill will be an outgrowth of that al ready sketched by the sub-committee, but Ike views expressed by Senators and approved by a mnjoritv of the Senate , will doubtless lead to some mollifications j nnd changes of detail. Tho net reduction ( of revenue to be attained will probably b between $C,0tiO,0uO and $ni,i)00,uw. Tho conference adjourned at midnight. No one. not even Members of the Finance Committee, ventures to guess now at the length of the session. Among those who , advocated the postiionement of the tariff ' question :ntil the next session was Sena tor Quay. He said, however, that it was for the doubtful States to decide what should be done in the matter. It is, there fore, evident that those States which are regarded as pivotal in the next election favored the course decided upon last night. The Republican members of the sub Finance Committee of the Senate have been very busy conferring with party leaders in regard to tariff action. There was a strong influence exerted to prevent the Senate from taking any jiositive action on the tariff. It came largely from Re publican leaders of the House, but was supported by some of the Senators. Dur ing the entire day Republican Senators were earnestly talking, sometimes in pairs and sometimes in groups. Little knots would gather in the clonk rooms and cor ridors, and tho earnestness of their manner made it manifest that some iiiilortaiit subject was on hand. One Republican member of the Finance Committee said that the Tariff bill was not complete, but that many of its main provisions were determined, and that be fore determining others some of the Sena tors would have to lie consulted. Ho re marked that the plan was to get the bill completed and agreed umhi by Republic ans before rejnirting it. The Republicans are very reticent in regard to their plans. They do not wunt any of the provisions of their bill to be made public in advance of ita being reported, but enough can be learned to show that they can not say themselves just what may be done. THE BROTHERHOOD FIGHT. The Position of the It uriingtoa Strikers In dorsedA Federation to be Formed. St. JosErK, Mo., July 26. The joist meeting of the Brotherhoods met at two o'clock yesterday afternoon and concluded its deliberations, adjourning at five o'clock. It transpires now that the business of this meeting had very little relevancy to a set tlement of the Burlington difficulties, but, on the contrary, was held for the purpose of making war to the knife on the railroad system. W. M. Armer, chairman of Di vision No. IU, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, offered the following, which was unanimously adopted: lltlirl. That the meeting heartilv indorses the action taken by the Chicago, Uurlincton & Quincy men in refusing to declare the strike off onthecun it ions offered. Tbe conditions referred to above are those which are now being circulated among the members of the Brothorhood by Hoge and Murphy, and which are, in the main, as follows: That no men shall be blacklisted; that the company shall take liack such men and as many as it may elect. That for the next two years the company shall employ tbe late strikers in preference to other men, and that it shall give letters of recommendation to such men as it can not give employment. The Brotherhoods construe this proposi tion ns meaning that the company can stop after taking back one or a dozen men and that the great mass of the strikers will not be lieneiited in the least by the accept ance of such a proposition. It was unanimously resolved by the meeting that company Ik? compelled to take back all of the men who went out mi the strike or none. This means that the situation to-day is exactly as it was February '1. One of the objects of this meeting was to arrange matters financial pertaining to j the strike. It has been claimed by many that the Brotherhood treasury was de pleted, and that the Eastern men were iu favor of declaring tho strike off in order that the assessments for the support of the j MUKi-rs iiuiil lie uiscoHiuiucu. ii ;i stated positively by the pres committee ot the Brotherhood that the Eastern men arc heartily in favor of the continuance of the strike, and sufficient finances were ar ranged for to carry the strikers until such time when the four organizations will be federated. The federation plan was indorsed by the meeting, and it is quitw certain that iu Ies than four months the scheme will be in force. Each of the four Brotherhoods will hold conventions as follows: Brotherhood of Engineers, at Richmond, Va., in Octo ber; Brotherhood of Firemen, at At lanta, Ga., in September; the Switchmen, j at St, Louis in September; Brotherhood i of Brnkemen, at Columbus, O., in Octo- j ber. Tho fir.st convention will adopt a . federation clause in its constitution which will be accepted by the other conventions. m m Anderson Stilt in the Well. Johnstown, Neb., July 2S. At six o'clock yesterday morning Joba Anderson was still a prisoner in the well. Tuesday night he had a chill, but by rubbing his limbs and , getting the circulation started he soon I milled. The new well is down fifty feet and diggers are now at work tunneling to the old well. The great danger will be that when they strike the old well it may ' give way bud let sand in and smother him instantly. He asked about his stock and wanted to know who was attending to them. When asked if be would like for them to put a pipe to him in the old well for conveying food and water to him, be said it was too risky and was unwilling to take such chance for a few hum its. THE COUNTY SEAT WAR. Farther Partlenlaxs of the Killing; l Stevens County. Kan. An Editor's Ac count of the Affair. Liberal, Kan., July 30. The Ixulitts of the four men killed by the Hugoton party were taken to Voorhees, Stevens County, and, with tbe wounded ly Ton ny, afterward taken to Woodsdale. No further shooting has been re)orted, but armed squads of Hugoton and Woodsdale people have been seen by travelers iu dif ferent parts of this county and may meet at any time. Attorney-General Bradford, of Topeka. and Brigadier-General Murray Myers and Captain J. H. Wallace, of Wichita, arrived here yesterday afternoon and departed a few hours later for Hugoton. While here they questioned man v residents of this town. and many others from Woodsdale and Hu goton relative to tho wur in Stevens Coun ty, and despite the fact that the towns engaged in the war were well represented here, they found it imjossil!e to arrive at. nnv tliinr- 1ik n rittinit i-tiiwliivinii w ti j the actual state of affairs, j Some claim that Woodsdale men to the- numlier of fifty or more have surrounded a- party of twelve Hugoton warriors at a i small place called Iafnyette, and an- vn j deavoring to drive them from their hiding i place, but others go no further than to deny the story aud claim that the war is for the time lieing at an end. The Hugoton and Woodsdale men now in town arc pcaceahlo and claim to have left home to avoid trouble. That they fear to return indicates an absence of Ielief in the report that Stevens County hostilities have ceased. The Liberal Lewlrr publishes the follow- 1 ing statement from C E. Cook, editor of the- Hugoton Herald; "Saturday, July 21, a party consisting of C. E. Cook, O. J. I Cook, A. McDonald and Sam Robinson, ; with their fumiliex, went to the Strip, hunt i ing and fishing and gathering wild plums. On the third day out, and at Golf's creek, they were surrounded by a party from Woodsdale led by Ed Short, and a demand made for their immediate surrender, which, of course .'as promptly refused. The party then determined to try and divide their force, which con sisted of eight men. It was decided to have Sam Robinson take one of his horses and flee, which he did, with five men in hot pursuit and on horseback, and armed with Winchesters. The remaining Hugoton men hitched up their teams and let their wives take charge of them, while they marched out, with their Winchesters, and protected them in making their escape. They made a forced march to Hugoton, and a force was immediately organized and started in pursuit for the rescue of Robinson. They met Robinson iu the Strip on his way home, about eleven miles in the Territory, and, as it was near mid night, concluded to go into camp at some haystacks near by. When they reachel the stacks they were fired upon by parties secreted in the stack: and a general fusilade began. When it ended Sheriff Cross, Bob Hubbard, J. Ea ton and Wilcox were dead and a young man by the name of Tonny was seriously if not fatally wounded. Sam Robinson, of the Hugoton party, was shot through the leg. Any statement differing from this is- , false, as this is written by an eye wifhetfes of the whole proceedings. It was the in tention, as stated by Cross and Short, "to kill Sam Robinson. E. E.and O. 8. Cook and A. McDonald, and they stated they were in the 8trip for that purpose. S. N. Wood stated that if the Hugoton party was ever allowed to leave the Strip alive the Woodsdale people were cowards. Tbe necessity of such a slaughter is deeply re gretted by all of our people and they lay the blame of the whole matter upon S. N. Wood, who is believed to be at tbe button of the scheme." CARNEY DEAD. The War Governor of Kaaeae Dice From an. Attack of Apoplexy. Leavenworth, Kan., July 28. Ex-Governor Thomas Carney, the second execu tive and the War Governor of Kansas,, died of apoplexy at seven o'clock this morning. He was Governor during the years 1863 and lftCI . Thomas Carney was bora is Delaware County, O., August 20, 1H.T7. He came to Leavenworth ia 1M5M aud entered with Thomas C. Stevens in the wholesale grocery business. He was elected to represent Leavenworth County in the State Legislature in 1W1, re ceiving the highest vote cast for any of the representatives, 1,307. Sol. Miller,F. P. Bak er and P. B. Plumb were elected represen tatives the same year. In February, 1WU, be was a member of the House committee on the negotiation of tbe State bonds, which reported a resolution impeaching Governor Robinson. In September, INS, he was nominated for Gover nor by the Republicans. Thomas H. Osborne was on the ticket with him for Lieutenant-Governor. Carney was elected over W. R. Wagstaff, the Democratic nominee, receiviag 10,090 votes to Wag staff's 5,44kL In VA be was elected United. States Senator. In April of that year he sent a letter to the Republican State con vention resigning all claims to the Sena torship. He was a candidate for renomina tion but was defeated by James M. Har vey. MURDER IN WICHITA. Mrs. Ilertha Miller Found Murdered. Sup posed For Her Money. Wichita. Kan., July 30. At 11 :S o'clock Saturday morning neighbors discovered that Sirs. Bertha Miller, thirty-nine years of age, living at Si;t South Hydraulic avenue, had been murdered during t' night and the police were notified, and go ing to the house found the dead woman lying upon the floor in her night clothes. From all appearances life had been extinct for eight or ten hours. There were evidences of a fierce struggle, while about her throat was a dark mark indicating that she had. been choked to death. For some time Mrs. Miller, who had no children, had not lived with her husband, W. A. Miller, a motor line engineer, but it is not supposed that he had any thing to do with the affair as he clearlv established an alibi, and the opinion of the police is that the luur'jw' was committed solely for the purp'Hr robbery, as Mrs. Miller owned considerate property, and was supposed to have had a large amount of money in tbe house. Six Prisoners ia Tow. Gainesville, Tex., July 29. Deputy United States Marshal Carr was here yes terday on his way to Fort Smith. Ark.. with six prisoners arrested in the Indian Territory. One of the number is Georg Thome, who is said formerly to have hatlwl from St. Louis, and is wanted for murder and for participating ia the robbery of the Missouri Pacific traia at Muskogee, I. T., a, short time ago. There is one colored pris oner in the number, Ike Frazier, who has ihe reputation of being one of the most desperate mea ever ia the territory and has been a fugitive from justice for several years. There are twenty-two cases against him on various charges, six of which are for murder.