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SEDOLOUD. - - - NEBRASKA
Tire Pope has abaadoned the pro
yosed EuropeMcongrewon slavery.
W. D. Dunum. younff lawyer of
Iftanninc, S. C, tried to rob the county
treasurer's office the other sight, but
tailed. -
W. W. Smith, one of the Justices of
Ike Arkansas Supreme Court, died the
other night at Little Bock from con
wmptioB. mmm
Sica finds of gold are reported in
Ike mountains sixty miles from Sen
tinel, Ariz., but the extent of the field
not known.
THE widow of the lato Chief Justice
Waite, who had been critically ill with
pneumonia in Washington, was re
ported much better.
Thb Panama railroad has
washed out in several places
heavy storm and the Panama canal
lias been much damaged.
The bill for the division of the great
Sioux reservation in Dakota, prepared
ly Delegate Gifford, has been favor
ably reported to the House.
The South Carolina Senate has
passed a bill to appropriate $50,000
per year to be used in caring for in
digent and disabled veterans.
Mkmoiual services in honor of tho
late General Sheridan were held in
Tremont Temple on tho 18th under tho
Auspices of the city of IJo.-ton.
In tho recent Parliamentary election
At Colchcbter, Kng., the former Con
servative majority was reduced three
hundred on a largely increased vote.
A sleeping car on the Illinois Cent
ral railway caught fire the other night
Bear Kankakee, 111., whilo the pas
sengers were asleep. No one was in
jured. i
E. X. Yei.land, of Philadelphia, has
transferred to the trustees of Wilber
force University, Dayton, O., ono
thousand acres of rich mineral lands
in Eastern Kentucky.
At the fourth annual meeting of tho
National Indian Defense Association
in Washington Rev. Alexander Kent
was re-elected president and Captain
W. Uickford secretary.
Three members of tho G. A. II.
pension legislation committee were in
conference in Chicago recently, devis
ing a way to push the Dependent Pen
sion bill in the next Congress.
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The Philadelphia & Reading Rail
road Company has given two months1
extra pay to the families of tho men
who were lost oiythe company steam
collier Aicntown off Cohassett, Mass.,
XoYimK.r 2G.
Dr. James E. Reeves, of Chatta
nooga, Tcnn., an eminent mioroscopist.
has been studying tho tissxies of the
liver and kidney from persons dying
with yellow fever, and has discovered
a micro organization that closely re
sembles a specific germ.
The Navy Department is informed
that tho United States steamship
Trenton, flagship of the Pacific sta
tion, is now at Panama, with Rear
Admiral Kimbcrly on board, and that
it is proposed to keep her thero until
all danger of trouble on the isthmus is
past
It is rumored that tho Earl of
Shrewsbury, who supplies London
with hansom cabs, is about to invade
both Paris and New York with his
conveyances. Ho will furnish New
York with cabs, it is said, which will
carry a passenger to any part of tho
city for twenty-five coots.
Another crank turned up at the
White House the other day. He was
a man of medium height and dressed
in the regulation old soldier garb, his
right sleeve being pinned to his breast.
He announced that his name was
Hoover, and that he had been elected
President of the United States by the
Knights of Labor and Independents.
He was placed under arrest.
William Ralston, waahas been
sssde insane over too clsaa attention to
the subject of the Whttechapel saur
ders, is tUe well-known writer of folk
lore and myths, and has written, sev
eral well-known books and contributed
a number of articles toEafftlsn period
icals. He became interested ia the
Mysterious murders to such aa extent
that his mind was unbalanced, and he
is now in the custody of a keeper.
Tax chief of the secret service di
vision of the Treasary Departanent ia
his annual report saps that the repre
sentative ralae of the counterfeit
ssoney captured daring the year was
$2,117,523, of which over $3,000,000
were imitations and fac similes of
notes. There also were captured
eighty-five plates, forty dies, forty-six
. molds and a lam quantity oi coun
terfeiting paraphernalia. Only two
new counterfeit nates made their ap
pearance, both being silver certificates,
and both very poor imitations.
Thb Honorable Artillery Company.
of London, the oldest military body in
the world, and a portion of whose
members visited Anwrica recently, has
been disbanded. The Prince of Wales
had become discontented with the
manner in which the finances of the
organization were managed, and also
with the 3sck of discipline which ex
istaiiaits ranks. He had urged the
members to ahsmisn their charter
privileges and beeims, a part of the
regular volunteer foreaa, This
gestiea was opposed 1y amajority of
the oflosrs. and s Jkeoasafnsnce the
Prince of Wales, .tfcafeuke eCPorUand
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ay TiliffiQfli
coxonnas.
Wax the 8eaate met on the ttth the
reselattoa for evening aeuiou wu taken up
sad an ameadawat offered that the regular
hour for the meetias; of ibe Senate be elevea
o'clock a. nu which elicited a spirited dises
sjon. The resol tloa Anally went orer one day.
The Tariff Ull iii then considered until ad
journment..... The House. In Committee of the
Whole, proceeded to consider the Legislative
Appropriation bill, debate on which continued
until adjournment.
Tan Senate on the 16th passed tbe House
bill incorporating the American Histories! So
ciety with amendment. Senator EJtaunas In
troduced resolutions that it United State
Government will look with serious concern and
disapproval on the connection of any European
Government with the construction or control
of any ship canal across the Isthmus of
Darfen or Central America, which was
referred. The Tariff bill was then discussed
until adjournment. .. .The House agreed to the
conference report retiring General Andrew J.
Smith witMbejaSJSJSXCoioneL After the trsns-
House went into
er and liar-
lion ad-
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Mil
ty
bill
o'clock
Id close. The
ss from December
After disposing
or seve:
s the Tina diu was
taken up and
te resumed. It was Anally
laid aside
the pension bill', ninety in
number.
cupying fifty minnles. Ad-
Journed....Afte
concurrinzin several confer
ence reports, the) IIoue, in Committee of the
.n.-t . t -..,.-. ... .. lf..li. Kill
vuuic, hwk up'iue nivcr aiiu "vi "'"t
which was considered until adjournment.
Ix tbe Senatepn the 2It Senator Teller's
rciolution appoiitlng a committee to investi
gate the affairs ol the fcupcrv!!ng architect of
the treasury was imended so a to include the
former architect, jind after a debate which at
tacked the presclt xysteni of erecting public
liuildlngs, was ajopted. After dl'Jivjsliis or
motions and resolutions the Senate toolc
up the tariff bli) and after a long delate
it nento'rand heral bills passed, when the
Senate adjourned tntil January i After rou
tine bu!ues tbe House went into Committee
of the Whole on thr Xk-araguan bill which oc
cupied nearly the thole of the session. When
the committ'-e ro the previous question wa
ordered on tlie btl and amendments. After
parsing a bill incressing the pension of Jacob
Itogers (of Iowa), a veteran of the war of '81.
to ISO per month, tbe House adjourned untif
January
lEKSOKAI. AXD POLIT1CAI-
Ax Indian Territorial convention was
held at llaxter Springs, Kau., on the lbth,
which was well attended by delegates
from Western els and also by chiefs of
various Indian tribes. Strong resolutions
advocating tbe opening of the Territory
were passed.
Senator Fauwell has introduced a bill
for the reorganization of the navy, so as
to do away with present injustices.
It is rumored in Berlin that the Emperor
William is meditating tho wholesale re
tirement of aged Generals, tbe promotion
of junior oilicera and a reorganization of
the military department.
Thr Minnesota official returns are: For
President Harrison, 112,1S2; Cleveland,
104,; Fisk, l.311; Streeter, l,0i7. For
Governor Mcrriam, Republican, 131.3A5;
Wilson, Democrat, 110.2A1; Harrison, Pro
hibition, 17,(K!6; Paul. Labor, SS'i; scatter
ing, 72. Four years ago Blaine's plurality
vas 41,20; now Harrison's plurality is
:18.107. The Republicans gaiu threo Con
gressmen. The Italian Chamber of Deputies has de
cided to spend .1,000,WO lire in military and
railway improvements.
Ilma di Muuska, tbe once famous prima
donna, is dangerously ill in body and mind
at Munich, Germany.
Judge Edmund Waddki.l, Jr., Repub
lican candidate for Congress in the Third
Virginia district, has served contest notice
on George D. Wise on tbo ground of ob
struction of voters.
Gladstone left England on the 19th for
his trip to Italy. He was enthusiastically
cheered by great crowds all along tbe
road.
The only request General Hnrr'non made
of the committee in charge of his inaugu
ration was that the veterans of his old In
diana regiment should act as his body
guard.
Dr. Nkmoxa. Acgcsta, Ambassador of
the Haytiea iaaurnents to the United
States, and Charles A. Jackson, of Now
York, bis attorney, were in Washington
recently attempting to interest this Gov
ernment in the cause of the insurrection
ist. The British forces attacked Osman Dig
na's trenches investing Suakim on the 20th
and drove out the Arabs, killing 400. Tbe
British and Egyptian losses were six killed
and aboat thirty wounded.
The Coasalar and Diplomatic Appropri
ation bill, as prepared by the Hoase Com
mittee en Foreign Affairs, appropriates
$1,457,Md-$1,440 less than that of this
year.
Tan Independence Beige, of Brassels, an
nounces that President and Mrs. Cleveland
wllLflsit Earope soon after the expiration
of Cleveland's term of office and that they
will remain for some time ia that city.
A DtsrATca was received in London on
the Slst from 8t Thomas. West Africa,
statiag that Stanley and Emia Pasha had
arrived on Urn Arawimi. Tippoo Tib also
sent word to Zaasibarthat the explorers
were safe.
Tan New York Herald published a sen
sarJoaal story from Iaeianapelis, InsL,
with reference to a conspiracy to aasassta
ass the President-elect. If o credit was at
tached to it.
Ouraa Dmow, whose nam Is a
hold were wherever mastc is
taagBt,dled oa the list at Boston, aged
eoTeaty-Mvea years. His
tohraiatronMo.
Two Froaok kaators was loft Heloaa,
Mont, Ooteber tk oa aa aiBsslllon nptao
Mlmsarl rlvox, aavo soon foand
ia too apasr river.
OasATdsmsgowaa ropoHed at
tea, Fnoa the Uta, caased by
ranis and a rias la too Lnckawana
hmrsjostted at Carlisle and
Intks
a Ml mar d was
Tan now B. O. dirsetory, it is said,
will again rnmmsan taw old ssjgrsaaivo
policy of taoroad. K ow oxtsmssmu aavo
twon mssasii oat.
Rawavnas of IM08 nave beea offered f or
tno cantnro of tho Dock HiU (Miss.) train
noaso of Martia Regan, throe milos
north of Hantingten, W. Vs., was banted
to tno gronnd the other night, aad Regan's
two children and Ids aged mother wore
baraed to death.
Six farmers started to cross the river to
Meatreal on the ice daring tk recant
otorm. They were not heard from and it
waa feared they broke tarongk aad per-
iafcnii
AnaSA 8. Pact, administrator of the es
tate of tho late Edward 8. Faal kasea
tered salt in Waskiagtoa against 8eaator
Cnltnsa, .of Illiaoi, for fl,00Q, tao salt
growing eat' of tho deatk of Prof. PaaL
was wasHadea down sad fatally iajarod
ny Josepk Chase, anogro rnsramsa in tao
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the electric light uteres is h"
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Edison light stock aas bee stead Jy rWag
oa the Stock Exchange and ta reach
170.
Tax jary at Boston ia the case of
Preble agaiast Bates aad WaUey, stock
brokers, to recover saOOO alleged to have
been lost 'in speculation by her sga, aavo
agreed apoa a verdict ia favor of tho
plainUff for 454,772.
The London Standard thinks tho recent
t change in the Baltimore at Ohio ssaaage
ment sot ceaduclve to honest ssaaag
meat. Several American newspapers take
the same view.
The anneal catalogue of Harvard College
will sbovr the total number of staieats to
bo l,j against 1.6S0 last year. This is a
rise of 245 against 228 last year.
Th e Wiener TagUatt says that L0
trian and Gersnaa ssbjeeu were expelled
from Warsaw oae day recently. So rea
son was assigned.
The two small children of Mrs. BtatT,
colored, liviag ia Indianapolis, lad wore
burned to death the other morning during
the abseace of their mother.
South Carolixa has taally nasstd a bill
giving the Railroad Commission power to
fix rates of transportation for freight and
passengers, to prevent unjust discrimina
tion, etc
Prehidext Thomas, of the smspeaded
California National Bank of San Fran
cisco, has isaeda statement, showing as
set of 71S,000. He claimed tbo liabilities
amounted to the same figures.
The workmen on tbe Eiffel tower, which
is being constructed as one of the featares
of the exhibition next year ia Paris, have
gone on a strike.
"Hu.xoet Joe," the noted New York
confidence man, has been sent to tbe Mary
land penitentiary for nine years for
swisdhng a Baltimore man out of JTi.OOO.
Tse execution of tbe condemned Bald
Knobbers, in jail at Ozark. Mo., has been
postponed to February l.'next Governor
Morehouse ordert-d tbe postponement at
the solicitation of Judge Hubbard, who
tried tbe case.
Edwauu Meredith, one of the nsail
antsof gambler Duly In a New York flat
recently, lias been sentenced to eight years
and ten months in State's prison, and
Hennan, bis confederate, to six years and
eleven mouths. Tbe cases of the women
havfr not been beard.
Dtiunu tbe revision of thn excise laws of
Xet York State by a commission. Rev. Dr.
Howard Crosby denounced the foreigners
vrbd sought to overthrow the Sabbat b.
Tie three-year-old bay colt Galore, a
famous young English racer, has been
purihasedby Americans for $7,000. Milton
Young, of Kentucky, has offered $10,000
for Ossory, brother of Ormonde.
A xew epidemic has broken out on the
horse ranches of the Lower Yellowstone
river and is spreading with great rapidity.
It affects tbe glands of ths throat and jaw.
Tbe Secretary of the Navy has sent out
circulars inviting proposals for the con
struction of a 4,000-ton aruored coast de
fense vessel.
Br tho derailing of a train tear Houston,
Tex., the other day, three men were killed
and four seriously injured.
The President has pardoned Benjamin
Hopkins, tbo Lank defnultor of Cincinnati,
on tho ground of ill-health.
Business failures (Dun's report )or tbo
Feveu days ended December 20, nuabered
:tll as against 3)3 tbe previous
200 the corresponding week of la
The six-story picture frame
Strobel & Co., Cincinnati, bu
tbe morning of tbe 22d.
were killed or fatal iv woi
walls, also two by stand
A cncansT's asiis
Beaussier has been ai
poisoning sixteen
France. It is sap;
for tbe crime was a
plover and obtain tho V
Thomas Hu.nter, jail
send, Waslu T., was over:
and relieved of his keys
live prisoners the other nig;
could raise an alarm. The pri
their escape, locking the jailer i
It is stated that National ban
redeemed at the Treasury Depai
have asaln got into circulation, rn
mysterious manner they failed to reach
the macerntor. whero it was intended they
should be destroyed.
Dr. S. A. Richmond, who murdered Col
onel J. W. 8trong. editor of the St Joseph
Herald, June 18, 1KSG. has returned from
Camargo, I1L, to the asylnm at St. Joseph,
Mo.
The French steamship Marseilles, which
sailed from Bordeaux, November S3, for
New Orleans direct with a full cargo of
merchandise and 388 passengers, was sev
eral days overdue and fears for har safety
were entertained.
ADDITIOHAX.
The steamer Zeataadla twiags news of
two more battles bttweea the followers of
MaUafa and Tamasese at Samoa. Nearly
three hundred natives wore killed aad
woanded It was asserted tkat tke con
tinued bad state of affairs was das to
farther German iaterferenco.
The Saltan of Zaatibar has iseaod a de
cree proclaiming tkat marderers shall for
feit their lives aad tkat thieves shall loss
their left heads.
OrrtciAX. dispatches were received on
the 23d of tko arrival of Stanley aad Kmln
on the Arawimi river.
Tan steamer Hatien aUnabUc was snr
readered to tko Ameckaa men-of-war at
Port-aa-Prince. Mack aard feeling
exnreesed in Havti at waat was
tao kigh-haaded pcocssdiagsot tkoUnttod
States Oovornmont.
CLBanrjio noaso rotor
December 2S skewed aa average
of 2LS compared wltk tko corrasnondi
weak last year. In Hew York tko
wasSGuL
Nrrno-oLTcnana (Uta m
plodsd at Barhsnan 'aToUow,
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aawa, PSu, rseaatly. Teronw
as killed. Several dwellings
aid to
and two children wore badly
Tnsuu masked men made a said oa o
Ckiasee Inandrr at B Pnoa, Tor, tao
nlgat, SKJns; An Whagend serisnely
adiagSiag Fans. TkeyelUag of the
sotorriacinas tno rssssrs
4T aofore oetaiaiag any
booty.
Tax Federal grand jary aalndlaaanolis,
IaL, kasadjenrnednnttlJoaaaryU. Tbo
tatasoftheDediey ease kef ore tho Jary
remains for tko far sssnt a secret,
GtADSTOsa waa received witk a tre
moadoas ovatioa at Kaaiee oa tao SSd.
Eatkasiastic stndsato atStarpted to draw
kirn ia kis carriage, bat Mr. Oladstone
forbade taem.
Raroars from Ckiaa are tkat ia Baigon,
November 20. 700 keoses eat of the M,0
ia the towa were tsxraod. iaciadiagthe
post-ofllce aad most of tke temples. Soon
after tke names were extinguished tke
river was swelled by a food, karat its
banks, destroyed several bridges and
greatly damaged crops. Ikeee troablas
oaasod great mieery-
Pnor. D. K. SroaasaTcnT, witk tke Fret
Marsk exploring party in Wyoming, kas
beea fataJIv bart hr a sUver-tre bear. He
bad shot tke bratew
before ke coald kill her.
Lacnascx Ouraaxr. tao well
Xagiisk writor. died at Leaden oa tao 23d.
The eaaoe of deatk
Ho was man la IMS, aad hiaisisbieliter-
arrfame had led
hateMtimeseiMesjssmredkyaaVitiah
BAsa-saix
tBBKASKA STATE KIWS.
In. Gsoaon W. Woum was foaad
dead ia bed ia aU office atOmaaatheetaer
maraiag aboat aiae o'clock, by his friend
aal attorney Mr. Blair, who had mad aa
aoioiatmeat the day before to meet Dr.
WtVame ia the latter' ofSce. He went
lohhe office at the time appointed and
afar repeated knocks aad ao response ea
tood the room to flad hi friend aad client
roilaing ia aa eay poture apparently
aSySp. From tetter left It wa apparent
twt he had taken poison. He had bat re
cently beea arrested upoa the charge of
areiaciag aa abortion.
fniLE intoxicated Petr Stewart re
oikly attempted to kill hU wife at Blair,
haf hor corset steel turned the bullet, lie
thm turned bis pistol oa hlmHf, but, at
thmgh he received aa xgy wouad it was
aotfataL
odms time ago tbe wife of John Letter,
reeding near O'Neil, left bini aad began
aetoa for divorce. A few day since since
aefckbors beard the report of a revolver,
aat rushing Into Letter's residence found
kin stretched on the floor with a wound
in his breast. Hu did not sem to be ri
oatly hurt, but remained ia a emi-coa-scksis
condition a day or two when his
wile returned to nurse him. When ah
had expressed repentance for her action.
suddenly recovered his sense and said
homaaathe wound in ts breast with a
kaMe and discharged tbe bullet into tbe
four, hoping to secure bis wife's return by
taiakiag he had tried to kill himself for
her.
SxAh Cain. Cherry County, the othr
day Stephen Mead shot his wife through
tk head with a revolver, causing instant
dtsth. He then shot himself soveral time
with tbe same weapon and then scuring
a shotgun discharged the content under
hit chin, causing death in a short time. He
had quarreled frequently with his wife
aad on tbe day of the tragedy she told bim
she would le'av him. They leave four
smrJl children.
William Alexander, a Well-to-do resi
dent of Itncaster County, was found dead
in led tbe other morning. Hn wns Kventy
three years old and bad been in i'.l-health J
fV some time, but th nigh: before bis i
diaih appeared to lo in unui.ua! giHKJ I
htalth
Two men representing themselves to to
dx.-tors connected with n medical ctmcrrn
U Omaha and giving lb- iunu of Arthur
T. Males and Henry V. Oldihue, were re
cently arrested at NeUon on tbe charge ol
Staining money under fnle prrtense.
' J. B. FOOT, a dealer in general mer
chandise at North Bend, nnil an ntln
neat tbe other day. Total liabilities,
about $18,00), with assets ncirly covering
tie amount.
i A RiMfiULAS instance of tbe ilckleness of
firtune has been discovered in tbe death
Snd burial of a Mrs. Abraham, of Omaha.
tbe was buried by tbe Hebrew Benevolent
ssociation. leaving, however, clothin of
Slmost royal richuess. Her bridal dree
siecially was particularly beautifnl.
Clnly ten months ago she was a bride In
cne of the richest circles in Russia. One
if her bridal gift was a cheek for !,
'rubles. In less than a year she was burled
ty th- charity of ber people.
At Dawson the other evening Dr. Han-
in was shot and killed by a man named
Isrk. Clark's unfaithful wife was the
ause of tbe trouble.
There will be big tunnels on the
iurlington & Missouri Hue tie t ween Craw
ard and Alliance, one 1.3u0 ft long and
he otheAVM feot. Twelve hundred men
rk on them.
wn of Harrison turned out
who bad escaped from
r nay, ami nnaiiy sue-
up their man.
n recentlv attended
ie in eighteen year.
Con nt v votj-.d on a
s for funding the
ruber 22.
etta. Pa., thinks
Bohaunn, the rs-
d tbe sheriff of Otoe
ed him oue of Quia'
elgh has been dismissed
ouat of scarlet fever.
at Niobrara are shipping
the pineries of Wisconsin.
t National Bank of Atb'.ou bas
ned for the transaction of buslnos.
(. Joxrs. ex-grand chancellor of the
nichts of Pythias of Nebraska, was
Jtuad dead in his bed at hi home ia Te-
Simseh the other morning. He was an
hd and respected clttzen. Heart disease
tr'as supposed to be the cause of his death,
f EscArinu gas laid out tbe whole family
Sf Night Watchman Segoumey at Brofcaa
Bow tho other night, but the head of oaf
household arrived In the morning just fk
tme to reacue them from death.
NSLSO A. BaasEa. of Central City, who
was oa trial at Columbus oa a charge of
eabenliag (900, was acquitted by tbe
Jary. V
A rrrrno kas been circulated in Cedar
Coanty asking the coaaty superintendent
to prohibit the reading of the Bible in the
ptblic schools.
Hecextlt William Squire, a Knox
Ccunty fanner, while feeding his kog fell
deal, where his lifeless body was discov
ert by hi wife. She dragged nor hae
banS's body from the ra aad covered it
wit a wagon box while she went for a
sistsace. Oa her way to a neighbor's she
losther bearings oaaccoaat of the heavy
saow tkat was falliag aad was discovered
tares aad a half miles from home safer
inawitk awntal deraagemeat. sev
j aswanD of $100 i offered for tke sr
ral of tke laceadiaries wko set fro to tke
belV of V. Gordoako, of Keya Paha
Cosaty.
A mrssT mule in a grading camp aear
Crawford recently caased its ewa death,
tegetner witk tke incineration of it mate,
te kerse and a stabl, by kJokiag over n
lisktod laatera. The boss waa badly
hsmil tn trying to save his nveswrty.
A rrr reeeatly seised Hani Baker, aa
itmato of tke Gage Coaaty poor kease,
ayio no was standing at the need of tke
stairs in tko second story, and no fell to
the Boer below, rsselviag fatal iajarfsa.
Tan srnstose of
r iasrr
messreaortrtethoetrr.
wiB to fatare be need as a anbUe
Brers nave keea takea at
formaKaickta
anrxa reeeatly bad n fa.fJ
w. B. Dcnnaa, a pi smis ist ana nasasky
fanner, and aa eht rssisant of
Cea.tr. osmmtttod seietee by
hiemelf in kis barn tko eeker day.
Mr.
Darkee lived one mile and a half
Batrweetea. He was well liked
nawftad bv aU who knew kirn. No
wee assigned for tke act.
Yum handsome suberbaa reeideace of
Mr. J. C Williams at Liacola was receatiy
baraed, and also two building adjoiaiagv
The total low was aboat 120,000.
Tan Osaka Kepnllican has been pieced
latbekaads of a receiver, factioa die
ijtioas among tke stockholder led totals
resatt.
Tna other day while L. M- Dice was
seelliag corn soath of Utica his left hand
srs caaght ta the skeUer aad crashed,
A-Dnacs aad hi wife, of Poaca, re
cently left home oa a abort visit, leavtasj
three ehudree, wneee agesraagea
two to six years, la charge of tke
Tao caildrea locked theeeivasia,aad
hear afterward, by mere chsnoe.the
foaad to be en nre. Neigaban
iosj to, she childrea were f emm4
trem
I aS
BURNING CTiUMCE.
Talrty-flTa U
y
Burninc of tna
On thff tower Mlswissifai-CapUln i
FUot Ana tnc
Ai
Tse Ckkf 0Irk AtttapU to sVrsTsJn-
ablss fiis Isrrav rsssss -fasis sn
t!IwDsjdt?-
MEwrnts Tean IVc. Si. The ilAnl
paeagr steamer, Kate Adatsa. numisf
a a emi-weky pckt betwrsoaHeasphts
and Arkansas City, baraed yctslerdaf
mornleg near Commvrce, Ml., forty mile
south of here, and at lfl th;rtT-fir rr
on lot their live, white msny star fc4
narrow- cape. The vessel was en route
to MeaphW and fesd about 300 peoplo
aboard, iacludiag her deck and rats'a ct1t
of eighty, and twenty-Bra cabin aad sixty
deck paenKrad :.)culor4 calun
sencers.
The fire, which caujbt in sorao cotton
near the forward end of the toller, was
discovered about eight o'clock. Th -eager
ware at brrakftst aad when tbo
alarm was given they all made a rush for
tbe forward deck. Atthvtiwe tbe steamer
was about 300 yards from tbe MusUnlj.pl
side of thorlTemn! her bow waa at oaco
headed for the shore.
Pilot Jo Hovton was on watch and h
remained heroically at bu Hst until h-
safely lambrd. Harry llrt, the rcood
clerk, who was seated at the tab when
the alaim was given, brought all the ladles
and children forward and assisted them
sboro. Captain ilark It. Cbr. who waa
on tbe hurricane d-ck, remained there s!r
nz. bl command until tb tai plank
Was safety owriviL Tbe fire by th t tim
hail nrpad all through thn cabin ntiil hn
Wa compelled to retreat to tti tvr and
clmibod orr tho rail and deeceuded to
the cabin,
i Chief Clerk V. C. Blantermade an effort
to mvi the money and parr of tbn
i steamer, when were In tbe safe. II
j managed to ele th money, lut nn cut
i oil from tb 1m and forced back into th
cah.n. As he um grtttn bi nay aft, be
iumlilcl n-i.l lull or otiin clislr and
loat all tt.e alusbles hf bmt xuml and It
was with gt-nt ditliculty that be suc
ceeded in reaching thn rear t'irotigb tbe
blinding stuoVe and tlanies which tilled the
cabin, t.'aptnin ChuL, who was with tbe
cork, seized a lif prewervrr and. putting
it on the clerk, belp-d him ovnU4rd Into
the w.nl.T. Hf ilo.itrd down aUut three
milos before he ns rescued by parti
wbohadnnlLfd ahore and followed blui
down the river.
Captain Cheek nsitwl several others in
stcuiiug life preservers and wb-ti it was
no longer ikm.iI.I- for hlrn to rrnuin with
out belni: Imrtieil, hn too juuted Into tbe
river and um ahur.
Idem were ulxmt iwenty-flte colored
cabin pasengirs who were irl along
with tho w hit pnsengr. On th lower
deck, however, a fearful panic linl the
crew nnd dck tmsenger. Tho who
were cut oiT fioni ornjr from the bow
were c iitjK4rl (o Jump ovrrUanl toavo
their lives. The atern of the burning
stesmer hail swung out into the rirr end
in tho eifort made to launch the yawl It
was caps tn- by tho crowd whici lllll it
ami many of it omiptuts drowned They
wer mostly cJorel men, but thre were
threorfour wometi tn tho crowd.
The lott, so far as can bo lesrned,
ari as foPow- George Corlwit,
third clerk. n?ed twenty-right yemi,
who lind laiincli d the yawl, and no
tr ing to avtt the colored women
on tbe lower deck. H leaves n wife who
resides In Ht. Iou!; Jon Porter. Andreiv
Hrt Mon run JncVsnrt. Jim Nelson, Kena
lor Coleman. HlMard Horton, le Pin toy.
Frank Wells Of thee tbe first sit n.stno.1
were member of tbo co!orel cabin crew
ami the other two colored roustnlwittts.
In addition nUiut flfton dock psfn
gem, four of whom were white men, were
aUodroAited. In this list of unknown
were threw colored womea and two chl.
dren. They seie coming to Memphis to
spend th holidays. Th white had lem
working on th levee and thir names and
destination are unknown.
Th burning steamer drifted away after
layinz at the lunk for twenty miaul and
floated down ih liver. br hull sinking
the head of Peter's Island, five mil
Commerce.
The Kate Adam wa wid
Memphis and Vicksburg Poc
of which Major Jobn D. Ai:
Hock, i pieaidrnt; Captain
Cheek, superintendent, aad
Peter, secretary ami treasurer.
built by James Keea A: Hon, of PitUbur
in 10, and coat !,. Hhe wa t
rinet aad fastest steamer of her tyj.. and
her owner tbl inawr spent T30,OP1 in
repairing ber at Paducsh. Kb wa valued
at !75,wu. and wa lasurd for n3,7go ia
8C Louis. Cincinnati and other forviga
oBlcea. Tbl woald have bwa the compl
tioa of her 0Jd trip la the Memphis aad
Arkansas City trade.
All the panger aad crew arrived at
Memphis yesterday afternoon at six
o'clock, having takea the Loaisvill. New
Orleans & Texas railroad train at Robin
oaville, which statloa Is eight mile dis
tant in the interior from where the diaaeUr
occurred. The citlseas of Commerce ren
dered th passenger aad crew every as
sistance la reaching Kobiaseavilte, con
veying them there la wages aad every
eoaeeivable vehicle ikst coald tosecared.
There vrore 1ST from the ill-fated teamer
tkat cam to MemphU, Captala Cheek de
fraying the expeaee of all taoeewhedid
not save f sad.
Tke fMsseeagers aad crew leet all tkeir
rlethlag aad effects aad some me do tkeir
to the shore from tao eeralag
mer. en deshabille, aad were saru sided
witk cloths by U klad citiaeee of Com
merce. Some of the oeteroS eassn
wererenid from tke water
Tho water was very cold aad
tke limb of those who jaaped
aad to this 1 sttrikated tke
of life.
-A small aambor of
BftUtakabie mark of tko
tko death awaiting these- They
stemeelve coasdoas of it. aad t
of those r ho can read
stgas is v.-y limited. nomeUawe, to camp.
I have triad te describe tbe saark toemeats
arenad ma- Oae rainy day I wa coa ver
tag to my teat with Ceatola vTllee, A
ant Adjutant Craeral of my brlgad. We
nsarcaiag on rre4ercssfg.
LlenlsBsmt Coeoael OOla y.
As Plftk Michigan. atrd. He eamo
imaiy oa some detail of terrice. waSen
was arranged ia tve mJnat. Wkeake
kaal ga out. os. said 1 to my ia
iiSdsTfii Captaia, -her' aa op$eto
Bry to make a trial of b y theory. OAamti
GJBaly t marked. The Ceptaia evideol
lf hbosgbt aothisg of . Bet is tke tret
hsaile Cciaei Gillary waa kUled before
liululil ' i t while bravely Uig hi
t ia a osarge, at yw aa me m
tkw mart. I weala aad X
to reply. Thi famvl seal I hav
tarmted rather oa tke
sffe awrm" BsBnBBBP5Bnnsn aai
of wate east
of tko
to
a
-gsamftawH
mea earryShoao-
-a.' . - ta ii i aaaaariaaaa iai r .1 , t aa - aw s.
WWPPIftO nftasla.
LenmtwB. Dae. JtTae eaealU I f-rsw
of British and Bgysatas aao seed an
attack afa the f4-l ys-Hi vm. They
smrawd tJ riduabt aal trwaeb and
after a brllkat oagarimeat. lat hoU
aa boar, drwe too ? lata to totskv
Th fart shetled th Ulvk-egp
a tTTiK trv T my hJ4 tvir
ground with' th trrehm waul th N
brigade etnr, whkh Sect aftr aU aa
boar's hard Cghtiag. Th rt5 fshi
with faaatK! t-raiy. Ts vt th
aentr gMa w ratar4. T -!
brisd did ple4 4 ,
Tbe SnttUh txwdrrsrs r bm at r
entrearhlnc th ttl plV-sa T SBy
ar rtrrat:sg tord tta. TV
tUtttsh fort" 33lttS i.AX
The letls ar rspwftad t has Ui S5
mB kUled. Th lirttish Iom waa tr i
kll!e.t aad two Mouadrd danag a rat lrf
chrfc-ft. Ti CcvfUoa aad t4arh i
mntM jt tan Ma tUl4 ad tfclrty
wousdsd. Th oaly cf3r woaJ4 la
tfa atiackfag ftxest r tm rtspliaa.
Th Urituh r etcamivi is th rbI fr
sitioa. Th sictovv wcjt.
A featur Of th StitlE4 Ih dslrf
mind ruh upon th Ucbr bv h
black and ggyptUa. Tb dusUh
fostgat with th utmoal bravsrv a gtaal
soanv of them drtng ta th Uch Th
cbarg of tb hussar was alJ $swtals
brilliant. Wha r drib earaJry
them coming thv diatntt frvsa thU
bor and p'SBt4 tfcalf ;! is Ih
gtund, but thr pruve-t no obatrvclia
to th fcur sbtusiptJusa ti)oi th
dervish bortua . a !nh, rut
through their nt and t"t halt of tha
iiad on th (round Th huar tfct r
fcnnel and ehsrs:'t tfc rsmstuicis dr-
Vlsbra. tbO fieti. A laf )tottll ef th
trtI frrr was nut s-4 in tj-Jy'
flfchUn,;, blng aineat ensping at Hsu.
doub aad th wlt l)ind that piacv It
Utxlivel tbe srbl wilt t-e finforCst
and mak on attempt c-.a jo rtak their
iot p.t on.
Cetuiatt liana's nrpht and tsldr
ntie hAt le-rn ittutl. Ait at
wounded.
Tn Kinr of Trtnl.ttat s a j-itr.
H i slht;v undel
The irlkrir y Uir) t-tis- itst 'J
tbe mounted liunnrr r kdled. AU tl
the im lorj f pnvaijtm and onieltr at
tbe hand nf in Mabdl and 0m.n llfns
voiir nf tbeui ulleil tJ tight. t"lt
orcrl to da . r - suadrd by ntti
of ' "t at iuak tu anil other irwatdm. Th
trench wwe tre. Thes found rb(im4,
clothinc or money, but uuly .Snider rifl-s
and cmiJgr.
THE ALASKA SCANDALS.
r.llM of s 114 Sll f .affair e l.
(' tahl.
WasntMiTiia, lf, 51 -Th Hn Com
rnittrv on l-'itberira ytrdy l(tr, th
Invrvttgation of th alld riU of J.U
ka. when William t),tt, seial tiiury
aent of th Meal I. land. tliried that tb
Alaska Conij-anv' snl at Ht. lurir
island rwctl nithr tb taw of 01
nor man. Anioi.g oth-r thins tfy fur
hlshril tiijuor to lost imin n au under
hand manner Th who- island was a
place of jmwtltuuon fio-'ii on nd tn th
other and an a2nt ut ti cotMpany had
dclrd he would brwsk m roan's had tf
he refused to brlnf hi itb man's) w,f ti
blm. Witn ld h wyyj.t rattier i
a term lit tb penitentiary than cuttM"!
ntfaln what he .nd blwtf bail prt
encl ou th Island. II t prantd a
letter frutu Treury Agent !lngH wheh
hn rcrdetl a a pUr of UschsI in
teadetl to dUcouraC his jubtlc s!l.
tneiit. In roncluslon lie asi
did not know of any n
natlv women by
Company
(sirr Wan
agent at th ij(
to l!t, i
woman or,
rKet or
fifth
knoi
pau
lli
bini
ritas
lllag fsaab -m
U!ng th ocswpaay'a
' hvua. bj Mr.
1r wcr. ha 4$iorei
It ws intmtda to 4o-
laencl him to de thla
ntssnTKD.
Ta ter-r Sbjsow aeel
hr Kasart Wove Ttw4e
raaal4 l tJOm laniaeas.
-- tx. ft,
vsaTaawa, ., ", ae-"s i v
(rsvereor Mevsh'.e or fturair
ska) I iatervrae la the ameeUs. ntoe of
tho field Kaobbers of Christian Caswy
will b baaged at Oaaifc rtotanr sM
for the Bierder of Uree aad ffsJas ta
March. WT.
Yoaag WlJIIem Walksr. eon of ske a4of
of tke bead, was to nave beea saigas' De
ramvber 9 whls iaka maakews eaeea
Uoe wee for aaary IL and yaeterway
tko ttoarama Coart, to adlrmleg tao de
etiea of atoeireert wert to tko roe of
Wiley Maswhew, H tke
rilrasrv U Gov
rsesrhal yoaag WlasW4'B Msamsas
Tbis acUsm bv 1
at tko laraaet eelidtotloa ef iedge
bawd.wbe sr4 U
to sis letter tetheOsrv
aatoaarMsTer totmeetae
ammjsVad to Hto torme to ah
fawiisi siwntekfceaa
h aia reeaoaojeestashtoa
Tke eaee of Brnee wTear Is sshN
aaaaa. aasav. iw.
tabiesef the Ittote eVwtrd of BstlreaS
aiaetoejere tko yeor w44 Jaeo JS
loetea tke amto e 41 twso were kwtod
and SSt totored: oa Us Miomr1 ratsnar
i j atom ktiU-f end Wiard: low
Uatoa raswac. 7 iOtod aad tot mtordi oa
tke stweagn, aCaae A Nsaaa. 1 fefatoi
aaifi lowrd:w to Kaaoa CHr. Feet
aaost A Males, i kal aed to Sohared;
oa the Ceo Oty. WyaaeS A ana
wsTayggioed3 tard- toaMeh
MTwae Viwt tawfe lie aod LSH ese
weaadad. Of to ttot I were
te rawrM aad toe oaher Sf fToi wa
earsCawely gJ to to way of
ti7to4tw
toaWmk
i!rwiwJaas
at- ,-- s.A
iia9r hsyeaav isssey tn
eeo '
aavea.
toaar ah OBm.
geR. tsTss. 2hc SB la en totofAaao
Uiliwswaneiaaas la rT in in 1BSTT OTir TWSmi m.1
ABOUT ft-ULrrOAO.
olisi
nifasws osw
Torsaav Kava, Bwe TL TV ! t.
ssav'taMot at tk ta A rr tv f)
IK) aswed os Rlrt CViwB4yo--
ho t he t.oe t It - I r-
dtion caf too Hlarri. ti A T
rtsa-t. t hiswsey t i-t tt
m th I e4 mix - t
rt .
TV M-aOft, ? Ts
HM-itatU frfSi
Jaa tf avt4yae ' 7-
ttw ta two '!
-a .-.-i of li eartl
-a4 tela4 ja jJ t-
to V taraed rvv fc tw n:,Mts, v,.
aiaatarf teat Ooai tr J arT"-ta
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T. K,i;sr ta 44-as
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thts4t he ta ha ig a
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sr). tea -vd iatwrt 4dia'
cdtfcecMapaay- Thteifiibtl-.-a
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th Uvifd rft tU th lr-SffM.,. -
twrth r!fi tarff iS. p.
bsialttas 4-.cnait,g ta is.s. at -$-
aKt espt slth Kb ta ai
ik-1nlt iUui Ih JSlli at ra.
tund that pir tsi -j,rl tfj. h
ik'Srt tt sJtr tit ad4rt. mt eal
tariff ehnsf lh r r
to rpaH th ,dUJ f ltl"
Jaaaary I . wl-ll U
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tb aio tt I J t 4 w i.
ia. , IHfiodiaf WtJk, t-s th. ' n
it, 'e Mswu -iitM. ) a 4
.t t-J Chattr Ujrf. ad tt-at ti t
tb 4 titwst WUp' 1 It- l'a
14. s City bee a I rtS
(W.d divtsiea, ith It X Ma
bt-tatdMt. This 4lsiv - .4 M
prt 133 tuli.
THC BLIZZAHO IN QUIHtC
ciarM Vfia i.- -t m
i im in w ,
VttTU te V P-4tt l;b f.ai
b Ulld Mh tet lta t
imlr ret jmm4( jw,ft j ?vj
IIIV! rt- m t r r.-5dJ
frum Uf Vte awd te v t
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tn uiif ha i -r' ht f a '
; ivl tb crtp wr ?-ij-r H i
, iitis Nit It osfyt4 i.
iurtM that of the i-aiUf I1
ru tfe mMl ! f I Jits
in tb (MU !!;- v4't t
r u:uw that eit sitMf Bssav
Ins u
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lfr .ej l
4n)a"a.
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avra)ft( heesi
rtsavto'
ftmr, N Wr iaki. b--4 aeea
Ihw strait of CwNwf, WaVtt I Wy the)
e, lir St4 aaa s at Um
H, Th t' 4 i-4 wjia 4m
catty asat -t th gaseS
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Mtr. ata..Thv IR ta the 4
tnrt hav y ta U. Ie tke ao d tke
mote egaiact lfs. Mer, aarg4eg h'OS
wit Hr.g bwr ia M-t-m, la vtotote f
th Wd 1-ssJ Opii. Iawf tao 4s--(
atwsvsya, C44 WW aea,tytoa
fisitar awl Jd tf, gseaf
tt tbe eHote avid-, oa Ske i
the t swskvde f the Off
lMeeas " toe s-hara
of the a.sra 4 lhiaw
, war irrrtr
Ih ry to
vfH She
seil
a4 4idat
Csmaytyt f.r.1
I W. at.
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a tko awas m
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aanawe enawamnai msnw VennBnnBeeTn nmnnnnnnwmnB
ewnwBsBTwa arBJfBj psk sfafgr BPwmtwBemwalff) nLi
Oastoe law to Ms ma, irllsk tsaBJ
isaoavy lea. rW tw asawafl
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