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,1 "?'-Vrgvr f;"1" C-; tiit(it2feN MuuxwnnwKo-o mk. ... ytar2-r-')r-ar,'r ',& "'ii'vi -j --"3-- i "t ;c. ' i .-A sr M REI$ CLOUD CHIEI A. C. HOSMER, Proprietor. BED CLOUD. - - - NEBRASKA CURRENT COMMENT. Cbakir Pasha, the Governor of Crete, has banished from the island four prominent Christians, one of -whom was a member of the Cretan Assembly. While Prime Minister Crispi was driving in Rome the other day a stone thrown by a man on the roadside struckhim in one of his eyes, inflicting painful but not serious injury. The assailant was arrested and found to be a lunatic. In the columns of the Pall Mall Ga zette it is announced that russet shoes are very bad form indeed and the au thorities of Eton and Harrow have is sued instructions that; the pupils in these schools must not wear them, as they do not consider them either be coming or dignified." Estimates of the loss by the recent fire at Antwerp range from 25,000,000 to 35,000,000 francs. M. Corvitain, proprietor of the cartridge factory, is charged with homicide by imprudence. His defense is that the fire originated in the petroleum sheds and caused the explosion in the cartridge factory. MrsG. H. Dunsfoud, the wife of a leading citizen of Reading, Pa., died the other day after being thrown into spasms while laughing heartily at a theatrical performance. Her artifi cial teeth were missing and a post mortem examination developed the fact that she had swallowed them. They were found lodged in her stomach. Lieutenant Samuel A. Smake, U. $ A., who has arrived at Glenwood Springs from a trip to Routt County, CoL, where he investigated the recent Indian scare, reports but few Indians to be found and these in small parties. They claimed to be after stray horses, but is pretty certain they were hunt ing parties. The report of armed parties was started by a frontiersman fooling a party of "tenderfcet." During the celebration of a relig ious festival at Rohtak, India, the Mussulmans and Hindoos became in volved in religious disputes which led to rioting. The police were com pelled to interfere to stop the fighting, but before they succeeded many of the rioters were shot by the officers. The Mussulmans at Delhi, forty-two miles northwest of Rohtak, are organiz ing to avenge the insults put upon them by the Hindoos. John Gordon, in the employ of the lake George Paper & Pulp Company, at'Ticonderoga, N. Y., fell asleep the other night near the machinery. The fellow-workmen, it is said, in a joke tied a rope about his feet and threw it over a shaft making 125 revolutions a minute. They could not cut the rope in time and Gordon was killed, the body being horribly mutilated. One of the perpetrators of the joko lost his reason from the shock. Joseph T. Kelly, son of Eugene Kelly, the well known New York banker, was blown from the platform of a car of the 4:80 p. m. train from New York on the Delaware, Lacka wanna & Western railroad while the train was crossing the Newark meadows. He was instantly killed, his head being crushed against a pile of ties. The wind was blowing a gale at the time. The deceased was about twenty-five years old and unmarried. The Vossische Zeitung, of Berlin, publishes a complaint signed by a number of merchants of that city in -which it is stated that Mr. Edwards. United States Consul at Berlin, sub jects exporters to trivial vexations in the matter of verifying invoices, thus hampering trade with America. The merchants intended to call a meeting to protest against Consul Edwards' action and to request the German Foreign Office to interveno for the re moval of the trouble. Rev. Judson TiTswoimi, of Mil waukee, Wis., was recently called on to marry Theodore Souzo Tomagawa, of Tokio, Japan, to Miss Catherine Ashmore Adams, of Chicago. After the ceremony the Jap and his bride left for New York. It seems that Tomagawa has-been in America for some years. Five years ago he was in Chicago as a teacher of the art of making Japanese Embroidery. Miss Adams was one of his pupils and she fell in love with him. Her father is dead and her mother opposed the mar riage. The end was an elopement to Milwaukee. Commissioner Tanner has made public a statement claiming to show that the heavy disbursements of pen sions during the last two months were mainly attributable to a deficiency in previous appropriations. The amount appropriated for the year ended June SO last was $86,473,000, while $88,235, 113.28 was disbursed. Disbursements have exceeded appropriations during the last four years. In 1885 the num ber of pensioners was 345,125, while the number now is 489,725. In July and August, 1888, Commissioner Black advanced to agents $24,800,000. of which they disbursed $4,840,577.05. During the last two months Commis sioner Tanner advanced $34,700,000 and agents have already disbursed $11,486,205.88. NEWS OF THE WEEK. GiMiitd by Telegraph and MaiL PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. A dispatch to the Soir, of Paris, from Rome says : It it reported that the Italian Government will expel Kossuth from Italy on a demand from Germany, because in an address to Hungarians be protested against Premier Titza's tirade against France. The Turkish Government has decided to increase the- number of troops in Crete from 20,000 to 40,000 and place several war ships on duty about the island. The Democrats of New Jersey have nominated Leon Abbott for Governor. Ex-Sexator Ridduberger, of Vir ginia, has taken the stump for the Demo cratic State ticket In the Washington Democratic State convention Samuel Wheelwright, of Ta coma, and Thomas Griffith, oC Spokane, were placed in nomination for Congress. Griffith was nominated on the first ballot Ex-Governor Eugene Semple, of Tacoma, was nominated for Governor by acclama tion. Ho.v. S. 8. Cox succumbed to his attack of malarial fever on the 10th. Henry C. Warmouth. ex-Governor of Louisiana, has accepted his appointment as collector or customs at New Orleans. James W. Tanner, Commissioner of Pensions, sent bis resignation to Presi dent Harrison on the 11th. Starlet was reported marching to the African coast with Mombassa as bis ob jective point Captain Ira Pains, the celebrated American marksman, died in Paris re cently. President Harrison has appointed John 8. Latbrop collector of internal rev enue for the Third Iowa district and James W. Hearne in the Fourth Texas district Abraham H. Tappen, of the Twenty fourth Assembly district has been elected Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society in place of Sheriff Flack, resigned. It is definitely settled that Judge Groff, of Omaha, will be appointed Commissioner of the General Land-office. He was the leading candidate for Inter-State Com meres Commissioner against Judge Veasey, of Vermont who recently re ceived the appointment Charles F. Griffin, Secretary of State, Indiana, has been elected Commander-in-Chief of the Sons of Veterans, succeeding General Abbott Edwin Arnold, author of "Light of Asia" and chief editor of the London Telegraph, with bis daughter called on President Harrison recently. Rumors of a formal alliance between Russia and France are officially declared unfounded in St Petersburg. Negotiations are said to be on foot for a new agreement between England and Germany regarding East Africa. John Sloan, of Indianapolis, has been elected president of the National Railway Roadmasters' Association. M. Ferry's organ states that Germany is about to place an army corps on the Belgian frontier and reinforce the troops in Alsace-Lorraine. The Autorite pub lishes a report that M. De Freycinet, French Minister of War, intends to double the strength of the army corps stationed at Nancy. There are rumors from various quarters that a large number of Nihilists have re cently arrived in Denmark. In conse quence of these reports the authorities are taking extraordinary precautions for the protection of the Czar during hi visit to Copenhagen, as it is feared that an at tempt upon his lite is intended. A proposition frowning down trusts was presented to the Wyoming Constitu tional convention recently. Several chap ters were adopted. A measure restricting the formation of "new counties was in dorsed. A Siderian explorer bat leftPekin with the intention of penetrating Thibet He is accompanied by a Chinese escort His route will bo along the great wall of China to Lan Chow and Lake Kokonova, Hon. A. E. Touzalin, of Chicago, pres ident of the Chicago. Burlington & North ern railway, died at Bennington, Vt, re cently. He had been out of health for some time. Colonel W. F. Switzlex, chief of the bureau of statistics, ha resigned. MISCELLANEOUS. Three boilers in the California sash, door and blind factory at Oakland, CaL, exploded recently, killing four men out right and injuring several others, two probably fatally. Two others were sup posed to be buned in the ruins. Cholera is reported at Athens, Greece. The United States Treasury Depart ment celebrated the 100th anniversary of its foundation by Alexander Hamilton by closing at noon on the 11th. Captain Wissman has offered a reward of 5.000 for the bead of Bushire, the African chief. This was done in conse quence of Bushire's threat to destroy the mission in the interior. The nephew of Averill, the man lynched some time ago with "Cattle Kate' in Wy oming, died suddenly recently. The cor oner found every evidence that be was poisoned. The Western Union directors have de clared the regular quarterly dividend of Vi per cent The statement of the quar ter ending September 30 estimates the net revenue at $1,750,000, the largest for years, and, leaver a surplus after paying divi dends of 2402,415. The forests of Pentelicus in Greece are on fire. Twenty-seven tbousaud trees have been destroyed. The Burton building on Van Buren street in Chicago, recently burned and just rebuilt, bas been destroyed by fire. Loss, 350,030. Mr. Van Hass. a director of the Otto man Bank, Constantinople, committed suicide recently. The bank was not af fected so far as known. Fourteen buildings in the town of Shoat Lake. Man., were destroyed by fire the other night causing $10,000 los. The directors of the Missouri Pacific railway have declared the usual quarterly dividend of one per cent The Bell Telephone Couroanv has in- creased its capital stock from $10,000,000 to $12,500,000. . It is reported that a negro church bas been burned by regulators at Post Oak, Jasper County, Miss. Further whippings are also reported. Persons from Jasper County say these reports are exag gerated. T. P. Gilwicss, grand keeper of records and seals of the grand lodge or Knights of Pythias of Missouri, and Paul Pittman, deputy circuit clerk of Mason County. I1L. were drowned at the Copperas creek lock east of Canton oa the Illinois river the other night They were members of a fishing party. Tax Phoenix Woolen Mills Company f East Greenwich, R. I, faave offered to compromise with their creditors at 23 ceats oa the dollar. Attorney-General Miller finds ao cause for action against ex-Governor Crawford for receiving moseys from the Creeks for acting as their attorney in re cent financial transactions with the Gov ernment A raw broke oat in the cotton stored in the hold of the steamship Britannic oa her last trip to Queenstown. After con siderable trouble the fire was extin guished. The old wooden war ship Iroquois, which was recently extensively repaired at the ship yards at Mare Island, CaL, cduld not develop more than eight knots an hour oa a trial trip. Searle, tbe champion sculler, bas challenged Guadaur to row at London for $2,500 a side. The report of a fatal mine disaster at Jellico, Tenn., was false. a ..7.,.,rn..ln ., Ti ti.i i r th. A whirlwind at Lulu Island, B. O, the other day desolated tbe whole country through which it passed, uprooting gi gantic trees and leaving the thickly wooded surface bare. The colored Baptist convention at In dianapolis, Ind.. was much stirred up by the indignities to which live of tbe minis ters were subjected near Boxler, Ga., where a number of white men roughly ejected them from tbe railway car. Br a collision at Miller City, O., tbe other day, two freight locomotives and fifteen fruit cars were wrecked and both engineers injured. At Buffalo, N. Y., Dr. Bartlett finished his effort to beat Dr. Carver's record of Ireaking 60.000 glass by rifle shots in six days. He broke GO, 01" in all. The big chemical works at Wandsworth, England, were destroyed by fire tbe other day and one fireman last his life. The works were valued at $100,030. The municipal authorities of Liverpool. England, warned by Antwerp's expe rience, have voted $150,000 for the con struction of petroleum storage depots at isolated points. The first snow of the season fell at Hope, Dak., on tbe 12th. A cattle disease, either Texas fever or black tongue, is reported ravaging the herds near Scottdale, Pa. F. W. Gesswein. the millionaire im porter and manufacturer of jewelers' supplies and tools, was shot dead at New York recently by Christian Dehle, an old German, who said be committed the crime because Gesswein had robbed him of his patent and left bim penniless. Two hundred and fifty-six nominally Boulangist candidates were nominated for election to the French Chamber of Depu- , ties. fctriT for 17,030 indemnity money bas been begun in San Francisco against Dong Tsing. tbe Chinese Consul. J Caktain Wissxan'jS police have de stroyed tbe town of Kondutchi, between Bagamoyo and Dar-es-Salaam. Captain Wissman wished to punish tbe inhabit- . ered one Ed. Taylor, who about one year ants of the place for having supplied tbe j ago deserted bis wife and family and insurgents with arms. skipped out with tbe hired girl, with A serious collision occurred on the Bal- j whom be has since lived. He left bis fam timore & Potomac railroad the other night ' Uy destitute and recently returned to tbe at Washington between a freight and a neighborhood on a visit to a brother. passenger train resulting in tbe killing of the engineer of tbe passenger train and badly injuring the fireman and one brake man of the freight train. Five hundred miners at Clarion and Clear Run, Pa., have struck for an ad vance. Tue strike was in co-operation with tbe striking miners of Adrian and Watson. The steamer Rotbesay recently sank the tug Moira near Brockville, Ont, and two lives were lost The business part of Danby, N. Y., burned tbe other day. Cause, no fire ap paratus. Los, $45,000. The verdict of the court-martial cash iering Colonel Fletcher, of Fort Omaha, bas been set aside on the grounds of per- secution and conspiracy. This leaves the prosecuting officers in a bad fix. A. H. Watson's plumbing shop in Chi cago was wrecked, one employe fatally injured nnd several persons more or less hurt by flying missiles the other day by a , gas explosion. The troubles of Erie and Canfleld miners, near Denver, CoL, have resulted in blood shed, one man being ohot dead and another fatally beaten. ADDITIONAL, DISPATCHXS. The- American brewers have projected a gigantic syndicate, or pool, to protect themselves against the encroachments of the English beer syndicate. English dockyard laborers and their friends bad a grand demonstration at Hyde Park, London, on tbe 15th to cele brate the successful ending of the strike. The King of Holland bad again weak ened and bis condition was serious on tbe lflth. Clearing bouse returns for the week ended September 14 showed an average in crease of 7.3 compared with the corre sponding week of last year. In New York the increase was 9.0. The monument erected to General Grant at Fort Leavenworth was unvailed by General Merritt on tbe 14-b. Orations were delivered by Senator Ingalls, Gen eral Charles W. Blair and Hon. George R. Peck. The parade and dedication were attended by large numbers of visitors and citizens. The New Era Exposition building at St Joseph, Mo., took fire on tbe night of tbe 15tb. Every thing was lost except tbe carriage used to convey General Lafay ette during bis visit to country in 1824. Tbe loss was estimated at $430,000. The portraits of General Grant and Sheridan which were painted by order of George W. Childs for tbe United States Military Academy will be formally pre sented to that institution October 3. Gen eral Horace Porter will make the address. A terrible fire occurred in Louisville, Kr.. on the 15th at Bamberger, Bloom & Co.'s large dry goods bouse. Six firemen were caught by falling walls and kilted. Tbe loss reached &000.000. The trial trip of tbe new cruiser Balti more was reported to be a great success and will net Messrs. Cramp & Co. a con siderable bonus. A negro riot occurred at Lawrenceville, IlL, on the night of tbe llib, caused by the arrest of a negro who was brandish ing a knife. He was landed in jail with several others. Later tbe negroes at tacked the jail and freed the prisoners, whereupon the whites organized and killed two negroes. About a dozen were wounded on both tides before the tumult was subdued. The town of Medina, N. Y., was badly damaged by fire on tbe 15th, which origin ated in Ives Si Sons' pail manufacturing establishment Tbe loss was $330,000. American securities were in demand on the London Stock Exchange during the week ended September 14. A financial crash was thought to be imminent in the Argentine Republic. The French and German bourses were unsettled. Chakir Pasha, the Governor of Crete, has issued a freak proclamation to the Cretans, threatening with severe punish ment any one assisting the insurgents. M. CORVELLATNE. tbe proprietor ol ue cartridge factory at Antwerp in which the recent disastrous explosion occmred, hai bee arretted. NEBRASKA STATE NEWS. Another disastrous collision of trains occurred the other morning about 2:80 o'clock at tbe crossing of the Union Pa cific and Fremont Elkhora & Missouri Valley track near Ames, six miles west of Fr mont. It was exactly the same hour and tbe circumstances precisely similar to tbe collision which occurred there a week before. A number of cars loaded with barley were wrecked, but none of tbe trainmen were injured. The Lincoln County commissioners have submitted a proposition to tbe electors to vote $150,000 in bonds to tbe Missouri River. North Platte & Denver railroad, on the condition that the company bas the road completed and in running order by January 1, 1SD0, no interest to accrue on ! the bonds until the road is completed , . , . , . tf . . Up to date $585,000 have been paid into tbe Cbadron land-office. Tbo otlico was opened July 1. 1SS7. '. Eli Parks, a Holt County farmer living near Ewing, bas decamped to prercnt ar rest on a warrant charging him with crim inal assault on two little girls aged seven and nine years. ' James Haviland, of North Lonp, while recently cleaning a well, fell a distance of i over one hundred feet He was badly in jured, but will recover. Wbit.k Lorev Snncrc of T.inwnod. was recently working on a pile driver be had bis hand terribly mashed, causing the amputation of three fingers and part of hts band necessary. He placed his hand on tbe pile just as tbe hammer started up, when tbe grapper happened to slip, letting the hammer down on bis band. An old farmer named Martin, living near Cedar Bluffs, recently got into a difficulty with his son-in-law, named GeiseL and was unmercifully pounded with a club, so that bis life was despaired of. Geisel was arrested. A. B. Sunn, has a hundred acres in sugar cane near Fairfield, from which he expects to cut and strin a thousand tons. At $8 a ton it would bring 58,000, a neat sum for one summer's work. Uki Talbert owns the only peach orchard in Greeley County. It is six miles ; southeast ol tscotia and Has a grove o( MM bearing trees. The brick haulers employed on the street paving work at Beatrice recently I went out on a strike, practically stopping all paving. They struck for their pay, wnicn was in arrears. The other day Mrs. Julia A. Pettit was arrested in Buffalo County, charged with being an accessory to the murder of Will iam Pettit last April. She was placed in the jail at Kearney in the same cell with her son, W. H. Pettit She is sixty-five years old. It is stated that a party of masked men i near Obiowa recently tarred and featb- The second annual reunion of the old soldiers of Keya Paha and adjacent counties was attended by fully 2,030 peo ple. The corner stone of Dodge County's magnificent new court bouse was laid on tbe afternoon tf the 10th with appropriate ceremonies. The exercises were con ducted under the auspices of the Fremont Masonic lodges. S. H. Morrison has been elected De partment G. A. It Commander of Nebras ka to fill the vacancy caused by tbe death of Major J. B. Davis. George Patterson, of North Platte, who carried off the highest honors at tbe recent competitive examination for ap pointment as cadet to the West Point military academy, failed to get into that institution, having been rei-.c ed owing to an in-growing toe-nail. John F. Albin. editor of the McCool Junction Record, who was struck by light' njng three months ago, bas sufficiently recovered from the shock to resume charge j of his paper, but is still very weak. The mayor of Grand Island bas ap pointed a committee to take subscriptions and otherwise endeavor to secure tbe lo cation of tbe State fair at that place. The old settlers of Furnas County re cently held their annual reunion at Beaver City. Spontaneous combustion recently caused a fire in McElvain's coal sheds at Brainard, but tbe flames were extin guished before much damage was done. The twelve-year-old daughter of Mr. Sargent, a Holt County farmer, was re cently killed by tbe upsetting of a load of bay upon her. A DEMENTEDyoung woman named Zingg disappeared from ber borne eleven miles east of Rusbville recently and bas not been heard from since. A reward is offered for information regarding her whereabouts. Fred Fochon, of Kearney, gave R. G. Parker a chattel mortgage on a lot of gar den truck, and when the latter attempted to foreclose on tbe vegetables the former protected thsm with a shotgun, wounding Parker on tbe arm. Pocbon was arrested. The Custer County supervisors have called an election for October 12 to vo,e on a proposition to isue 35,000 in bonds to aid the Missouri River, North Platte & Denver railroad. The Broken Baw school board has re solved to enforce the State Compulsory Education law. The Germans of Nebraska City will ob serve October 3 as memorial day. tbe an niversary of the landing of tbe first Ger man colony in America and in remem brance of the part taken by them in mak ing the Republic great Dodge Coc.ntt contains four larga cat tle ranches, the barn of one of which, the Standard, bas a roof which covers more than any other roof in the world. Indian lands forfeited in Nebraska, about 2,500 acre?, are to be advert bed and sold. Hog cholera bas appeared in Cuming County to an alarming extent. The First National Bank of Neligh opened recently with a capital stock of $50,000. Bird Upton, of Belvidere, bas been ar rested charged with having too many wives. He was arrested on a telegram from Huron, Dak., but escaped and it took a hard chase and several shots from tbe sheriff's poise to effect bis capture. The doors of C H. Folsom, the largest general merchandise store in Plainview, have been closed by virtue of a chattel mortgage. Liabilities about $15,000. A van in tbe employ ofa Nebraska City butcher got up in his sleep the other night went to the bam and bitching up a team hauled a load to tbe slaughter hoase. He awoke at one o'clock and retired again. Mrs. Thorp, of Nebraska City, who was injured a few weeks since by a gasoline explosion, died the other day from the effects of her injuries. The residence of Mr. T. Sullivan, a farmer living two miles northeast of Bada, was totally destroyed by fire the other morning. THE GRANT MONUMENT. travailing or th Statae at Fort Leaven worth Orations Br Senator IncalU, General Hlair and George R. Peck. Leavenworth, Kan.. Sept 16. At noon on Saturday all business houses were closed and the city was in holiday attire, flags and streamers showing everywhere, with pictures of Grant here and there. As early from tbe as seven o'elocK tne veterans ncuuer, a iiituiennni-uiuimi m """ - soldiers' homo began pouring lond infantry, was accused of condu t u :- . . . . . into the city with mauy members of tho Deeominjr an otlicer and a geir o i a G. A. It posts from neighboring towns, technically, and in tho ordinary lansu.iw After a parade here in which four troops j conduct unbecoming; a so dier. UN nc of United Stites cavalry, a great palace i cusers were the olllors of the pot t f-rt wagon bearing maimed veterans, tho j Omaha and the principil witne-uesngain-r. Gurfl-Id colored post, the fire department J bim wore his wife and sitter-in-la w. 1 ii and other c!ub, with their different bands case of this officer ha? become n nritter f took part they all took train for Fort i National importance throughout in-cup Leavenworth. "T. especially in military circles, nnd not At Fort Leavenworth tho sentries paced t only military men, I ut civilians ao i:r- back and forth about tbe mouum-nt and a large platform built just south of it where nearly 1.0J0 chairs had been placed. Earlv in the forenoon Mrs. General Mer ritt Mrs. Colonel P.ucker and Lieutenant Perry, of the Ninth cavalry, had deco rated the top of the pedestal with fliwcr. a wreath extending around tho entire edge. Upon the large p'atform were Generals Merritt nnd McCoofc. rach accompanied by bis entire staff. Governor Humphrey and all the State cftical. Senator Ingalls and ninny men distinguished in the mili tary and political history of the country, besides a large number of lad-es. At two o'clock General M?rritt nroso and introduced Rev. E. F. Holland, chap Iain of the G. A. R. for the department of Kansas, who offered prayer. Tbn Gen eral Merritt, as president of the Grant Monument Association, welcomed the people in a short speech, in which he said tbe artist bad done his part in a innnnrr befitting the illustrious soldier. He con cluded with the words: "Th monument will now be unvailed." Then the flag which covered the monument dreppad and the preat General stood revealed. Senator Insnlls was then introduced and prke substantially as follow: The onward march of humanity has never been delayed for the want f a prophet to pre dict a triumph or a leader to direct resistless energies. When the ensis comes the man ap pears. It is the opportunity that makes the General. When the late contest was bes'in there was no one who anticipated the achieve ment or prophesied the mamticcnt destiny of Grant. He had abandoned tho military profession in early life. H hid no sympathy with the passions which pre cipitated the war. He had no powerful friend. He was shv and silent and yet in the internal between llelmont and Appomattox he achieved that fame which knows no clyint; His career was a stately procession of unbroken triumphs. He wo.-, called to the highest posi tion in the Nation. Senator Ingalls tht-n told of the removal of the remains of General Grant from Mount McGregor to New York, winding up by saying that the Ideas for which Grant contended will extend our Nation north ward to the froz-n zone and southward to the cinal which will join ftwo oceans: fifty stars will be upon her Haj and iJO,0v,lijO will be un der its folds. General Merr'-tttben introduced General Charles W. Blair, who spoke to the follow ing efTct: It was reserved for Fort Leavenworth to first unvail a permanent memorial to the hero of the war. and as we gaze upon the- invincible cap tain we realize that every government has but one argument against insurrection and invasion the brutal but final argument of force. At the battle of Hull's Hun the Government real ized the colossal character of the rebellion. but who would have believeu that a man whose career was supposed to have ended before middle Iifo was reached would mold armies, organize victory and achi-vc im perishable renown? And yet this was done in the ca'c of Grant. Much learning has been displayed in critical analysis of his military genius, but he was the Moses who led us through the wilderness. Victory marched with him everywhere. The rratitude of his countrymen twice elected him Chief Mtgistrate. when he went abroad he was the honored guest of crowned heads and distinguished men. and when he returned to our shores e,uuu,m,iof people rose up to do him honor, but his modest demeanor seemed to recognize his American citizenship as his highest claim to di-tinction. His last struggle was the most touching of his life when he held death at bay until he had completed his memoirs in order to provide for bis family. Hon. George R. Peck was next intro duced and made one of the most appre ciated orations of tbe day, tbe following being a brief synopsis : We dedicate to-day no mere statue to victory. When the sculptor fashioned that august figure he thought of burdens borne without complaint, of courage that never faltered. The sutuc Is Grant, but it is more. It will stand as he did. tbe type of heroism, the typo of honor,, the type of serene patience. Something like the majestic strength of the pyramids was in him. He knew the homespun word. duty. He moved on Donelson in tbe dead of winter and wrested from the enemy its most important fortress and an army larger than his own. He drew the line around Vicksburg's fated gammon until another arm yielded up its arms. A genius he was not. He was not al ways true to military rules. War as he un derstood it was hard, rough blows, the cruelty of battle. In his mem oirs Grant tells us he had little taste for military Iift How plain and simple be was. The feverish visions that disturb the souls of many great soldiers never troubled him. Whatever it meant to others Appomattox meant only peace to Grant. This statue is history in bronze and what is the lesson it teaches? Grasp the meaning of the word duty and yon have the answer. It is duty that holds systems together and tills all space with the melody of law and order. Here let tbe Statue stand, the tribute of gen erous hearts jo a high ideal. We will come with reverent steps to look upon it and will bear above the noise of faction the solemn words of tho old commander, "Let us hate pcce." After tbe conclusion of Mr. Peck's ad dra General Merritt proposed three cheers for the artist cf tbe statue who was absent unfortunately which were given with a hearty good will. m m Sons of Veterans. Patersox. N. J., Sept. 15. The National Encampment Sons of Veterans has voted to restore Past Commander-in-Chief Wal ter S. Payne to eligibility to membership in view of his past services and in consid eration of punishment already mffered. Tbe following were elected members of tbe council in chief: H. Fraze. of Indiana; J. D. Hinkle. of Massachusetts: E. T. Roe, of Illinois; W. O. McDowell, cf New Jer sey, and W. O. Jones, of Kansas. Tbe encampment voted the golden cross of tbe order to General Leland Webb, of Kansas, for his past services to tbe order. m The Commissioner of Pensions. Washington, Sept. 15. President Har rison's intentions yritb respect to tbe ap pointment of a successor to Commissioner of Pensions Tanner are yet unknown. Major Warner, of Kansas City, bas ar rived and bad an interview with Secre tary Noble. What the interview was about ia not public property. m Stanard Appointed Regent. JirrtRSON CRT, Ma. Sept. 15. Gov ernor Francis has appointed ex-Governor O. E. Stanard, of Sr. Louis member of tbe board cf regents of tbe State University at Columbia, vice S. M. Breckenridge, of SC Louis. wbwas appointed by the Gov ernor last winter bat declined to serve. COLONEL FLETCHER'S CASE. He l Sentenced Ity Coart-Marti.il ti Ke Cah'e-ed Tlie Sentence Di:rveil lljrth General of the Army-A t uC ITeJudlce. Washington, Sept 14. Som t i:i n-o. a court-martial was held at F rt Omaha. Neb., that attracted a great deal of afoti- I tion throughout the country. J H. L... 1 . ! -. w- . .", . ... . I... W . terested in it. The case can i:u. be dec! led I for nt Iea-t ten days more. 'liu c uit- martial that tried Colonel Flete er f iiii'l , him guilty of the charges alleged r..im.C ' bim and sentenced him to be cisiiierol 1 from the army. It is bultevud thro ihoiit. I the United SSlates, both 1:1 inihtnrv :.:u ! civil circles, that tho officer at Omaha. j were prejudiced against Colonel rietclicr. j and that tho women in tho c.i-e. t!i :ir his wifo nnd his sister-in-law. were r ' ganized to destroy him. The proeeni n,; in the court-ninrtial came on to U i-. irig ton in due time and wero refenel to tho Judge Advocate-General' bureau in tho War Department. The w ho c enss was looked into care'iilly and the Judge Advocate-G neral decided to knock out the report nnd find nz of tbe court-martial. From the Judge-Advo-cat4 office it went to tbe General of tho army, who is at present John M. Schotield. Scbofietd looked into the ca-e very thoroughly nnd concluded to npre- to tht findings of the Judge Advoc.it Genera.' office. From the General of the army, ac cording to the red tape management of th' War Department the report should n tbe Secretary of War. It happens now that tbe General of the army is act in;: a Secretary of War and he did not care to act in a double capacity In a case of such importance in military circles as that of Colonel HecliT. In other words, he did not ere to approve as Secretary of -War what l.e approved of as General of the Arm v. Hut there is no doubt that Colonel Klotcb-T will prevail over his enemies. Th court martial at Omaha found him guilty and sentenced htm to dimi-sal from tlioarmy. That sentence has been repudiated by tl.o Judge Advocate's otlice; it has been re pudiated by the General of the arm v mid from all accounts it will b repudiated within a few days by the Secrelnrv of War and by the President of the United States a few days later. Fletcher w.i? done up by the court-mirtinl. but th thinking men of tbo army here have saved. him. A MILLIONAIRE KILLED. An Old Man Seeks Kcvenge Ity MiSiii theMan He Claimed 1I1 ICuined Hint. New Yokk. Sept. 11. F. W. Gesi.in, tbe millionaire importer and manufacture.- of jewelers' tools and applies, at 33 John street, this city, wns shot and killed by Christian Deyhle yesterday iuor"ing about 10:45 o'clock in bis privato i fli -e, the result of a business quarrel over a re flector which Deyhlo claimed he bad patented. Tbe two men had been p.t law about the Da tent, and Devhle bad been ! beaten in his suit. Deyhle bad been accustomed to call up on Gesswein frequently at his store on John street, but after his defeat in tho courts be discontinued bis visits and nothing bad been seen of him for the past six months until nine o'clock yesterday morning, when he walked into Gesswein' store on the ground floor and inquired for tbe proprietor. He was informed by ono of the clerks that G-sswein had not ar rived, but was expected shortly, and took: a chair, remarking that he would wait for bim. Nothing unusual was noticed about bis manner. When, half an hour later. Gesswein en tered tbe store Deyble gave a nod of rec ognition, arose and approaching him. aid that he came on privato business and was invited into the office upstairs on th second floor, where they were alone with the door closed. After having been closeted fcr some time a shot was beard, and when several clerks rushed into the room they found Deyhlo standing with a smoking pistol in his band and Gesswien sinking on a lounge. He died without saying a word. He was forty-one years old and Deyhle-sixty-nine. Deyhle said be shot Gesswien because the latter had robhl and ruined him. He bad no regrets as bo was nn old man ami had no money to go into business or to secure admission into the homo for tbe aged. He was taken to tbe Tombs. Inquiry amoncjawelerashows that there is a general belief that Gesswein had wronged Diyble and bad practically robbed bim of his invention. Gesswein at first bought quite large quantities of Deyhle's reflector, but finally censed to patroaiza bim. Deyhle made inquiries and became satisfied that Gesswein was making the reflectors himself, an in fringement suit failed on technical grounds and Deyhle was unable to carry the proceedings further. m m m IRRIGATION INVESTIGATION. Testimony Concerning the rrsltr of Ir rigation For Southwent Kansa. Gardes Cirr. Kan.. Sept. 14. Sn.itor Plumb has joined the United States Sen ate Committee on Irrigation at th:3 n'ace. Senator Stewart, chairman of the com mittee, arrived by special train from. Texas, accompanied by Colcnal IC J. Hinton, Major Powell, S-rgeant-at-Arrsi-Davis, two stenographers and E. B. Bronson, banker anil ranchman ol El Paso. Tex. Senator Reagan returned home from Fort Worth, while Senator Jones, of Arkansas, joined tho other here. YesterJay was spent In tafcinr testimony as to the necessity for irriga tion in Southwest Kansas and the I .t methods of accomplishing tbe il-sirf! fnls. Ten counties were represented ly delegations and tbe interest and earnestness manifested certainly con vinced the committer that tbe Souihwe-t wanted irrigation by the quickest possi ble means and wanted it more than any thing else. There was a large attendance of interested listeners. mm Race War at Dexter. Mo. CAIRO. IlL. Sept. 14. At Dexter. Ma, the people have for years excluded nl: negroes from anions thm- A short time' ago a man named Williams settled on a farm near tbere and engaged a d:-z.'i negroes to work for bim. Fifty aun-.i white men waited upon him this we:-. and told him he must get rid of th? negroes. He said tbrj might kill hire 4 first. The armed men returned to fcwn and circulated a paper pledging the sign ers to stand by the regulators. About K men signed the paper. About titty men sided with Williams, among them a hard ware merchan who bas imported Win chesters and ammunition sufficient to arm his side. Farther trouble is expected- 7 Utt?. 1 .j iS6kAT