v f .- m r'l rl THE EED CLOUD CHIEF. A. C, HOSMER, Publisher. UED CLOUD. NEP.BASKA. CURRENT COMMENT. Al'STHiA is announccd-to have treaties in progress with Switzerland, Italy and Scrvia. La Guirri: is becoming very virulent in London. Hotel guests arc especially afflicted. Vaor. Konnr.ns says that when la lxirers' wages follow the price of food it is a sure proof that wages arc down to the level of subsistence. Tin: contract for the harbor work at Galveston has lccn awarded to the firm of O'Connor, Laing fc Smoot, of Pallas, Tex. This firm's bid was 83,400,- 000. It is announced that the German gov ernment will apply to the federal coun cil for an appropriation to enable Ger many to properly participate in the world's fair at' Chicago in lSiKJ. Sknoj: Mancm. ik Gai.vin, formerly minister from San Domingo, has re turned to Washington in the capacity of u social commissioner to endeavor to negotiate a reciprocity agreement be tween San Domingo and the United SUites under the terms of the McKinley net. Tin: municipal council of Paris has tidupted :m urgency resolution protest ing against the extreme protection of the customs committee and calling upon the government to resist such anti democratic tendencies as opposed to the general intcrestc of the city of Paris. Acxouj.ino to Mrs. Helen M. Oougar whisky does not seem to Ijc an agent of amity in the family. She says she has kept a record of the accounts of wife murder by drunken husbands pub lished in the daily pajwrs since Janu ary I, isyj. The aggregate number, she bays, is :,00 1. At San Antonio, Tex., for the first time in the history of Texas, a China man has married a white woman. The groom is Sue Lee. He was married un der the: name of Lee Thompson. The bride is Mrs. Annie Livingston, of east ern Texas. She is said to be a divorced woman, and wa wedded as Mamie "Wilson. A negro preacher, named T. C. Durham, performed the ceremony. As James Dohson, colored, on trial at Forest City, Arlc, for the murder of Nancy Aides, a white woman, was ascending to the witness stand near a window to testify he suddenly made a dash for liberty. The judge, jury and audience at once started in pursuit, and after a chase of several hundred yards, firing their revolvers in the air to frighten the fleeing negro, he was capt ured, brought back and severely repri manded by the judge. Infm'i:n7.a continues to spread in England. A large numlicr of mcmlicrs of the house of commons are ilL The committee on the .Manchester railway bill has been obliged to suspend its hlttings for a week owing to the malady attacking committee members, counsel and witnesses. The epidemic is worst in Yorkshire, Lancashire and the mid laud counties. Children who were but slightly affected in the epidemic of 1810 furnish a host of eases. Deaths though are fewer. Cr.oitfir. S. ISooNK, the sole remaining lineal descendant of Daniel Itoone, has been arrested by the United SUtes au thorities and taken to Des Moines, la., for trial. He is ehr.rged with pension frautK Itoone served in the confederate army, while his father was a union soldier. The father is dead and the son had, it is al leged, for some time Wen drawing the Hnsion allowed to the former, lloonc has been living in a cave on the Des Moines river about forty miles below the citv. A dispatch from Czcrnowitz, the capital of the duchy of ltukowina, in Austria, says that a mad wolf has spread terror and disma3'umonganum Ikt of families inhabiting a village near the town The wolf ran through the village biting or trying to bite any per son, male, or female, who came across its path. During the course of his mad rage the animal bit more or less severe ly thirty-two people A numlrar of them, all of them if possible, will be sent to l'aris for treatment under the Pasteur system. Auvicks from llerlin state that no doubt is entertained in well in formed circles that Count Walderece will le appointed governor-general of Alsace-Lorraine to succeed Prince llohenlohe The post would be roost important in the event of war and the kaiser is known to have high confidence in Count Waldcrsec's military capacity as well as his tact for civil manage ment It is said that the Countess Wal dersee is anxious to leave Altonn and that unless the prospect of a change ex isted she would induce her husband to resign. Tin: Ilritish house of commons the other day was the scene of an unusual outburst of temper on the part of Mr. Gladsone During the sitting in com mittee Mr. T. W. Russell charged the liberals with trying to defeat the Irish land bill. Mr. Gladstone, facing around, exclaimed: "That is absolutely untrue." The house was aghast and Mr. Russell tried to make an explanation when Mr. Gladstone darted forward and reiter ated in more parliamentary language his assertiou that Mr. Russell's state ment was contrary to fact The un pleasant episode pleased a few Rad icals, but Mr. Gladstone's colleagues looked nervous and ill at ease Thrkk parties will soon be in the field engaged in the work of a prelim inary survey for the proposd intercon tinental American railway. The party sent to Ecuador will begin work in about a month and the Central Ameri can expedition must now Iks very near its destination, while the third party will also be at work before a great while Having completed all that could lo done for the present the inter continental railway commission has ad journed until the 1st of February of next year, by which time it is expected the three surveying parties will have secured valuable data upon which the commission can base its future work. Salvatore Cortesi, an Italian cor respondent, denies that Karon Fava made an error in translating Marquis Di Rudini's dispatch, which demanded that the parties guilty of the New Orleans massacre be brought to justice, lie f-ays that Baron Fava demanded the punishment of the offenders instead of a process at law. Mr. Rudini's dispatch was presented to the secretary trans lated correctly in French, as it is cus tomary to translate in that language all diplomatic documents before present ing them to the state department. If it be true that an error occurred in the translation, and consequently a misun derstanding, it must not be charged, he says, to the baron, but to the translator of the state department who changed the dispatch from French into English. NEWS 01? THE WEEK. Gloanod By Tolegraph and MaiL rEflSOXAI. AND 1'OLITICAI. Atei.kkuam announces the resigna tion of Consul-Gencral F. T. Sweeny, now at Constantinople, Turkey. He will again enter the ministry, hmviog accepted a call to a church at Kokomo, Ind. Thk natives of Portuguese Guinea, west coast of Africa, have revolted and have hoisted the French flag. The gar rison on the island of JJissao has been overpowered and all the Portuguese officers and soldiers have been mas sacred. -- Ge. Sherman's daughter Elizabeth says she and her sister will accept the fund being raised in their, behalf tribute to their father's memory. Hox. .Tonic A. Kassox, of Iowa, at Baltimore states that it Is no excuse for the United Suites in the Italian matter to represent that interior laws prevent theovernment doing what it ought to da Ax anonymous pamphlet, of which Prince Bismarck is supposed to be the author, lias been published in Dresden. The pamphlet is entitled "The Ruin of Austria," and among other things it suggests that Germany's truest policy is an alliance with Russia and Italy. Attoxev-Gexeiiai. Miu.eu was able to be at his desk for a short time on the JKd. Both houses of the Wisconsin legisla ture have passed a bill appropriating $04,000 for a world's fair exhibit Bkio.-Gex. Ruger has taken command of the division of the Paclfie Skchktarv Tracy denies that Com mander Reiter's assignment to duty on the Thetis meant any modification of the censure given after the Barrundia affair. Coi- Cm.si'8 Prick has returned to St Louis after a mysterious absence of four years. He refuses to talk of the whereabouts of his two companions Quintius Price and Dr. J. C. Nidelet, and speaks mystifyingly of some new religion with which he seems possessed. At the election for a member of the house of commons from the Wood stock division of Oxfordshire, England, Mr. Morrell, the liberal-unionist candi date, was .elected, he receiving 4,448 votes, as against 8,700 cast for Mr. Ilcnson, the Gladstone liberal candi date. A coimnsroNDKNT at Madrid says that grave anxiety is felt there over the state of affairs in Portugal. He ex pressed fears that a revolution is about to break out, in which event he says, the lives of foreign subjects will be en dangered. Thk Republican league ended its con vention at Cincinnati on the 22d. elect ing John S. Clarkson, of Iowa, presi dent Indianapolis was favored for the next meeting. Miss Gaiirikm.e Gkkei.kv has been married to Rev. Frank Montrose Clen dennin, an Episcopal minister. Accotiiiixn to Rome advices the Italian premier gave Baron Fava a cool welcome Rudini appreciates that he had made a fiasco and is anxious to throw the blame on Fava. Piump L. Moe.v, the barbed wire magnate, is dead. Ex-Tiikahi'kku Hi'stox has left Wash ington for his home Maj. Joiix C Kinnky, postmaster of Hartford, Conn., died of pneumonia, aged 'l 3'enrs. He wrote a series of articles on the battles and leaders of the civil war for the Century company which attracted general notice A PoitTCOi'KHK newspaper, in com menting on the recent incident on tho Pungwe river, urges the government to speedily conclude a trcuty with Great Itritnin, good or bad, in order to avoid further complications. Other papers give similar advice. Wii.i.iam Hkxkv Hi'Ri.nfRT is coming to America to find Murray, who he says forged his name to letters to tho Evelyn woman. Giistav CoqiiRMX, a brother of the actor Coquelin, of Paris, will marry Marian Boyd, a wealthy lady of New York. Hon. Ai.r.KX Ross, father of Treasurer Ross, of the Cherokee nation, and a leader among the Indians for thirty years, died at Tahlequah, I. T. It instated in Paris that Baron Hirsch, the great Jewish banker, has purchased an immense estate in Pennsylvania, where he will establish a colony of Rus sian Jews. Bulgaria in curt language has re quested the Turkish government to recognize Prince Ferdinand ami warned the sultan that in the event of refusal Bulgaria will proclaim her indepen dence Lord Randolph Curncnii.T, has left London for South Africa. Latk advices from Chili say that European residents there think that the insurgents will succeed in overthrow ing the Balmaceda government Cot'XT Vox Moi.tkk, the renowned German field marshal, died suddenly at Berlin on the night of the '24th. He was born in Mecklenburg, October 26, 1800. Both houses of the Ohio legislature have agreed to the Australian ballot bill. The Connecticut gubernatorial case before the superior court of New Haven has been postponed to May 8. Thkhk was an unfounded rumor on the 'iith that Secretary Blaine had been assassinated by an Italian. Miss Piur.nic CotT7.tX9 will take her world's fair dispute before the treasury department The British advancing on the Mani puris have burned twelve villages occu pied by the rebellious tribesmen. The insurgents retired to the hills where they were shelled and many were killed and wounded. M 1SCKLLAN EOIS. At Corda, Sicily, 2,000 peasants pro tested against tho poll tax, invaded the prison and released a comrade confined there Then they marched to the com munal offices where they destroyed the records. Many of the rioters were ar rested. The jury in the suit of Gladys Evelyn against William Henry Hurlburt, the American editor, for $50,000 damagas for breach of promise rendered a ver dict in favor of the defendant The case was on trial at London for several days. The trainmen on the Indiana Midlaad who went out on a strike have induced every man on the road to join them. Wages are overdue A general resumption of work took place at the Edgar Thompson steel works on the 21st, after ten weeks' idleness. The resumption gives em ployment to 2.000 men. Max.vf.rx Hill, Virginia, the sne of the famous battle of the rebellion, has been sold to William YL Hale, of New York. The railway mail clerk who this year makes the best case record will receive a gold medal from General Superinten dent White. East Pennsylvania dairymen demand the discharge of the Philadelphia col lector of internal revenue for alleged violation of the bogus batter law. Gex. Booth, head of the British Sal Tation army, has issued an appeal for 209,000 to cotct the current shortage. Gov. Pkrkvmax, of the Creek nation, has pardoned Sam G. Logan, the school teacher sentenced to be shot April 23 for the murder of Joseph Mcintosh dnrisff a 9. wrcL -,,,,,,., ,,-1 - i.r j iT" 1 ' "" '" " IJJ" ' "" ' ' - """"""i ' " ' ' ". .."'"'' " " 1 1 11 I'Tirnirriii1 iBiijiiBsJassMisiJBSsMBSssssB The Farmers' Merchants' National bank of Clarksville, Tenn., has resumed business. This bank breaks the' record, being the first national bank in? Amer ica that ever rcsnaed after having passed into tho hands of a rccasTer. A i.koai. representative ed Mam. Dick inson took all her papei helonjr ingsfrom Pittston, P..l .oaveyed them to New York. A sii.es mine has bee, discovered in Canada. Glass factories are' contem- Plate1- i j A receiver has bane ppointd for the Baltimore & Eastern Shore road. The debts are SI,M0,OM. It Is announced that man men were dropped ffom the jny roll of the Burlington Company last weekVe.Tectr ug an additional anvinff of faW,Ma, - Fibb in Wallwakr Oo.'atfaraltare factory in Chicago' 'mmmi 3lmm dan- age " ' f . W. Greoo A 8osattoa,factors.aad wholesale irroccrs -of ShreTerort, La., .have failed with f,000 liabilities and 8300,000 assets. - Blood was shed in tho eviction of coke strikers at Adelaide, Pa-, on the 23d. One Hungarian woman, at least was killed and several more wounded. The whole district was gresttly dis turbed. Charles Sweazev, a lineman, was killed by electricity at Denver, Col., re cently. Judgment has been rendered in the famous libel suit of John W. Mickey, the millionaire, against Galignani's Messenger. Blondin, the director, will undergo sixteen months' imprisonment Laiiorkrs at Gilbert, Hedges A. Co.'s lumber yards at Burlington. la., drank freely of water from an old well in the vicinity and as a result of poison from sewerage five of them are dead and several others are not expected to live. Revknpk Aoknt Hawkins and apos.se have returned from a moonshino raid through Letcher, Leslie and Anrele counties Ky. They made a 500 mile trip, captured and destroyed six .stills together with 100 gallons of whisky, 1,000 gallons of high and 500 gallons of low wines. Fifteen moonshiners were arrested. A fkarful explosion of gunpowder took place at Rome, Italy, on tho 2.sd. Theelty was shaken as by an earth quake. Much dnmage was done and a number of persons were killed ana in jured. The street car strike at Detroit, Mich., was attended with much rioting on the 23d. The crowd succeeded in stopping traffic, though many persons were clubbed by police The wife ami son of Charles R. Ham mond, of Cleveland street, London, no toriety, have been made couuty paupers at Seattle, Wash. Hammond is in jail for theft The Cincinnati presbytery has adopt ed a report asking the general assembly to take such action with rofcrence to the noted utterances of Prof. Charles A. Briggs, of Fnion theological semin ary, an shall in its judgment be best adapted to preserve the peace, purity and prosperity of the church. Sixteen mules and six cars were burned in the Galveston city street rail road stables. The Berliner Nachrichten says the removal of the prohibitory restrictions on American pork has been arranged for as soon as the United States govern ment issues regulations for the carry ing out of the meat inspection law. It adds that the report that only livo swine will be admitted to Germany Is inaccurate. The steamer Bolgic, having on board the remains of the late minister to Japan, John F. Swift, has left Yoko hama. She is duo to arrive at San Francisco May 7. Many of the Sioux Indians about Chamlerlain, S. D., are putting in fields of grain this season. The latest report from Hnrncy City, S. 1)., is that a great ledge of green quartz with from 3 to 7 per cent of nickel has been found near there The strike at Jackson park, Chicago, is over for the present and all the men needed arc at work. A DEi'RAVED woman known as "Shakespeare" wa found horribly mur dered in New York on the morning of the 24th. There were strong indica tions that it was the work of the noto rious "Jack the Ripper." A. J. Hunt, who shot Private Miller, was jailed at Walla Walla, Wash. On the night of tho 24th tho jail was assailed by 1M soldiers and Hunt was shot to death. The guard fired at the soldiers and it was reported several were killed. Rev. George W. Bothweli., of the Claasen Avenue Church of the Covenant at Brooklyn, N. Y., Is thought to be dying from the effects of swallowing a cork, lodged in his lung. He was hold ing the cork in his mouth, while pour ing out some medicine from a bottle, when something caused him to laugh and the cork was drawn down his throat. ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES. Ix view of the scarcity of grain agita tion Ib increasing in France for the re moval of the duties on cereals. The Farmers Mutual Benefit associa tion of Sumner, IlL, has passed a reso lution "That we demand no less than SI.33 a bushel for our wheat crop of 1891, and are asking other associations to adopt similar resolutions. Thej de clare that they will get their price or the wheat shall not move The death of the Grand Duke Nichol as ftnclc of the czar, is announced. He was born in 1831. It is reported that John H. Roagan, United States senator for Texas has resigned. Homer A. Nelson, ex-secretary of state of New York, died at Poughkeep sie It is aqnounced that Henry Irving will recite the farewell address at the concert in May 11 next when Mr. Sims Reeves the popular English tenor singer, will make his last appearance on the stage Mr. Reeves, who is nearly 70 years of age, will hereafter devote himself to teaching musie Edward O. Leech, director of the mint, docs not think there will be a deficit The war ship Blanco Eocalada, which was one of the vessels taken possession of by the Chilian rebels at the breaking out of the revolution, was sunk on April 23 in Caldera bay by a torpedo fired by the new gunboat Alrairante Lynch. The destruction of the iron clad was attended by great loss of life, 200 persons comprkinf half her crew, being killed. I The London stock exchange was dc cidedly buoyant during the week ended April 25. Money was firm. The feat ure of business was the deallngjn Amer ican railway securities The Paris bourse was weak. Berlin was dull and quiet Cot. Robert u. ixokksolx. is con fined to his bed seriously ill with the grippe. Cucawxo house return for the week ended April 3& showed an average de crease of 2.3 compared with, the corres ponding week .of' last Tear. In New York the decrease waa 4.5. Ox hearing of the lynching of .the gambler-Hunt bj tfceeoUiersat Walla nana, vtaaa., lTesueas uarnsoa-wns very indignant and gave orders for iav mediate investigation. Mns BrrriE Eatox. sister of Presi dent Harrison was serious injured by a runaway ea eVHiafr;fraea ehaenh at North Kena. near .Ciaaanaati. on the 26th Her iaeriona anrfT mm .twnnm NEBRASKA STATE NEWS. A MAM named Stofer was badly gored by an enraged boar recently on Uoppe brothera' ranch in Wheeler coun ty, and blood poisoning foUowed, re sulting in death three days later. The state board of transportation re cently elected the three secretaries, as follows: J. W. Johnson, formerly of the Sntton Advertiser, W. A. Dilworth, of Hnstiags, and Senator Kountx, of Hays City. Bex Youxo and Frank RussclL farm era living near Olax, Custer county, be came involved in a dispute over a trade aad.the latter came out of the difficulty with two bad cats and n fractured skulL Be may die, Thk fforernor has made the following staff appointments in the militia: W. A. Paxton, quartermaster-general; , Frank P.-Irel and, commissary-general; John H 'Summers surgeon-general; II. B. Mulford, inspector-general, and John C Watson, judge advocate Nellie Hill, a young woman of eighteen, employed at a Lincoln hotel, attempted" suicide the other afternoon by swallowing "rough on rats. It is said she had centered her affections on a youthful cook at the establishment, who failed to reciprocate her affections. A number of school children of the families of William Kassabum, Joseph Krai and Joseph Slidek, living six miles northeast of Tobias were poisoned the other day by eating wild turnips. One of the Kassabum children died before medical aid could be summoned and the others were in a critical condition. Peter Rasmussex was found dead in his cell in the Hastings jail the other morning; he had strangled himself with his neck-tie. He" was a young farmer, who was found a day or two before wandering upon tho prairie in an appar ently demented condition, and was put in jail to be cared for. The governor has signed the death warrant of Hauenstcin, the Broken Bow murderer, whom he recently re spited and Hauenstcin will be hanged May 22, unless the fact should appear positive that the man is insane Hauen stcin is the man that a mob attempted to lynch recently when the governor respited him. Arbor day was appropriately cele brated in all the public schools at Nebraska City. A programme of reci tations and song was rendered in the buildings and then the children went out to the school grounds and each nlanted a tree or rose bush. Hon. J. Sterling Morton, the father of arbor day, planted several trees himself. A. L. Button, a young merchant of Steele City, was recently arrested on a -warrant sworn out by one E. 1). Ayers of Ponca, charging Button with embez zling goods and money to the amount of S150. Button was clerking fof Ayers in Ponca until last September. Button says the whold matter is spite and he will mike things as interesting as possible for Ayers. The chemist at Ann Arbor, Mich., to whom was submitted an analysis of the contents of the stomach of John Sheedy, the murdered man of Lincoln, has finally completed his work and reports ed. The result Is one that will prob ably save Mrs. Sheedy from a felon's punishment, as the chemist declares that there is no trace whatever of poison in the stomach of the murdered man. The six-year-old son of A. Straw backer, residing near Diller, recent ly tied a rope around his shoulder and threw the other end over a cow's horns. The cow ran away and dragged him nbout forty rods, and over a pile of machinery, until the rope became entangled and stopped her. The rope had slipped ftnjmnd the child's neck and when he was released his neck was broken. He died in a few minutes. Ix a recent altercation at Sutton be tween William Wiedcn and Johnny Mc Kcaguc over the settlement of an ac count the latter struck Wicden with a crutch and fractured his skulL Mr. Wieden is an old and respected citizen and has been for a long time in the res taurant and grocery trade He was not expected to live McKeague is a cripple from the effects of rickets, but has heretofore been considered an inof fensive person. Gov. Bovd has mado the following appointments: Prof. C D. Rakestraw, of Nebraska City, superintendent of the institute for tho blind; Dr. Georgo W. Johnson, to be superintendent of the asylum for the incurable insano at Hastings; Dr. Henry S. Summers to be superintendent of the Norfolk insane hospital; James V. Mallon, of Dodge county, to be warden of the peniten tiary; Miles Warren, of Butler county, to be superintendent of the soldiers' and sailors' home at Grand Island; Phil lip Andres of Omaha, labor commis sioner. About 5 o'clock the other evening a girl 9 years of age and a boy of 6, chil dren of N. J. Cnrleson, a farmer who lives ten miles southeast of Loup City, started out from home to drive in their cattle from the range, their father be ing absent. Soon after they left the house a heavy rainfall began and dark ness set in. The children got lost and wandered about in the hills all night. Next morning the entire neighborhood joined in a search and found the girl in a very exhausted condition four miles from home Two hours later the boy was found dead on a hilL The girl stated that she and the boy were to gether all night, but could not explain how they became separated. Kearxet's new opera house will be formally opened May 1, with the play "Mr. Barnes of New York." Ax Ancient Order of United Work men lodge has been organized at Wahoo with twenty charter members. Col. C D. Martin, of Dakota City, fell dead in the streets of South Sionx City the other day as the result of apo plexy. A xeoro by the name of WiUiams while recently cleaning a window in the third story of a building at Lincoln fell to the pavement beneath and was ter ribly hurt His right arm was broken, his jaw split open and his knee mashed. He also received internal injuries. James Cook, of Otoe county, is in jail at Nebraska City on the charge of per jury. He Is charged with stealing a wolf scalp, swearing to the county clerk that he had killed the animal and pocketing the bounty. "Prof." Beck, the Sprague school teacher who was recently overhauled in Kansas having deserted his wife and children and doped with a young girL is also charged with stealing a pair of mules. Exos Grout, the Lyons man who shot himself last fall and destroyed his sight, is able to be out again, and haapplied for an increase in pension. DrxxxG the past six months thirty one males and forty-one females were born in Kearney, while fifteen male and thirteen females died daring the same period. A victors stallion recently kicked Silaa Jones residing near Uaadilla, ia the face, breaking the man's nose, knocking ont all his front teeth nod breaking his jaw. Rat Thrasheb, of Lonp City, waa ae rionalr injured recently while trying to drive into a barn with a load of baled hay, being; ennght between the hay and the loft floor. His Kft shonlder hadlT crashed and it was feared hfa - VON MOLTKE DEAD. The Great MH4 Manltal Mc ftarfeealy at a Osed OK Aae-IIto HUtory: Brnux, April 2i Field Marshal Count Yon Moltke, the renowned gen eral, and one of the great characters of the age, died suddenly but night. Count Von Moltke attended the ses sion of the rcichstag held in the after noon, but soon after his return home was stricken down, the physicians who were summoned announced that his malady was caused by failure of the heart He died at 9:45 o'clock, passing away quietly and painlessly. The hews of the count's unexpected death caused great sorrow in the city. BIOOKAriUCAX. Count Ilelinutn Karl Bcrabaru Voa MeUke wai bora at Parcalru. Xecklrabarf. October JR. 19S8L His father was a DmnUh general and he waa edaested Is the ea4ets academy at Copenhaf ea aad at If became an oSeer. Be entered the JTaaelan service la ISO. sad alter tea years et arduoae at ad let and la bors was admitted -Jo the general tmft. Ia 1MB he west to Coaatantlaople, and Mahtnoad JL conceiving a high regard tor hla genius the I'ruolatr autborltlet permitted liltu to serve him In Improving the fortlflcatlona ot Turkish clllea.-and In tbe warfare agaltvat the Kurds and against Egypt. lie returned to Berlin after tbe sultan's death In l&X). was employed for many years on staff service, and In ISV3 bocame adjutant to 1'rlnce Frederick William, and In 11 chief of the general staff of tho army. Tbe rankotlleulenaut general wm conferral up on hlui In Ihia. lie planned the operations In the wars with Denmark In 14 an J Austria In IS A accompanying on thn former occa alon Prince Frederick Charles and on the latter King William. Aftrr the bait I o of SadW4 Moltke made every preparation for mnrchltii upon Olmiits and Vienna, hut negotiated a five days truce which Necaiuo tho prelude to peace lln waa ruwarilr-1 with tho order of tho black eagle and tlt command of tho Kolherg or second Tomer anlan grenadier rrgltnnnt. Having long foreseen a war with Franca, he was ready with his plnns when It an Jita-ti -ly broke out in 130. and their usecutlun ru sultod In the mint aatoiiUhlng srrle of lu. torles ever achieved by one great military nation over another. Ilia aystem tomltlcl niulnly In making tho itlffurent army norpa advance aep.irutcly and operate sIiimiIimus ously In grappling with the enemy, and he brought to bear on Ita elaboration a mind of Bitigularclcnrnc8,a wonderful logical power and a capacity of patient roMuroh of tliu highest order. Besides conferring upon him tho title of count and making him large do. nations, tho emperor of tJerin.iny appointed him In isTl general field marnunl, ami In 1V7J Utf member of tho upper hntic. In Jaminry, 1V7I, be was returned to the rolchotag. and in tho following month delivered it apee h showing the neceni ty of being prepared for retaliation on thu part of France, which pro ditced u atrong Impr -stlon. Hla mixl Im portant literary work Is 'The Franco -Proa slunWar." FEARFUL TRAGEDY. An Archie. Mo.. Hotelier Kills HI Wife and Children and Then Coolly Ituyn a Ticket and I.eitves llellr.ted to He Inaunc. Kaxhah Citv, Mo., April 25. The police were given the details at n late hour last night of a horrible crime, a triple tragedy, at Archie, Mo., fifty seven miles from Kansas City on the Missouri Pacific road. The crime was discovered yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock. At o o'clock Wednesday morning the murderer boarded a train for Kansas City after buying a ticket for this place. Tho police lost night were searching the city for the murderer. E. II. Soper was a butcher at Archie, Ma His suddon departure from the town Wednesday morning created sus picion and yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock his house in the western part of the village was forcibly entered. A ghastly discovery was made. In the etist room of the little cottage lay a light haired child. Its skull crushed in and its brains upon the floor. In an adjoining room was the mother with her head and faee mashed lwyond rec ognition and another child with its head split in twain lying by her side. In a corner stood an ax. Thcro were blood and hair on its gleaming blade and thu marks of bloody fingers on its handle. Mutely it told how the crime had been accomplished. On the center table luy two letters. One was addressed: a : To tho Authorities t : Whoever May Kiud : ; These nod lea. : : riir.sr.xT. : !! In this letter, which was signed E. B. Soper, were these words: "It was best for me thus to act. Rather than desert them I have slain them. What would they have done for a living had I left them? Surely they would have lived miserably. I could not support them nlL" Soper left another note saying that he was "going to Clay county to kill the devil," leaving no doubt of his in sanity. Soper's description was given to tho Kansas City police as follows: Aged 35, 5 feet 8 inches in height, 140 pounds weight, red sandy hair cut short, sundy mustnehe. blue eres. souare build. Soper is said to be extremely polite on all occasions. One of his peculiarities is said to be that he con never look any one squarely in the eye. At Archie it is not lclicved that Soper is insane. Feeling runs high and Judge Lynch would doubtless speedily settle his case if he should show up at Archie. Soper was doing a good business at Archie, enough to have supported his foraily In a proper mnnncr, despite the statement made in his letter. German Strikers Kselted. Ukrmx. April 25. The miners strike at Dortmund is assuming gigantic pro portions. Ten thousand men arc out, and it is expected that they will be joined by large numbers. The strikers are greatly excited and beyond the con trol of their leaders. They are encour aged by the result of the Paris congrcs and the action of the Belgian miners regarding a general strike. floating Accident. St. .Toiixs, S. IL. April 25. A boat load of men and girls npet at the swiftest point in the harbor at 3 o'clock yesterday morning and two were drowned, the others being rescued with great difficulty. The young pooplc had been attending a dance at Carlton. The gunwale of their boat struck the steamer and in a moment capsized. The men fought among themselves for th steamer ropes, and while tbe girls were clinging to the stern anil crying for help a couple of the men fastened tbe lines to themselves and were hoisted P- THe Strike LlaU PrrrsBCKon, Pa., April 25. The hod carriers at work on buildings where stonemasons were locked out struck this morning against the lockout. Some of the building trades officials have made an estiraste of the number of men ia tbe city who will strike May I. Their estimate L: Car penters. 4.500; stonemasons. 500; bnd carriers, 1.000; plasterers, 450; painfrs and papcrhaagers, 1.000; tinners and roofers, 3S0; marble cuttrrs and polish ers, 200; tile layers and helpers. 150; plumbers and gasfitters, 500; structural ironworkers, 150: electricians, 50; brick layers, 858. Total, 1M75. w- .1. m Si m Toptxa- Kan April 25. A new aad fatal disease baa made it appearance among the cattle in rarioas parts of the state and veterinary surgeons are great ly puzzled by it. Cattle apparently healthy are taken suddenly ill and al- it invariably die. rorrlgswra Drliiic MocxTllASAXT. Pa-; April 25. The foreigners at the Standard works are drilling cTtrv night and trouble 1 feared there'whea the eviction takes place next week. It is believed the forrignera have areas concealed in the vicinity ROME SHAKEN UP. The Kftetsi a a Pewder Magmalne Caeeee ret Deetnsrtle of Property aad frigates the reeple Oat ef Their WH a. Roxc April 24. At about T o'clock yesterday morning a tremendous explo sion shook this city to its foundations, spreading terror and dismay on all sides. The people rushed from their homes into the streets houses rocked, pictures fell from the walls, thousands of panes of glass were broken every where, crockery was shattered, furni ture was overturned, chimneys crashed down upon the roofs and in vme in stances toppled over into the street below. The cupola of the house of par llaracat, immediately after the explo sion, shook violently and then collapsed with a crash, which added still further to the feeling of horror which had spread throagh Rome. The scenes in thu streets and in the houses after this fearful exploaion have possibly never before been equalled in dramatic effect during the history of modern Home. All the thoroughfare were strewn with brick, stones, splint ers and other debris, hurled there by the force of the terrible concussion which had caused Home to totter on its found ations. People of all ages and condi tions were rushing pale v ith fenr about the streets trying to flud consolation from others wlvo were as terrified as themselves. In the houses, doors, win dows and cupboards vcro burst open, rentft and cracks appeared In the wulls, the plaster fell from tho celling and general dUorder pre vailed. In many instances jx-oplo wen thrown from their IhmIs by the ithock which cauv-d rto much alarm, and crli's of terror tilled the air as thou :miU of families rushed out into the directs I'nrcnttt with their children in their nrmi, children leading aged par eiila, the younger helping tin elders, iiiudo for thu htreeU tu if their only chance of Mifcly depended tiHt their iM'iug iibio to reach theow;!i air. Thu general opinion that prevailed wus thai Itome had Ix-en vlxited by an earthquake aluck and that a second shook might reduce thu elty to minx, Many fell upon their knros and prayed aloud. Finally, when something like order had been restored, the real cans; of the explohion Wouine known. It was dlsoovered that thu immense jxiw dcr mttga.lne at Pozza i'antaleo. four kilometers from here, had exploded und that it hud caused enormous dam ago to the neighboring fort, which was filled with soldiers. The reports of tho affair which have reached here say that happily the ofll cer in command of the fort heard a rumbling sound previous to the final explosion, and hastily ordering thu sol diers to leave the fort, ho succeeded in averting a terrible disaster. As it wji, several peasants, who were in the vi cinity of the scene of the explosion, were killed outright und a numWr of others were more or less injured. King Humbert and his military staff, accom panied by the Italian premier, the Mar quis dl Rudini, and by all the member of the Italian cabinet, have left this city for the scene of the disaster. Around the ruins of the powder magazine and of the fort a cordon of troops had loen drawn in order to keep back the crowd of cop1o who, now that the cause of the explosion is known, have Hocked to Pozze Pnntaleo ouger to see the powder blackened ruins. Thu troops however, have instructions not to ullow any civilians to pass through tho cordon until tho official investiga tion, now being made into the origin of the explosion, has been completed. All tho houses within a radius of a kilometer of the scene of the explosion arc seriously damaged. Two o Ulcers wcro dangerously wounded ami fully 120 civilians have been taken to the dif ferent hospitals suffering from wounds or bruises caused by the explosion. King Humbert, who was heurtily cheered when his presence became known to the populace and soldiery, used his own enrriago to convey wounded neonle to the hospital. Tho races which included the Italian derby, which were to have been run this after noon, have lccn postponed on account of the explosion. The shock which caused Homo to tremble did not spare the Vatican. That venerated pile shook with the rest of the Komnn buildings when tho force of the explosion was felt and sev eral of the famous historical stained glass windows of tho old buildings were shattered. The windows in tho ancient Kaphnel chambers and tho stained glass In the royal staircase, presented to Pope Pius IX. by the king of llavaria, were also seriously injured. Another report nays that five people have K-eii killed in addition to the larjfe numlcr of wounded already mentioned nnd that forty small houses have Iteeti reduced to heat of ruins by tho shock following the explosion. The magazine contained 250 tons of powder. The cause of the explosion i not known. To Kirln.lc I'ndealrNtriea. Washington. April 24. -Secretary of the Treasury Foster is very much inter ested In the immigration question. Not only will he do all in his power to en force the existing laws prohibiting tin landing of the undesirable classes, but he says he will give the matter consid erable attention in his refwirt- Mr. Foster thinks the present laws are not strict enough, and he will recommend to congrevs that the lines I drawn closer. There is evidently a Mrong feeling everywhere, the -cretary says on this subject, ami legislation that will keep the ignorant horde from southern Kurope out of the ITnit-l States will be received with approvaL Tesas Stream Hagi"- St. Iot!S April 24. Dispatches from severs! poihLs along the llrazosand Na vaMita rivers in Texan say that thje streams are on the ram page and that much damage will b done in the Jow laniUv At Uearae numerous drowned cattle are floating down tream. Hunt ville reports the arrival of tho first mail coach in five days ami the outlook in Madison county U gloomy. Tbe coon try adjacent to Kavasata ha been de luged I17 heavy rains and the Itrazns and Kavasata are nearly otitlde their banks. Tbe Urazos In the vicinity of Hempstead. I reported to be running over In low places. Kadlroaxl Magma!" Arrie. Kaxha Crrr, Ma, April S4- The Vaoderbilt party of railway magnate which is making a ttntr of the west ar rived here yratrday and were enter tained by tbe Commercial club. Carri age, had been provided and the graat of the dob were driven abrot the city. After an boar spent in viewieg tier ma terial prosperity of Kansas City, they were driven to the Kansas City club for dinner. Aftrr dinner they took ibetr two special cars for St. Lwls. The party consisted of Cornelia Vasder Hlt, Chasscey Mitchell Depew, John Howe, Jr.. and H. McM Twoaabley. Mwmrmt Senaetwc- Baaux." April . The Westphalia movement U spreading ia spite of the efforts of the moderate socialists to crraascribe it. Several of the strike leader have been arrested in the & district- The employers in that dis trict threaten to dkmSs all worksea who ar- absent after April ?f. A Hrae Girl KItta arzte. CuisKsscae. W Va., April St. Lt night, while Kate Brans, aged la, waa alone la her father's honac. a br giar tried to enter throngs a window. The girl pUt hit hrad open, kSlisg TtriPj while half throagh th wisdow. BECOMING CRITICAL. The Sltoatlow ! Co' cidedly Critical strikers Contlna IN- nnt. ScoTTDALK. Pa., April 23. Last night the strikers began gathering their forces to overcome the last and most powerful Issues brought to loar by tho operators, being now face t face with two hated and feared institutions the Iinkcrton detective forces and an inva sion of imported labor. About 500 Pinkerton detectives will be brought into tho region by to-day and distributed around the different works where the most strenuous efforts are lelng made to resume. There are said to be eight car load of them, and as the news of their com lig preceded them throughout the re gion there was constantly increasing ex citement. The men have a bitter dis like to the Pinkerton and have often expressed tho desire that they could wipe them off the face of the earth. Their coming only means further trouble, which will certainly follow ow ing to the hatred in w hich they are hold It Is reported that the Frick Coke Co. has engaged tho services of 500 experi enced miners from the Punxsutawnoy coal fields with tho Intention of putting them to work at once in their various coal mines now guarded by the Pinker ton men. It is also stated that the miners are coming with tho full understanding that they are to a-vslst in breaking the strike. When the PunxMitawnry miner were on a strike a few months ago tho contributions for their suport from the coke region minor wore very meager. Said a prominent lalnir loader lo-st evening: "l have expected this and suppose that the Punxsutawnoy minors think this their opportunity to Mpiure accounts with the miner In tb- coke regions." -- A SPANISH TREATY. A Trrntj of ltrrlr Itr rj;..tUtr! M ltl tilt- HpanMi .iittllr-Thr ltcjirtrl Ail tNiitMifr tt rhl Country. MaIUHIi. April 22. -The reciprocity vt invention In-twcen jaln nnd tho I'lilted Stato.s as drafted by Premier Canoran Iol Castillo, representing Spain, and (Ion. J. W. Foster, represent ing tho I'tilted States, provides that in return for the privilege of free entry into the Putted States of Antilles sugars molasses coffee and hides and a reduction of the duty on tea Amorie will obtain exemption from duties ort most of her raw and manufactured product anil a reduction of the tantTon cereals and fionr. Tho negotiations wore protracted upon tho question of the entire abolition of the tartlT on cere als, tlour and oils including petroleum and lurd. The same question in regard to tobacco was also raised, but not com ing within the scope of the third sec tion of the Amorlcau taritT laws wn-s 1 put aido. lrndu in American Hour, uunieiieii with an extra duty of 20 per cent, sitioti 16M. has Ik'ou completely wIjhmI out, to the advatitnge of the Spanish product. Under tho new convention the entry of I American Hour practically free of duty will lower tho price to alniut $0 jer bur ro anil will extinguish the importation of Spanish llour. while increasing the I Cuban consumption to l.ooo.iKHl barrels 1 yearly, all of which will I hi American t product. Under tho new convention America will obtain a kind of 7ollveroiii with thu Spanish Antilles. Her wheat, ln-atis. Hour, lurd, jn'trolotim. inniiufactured product and machinery w ill enter prac tically free of t'uty. AuiongotherSp.iti ish export olivo oil will In. replaced by American lard, and li:m. now- exert ed to Cuba in largo quantities, will cease to K sent. 1 he advantages re sulting to Cuba will 1m- great, but it Is impossible to estimate the injury to tho Spanish trade. KANSAS DELEGAT ION. About Two Tlioiiaantl Cuing to the fonfrr rtire at Cliirliiitntl. Toi-KKt, Kan., April 22. Thrtuv tionul conference to le hold in Cincin nati M ay I" for the purpose of organ izing a third party will, if calla con tinue to le Issued by tho Kansas or ganization in touch with the now no e mcut, contain nn unlimited uumlcrof representative from this ttnto. The Farmers' Alliance, tho fltiens Alli ance, Industrial Union, Farmers' .Mu tual Itenefit Association and Knights of Lalior have already made provisions for delegates to thn numlior of kJ.hOO. It was siijijxwd that this inrluded all. but Levi Dum bauld. chairman of the People party slato central committee, an organiza tion intended to unite all the others. ho prepared 0 call for delegates to the conference, which will In-published. It Uites that the mrtnlH-rs are authorized and requested to attend the rotiferenoi o-s delegate. Kuch congressional dis trict Ls entitled to ten delegates and the chairman of the district committees j are requested to appoint thnn. Hut j this is not all; two delegates are called for from rach county and the j chairman of the county committees arc j authorized to appoint them. This makes a total of vt delegate rallM for by ' Chairman Dutnbnuld to represent the , Kansas people's party at I Incinnatl. 1 which bring tho grniwl total of tho Ksnsas representative to toore than 3.000. Of courier all the-will not go, although tin estimate of a number of gentlemen high In the council of Urn new movement plaer the numlmr of th Kansas delegation who will attend at 2.000. If there should not b more than one Kansas delegate in U go to (In- ' cinnati it would require a olld train of fifteen coaches to carry them. ToIumo Tllt. WAsin'mxc, April 22 -Th census office ha issnod a statement of th arre ago ami vie Id of tobaeco for 10 show- ing increax- over the last rno 1 1 55.333 acre and 19,053, 43 pound. Thj j amount producl in Kentucky ha in- ' creased over 5I.0O0.000 pound aad there ha. also beea a altanUl lncrr& la North Carolina. Tonnr. Ohio. Sew York anil Wisconsin. Oa the other hand there ha bora a avyre or 1 virioa falling off la Vlrgiaia. Mary land, Connecticut. IaarboUs Penn sylvania and M!ourL Tb figure are liable to slight modification ia the final -revision. f trt Cars TJd t'jt. Detroit. Mich. April 53 - iHrencr ,. betweon tb- employee of th rlty nail way eosjpany and th em ploy Id cwr- , poratkm wbkh control every tirfl car lino In thi city except 00. i-im Ut a head thl morning la a trik- and th partial nTivjn of thr street oar transportation faciiitl-. Tb- Mn are aggrieved st tbe dichars of s--rorI condortrs and driven who -were or gaaidag thcas for a strik to Urate off t later in the season wha thy wtwdd t: well prepared to handle it The rail way coBpny avrtbod of takiag tiss-u bj the forelock precipitated th strike. Pnreco. Pa., April H. A srvneral lockcrst d ton ssvaaos laasr rstfd is PttUhsrjh and AHnrhy City this raorxia by th Matter Masoxs SModstics. The trorsblc aro is. a slispctc of bcA carrirrs at work ra th yrtrridestx Minos charch is A&rhesy Ctty 7Tr non-nlon men. The actkn of the msjklrr stjktttsa say rraalt In pgrxipltatlg the lockoet oi ad 1L0 sme esyayed in the bsUdicy trades. ThT leckcrst has bcn ciprrtwl and U U probabV that the -sroritw. thro-srh thgtrogciaK assy retaliate ty teiria tiajgthc htg strike ahead of tiatg. WmW GIRL GAMBLERS. haiigtrU Who 1'Ur ttiw ltee to Win Money Tnr Nw reei. While rilling up town on the rlovatl road during the rush hours n few even ings ago I liccame an Involuntary list ener to nn Interesting conversation, say a writer. Before mo nt two young riri wbmc faces wanted onlv tho tluahof hult)t t, make them attractive Thy wr ixwirly ilre.d. and their hm, thin fingers that could N- plainly .! through the torn g kvs showetl th t they won- not uod t wrk. "Oh, Annie." one sold to tho olh-. "Pin going to have tot xjw drws Sn day." "Well, Mary, you're lseki.r thaw I am." Annie replied. "1'vbWh l;i.n,' every week, but I've lol rryth4er "No wonder, you novor Uks a pr fewdonaP advice. If ytwM -t m tr. horses I do you'd always w ia. Vos . I always j-t a tip from MUs Itiwnt. an l she get her tips from her Umm. n-l what ho doesn't know nUntt th ra- Is a caution. All tho nrl la Use h. ,. always lsk to hvr for Up, bsil if tnv nin't "got a pull with her thoy Irlt "I put the last dolUr I hndmt tHwtirfc yosterduv," sj.ld Annie, "ami I ! I've Won trying nil uhuig to wis . money for 0 dress t ko hi om !.. but hard luck seem to stick with , nnd I've got to stay lnm." "Well, you Just wnit till t-aknrri and I'll get n straight tip Jrwsn .W. Blunt, and give it to you m Uqk.' "But l haven't any mn 111 my "Ah, t made tlv tWdbtrs luat wk and I'll lend you one Annioacifpt.il tho oftrr with saarN thanks and Mulled a&ertkMMUwl ti her generous friend. Pr rtrU' Ma they resort to imIi n ttvuoWoixsk ntl. od in order to obtain mM?y Ut a droKs? Then I plenty of elaiw u aw iratiav hcre; but I will lonvo that to Ik : Uts thomsettes. 1 oIy hop Ann won, and won enough to Viy her a ihiw tires for NuimInt. s that she could g. out and Is happv. N V. Hvald Patey aud Jlmwy. while wssntor lug through the eottwtrv, harre s aW of sheep, which cut.s PWy tue ewlalm. "Jimmy, do jm see kh. whoop?" "I do." mvs Jimmy "Stsee. thov're tuiifhtv mmre Wws" rensswas j Pntny. "An why 7" lMMrUy nk Jimmy. "Well. Phi ihiwktns; they sV.ee ' fdx levs" sUI Pwtaoy "Nwtr a 1 J wo bwt four'obsoned Jtmmv "Well, you must le stone b'ind d-w t vh . thev have V re It -s in fr'iit ! t. U hind" Brook' 11 I .,! I" ' That Tired Feeling ' I'lutalU llli lt m l t.it.lin( t I 4 f tTX"t li ( I ! ! ia I ctlt vt lU o M ' l " ' " ' I trmof 1!! mi' i,"-.! 'T - ' "IhalltrtM few . IwtHer muI fcT f ' -tlmalo n i.r .i'c bt n ' ." ' I lm.it. Uial tr,'i f . I f 1 wliiefl la e-.aif rl'. " ' I "IM 'UkbnilaiV In ui' I' ' " ' Hood's Sarsaparilla Poll bf 'l.trtlrfg0 II till tH- Vrnr-1 trl IIOottO I - XI... ICO Doses One Dollar "August Flower" " I have licvn aflU't BWouonooB, CI with lihtiMirj "nml tmtipitini Cormtlpat!on,..tor fl(lccn vcrtts Stomach ." r,rM ,ot,c aml :hc " another jucjxua Pains. " Hon was 'tiKKcatal " tome ntiii trictlbtit " to no ptirjwv: At last n fncml "recommended AtiKit Flower. I " took it nccordiiiK to diicctionn ami "its effect were wonderful, iclicv- ;.,., ... f ttwL.i. li (r.irlJr- III), lllk ui uiw-i. ..... .--. "stomach pniti whtch I hatl been "troubled with x) lotiy,. Word "cannot docrtle the ndmirntion "in which I hold your August " Flowcrit ha jivch m a ntrw "lca.se of life, which licforc was it "burden. Such a medicine is a Iaju "cfaction to humanity, ami its k&A "q n ali tics and "wonderful mcr- Jesse Darkor, "its should be ni, "made known in nntmr, "everyone suffer- Humboldt, "ing with dyjcr "staor bilionsiicM Kanoaa. C. G. G KEEN. Sole llaa'fr.U oo.Iburj.N,J. 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