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'tlh Uk I: i I t; ir IK ' W i u ffi Wtf tt' 1 , l 31 TKE KED" CLOUD CHIEF, A. O. HOSMtft, Publisher. RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA. CURRENT COMMENT. Wah prices continue In tho City of Mexico for lard anil meals; corn lias declined. liunnt.Alm recently ransacked thocSty engineer's department of tliu Chlcscu town ball. l'ttANK VttK.v, cantliftato for recoCTlcr, lias Ih'dii fined nt CrnTrfordsvllle, Ind., for profanity. SKNATOK .MAXDKItfMX has written a letter declaring against Sunday -closing of the world's fair. Tin: thirls Vcllt Journal !hns now readied tho enormous circulation of 1, 8.W.O0O copies dally. A rrrr hall cornurHtone, laid In 1770, vnw found, In Sew York In tho reaV of tho present city ball. Ki'.Kf.Kr graduates In Chicago want to organlro their wlvcs.slatcrsand mothera into au assistant club. I'ltt'ffllA has only one factory that makca playing cards, and Its annual protltn amount to $800,000. In npntnarlc they ure undertaking to ntamp out tulioroulosls in cattlu by vo clnutloti with Koch's lymph. Dn. Chari.ks Scinmini, son-in-law of Senator W M. KvartM, committed sui cide at Northport, E. I.; Ill health. Thk Chickasaw Indians havo infor mation, m it la wild, that their 0,000,000 will lie paid them by the government in August Kx(iov. Nk.wton ltooTii died rather suddenly at tiucramcuto, Cat. JIo wan quite prominent in national politics fcixteen year ago. Okan Toi.hon, a weak-minded charac ter, died at Lafayette, Ind., an a result of being treated by p.actieal jokers to lieer adulterated with ink, crotou oil, cte. Somi'. New York hotels linns nown regular woman guide nnd chaperon connected with the establishment for the convenience of ladlea visiting tho city alone. At n ranch on a small islnndin Skagit county, Wash., are more than llvo thousand chickers, about three thousand Japanese pheasants and a few hundred lie.ul of other small live stock. Qitkkk Katai.ik hns written a play that Illustrates and elucidates her Ideas on the rights and duties of motherhood, and it la to bo named "Mother." It is to be tried on a French audience. I.NTintHHT compounded isBhown in the following to bo a rather successful way of saving money: A deposit of 20 made In tho Newburyport Institute for sav ings in lb20 now calls for interest amounting to s8. No one has ever claimed the original deposit and no ad dition has ever been made to it Tin: plot of Oscar Wlldo'a play "Sa lome," which thu lord chamberlain put ander tho ban in England, but which Sarah liernhardt is likely to produce In France, turns on tho incident of the dancu iwforo Herod and the demand for John the Baptist's head. The lucldcnt ns treated by the npostlu of lobthotlcism is said to have been madu ingeniously immoral and sensational. Tub Japanese are a cleanly peoplo in many respects. They are fond of bath ing. In the' city of Tokio there areover 800 publlu bath houses, in which a per son can take a bath, hot or cold, for u Bum equal to one cent Most of tho Japanese prefer warm baths, and very likely this is tho reason why their com plexions are usually smooth, clear and spotless. The people of this country might do well to ndopt thu bathing habits of theso interesting people. Thk Women's Christian Temperance anion nt Chicago has begun a move ment which is likely to interfere not only with the saloonkeepers, bat with tho trade of tho soda fountain aud tho numerous venders of summer drinks. Mrs. Matilda Case, of tho organization mentioned, obtained leave to plaeo in tho postotlleo building 'an automatic fountain containing a standard temper ance drink to bo sold atone cent a glass. Other public buildings will probably bo furnished with tho same boon for tho thirsty. Nkws has been received of tho cbeapo from Siberia of Solomon Uerber, a former resident of Omaha, who was exiled to Siberia when on u visit to his native country, Russian Poland. Uer ber left Poland six years ago and com ing to America located in Omaha, where lie lived about four years. Ho took out first naturalization papers, but not sec ond; mndo considerable money peddling and went back to Poland on a visit; was arrested by emissaries of tho czar, bis property confiscated aud himself exiled. Tho United States government svus invoked, but could do nothing as Gorber was not a citizen. Tho lotter received was frpm Corner's son. Gerber is now on tho way to America. TliK wlfo of John llidwell, prohibi tion candidate for president, was a daughter of Joseph U. C Kennedy, formerly a well known resident of Washington. Ho held various ofllces, among them that of superintend ent pf , tho census in 1800, nnd finally went into tho real estatu business. Ho was also attorney for several banks. Ho was conspicuous in society, a good story teller, nnd tho friend of Conkling, GarMold and Gen. Hancock. In July, lbST, ho- was assassinated by a half crazy tramp, who fancied ho had been defrauded, In a real estate transaction by Mr. Kennedy. Unllko Guiteau, this murderer' llfq was spared by Iho law. Hu was committed to an asylum instead fil being hanged. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Glaemcd By 1 olograph and WalL vr.ItSONAf. AN1 LMILlTfCMU Thomas H. Oaiituii, of Mnrtnna, has lt:n elected chairman of tl.c republican untlonal committee. Ills plaeo tissue rvtary has Itecn HUM by tne selection of Chris Magec, of iVrinsylrunla. Tub wife of President Harrison Is getting liclter despite reports to tho contrary, which were untrue. M. iikOikh. foreign minister of Kiti- sla, who has been sick, hashad arelnp'.c and is again critically tlL KX'DicrATOfi 1'ai.acio, of Venezuela, has arrived In Franco. I.V a recent battlo in Morocco 800 of tho comlwUmts were killed. IjoskTkkiiyCooki:, tho well known authoress Is dead. She was born slvty II w years ngo at West Hartford, Conn. W. Wktfik, tho retiring president of of tho Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel workers, it is said, will bu tho democratic candidate for congress in Twenty-second district of Pennsylvania, in opposition to Hon. John Dnlrell. Ax extra session of tho Argentine congress lias been called. Advjckh from Zanzibar say tho natives havo revolted against German rule. Tint president has nominated 'George Shiran, of Pennsylvania, for associate justice tft the supremo court Ciiit.i Jias paid 7.0UO damages for tho Baltimore seamen, victims 'of the Valparaiso riots. Or.AttsTo.NK'H majority in tho Brltlah houso orf commons is -12. Tiiomah Conic, founder of tho wcll Icnown Cook system of travel, died hi London recently, aged 63. Ho hod nmassed eonsldcrablu wealth. J km Mack, of I,ondon, Knglmid, the retired champion pugilist of the world, and tho only man who over held tho title, has inado applluatlnn to the lioard of governors of tho Chicago Athletic association for tho position of boxing Instructor to the club. Tin: Chickasaw legislature has ad journed. Tho election for governor comes off in August Wolf, tho full blooded candidate, it Is thought, will win. Tin: democratic convention of Dallas, Tex., split in a row and two sets of state, congressional and legislative del egates were appointed. Ho.v. .Tonus Foutz, well known In Illinok alliance circles, died recently in Switzerland, of which country he was n native. Tin: notification of tho democratic candidates for president and vice presi dent took place at Madison Square gar den, New York, on tho 20th and was a scene of unexampled enthusiasm. Tub democrats of Missouri havo nomi nated tho following state ticket: For governor, William J. Stone; for lieuten ant governor, John B. O'Meara; for sec retary of state, A. A. Lesueur; for au ditor, James M. Solbert; for treasurer, Lou V. Stephens; for attorney general, Frnnk Walker; for railroad commis sioner, James Cow gill; for electors at large, Charles B. McAfee and N. D. Thurmond. Mexico's consul nt Chicago will be transferred to St Louis. Mil. CiiMMtxos, of New York, chair man of tho library committee, has re ported a resolution for tho purchaso of tho library of thu late George Bancroft for $75,000. Gov. Skay, of Oklahoma, is reported to have prevailed upon tho congression al committees in favor of an election. W. F. IIaiuiitv, of Pennsylvania, hns lieen chosen chairman of the national democratic committee. The president has Issued a proclama tion making October 2 1 next a legal holiday, being the four hundredth an niversary of tho discovery of America. mSOMJiNK(H;S. Thk Cleveland, O., stock yards havo been destroyed by Arc. Sbvkiib thunder storms havo done hnmense damago in various parts of Germany. Founboys were drowned while swim ming in thu Manokim river, just in tho rear of their resilience, near l'rincess Anne, Md. They were all tho sons of Christopher Ball, and were aged W, 15, 12 and 10, respectively. Washington MonitisoK, a well-to-do landowner of Cnbcll county, W. Va., Is dying of hydrophobia. Thk starvation of thousands in the drought districts of Mexico is avoided only by government aid. FlFTKKN iramblers woro eanturcd in a raid at Burlington, la. Thk Hank of. Magnolia, Ark., has closed Its doors, tho result of u heavy run. J. O. Kelso, president of tho Institution, was absent iu thu east Ai.iikht Steinihjcii, aged 19, was drowned at VA Paso, Tex., while bath ing. Titr.iu: is talk in Loudon of a ship ca nal across Ireland. Immknhu Incandescent rocks aud Im menso clouds of steam continue to bo thrown out of tho craters at Mount ilHniu Part of tho village of Ventura has been destroyed by lava and an im mense amount of dumago has been dono to neighboring chestnut woods. Tub Monmouth Club stables burned. Six horses perished; loss, WO.000. Imimktant indictments havo liecn stolen from tho onleo of the clerk of tho circuit court at Franklin, Ky. Pbahi. river at Jackson, Miss., was out of tho banks and great damage was done. Choi.kha has appeared iu Iloumania. A vast project of the pope's, looking to church consolidation, will shortly conio up for consideration ut Home. Six months ago Henry Garrett mur dered a man in Clay county, Ala. Ho and his wlfo lied on foot all the way to Yukocn, Ok., where they have been ar rested, Tin: Daltou boys turn out to bo nephews of thu Youngors, their mother being a sister of Colo and Bob. Tub recent Hoods In Japan destroyed over 1,000 houses nnd 700 bridges. Yki.miw fever Is spreading rapidly at Vera Crnz, Mexico. Tin: inmates of tho woman's prison and glrh' reform school at Indianapo lis, Ind., made an unsuccessful attempt to burn the buildlug rcccutly. At Shun King and Shang, Japan, a mysterious epidemic is carrying off thousands of people. TiiKitr. were riots of harvest men anil women at Bcbar, Hungary, owing to tho refusal of a demand for higher wages. Tho gendarmes fired on tho mob, killing twelve nnd wounding many others. Thk apex of fllobo hill, near Cripple Creek, Col., is mild to Ins a vast placer of phenomenal wealth. Tub war between the city of Dno Bluff, Ark., and tho water and light company has been declared off. Koiir.itT Dunca.v, leather, has ns Tugned nt Woburn, Moss. Liabilities, $100,000. Tub postmaster general has received a letter from Charles M. Fox, tho agent iu Washington of tho Graves Elevator Co., of New Yorlc, in which ho charges Superintendent Davenport, of tho post olllco department, with having divulged tho bids for putting in n hydraulic lift elevator for tho use of tho supply de partment Tin: decree of tho lower courta has been iilllrmcd In the Omaha bridge cases Tin: little child of A. P. Sungel, of East Dixon. 111., was caldcd to death, lie was near the tabic nnd turned tho teapot over on himself. FliiR broke out In tho opera houso nt Pocntcllo, Idaho. Fourteen business ' houses wcro destroyed and 1100,000 loss caused. Vahioub polnUof North Dakota wcro struck by a severe storm on tho 20th. At Gettysburg a woman was killed and her child fatally Injured. Gov. Pattison said ho would stay at Homestead all Rummer nnd spend every dollar In tho treasury sooner than allow the law to bo violated. .En. T. Nolanp, defaulting stnto treasurer of Missouri, has concluded to no longer contest his senteuco of two years' imprisonment Buna E.ss McLuckii:, charged nt Pitts burgh, Pa., for murder growing out of the Homestead riots, has been released on bail. Wii.mam GmrriTii, living near Eliza botlitown, 111., became entangled in the hurries of a frightened mule aud was dragged to death. John McKay, Joe Wranzell and .Too Sandberg, boys of H, were killed by curs while at play in the railroad yard nt Atlantic City, N. J. Ax unknown thlof nt Chlcngo was surprised and thrown downstairs by tho occupants. Whllu on tho way to tho station hu fell In nn epileptic lit and mod from the shock. Tin: people of Sonrnlla county, Tex., nro in neod of assistance because of tho drought Tub Hazcn Wire Nail Co., Anderson, Ind., has signed the scale. Fai.eh, the New Jersey boy murderer, has been refused it now trial and must hang August 11. A TUTimi'ia explosion, caused by the bursting of a sixty horse-power boiler in theOiand llldgo electric light plant, and followed by lire, caused a t'JO.OOO conflagration ut Ottawa, 111. Tub Atchison road failed to put in its second-clans rate of $H.70 from tho Mis souri river to tho Pacific coast, but is said to bo getting n fair show of tho business. Bandits have killed u government scout near Fort llinggold, Tex. Tub statement having been made that ex-Gov. Hoadly would appear for tho Homestead rioters, his partner, Ed ward Johnson, denied it in a public let ter. Tub telegraph employes of tho Louis ville & Nashville havo obtained the ad vunce sought averaging (.', per month. U.UT. kahkoiui has been censured for running tho City of Chlcngo ashore at the old head of Kinsnle, Ireland. ADDITIONAL DISVATCIIUS. J. I). Baiivbit, a wealthy lurmor. was crushed to death under a falling treo on his place In Warwick comity, I ml. Lkov Pattkikon was gored fatally by a bull while feeding his cattle at Milan, Tenn. ImI'oiii-ant reforms, it is said, will follow the new term of olllco of Pxvsl dent Diaz, of Mexico. IluiiKirr and Ernest Soltau, brothers, have boon drowned. They started in a naphtha launch from New York for Long Bench, L. L Tin: grand jury nt Montgomery, Ala., j returned four indictments for libel against Editor Prank Baltzoll, of tho Alliance Herald. At various times Bnltzcll made attacks upon Gov. Jones. Gov. Tooi.k, of Montana, refused to allow Idaho and federal troops to pur sue fugitives from tho Cajur d'Alcno country. TiiBiu: wns no truth In a sensational yarn from San Francisco of tho loss of the brig Tahiti and the cnnniballdin and other horrors. TAl'i & Co., baggage, Louisville, Ky., have fulled Assets double thu liabili ties. Chicago police recently raided nickel-in-the-slot gambling machines. FloUH showed marked activity tho past weelc, with small advances in prices. i A tfi'i.KNiHW.v preserved mastodon's tooth was found in tho Piasa bottoms, seven miles above Alton, 111., and pre sented to Prof. William F. McAdams, who will add it to his world's fair ex hibit Ci.KAitiNO houso returns for tho week ended July 22, showed an average in crease of 12,(1 compared with tho corre sponding week of last year. In New York tho Increase was 10.0. Dn. Aaiio.v L. Ciiai'I.n, ox-president of Belolt college, Wis., is dead. Thk Carneglo employes nt tho Du- qnesno works havo struck in sympathy with those tit Homestead. Gov. Ptittl son ordered tho militia not to act on their own responsibility as they had been doing, but to await orders from the civil authorities. A u. thu Tanoy county, Mo , lynchers were discharged, tho prosecution seeing th ut It was futile to bring them to trial. Tub senate, on the 22d unanimously passed tho houso bill for retaliation against Canada. Miscellaneous mutters wero iwforo tho house. Adjournment was still unsettled. Till', treasury at Washington now con tains $112,1)0 J.000 in free gold, and thu ' gold balance is increasing. NEBRASKA STATE NEWS, l(npubllcan Stnto C'nnvnntlnn. S. D. Mercer, ehuirnnn of tho state Central committee, has Issued tho of ficial coll for tho election of delegates to the state republican convention to be held nt Lincoln August 4, lSD'J, at 10 o'clock iu m., for the purpose of plncing in nomination candidates for the follow ing stato oillees: Governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor of public accounts, treasurer, superintend ent of public Instruction, attorney gen eral, commissioner of public lands and buildings, eight presidential electors. Tho several counties tiro entitled to representation as follows! being based upon tho vote cast forGeorgo II. Hast ings for attorney general in 1000, giv ing one delegate at largo to each county and one for each 100 votes and tho ma jor fraction thereof: VvtinHtt. Ailuins Antelope liiinncr... ))l.ilnu, Jloonn ,,, llovd lluxlltiltu llrown.. ........ nurraio , ,, Hutlcr Hurt CllHA ('pilar lie i iinnlla. l)tl. . lM.Tnlinson ....,, II .. S IvtMriK'V 8 ICovii I'.ihii. Keith Kimball ! Knox H l.nncnsto...... tn Lincoln o IBf.m M ixiup , 'i Mndlson 1) Merrick , 7 Ml Ph'.THOIl 1 Chejennu Nonce n N'( milut U NuchollH H Chcrrr. ilnv Colf.ix C'nmlni: Custer Otoe II 1'aunri! It lYrkmn 4 I'lercc 4 I'liplrn S liukulii o Dnurs. 10 IMattu r D.lWKJIl ,,, IIuluI IMxmi Dodif'j Houghis ... liuntir rillmnre... Vranliliii... Frontier... 1'uriuH (lace tlurtU'ld.... (iGspcr flMIlt Urrolcy.... 0 1'ollc 4,it.lVlllnr .... HKIclianlnon , ic.uouc... Nillnc Siirpv SnunilirM... KCOttS llluff Sfw.inl .Sherl'lati ... Sherman ... -j.Slmix H Stanton 1 'llnrr , :iTiicim is J M'lin Jtii ji iu. Thuriiun f , Wo' lih'i"to'n .7.7. 7.7. n Hamilton II Ilurlin r JluyiH 4 llllchiook r. Honker 1 Holt II Wnviu1 Wihstir 1" Wueekr 3 York 18 Howard tl JlfllTKOII H Totnl. tu: it Is recommended that no proxies bo admitted to thu convention nnd that the delegates present be authorized to cast the full vote of thu delegation. .Mtii'vllimcoui. Av independent club of 100 members was recently organized nt Beatrice. A hkcbnt ralu In tho vicinity of Grant did much good to the growing crops. Hickman is soou to havo a new ele vator to take tho plucu of the ono re cently burned. AN infant child of M. B. Carman, of Moortield, fell Into a barrel of water utid was drowned. Tub twelve-year-old son of Henry Selvcns, a farmer residing nenr Fre mont, was recently dragged to death by a runaway horse. Jlritcn.Ait.s entered Collett's drug store nt Mead and secured $2.1 worth of jew elry. They tried to blow tho safe, but they didn't succeed. August Wai.i.mkii, a young German farmer living near Pender, committed ! suicide thu other nfternoon by taking ' strychnine. Causo unknown. j A liAim wire fence terminated tho career of a promising ft, .100 colt be longing to M. B. Cox, of Norfolk. Tho animal's jugular was severed by one of tho barlis. I. tho case of Charles Paul, lately found guilty at Hustings of embezzling county funds, tho court overruled tho motion for a now trial and sentenced tho defendant to three years in thu penitentiary. At Omaha tho other day William Leichtcneau and James F. Knox, while engaged painting a building, woro , thrown to tho ground, n distance of for- ty feet, by the breaking of the ropes of . their swinging scnuold. They wcro thought to be fatally injured. FiiKDitv Ubith, nged seven years, was drowned nt Cedar Itupids recently. Ho was wading iu tho river and stepped in u deep place and sank. Ills playmates g.ivo tho alarm, but too late to rescue him. His parents reside ut Postville, In. Tho boy was stopping with his grandparents. Tin: witoofafarmcrnnmea MrlcKler, residing near Waco, recently attempted to kill her husband and his brother bv 1 putting poison in their coffco nt break fast. When Strlcklcr attempted to go for a physician ho wns confronted b3' his wife, armed with a knife, and alio declared that she had poisoned both of them nnd wanted to die, and said she would kill herself if they succeeded in getting to town. Her husband man uge.l to get away and secure medical aitl and tho lives of tho men wcro saved with diflleulty. Tho causo of tho wom an's act was not known. Thk law requiring county clerks to make monthly reports of all real estato and chattel mortgages Hied and released has been in operation a year and tho stato bureau of industrial statistics has completed tho compilation of tho re ports of thu several counties of the state. During thu year which ended July 1, 24,.i:'.S farm mortgages wero filed, aggregating in amount $22,401,741, and 21,-101 farm mortgages were released, uggregatlng $17,004,005.10. For the same period city mortgages filed amounted to $12,1110,757.01, while the city mortgages released amounted to $0,040,0.10.81. Tho chattel mortgages filed during tho year amounted to $22, 01,1,154.0.1: released for tho same period, $14, ,10.1,317. 11. In nineteen counties the amount of tho mortgages released ex ceeded those filed. Much excitement was caused at Chap man tho other day by tho finding of si twelwc-foot piece of water fuse attached to a can which was placed under the meat market of I). S. Shields. It is sup posed tho can was placed thcro for tho iHU'iMMo of blowing up tno uuiuung. A lire was built on tho sidewalk and tho fuse connected with tho fire. Hud tho building caught ilro almost tho whole town would havo burned. Gboiiok CI.AUK, a veteran of tho war of J'il2, fell down a stairway at tho res ulenco of Alf Conine, at Beatrice tho other -ight and wns seriously injured. The injured man is 03 years of age und totally blind. . COERCING! CANADA. The Ifnatn Vmne a Hrliillitory llltl Ca mullrtti VM'I to tin lttrlctnl In Nav iRHtltiK American Cinnl. Wahhi.mitom, July 22. Tho most Im portant legislation passed by tho houso yesterday was tho bill to enforce recip rocal relations between tho United States and Canada. Tho president has sent two messages to congress on tho subject, and yesterday tho house passed the. measure without division and sent it tit once to the senate. It was laid before that body just before adjourn ment nnd placed on the calendar. This promptness indicates that congress is very much interested in this matter, that tho president will bo heartily sup ported nnd the g-eat Interest involved protected. When tho bill was called up in tho house, Mr. Blount, of Georgia, saidtlint the president had in two messages called the attention of congress to tho fact that notwithstanding treaty rights, citizens wcro discriminated ngainst in the matter of transportation through the Wellnnd, St Lawrence nnd other canals. A rebate was accorded to the Canadian vessels which was not ac corded to tho American vessels. This bill was designed to require that this discrimination should lie abolished and that the treaty rights of American citi zens should be preserved. The bill was passed without division. The bill provides that when tho pres ident shall tie satisfied that tho passage through any canal or lock connected with thu navigation of the St Lawrcnco river, tho great lakes, or the waterways connecting tho same, of any vessels of the United States, or of cargoes or pas sengers, in transit to any port of the United Slates is prohibited, or is mnda difficult, or burdensome by tho imposi tion of tolls or otherwise, which ho shall deem to bo reciprocally unjust anil unreasonable, ho shall have tho power to suspend the right of free pas- sago through thu St Mary's falls canal, so ur nR 'l rcl,lls to vessels owned by tne suDjcctsot tno government dlsciT inatlug ngainst tho United States. HARRITY HONORED. Clmiirii Chairman of tint Niitlonnt Doino- ermla Coininlt (. Nkw Youk, July 22. -William F. llar- rlty, of Pennsylvania, was tills after- noon elected chairman of the national democratic com mittee tind S, P. Sheering, of In diana, was re-elected secretary. Mr. Harrity is sec retary of tho com monwealth of Penn sylvania, is tho recognized leader of tho Philadelphia democracy and has long taken an im portant part in di- wm. r. HAimiTV. rcctlng the affairs of his party in Pennsylvania. During the re cent convention he wns talked of as tho probable successor of Chairman Calvin S. Brice. Mr. Harrity was born October 18, 18.10, in Wilmington, Del., where he received his preliminary education. As postmaster of Philadelphia, to which ho wiis appointed in 188.1, ho be came better known to tho public at large. He conducted this olllco for four years, and, during his administration, Postmaster-General John Wunamnker wrote a letter commending his admin istration. THE HOWELLS GUILTY. I.lnlilo to S'ovoro riinMimmit I'nr Vlntiit Iiir tliu Iiitrr-Stiitn I.itu. St. Joskimi, Ma, July 22. In tho I United States court S. II. Howell, George W. Howell and Ed Tlbbltts, their clerk, woro found guilty of vlolut- ing tho intcr-stnto commerce law by causing weights of lumber cars to bo tampered with on thu Bock Island at tins point ami J-.ast Atclilson. A mo tion for a new trial will bo argued uo' . fore Judge Pai idgo Parker. The penalty is a lino of not less than (1,000 tind not mora than $10,000 and not inoro than two years' Imprisonment Tho alleged violations consisted of bribing agents of railway companies to report short weights on cars of lumber In which thoy ure heavy dealers in Chi cago ami many points in isconsin, ( Kansas and Nebraska. Tho Uo wells wero found guilty on twq counts. FOREIGN MISSIONS. Andrew II. IVIillo to flu to KiiukIii and A. I.. Nnundeu tu Spain Other Appoint ment. Washington, July 22. Tho President sent to thu senate tho following nomi nations: Knvoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary Andrew I). White, of Now Yorlc, to Russln; A. Lou don Snowden, of Pennsylvania (now envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Greece, Roumanin and Servtti) to Spain; Truxtou Bealc, of California, (now minister resident and consul general of the United States to Persia) to Greece, Iloumania and Scrvin. Consuls of the United States: John A. Barnes, of Illinois, nt Chemnitz; Darley R. Brush, of South Dakota, at Messlnu; Cyrus W. Field, jr., of New York, at Brunswick; Charles August Vortriede, of Ohio, at Bergen. Hecrutury Nubln liicenxrd. Washington, July 22. Secretary No blo is incensed at tho course and state ments of Representative Simpson con cerning tho Interior department and cattle on tho Cherokee strip nnd tho bribery and corruption which keeps them there, Mr. Noble has published a long statement, containing a fiat de nial of Mr. Simpson's allegations. 1 - i A Ciue of Cholera. Dbtiioit, Mich., July 22. James Cock burn camu from Glasgow, Scotland, ou thu Anchor lino steamer Furncsia and readied Dotrolt six weeks ago. Sunday night he died very suddenly of what was really an aggravated case of cholera morbus, but which presunted nil the characteristic symptoms of Asiatic cholera. Tho remains turned complete ly black. Had cholera been epidemio hero tho doctors would have pronounced it a caso of that dread disease, und tho fact that Cockburn was a recent immi grant added to tho fear. Health Olliccr nnOl.tl.l .nlli.jt If tl j.ncti tt uii.iiil(rt cholera. . ft V ?w Y-Ov CONGRESSIONAL. Th TToek'n I'roiwrilncil Comlnpil Tor Convenience of the llridr. Tho senate on tho IMh ailopteil conference re ports on Iho nrtnv. tho trtvy ntul tho lc?lMivo bills, anil as'rectl to tho houso resolution ex tending oxlmlng appropriations until July 3JL The fortification bill lwsint The rcsohttloa Introduced tho dav beforo providing for an In cstlgatlon of tho Homestenil troubles was not Liillid up for not Ion beforo adjournment. ... Con sideration of tho nundry civil bill occupied tho attention of tho house, tho world's lalr appro priation of 0JJ,iMJ be In? under ilK'imlon A. rciiolutloti was adopted calllneon the polmas ter Kcneral for Inform Ulon rctfnrdliu; tho let ting or mull ion tracts to rullro.uU since M.irch, HfJ, utid Iho conference report on the armv bill agreed to. Pension bills were considered ut the L'cutnir session. 1 lit; M.n.itn further considered th last of the npproprlatloa bills on tho liltb tho deficiency bill. Most of thu Items wero agreed tn nnd tho bill thin went oer After nn executive ses sion the rmnto iutJoumcd,.,,Tho houso h.ula. dull nnd unlntx resting scislon, Iho question under debate, being the Item In tho sundry clH bill In regard lo closing tho world's fair on Sun day. Aftera drc-iry dcbito iho matter went, over and Iho houso ndlotirned. Am a passing thu drtlclciicy bill on the! 18th tho ncnato took up Iho mitl-opllon bill nnd op ponents of the measure commenced tollllbuster. Then-lends of tho bill, howoier. wi.ro strong enough lo Ueeplt hi Us position and when tho somite adjourned tho bill rem lined as unlln lshcd buslniM....In tho houo tho ways nnd means committee reported a resolution for final adjournment July :& Mr. Llr.d (Minn )i on be half of tho committee appointed to lntcstlgatoi the administration of tho pension ofllco, sill), milled tho lews of tho minority to tho house.. Tho report llnds nothing for which tho coramls sloncr um be, criticised, unless It bo th it ha ap pointed hlsKonapiKilnlmcntilerliof the bureau. It agrees with tho majority In their suggestion. In regurd to tho expose by the members of con press of tho so-called "congressional prhllcgcs." Tho houso passed thu MeUurrahan bill ns It came from the senile. After pissing HCcrnl' Mils of minor ImiKirtancn the senate Joint reso- ' lutlon huh passed authorizing the committee to., mako nn Inicsllgallon Into tho slums of thu cities. Tho houso then took u reeess. tho oicn. Ing session to lie for general debate on tho world's fair features of the sundry civil appro prl Ulon bill. Till: stun to on the inth did but lltttle, tho nntl-optlon bill boltig under discussion Tho president sent to the senile tho nomltntlon of Ocorgo !'. Shlrus, tit lVntisWvatili. to li asso ciate Justice of tho United Stales supremo conrt. ...The day In tho houso was consumed la Iho world's lulrupproprlatlon light. Tho appro priation Item was otcd down, 110 to Pi", and the Sunday closing paragraph Inserted by Iho senate was sustained by u vote of 14 to (11. Tho appropriations us mule bytlioscnato for tho geological survey wero concurred In, and an amendment was Inserted forbidding the letting of any contract by uny government officer to any ono hi tho employment of tho l'inlterton de tective agency or nny other org mlzatlons em ploying atmesl forcesnmt prohibiting their em plojmc nt by the government or tho District of Columbia. The sundry civil bill was tlioaj passed ns amended and live speaker appointed Mtssrc Holnmn, Sayrcw ana Ulngham ait iho coriferries. In iho senate on tho 20lh strong speeches ngainst the untl option bill were madu by Mr. Vest (Mo.) nnd Mr. Daniel (Va.), thu latter sen ntor still buvlng the lloor when thu senate ad journed.... In tho houso a resolution wns udopt ed giving ono hour to ench committee to call up reported bills. As a result Iho following meas ures wero passed: Granting Jurisdiction to tha court of claims In land cases; tixlng the fees of jurors and witnesses In tho United States courts; to legalize tho deeds and other records In the ofllco of tho commissioner of Indlsn af fairs; allowing tho stockholders of any national bank to continue tho receivership nnd closo up Its (Tcilrs: to prevent the hale of beer and malt, liquors in tho Indian territory; providing for th!' redemption of national bank notes without' the signature of tho bank olllcluls, which havo been lost or stolen, and many other bills of n lot ill nature. A resolution wns passed pro viding for tho Investigation of tho Heading rail road combination by a npecl.il committee. Tho l.outc then adjourned. IN tho senuttt on tho Ulst Mr. Daniel con eluded his sjieech ugalimt tho nntl option bill. Mr. White (I.a.) followed in a long speech Hgntust tho bill nnd held tho floor when tho seuute ndjourmd ...Tho houso rushed bills, through ut a lively rate. Among tho mensuresi passed were: A bill lo promote commercial, relations with Canada: to promote enlisted, men in tho army to tho grade of second lieuten ant, toprovldufor Iho collection, custody nnd urrnngt mrnt til the mlllnirv records of tho war of American revolution aud tho war of 191.1; to authorize thu secretary of war to leaso for flvo years lands for public purposes, to dellno the grndo of medical ofllcers la tho army, audi many others of a private or local character. THREE MEN DEAD. Asphyxiated at Iho lliittom or u Tan. fit. Ciiicaoo, July 2i Four men wcro asphyxiated in n "junk" at Louis. Iluchcson's tannery, Elston avenue and. llradley street, this city, yesterday. Three of them aro dead untl the other one is in such a precarious condition thut tho physicians in charge say ho cannot recover. Tho deud nre: Chnrles Stelncrt, 23 years; John Ilebached, US) years of nge, married; Frank Speckowskl, 27 years of age, married. Tho injured; Albert SchlcKcr, 2fl years of aire, married. Schletrer was eleaulnir out the valve. After a time ho attempted to ascend to. tho surface und when a few feet from, tho bottom fell back upon his head Into, thu slush. Seckowski, Stelncrt nnd Rebachelc in turn descended to Ills aid, but each was overcome by tho foul atmosphere and dropped to thu bottom helpless. Finally onu of tho employes named Ountrotli was lowered four times, and in each ease brought ono of tho men to tlie surface, two were elead and two un coiiMiious and a third died later on. llutler nil the Legal Points. Uoston, July 22. Gen. Hutlcr, speak inp of tho Homesteud cases, said that. in regard to admitting to bail In caso where murder is charged, although bail was not as a rule allowed, still it was a matter wholly within tho discretion of tho courts. As to tho cxtrudition of Andrew Cnrnegle, ho could not see how n man could be tnlten In n frvmt,,,. country for ucts said U havo been dono in mis country in ins absence. Ho was . very strong In expressing his conviction that legislation should bo had that . would causo tho disbandment of tho Plnkertons and tho prevention of such riots hereafter. Personally hu had no correspondence with tho strikers, and had heard nothing whatever as to his , being engaged as counsel. Xomliiutlon Withdrawn. Washington, July 10. Tho presl dent hns withdrawn tho nomination of William D. Crum to lie postmaster at Charleston, a C. Tho nominee is a colored mnn nnd his confirmation has been strongly resisted. Ilnikn lilt .Nt-elt. GuTiiiiiK. Ok., July 10. Albert llow mnn, nged 21, broke his neck by jump Ing head first into shallow witter, while in swimming last night. Tho boiler at Ilalrd's mill, near Gainesville, Flo., cxplodeil Two men wero killed and several others seriously nnd perhaps fatally Injured. 4 ! ti ' t $ K i '-