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Slayers of Herman Zahn Have
- Their Preliminary Trial.
Offl(RS SKK TO KffP CROWD OUT
rim of Hearing no 'Hint Kew Shall Hi
hi Uih Court Hi. oiii Men I'lead ol
Oullty mill Are Held In Annner
In His Dlttrlil Court.
A Fremont, Neb,, January s. dis
patch says: William Hhea,' Kdward
Gardner and William Durirll wen
taken before Judge Wlutersteen ul
1-': 10 o'clock for a picllmlnnry hearing
and wort- charged with being tin mur
derers of IIiM'tnitii Xtilui at Snyder. Fri
day night, January . Tin' three men
entered a plea of not guilty, waived ex
aiuinatiou and wore hound over to tin
district court for trial. Hill de
tiled. Thf authorities had taken great care
that the time for the preliminary heat
ing hhouhl not be Known. Only two
or tin ce persons, besides the lawyus,
were in the couit room when the pi Is
oners were brought over from the
county jail. Khea was carried in a
chair, as he is unable to walk on ac
count of his wounds. The nest toim
of the district court will convene on
February I. and the prisoners will be
brought in nt that time. It is proba
ble, however, that Ithca and liaidncr.
at least, will ask for a continuance, as
the lawyer they have employed is a
member of the Icgislatuic ami will not
be tiblr to attend that session of court.
The matter which is unperniost in
the niiuil of Sherlll ICrcailer and home
of the other county olllcials at this
time is the whereabouts of a certain
ten dollar note which it was hoped
would lie very valuable evidence in
connecting .Mrs. W. I). Williams with
the lobbcry. This was given to L'tnll
Zahn, a brother of the dead man. a
couple of days ago to take to Snyder
that it might lie Identillcd b the 'bar
keeper in Calm's saloon. Ii was bad
ly worn and had been pasted together
by means of a piece of bright jed
paper. For this nabon it could be
identillcd easily. The bill was found
concealed on the person of Mrs. Wil
liams, together with about ST.I, when
she was brought to jail. On the way
homo. Zahn lost this, and no trace of it
has since been found. A reward was
ollercd and every effort will be made
to have it brought in by the. tinder.
PRUSSIAN DIET OPENED.
Hpeech Kriiin Tliroiui Head hy riiiincel-
lor Von lluelow.
The Prussian diet was opened Jutiu
nr,v s. in tlio name of Kinperor Wil
liam, who Is suffering from a slight
cold, by the Imperial chancellor, Count
ion liuclow, who read the speech from
the throne. The principal point in
this was the announcement of the pre
sentation of an extended canal bill,
comprising not only the Ithlnc and
F.lbe scheme, but also the construction
of a waterway for largo ships between
Iterllu and Stettin, n most practicable
waterway between the Oder and the
Vistula, and improvements in the
Wartba, lower Oder, lower Havel and
Spree.
The speech lefcrrcd to the continued
satisfactory financial situation, saying
a satisfactory surplus had been ob
tained in 1HIMI and that equally favoia
ble results were expected for I lion,
while the budget for W0 showed a
marked increase in u:eiiue and the
profits from the state railroads were
satisfactory.
It was proposed, the speech added,
to introduce bills dcullng with the
reform of the local government of Mer
lin, tin relief of provincial llnances,
the housing problem, etc.
The speech concludes with an appeal
for the patriotic labor of the members
of tliu diet and with a icfcrenco to
the bicentenary of the kingdom of
l'i iissia.
CAPTURE INSURGENTCAMPS
Mllltlar Acthltjr Continue In 'h
Philippine
Several insurgent camps havo been
captured and destroyed recently in
various district of Luzon and Lsroc
says a Manila dispatch of January 0.
One camp was captured in the mount
ains of Marindiue. A scouting party
of the Fotly-si.xty vcglment captured u
.score of ladroues near Lllang. Ar
rests of suspected Insurgent continue
numerous in Manila and its vicinity.
I'ateauo and other influential Indepen
dent radicals arc seeking to develope
the two factious of the federal party.
Pnternn contends that, while the de
clared principles of the patty will do
for the present, eventually the Filipi
nos will seek fuller independence.
Mthough be will not admit believ
ing America's soveiolgnty Is undesir
able, lie says he wants the relations
between the Philippines and the
Fnlted States to be similar to those of
Australia and Canada with (Jieat
llrltaln.
The Philippine commission has com
pleted the code for the government of
lnunleln.ilitlcs. It, will be enacted
next week and supercede the military
older of 1-ist March, under which
many barrios (wards or districts) were
orgunied. Municipal elections take
place in December. The act will not
apply to Manila or the settlement! of
non-Christian tribes.
Ten residents of Pueblo have de
cided to petition the commission to
orgunie a municipality there. The
commission may orgunie one without
tills petition.
The military commander of a dis
trict is to appoint the police and can
suspend municipal olllcers for miscon
duct and disloyalty.
The lands and buildings used ex
clusively for lellgious, charitable or
educational work are exempted fioin
taxation, the exemption to Include no
property held as an investment.
The municipalities are of four classes
and will be olllcered according to population.
FATAL STREET DUEL
Serios of Riots End in a Fatal
Shooting at Wichita.
STRUTS CROWDED AND SEVERAL HURT
ri Verioiu lleielve Injurle llnrliiR I In
Fighting Trouble t'rrrlpltaled llr
rauae Hoodlum Nhovetl rltreet
Cur Motnrmnii Off n Curl
PARDONS CANNIBAL PACKER
I.UHt lirili'lnl Act of (Jut enter Thoinii of
Colorado.
The last olllclal act of ChaVles S.
Thomas, who retired as the gocrnor
of Colorado, January rt. was to grant a
paiole to Alfied Packer. The release
of the famous prisoner was the result
of efforts urged in his behalf for two
years. Packer has been in prison over
seventeen years. He was sentenced to
a forty year term in 1113. Polly Pry,
a special writer who conducted the
campaign In favor of the prisoner's re
lease, took the executive order grant
ing Packer his liberty to the peniten
tiary. The attempted assassination of II.
II. Tammen and F. G. Monfils of the
Denver Post by W. (J. Anderson, a
lawyer, about a year ago, resulted fioin
the agitation ol Packer's case.
Packer's alleged crime was the mur
der of a patty of five piospectors in the
wilds of Coloiado. He admitted that
he killed one of the men, who lie said
was insane, and assaulted him after
murdering the other four with a
hatchet. Packer was 100 miles from
civilisation nt that time and was coin
pclleiMio said, to eat the flesh of the
murdered men to keep himself from
starving.
A Wichita. Kan., Jan. 1.1 dispatch
says: A scries of riots begun In this
city at midnight last night and ended
thin rvrnlnir at 0 o'clock In a sltcc
duel between tin ee colored and thiee
white men.
Moic than a doen shots were ex
changed in the crowded stieet be
tween Wiley Schnell, a Texas negro
and Cash Johnson, a white trunk
maker. Schnell was shot In the head
but will not die. Johnson was shot
through the groin and his condition is
serlou . A man named llerford was
slashed with a razor and a young man
from tbe country had several ribs
broken.
The principal negro contestant lied
and a mob of ".'00 whites took after
him, catching him nt the Masonic tem
ple. Policemen huu-icd hint Into a
wagon and succeeded In escaping from
the mob.
The net results of the day's rioting
is seventeen aricsts.
The trouble began at midnight when
several hoodlums tossed a moloimau
off a trolley car, lueaklng his legs and
ribs. A strong force of police have
been posted tonight and peace has
reigned since dark.
HE STOPS RAILROAD
Inilliinii rttriiif-r, AhnIhIimI lt Sheriff. He
inowK Hull mill lllowit I'p HrlilKf
The tails of the Chlcaeo A South
eastern railroad, which crosses the
farm of Wcstley Giauthum, near Ciaw
fordsvllle. Inil., were torn up anil re
moved fiom the farm by Sheriff Canine,
acting on a writ of ejectment seemed
by Grantham in Hill. All ti.illlc. In-
coming me goveriimciil mail seiiuv
was effectually blocked.
Two of the, road's bridges were
blown up, one of them sixty feet long
and fifteen feet high. Many loads of
rails wcie carted off to a school house,
three miles from the right of way.
injunction proceedings were Imme
diately begun against Grantham, but
in the circuit court Judge West refused
to grant u temporary rest raining order,
declaring that Orantliain had already
uecn Kepi out, oi ins property seven
years and that the constitution guar
anteed liim certain rights with which
the court did not Intend to interfere.
The road's attorney asked that an or
der be made giving tin road possession
until the laud could be condemned,
but the court refused this, saying that
tbe company had had seven jears to
do this and had failed.
The court issued an order, however,
foiever forbidding any further des
truction of the road's property.
Grantham's land is guarded by armed
men.
FAVORS CHARLESTON.
Likely to lip Mmln llin South AtlttillU
Nimtl Million,
Secretary l.ong, January 11th, made
public the' report of the board of naval
olllcers, submitted on the Pith, con
cerning the establishment of a naval
station on the south Atlantic coast,
and more particularly with reference
to the relative merits of Port lloyal or
Charleston, S. !., as the site for this
station. The boaul recommends
Charleston, reinforcing its views with
an elalNirate statement of the advan
tages of that place over Port lloyal.
A dlsscntlnir view Is presented by
Rear Admiral George Sumner, who
favors this retention of the naval sta
tion at Port Hoy al.
Tim majority repoit Is signed by
Hear Admiral Frederick Hodgers, pres
ident of the board: Capt, George A.
Converse, Civil F.nginecr C. A. Asscr
son, Naval Constiuetor J. II. Milliard.
Commander K. II. Lctitc and Lieuten
ant Commander S. A. Stanton.
BOY SHOT FROM AMBUSH
LACKS SEAL ONLY.
China Kooping Hor Promise as to
Signing Joint Noto
)RDIR OF EMPEROR NEEDED EIRST
Detail Chiiiio) hn lliinti t'nlll Chine"
llnler Coment to Allow l' of Hie
Imperii! Heal Which I In I lit
lorlilililrn (II) -Oilier Noli.
An lljildeinlc
In llrecley
Outlaw r.t
Count..
A boy by the name of (lallcnllme
was recently brought into Greeley,
Neb., with a bullet In his arm for the
doctors to operate on. As he was car
rying In an armful of wood at the
house, he was shot In the arm, the
missile entering about half way be
the wrist and elbow. The bullet
struck the bone ami plowed a furrow
to tlie elbow joint. Hut for the fact
that It hit the arm with a glancing
angle It would have gone through the
boy's body.
NO-KNIFE
itl Aj;e
DEATH OF CHIEF
i.ui chitf or
Omaha Trllie Die
of I III.
Word was brought to Pender recent
ly that "No-Knife," the 1hh( chief of
the Omaha Indians, had died at the
home of Matthew Tyndale on the 'res
ervation at the advanced age of 11.1
years, lie is believed to have been the,
oldest living resident of Nebraska, lie
was born befoie Washington was elect
ed picsldcnl.andconse .uentlyhad lived
in th tee ditVetcnt centuries. He had
never been sick, at Jeust within the
memory of any It, lug relation or ae
(ualutauce.
HORSE IS KILLED BY
CARS
North
INSIST ON SURRENDER.
Countrymen of lluer Ak 'I hrui In lllte
lp thn Hfc-lit.
A Capetown, January S, dispatch
says: The central police committee at
Kronustadt has issued a circular, in
the course of which it says:
"The time has arrived for the' inhab
itants of Orange Hlver colony to make
an effort to save the country from fur
ther destruction. The country is lit
erally a vast wilderness. The farmers,
ruined and facing starvation, are
obliged to go to the towns for protec
tion, and huge refugee camps have
been formed by the Mrltish for them.
Tills is caused by an obstinate minor
ity, who will not bow to the Inevita
ble." The circular points out that the
Mritlsh will never restore Independence
to the republics, and urges upon the
burghers the duty of surrendering and
accepting the terms offered. There-
cent Afrikanker congress nt Worcester
is criticised in tlio circular as "mislead
ing the Peers and giving false impres
sions." Korly Cum Kvery Day.
The Shelton Milling and Grain com
pany of Shelton, Neb., have secured a
contract to supply the Union Pacific
company with a large amount of ice,
and a force of men and teams w ill be
put to work sufficient to load forty
ears every twenty-four hours.
Farmer Cnihe llnnil,
Lawicnce Mitchell, a young man
living blx miles east of Petersburg,
Neb., had his left lnu0 crushed in u
i-ornshellor, necessitating an amputa
tion ut the wrist.
I.rmln CroNlnu eeldem on
Twentj-llftli Mlrriil, Lincoln.
Hesldents living near the North
Twenty-fifth sticct crossing over the
Missouri Pacific tracks in Lincoln,
found a dead horse, and a wrecked
buggy near tbe crossing at about 8
o clock ou tbe evening of January, S or
a little after. The liorsu'o head was
crushed and the neck was cut, nearly
severing the head from the body.
From the condition of the animal it
was thought the accldeut had not oc
curred more more than two hours be
fore the hoi se was found. Ncur by,
about thirty feel from the tracks, mid
on top of the embank ment six feet
above the level of the tracks, was
found the wreck of a phaeton. It was
lying in a position indicating that it
liad been struck by the train and
thrown to the top of the bank. Tbe
animal was a small bay mare. No
harness was found, ami In fact the
phaeton hail been stripped of whip,
curtains and cushions.
FIVE
rviiclur
KILLED IN
COLLISION
KrelBht
HiiiiiiIiir (.iRhl Strike
Truln
Aii engine running light struck a
freight train on the Monongaliehi river
division of the Maltimore A. Ohio rail
road at Anderson, W. Va., January 8
and the collision resulted in the death
of si or seven men and the. serious iu
jury of two others.
The dead so far as known:
WI 1.1.1 AM MOWMAN.
JOHN DBVUNNY.
MJCHAKI, I) I NOUN.
PAH1SH KINO.
UNKNOWN THAMP.
Another body Is thought to be in
the wreck. Two more an badly in-jur-id
and may die. All were railroad
employes except the tramp, who was
stealing a ride. It is supposed that a
misunderstanding of orders was the
cause of the accident.
i
llrnvy Snow ut Vuiuourer.
Vancouver, Mritlsh Columbia, is cov
ered with from three to four .feet of
snow, suys a dispatch of January 8, It
is still snowing and threatening to sud
denly thaw. Owing to the weight of
the snow on Its roof the Vancouver
sash and door factory building and
I.ee.'s stable and carriage house roof
collapsed, causing a loss of about ?.'),-
000. The train system iu tbe city and
between Vancouver and Westminister
Is suspended. The local shipping in
these citicb is tied up.
CHANDLERJVIEETS DEFEAT.
llurnliHni MB.nr.- Nniiilnntloii for I'nllril
Mule Semilor.
A Concord, N. H.. dispatch says:
Judge Henry H. Murnham, of Man
chester, was last Friday night nomi
nated hi the republican legislative cau
cus, to succeed United States senator
ttHlluin K. Chandler, whose term of
service will expire .March .1 next. The
nomination was made ou the Hist bal
lot. The choice of Mr. Murnham. which
was finally made unanimous, ended the
fiercest political light in the history of
New Humpslilre. Senator Chandler
whs opposed by men Iu his party who
objected to his pro-silver view's, his
criticism at times of the administra
tion and Ills ideas on different meas
ures, und In addition lie was opposed
by those who thought he had been
m ..UM,i ,jr unougii Another great
factor iu the contest, and which lnw,
figured in other political fights, was
his determined and continued attack
on tlio railroads, the Hoston .; Maine
system, in the state.
I'llieon Hlver HhImIiijc.
Pigeon rier is fourteen feet above
low water and is rising at the rate of
one foot an hour, says a Catlettsburg,
Ivy., dispatch. Fully 81,000 worth of
lumber swept by Catlettsburg. l,og
booms have been broken and many
rafts are being lost. Fences have le:n
destroyed, driftwood has been swept
away. Fully twenty-live miles on
either side of the river is given up to
wheat fields and these are submerged.
They are expected to lie total lossis.
The Tennessee river lb live feet iiImjvi
low watermark nt Knoxvllle. Tejui..
and is rising from six to eight indies
an hour. It will likely reach from Jif
teen to twenty-five, as the water from
Pigeon river and French I i road river
must come that way,
fear CnrlUta' Motttmeiit.
The Spanish government at Madrid
has decided to send a warship to watch
tlie const of the lower provinces in
oruer to pi event the importation of
arms by the Carllsts, who ate still
agitating.
Siillon I.Imtj llurn Hum
Fire was discoveicd In the livery
barn iu the south part of Sutton
icccntly. The cause Is yet unknown.
The barn, valued at 82. ooo mid belong
ing to the first national bank of Sut
ton, was practically a total loss.
Most of the stock, consisting of bug
gies, horses and harness, was saved,
with the exception of a- ('iiantlty ot
hay and grain In the second story.
The barn was covered by SI, 000 in
surance and tlie stock by 9100. The
barn has been used for the. past fifteen
years as a livery and was rented ut the
time of its destruction by John Tiniiry.
Jt is icportcd that the barn will be re
built nn the present slfe.
Crushed My I'luno,
Take Mckins, owner of the ltcklilM
van line of Sioux City, was instantly
killed at Dakota City, Neb., while un
loading a piano at the residence of At
lee Hart, which be had brought over
from Sioux City iu company with
Charles llabriel. Melons had just got
the piano started out of tlie wagon
when the instrument fell on him,
crushing out his life instantly. He
was about forty-two years old and
leaves a wife and uiuceliildreti undone
brother in Sioux City nnd two iu Oma
ha. A eoruouer's impicst was held.
Tlie body was removed to ills home in
Sioux City.
Arreteil on Charge, of Corgorj.
I-;. Pcun, a resident of Oconto, was
arrested at Kearney, January 11, by
Sheriff Armstrong of Custer eoituty on
tlie charge of forging n check for
5J3T. .M). The check wns forged In the
name of a farmer and paid by A. K,
Mrighaui, an Oconto merchant, lirig
ham discovered the loss Thursday and
Informed the sheriff Friday night.
Penn arrived in Kearney Friday after
noon from Oconto. He was taken to
lirokeu How.
MiiHlue .Man ArreleU.
T. J. Walsh of Jackson, Neb., who
last September assaulted Oeo. Sterling
a traveling man for Warfield, Pratt,
Howard .V Co. of Sioux City, was ar
rested by .Sheriff Sides and taken be
fore County Judge Kliners nt Dakota
City to answer to the charge. Sterling
cluirtres him with assault to commit
murder. Walsh is n business man of
Jackson against whom Sterling had
an account for collection.
A I'ekln. January II dispatch says:
Prince Chinir has notified Senor de
Cologau, the Spanish minister, who Is
In the doyen of the diplomatic corps
that, the agreement was signed yester
day morning but that he did not ex
pect to be able (o piosent tl to the
foreign envoys before WednesdaVi
owing to the dilllculty of obtaining the
Imperial seal, which, he asserted, Is In
the forbidden city and In the private
apartments of the empeiors most
trusted servant. He said also that a
personal order from the cmpeior would
lie iciiilreil befoie thoe who have the
seal In charge would deliver It even lo
Prince Chlng.
DEATH SENTENCE IMPOSED
(Irnernl MneArllmr IIHrrtnliieil lo I'.ttxr
lllllllltK OlltlllHW In riilllppliii'N
Copies of general orders from I he
Philippines received In Washington
show that a large number of native
Filipinos have been convicted o' mur
der ami other crimes anil sentenced to
be haiigcil or to long terms of Impris
onment. Inouucase the accused be
longed to au organized band which.
under the nanie of "Ouardla de
Honor," had for Its declared object the
murder of peaceful and unoffending
victims, If found necessary to giatlfy
either u desire for revenge or a feeling
of envy against the. rich. "These In
human methods," says (leueral MeAr
Ihur. "remove all the participants,
whether chief or willing followers of
tin bauds, from the pale of the law
and place them aiiioung that class of
cowardly ami secret assassins which
all civilized men tlie world over hold to
be enemies of mankind."
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE
l.enioiiworlli Cltlirn form Harh to
Ileal Will. Crlinliml Cine..
Judge Moore, of Leavenworth, Kns.,
has Issued a warrant against Fred Al
exander, a uegio who attempted to
assault Miss Hoth, of that city, tnd
inter the sheriff went to I. aiming to
serve It. Many thought he would bo
taken and a large crowd with gun
and ropes gathered nt the jail. The
prisoner was left at Lansing, where
he will i einalit until the olllcials deem
It safe to bring him. When Mils
fact iK'onmc known the crowd dls-MM-sed
unlet I y. At a secret meeting
of eltlensof iivcry class a society to
be known as "the Leavenworth vigi
lance committee" was formed. Its
province will be not, only to deal with
such men as Alexander but to run out
of town all men unable to show visible
means of support, a class with which
Leavenworth has been ovenun this
winter. The members are determined
finally, It Is said, lo lynch Alexander.
KILLED IN A PAT !C
Crr of I'ln Slnrl Stiimpetln In Cnill
Chlciilio I'll!) house.
Seven people were crushed to death
and mure than twenty Injured in a
panii which followed u man's cry of
fire in West Twelfth street Turner
hall, Chicago. About I .BOD Mop1o weie
lu the place to witness the iierfor-
of n play entitled "Tlie Oreeuhoru."
The play was iu Yiddish and the
audience, comprising for the most
part women and children, were all
llebicws. The ball stands In the
center of it district, densely populated
by Jews.
The piny was nearly over when the
ciy which "ascd the pinlc was raised
and within five seconds after it rang
thiough l he hall the entile iiudieuco
was converted Into ft friinlle mob, ev
ery member of which was fighting for
the safety which lay beyond the doors
of the building.
GRIEVED OVER WIFE'S DEATH
Inill.iiiu Man Senil lliillot Cruliluc
GO ON SYMPATHETICSTRIKE
rirtreti lliimlreil Miner Unit Work In
Colorailo.
A Florence, Colo., dispatch says:
Over I, MM) miners in Hie employ of
the Colorado Fuel and Iron company at
Coal Creek, Hockvale, Hear Onlch and
Miookstde went ou a strike as agreed
upon ut a mnss meeting iu sympathh
with the strikers In northern Colorado
and at Oallup, N. M. A few men went
into thu mines to load the loose coal
and put things in shape for a period of
idleness.
Tlirouuli III llnilil.
lirlef. caused by the death of his
young wife after ten mouths of mar
ried life, Impelled Robert K. Leo Prior
of Kastbank, W. Va., to send a bullet
clashing Into his brain in Oeorge's
hotel at Indianapolis, Intl., the other
day. He died a few hours Inter i at St.
Vincents hospital. Standing before a
mirror. Prior placed the mu.le of a
revolver against his right temple and
pulled thu tilgger.
The bullet passed entirely through
bis head, coming out nt the back of
the left ear. On a table; In the room
was found the photograph of the
young wife, placed in sneh a position
that as he stood before the mirror her
linage was reflected and btood out be
fore him when he fired tho shot.
C. I'ul mini rliili'hlm,
The citizens of Gibbon, a village
eleven miles east of Kearney, Neb.,
were shocked the other day when they
learned of the suicide of C. Putnam
at his home in that village. He arose
from his bed after his wife had left
the room and pressing n shotgun to
his fotelieml pulled the trigger with a
poker. The act was well planned iu
every detnil, and his dentil was in
stantaneous. Mr. Putnam was editor
of tho Oihhon Ouette, and was doing
a good business.
Affair In Shiiiok.
The inomy amounting to over S41 ,
(MM), which the governments of Oreut
llrltaln, Oermany and the United
Stutcs piomlscd to pay the Samoans
for the surrender of their arms after
tlie last war, is now being distributed.
There uie yet ulurge number of guns
held by the Samoans of Oermun-Samoa
and lleueral Solf has Issued orders re
quiring the delivery of all guns held
by natives to the government befoie
the end of tlie month,
MURDERED IN MANILA.
l
At Minneapolis, Minn., Mrs. Mathil
da Helstroin struck her sixteen-year-old
daughter with a bottle, killing her
instantly, It Is claimed that Mrs.
Helstroin had made two previous at
tempts on the life of her daughter, It
ib believed that the mother Is insane.
'Ihlrly-Sevrnth Htart IIoiiih.
The adjutant general at Washington
has received a cable message fromOen
eral MiuiArtliur at Manila, wiying that
tlie transport Sheridan sailed January
10 with twenty-teven of the 0.14 en
listed men of tho Thirty-seventh vol
unteer infantry and that the trans
ports Logan and Lenox had arrived at
Manila.
Two Year In IVnltentlnry.
George W. Gates, recently found
guilty in the district court at Geneva
of assault with intent to commit rape,
was sentenced by Judge Stubbs to two
years in tlie penitentiary.
Knfflneer I,oe III f.lfe.
A passenger train on the Astoria &
Columbia Hlver road run into a land
slide near Clifton, Ore. The engine
was derailed and rolled into the river.
Hnglneer W. II. Scott waa killed. Fire
man James Davis wns also thrown in
to the river, but wns rescued. None
of tho pabsengers were injured.
.Soldier Ktttnn Hjr Wulve,
The Muciiarest correspondent of the
Loudon Dally Kxpruss says that flvo
Roumanian soldiers while going home
were attacked and eaten by wolves
after u desperate struggle.
Oil Kaeiw Down Koail-llutt
The practice of oiling roud to keep
the iluat down was begun in Califor
nia a few yeai-H ago and l extendlne,
to several partH of that state. The
dry BoaBon is so long that the Idea of
obtaining dustless roads Is naturally
attractive to Callfornlnns and the biic
ceas that has attended the use of oil
for this purpoBe promises to caime Its
eveii more general adoption.
I, euro Weulth to I,ot Hon.
A (Juincy, III,, Jan, M dispute)) suys:
The will of John Seaman, who died at
the age of ninety-four, wus filed to
day. The bulk of tho estate of 8200,
000 Is left to his son, Joseph Seaman,
whom he had not spoken to for years
and whose whereabouts are unknown.
When last heard from he wns in Lon
don. I'lpe Organ for lllulr (.'hurt Ii.
The First M. K. church of Mlalr,
Neb,, has just teeeived a new pipe
organ from Chicago. The members of
the chinch have la-en trying for several
years to make tills addition to their
Iteautlfnl church, but have only recent
ly felt financially able to pin chase the
organ at a cost of $7M).
Neville no Heller.
A Washington ill spa toll says: Hep
rescntntive Neville is aynln In a criti
cal condition, tlie result of several
hemorrhages which he suffered Sun
day. During the severe strain of tin
past two weeks Mr. Neville has shown
wonderful vitality and It Is upon UiIh
thut the physicians now rely to save
hlhllfe.
Tahiti! Factory llurnoil.
The factory of the Northwestern
Cabinet company ut Miiiiiugton, Iowa,
burned. Loss ;i,'i,000, insurance 2t,-000.
I'hlniKo Hporllni; .Man Meet Death In tli
I'hlllpplne.
News has been received in Chicago
of tlie murder in Manila of James Ala
loney, former well-kiinwu Chicago
sportsman, by au Australian prize
fighter who committed suicide. The
murderer Is said to have been one of
Alnloney's closest friends. They met
in Calcutta a year ago and went from
there to Manila, where they both foil
In love with the same, girl ane) t. ijuur
rel followed, resulting in thn death of
both iiiciii. Mnloney's wife and three
children whom he left In Chicago yearn
ag6 are said to bo penniless. Malouey
went to Chicago from Omaha.
W. J. BRYAN'S PAPER. I
Will lie lueil from Western Newspa
per Union OlDen ut l.lneoln .Jan. IIM.
Hon. W. J. llryan's paper, Tint Com
moner, will be Issued from thu ofllco of
the Lincoln, Neb., branch of the West
ern Newspaper Union, on Wednesday,
January 'M, 1001. After carefully con
sidering the various printing establish
ments of the city, Mr. Bryan decided
to give the contract to the Western
Newspaper Union, being In tin en ecu to
a certain extent by the fact that thin
establishment is not only perfectly
well equipped to handle thu work, but
also because of Its reputation for hon
est and sfpmrc dealing, and the fur
ther fact that it treats its employes
with consideration and puyq union
wages.
Mill to Hlart lli.
Tlie billet mills and converter do
nartnicnt at the Illinois Steel compa
ny's works at Juliet, 111., which were
closed several days ago for repairs,
will resume ncrutlous, lietwecn 700
and 800 men going Ut work. During
the shutdown many Important repairs)
have lccn made and prospect are
good for steady running.
Ak For IteceUer.
Frank P. Hawkins of Chicago, who
claims an interest In the Indiana, Illi
nois A. loivu railroad has tiled in circuit
court at Knox, Ind., an application for
the appointment of a receiver for the
road. Mr. Hawkins' claim Is $200,000.'
The attorney who mode the applica
tion is Frank M. Trissal of Chicago.
Wreuk on Orttat Isorilitup.
Two trains collided on tho Greai
Noithern railway near Kssex, Mont.,
and while details are meagre It is
known that two men named Warner
and Frit, weiv, killed and another in
jured, supcriiuonucni iveuneiiy has
gone iu his private car. with the ra
ti re wrecking crews of Kallspell.
Ordered lo Hlifu.
A I'ekln dispatch says the Chinese
peace commissioners have received
orders from the court to sign the join!
note of the powers.
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