TO FIGHT TO FINISH
British Informed That Boor War
Is Far From Ended.
K1T01CNC R RELIEVING JADED COMMANDS
Treih Troops are Nerdrd In Mouth Afrlra
rTrerident Kruger Will Vlntt United
y j$ SUIet In .tune Will Appear n
Boston, Wathlngtoii and
Chicago.
Lord Kitchener has informed tho
war oftlco that eighteen volunteer com
panies, freed by reliefs, are coming
homo und that further arrangements
are in progress for the speedy relief of
further companies, says a London ills
patch. He thus appeals to be endeav
oring to meet the demand that fresh
troops de sent to the front to replace
the stule men.
The Victoria correspondent of the
A Morning Post, who warns his country
men against hoping for an carlv ter
mination of hostilities, or believing the
fctories that the Hoersnrc tired of war
bays:
"It becomes dally more evident that
the Iloers intend to fight to a (Inlsh.
Many are surrendering, but they are
men of no standing. The real lighting
men are1 still on commando; and al
though the recently successful HritlrOi
operations tend to bring the end near
er, it is evident that the liners must be
completely crushed before u general
burrender is probable."
j. It is reported from Ilrussels that
1 acting President Sehalkerburger has
removed the seat of government to
Leydcsdorp.
According to a dispatch io the. Dally
Mail from Hllversum, Mr. Kruger, who
has just arrived there, has expressed
an intention to the t'nited States to
June to visit Washington, Kobton and
Chicago. "It is definitely ascertained."
says a dispatch to the Times from
Kroonsdstadt, dated Saturday "that
(ienerals Dewot anil liotha 'met at
Vreyd."
The Capetown correspondent to the
Daily Express reports wholesale arrests
for treason in Grnafreinot and Aber
V deen. There was no other news from
(South Africa, except that a small party
of llocrs have reoccupied Philllpstown
in Cape Colony.
GRAIN GOES UP IN SMOKE.
Klevntor Tire Ht St. I.ouU Cmiil Lou of
tMBO.OOO.
Sparks from a switch engine set (ire
to the big elevator owned by the St.
Louis Elevator ,v Storage company, at
St. Loids. and within less than two
hours the building was reduced to
ashes entailing a loss of SO.IO.OOO The
A building and contents which consisted
of about 800,000 bushels of wheat und
eorn, were fully Insured.
II. C. Hnurstlck, president of the
company, said the building and con
tents was fully insured. It was his
opinion that the Joss of the grain would
not nffect the local market.
The burned elevator was the second
largest in St. Louis and was used for
btorago purposes by others than mem
bers of the St. Louis Elevator & Stor
age Co., but the latter at this time
happened to own almost all the grain.
The building contained eorn and wheat
of grades below No. :.'. Only a small
umount of high class cereals was stored
there. The building was insured for
890,000 and the storage company's
grain for S.V.O.OOO. The other insur
ance on private storage will aggre
gate 850,000. There will bo little if
nny, grain salvage, the (Ire and water
having made u clean sweep.
DIEGON TO BE A BOATSWAIN
I'mdilrnt Iteuard .Mini Who Accom
panied llnhsoii.
The president lias made the follow
ing appointments:
Navy Hush li. Wallace, jr., to be a
f grst licutent in the marine corps;
John S. Doddridge, to be u lieutenant;
Thomas L. Stitt, to bo an ensign; Con
rad W. L. Jungquist, to be a gunner;
Clayton I. Hand to be u carpenter;
Feledek R. Huzzard, to be a boatswain;
Arthur Smith to be a boats.vaiu. Ob
bom Dcignan, to be a boatswain.
Osborn Dcignau, who is appointed
boatswain, is one of the sailors wlto
accompanied Naval Constructor I lob
son the famous Merrimac expedition
in Santiago bay while the harbor was
being 'blockaded by the American fleet.
It was the desire of the president to
reward Dcignau for his bravery on that
t occasion by appointing him u naval
cadet at Annapolis, but it was found
that he was not eligible.
Woman Trie to Kill Herielf.
Mrs. Margaret Carr, aged fifty-seven,
A prominent and wealthy Jady of
(ilrard, 111,, attempted to commit sui
cide at he, home by hanging herself in
the woodshed after break fast, but was
discovered and cut do(vn by her daugh
ter, Mrs. Frank Allen. Despondency
over the recent death of her husband
and grandchild was the cause.
Fire In Alontanu Toun,
Fire, which started In the Odd Fel
lows' hall ut Augusta, Mont., swept
through the business portion of the
town, consuming every building on the
main street. The loss is estimated ut
000,000, with 835,000 Insurance.
Sugar Warehouse Humeri
The warehouse on thesouthslde plan
tation, says a Now Orleans dispatch,
containing a large quantity of sugar,
was destroyed by fire. The loss lb
','00,000, fully covered by insurance.
GOES TO UNION IRON WORKS
Contract Aivnntcd for llnlldliifr tlin Crul.
rr Mlhiuultee.
The navy department has decided to
award the contract for the building of
the protected cruiser Milwaukee to the
Union iron works at San Francisco.
When the bids were received they were
referred by Seeretaty Long to the
board of construction. The board went
over the subject and then submitted a
written report to Secretary Long. This
report points out that the' Pacific coast
has received only one of eight vessels,
when It was the evident purpose of
congress that at least two of the tcsscIs
should go there in case the price was
not excessive. In the present case the
bid of the Union tnirks is S'.',8'..,S,000,
which, the board points out, Is con
siderably less than -4 per cent above
the contract price on similar ships
built in the east. The law allows t
per cent additional on ships built on
the I'aclHo coast.
The first of the new type of five-Inch
guns designed for cruisers of the Den
ver class, was tested at the Indian
head proving ground with very satis
factory results. A projectile weighing
sixty pounds was llred with a powder
charge of twenty-six pounds. The
muzzle velocity reached the exception
ally hlgu figure of s.hjio feet per sec
ond, showing a muzzle energy of 2.724
foot tons. This Is sixty-live per cent
more muzzle energy than guns of the
same type have made heretofore. It
is sufllclent to pierce seven inches of
Krupp armor at the muzz.lc nnd five
inches of ICrupp armor at 3,000 yards.
KNOr TO ENTER CABINET
1'rcalriont Announce the Acceptance of
I'ortrollo.
President McKlnley has announced
to the members of the cabinet that Mr.
1. C.-Knox of Pittsburg lias accepted
the attorney generalship which was
offered him last week.
That the report that Governor Allen
of Porto Rico is to resign uM)ii his
arrival in Washington Is credited in
the island is manifest from the fact
that the people of the Island are mak
ing representations to the president
regarding his successor. Weneeslao
llorda, who is chairman of the Porto
Iticun commission, which recently
came to Washlngten to protest against
the Ilolleiulen tax law, lias written to
the president on behalf' of the com
mission suggesting Francis II. Wilson,
the present postmaster ut Hrooklyn,
N. Y., us a successor of (iovernor Al
len. In offering Mr. Wilson's name to
the president Mr. llorda, who is in
New York, says he is obeying instruc
tions cabled to him by the executive
committee of the Merchants, Planters'
and Hankers association of Porto lllco.
WOMAN KILLED BY A BLOW.
Drawn Into a Quurrel In Which Sons Ar
Interfering on behalf of her
two boys, who were engaged in a
quarrel witli several others over a
game of marbles In Chicago, Mrs. Anna
Palmiere of 1553 Congress street was
knocked down by a blow from fifteen-year-old
James II. McKay and died be
fore being lifted from the sidewalk.
McKay ran away and was not arrested
until several hours later. Henry Pal
miere, husband of the dead woman,
upon returning to his room soon after
the death of his wife, procured a
revolver and went in search of his boys
the latter in the meantime having been
secreted in the house of the neighbors
for safe keeping. The irate father
wondered about tho neighborhood for
some time and became so violent that
Captain Campbell detailed an ollleer to
guard the house during the night to
prevent I'almiere, from injuring his
two sons, Maxmilian and Vivian,
whom lie blames for having drawn
their mother into the disturbance
which resulted in her death.
JOINTIST WAS ACQUITTE.P
Cuie In Kmum Under the New Tenipur
linen l.uw.
Tho first trial of a jointist tinder the
new Hurrell law passed by tho last
Kansas legislature, which makes It a
misdemeanor to be found in possession
of spirituous liquors, resulted in no
verdict at Salina, Ivan., and the jury
was discharged. It was the case of
Henry Stovens and wife, whoso place
was raided by the sheriff recently,.
The passage of the law was the result
of the temperance crusade started by
Mrs. Nation.
llaiuiuet for Chancellor,
Dr. 13. Denjumln Andrews, chancel
lor of the university of Nebraska, de
livered a lecture before the Lawrence
county teachers' Institute ut Dead
wood, S. D., on the bubject of "Self
Culture." A banquet wns given in
honor of Dr. Andrews and Miss Alice
Illuman of Lincoln, who is one of the
lecturers at the Institute. The banquet
was given ut the home of Dr. E. 13.
Clough.
I'reftlilrnt Diaz Decline.
A letter from Juancrcel to the El
Paso, Tex., chamber of commerce, says
President Diaz will decline that city's
Invitation to meet President McKln
ley for tie reason that the Mexican
congress will lie in session on the date
named.
FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER
Mayer of Jarkmaii Comlctml Deoplt
III On mil up.
Tho trial of Ilert Tihbetts at Grand
Rapids, Mich., charged with the mur
der of II, luckmau in (icorgetown on
December 31, 1U0O, ended with a ver
dict of guilty. Jackman was found in
his barn close to the heels of an
alleged vicious horse in u dying condi
tion. It was supposed the horse In
flicted the wounds, but an investiga
tion led to the arrest and conviction of
Tihbetts.
S A YED FROM FLOOD
School Toacher At Harrison,
Nob., a Heroine.
MAKES BRAVE RESCUE OE HER CHARGES
Anchors Frail llulldltiK In In MhUt of
Torrent Stand WaUt Deep In Chill
ing Wntara Until Danger U I'm!
Her 1'rnlden art) Hounded.
An act of heroism unsurpassed In
the annals of the state in the expression
being used by the Sioux county people
in connection with the performance of
Miss Llzz.lc Cottmitu, teacher In the dis
trict school near Harrison, Neb. Alone,
facing a torrent of water carrying
drbris of trees, dead animals and all
the complements of a Hood, she ics
cued from a horrible death the scholars
of her school and picserved the build
ing itself from what seemed inevitable
destruction.
Teacher nnd pupils woie unconscious
of the frightful danger awaiting them.
Suddenly Miss Cottinan felt a strange,
uncanny movement under her feet.
Again it cuiuo, tills time mi strong that
the pupils looked up in terror. Step
ping to the door, Miss Cottinan wit
nessed u sight Millicient to stir the
strongest soul. The White river was
out of its banks. The school building
was already surrounded and the rising
flood was hurling its jniwer against
the frail frame structure.
Instantly Miss Cotttnan's purpose
was formed. Across the expanse of
water, tugging at his long rope,
was a horse which had been ridden by
one the pupils to the school. .Spring
ing fearlessly into the muddy und debris-filled
sea, Miss Cottinan waded
waist deep to the horse's side. Then
she begun the struggle back, her help
less pupils watching her in pitiable
terror. It was frightful at best, but
when a great wave struck the build
ing, causing it to totter and break
partially loose, Miss (.: man's courage
almost fulled. Heroically, however,
she pressed on anil fastened the rope
to the saddle and then to the building,
giving it the aid of the horse'b strength.
For three quarters of uu hour she
stood nt the horse's head up to her
armpits in the chilling torrent, until
f.ne of the largest of the pupils wadeil
across to land und returned with us
slstunce from the neighors. distant
several hundred yards. The children
were rescued aud tho building was
saved.
ENDS LIFE IN AWFUL WAY
York Comity Young Mini Determined
to Die.
Ouy Anderson, a young man twenty
.dx years old committed suicide in 'a
horrible manner at his home just south
of Wuco, Neb. The body was found
lying beside a pile of burning rubbish
in a field near the barn, blackened und
burned almost beyond recognition.
It seemed that in order to make his
desperate work more certain he first
tied Ills legs together with wire and
then fastened the wire to a fence post
near a pile of rubbish. He then must
have set lire to this rubbish und there
after cut his throat with u pocket
knife, severing both the windpipe and
the jugular vein. Ho was peiliaps
dead before the tire had any effect
upon his body.
The coroner's jury rendered n verdict
that deceased had tiled from the ucts
of his own hands.
To I'uttern After Amerlciin.
The managers of u number of iron
manufactories of the Manchester, Eng
land, district have decided to send out
a picked party of llritish workmen to
the United States for the purpose of
studying American methods of work
manship in the automatic and tool
trade. The districts of New England.
Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati nnd
Chicago und other steel centers will bo
visited in the hope of convincing the
Hritish workmen of the necessity of
improved method if they desire to re
tain their share of the world's trade.
Corner I'eanut Market.
It has been announced that a firm
t Hoboken, N. .1., had cornered the
peanut market, having purchased nil
the nuts in the Chicago, lJoston and
New York markets as well as hnving
secured 125 carloads from Norfolk, Vu.
j nere lias been an advance! in the price
from 70 to 00 cents a bushel lately, ami
a member of the firm says' this lias
been due to the corner und expresses
his opinion that it will be still higher.
Collide ut n Cronln;.
A Burlington passenger train going
vest was struck by an engine ut the
crossing of the St. Joseph and Grand
Island road near Endlcott, Neb., nnd
considerably damaged. The engine
btruck in the middle of the smoker nnd
throw it off the trucks but wns stopped
ia time to prevent more serious dam
age. Aside from a few slight cuts
from broken glass none of the passen
gers in the coach were Injured.
Waiting to CmiTny I.ooiiiIk
The squadron of the United States
warships, under tho command of Hear
Admiral Furquhar Is at chief Cuelebra
island, about twenty miles south of
Porto Itico, and apparently prepared to
stay there for some time. Tho United
States auxiliary cruiser Scorpion is ex
pected from tluayra about April 10,
with United Stutes Minister Loomlb on
board.
Woman may be at tho bottom of all
man's troubles, yet without her life
would not be worth living.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The striking dockers at .Marseilles
have ifHumcd work.
Famine and cholera are leaping u
fearful harvest in India.
Ten fresh eus.s of bubonic plague
are lepoited at Capetown.
Four hundred coal miners of lllr
tntnghaiu, Ala., have gone back to
work.
Fire at Lisbon Falls, Me., destroyed
twenty-eight buildings, entailing a
loss of S'.'f.O.OOO.
The Potomac river Is out of Its banks
and Willlnmsport, Mil., is In danger of
being lloodswcpt.
Fireman over the entire system of
the Lake Shore road have been gi anted
an increase in pay.
At Kansas City a suburban train left
the track, Injuring four persons, ono
or two of whom will tile.
Import duties for Vlndlvostock, Hns
slit, have been raised on ait American
iron and steel machinery.
Port nuthortles at Santiago nre blow
ing up he wrceketl Merrimac which
impedes entrance to the harbor.
At Clnclnnattt 800 journeymen paint
pis have settled their difference with
the bosses aud returned to work.
Snbbata Tiiginolo shot and killed his
brother IMetra at Patterson, N. .1., us
the result of u quarrel over u game of
cards.
Walter Welngerter, son of a wealthy
Akron, Ohio, jeweler, has been con
victed of participating in the riot of
last August.
Painters and decorators of St. Joe,
Mo., wlio recently struck for :i5 cents
an hour, will return to work on a basin
of .VJVtf cents.
Comptroller Dawes has authorized
the O'Neill National bank of O'Neill,
Neb,, to commence business with a
capltnl of 825,000.
Governor Allen of Porto Hlco has. at
the president's earnest solleiation,
ngreed to remain at his post. Ho will
return to his duties about May 1.
A Pekln dispatch says that China lias
agreed to all demands of the powers,
and that there will be no further tie
lays in tilt peace negotiations.
The Crete, Neb., mill has filed artic
les of incoporutiou with the secretary
of state. The incorporators in e Ollvo
A. White nnd Albert A. Johnson.
II pv. J. J. Parker lias closed sixteen
yenrs service in the pastorate of the
First Congregational church at Nor
folk, Neb., ami will go to Kearney.
General Flt.liugb Lee has recovered
from his cold contracted on u journey
to the mountains near Denver, and lias
resumed his journey to the Paeillc
coast.
Frank Uorer. assistant cashier of
the Commercial National bank at Col
umbus. Neb., fell from a ladder while
at work ut his home nnd sustained a
broken leg.
Mrs. Isabel Thompson, Kansas City,
aged (17, was assualted by a footpad
who intended robbery. She will tlio
as a result of the injuries inflicted.
There is no clue.
At Memphis, Tenn., Thomas Allen,
n steamboat mate, stabbed to death
Dan Mclntyre, a well-known man
about town. The tragedy grow out of
differences nbout a woman.
Edmund Palmer, the president of
private banks of Ashley, III., and
Emmetsvllle. Intl., has effected n set
tlement with the bank's creditors. Ho
will pay fifty cents on the dollar now,
and give his notes for the balance.
Mrs. Michael Chart of the town of
Lake. Wis., and her seven-yenr-old
daughter. Mary, drowned in the Kin
nikinnlck river. Mr. Chart escaped.
They were out driving nnd tho horse
became frightened and run off a bridge.
While Miss Maggie Riggers, a mil
iner of Ada, Minn., was preparing her
Enster toilet, her hair caught fire and
she was burned to death. The flames
spread to the stock, and building and
contents burned.
At a meeting of the generals of the
allied troops at Pekln and General Von
Wnldersee, Generals Chaffee of tho
Americans, und Wogak of tho Rus
stans. dissented to the plans ndopted.
These two generals favor leniency for
China.
Official deninl Is crlven to the Lon
don publication reciting that the Unit
ed RUtcs hns adopted n menacing at
titude toward Denmark in tho course
of negotiations touching the cession of
the Danish West Indies to tho United
Stntes.
George llrcttell, an old time resident
of Lead, S. D., died recently, leaving
considerable property. He left bin
son SlOper.month for five years, nt
the end of which time ho is to fall heir
to 82,000 provided lie has quit the ci
garette habit.
Prentice Tiller and T. H. Grant, re
cently arrested In Nebraska, and want
ed in various places for robbing tho
United Stutes mails, made their es
cape from United States officers, in
whose charge they were, while wait
ing for a train at the Union depot In
Chicago. Tilhv wns recaptured, but
Grant lb still at large.
Tnkrn to llnapltal for Iimaoe.
Sheriff Simmering of Adnme county,
Neb., took Pcrcivnl Gerould to tho in
sane hospital at Lincoln. Mr. Gerould
has been manager of the Hastings
Light and Hent company for several
years and had never shown any symp
toms until lately.
Kruger' Change, of Vuin,
Mr. Kruger has started for Hilvor
sum, Holland, where ho wlll stay for
some time. Tho burgomaster of
Utrecht and a big crowd bade him faro
veil ut the railroad station,
DESPERADO KILLED
Notorious Davo Luso Laid Low by
Doputy Marshal Hans.
MADE AN EEEORT TO KILL THE OEEICER
Iran Winchester hut Cartridge Fall to
Kiplmle--Dcpuly More fortunate and
Two llullct Hilda Career of Ilrown
Comity Criminal Itnd Mini.
Dave O. Lusc, a notorious character
of north Ilrown county, Neb., was shot
and instantly killed at his home near
Alnswoitli by Deputy United States
Marshal 1'ietl M. Hans while resisting
arrest.
About a year ago some seventeen
horses belonging to the thin of Jones
Sellers and being honied on the
ranch of I'. 1). Hendricks in the ninth
cm part of the county were myster
iously shot by some miscreant. A re
wind of 8100 wasoffeictl for the arrest
anil conviction of the guilty paity or
pin tics. United States Marshal Hans
was appealed to to ferret out the per
pet tutors.
Detective Hans assigned one of his
men, E. II. Uuquctt, known as the
tranii detective, to work up the case.
At various limes Duquctt was in the
county looMtti; up the facts in tho
case
He succeeded. Iff getting Into -the
good graces and confidence of IAisc,
and finally secured evidence that lJuV
was the man wanted, lie also secured
evidence tending to prove that Lusc
was the perpetrator of the oHiues jif
murder, arson ami robberies' jii'tho
yearn past sullleleul to condemn him
to tho gallows or penitentiary for life.
With the evidence before him, Mar
shal Hans served his pupcis on Lusc.
The desperado grabbed a Winchester
from Its place of concealment antlthew
on Hans, but the shell happened to be
nn empty one, ami before Luso could
get a shot the marshal sent a bullet
crashing into his heart, following It
with u second, causing instant death.
Lusc has been u terror to the neigh
boihood for years, anil his death comes
as a relief to the entile community.
NO EMERGENCY FUND
rnftliniiHter (leueral Votnc Wlnil ho Itc-
gitriU llud Practice.
Postmaster General Smith has is
sued an order strictly prohibiting the
erentlon or maintenance In any post
olllce of a surplus or emergency fund
derived from flues or parts of salary
withheld for any reason, and directing
that any money thus derived shall be
regularly reported to the department.
The order is due to information that
has reached tho postmaster general that
in some olllces it has been for many
years tho practice to maintain such a
fund for use in furnishing supplies.
The postmaster general stumps such
practice us not only Irregular, lint too
liable to abuse.
ROUGH RIPPER A SUICIPE.
I'ud III Life After u I'erlod of DU-
Mlpiillnn.
A soldier who shot ami killed him
self nt the Cliff house at San Francisco
bus been identified us Paul Wim-en.
who was one of the members of troop
C of the Itoosevclt rough riders. Ho
wasa natUeof (Juiney. a son of the
luto William Warren, chief justice of
New Mexico. Warren served in the
Philippines with the Eleventh cavalry
and was honorably discharged n few
days ago. His suicide ended a period
of dissipation.
SHOT PEAP IN COURT ROOM
.Murder of Woman Aimiged nt Yuiiiii,
Arlrouii,
At Yuinu, Ariz.., Deputy Sheriff
Alexander was shot anil fatally wound
ed as he was being taken from the
court room to jail after receiving a
sentence of llfo imprisonment for the
murder of Mrs. J. J. Hums. The shot
ciimo from the Inside of u building
near the courl house. Samuel King,
brother of Mrs. Hums, is uniler arrest
on suspicion of being the one who fired
the shot.
Couple. Fatally Horned.
At the homo of William Carroll of
Lincoln, III., his wife, Mrs. Ellen Car
roll, ogctl sixty, was passing from one
room to another with a lamp when
she trlppetl and fell at the feet of her
invalid husband, who was lying on u
couch. The lamp exploded and pass
ers by hurried to her assistance, but
before their nrrlval, her body was
burned to a crisp und her husband in
fatally burned. Ho Is sixty-five.
Kntahtlsh lllgld Quarantine.
The village board of Lawrence, Neb.,
has adopted tho most stringent qunr
untitle provisions. All persons known
to bo dangerously exposed are under
surveillance. Tho doctor judges tho
disease under control nnd ttiiuks it
will bo speedily stnmpetl out.
Honor l.ouliel,
President Loubct's visit to the Med
iterranean coast opened under excel
lent auspices at Nice, Italy. Ilriglit
sunshine welcomed the president's nr
rival. M. Loubet has chosen tho most
charming season for a tour of the III
verla. The whole countryside is a
muss of bloom of varied hues, und
Nice, itself as the train steamed in,
displayed floral decorations every
where. The president was accom
panied by his wife, minister of foreign
affairs, M. Delcussc, anil tho minister
of war, M. Andre.
COURT MAKES COMMISSION
.1. If, Ante In I, leu of .IiiiIrr llnrnr of
Norfolk.
Tiio supreme court has appointed tho
following comnihsloncr.s to serve for n
tenn of two years at a salary of 83,500
a year.
John II, Ames, Lincoln, gold demo
crati W. II. Hastings, Wilbcr, demo
ernt; I. L. Albert, Columbus, populist;
S. II. Sedgwick, York, republican; E
It. Dullle, Omaha, democrat; J. Hj
Klrkpatrlek, Lincoln, populist; Genrga
A. Day, Omaha, republican; W. I. Old-'
ham, Kearney, democrat; Honcoo
Pound, Lincoln, republican. No sten
ographers for the commissioners wcro
named.
Tho division of three republicans,
three democrats, two populists and one
gold democrat was arrived utaftor con
siderable difficulty. According to re
ports there were originally four re
publicans on the list, Judge J. It.
Ilariies of Norfolk, ami the three who
were appointed.
POSE OF TAR ANO FEATHERS
l'oncB, Nell., Mini .Middled hy Indignant
Clllteu.
A crowd of about fifty Pouca, Neb.,
men seled Alvu Smith while ho was
on ills way home fiotu the theater, and
tarred nut feathered him. Ho wns
then given twenty-four hours to leave
town. Smith Is accused of ruining
Minnie Elliiui, a girl of eighteen, who
died In an Omaha hospital two week"
"K. ,
BOILEP DOWN.
The Piatt amendment still hangs fire
in the Cuban convention.
Five families at Lawrence, Neb.,
iirc'sald to bo a Diluted witli the Cuban
it ih.
The eighty-third birthday of King
Christian of Deumailc.was celebrated
April H.
The1 name of the postotllcent Jordan,
Garllcld county, Nebraska, lias I. con
changed to Easton, with Maria Wur
reu as postmistress,
TwentynlncChlnnnien were arrested
on the Cumitliun border north of Ma
lone, New York, trying to make their
way into the 1'ultcil States.
Congressman J. A. T. Hull, of Iowa,
chairman of the committe on military
affairs has started for the Philippines
to make investigation of urmy condi
tions. It is said that tho manifesto which
Agiilunldo has been preparing has nut
yet been signed, at.d it is added that
Aguluahlo is reluctant to comply with
Its provisions.
The Filipinos in Manila, or a major
ity of them, distrust Aguinahlo and
dislike to see him accorded special
privileges. They say he ought to bo
severely punished. ,
The Geneva, Nebraska, flouring mill
ing company has Just completed a largo
storage house, the addition being neo
cessary on account of the increased
output of the mill.
Tho first word which hns been re
ceived from Pino Ridge agency since
the two icceut storms is that numbers
of cattle died during tho last storm on.
the reservation. The storm was very
severe there.
At a special election nt Normal, III.,
tho voters adopted tho proposition of
tho state board of education to merge
the piihliu schools of that city witli the
normal department of the Illinois nor
mal university. ;
I. N. Swartwood, tho farmer who
killed C. H. Caldwell, a wealthy far
mer and his neighbor, In a dispute
over u boundary line, nnd who ban
been hunted by tho sheriff of Scott
county with posse and bloodhounds,
was arrested in Ashland, Cuss county.
The crime was committed near Man
chester, 111.
Instructions! have been cabled by
Secretary of the Navy Long to Hear
Admiral ICciuoy, commanding tho
Asiatic station, authorizing him to en
list .'.DO uutivcH of the Philippines for
service on board thu former Spanish
gunboats uml other small vessels which
lire to be maintained exclusively in
tlio Philippines.
Westbound Southern Pacific passen
ger train No. 1 was wrecked ut Mores
hill, near Wells, Nov. Fireman Hick
man of Ogden and Fireman Lnder of
Wells were killed and Engineers War
ner of Wells and llrlde of Ogden were
seriously, but not fatully injured. A
broken truck caused half the truin to
leave the trade.
Ed Sine an employe of tlio Page
hardware company at Wichita, Kan.,
wns shot while preparing to retire for
the, night. The shot was fired from a
window opposite. T. .1. Robinson -has
been arrested on suspicion, us ho was
said to be jealous of Sine to whom Rob
pi son's divorced wife had rented a
room. Sine cannot recover.
The new Chicago city administra
tion, headed by Mayor Carter Harri
son, wns inducted into ofllcn at the
city council chamber. A picturesque
feature of the gathering was tho pres
ence of Mrs. Potter Pulintir, with a
cotorie of prominent people, who came
to see her bon, Honore Palmer, alder
man from tho Twenty-first ward,
bworn In us u city ofilclul.
A motion has been made in the
United States supreme court for the
ndmlssion of Captain Oberlln Carter
to bail. Atlldavits of physicians were
filed to tlio effect that Carter is suffer
ing from nervous disorders, headaches,
loss of memory, etc.
An attempt was mudo to wreck a
westbound Short Lino passenger train
at Mulada bridge, 100 miles west of
lioise, Idaho. A number of tics were
piled on tho track and the engineer
did not sec tlio obstruction in time.
Tho engine was damaged but no ono
was hurt.
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