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. r 1 I WW . : ,..7Jt yAungitwaBawairffjMyWtirr.-. I ;.-- v "w, : 'wJttM fgrMnVMK rtMf'' n if-,, . ;. ft' i i. r"t I , A MOURNING (ITY Funeral Services for President McKinloy. MANY SSRONG MEN SOB lit SORROW 'I'hc I'uncriit 'I'Piiln In l.i-imi Tor 111 fan- ton Homo Tiieiiln.v MkIiI -I'repur.i- Hour arc Itcliia Miuli' fur u (iminl of Honor --Oilier Si-ihi Sunday morning n simple service tnult plttl'O fit till' I'l'sllll'lll'l! Ill ItUlVilll) where McKinlcy died. 'I'lus scene there was pathetic In the extreme Then the limly was borne nut to the waiting cortege n the brawny 'shoulders of eight Hnilors anil soldiers of tlie repub lic. 'I'ho cortege passed through s did walls of Hviiifr humanity, liiireheaileil Hiul grief-stricken, to the elty hall, where the. hotly lay in state during the afternoon. Mi's. MlsKinley horn up bravely dur ing tho service at tin.' Mllhurn resi dence, and Dr. Ulxoy, her physician, thinks she will Ik' tilths to support It r trying part in the state, funeral at Washington. Arrangements hail been ur.uh' to ;ilIov t lie. public to view the body from llui time it arrived, but. the people wcr. wedged into the. strcts for blocks. Two lines were formed. They extend "l llU'rally for ntile.s. When fl o'clock oiuno forty thousand people had al ready passed, and the erowds waiting lielovv in the streets seemed undlmishcd It-wWdeclde'd to extend' the time until" midnight. Tlien for hour-; longer the streets were den'' with people and a constant stream flowed up tins steps of the broad cntrauec into the hall and sashed the bier. When this doors weiis el owed at midnight it wan estimated that eighty thousand people had view ed the remains, but thousands of dis appointed ones were, still in the streets. WiMkliiKtmi I'll 1 1 1' nil Tiu-Hihlj. The following ollluial statement, snaking important changes in the plnus-tor thf.fuuiir.al. services over the. remains of 1'rcsUlent .McKinlcy at Washington, was givi'ii ti the press Sunday night: In compliance with the earnest wishes of Mrs. McKinlcy thatthc body of her husband shall rest in her home at Clinton Wednesday night the follow ing changes in the obsequies of the Into president will bo. made: Funeral services in this rotunda of the eapltol will be held Tuesday morn ing, on. tUu. arrival of the escort which will accompany the remains from the White house. Tim body of the late president will lie in state in the rotun da for the remainder of Tuesday and will bovseortcd to the railroad station Tuesday evening. The funeral train will leave Washington at or about 8 o'clock Tuesday evening and thus will nrrivis at Canton during the day Wed nesday. (Signed) Jon.V IlAV, Secretary of State. r'l.mu ft (kit. Secretary of War. John I). Iiiixn, Secretary of the Navy Henry II. I''. McPuiiund, President of this Hoard of Commissioners of the Dis trict of Columbia. TORRENCE FOR COMMANDER limuil A rin j Vi'leniii Select Him nit Their Chief. A Clovclanil, O., September 13 ills paUdi says: (icnoral Sickles has with drawn as a candidate for commander-ln-chlof.of..thi!.G. A. It. The light wns left between Torrence and Stewart. .Itidgo Torrence. of Minneapolis was elected commanncr-lu-ehief uf tlie (J, A. H. by the unanimous vote of thu convention. The balloting stood MO to 47S In favor of Torrnncu when Comrade Wng ner, who had thu Stewart Interest in haml, moved to make. Torrance's1 elec tion unanimous. The election of ofli eers wo.s thu only business lajforc the convention. m Killed In ttullroiid Yurdn. Edwin O. Arnold, near inspector in the llvrllngton railroad yards in Lin coln. Neb., wa.s crushed and madgled beneath a moving switch engine at :':23 Saturday morning. t Mr. Arnold had left thu lower rooms In this yard office to walk across the tracks when the accident hnpponcd. Ho walked di rectly in front of engine ','18 which was passing tho oftlce, running north. The machine struck bin, throw him to thu tracloi and passed over him, crushing and mangling the lower part of his lody Mid his legs. He was picked up and carried to the yard infcco where ho cxpircd-iit 3;5R,- mi limn; and thirty minutes after the accident. Kllll-ll HlmM'lf Wllllo IllKHIIV. The remains of Frank doff, who committed suicide at Wichita, Kan., by cutting hid throat with a pleas of tin while temporarily iusanu, arrived at Nebraska City aud wore Interred. Flo was this sou of Mr. aud Mrs. D. J. (Joff, pioneer settlers of Nebraska City. His had leon down to I.awsou and was on his way homo when his becamu in sane. Wreck On llrent Northern, A disastrous freight wreck occurred today on this .Great (Northern railroad "near this Cascade tunnci. in Washing ton, September ltf. Tho engineer, while making this western decline in thu tunnel, lost control In tho air brakes and this train attained, such a high raUs of speed that when a slight curve was reached thu cars jumped tho track and piled up in a confused heap. Fins ensned and thirty-one cars loaded with merchandise were totally de stroyed. This engineer, and fireman, a section hand and tramp weru killed. TAKES THE OATH 1'rpHpni 'iliiitt Vlrtn'iiTs niiilii. Ashed In tte Theodore liooscvell, who was trag ically elevated to the chief magistracy of tin Aineiican republic by the death of President McKinlcy. entered MulValo Saturday afternoon, aftera remarkable and perilous, journey from the heart of the north woods, lie had been presi dent under the constitution and laws of the laud since the minute the unit' t.vrul president ceased to live. All the duties and powers of tin olllce hud devolved upon hint, but he was as powerless as the humblest clti en to exorcise one of them until ho had.complled wltli the constitutional provision requiring him to take a pre scribed oath to support the constitu tion of tlie I'liiled Slates, lie took the oath at :i::ti Saturday In tin library of the residence of nsley Wilcoek. a per- f.onal friend with wnoiu ho stopped earlier in the week- when the physi cians thought McKinlcy would recover from the wound Indicted by the assassin, BURNS ALL HIS PROPERTY Insane Act if ii runner Neur .Mitnpu'lle, .Mli'lili;im. Armed with a shotgun and declaring he would shoot the llrst person who at tempted Interference, a farmer named 1, uphill, living 'near (iorinfask, Mich., held at bay a crowd of neighbors while the bulk of his property went up in smoke. I.uploii hauled practically everything of value he possessed to his barn, which contained ab tut one hun dred tons of hay, besides vehicles, etc.. and after the horses and cattle weie also locked up, applied a match, next setting lire to his dwelling house. When the barn ami house had been practically consumed, l.uptnn lied to the woods and was later found by a searching party, concealed in a hay stack in a nearby Held, l.upton has a wife and family. KENTUCKY LYNCHING. Three Nrcroo Hlrimi; up by Mi f Colored Itilre. News has been received atCairo, III., to the effect that a mob . of negroes, broke, into the jail at WlckllfVe. Ky and lynched three negroes, Frank How ard, Sam Heed aud Krnost Harrison, They hanged the men to a cross-beam in John Mo.Cnuley's mill. The crime for which tlie. men wen; hanged was the murder of a respeet oil negro, Wash Thomas. Ileocntly In the night they waylaid Thomas on the railroad track, hit him with a club and killed him, and then robbed the dead body. .The murders confessed their crime before the mob. Wiili-hliiR the AniirchlHtH. A Marseilles dispatch announces tho arrest there of eight anin'ehlsts, Ital ians and Spaniards, Including Prudent! one of the chief anarchists of thu Malta and a friend of ltresel and Casorlo. Several anarchists arts said to luivo been arrested on the arriving at Kheims. They will bo kept In custody until the Russian Ihnperor has depart ed. Warships arrived at Dunkirk today and took up stations In thu roadstead. The town Is already tilling witb visi tors. The Mantin rays It learns that, the Kmporer Nicholas has finally de cided not to visit Paris. p Ifli'iitlf)' a llrud Mini. It is now known that thu intoxicated man who wan run over by a Hurling ton freight between Deadwood, S. 1)., and Pluina, was C. It. Clark, whose home was at Gettysburg, S. I). Hu came to Ilapld City first from Pierre, and was looking for work as a cook. He had written n letter to his wife, saying that his had sobered up and would never drink again. He was cut to pieces and died in two hours. It was supposed that he was only a tramp. 1'renldent Left t Will. President McKinlcy has left a will. The instalment was executed some time yeforo the shooting, and at no tjtnc during his final suffering wns there nny wish or codicil. It leaves thu bulk of his property to Mrs. Mc Kinlcy. How much tho estato Is worth cannot Ikj stated with exactness by those most familiar with the presi dent's business affairs, but It Is 1h- lioved to bo a goodly sum, although not amounting to a largo fortune. Maul lttroyreii'h Trer. Fully 10.0(H) peach trees will have to Iks destroyed In this vicinity of Athens, Ohio, as tho result of an order of the Ohio agricultural department, thu trees being nlllicted with San Joso scale. Tho department Is now con ducting an Inspection and has already condemned thousands of trees. Many orchnrds will hnvo to bo entirely de stroyed. This is ono of tho lnrgcst peach.dlstrlctH in tho state. Htrlkc Httttletiirnt ltunuir. At Pittsburg, it was learned recently that President Shaffer of tho nmalgat ed association, with several of his ad visors had left for New York, presum ably under an arrangement with tho steel people to settle tho strike. Ioith rhynlcl.iit Murdered, At Newton, Iowa, on September 1.1, Dr. H. M. Fallor was foully murdered by footpads, whllo returning from a professional call, about midnight. A watch unit a small amount was ob tained. The doctor died thu next morning. He was struck on the head with a club. All Well In lViiry I'arly. The Peary Arctic steamer IJiik, from Cnpe Sabine, Klluhinereland, August -'l, arrived at North Sidney on September 13, wito all wol l CZOLdOSZ INDICTED Buffalo Grand Jury Hands in Its Opinion. THE PRISONER IS TAKEN INTO COURT Itrfiiot's in .nitii'r i)ucFllnii I'nt To Hint t'r'ii-i Hunt Hj I In- frostd, lint Hell I'rtili'i'li'il -I'liiiuit'l Af ImiIiiIimI Oilier Nets. I. con I'. ('.olgosit alias Fred .Sicilian, was indicted Monda, by the grand jury for tlie crime of murder In the llrst degree In fatally shotting Prel de'it William McKinlcy at the Temple of Music in the Pan-American exposi tion grounds at l:l.i o'clock on the af ternoon of .September !. When arraigned before tho .ludgo Kdward Kiucry In thecountt court, tlie prisoner stubornly refused to answer iuestious icpeateiily asked of him by District Attorney Penney as towiicther he had eounsi'l or wanted counsel. The district attorney I hen suggested that, inasmuch as the defendant refused to answer, counsel should be. assigned, .ludgo Kiucry assigned lion, l.oraiu 1.. Lewis and Hon. ltobert '. Titus, for merly supreme court justices of this city, whoso names had been suggested by the Krlo bar association, Tho secret indictment was presented to .ludgo Kiuory lu the county court. Then ensued a wnU. of an hour, but tho rumor that the murderer was to be arralngeibsproad, and in a short time the. court room was crowded. (Ireat secrecy was maintained as to the plnoo of contiuemeut of the prisoner, but It Is believed lie was locked up In the temporary jail at tho Krlo county pen itentiary, where prisoners have been kept while tho Jail has been undergo ing repairs. After the indictment was reported tho prisoner was driven from the penitentiary, a mile from the elty hall, to the jail across tho stnvt from the hall. P.olgosz was then taken, under srrong guard, from tho jail through tlie tunnel under Delaware avemn: to the basement of the ijlty hall umfup the stairs to the court room on the second floor. Tho prisoner was shackled to a de tective, and another detective held his other arm. Assistant Superintendent Cusack marching on the front and a number of patrolmen behind. When the prisoner was taken lieforc the bench tho crowd in the court room surged about him on nil sides. They were compelled to resume their scats C.olgosz Is of medium height, of fairly goo.l build and has light, curly hair, but a ton days growth of b.'ard on his face gave him . u unkempt appear ance. Apparently ho feignol insanity, not stupidity, innl his glance r.iaiued about, but his eyes were always down cast. Not once did ho look th s county prosecutor or the judge In the face. ludgo Kmery assigned Ijraln L. Davis and ltobert C. Titus as counsel, after which tho prisoner was lead away. The bullets fired at the president are under pathological examination as to poison, hut It will bo perhaps a week before any opinion can bo given,. Kfforts to connect the Chicago an archists with tlsp plot, to assassinate President McKinlcy will bo altandoned and the prisoners will be released soon. May Cli-ur up n Mjntory, With this finding of lu thu water nt the foot of Peck court at Chicago the body of M. (!. Van Derllcrg.a wehlthy , rrshlent of the Netherlands, an asso- ciatu or American capitalists anil guest at the. auditorium Aunev, the mysterious death of Stella Cook recent ly Is cleared. Miss Cook was not mur dered according to tho present belief of tho police, but lost her life with Mr. Van Djr ltjrjr by tho over turning of a ltoatin which they were rowing. The discovery of tho Hollander's body not only cleared up the "murder mystery" but dispelled the cloud of suspicion that has sisttlcd about ILirry Thurston cook on the steamer City of Traverse, and n companion of the dead girl. Unless unexpected evidence develops at tho coronor's inquest, Thnrst:m, who Is being hold at Mackinac Island on a warrant charging him with hav ing guilty knowledge of tho girl's dis appearance, will be set free. llrld;o U In Diiiirit. News from Trenton, Neb., says: It began to rain here last Sunday, Sept. 8, at o'clock In tho afternoon and continued all night. Is la thu hardest rain ever known to fall hero, the pre cipitation being four and one-half Inch es. It was n. perfect downpour. ' Tho Cannons were overflowing their banks and the country roads arts washed out so that they are impassable. The lie publican river Is very high, and fears are entertained for the safety of the bridge. Haln lias fallen nearly every day for over a week. This has stopped the threshing and chocked the pro gress, of thu broomcorn harvest. A great deal of fall grain will bo plant ed as a result of this wet spell. Clgiirrttrit lu Srlinnl. Havo school boards th right to pro hibit the use of cigarettes on the school grounds? Statu Superintendent Fow' jer says they havo. A school board may go further. It may prohibit the use of cigarettes by school Istys going to and from school. Then if that is not suuicicnt tho board may enforce this autl-clgnrettts law and prosecute I persons who sull or give cigarettes to minors, All this Is expressed by the. stnto superintendent as this result of trouble arising at tho town of Arling ton over the use of cigarettes by school boyti. AT THE WHITE HOUSE Itmlj of Ihc IliMid I'reHldeiil l.lii In Sliitn III WlMlllllglttll, The remains of President McKinlcy were taken froilt lluffalo to Washing ton Monday, The sd farewell given by HulVulo was imprest to and tho streets wore thronged with a mourning multitude. The funeral train was preceded by llfleen minutes to keep tho tracks dear. The t lain reached Washington at S:.ts p. m. Moiida.t. The iviniii-.sworo taken to the White House to lie in state Tuesday. The foil lug is tlie orderof arrange ments for tlie obsequies at Washing ton for William McKinlcy. laic presi dent nf the fulled Slates, as revised to meet (be wishes nf Mrs. McKinlcy; The remains of tho late president will unite In Washington al $:;in to night and will be escort ed to thooec utite mansion U n squadron of 1'ultcil State-, cavalry. Tuciduyat t) a. in. thoy will be borne to the eapltol, whore re ligious services will be hold, after which the body of the late president, wilt tie in state in the rotunda for tlie icuminilcr of the dav. lu tho evening the remains will be born to tho station of the Pennsylvania railroad, escorted by a Mtiailrou of 1'nlteil States cavalry and then conveyed to their Until rest ing place at Canton, (). FOUND DEAD WITH WEAPON, l"arl Si'ltli'r nf sni,.rlor. Ni'ltr.. ('iiiiinill SiiUlile. C. I.. Patterson, an early settler lu Superior, conunll ted suicide. He had been ill for a great many years, and was just able to be around again after a serious attack Ills nur.se not being well bad left the room and on return ing said Mr. Patterson t-sik a drugged tablet and went back to lie on this couch. Tho nurse stepped Into an other room and while he was gone Mr. Patterson slipped out. The nurse re turning and not finding him notified his wife and each went lu opposite di rection to llud him. Falling lu this, they gate a general alarm. A small boy said he saw him go Into tho base ment of tho store In which they lived. Keys were gotten and Mr. Patterson was found In the rear of tho basement with n bullet bole in his forehead. Hu had usimI a .."IS calibre revolver. After pulling the. trigger his hand, still hold ing the weapon, had dropped on his breast. Death Is supposed to havu been instantaneous. Th rent Aualieil Itoiinvtll. Frank tilings, twcnty-th;ce years old a blacksmith, tvas arr.ingo.l bo font Judge Kennedy at tho central police court at Cleveland, O.. upon thcchargis of suspicion. In a saloon on St. Clair street Idings is reported to have said: "I beloni; to a society that will pay 3.VI.I11M to any man who will kill Presi dent ItoosetVlt." ""Idfngsat his hearing did not deny that he made tlie statement. lie was remanded to jail and will bo given a hearing soon. In thu incantlmo tho jKillee will try to loam all about the prisoner, liUhop tt'liliiln lii'iid. ltlshop Henry II. Whipple of tho Protestant Kplscopal church died at his home in Faribault, Minn. ltlshop Whipple? who has Iteen seri ously ill at his home In Faribault, -was was taken suddenly worse. His had n severe attack of angina pectoris about a week ago, but secuicd to recover af ter this first day's illness. Henry Itcnjamln Whipple lias been bishop of tin! Kplseopal church In Minnesota, since LS.'.U. Ilu wuh or dained in isr0. lie was senior bishop of thu Protestant Kplseopal church In America. Wind Sturm at Or.iinl Inland. A sovero wind storm visited Ornnd Island Wednesday morning. It tvas a regular gale, awakened this entire elty and many took refuge In cellars. Tho storm was almost in-, severe as that of last Fourth of July. So far, however, tho damage reported Is very light. Some small outbuildings were blown over and quite a number of largo trees were broken off. A heavy rain accom panied this storm. Cninplutva Hi" Orttth Mnk, A death mask of the president's facts at 7 o'clock Sunday. The. manic tvas taken by ftiluoard I. A. Pitusch, of Hartford, Conn. Pauscli bus modelled tho features of many of thu distinguished men who have died In this country lu recent years. The mask Is a faithful repro duction of the late President MeKln ley's features. Alleged llurRliir Hound Over. Loo May, slxtoen-yoar-old loy, who is charged with burglarizing tho resi dence of C.C. Maytk'ld at Louisville, was bound over to the district court by Justice. Archer. Air Kim t;uu' l.uiii of ICye. A 17-ycar old iiou of Frit. Itniitu of Malmoi Nob., was accidentally shot in thu tight oyo by the discharge of an air rille in lliu hands of one of his little brothers. Duli'i for I In' Viulil Itiirr. The challenge committee of this New York yacht ulub, lu- conference with the representatives of tho Itoynl Ulster yacht club, have decided that tho first race for the American cup shall tnko place on September :.'(, Thursday. Accidental!)' Nhot. T. J. Hurgcm, Jr., of Superior, Nebr,, was aceldentall shot through tho log, In handling a No. 14 Colt's revolver it slipped out of this belt, tho hammer striking tho flour with the usual result. Tho wound Is onlv a fleh wound. raTAINSCABlT President Roosovolt Do3iroc tho Old Moniborc. ME MAKES THEM A ICRMAL TENDER. Cruel Ai'ipili'si'cni i mill 0;pirs ltsl;- imtliiu I'lr-.! Mietliit: tif lllltt'lal ruinll.t Held and I'nlti.t Outlined Niitt' President I'oosovoM cdiit.'nM his llrst cabinet mooting at Washington Tuesday afternoon. At tills meeting tins president a-ltod the members of Mr. MoKlnloy's nabluet to retain their respective portfolios tin-ought his term and announced that his adtnlniiitrtitlnn would follow the policy outlined by President McKinlcy In his liulValo speech. After the obsequies ovec tho Into president the cabinet, at IV.'-udont Koosevcll's request, assembled at the resilience of Commander Cowics, whore the president is stilting until after tlie funeral, principally for tho purpose of informing their now chief of tho stale of affairs in llieir respect it e depart ments. Tho president desired to learn If their were any mtitteri of inomcnt icqulrlng his attention before his de parture for Canton. His tvas m-surod thai thorn was nothing of pressing Im portance. Tlie president then ad dressed bio ndvisers collectively, as in' hud previously done Individually, re questing tham all to retain their re spective positions In his cabinet. Mr. liooscvell cxprcscd the hope am' expectation t lint every member would serve throughout his term, for lie said, ho tendered the appointment as If he had just been elected to the presidency and was forming an original cabinet. Tlie president said, however, there was one ill ffi re n co between the present ten der and that of an original offer, name ly, under the present circumstances thoy were not a liberty to decline, Up on being asked by a member if resig nations should be formally prcr.eutcd In the usual way, tho president an swered that his notion iittlili meeting had precluded tho necessity of pre senting resignations. The. discussion turned upon the policy of the adminis tration, and Mr. Iloosavelt announced that he regarded the speech of the lata president at the IlufVnlo pan-Araerlcan exposition, the day previous to the tragic shooting, ns outlining the poli cies to be followed by tho administra tion. It cannot he learned at this time whether or not all the inomliors will lie willing to servo the full term. PLACE SHIP IN COMMISSION Illinois Turned Oirr to (Mr Xnij llcpiirl pie III. This United States battleship Illinois has been placed lu commission. Tlie warrant and petty oil leers and all of tho crow arcs now aboard. Willi the o Ulcers, men and band lined up on the quarter deck, General Superintendent Tost turned the ship over to Captain Converse as the representative of this navy department. Captain Converse road his orders from Secretary Long to command' the ship. The flag tvas rais ed at "The Star Spangle JIanncr." Captain Con verso then read orders from Secretary hong relative to the death of President McKinlcy and this flag tvas immediately half masted and n one-pounder 11 red as a salute. This fir ing of the gnu continued nil day at intervals of half an hour. ANARCHISTS UP IN CANADA Anxlnly for Ihrt Hnfisty of llm Duke of York nnd the Itoynl I'nrly. The trip of tho Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, Is Is said now, will not extend beyond uebac. A hurried meeting of tho federal cabinet wns held on board ono of the federal cruisers in port, and it. is presumed on good nuthorlty, that It tvas In relation to the future movements of the royal party. For somu days several C'iiiihiI inn newspapers havo said this move ments of some well known anarchists tvero watched by American and Canad ian detectives aud it is stated that an Italian anarchist of New York Ih under arrest at Montreal. The arrest juts been kept very quiet. GOVERNOR HUNT IN OFFICE I'rlmle InuiiRiiratloii Olrlirntml ill S.III .lllll II. Governor Hunt was Inaugurated priv ately at his residence in San Juan in the press wo of the members of tho council, the justices of the suprrm6 court and others. Tht Jucrpuiony wus very impressive. Chief Qulnoncs ad ministered the oath, nnd ltlshop iileuk offered prayer. Governor Hunt did not deliver nu Inaugural address, but referred feelingly to the groat national sorrow. Kxtenslve preparations for tho event had been made, but all were cancelled immediately upon tho an nouncement of the death of President McKinlcy. Con hoy llarily Cmiilii'd. Whllo this grand entry of Pawnee Hill's sliotv wa.s in progress at Hast ings, Neb., ono of the cowboys wns ac cidentally thrown with his horse and seriously injured. It Is doubtful if his will survive. The accident tvas caused by one of the horses catching u shoo of a horse lu front of It. lloth rider and horso wcro thrown to tho ground In a heap and liofois! tho man could bo res cued this horso hod rolled over the iniinTt body and lu so doing crushed his .iiest. HOLLENBECK IS CHOSEN. I'ltslmi Coiivriillmi Anrrc on til' Mutt from Freinoiil. For Judge, Conrad Holleiibook of I'icnioiil, Dodge County. For Kogonts, J. II. Ilayston, of Fron Her: 1'. (i, llawxby of Neniahii. Tho nboto is the ticket wleiieil by Tie fuston conventions In tho sessions which ended Wednesday morning tJiorily lifter midnight. ' I loth contentions tvore scheduled to meet at '.' p. in. but ns soon as this loin porary organixatlon was effected they adjourned mil of respect for tho dead president until evening when tho real work commenced. Wtcr orgaui.atlon was nfferled the usual business was proce.lrd with with some friction here and there, but the convention llually agrcciL upon tin ticket named above. Tho platforms adopted were mainly along Hie old lines of faith. plank was incorpor ated touching some portions of tho republican platform. Judge Conrad llolionhcok Is llfly two years of age. lie Is a native of Pennsylvania and u veteran of the civil war. He enlisted when hut six teen years of ago. At twonlyone ho was elected to tho legislature of Penn sylvania after he had spent but ti few yours in the study of law. lip removed to Ncbra.hu twonty-Ilvc years ago this fall and has practiced law ver since his sett lenient at. Fremont. He has been throe years on tho isoneh in the Sixth judicial district. Fred (5. Ilawxby isa young man who oiiiiii) into prominence as a ' moiubcr of tlie hist legislature. lie Is a graduate of the state university and of tho. lav, school. J. 11. llay.ston tvas for several years, tin uly superintendent of lied -'Willow county. Ho was a candidate for regent of tho university six years ngo. He now resides lu Frontier county. THE $500,000 FORGER ILL Vaf of .Mli KuHtnlrlc of I'lillndrlpliln ttrninnrtiiil In T.ondon. , Mario Josephine Kastwick of Phil adelphia, who Is charged with forging it railroad certificate to tho vnluu of'p ' million dollars, was again remanded, at the Guild Hall police court, London Kng. Tins evidence presented was not important. t Miss F.astwick appeared extremely 111 and was evidently in pain. Although1 formally remanded until September -Mi tins prisoner win prouamy not reappear in court until October, when this pre liminary inquiry will bu completed. Miss ICastwick raised u certificate nf railroad slock from OT.OOO to ',i million' dollars. She Is a tvualthy woman. Her defense Is Insanity. Oltrn Tiiruiiil Kejthrri. Joseph A. Wlldman, n United Itrctli-1 ren minister, was tarred nnd feathcrc.di by a crowd of ono hundred at Hun-' tington, hid., and turned looso to wan.' dcr buck homo because on Sunday ho. rose in one of the city churches nnd said. I "I suppose there have been more lies' told from tho pulpit aud sacred desk today than tvas ever known before.! Whlio I want to "give all honor that Is due Mr. McKinloy, still when ho wns living he was nothing but n political demagogue." , Wildmnu has no regular charge. j I'rom Mm Hulibvln 1'arty. C. T. Carpenter, a Coffeyvillp, Kan.,' banker, has received a letter from Kob-. ert Vineyard, ono of tho ltaldtvln-t Zleglcr expedition. The luttcr wasi written August ii and sent back on .) pnssing southbound whaling vessel to' llnmmerfcht, where, it was mailed Sep tember:'. Vineyard says tho party's' -vessel, -America, .was . going-through ice, northward, making its way as best1 it cim. InaurgeiiU Koutod, ' A Colon, Columbia, dispatch says: Tho Colombian cruiser General I'inzon returned to Colon, bringing news of nit ensy victory for the government troops at Hocas del Toro recently, tho liberals or Insurgents being utterly routed and .their guns nnd ammunition- captured., The rebels lost thirty Killed ami wounded, and hud forty taken prison ers. The government force, lost flr killed nnd four wounded. Fnrm llrihlunriii llarned. Ncnr Grand Island tho splendid farm residence of J. Jt. Keller, ono nnd one half miles north of that city caught fire ono afternoon recently bctwr.au a and 4 o'clock find was burned to the ground with all its contents. The family barely escaped. Tho fJ re start ed in a room in which oil was kept and spread very rapidly. Trnimfrr Driver Quit, Tho entire foreo of drivers of tho St. Ionls transfer company, numbering about 200, struck for an increase of' wages from S."i to 50 per month. Tho business of the company is tied up temporarily by the strike, but Presi dent P. Tuns'y sityn that It will lie rc Humed in a f .v .1 ,".s with a full quota of new men, Eight In bans were lodged hi jail ad Ogullulu, No., by Deputy Gnmo War den (J. h. CartOr, arrested by Sheriff Patrick for illegal shooting of birds. AgtMt Woman PoundDead. Amanda Stewart, u lady about sixty years of age, wus found dead in her doorynrd In North York, Nob, Hep death, was caused from hemorrage ot the lungs and throat, She was a mem ber of tho woman's reltyf corps, anil It will havo charge of the funeral. t him When n boy knows what in in mother's parlor, it in evident that ha Itntt nn Hti.t.,ii .it- they I him go In there. wouldn't lcU 'I -4j H ,-" ,i'.n. ?i-ii LilTf r Vm rafiiti ilmaLfi&mmu