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WAR IS ENDED Tho Poaco Terms Aro Signod at Pretoria. ANNOUNCEMENT COMES UNEXPECTEDLY London Recoivos tho Nows From Gonoral Kitchonor. IflDOF STRUGGLE OLADLY WELCOMED d'eneo Nimvh Sprrml rriim the I'iiIiiIIn mill i:ticiiii r'iiiii iii'iirtii) i:ijnii'i I'euinofttr'itlon nf ) on lit er j lliiml Hell tUiis Out in 'I IiiiiiI'i;IImk. A London, Juno iHt. dispatch Rays: An olllclnl cablegram from Lend Kltch oner, dated Pretoria. Hatunlay, May lit, 11:15 p. in,, hays: "A document containing terms of surrender was signed hero this oven lnu at 10: SO o'clock liy all tin1 Hoer representatives, an well as by l.onl Mllner (the Ilrltlsh high commission er In South Africa), and myself." The news of pence in South Africa, contained In the foregoing dispatch from Lord Kitchener, was not expect ed In London today. Soon atter the receipt of the dispatch, however, the iicwh spread to the clubs and hotela nnd wns received with much enthi il usm. Tho church IioIIh were rung to ac claim the Rood news. A crowd gath ered nt the mansion house and the lord mnyor of London. Sir Joseph C. Dlmsdnlo, announced trout the hahouy that terms of peace had been sinned In South Africa. Lord Kitchener's definite announce ment of peace was received at tho war office at 1 o'clock this afternoon and was communicated to King IMwarel and nil the members of the cabinet be ll fore. It wns Riven to the puniic. 'io- nlcht the Sunday cvcuIiik culm of the Ijndon streets was broken by enthu siastic Hinging, shoutliiR anil horn blowing. The hotels, the clubs, the public 'houses and tho streets were not the only places where the people weie ac tively demonstratliiR their joy. The peaco news was announced In tho churches today, and by some congro Rattons It was lccclsed with applause. In nil tho churches, of Loudon prayers of thanksRtvliiR we're offeted nnd spe cial hymns were hiiiir. How Rreatly KIiir IM ward's Insist ence that peace in South Afrit a be se cured prior to his coronation influ enced tho present Rovernment will probably not be known until the private memoirs of the present regime aro Riven to tho public. AccordliiR to a dispatch to tho Daily Impress trom Utrecht, Holland, Mr. KrtiRor was In-J formed shortly after ! o clock last night that peace had been declared. Ho bad been asleep. "My God," ho oald, "It Is Impossi ble." Mr. KriiRer nnd his outouniRo, the dispatch continues, hope to be per mitted to return to the Transvaal. This, however. Is quite unlikely. A Pretoria, June 1. dispatch says: .. 'proclamation which wns Issued yester day In connection with the sIriiIur of tho peace terms last nlRht declares j Tiiai noiwiinsianuing tue proclama tion which was Issued yesterday In connection with the sIriiIur of the peace terms last niRlit declares that notwithstanding the proclamations of Mr. KriiRer that Inteiesl on the bonds of the Transvaal republic would be suspended so long as tho war lasted, such Interest slri.ll begin to accrue Juno 1. Juno 20 and June -7, the days of KlnR IMward's coronation, have I. 'en proclaimed public holidays. PRESIDENT PLANNING TOUR "Two Trlp to W extern fount ry Tim t'nin Ink lull. President Roosevelt has undertaken o make two trips HirouRh the west ern country next fall. One will be in tho southwest and the other In the northwest. They will be made In re demption of promises more or less specltle made by the nnsldent kibt winter About the last of September tho president will go to Sprlugfiild, 111 , and to Detroit. Mich., stopping j en ionic in some oiaer poiius not yet determined upon. In tho laltei pint of October he will go as far into the south wrst ns San Antonio. He has been strongly urged to go on a bear limit In Mississippi as the guest of thv governor of the slate, and it is possi bles that he may avail himself of this opportunity to ticeept the invitation, for ho must visit Now Orleans, which la nearby, on thin trip. IVcN HtTeet of Voli'tiiin, The effects of the volcanic eruption at St. Pierre are biipposed to have been felt nt Honolulu, Hawaii. Recently tliero wns a lurid sunset and tho sun tIbo following was equally startling. Without n cloud to make the hori zon ns the sun went down and lone, nnd It Is attributed here to volcanic dust from St. Pierre. Professor C. J. Lyons, 'o eminent meteorologist there for many years, says the phen omenon is similar to that observed after the tremendous volcanic explo sion at Krnkiitoa In ISO;:. llomn llli- From lljilrnjitn.lilu Severn! weeks ago a dog owned by B. M. Tnrboll, a farmer living in tho north part of DoUro county, Neb., went mad and bit n horse. Tho horse In turn Inflicted bites on n rouplo of cows, and ono day this week It seized Its owner's right arm In Its Jaws. Tho flesh of the arm was bruised and the nkln broken, hut as Mr. Tin bell wore two shirts, tho teeth did not touch tho skin. Hn has had tho arm treated nnd does not think that hydrophobia will dovolop. Tho hoibo clli.nl from tho disease. PAUNCEFOTE'S SUCCESSOR ."Mli'liuel tlrury llrrlirlt l.lkrly to Coin lit nnliln;tiiiii A Iiondon. June 1 dispatch nays: Michael Henry Herbert, who Is nomin ally secretary to tho llrltloh embassy at Paris, will probably be the next Hrltlsh umbassmlor to tho United States, In Hiiccrsslon to tho lato Lord Pauneefote. Mr. Herbert'a appointment will ptob ubly not be announced until tho re mains of Lord Pauneefote arrive In Hnglnnd. The only iiiestlon In regard to Mr Herbert's selection Is tho ap proval of King Udwnrd. While no olllclal Information ran re bad In Washington, says a dispatch from tho eapilol city, as to whether this government luu been sounded us to Mr. Ileiherl's acceptability as am bassador. It Is believed by people fa miliar wllli his standing hero whllo secretary of the legation and charge d'affalrs, that bin selecilon would bo entirely ngreeable to the ITnltc il Stales. He tilled his post here with tad. nnd ability nnd was n courteous and agree able peisonallty lie hud charge of the legation for considerable Intervals in the absence of the head of tho Hrlt lsh legation, and lonslderablo regret was expressed when It was learned ho had been promoted and ordered abroad. HE HAD TO SHOOT Cr.mfnrit, Neli., AlurOi i! I'.irinl to Inter fere Willi Irntidur. A (Crawford. Neb., June I. dispatch says: At 0 o'clock yesterday morning, at the Fremont house, near the Hlk hurn deiK)t. the town marshal shot and, It Is t bought, fatally wounded a man wh(se Identity has not been learned. The stranger lodged at the hotel inst night. On awakening this morning ho licensed two of the girls employed nt the house of robbing him. Ho pulled n revolver and threatened to shoot them If they did not return bis money. One of the girls sllpprd out and called the marshal who, when he ap proached, ordered the man to sur render. Mut the stranger continued to nourish his revolver. He shot one of the girls through tho shoulder and then aimed the revolver at the mar shal. The latter tired quickly and tlui stranger fell with a bullet hole In tho center of his forehead. There Is nothing to Indicate who tho wounded man is or where he is from. He boarded the train at ICdgetnont. S. I)., nnd his baggage Is checked to Lusk, Wyo. BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED IV II Whllo .ttltiinptlni; il DIMIiiill t.'lrcm Fin I. In attempting a circus feat, a sixteen-year-old Fremont, Neb., lad named John Gannon had his right arm broken and received other Injuries of a serious nnture. With somo other boys ho wns carryliiR out a few ath letic maneuvers mid the principal feat which fell to his lot was to jump from a platform nearly twenty feet abovo the ground nnd seize the legs of nn other performer who had hold of a rope. In making the leap ho missed connections and fell the full distance to the ground. Ho Is now receiving hospital treatment and physicians say it will he several days before It can be told whether he will recover. Wllliilruun from Context Mrs. Nettle O. Craven has aban doned her tight for recognition us the widow of the lute Senator James G. Fair. She has been paid $50,000 for withdrawing from the wirious Inw sults ngalnst the eslnte of tho de ceased millionaire and with this set tlement the estate, valued at twenty million dollars, that has been so long In litigation, rests absolutely In Charles L. Fair and his sisters, Mrs. Theresa Oelrlehs and Mrs. Virginia Vanderbilt. When Mrs. Craven tirst appeared as a claimant for a share of Fair's mil lions, she was offered $:oo.otm to aban don her contest. She demanded $500, 001) and upon being refused, instituted the proceedings that have Just been dlr.mlsr.cil Four Men lo He (iiirrnted. It has become known that Antonio Ton. Acevrdo, not Itamnn Troche Ca deno (one ol the tlve niunleres con demn! it to be garroted for crimes com mitted ()i tober 1, 18S1S). Is the man whose sentence has been commuted by Governor Hunt ol Porto Rico to life liupiir-onmcnl. owing to the fact that Aeevedo was only nineteen years of iiro nt the time of the occurrence, which led to his condominium! to death. The other four men will be garroted nt Ponce eaily In tho morn ing, tomorrow, or Monday. Tho exact date Is kept secret, so that the pub lie will not know anything of the exe cutions until they have been carried out. I' o llnri"i Stolen, Two boises were stolen In Dakota county on Thursday night, one from George shford of Homer, taken from the barn; nnd tho other trom Joe Ktnllhorlis. who had it tied In front of the court house In Dakota City. Neb., while he was attending an en tertalnmi nt. Sheriff Sides lias ottered suitable rewards for return of prop 1'ity nnd captuio of thieves. 'rliM-iluT Form it I'iiImii. The grain threshers of Ulehnrdsou county bine formed a union. The ob ject Is to charge a uniform price for threshing, each member taking an obll gution to charge the price decided on by the union. All supplies needed, such us coal, luhileating oil, etc., will no bought in quantities. Itiinior Without Fonnilnllon. The statement published by tho Dally Mail of London. May 29, that at the consistory to bo held Juno 9 tho pope will nominate Archbishop Keano of Dubuque, la., touiiccoed the lato Archbishop Conlgun of New York, is without foundation In fact. (iuin; of Hunk Tlilevv. The three men who wero wounded in a light with olllcers nt Yunkton, S. D.. are bellcned to be members of a gang which has been robbing South Dakota banks. They had a supply of burglar tools In their possession. PEACE NOT SURE Much Time May Elapso Boforo It is Declared. NEGOTIATIONS STILL IN PROGRESS Tiro Morion Told of Present Statu -Full AluiifAty lli'lil Itni'U - llrllluli D.M'lllHl to l'rol7r ISm Owrlurm An KtiUiigrnii'iit nt .Mlildleliur;;. The London Dally Chronicle Wed nesday morning declared that tho ne gotiations, which were practically con cluded In the course of the present week, will witness the termination of tho war In South Aft lea. Tho paper nays It understands Hint tho govern ment hns declined lo grant the rebels unqualified amnesty or to tlx a date tor the establishment of self-govorn-inonl and that Hugllsh will probably bo tho olllclal language In the two col onies. Against this idea of a speedy an nouncement of peuce is the decision, reached In parliament, lo debate tho educational bill next oMndny. and to postpone further the donate on the budget, which seems to show thut af fairs In South Africa may rcqulro a greater period of time for settlement. It is now regarded as certain that the Chamberlain party will be victori ous uiul the government has decided to retain tho tax on grain. A Mlddleburg, Transvaal, May 28, dispatch says: Major Collett, with u detachment of the mounted troops of this diblrict, encountered a force of Uoern on the Hopon road May 27. Tho engagement which followed lasted for a long time, tho enemy finally drawing off, leaving behind them on tho Held Commandant Malon, who was mor tally wounded. An armored train en gaged thu t-ame party of Doers the evening of May 27, but no details of the latter engagement are ut baud. BURKETT RENOMINATED First llUtrli't C'niigrrKntiiitn Una Kimjr Tlin In (,'iinviiiilloii. Ulmer J. Hurkett of Lincoln, con gressman from the First Nebraska dis trict, was unanimously renominated ut the convention held in Lincoln Tues day evening. Ho arrived in town over the U. & M. at !:40 p. m., and a host of his friends and admirers greeted him ut the depot mid escorted him to tho mi dllorliim, where they royally welcomed him back home, nnd assured him he would bo renominated that night. Mr. Burkott thanked them for their welcome, and said he was glad to bring them n $300,000 postofflce upproprlu Mou, which ho hud secured, with the Atndly help of Mr. David Mercer and the rest of Nebraska's delegation in congn 3s. HOUSE AND SENATE Wrdnt'icliijx' I'mi'iM-ilInc llrlrf HlUor llnllloii lo Iih Cnlni-tl. A Washington. May "8 dispatch says: Owing to the attendance of many sen ators at the Pauneefote funeral, tho senate, on motion of Hoar, took a re cess from noon to 2 o'clock. Hi tho house Dalzell (rep.. Pa..) acted as speaker. A resolution fioni the committee on rules making the sub sidiary silver coinage measure special business of the house, under discus sion when the house adjourned yes terday, was reported as unfinished business. On the question of adoption n yea and nay vote wns called for by Shafroth (deni.. Colo.,) and the reso lution carried by u vote of 90 to 7.I. The bill authorizes the secietary of the treasury to coin Into substdlnry coin the silver bullion in the treasury pur chased under the net of July U, 1S00. SOLVED BY EDISON F.ltrtrlrnl PiiijIh no I.nnt;ir Itnllllnjj I'rolilKin Willi Invintor, Thomas A. IMisou declares that tho problem of electrical transportation boa been solved. The tirst practical test of his new storage battery was made last week by two prominent automobillst3 and the great Inventor wns jubilant. Wed nesday when they made known the re sult. With n twenty-one cell battery the machine was run over hilly roads around Arnngu for sixty-two miles un der one charge, the voltage running from twenty-nine per cell down to twenty-two. There was no deteriora tion, so common in other butteries. Mondiy the same men made the test over a country a little less hilly ami covered clghty-livo miles, Kdison pays next week he will make a thousand mile endurance test. Tho battery used weighs 332 pounds. MORGAN PROGRESSING riaiihlnc In lliptnlt III;; Mliilnc Ili-ul la lluiuulii of t'mr. The nirmlnghani, Knglnud, Post sayu telegrams iccelved In prominent quar ters from Odessa and St. Petersburg Indicate that the Morgan syndicate has applied to tho Husslan government for a concession of somo thousands of Kqutirn nub's of Iron-benrlng territory iu Siberia. The Hamburg-American Hue's share holders, ut a meeting held In Hamhurg, Germany, unnnlmously adopted n reso lution ratifying the ngreement to go into the Morgan shipping combine. tiruml lalxurl l.tliriiry Hit. Tho public library board of Grand Island, Neb., has accepted a slto In a block adjacent to tho high school building for the Carnegie library, on condition that nn additional 22x132 feet be donated beforo Friday evening. En terprising citizens subscribed for tho donation of the site to tho city, and ns It Is but ono block south of the center of population and In a very desirable poitlon of the city, it is expected that it will bo satisfactory to the donor of the library. Grand Island hns already pledged the maintenance of tho $2,000 per annum for the $20,000 building, MAY APPEAR AS WITNESS Hrnnr Filipino lltiriicntiilno ArrlTP From the I'hlllpiilnr. A Washington, U. C, May 28, spe cial says: A Senor Flllpo nuencnmlno, one of the founders of the federal party In the Philippines, arrived In this "!'.y today from San Francisco and had a short conference with Secre tary Hoot .it the war department. He will be presented to President Roose velt tomorrow and It Is expected that Inter he will uppear before the senate Philippine committee. Huencamino was one of the principal figures of the so-called Agulnahlo Rov ernment, holding the ofilee of secre tary of state when ho was captured In company with Agulniildo'K mother Im mediately nfter the battle of Tarbie. Thu primary object of his visit lo this country In to get bettor acquainted with Us people and Inatllutions nnd to visit his sons, who are iituilcnts nt Uerkeley college, California, He also Is charged by tho federal party of the Philippines to make a pil grimage to the grave of Washington at Mount Vernon nnd to deliver mes sages of sympathy anil respect to Mia. McKlnley and Mrs. Logan. Womiin lluilly Hurried. At Fort Dodge, la., while starting a Are with kerosene, the can exploded, setting tho clothing of Mrs. II. L. Hahn on fire. Her baby was lying asleep In tho burning kite-hen. nnd tho mother refused all off era of assistance until her child was rescued from her burning home. It was only by breaking In a window that tho rescuers reached tho baby beforo the flames. Tho Infant was uninjured, but the mother was badly burned beforo the flames, which completely enveloped her. could bo ex tinguished. She will recover. Ilnlirmv lo Found llimplliil. Abraham Slimmer, n well known Hebrew philanthropist of Waverly, la., arranged to surrender his homo and surrounding park in that city to the Sisters of Mercy of Dubuque for the establishment of n hospital, which they have ngreed to have In operation by the tirst of October. In the mean time an extensive addition will lie made to the already commodious building. The property as It stands, to which the Sisters of Mercy have been given a quit-claim deed, Is valued at $30,000. Mnny I'oUoni'il, Thirty families of Lincoln wero pois oned by eating supper at u church so cial given nt the Second Presbyterian church. Ono among the number Is dungerously sick Dr. Htillhorst. The others suffered violently for a. time, but aro improving. Tho physicians do not know whether tho ulc.kness is duo to the potted ham, fruit gelatin, potato salad or Ico cream. i:irplinnt Kills Npi'iTtiitnr. II. F. Hlount. aged thirty-nine, of Fort Wayne. Ind., was killed by "Top sy," an elephant In ForepniiRh & Sells' circus, now showing in l'rnoklyn, N. Y. Hlount was Hashing beforo tho beast a small water glass, but "Topsy" failed to nppiocluto the sport. Tho animal swung her trunk, picked up the man nnd elushed him to the earth, breuklng every bone In bis body nnd beating his brains out. Must Hurto l.lfti Sfiitrnro. Sarah Ktihn, u young woman sen tenced to life Imprisonment for tho murder of her nged husband nt Delta by placing poii.on in his beer, wns de nied a new trial by the supremo couit this morning. The murder was com muted four months after their mar riage. Kiilin was crippled in his legs end sums nnd concealed from his wifo tho rict that he was a confirmed in valid until nfter the wedding. llnilmnd Html C'lillilriin. Will licrger of Plnttsmouth, who do sorted lis wifo and two small chll dien last summer and recently niur llcd a younger sister of his wlfo In Council IJIuffs, la., Is supposed to have kidnapped his chlldrun from their mother. The woman lott her e;hlldiou with a family for u few weeks and when she returned for them they wero gone. Itoliln'd of .Much .linri'lry. Mrs. Thomas ICenseti and her daugh ter Cortnulo of Cornwall-ou-Hudson, N. Y have been robbed of $no,000 worth t)f jewelry, nays a Paris dis patch. The Jewelry was taken from a trunk In their hotel room, close to tho Grand opera. Part of tho Jewelry consisted of holrloorus. (Iltjr AiiipU (ilft. The new Lincoln library building, tho funds for which wore presented by Andrew Cnrncgle, was formally opened Tucsdny. Willi appropriate eoremonles tho completed" hlnicturn was turned over to tho city. IJxerelses of an In formal ehnraeter during tho afternoon und evening marked tho occasion. NEWS BOILED DOWN King Christian, after n long confer ence with tho premier, Dr. DounUer, finally accepted the proposal of tho United States to extend for a year tho tlinn limit for tho ratification of tho Danish West Indlnn treaty. The llerlln foreign olllce Is busily engaged In Issuing denials of tho story that Kmperor William has refused to recclvo Lieutenant Commander Temp lln M. Potts, who will succeed Com mander William M. IJeechler as naval attache to the United States embassy there. Herbert II, Matteson, tho defaulting cnshler of tho First National bank of Great Falls, Mont., who pleaded guilty In the federal court, was sentenced to ton years In tho penitentiary by Judge Knowles. Mnttoson's shortage whb $190,000. Ho lost tho money In specu lation. Firo was discovered In tho Morton company elevator at Palmyra, Nob. There wns about l.fiOO bushels of wheat, 800 bushels of corn, 300 bushels of oats, besides some stored by outside parties. Tho fire hnd got under such headway that everything was e stroyed, even tho company's books md papers. TO SETTLE FIGHT School Building Near St. Paul Burnod in the Night THOUGHT WORK TO BE Of INCENDIARY Oiltrnnir of lllllrr t'lintrnTrritjr on Ques tion of Hoinmnl Wni One of the to llio Country Otlmr Nw of Intercut to Itcmlrr. The school house In district No. 23, located one-half mile east of the vil lage of Cushing, Neb., was burned to tho ground. There Is Utile doubt but that it. was the work of an Incendiary. For a number of years there has been a bitter light in that district over the question of moving the school houso Into lown, but the country contingent has always been victorious. School closed only last week, and It Is sup posed that some over-zenlous advo cate of tho moving proposition took this mams of utiengtheulng It in the annual school meeting, which will be held next month. Tho building wus ono of the beot country school houses In tho county and the loss above in surance Is heavy. PRISONER BREAKS JAIL Onn at Valentine, ,!uit Sentrnreil to Ten, (leti Aitiijt from Sheriff. Thursday morning, nt Valentine, Neb., the Jury returned a verdict find ing Harmon Sehwnberow guilty of sraml larceny. In the afternoon a sen tence of five years In the penitentiary was Imposed by Judge Harrington. During an evening session of court the sheriff came rushing Into court with tho announcement Hint the convicted man had broken Jail. Couriers nre now scouring the country In every direc tion. It Is feared that Schwabcrow has al reudy crossed the line and Is upon the Sioux reservation in Dakota or Is lying concealed in some nearby canyon. He is said to be n desperate character, aged forty-one years, six feet tall, weight two hundred pounds, very dark complexion. In 1R98 ho was sentenced to a live years' term In the Nebraska penltentlury for cattle stealing, but was pardoned out about two years later, nnd has since been a mall car rier. The sheriff Is in hot pursuit and offers five hundred dollars reward for his capture. FAMINE GROWING WORSE Sorry rilght nf 1'eimsiit t'tiis In lnrl of KtiHilnii Kinplre. The situation of the famine stricken peasants in Russia continues to grow worse. In 241 vlllugca of the Mlnzel llnsk district, government of Curfa, ti,G15 cases of scurvy were ofllclnlly re corded on April 14, ns compared with 2,723 cases reported on March 14. This is only a sample of the existing con ditions in other famine districts. Siberian merchants are loudly com plaining thnt Manchuria and adjacent portB of Siberia ure flooded with Amer ican, German, Japanese and other for eign goods nnd thut Russian trade is ellsappcarlnR. KnerRetic measures aro demandcil in particular from tho Iron tier guard to prevent smuggling. About ::00,0l)0 poods of Russian pe troleum have been shipped to Chrls tlnnla, Norway, where American oil has heretofore monopolized the runr ket SEALING SCHOONER LOST Ho Nc of It Mori. It Slurti'd on C'ruUr. In 1-Vliriiury It Is fearcel that the sealing schooner Hat.ie, the only vessel of tho coast fleet which has not returned to Vle tmia, H. C, has been lost. It hns ncur been seen since starting on its apt lug cruise on Friday. February 15. Feurs have been expressed for some time and hope, was not abandoned un til the coast steamer returned with out any news of It. It is bplleved to have been lost In the big storm of February 24. The Hnlzie is command ed by Captain Daley, an old sealer, nnd besides him there were on board Captain Fat lev. Mate P. Dooley. A. Medina, W. Christian, a cook and twenty-four Indians from Klovotok, on the west coast of the Island. Captain Daley has a wife and family. mini VUlli Kiuike. Operator lloule and Operator Wat eon, nt tho Santa Fe's block station at Otoe, Kan., sent their resignations to the superintendent and give a pecullnr cause for their action. The depot at Otoe is merely a box car, and is about threo miles from tho agency or other neighbors. When the recent rains sent tho creeks up during tho last two weeks tho depot became tilled with Himkcs. The men could not kill them fnst enough to keep the car rid of the reptiles and thoro was no way to shut them out. After ntnndlng it for a day or two and finding the snakes were becoming more numerous tho men quit Other men were sent to tako their places. llonirntnldTS' Kxrumlnn to Huron. S. D.. Tuesday. June 17th. Round trip from Lincoln, $12.30. Money refunded If you buy. Free tourist sleeper. Choice farming lands, im proved and unimproved, $10.00 to $2.").00 per ucre. Write or call. Green, Dell & Co., 121 So. Tenth street, Lincoln. F. S. Clinton, salesman. Small Sinnnliup on Klklmrn In a minor rear-end smashup at Ar lington, Neb., a wnyear on the Ellthorn road was broken to pieces nnd the run ning geur on two stock ears rendered useless. Tho front end of the onglno was battered up so that It bad to be sent to tho hhops ut MIhhoui-I Valley. Nobody was hurt and there was no damnge to freight or stock. llulTiiln Klrvntor Ilurim The Manning elevator at DufTalo, N. Y. was destroyed by fire. Loss on build ing tho contents. $100,000. BEEF FAMINE AT CHICAG TliounnniU Havo to lo Without on Ac count of llutetierV Strike. Thousands of persons in Chicago were unable to boy beef Thursday at any price, and it Is declared that tho shortage will bo felt far moro seri ously. Two hundred butchers on Uia northwest sldo havo decided to closes their shops until tho teamsters shall be granteel the concessions uskcel and many others will be forced to closo be cause of their Inability to get fresh meat. . . , , , A number of the Jewish butchers have agreed that they will not buv any more meat from tho yajpi untU the strike is settled. Although the supply in tho down town districts, which affects the hotola and restaurants, has not been shut off, the deliveries of ico nnd coal in many Instances havo been stopped, and It is probable thnt those who are not in a position to inn Independently of thoso commodities will be forced temporari ly out of business. For the first time since tho strlko began violence was used and tho men aro becoming so much excited over tho situation that more elnshes ore feared. The police had to be called on sov cral times to quell smnll riota. Thr police details In thu vicinity of tho stock yards havo boon nearly doubled, and the yards have taken on much of the nppearance of an armed camp. KANSAS FRUlY CROP Seerotury llurnen Sny Iiullcntlon aro Cloud for IllR Oiib. Secretary W. 11. names, of the Kan sas Stnte Horticultural society, be lieves that tho fruit crop in Kansas this year will be large. "There is promiso of a good fruit crop," said Secretary Panics. "IL F. Smith of Lawrence, who has llfteen acres of pear trees, reports that his crop Is doing well. Freel Wcllhouso expects to ship 100 car loads of ap ples fiom his SOO acre orchard in Osage county. The shipment does not represent all tho apples grown as a large amount will be sold at the orchard. The peach crop In southeast ern Kansas Is In excellent condition, but the strawberry crop will not be as good ns heretofore. The dry weather of last summer injured the strawberry plants." Fred Wellhouse Is expecting a lnrgo apple crop for ho Is building a lurgo apple store house and cooperago plant ut Leavenworth. BEAUTY TREATMENT FATAL ChlciiRO Young Woninn Doiul nnd tho l'olli'O IuveMlRatliiK. Six hours nfter having been sub jected to a fnee-beautlfylng treatment nt tho hands of a specialist. Miss May Thomp on died, and the coroner nnd police nre striving to account for her sudden demise, says n Thursday dis patch from Chicago. The facial massage physician, who was In attendance on tho young woman, made use of a plaster cast during the beautifying treatment and It Is thought probable thnt Miss Thompson died from heart failure, su perinduced by suffocation. This theory, however, is not accepted en tirely by the police and tho easo will bo Investigated. Miss Thompson wus employed ns a stenographer by Sprague, Warner & Co. Prelum Clirrku nre) llofiin. A man giving his name ns Harry Carroll landed, In .Nebraska City Thurs day and succeeded beforo night in pass InR a number of checks, declared to bo bogus. One he passed on Mi's. G. W. Anderson for $7. one on Under Hros. for $8.r0 nnd another on A. S. Paradise for 18.75. He trietl to pass several others, but failed. Ills plan was to go into tho stores or places of business and after making a purchase tender u cheek In payment. A number turned him down. One of his victims became suspicious nnd succeeded In locating the man and lauding him in Jail. Ho had $13.r0 left of the money secured und a curd that Is Issued to railway conductors giving his name as W. J. Auld of Durango, Col. Ho had a num ber of signed cheeks in his pocket when arrested. rinn to 'ele.hro.ln the. I'ourth. At a meeting of tho citizens of Pierce, Neb., Thursday committees wero appointed for the Fourth of July celebration thnt Pierce Is going to hold this year. Already a subscription pa per 1ms been passrd nnd nearly jl.fiOO has been subscribed. The committee Is correspondence with speakers of note. The afternoon will bo given up nlmoht to sports of nil kinds. A large purso has been put up for a gamo of, baseball. ;iiiuij to Treo Topi. Streums are high from the heaviest rains for a year, says an Klmdnle, Kan., dispatch. In ntttmpliiiR to ford Diamond creek near here two Russian Jews with unpronounceable names lost their wagon, team. elothinR. stock of Junk nnd $7fi In money. Tho two men clunR to tree tops for several hours until rescued by Klmilnle people, half dead from exhnustlon nnd totally destitute. Tom ii lludly Neon lied A conflagration, which raged for two hours In the town of Jerry Shore, Pa destroyed sixteen buildings in tho busi ness portion of the town and caused a loss of between $25,000 ami $30,000 Fears were felt that the entire town would he destroyed, nnd word was sent to Lockhnven and Wllllamsport for assistance, but when It arrived thv tiro was under control. Wnter Coiikk lllcli. t Tho John A. Logan post, G. A. It, Sallna, Kan., has purchased of Dr. Stauher two vials of wuter taken from the grounds of the famous prison nt Andersonvlllo during tho civil war. Water was very scarce there and many a boy In blue suffered from thirst. Theso lnls. which Dr. Stauher so cured from Illshop Mallulleu of Moston, usually sell for $10, but by purchasing two of them they wero secured by tho post for $5 apiece. Theso aro commencement days.