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NEBRASKA. ITEMS.
The Douglas grand jurv found an
indictment of murder in the second degreee
against Wm. Snell , of Valentine , who shot
Jessie Snell at Croft's road-house near
Omaha. Snell , who bad been out on $1,000
bail , was surrendered by bis bondsmen and
put in the county stronghold in default of
$4,000 bail , the amount required since his
indictment.
A fire at Omaha on the 10th destroyed
property to the extenj of $55,000 ; insurance
probably about half.
The citizens of Humboldtare discuss
ing a public library project. At ft recent
meeting Mrs. Bruen's proposition to donate
$2,000 and $300 a year toward maintaining
it was accepted and a committee appointed
to determine how the library can best be
conducted.
Valentine Reperter : Monsieur Rule ,
of Pine Ridge , was in town yesterday. He
Is a very old man , and was in the employ of
the Hudson Bay company fifty years ago
and assisted in building Fort Laramie. The
story of his life would be as interesting as
the adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
Two men by the name of Brennan
and Cunningham got into an altercation at
the Nebraska City packing house , and Cun
ningham cut Brennan on the arm near the
wrist quite severely.
Two overgrown youths thought it
would be tremendously funny to heave
brick bats through the windows of the new
Catholic church at Red Cloud , but got over
that idea when jerked up by officers of the
law and fined $25 each , besides costs , mak
Ing$60 for the two.
The Culbertson Sun says that already
the boom has commenced. Strangers are
arriving every day in search of locations.
By next fall the Frenchman valley will be
dotted with the residences of thrifty farmers
who will combine stock raising with agri
culture.
Hardy Herald i One of the prospectIng -
Ing shafts sunk at Omio , filled with salt
water to within four feet of the surface.
Three gallons of the -water were evaporated
and produced six pounds of salt. Should
this salt prove pure , there is every reason
to believe they will have salt works as well
as coal at that place.
J. M. Sewell & Co. have shipped over
three hundred cars of grain from the town
of Holdredge since the cars have been run
ning to the place. This is an indication that
that portion of Nebraska is not much of a
desert after all.
Schuyler Sun : Frank Smith , the
eldest son of S. P. Smith , of Colfax pre
cinct , met with a very serious accident
while out hunting on Saturday last. From
an overcharge his gun exploded , a small
piece of iron from the lock striking him
just above the right eye and fracturing the
skull. For a time his recovery was uncer
tain , but at this date the wound is doing
nicely.
Hastings Gazette-Journal : The com
mittee appointed by the board of trade to go
to Washington to meet the Mississisippi
river improvement committee did not go.
They were unable to procure transportation
beyond Chicago , and thought they would
leave Nebraska interests in the hands of the
state delegation. Attending conventions at
long range is just a little mite expensive.
Two of the hogs of H. W. Shubert , of
Nemaha county , that had been bitten by his
dog , an account of which was given a few
weeks ago , went mad , thus establishing be
yond doubt the fact that the dog had hydro
phobia. A day or so afterwards a steer and '
a calf also went mad and were killed
City Attorney Connell , of Omaha ,
is In receipt of a telegram from the clerk of
the appellate court at Chicago stating that
the judgment of the lower court awarding
him $15.000 , damages against the Pennsyl
vania railway company has been confirmed.
Deputy United States Marshal Allen ,
of Lincoln , was quite painfully hurt in work
ing at a fire in Omaha a few days ago.
Youngsters of Syracuse have a habit
of carrying revolvers , even going so far as
to take them to the public school. The
school board has decided that the revolvers
must go.
"Within the short space of one week
TV. D. Page , of Palmyra , buried a wife and
three children from that dread disease ,
diphtheria.
Valentine is to have in the near f u-
ture a court house , J jail , new school house
and church.
Parties interested in a creamery pro
ject are looking over the ground at Cedar
Bapids. The local paper of the town as
sures all such that a better opening for an
enterprise of this character is not tobd
found.
A Butler county lad rode one of his
lather's horses to Schuyler a few days ago
and sold it. He then bought a ticket at the
depot to some point in Kansas , with the in
tention of running away from the parental
roof. He was overtaken by his father be
fore starting and persuaded to return.
Utica Record : Geerge Landon , liv
ing ten miles southeast of Unadilla. Oto
county owns a very prolific cow. She gave
birth to a litter of four calves a few nights
ago , the largest of which only weighed
forty-nine pounds. They all died , but it is
thought that a part of them might have
been saved had.they not been so thoroughly
chilled when found.
Valley county will build a $15,000
court house ; the contract is let. The county
furnishes § 1,400 ; Ord does the rest.
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A female patient , escaped from the
insane hospital at Lincoln , was caught by a
farmer three miles from the hospital. She
bad neither hat , shawl nor other wraps ,
and was nearly frozen.
5Fremont Herald : There are thou
sands of bushels of corn still unhusked in
the field yet , It having been so damp in the
fall that the farmers preferred standing the
losses of leaving it in the fields to the risk of
packing in the cribs. The pleasant days all
winter have been Improved in getting out
as much as possible , and a very large
share has been fed to stock as soon as
gathered.
Red Cloud Chief : For a number of
weeks past there has been a scheme on foot
by which it was proposed to organize and
operate an extensive lumber business
throughout the state , with the general office
located at Red Cloud. Several plans were
discussed at length by the interested parties
which finally culminated In the organization
of the company , articles of which were filed
with the county clerk and with the secretary
of state.
E. S/Gaylordrecently sold his Wash
ington farm , consisting of 800 acres , for
$24,000.
A. M. Chadwick , county judge of
Douglas county , died suddenly from heart
disease on the streets of Omaha on the 14th ,
while on his way to attend a wedding at
Trinity cathedral. He was 29 years old
and had been a practitioner at law since
.1879.
Marquette has no. churches , but the
Presbyterians are talking of erecting a house
of worship the coming summer.
O'Neill Frontier : An effort was made
to secure possession of Kid Wade this week
by the Holt county authorities , at the in
stance of some of the regulators who had
promised the Kid that he should not be
taken to Brown county. Sheriff Hershiser
missed connections somewhere and the
much wanted horse thief was turned over to
the authorities of Brown county , and he Is
now at.Long Pine , safely guarded.
An organization of the Knights of
Labor has been effected inJHastings. This
.organization starts out with flattering pros
pects , both as 13 numbers and standing of
its members.
. Nebraska farmers expect to furnish a
good deal of seed corn for other states this
spring.
Hon. J. Sterling Morton has gone to
Washington to attend the meeting of the
democratic national committee , which oc
curs on the 22d inst.
GOne Jeremiah Dudley , a native of
New Jersey , on his way to Colorado Springs ,
is said to have stood in the Lincoln depot a
few days ago holding a $450 draft , upon
which he had advanced $57 , waiting for the
man he had accommodated to come back.
Falls City Journal : Some one has
written a sensational ghost story to the St.
Joe papers from Rulo. According to his
report the old Calluun house is , haunted , by
the ghost of a man named John , who was
murdered there ten years ago for his money.
The body was buried on the premises and
aftenvards thrown into the Missouri river.
The ghost did not make its appearance until
after Calhoun had left and other parties
moved in. What object it can have in prowl
ing around now it does not say.
THE PALL OPSINKA.T. .
An Eye Witness Describes the Desperate
Charge of Tewfik Bey's Forces.
A" correspondent at Suakim tele
graphs to London : ' 'At last the heroic garrison
risen at Sinkat has been butchered. For a
fortnight they have been eating roots and
tree leaves , and it was a feeble band indeed
which made a sortie to die amidst the rebel
hordes. Tewfik Bey had harangued his
'men , saying by fighting they might aave
themselves ; by remaining idle they must
die from hunger in a few days. Flight was
impossible. The men thus animated
with Tewfik Bey's spirit destroyed the
stores , exploded the magazines , filled
their pouches to the utmost with
cartridges and issued forth six hundred
strong against the rebels. Osman Dignia's
hordes rushed to the attack. Tewfik Bey
and his men fought nobly , and for a long
time they repulsed every attempt to break
their ranks. Finally superior numbers pre
vailed , and with tremendous yells the reb
els burst through one of the sides of the
Egyptian square. A general massacre en
sued and not a soul escaped. According to
latest reports only four sick men , unable to
take part In the sortie , were left in Sinkat
and they were spared by the rebels. Be
fore the sortie" rebel shiek approached
Sinkat and summoned Tewfik Bey to sur
render , saying his life would be spared.
The garrison answered defiantly , reviling
the rebels. During the sortie * the women ,
and children followed in the rear of the
soldiers. A large number of rebels were
killed. The rebels are now massing in the
vicinity of SauMm , and an attack is be
lieved to be imminent.
Bed Men on the Warpath.
GALVESTOX , February 11. Houston
papers this morning publish an account pur
porting to come by telegraph from Mata-
moras , Mexico , giving an account of an al
leged uprising of Indians at Tuxtepec ,
state of Oajac , Mexico. It is said stores
and private { dwellings were plundered ,
seven merchants killed -and a number
wounded ; that the corpses of the murdered
men were dragged through the streets and
subjected to all manner of indignities. The
authorities of Tuxtepec , it is said , have at
tacked the mob with a force of one hundred
men , but were defeated , with five killed.
The special further says that several thou
sand troops are being concentrated in the
states of Pueblo and Oajac.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK ,
GENERAL.
The International Working People's
association of New York has commended the
assassi atlon of Detectives Rloch and Klu-
beck , in Vienna.
Officials of the Atchison , Topeka and
Santa Fe deny the report' that a combination
has been formed betwceh their road and
the Burlington.
A factional fight occurred among the
Creek Indiana a few days ago , in which Yo-
hola was killed and several others wounded.
There are fears of further bloodshed. The
cause of the trouble is not stated.
The locomotive engineers of the Mex
ican Natignal , between Laredo and Saltillo ,
Mexico , have organized as a body and will
present the company their resignations en
masse , unless some protection is guaran
teed them against arrest and indefinite im
prisonment in Mexico , when , -discharge
of their duty , they inadvertently run over
and kill a Mexican.
Reports from twenty-four leading
clearing houses in the United States for the
weekendedFeb. 8 , give clearances of $1,020-
793,864 , being a decrease of 7.5 per cent ,
compared with the corresponding week
last year.
The St. Paul chamber of commerce
passed resolutions of sympathy with the
farmers in their fight against the railroad
and elevator system of the northwest. Reso
lutions were passed calling upon Minnesota
senators and representatives in congress to
do all in their power to secure immediate
opening of the Sioux reservation , Dakota.
A resolution was also passed praying con
gress not to forfeit the land grant of the
Northern Pacific , as it would be of great in
justice to farmers who have purchased lands
from the same.
Hen. Thos. Einsella , editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle , died on the llth , after
twelve weeks illness.
Afire at Fort Sully on the 13th de
stroyed the 'military quarters. No assist
ance could be rendered. The nearest water
was in the Missouri , nearly a mile distant.
The Lincoln club ot Meridan , Conn. ,
composed of leading colored men of Con
necticut , have indorsed Logan' as a presi
dential candidate.
The Illinois state republican conven
tion will be held at Peoria April ICth.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has contributed $4,000 for the sufferers of
the western floods. .
Petitions are being circulated in Cali
fornia requesting congress to pass , without
amendment , Sumner's postal telegraph
bill.
bill.At
At Milwaukee , J. A. St. Arnold , a
telegraph operator , while outwalking with
Miss Bridget Eagan , shot the girl , firing two
bullets into her head , and then shot himself
through the brain.
A bell boy at tKe Sherman house ,
Chicago , was crushed to death by the ele
vator.
Two sections of a freight train'on the
Cincinnati Southern collided. The caboose ,
cars and engines were badly damaged. F.
Burke , brakeman , was killed.
Twenty-five hundred circulars were
sent from Sacramento to the democrats of
California , inquiring their preference for a
presidential candidate. One thousand an
swers have been 'received , giving 800 for
Tilden , 193 for Thurman and five for Field.
It is estimated that 30,000 people
along the banks of the Ohio river , within
twenty-five miles of Galliopolis , will have to
be fed by charity for at least two weeks.
Irontown , Ohio , is two-thirds under
water , and the destruction is beyond all es
timate. More than half the people are
homeless and out Of food.
The department commander of New
New Hampshire appeals to all Grand'Army
posts for aid for the sufferers by the floods.
Greenleaf , Ky. , is completely sub
merged and great suffering is experienced
by the poor.
Dr. George H. Marshall , charged
with attempting to blackmail Mary Ander
son , was acquitted in the United States dis
trict court at Pittsburg.
The glove fight -between , the heavy
weights , Capt.J. . C. Daly and H. H. itod-
dard , a few nights ago , in New York ,
Queensbury rules , was a very bad encounter.
In the third round Stoddard clinched his
antagonist and hurled him from the plat
form. Police then stopped the row.
Tom Allen , the pugilist , was- dis
charged by the St. Louis criminal court on
the ground that the old charge of fighting a
prize fight in Kentucky , in 1876 , was made
for the purpose of collecting a debt.
The gross receipts of the matinee
given by the Mapleson company at Chicago ,
including Patti and Gerster , for the benefit
of the Ohio flood sufferers-was over $5,000.
Duncan C. Ross , the well-known ath
lete , issues a challenge to match Mervine
Thompson for $1,000 to $5,000 against John
L. Sullivan , the champion , for a hard glove
fight , the contestants to fight to a finish ,
ring rules.
The national trotting association has
changed .its rules so as to provide that orig
inal reports of meetings , instead of dupli
cates , be transmitted to the national secre
tary. This is to provide against fraud.
Several respectable citizens of Louis
ville have been arrested for shoving the
queer. "
The state stock-breeders' association
of Nebraska met at Lincoln on the 13th.
One hundred delegates were in attendance.
The opening address was made by President
Walker. There wan interesting discussion
on breeds and diseases of cattle.
George Burnett and James Commer-
ford have been arrested In New York for
swindling in sending out orders under the
name. of Cornelius Comstock A ; Co. , a com *
mission firm of high standing. Commerford
has served a term in prison for forging a
$43,000 check. Burnett has also served a
errn for swindling.
Judge Dickey , of the Illinois supreme
court , has granted a supersedeaa in the
case of Frederick M. Kerr , sent to the pen
itentiary for ten years for stealing $60,000
from Preston , Kean & Co. , bankers , which
necessitates a new trial .
Mrs. Emma Uhler , made notorious
last year by figuring in a murder case that
made a great sensation , died from morphine
poisoning in the New York hospital a few
days ago.
Matthew Arnold will publish his im
pressions of America along with lectures he
delivered in the United States.
Work by the river coal miners will
be resumed in a few days. Employment
will be given 8,000 miners , who have been
idle several months , owing to depression in
the trade.
A mixed train on the Southern Cen
tral dropped into the Seneca river at "Weeds-
port , N.Y. Burr Ridgeway , the engineer ,
John Straight , fireman , and Tim K. Dona
hey , brakeman , who were in the cab of the
engine at the time , were drowned.
Walter Sturch , aged 15 , living on a
farm near Hamilton , Ontario , tied a strap
to a bed post , put his head in the noose ,
jumped off a chair , and drawing his feet up
from the floor , banged himself.
The Tacoma , W. T. , chamber of
commerce has organized with General J. W.
Sprague as president. A memorial to con
gress was adopted against forfeiture of the
Northern Pacific land grants.
The supreme court of Illinois has af
firmed the decision of the lower court in the
ese of Timm vs. Harrison , mayor of Chicago
cage , thereby asserting the constitutionality
of the Harper high license law.
Seven thousand five hundred dollars
has been collected in Boston for the western
flood sufferers to date.
| On February 2d a herd of 100 cattle
from Liverpool were sent to quarantine at
Portland and were pronounced free from
disease. The same day some cattle were
fed in the road over which the herd had
passed and soon showed signs of disease.
Now nearly all the cattle in quarantine are
affected.
Police officer Nicholson , a' native oi
Canada , was mysteriously murdered on his
b'eatatSan Francisco.
Otto Dierberger was found guilty oi
murder in the first degree for the killing ol
John Home in a street car last May.
Mrs..Strib'ling , the lady grossly as
saulted recently , near Montgomery , Ala. ,
by a negro , has since died. Her throat was
cut and she lingered in great agony two or
three weeks. The negro was hanged by a
mob a day or two after the outrage.
Two men , Wallace Brockman and
Dick Craig , were found dead in a room at
the Ashland house , Lexington , Ky. They
blew out the gas when retiring.
WASHINGTON.
At a meeting of the house committee
on banking and currency , Mr. Potter gave
notice that he proposed to withdraw his two
per cent bill substitute for the new fund
ing bill , which will probably go to the com
mittee on ways and means.
The house committee on commerce ,
voting on several propositions , designed to
gain the sense of the members upon the
general question respecting the advisability
of providing , by congressional legislation ,
for the regulation of inter-state commerce ,
it was decided by 1-1 so " 1 , that it ought to
be remedied by legislation of some kind ,
Mr. O'Neill ( Pa. ) casting the negative
vote.
Treasurer Wyman , on the 12th , re
ceived from an Ohio bank two packages
purporting to contain $1,000 each. One
was found $530 short and the other con
tained two pieces of flannel.
Hon. Walter Evans , commissioner of
internal revenue , has addressed a letter to
the secretary of the treasury on the question
of extending the bonded period on distilled f
spirits now in warehouses. The commis
sioner takes ground in favor of giving the
relief asked for whisky men. He thinks if
the government be secured against loss it
can afford to extend the time to a debtor in
distress. To refuse to do so wouldbe harsh
and unwise. He thinks provision should be
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made for payment to the government oy
creditors whose time is extended , of 4Kper 3I
cent , interest on the tax due till the time of 3I
extension. I
The commissioner-general of the T
land office claims that 274,000 acres of land ,
bave been patented to the Burlington and ,
Missouri River railroads in Neb'raska in ex
cess of the quantity It is entitled to receive ,
and has allowed the company sixty days to *
show cause why the land should not revert
to the government.
Senator Logan has introduced in
the senate a bill to proyide that persons >
honorably discharged from the military or
naval service of the United States shall be
preferred for appointment to civil offices ,
providing they possess the necessary busi
ness capacity. ,
Secretary Lincoln estimates that the pur to
chases of supplies by the mayors of the
various towns along the Ohio , and the cost
of expeditions to the sufferers from Pitts-
burg and Louisville will aggregate $13'-
000 , leaving $120,000 of the appropriation to
be expended by General Beckwltb , in
change at Cincinnati.
The house committee on postofficcs
and post roads agreed to report favoratojT- '
the bill amending the section of the revised
statutes authorizing the postmaster-general
to stop the delivery of registered mail or
money orders to fraudulent lottery compa
nies by striking out the word fraudulent ,
thus including all lottery companies in its
provision.
The president has accepted the resignation - ,
ignation of John C. New , assistant secretary - *
tary of the treasury , to take effect from the
day.
day.The
The house committee on commerce
concluded consideration of the first section
of the Reagan bill to regulate inter-state
commerce , and decided to embody it in the
proposed inter-state commerce bill.
FOREIGN.
It has been decided to send to Sua-
klm three British officers , serving in the
Egyptian army , to form a battalion of 600
black and Tnrkish troops , to hold the place
with the English marines. Baker Pasha
and the remainder of his forces at Suakim
'will be recalled.
Spies from Sinkat report that the
garrison there , having eaten up the camels ,
cats and dogs , are devouring tree leaves.
Col. Satorius ha closed up all liquor stores
which have been infested by officers and
soldiers. The British gunboats Ensyalus
and Decoy are In a position to shell the ene
my if necessary.
iBradlaugh's appeal against a ser-
geant-at-arms for removing him from tno
house of commons and not permitting him to
enter , has been disallowed by the court of
the queen's bench.
Miss Fortesque , in the breach of
promise action against Lord Garmoyle , es
timated the damages to her affections at
50,000.
Admiral Seymour received a sum
mons after the English cabinet counsel
which directed him to be 'ready to set out
for Egypt at an hour'a .notice.
A meeting , attended by 15,000 people
ple , was held at Sheffield , England. Reso
lutions were adopted denonncing the Egyp
tian policy of the government as a sacrifice
o'f national honor and prestige.
The-Nord Deutscher Zeitung says ed
itorially : "The bill in regard to hog pro
ducts , now before the American congress ,
is calculated to painfully affect the Ger
mans , who have national interests at heart.
The sting of the bill is palpably directed
against Germany alone. Germany has al
ways maintained a friendly disposition to
ward America , and does everything possi
ble to show her friendship , and this sudden -
den anti-German attitude on the part of
America excites in us regret and astonish
ment. "We do not assume that American
statesmen are disposed to entertain the
opinion that Germany can be induced by
threat to rescind the measure enforced In
the interests of public health. "
It is believed by officials at Cairo that
Osman Digna's force is massing for the purpose -
pose of making a desperate attack on Tokar.
Some alarm is felt , the defenders being
short of ammunition. General Gordon tel
egraphs : "I have formed a committee of
defense with the well-to-do families of Ber
ber and a precipitate action may throw them
into arms against the enemy. Patience
alone is requisite. " He asks the authori
ties lo send arms and ammunition to Beiber.
The rebels killed at Sinkat 200 women and a
number of children.
A duel between M. Laguerre and M.
Clauveaue , members of the. French cham
ber of deputies , occurred- Paris on the
15th. The former was wounded in the
knee.
RESULTS OF THE FLOOD.
Buildings Tumbling : Down and Burying-
the Occupants iu the Kuins.
CINCINNATI , February 15. At 3:40
this morn ing a nre alarm sounded from a
box atLudlow and Pearl streets , where the
water surrounds the houses , andlwhen the-
engines reached the place it was discovered
that the rear of two brick buildings on the
south side of Pear , near Ludlow , had fallen
and ten persons had been buried in the
ruins or drowned. The occupants from the
other portion had given the alarm , and be
fore the real cause could be ascertained the.
fire alarm was sounded.
The buildings that fell were occupied as
boarding houses by Robert Kyle and Geo.
Oyester. "There were about thirty-five people
ple in the buildincs at { he time. The fol
lowing are known to have been killed ,
either by fallingtimbers or drowning : John
"W. Kyle , son of one of the proprietors ;
Mary E. Cotter , Maud Ellis , James Ogden ,
Barney Winkler , Mrs. Winkler , Thomas
Burk , Mrs. Lena Burk and two children ,
William and Louis Burk , making nine or
ten lives , so far as known at this
iour , which have been lost.
report was current that two additional
bodies had been found , making the total
number of victims twelve , but it was after
wards learned that the two people hitherto
called Winkler In the reports were Mr. and
Urs. Woenker. This leaves the total num
ber of victims , so far as known , ten. The
ody of Maud Ellis was also recovered. The
body of another woman was found4
under the partition wall , but , owing to Sie
danger of the other walls falling , further
search was abandoned till the waterfalls.
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The most severe cold will soon yield
Chamlain's Cough Remedy. Try it
and be convinced.
An Eliot Indian Bible sold the other
day for $1,250.