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About McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1884)
THE TBIBUMB. F. M. Me E. M. iciirargT.T. MoCOOK , i ! 1 NEBRASKA INTERESTS. The Michigander who willed Josh Billings $5,000 , must have died from a "bad spell. " [ Nbrristown Herald. Crete nurseries , Crete , Neb. , are working between fifty and.sixty bands get ting UD stock for tbeir wholesale trade. They , will be ready for retail trade ; April 1st. The season promises to be very favor able for tree planting. The body of John Kirch w&s-found floating In Oak creek , near Lincoln , one .day last week. The coroner's Jury re turned a verdict that he came to his death by drowning by his own hand while of un sound mind. Mrs. John Lee , wife of a well-known Inmber dealer of Crete , died a few days ago from the effects of poison , either strychnine or arsenic. It Is not known as yet how she came to take It. At the request of the board of re gents of the state university , L. R. Thomp son , professor of agriculture In the Indus trial college'and ; 8. Culbertson , professor of agriculture and superintendent of horti culture , handed In their resignations , which were accepted. E. P. Savage , of Ouster county , was appointed to take charge of the farm .work and stock. Harlan county invites comparison in the matter of heavy babies. Sappa town ship was heard from a few days ago with one weighing fourteen and a half pounds , and now Pleasant Ridge , near by , comes to the front with twins weighing eight pounds each. each.A A B. & M. brakenian named J. D. McCune was arrested at Wymore for stealIng - Ing freight from the compaay'8 warehouse. He pleaded guilty and was fined. Sheriff McLean , of Dawson county , took Vettle Cornet , aged 17 years , to the state Insane asylum , he having been adJudged - Judged Insane by the county board of in sanity. About ten years ago , says the Plum Creek Pioneer , the young man was bitten on the cheek by a rabid dog , and at periods , since that time he has shown signs of mental derangement , which have In creased each succeeding year until the boy became dangerous to his friends , and his father was compelled to have him sent to the asylum. A gentleman from Norfolk has bought the famous Seven Springs near Long Pine , and in the near future will erect an extensive flouring mill and factory on the east bank of the ever hurrying Pine. Jefferson county , although not get ting as much Immigration as had been an ticipated , is securing a class of settlers that come well provided with'means. .Land has so advanced in price that the man with but limited means is compelled to push farther west. Antoine Christiansen , of Omaha , mysteriously disappeared from his home a few nights ago , leaving a wife and young babe to whom he was devotedly attached. It is feared he has beenfouly dealt with. The citizens of "Waterloo , Douglas count } ' , ' propose inaugurating a canning .factory enterprise. At a recent meeting facts were presented showing that with an expense of $2,000 there can be prepared a building and complete outfit with capacity for putting up 10,000 cans per day. - An old , man whose name was' not learned , was relieved of $235 by confidence men Just as the train left Plattsmouth a few days ago. He was on his way from his home in the east to Grafton , where he has a son keeping a grocery. At Liberty , according to the Journal , Mr. Kedson's cow went to a neighbor's and put her head into an empty salt Barrel ; then she tried to take Her head out , but could not. so she began "backing and , bawling and backed against the door , burst it open , went against the bed. Commissioner Yining of the tripar tite pool , has decided that In order to pre vent the shipment of freight from Lonp City , Neb. , via the C. , B. & Q. railroad to Kearney , all freight from that city should be contracted and billed to St. Paul , Neb. , at the Kearney rates. The State Teachers' association opened at Lincoln on the 20th at the uni versity chapel with an address of welcome by Regent C. H. Gere , and response by A. "W. Vandemaa , o.f .Wahoo , and an address by the president , Prof. W. W. W. Jones , the state superintendent. The association opened with a good attendance , and it was thought the session would prove instruc tive as , well as entertaining. After an inquisition continued for nearly two days , the Jury empaneled to hold an Inquest on the body of Mrs. John Lee , at Crete , rendered a verdict that * 'death was caused by poison , not self-administered nor taken by accident , but by whom ad ministered the jury , from the evidence , are unable to decide. " In the district court at Lincoln George Newton was fined $50 for gambling and James Shaw $30 for renting him the room. "Wednesday , the 16th of April , will be observed as Arbor Day , in accordance with , the proclamation , of the governor , wherein he says : "This work Is one of present blessing , as well as one of future benefaction. Let all who can engage in the good work. Plant Trees Plant Trees 1 Plant theTIne ! Plant Shrub- and Flower 1' ' Three boys , at "Wahoo , sons of Dr. M. W. Stone , "W. Kliment and Thomas Riddle , poisoned themselves by eating wild parsnips or some other noxious root. The poison was not fatal In any case. The Presbyterians of Kenesaw have decided to erect a house of worship the coming summer to cost about $1,500. The German Evangelical society of the same place are also taking steps-to build. The .people of Beatrice are so well pleased with the manner In which Mayor McConnell has filled the office during the gast year , that a petition has been signed y about one hundred of the leading citi zens , asking him to'accept the position an other term. In all sections immigrants are put ting In an .appearance both by cars and wagons. The prairie schooner can be seen any day , with a few extra horses , a herd of cattle , a coop of chickens , and implements of husbandry , making for some vacant land to carve out a home for the future. The annual sheep-shearing festival of the Nebraska wool growers and sheep ; breeders' association will take place at Be atrice , May 7 and 8. Hon. A. S. Paddock has returned from attendance upon the Utah commission at Salt Lake to his nome In Beatrice. It Is rumored that he will resign from the com mission at an early day. . The anti-monopolists met in .convention atLincolnon.theSGth and appointed dele gates from the three congressional districts to the national convention. Ben Butler was declared the committee's choice for president. . . . . . . , * The state teachers' institute elected the following officers for the ensuing year : President , "W. W. Jones , Lincoln ; secre tary , Ed. Healey , Crete ; treasurer , H. M. Blake , Beatrice ; corresponding secretary , Anna Gray , superintendent of Polk county. A party of eighty people arrived in Omaha from VIncennes , Indiana , a.few days ago. They have come to Nebraska and for permanent location. bag baggage Thl party w lilorm a colony in the north ern section of the state , taking advantage and the unsurpassed resources of the cheap lands sources thereof. .An Omaha saloon keeper , at the hour IT * & * , - . of midnight , was compelled to yield up the keys to his place of business and all money about the premises. Two strangers-did the work , and their persuaders < -wer6 a like number of pistols in close proximity to the victim's hetd. The county superintendents met at the office of the state superintendent at Lincoln and organized by electing W. W. W. Jones president and Jno. I. Mallalleu , of Kearney , secretary. Twenty-nix coun ties were represented by their superintend ents. The day was consumed In a discus sion in regard to the manner of conducting examinations and various other subjects re lating to their work , -and were freely par ticipated in by all. A sentiment was de veloped strongly in favor of teaching methods in. . Institutes rather then making them simply preparations for examina tion * The Lutheran people of Stella have over $1,000 raised for their new church and expect at an early day to secure enough for erecting the building without further trouble. The Albion Argus says it is not much of a hardship to oe a criminal In Boone county. They are .allowed their freedom and the county pays a man wages to loaf around with them , also pays their board at a first-class hotel. Not long ago a woman in southern Germany died , leaving an estate worth $100,000 to $160,000 , about one-half of which falls to heirs in Nebraska. Messrs. Grlggs&Dobbs , of Beatrice , have been re tained as attorneys for these heirs. Mr. Griggs' long residence In Germany , and ac quaintance with German laws , Is of assist ance to the firm in the matter. Jordon P. Smith , of Buffalo county , was recently released from the penitentiary after doing a ten years' sentence. He was sent up for killing a man named Collins. His first trial resulted In a verdict of mur der in the first degree and he was sentenced to be hung. Another trial reduced his sentence to thirty years , ana In the third he received a sentence of ten years. RAVAGED BY CYCLONE. Additional Particulars of the Disastrous Storm in the Southern Section. The Louisville Courier-Journal's London ( Kentucky ) special says a terrific cyclone , the severest ever known in that section of country , passed near that place and Pittsburg , two miles north of London , carrying death and destruction in its train , especially at Pittsburg , where it was the severest. The Methodist church was razed to the ground and much other property damaged. At Pittsburg John Hailman , a brakemaii , was blown from a freight box and carried about fifty feet , lighting on his in a creek and breaking bis neck , causing instantaneous death. Three freight boxes , two coal-oil tanks and a caboose were blown from the track , slightly injuring others and detaining the south-bound mail train five miles. A little cabin in which Mr. Broughton was living was blown down , instantly killing Mrs. Broughton and two little children. The following persons are thought to be mortally wounded : Col. C. A. Stringer , both legs broken and cut in the head ; Robert Ridings , spinal column broken and cut in head ; Miss Sallie Goff. cut In head ; James Warren , two ribs bro ken and wounded hi. head. Among those slightly wounded are W. "Woolsey , Wm. Phillpot , Mrs. Thomas Ross and others. Over one hundred men and their families are left without homes and employment by the dreadful catastrophe. Specials to the Charleston ( S. C. ) Obser ver , regarding the cyclone in that section , state that at Newton thirty houses were blown down and the Methodist church wrecked. Cline & "Williams' flouring mill was destroyed. Mary Hunsacker was kill ed and fourteen persons wounded. Rumors from Lenoir say a whole family was killed there. Six ladies are known to have been killed. The telegraph w&es are down. At Necklenburg five or six residences were destroyed. No lives were lost. The cy clone also passed through Iredell county doing great damage to fruits and blowing down many houses. At Newton , N. C. , trees were blown a distance of two miles and everything swept clean. Hail stones fellas large as eggs. An electric storm ranged all over the state. Many persons are rendered homeless. ST. JOE & DENVER LANDS. Senator Van IVyck's BUI for Belief of Set tlers Passed. Senator Van "Wyck's bill for the re lief of settlers on the lands of the Denver and St. Joe railroad in Kansas and Ne braska , after a short discussion , passed the senate on the 28th. The land grant pro vided that when the road filed its maps with the interior department the secretary of the interior should take steps to with draw the land from settlement. The maps were filed in March , 1871 , and the formal withdrawal of the lands took place some "weeks later , between the filing of the maps and the withdrawal of the lands , a large number of actual settlers en tered upon the lands. The point was raised that the filing of the maps was a withdrawal of the lands ? but the secretary of the Interior decided in favor of the set tlers and issued patents for the lands. Ten years after settlement the supreme court decided against the settlers in a test case , and congress was appealed to for aid. A bill was passed in one house , but failed to receive consideration in the other. The settlers became alarmed and compromised the matter by the payment of $3.50 an acre. An appropriation of $250,000 Is made by this bill , which Is to reimburse them for this outlay. The Democratic Central Committee. The democratic state central committee met at the Millard hotel , Omaha , on the 24th. John McManigal , of Lancaster , was elected { .temporary chairman and N. W. Smalls , of Dodge , secretary , occupied the chair. The first business was the consideration of the resignation of J. Sterling Morton as chairman of the committee. An animated debate took place and finally a motion was made by Mr. North that the resignation of Mr. Morton be not accepted. This was carried and the secretary was instructed , on motion of Mr. Charde , to notify Mr. Morton by telegraph of the action of the committee. The convention for the election of ten delegates to the national convention at Chicago cage will be held at Lincoln , May 22d. The vote for J. Sterling Morton for governor in 1882 will be taken as the basis of represent ation of counties in the state convention. The committee adjourned to meet at 5 o'clock , May 22d , at the Commercial hotel , Lincoln. The Coming Wheat Crop. The following is a summary of win ter wheat prospects , based on replies from over a thousand correspondents : Winter wheat has commenced to grow in the south ern districts but reports of damage by freezing still continue. It is impossible at present to estimate the extent of the injury. The development of growth has as yet been small , but the advent of warm weather would help the general condition of the crop greatly. Know looks as if farmers Irom Dakota to Illinois will be able to begin spring seeding soon after April 1st. Prices offer no encouragement for an increase in acreage of spring wheat , but from ihe amount of new breaking In the northwest t does not seem probable that the acreage be materially diminished. A foul delivery The poultry deal er's. . ffi * ' - * - - - > ; j _ _ _ J _ _ M , _ M , THE ffASHIN&TON MS. A Bill Making Provision for the Rigid inspection-of Meat Products. A Series of Examinations in the Western States by the Civil Service Commission. Proceedings In the Senate and House of Representatives Miscella neous Washington Matters. CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. SENATE. Monday , March 24. The senate to-day was presided over by Senator Sherman designated under the rule by the vice president for that purpose. Vance presented the views of the minority of the committee on foreign relations relative to the action and report of the committee on the subject of exclusion of American meats from foreign countries. The senate took up the bill to increase the salaries of United States district Judges to $5,000. Van Wyck's motion to make the figures $4,000 was rejected. During the course of debate a message was received from the house announcing agreement to the reports of its conference committee on the senate 1oint resolution to appropriate $10,000 for the contingent fund of the senate , and further announcing nou- concurrence in the senate amendments to the urgency deficiency bill. HOUSE. The joint Mississippi river relief resolution was lost , yeas 95 , nays 113 , but by unanimous consent it was reintroduced by Ellis and referred to the committee on appropriations. Randall submitted the conference report on the senate resolution for an addition of $10,000 to the senate contingent fund. Agreed to. The house recedes from its amendment which confines the expenditure of this sum to investigations previously or dered and agrees to an amendment which confines the expenditures to the payment of current expenses of special and select commissioners. Adjourned. SENATE. ' TUESDAY , March 25. Hoar called up the bill increasing salaries of United States district court Judges to $5,000. After de bate the bill passed ; yeas 42 , nays 13. Bills were reported favorably and placed on the calendar , by Ingalls , from the com mittee on Indian affairs , to provide for the sale of Iowa Indian reservation in Nebraska and Kansas , and issuance of a patent for Iowa tribes In Indian territory ; by Palmer , from the committee on postoffices and post- roads , for readjustmeia of compensation for the transportation of mails on railroad routes. Bills establishing a bureau of statistics of labor , and to protect employes and ser vants engaged in foreign and inter-state commerce , went over. Mr. Call's Joint resolution providing that payment of laborers in government employ shall be the same for holidays as for other days , was passed without debate. The senate then considered the educa tional bill , but without definite action ad journed. HOUSE. On motion of Mr. Belford , the senate bill was passed authorizing the state of Colorado to take lands in lieu of the six teenth and thirty-sixth sections , found to be mineral lands , and secure to that state the benefit of the act donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of ag riculture. Browne , of Indiana , from the committee on Judiciary , reported back the bill making it a ffllony for a person to falsely and fraud ulently assume to be an officer or employe acting under the authority of the United States or any department thereof. The house then considered the bonded extension bill. Speeches were made on both sides of the question , but without definite action the house adjourned. SENATE. WEDNESDAY , March 26. The sen ate took up the bill providing for the pur chase of the reservations of various tribes of Indians ana allotting lands to the In dians In severally. After minor amend ments the bill passed. The education bill was then taken up and discussed by Messrs. Vance , Dolph and Hoar. Mr. Butler opposed the bill. He could find no authority in the constitution for the proposed measure. Debate on the educational bill was inter rupted by Jones calling bp the house Joint resolution reappropriating as aid for the sufferers of the Mississippi floods the $125 , - 000 not expended for the relief of the suf ferers by floods in Ohio. The resolution was pasted. HOUSE. Mr. Ellis reported a joint resolution pro viding $125,000 of unexpended appropria tion for the relief of the destitute in the dis trict overflowed by the Mississippi and trib utaries. Adopted. Mr. Keifer introduced a bill for the erec tion of a pedestal for a statue of Garneld in Washington. Referred. The house went into committee of the whole on the whisky kill. Messrs. Pusey , McCormick , J. D. Taylor , Brown , Warren ( Ohio ) and Cox ( N. Y. ) opposed the meas ure. ure.Mr. . Dunn made the point that by some peculiar method the bill had been brought before the house when only three members of the ways and means committee favored it. He ridiculed the idea of Morrison and Hurd , the champions of tariff reform and free trade , bringing in a measure for the protection of still another set of people. The democratic party , by a solemn com pact entered into last night , proposed to reduce the revenue $13,000,000. It pro- osed to sweep out the tobacco tax , $23- DOjOOQ more. It proposed in this bill to give away $75,000,000. It proposed to pen sion the Mexican veterans , and that would take $3,000,000 more than had been esti mated. In short , if the programme was carried out. it would be a reduction of $189,000,000 in the face of an estimated sur plus of only $59,000,000. SENATE. FRIDAY , March 27. Mr. Miller re ported favorably from the committee on na val affairs , with amendment , the Joint resolution elution authorizing the secretary of the navy to offer a xeward of $25,000 for rescu ing or ascertaining the fate of the Greely expedition. A number of private claims were passed , among them were the following : For re imbursing Mrs. Meeker and Miss Jose phine Meeker , the latter lady now dead , and others , for losses by the depreda tions of the Ute Indians in the massacre at the White River agency In 1879 ; to pay $2,500 each to the representatives of Mrs. Martha Vaughn and Mrs. Louisa Jackman , for patriotic services and information to the Union army in Kentucky in l868 : to repay Georgia $22.657 , money advanced for the defense of her frontier against the Indians from 1795 to 1818. The senate then took up the education bill , but no final action was had. HOUSE. Theliouse went into committee of the whole on the bonded extension bill , and Mr. Randall spoke in opposition to it , and In committee the enacting clause of the bonded bill was stricken out 131 to 87. The vote was yeas 105 , nays 83 , and thus confirmed the action of the committee i i striking out the enacting clause of the whisky bill. The whisky bill being disposed of there was a general rush to secure precedence for other measures on the calendar as the special orders. Mr. Dowd succeeded in getting the ear of the bouse to the bill for the retirement of the trade dollar. After debate , and with out action , the house adjourned. SENATE FRIDAY , March 28. Mr. Platt re ported favorably the bill to authorize the enumeration of the inhabitants of the ter ritory ofIdaho. A resolution offered by Mr. Van Wyck was agreed to as follows : That the secre tary of the Interior be directed to furnish the senate copies of the correspondence be tween the department of justice and the In terior as to the present eflicacj of the stat ute of March 3 , 1807 , empowering the pres ident to direct marshals and employ such military force as may be necessary to re move persons and obstructions from the public domain. Mr. Miller ( Gala. ) called up , and the senate passed , the bill authorizing the sec retary of the navy to issue a proclamation offering a reward of $25,000 to be paid to private parties who shall discover and res cue , or satisfactorily ascertain the fate of the Greely expedition. HOUSE. Mr. Anderson introduced a concurrent resolution for the final adjournment of con gress at 12 o'clock on the 2d day of June , 1884. Referred. A number of private bills were-passed. One for the relief of certain soldiers of the late war from the charge of desertion , was laid over , after discussion , without action. Mr. O'Neill ( Pa. ) presented a resolution from the convention of wool growers in fa vor of the restoration of the duty of 1867 on wool. At the evening session the house passed twenty-two pension bills , among them a pension for $50 a month to the widow of Major-General James B. Steadman. CAPITAL TOPICS. DIXON COUNTY BONDS. A supreme court decision was ren dered in the municipal bond case of the county of Dixon , Nebraska , plaintiff in er ror , against Marshal Field. This was a suit upon past due coupons of certain bonds is sued by the county of Dixon to the Coving- ton , Columbus and Black Hills railroad company. The court holds the county is not estopped by rentals in bonds from deny ing their validity , and that having been is sued in contravention of the constitution they are without warrant of law and void. The judgment of the circuit court is re versed and the cause remanded with in structions to enter Judgment in favor of Dixon county. A LIBERAL OPINION. Senator Vance in the minority report from the committee on foreign affairs , sub mitted on the 24th. expressed the opinion that Germany has a right to exclude Ameri can h"g products on the ground that they are unwholesome , if she deems it proper , and this government is not justified in im peaching her motives. A NEW DEAL. The president sent to the senate the nomination of Aaron A. Sargeant , envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Germany , to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Russia , vice Wm. H. Hunt deceased. The nomination of Sargeant was a total surprise to most per sons at the capital.7henitwas laid be fore the senate , in executive session , a few questions were asked and briefly answered to the effect that the transfer , though not requested or even suggested by Minister Sargeant would doubtless be agreeable to him and would undoubtedly be productive of good results as a matter of national policy , although in what manner was not stated , nor asked , as the senate- thereupon , ac cepting these assurances from a member of the foreign relations committee , confirmed the nomination by unanimous consent. NORTHERN PACIFIC LAND GRANT. Representative Henley , of the committee on public lands , has completed a report to accompany the bill forfeiting the unearned lands of the Northern Pacific grant. He says the committee is satisfied that the grant along the entire line as far as uncompleted on July 4,1879 , is and has been ever since subject to forfeiture , and that such for- eiture should be declared by congress. INTERNAL REVENUE. During the first eight months of the present fiscal year the internal revenue re ceipts decreased $14,481,260 compared with the corresponding period of 1883. MAIL CARRIERS' VACATIONS. The house committee on postoffices and post-roads has decided to recommend the passage of a bill providing that all letter carriers at free delivery offices be entitled to leave of absence fourteen days in each year , without loss of pay , upon the same condi tions as now granted employes of the post- office department. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS. The United States civil service com mission has decided to hold a series of ex aminations in the states of Iowa , Minneso ta , Kansas , Nebraska and Colorado during the month of May. These examinations will be for applicants desiring to obtain clerkships or other positions in the govern ment service at Washington. All applica tions for examination must be sent to the civil service commission at Washington , when blanks and full instructions will be sent. The examinations will be held at the capitals of the states named , under the su pervision of Prof. John M. Gregory , of the commission. The dates and places of all examinations will be announced in the fu ture. INSPECTION OF MEATS. The house committee on commerce has agreed upon a bill providing for the in spection of meats for exportation and pro hibiting importation of adulterated articles of food or drink. The committee adopted that portion of the senate bill recently re ported from the senate committee on foreign relations which referred to adul terated food or drink. The clause propos ing retaliation was disagreed to. Action of Colored Men. The Nebraska colered men's con vention assembled at masonic hall , Lincoln on the 26th. Major Moore , of Lincoln , was elected chairman , and J. W. Lewis , of Lancaster county , secretary. The discus sions were participated in by every man in the house. The convention declared In fa vor of Elaine for president and elected B. C. Macon , of Nebraska City , delegate to the colored national conference in Pittsburg. The civil rights bill was discussed and a resolution passed calling on the republi cans of Nebraska to see to it that a measure is passed by the next legislature to cover the ground for which the national civil rights bill was intended. A New Sheep Malady. Near Newcomerstown , Ohio , a pe culiar malady termed "grub" Is just now carrying off many sheep and sad havoc is being made among some of the wool grow ers' flocks. The disease is caused by a worm called grub , and Is a very distressing one. Ihe egg of the worm is deposited In the nostril of the sheep in July or August by a peculiar kind of fly and the grub hatches out in March and begins burrowing toward the brain , which when penetrated kills the animal at once. The worm is about the size of the common grub worm and has a gimlet appearance. Mr. King , a prominent farmer , has already lost thirty of his finest sheep and other farmers have lost nearly their entire flocks. AFFAIRS AT HOME. A Reign of Terror Inaugurated at Cincinnati by a Mob. Property Destroyed and Many People ple Shot Down on the Public Streets. The Court House , With All Its Valuable Records , Destroyed How the Trouble Originated. . NEWS NOTES. The Southern Pacific railroad asks the secretary of the interior for a commis sion to examine the completed 240 miles between Mojave , Arizona , and The Needles , Colorado. The National State bank of Boulder suspended on the 22d , after a short run. The failure bad been long anticipated. Notwithstanding the heavy blizzard in Wyoming no reports of losses of cattle or sheep have been received. I. L. Chamberlain , of Cleveland , a sportsman of local celebrity , has perfected a machine capable of charging fifteen hun dred shotgun cartridges per hour. Promi nent Pittsburg and Cleveland capitalists have organized a company with a quarter of a million capital to manufacture the ma chine and make cartridges. Information has reached San Fran cisco that yellow fever has broken out on the United States steamer Iroquois , now on the way to Alaska. The epizootic prevails at Dayton , Ohio , to a remarkable extent , and is re ported worse than ever before. Buford reports a further rise in the Missouri of two feet , making a twenty-one foot rise altogether. The ice is expected to break at any moment. The rise at Wash- burn is decreasing to such a degree as to .give rise to the apprehension of a gorge above , which would portend disaster. A cyclone passed over the county three miles northwest of Colunbus , S. C. Considerable damage was done to farm property. Howard Gentry ( colored ) a farm hand at Carmi , III. , shotandkilfed his wife and then blew out his own brains. Jeal ousy was the cause. The passenger agents of the eastbound - bound tnmk lines , at a meeting at Chicago , considered means for driving the ticket scalpers out of the business. Yellow fever is frightening many European canal employes from the isthmus of Panama. One hundred and fifty returned to France by the two last steamers. Thirty-one cars of corn , contributed by the citizens of Sedewick county , Kan. , to the flood sufferers , was sold at auction at Cincinnati on'change. There was a large attendance and bidding was spirited. The first car was bought by the Adams express company , and the remainder was sold at outside prices. General Land Commissioner San- born , of the Northern Pacific road , in an interview with an associated press repre sentative , stated that the agitation in con gress looking to the forfeiture of land grant ed to railroads in the northwest has seri ously retarded emigration to and settle ment of the new lands. The Union Catholic library societies of the arch diocese of Baltimore celebrated the 250th anniversary of the landing of the Maryland pilgrims in St. Marys county. Letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes , John G. Whittier , Charles A. Dana and others were read. The movement on the part of the friends of Carl Schurz to raise him a testimonial menial of $100,000 has been abandoned , at the earnest request of Schurz. Archbishop Heis was welcomed home to Milwaukee from Europe by a torchlight procession and grand ovation. The grand jury found thirteen in dictments against Prentice Tiller and Geo. McFadden , the Pacific express robbers. The Boston Transcript is informed that President Perkins , of the Chicago , Burlington and Quincy , and Ames , man aging director of the Union Pacific , will present , in a few days , a plan for settle ment which will be immediately ratified by the full boards of both companies. Augustus Schell died at New York on the 27th. Mrs. Sherwood E. Stratton , mother of the late Tom Thumb , died at New Haven on the same day. A peculiar termed " " malady , "grub , is just now carrying off many sheep near Newcomerstown , Ohio , and "sad havoc is being made among some of the wool grow ers' flocks. Fifty buildings of all sorts were un roofed by the recent storm at Denver. A prairie fire broke out in Castle- ton township , Kansas , and burned over a territory of ten miles 'in length. Every thing in its path was destroyed , including houses , barns , stock , grain , etc. , one man losing 600 tons of hay and 200 head of sheep. Theodore A. Perryj the last of the trio who robbed an express car of the Mis souri Pacific express company on the Wabash railroad near Eoann , Ind. , last last September , has been arrested in Bos ton. ton.Charles Charles Koerner , pension attorney at Alton , 111. , has been debarred from prac tice before the interior department upon evidence that he extorted illegal fees in pension cases. A microscopical examination of a piece of Mrs. Mary Schulties' leg , who died with symptoms of trichina , in West 3Iore- land county. Pa. , showed it full of parasite worms In all stages of development. O. W. Sample , Dan Dowd , William Mullen , James Woward and Dan Kelley were hanged at Tombstone , Arizona , for the Bisbee murderers. All met their fate without flinching. The house committee on labor has decided unanimously to report favorably the bill making it a misdemeanor for any state or United States officer to hire out un der contract any prisoner confined for violation lation of the United States laws under pen alty of fine or Imprisonment. Secretary Lincoln will pursue the same plan in distributing relief to Missis sippi river flood sufferers as that followed In'the case of the Ohio floods. Vessels will be sent out from New Orleans and St. Louis. FOREIGN. EMPEROR "WILLIAM'S BIRTHDAY. March 22d was the eighty-seventh anniversary of Emperor William's birth day. Buildings throughout Berlin were decked with flags. Thousands of people thronged around the palace. Nearly all the German princes were present. The first congratulatory telegram received was from Queen Victoria. The emperor appeared at the window of the palace , whereupon the multitude that thronged the streets greeted him with enthusiastic and long continued cheers. Bismarck drove to the palace through the cheering crowds , at the head of the ministry , and offered his congratulations - lations to the emperor. COMPLIMENTING THE EMPEHOR. Minister * Sargeant in proposing a toast to Emperor William at the dinner given on the occasion of opening the Amer ican exchange , said : ' "The Emperor Wil liam is entitled to the veneration of all for eigners who live around him. He will con tinue Immortal in history. Ho Is already admired by mankind , irrespective of terri torial boundaries. " GEN. BAKER'S MOVEMENTS. Gen. Graham has ordered a concon- f\ tration of the British forces at Handouk and Otad prior to marching out to give Os- man Digna battle near Tainanieb. Osman has 4,000 combatants. .All the leading shieks continue their adherence to him. The report of the scouts that Osman has fled is discredited. Gen. Graham's mes senger , who was sent to ask a shiek of his to come to the British camp , re turned with the reply of Osman that the sword was the only medium of communl- .catlon between himself and the British * 1 HE ALEUT IN COMMISSION. The putting in commission of the war sloop Alert , presented by England to- America for participation in the Greely re lief expedition , was becomingly celebrated. James Kussell Lowell hoisted the American colors at the Alert's peak. Fifty guests lunched on board , among whom were the Earl of NortLbrook , first lordof the ad miralty , and Lord Alcester and Admiral Seymour , one of the Junior lords of the ad miralty. Conspicuous among the company were many famous for arctic explorations , Mr. Lowell proposed a toast to the queen , to which the Earl of Northbrook responded. He said the queen took deep interest in the expedition in which the Alert was to share , and had felt great pleasure In authorizing the offer of the Alert to the American gov ernment A toast was then proposed to the success of the expedition , with which was coupled the health of Lieut. Gooclrichj who takes the Alert to America. THE BIUT1SII ADVANCE. Suakim advices say the advance to Tamanieb began on the 26th. A cavalry reconnoisance was made and ascertained Osman Digua's force. He holds the rugged and uncertain ground at the end of the val ley where the village of Tamanieb is sltua- te'd. If Osman fights at all it was not ex pected the battle would take p'ace before the 28th. Owing to the intense heat and bad water , Gen. Graham intendo : limit his march to clearing the valley of Tuman- ied. For the proposed cavalry expedition to Berlin three hundred Arabs Joined the British camp , but leading sheiks of ilar- gharl keep aloof. THE DUKE OF ALBANY DEAD. The death of the Duke of Albany oc curred on the 27th. His death was due to the effects of a fall at the Cercce Nautique. The queen received the news of the duke's death and was profoundly affected. The prince died m a tit as he was on the point of starting for Darmatadt to attend the wedding of his niece , Princess Victoria of Hesse. The Prince of Wales was visiting the Earl of Sef ton and received the news at the Aintree race-course. He returned at once to London. The horses Spectrum and Ollander were weighed for the race , but the Duke of Montrose and Sir George Chet- wynd refused to run them. Marl borough House was besieged with people calling to express their condolence. SARGEANT. Berlin newspapers assert that Sar geant has declined to accept the appoint ment of minister at St. Petersburg. They say he intends to retire from the diplo matic service and return to the United States with the expectation of re-entering the senate. The London Times says : "Sar geant has resigned and prefers to return home. " POLITICAL. A call has been issued at Chicago for a meeting to form an independent republi can association. In the special election at Bangor , Me. , for mayor , Humphrey , republican , was elected by 1,929 votes , against 1,713 for Cummings , democrat , and the present incumbent. The republican primaries of Sanga- mon county , III. , passed off quietly. The Springfield wards are about evenly divided between Hamilton and Oglesby. The county will be about sixty for Oglesby to thirty for Hamilton. The national republican committee has decided to limit the issue of tickets to the convention to 6,000 , which will be printed on steel plate to prevent counterfeiting. It was determined not to sell tickets of admission as in 1880 if it can possibly be avoided. The national reform convention met in Philadelphia on the 23d. Addresses on the Moral Accountability of Nations , " and "Jesus Christ , the Ruler of Nations , " were delivered. The Kansas legislature adjourned on the 24th. The Sangamon county (111. ) repub licans , in convention , adopted a resolution of sympathy with Logan's aspirations , and chose a solid Oglesby delegation of fourteen to the state convention , and instructed for Littler for treasurer. The Illinois labor convention , com posed of representatives of the labor or ganizations and granges of the state , began a session in Chicago on the 26th , the object being to consult together for the general good and hear grievances and indicate what legislative enactments are desired. Gov. Hamilton , of Illinois , has made public a letterwithdrawingfrom the guber natorial race for a second term. He does , this in answer to what seems an almost united demand on the part of republicans that Kichard J. Oglesby shall be their stan dard-bearer in the approaching campaign Fencing the Public Domain. Secretary Teller sent to the house a report relative to the unlawful fencing in of public lands in Nebraska. The report is a. special one by United States Deputy Sur veyor G. W. Fairchild , who says : "The whole country embraced in my contract ( northwestern Nebraska ) is occupied and run by capitalists engaged in cattle raising , who have hundreds of miles of wire , fence constructed which enclose all the desirable land , including water courses , to form bar riers for their cattle and prevent settlers occupying the land. They also represent that they have desert and timber claims upon the land they have enclosed. Upon their fences they have posted , at intervals , notices as follows : The s of a b who opens this fence had better look outfor his scalp. The fences are built often so as to enclose several sections in one ranch , and the ranches are joined together from the moun tains clear round to the mountains again. Persons going there intending to settle are also notified that if they settle on the land the ranchmen will freeze them out. They will not vote fora man that settles on or claims land , and he cannot get employment from any cattle man in the whole country. My chief object for addressing you is to re port the wholesale destruction of valuable Limber on government land In this whole region by cattle men , who pretend to own and raise it. There are acres after acres of bare stumps , which but a short time ago were growing timber. There were thou sands of logs cut last summer and hauled out to accessible points to be used for 'ences , corrals , branding shutes and houses , n Nebraska and Wyoming. He who prorogues the honesty of to day till to-morrow will , probably pro rogue his to-morrows to eternity. Xavater. r