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- THETEIBUNE. . F. M. & E. M. K13OIKIX , Fubfl. McCOOK , NEB OVEB THE STATE. "NEVER KILLED BUT ONE INJUN. " Henry Robinson is an ex-soldier. He claims to be the first colored man who ever enlisted in the army. Years ago lie joined Company A , Twenty-fourth infantry , under Capt. Lewis. He was honorably discharged two months ago from his regiment at Ft. Nio- brara , and came to Omaha to draw his back pay. Tire surplus earnings of seven teen years'servicehavegone in two months , and yesterday ho called on Judge Stenberg . and asked for the arrest of a man whom he alleges has § 5 of his money. When Robin son outlined his story the judge said : . "And so you're Henry Robinson ? " "Yes , hah , " replied Henry. "An old soldier ? " "Yes , snh. " "How much money did you have when yon came to Omaha- "Iliad free hundred and sebenty-fo' dol- lahs. " "And it's all gone ? " ' 'Oh , no , yo' honah ; 'taint all gone. ] lies snbcd one dollah. " "I Hiippose you drank it all up. You've been . " drinking to-day. "Ob , no. 'deed I'so not , yo' honah ; I'se dun had chills and ager. But dey just rob bed mo at the bohdin' house. One fellah 'ud come in when "I dun gone to bed and Bay 'Hello , Hen. ' Den he'd walk away wid my clo's. 'Nuther f.illah 'ud say 'Hello Hen ! " and go out wid sumpcn else nfo" J know'd it. ' ' 'Hello ' Dey kep' snyin' , Hen , mos'all de time. Ebery day dey dun stole Bumpcn. Why , yo' honah , dey jes stole fo1 eoots o' clo's. Yes , sah , fo' , and dis child had to send fo' nc\v ones befo' he'd leave his bed , sab. " The judge smiled , but did not feel that he could issue the warrant that Henry was .after. A reporter who heard the conversa tion asked Henry about his army experi ence. "It was mighty hard , fust , and I dun served eight months fo'de udder boders'ud rcconozie mo 'tall. Den it "gan to gifc all right. I was in de wall , an' dat was mighty hahd on cullnd men. One time' we got de cross-fiah. De 'Johnnies' shot us 'cause we wall for de Norf , and de Union men dey shoot 'cause dey thought we wnh rebs. flighty hahd fighlin' , dat. " "Did the Indians " you ever fight ? "Why , shu'ah , shu'ah. I hev fought dem all. But Injuns can's fight , nohow. The 'Pachcs is de only Injuns can fight , and dey can't fight sojers ner cullud sojers , either. AVhy , sah , you nebberherd obInjunsbeatin' de whites. " . "They killed Custer. " "Yes ; da' so. But Cusrah war mighty recklus. He dun gone and went down in dat hollah where no udder man 'ud go. Dat's de reason whyhewas killed. Custab was a 'mahkable brave man. " "Did you ever shoot an Indian ? " ' "I nebber killed only one Injun , but 1 fetched him down. It was jes free days aToh Custali was killed. Dey were march- ing us to Arizona , and dis day one Injun was sittin' on de hill side. He was shutin' away , and I se'e he was aimin' at me all de time. Yes , sah ; he jes' wanted to shoot me. Dis olc nigger's blood'gun * to boil , so I jumped and frew myself on my face. I jes1 level'd dc ole musket and let bang. Yah"yah , yah. It got him , fo' he jes1 went out ob sight in a secon' . Dat Was de only Injun I ebber killed. " Omalia Herald. GONE TO SAVE His RACE. The Omaha World of a recent date makes report of a meeting held in that place at the First Methodist church , during which Rev. J. L. Judson was bade farewell and started on a long journey to the interior of southern Africa , whither he goes as the first African : missionary and whence he will not return. ? Following is the World's report of the meeting : "Rev. Mr. Judson is a tall , dark and Binewy African , thirty-two years of age , who was.born in slavery in Georgia and for twelveyearspnsthas been a teacher among the people of his race in the south. Com ing north he joined the Methodist church nt Lincoln and about two months ago camo to this city and was licensed to preach. Rev. Mr. McKnig , the p stor , who has taken an abiding interest in Mr. Judson , states that he has been preparing himself for mis sion work in Africa and can teach his peo ple in the rudiments o ! knowledge , instruct them to build houses and show them how to farm , which are the three branches of work in the Congo mission field. Bishop Taylor has fifty missionaries there no w.and has sent for twenty more. Mr. Judson has volunteered to go and has been accepted. He will be the first and is the onl.t African to go to that field. Ho goes to New York to meet the nineteen other missionary re cruits and from that port they sail for Liverpool , proceeding thence to Samoa and thence up thtf Congo river to their 3ta- tions. Their traveling expenses which nro 5500 each are paid from the 'transit fund. ' After they reach their place of labor they receive no financial aid , for the mission is self-supporting. Speaking of his chosen work last evening Rev. Mr. Judson said thatfrpm whatinfor- mation is sent outto the missionaries the difficulties and dangers are such that there is nothing to invite one but the saving of souls. In leaving his people in this country he trusted that their white friends will con tinue to convert them. The colored people have their peculiarities and a great deal de pends on the example set them. From what ho reads it seems that it must be harder to convert colored people here than ' in their native land , and concluding he said : 'I hope that your prayers will bear me up to the throne of grace and that I may be enabled to gather my sheaves be fore I lay down my work. ' Rev. Mr. McKaig and Rev. Mr.Marquette took part in the service , and then the con gregation , in which there was quite a num ber of colored people , shook hands with the missionary and bade him God speed. The parting was quite impressive for lie does not expect ever to return , and said as he ehook hands : 'We shall never meet again.1 at MISCELLANEOUS SIAXE IMMIGRANTS and their effects aro coming into Nebraska by the hundred carloads. A "PHOTECTIVE Union of Farmers" has been organized in Seward county. EFFORTS are being made to organize a Knights of Labor society at Blue Springs. ; MEMBERS of the rail way commission , who have been at Emmett , on the Fremont , Elkhorn and 'Missouri Valley railway , in vestigating the claims of the people there for a depot , aro firm in the belief that a building should be put up at once. THE Nebraska association of trotting- horse breeders will give two days faces at Omaha , July 2d and 3d. A NUMBER of ex-soldiers met in Beatrice cl : and organized the Veteran Club. All old Boldiera and sons of soldiersare allowed to 03 bepoine members. 03m THE man who will put his money in a first-class hotel is wanted at Beatrice. le THE B. & M. freight handlers did not itrike for higher wages , bnt. for pay for over-time. Simply this and nothing more. LAND buyers have already commenced to arrive at Creighton , and several sales have been made to parties who are to becoma permanent settlers. Two car loads o Household goods and stock arrived las week and are being removed to farms lately purchased. Knox county expects a largo emigration of settlers from Iowa , Wiscoii sin , Illinois and other states this season. Tnos. MORTON has been appointed post master of .Nebraska City. Ho is publisher of the Nsws in that place. THE firemen of Fremont held a very sua zessful fair last week. THE secretary of the Omaha fair associa tion pronounces as false the statement thai some of the awards remain unpaid. FOLLOWING are the officers ol tho Blair Canning company : Chas. McMenemy , pres ident ; F. W. Kenny , vice president ; F. M. Castetter , treasurer. A LOT of seventy-three hogs , averagin 102 ! pounds in weight , were marketed at fJolumbus recently. PETER PLUTESS , who.li.ves near Platte Center , lost his house by fire. As AN index of what is going to bo done in tho way of immigration to Nebraska this season , tho Beatrice Express quotes an item from an Illinois paper stating that eighty cars of stock and household goods passed through the town ono day en routo to Nebraska. WAR has been declared on the unclaimed dogs in Beatrice , and many of them have been slaughtered. THE town of Cambridge established in 1880 , has now about 700 inhabitants. FULLEKTON is 'discussing water works plans and probably will adopt some sys tem at an early day. THE Ilartington Herald reports that the farmers thereabouts will plant considerable tobacco next season. THE owner and manager of the Omaha linseed oil works declares that flax is tho most'profitablo crop that can be grown in Nebraska. THE Red Cloud Hhief reports that a largo fee gorge came down the Republican the other day with terrific force , sweeping everything before it. The dam of the Red Cloud Milling company was considerably damaged. The river channel is now open and free from ice. THE Fremont Tribune understands that E. T. Dobbins is raising a subscription for carrying Parks' case to tho supreme court to see if the sentence of four years to the penitentiary cannot be overthrown. P. F. CUNNINGHAM , mayor of Farrell , Iowa , has been awarded the contract for all the tracklaying on the Elkhorn Valley road between Chadron and FortFetterman in Wyoming , a distance of 150 miles ; also a contract fifty miles in length from Buffalo Gap to Fort Mead. The railroad company are constructing thirty dining cars for tho accommodation of Mr. Cunningham's outfit. THE canning factory to be built at Blair has already made arrangements for the putting up of 500,000 cans of good this pear. PAWNEE CITY is to have a foundry and machine shop in operation inside of thirty flays. A § 6,000 Presbyterian church will be built there this year. THIRTY commissions for newly appointed notaries public were signed by the governor an thp 9th. AUBURN is now a city of the second class , iiaving three waids.v AUBURN is somewhat excited in refer- 3nce to her school house site , a portion if 'the citizens wanting it located near tho ourt house near the center , while some want it in the north end of town. Three fforts were * made to get an expression of the people on the subject and it only re sulted in three adjournments. THE school census of Fremont just com pie ted gives 1,286 children of school age. This census establishes Fremont's claim to bhe fourth city in the state in point of pop ulation. THE Bee says that one of Omaha's great est needs is a brick manufactory that is uot controlled by contractors. BLAIR , Tekama and York are all after the canning factory. ORD city bonds to the amount of § 3,000 , issued to aid the Omaha & Republican Val ley road , were registered by State Auditor Babcock last week. AN old man named Wright arrived in Lincoln from Illinois last week , looking for nis son's wife who had run away with the hired man. He found her sick at tho med ical institute , while her paramour was playing a star engagement as Jehu on the street cars. The real object of the old man's search was his grand-daughter , aged six years , the custody of whom he obtained and went back to bis Illinois homo happy , leaving the faithless wife at Lincoln with his ex-employee. JUDGE HUNTER , of Wakefield , has a cop per coin which ( bears the image and super scription of George II. of England. It was cast in 1746. 1 * of Wo-t Point held revival uus fur four uck and the icaults were highly biiccc-a ful. Biir dressprs at Hammond's packing house at 0iaha : si i nek for § 4 a day. v.-oik nr play , nhich is , they claim , accoi ding to AN Omaha young man , who persistently logged the footsteps of an estimable miss , and when opportunity presented made an indecent exposure of person , was arrested ind fined § 50 and costs. Tile dose , it is thought , will cure him. Mus. FOLSOM , for twenty years a mis sionary in China , is lecturing throughout the state , and takes occasion during her talks to denounce' in scathing terms the iresent treatment of the Chinese on the Pacific coast , as sjie termed it , by the scum Europe. WASHINGTON special : Representative 3orsey introduced a bill to pay T. J. Goad g ind MarkM. Coad § 20,000 from appro priations for tho Sioux , Arapahoe and lieyenno Indians for property destroyed jy those Indians. Also , a bill to pay Mark M. Cond § 5,000 from appropriations for he Sioux and Cheyenne Indians for prop- srty destroyed by them. JUNIATA , judging by the number of com- nercial tourists putting in an appearance , jclieves she is laying in big stocks of goods. Two religious revivals are in progress at tVatcrloo , under the auspices of the Pres- jyterians and Methodists. THE Norwegian Lutherans will build a hurch in Hartington this year : REAL estate dealers of Cedar county aro ixpecting a big boom in the near coming nonths. 4 ELI PERKINS is still in the stale giving- ecturesvhere and there. IN attempting to board a train at Blair , a man named Arnndcl , slipped , fell and had his ankle badly crushed under the wheels. THE jury in the Powell murder case at Omaha , disagreed. Eleven were for ac quittal and one wanted to hang the priso ner. ner.AN AN extradition warrant was issued by Governor Dawes for the return of Henry Zwazig to Kansas. Henry is charged with obtaining money urider false pretenses. THE Lincoln Journal learns of a well sub stantiated case of hydrophobia in Lancas ter county , the'victim being a horse owned by Norman A. Taylor , a' well known farm er. The first symptoms of tho disease were noticed when Mr. Taylor went into the stable. The horse cted strangely and kicked atTts owner when he entered tho stall. Mr. Taylor went up into the stall to put feed in the horse's manger , when the in furiated animal bit his arm. but as he had on heavy clothing the bite did not pene trate the skin. The animal Is being kept for further developments. A LODGE of the Ancient Order of United Workmen has been organized at Atkinson. A LODGE of Knights of Pythias has j' started nt Chadron with a charter mem bership of twenty-nine. AT Wayne , some tims ago. Fanny , tho ten years old daughter of R. II. Skiles , fell and broko her left arm just above the wrist. At the time it was thought it was nothing but a sprain , but recently a physician was called in. Tho bones had commenced to knit and the doctor was compelled to break them over before reducing the fracture which lie did successfully and the little girl is getting on nicely. BLUE SPRINGS is soon to have a long Telb want supplied , by the erection of a first class hotel building. The ground for the structure has been secured. AT Omaha A. C. Keane , agent for the Louisiana state lottery , was arrested and fined § 100 and costs for selling lottery tickets. THIRTY-NINE citizens of Ruby , a point on the A. & W. branch of the B. & M. half way between Seward and Milford , have peti- tioned the railroad commission for a station agent. Theie has been a depot building there ever since the railroad was built , but it has been nailed up. NORFOLK will have a district reunion of the G. A. R. , commencing August 17th and lasting until tho 21st. Gen. James S. Brisbin was selected as commander of tho camp. UP to the present time there has been over 500 conversions at tho Lincoln Meth- odist revival. HASTINGS' Y. M. C. A. association is showing new signs of life and is reaching out after the young men whoaie crowding that city. TEKEMAII hopes to have electric lights this year. 'THE expenses of the fire department at Omaha are § 2,000 a month. Two men died at Omaha last week from caisson fever , contracted while working on the new bridge. HOLREGE is catching a large share of the immigration. * r BRAINERD shipped during tho year 1885 , 425 cars of corn , 36 of wheat , 13 of oats , 1si 7 of rye. 70 of hogs and 18 of cattle , mak- siI a grand total of 578 for the year. I [ AN eight-weeks5 series of revival meetings ird have just come to a close in Lincoln. More than 450 have professed salvation during t the time. t EIGHTY-SEVEN citizens of Hastings have tl petitioned the railroad commission to cause the removal of the St. Joe < fc Grand Island railway stock yards from the resi dence portion of that city. PROGKESSIVE euchre has been all the rage tlti n Ashland the past winter , furnishing tist amusement to a large class of society. sth THE great cattle feeding ranch near Her- m.inn has thus far not proved quiteas pro fitable as was expected. : JOE McKAiN , a Hastings locomotive en ; gineer , has patented a lubricator for car : axles which will make him rich if it will do ; one-half of what he claims for it. It is a C : chemical compound that will cool off a hot box in a minute and run the car 500 miles . at the rate of thirty miles an hour without > heating the box. . CHEYENNE county has four papers and : he fifth one is about to get under way. > ALEXANDRIA , like many other Nebraska . owns , is greatly in need of tenant houses. ; cr ; THE Nebraska City school treasury con- di ' diai ain's § 5,262. ai tl A BRANCH organization of the Y. M. C. A. er s about to be formed in Beatrice. gc lit 'JISPOS.II. OF rOKT ng tl 1cnalor3Iutnlcrson fntrotluccs a Hill for Its plbe Sale. be Omaha Bee Washington special : A bill tc vas introduced in the Henate to-day by Mr.Mandernon providingfor the sale of the fo site of Fort Omaha , Nebraska , tho pale or to tom the removal of the improvements thereon , m and for a new site and the construction of 01 suitable buildings thereon. It directs the secretary of war to sell the military reser th vation known as Fort Omaha and such of thm the buildings and improvements thereon as arv cannot be economically removed to the new v site provided for. In disposing of the pro perty the secretary of war shall cause the . grounds to be platted in blocks , streets and alleys , if in his judgment it would insure to the benefit , of the government in making the sale of the site , having due reference to the requirements of the houses and buildings located on the grounds in such cases as they may be sold with the ground. The secretary of war shall also cause the lots , lands and buildings to be ap praised and sold at private or pub lic sale at not less than the appraised value , having first been offered at public sale. Tho expenses of advertising and sale shall be pair ! out of the proceeds of the sale and the balance paid into the treasury of the United States. The secre tary of war is also authorized to purchase o suitab e grounds of not less than 300 or more than 500 acres in extent , to be situated within a distance of ten miles of the city of Omaha , and construct thereon the necessary buildings with appurtenances- sufficient for a t clvc-company military post , to be known as Fort Omaha , in ac cordance with estimates to be prepared by tho war department , and a sufficient sum of money , not exceeding § 150,000 , is ap ig 0 propriated to enable the secretary of war to comply with the provisions of the act , D provided that the title to the lands author ized to be purchased shall be approved by : the attorney general. A WIFE-BEAXER SEJfTEXCED. ; Quito a sensation was created at Jeffcr- 1 fe He was tried by a jury and fined $100 and f and sentenced to jail for six months. For icvcral years past he wna. a prominent Ov business man at Jefferson City , but during dig the past few months he has been doing badly. TIIE CASEtREVHfttED ZY DETAIL. The Tlce President of tlte Missouri Pacific Speaks at Lcngtlt cf tlte Workmen's Griev ances. The following statement , prepared by H. M. Hoxie , first vice president of the Mis souri Pacific road , has been sent out to all railroad officers : MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY , EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT , ST. Louis , Mo. , March 8. To the Employes of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company , Leased and Operated Lines : That all may understand the present condition of affairs whereby some ten thousand men have been thrown out of employment , the operation of about five thousand miles of rail way stopped , and the traffic of four states , affecting over four million people , partialljparalyzed , I desire you to read and carefully consider the fol lowing facts , for which abundant evidence ran be produced and which cannot be con troverted : On the 13th of March. 1S85 , the strike then pending over this entire sys tem was settled by the voluntary media tion of the executives of Kansas and Mis souri , and a circular issued which was suf- ficu'ntly ' satisfactory to cause an entire re sumption of work. During the sixty days subsequent to the above date , committees representing the employes at different points , and also the various labor organi zations to which they belonged , wero met and all grievances candidly discussed. Satisfactory agreements were then entered into , so that on May 19 , 18S5 , it seemed that perfect harmony existed between all as co-laborers of these companies. Any in fractions of this spirit or letter of tho un derstandings or agreements made by tho company and its employes were speedily rectified as soon as brought to the atten tion of the proper authorities. This ap parent ; harmony and good understanding continued until tho September following , when this company was notified by the Knights of Labor that it must not perform any work for nor interchange any business with the Wabash railway , with which that organization had difficulties pending. The executive committee of tho Knights of Labor stated at that time that no causo of grievance of any nature existed against the Missouri Pacific railway and its asso ciated companies , but to force the Wabash , which was in the hands of the United States court , it would be necessary to invoke the Missouri Pacific railway on account of tha supposed identity of stockholders' inter ests. In order that there might be no pos sible cause for destroying the good feeling then existing between this company and its employes the order above referred to wan acquiesced in until the Wabash difficulties were adjusted. On December 1C , 18S5 , the United States court took possession of tho Texas and Pacific railway in Louisiana ai.fl Texas for the benefit of its creditors , and from that date the severance of that railway from this system has been as complete as if np amic.ible relations had ever existed between it and these companies. The em ployes of the Texas and Pacific railway be came ihe employes of tho agents of the Dnitcd States.court , and the Missouri Pa cific management ceased to have any con trol over them. Messrs. Brown and Shel don , the receivers , took possession of the Texas and Pacific rai way , appointed their own agents and made such arrangements with their employes as they deemed proper and fit , as to which the management of the Missouri Pacific railway exercised no voice > r control whatever. It is learned that on March the 2nd inst. , the employes of the Texas and Pacific railway inaugurated a strike , giving as the reason that ono C. A. lall ] , of tho car department of that road in Marshall , Texas , was discharged without tlue cause. On Thursday the 4th inst. , tho Knights of Labor ordered the boycott of the Texas and Pacific cars and traffic over these roads , and such arrangements were thereupon made as not to permit that or- ler to disturb the apparently pleasant re- ations with our employes. At 10 a. m. on Saturday the Gth inst. , without previous lolice , all of the shopmen , most of the yardmen and many of the trackmen stopped hcir work and voluntarily refused to con tinue as employes of this company , merely dating to their several foremen that they ind received orders requiring this from the sxecutivc officers of the Knights of Labor ind alleging as their only reason the dis- harge of an employe by the receivers of he Texas and Pacific railway , an alien oad in the hands of the United States ourt. Since the commencement of his strike , at many points the local ommittee of the Knights of Labor have lotified our foremen and superintendents .hat they would appoint stuCL place their wn watchmen over our property to pro- .ect it from loss and damage and to take aio of tho same , but as these self-ap- ointed watchmen assume the authority as .o who shall or shall uot enter upon the rounds and property of the company ex- ppt through their own order , itis virtually lispossessing tho company of its property ind assuming control Mid possession of : same in violation of all rights of prop- rty and contrary to tho very basis of all ovcrnments. This company ias for years iad a satisfactory understanding and igreements with certain labor organiza- ions , which have in every instance com- ilied with their promises ami it has always teen the object and act of the management comply fully with both thespirit and the etter of all such understandings and agree- nents. I would call your attention to the allowing conclusions from the above his- ory of the past year : This company Ins nade no objection to the existence of irganizations and combinations of em- s. iloyns which the latter consider for their r nutual benefit. It has recognized and met he committees of such organizations and " nade agreements with the same withon > ny discrimination and carried them ub as exactly as possible , promptly djusting all complaints and differ- new which have from time to tim .risen. When loyal employes permit them elves to be governed and controlled by i heir discontented co-laborers they neccs arily suffer equally with thorn the con- equences of ill-advised acts , therefore , tht ecessity of their individual efforts to cstorc tho proper relations between tho ompany and its employes. It must be ell known and recognized that the capa- ity of'a corporation to meet its pay rolls nd vouchers depends upon its capacity to arn money and that when its earning owers cease its ability to pay the em- 3. loyes and its other creditors ceases at tho June time , us its daily and monthly pay- i lents are made from its daily and monthly : eceipts. This company is legally required do all in its power to perform its obliga- ions to thejjublic and to the government , it nd its management will take every proper leasuro to comply with these require- icnts , and I earnestly hope that every idependent , free-thinking co-laborer who as neen or is an employe of this company ill consider these facts and inform him- 2lf upon all sides of the subject , remembar- that there has never before been an act arbitrary , useless and uncalled for ns Imt of last Saturday , whereby a few men whom you have voluntarily given the w ower are depriving many thousands of ieir co-laborers of their accustomed this of the in ages , depriving company inm ipacity to pay its employes for their m rvices , shutting up the avenue oi traffic isCf four states and preventing some four Cf fillions of people from obtaining their tltl . istomary supplies and the necessities of tlol , because it is claimed that one employe ol the car department of the Texas an/1 olP' ; acific railway at. Marshall , Tex. , a road P' ver which this has no control , has been bekc ischarged by tho agents of the United kc ; bates court. H. M. HOIIE , fo Firat Vice President. ' in 1 V ( r A. YOUTHFUL KASSAS JFZKYD. In tha Dead of Night He Drains His Father Mother , Brother and Sister. Osngo Mission ( Kansas ) dispatch : One of tho mosthorrible murders ever known in this country was perpetrated yesterday morning near this place. Mr. Wendell , liv ing thirteen miles northwest of town , was awakened about 3 o'clock by a scream. He went to the door and was met by Wil lie Sells , son of a neighbor , J. W. Sells. The boy cried out , * * Mr. Wendell , a man is at our house with a hatchet and has hurt father and mother , I don't know how bad ly. " Wendell went with the boy , arousing .1. J. Rice , another neighbor , on the way. Upon reaching Sells' houso the most horri ble sight met their eyes. In the bed in tho north room lay Walter , Willie's eldest brother and bedfellow , aged 19 , his throat cut and the entire top of his head chopped off , exposing the brain and his right eye hanging upon his cheek. Passing into the south and main room where the light was burning , they stumbled over the pros trate form of Mr. Sells , his head crushed and almost severed from his body. Near by lay Mrs. Sells , a lady of 43 years , her head mashed and a fearful gash in her throat. On a bed in the southeast corner of tho room Jay In a , Willie's sister , aged 14 , killed in the same manner as the other three. Lying near Mr. Sells' head was a bloody butcher knife , and on a chair a hatchet , matted with hair and blood. The boy said that ho had been awakened by something , and looking np saw a low , heavy-set man with dark hair cut close standing in the door. This man staggered in and reaching over Willie , struck Walter , who lay in the back of the bed. Willie jumped out and dressed while the man was still in the room. Ti'e man rushed out of one door , while Willie went out of the other , and started up the road on the run , Willie after him. A short distance off stood a man on horseback , holding another horse upon which the man vaulted and both made off. Willie then went on to Wendell's. After the bodies had been discovered , Rice took Willie home with , when he slept soundly till morning. A coroner's jury was empanelled and a subsequent investigation broughtforth much from the boy. Suspicion rested upon him and ho was put on the stand. He swore that he had not washed his hands since the murder , but an inspec tion showed that while his hands and wrists were clean there was a water mark above while his forearms were deeply in- crusted with blood , which appeared to have spurted up his sleeves Around his finger nails , too , was blood. When re moving his pants his drawers were seen to be saturated with spattered blood and his bare feet were covered with tho same san guinary fluid. His feet fitted all the bloody foot marks to be found. Tho boy stoutly denied being tho murderer and maintained a bold front throughout. The conclusion of the inquest was postponed until to-mor row. Tiic boy was smuggled into a buggy by Police Judge Camborn and Deputy Sheriff Locke , and driven to jail in Erie for fear of lynching , which appeared immi nent. On tho way to Erie he said to Mr. ' Camborn. "Those'fellows tried to get me to say that I did it. but I thought it would be best not to admit it. " There is hardly a doubt but that the boy committed the dreadful deed , though no motive is known. Mr. Sells had in his pocket-book 5100 in gold and § 170 in bills , which were not dis turbed , besides three watches. John Hall , § f Erie , has been appointed guardian of the boy. UP J.V SMOKE .1X1 * FLAXES.a c -i Million Dollars ll'ortli of 1'rojicrtili'lpea Out. At o'clock on the morning of the Gth a fire broke out in the extensive oat meal mills of Ferdinand Schumacher , of Akron , Ohio. The mills are the largest in the country , and con sist of several immense buildiu < rs. The llamcs * spread w ith alarming rapidity , aud were soou PP beyond control. The building iirst attacked P was entirely enveloped. The lire next commu- uicated to the dry house , w Inch was also des- troycd. The 20,000 bushel elevator next burned up , and at last reports another mill was threat ened with destruction. The Universalist churcli , across the street , andthefreighthousu ' of the Cleveland , AkronX luiiibisro'l wa4- on fire. The Windsor hotel , also owned by Schumacher and valued at i > 70.00J , was threat- cued. The loss will reach SSOO.OJO. Later. The fire in the immense mills of : Schumacher is practically subdued. The fire started in the live-story brick dry house on . South Broadway. The dry house was filled . | with the best wheat and there were seven dust ; shafts leading ; from this structure to the im mense seven-story brick fronting ; on Mill street. But before the fire department had responded to the alarm the llamcs swept through these Hues and soon the fire was issuing from the handsome structure. The water works were hi in good condition , but in spite of this the fire > men were unable to cope with the flames. They . - gradually increased in fierceness and in an hour the entire square seemed to be doomed to il instruction. About4o'clock calls were sent 111 to Cleveland , Canton anil Kent for assistance , ' , each of which responded with an engine. By * sharp and effective work the old mill in the ij , southwest corner of the square and a small cl : dwelling were saved. The largest elevator con- * 1 tainod one hundred and fifty thousand bus1 1 ) els of wheat , which was destroyed. The fire spread from this structure to the New York , f > Pennsylvania & Ohio depot , and entirely des t .o troyed it together with its contents. Although re nothing definite can be learned , the loss is es nc timated at one million dollars. Schumacher 01 carried an insurance of one hundred and fifty wi thousand dollars. A house owned by Ed. ) Russell , on South Broadway , was crushed like tinder-box by a huge wall falling upon it. t 3IURDER IN WYOMING. A probably fatal shooting-affair occurred . it Bariant's ranch , in the northern part of in aramie county , Wyoming , on the 7th. Anthony Bariant , the ranchman , is a quar- ca cawl elsomo fellow and has been lately very free wl rith his gun , whenever his anger was 2U iroused. Recently he quarreled with James th . Robertson , a young neighbor , over some inor rifling matter and , meeting him ho thrust or shotgun in his face and pulled tho trig- dc er. The weapon failed to explode and ar Robertson quickly shot him in the bowels , tic Bariant threw down his weapon and flew hi Robertson , biting a piece out of his th land. Robertson remained with Bariant ill night , nursing him and awaiting a phy- th ician.who had oeen summoned fromChey- lie inne. Next night he went to Fort Collins so ilone and surrendered to thesheriff. Little wi ympathy is felt for Bariant , as he has been a i egardcd as a dangerous man. UNPAID NORTHERNPACIFIC'SURVEYS. The house committee on Pacific railroads \ \ \ report a bill compelling the Northern ud Pacific railway to pay the cost of survey- at ; : ng the lands within their grant. The bill Kt nakes these lands subject to taxation , and po designed principally for the purpose of on lompelling the railroad companies to offer BUI .heir lands for sale at a reasonable figure , or .hereby insuring the more rapid settlement of f the country within the limit of their cal ranr. It is believed that if they are com- po elled to pay taxes on theirland they will SO ! ecome anxious to put them upon the mar- pei et at low figures , instead of holding them str : or a future advance , as they are now do- cla "S- po T I * A. CALLFOJUilA SENATOR DEAD- Senator JoJm F. Miller at last Succumbs fo Prolonged Disease. , . Senator John F. Miller , of California , died at his residence on Connecticut avenue , Washington , on the 7th , after a prolonged illness. While bis condign has been regarded as precarious for many weeks past , his death was sudden and un expected. His death was the result of a complication of diseases arising primarily from a severe wound in the eye received during the Avar , twentythreeyears * ag The bullet remained in his head aboi twelve years before it could bo extracted and tho wound sapped his strength and rendered him an easy victim to disease. Loss of sleep debilitated his system and asthmitic symptoms kept him in constant ; pain. Bright's disease subsequently Derail its insidious work and-then dropsical dis orders were developed , but through all his. illness the senator showed such nerve ana will power that his physicians were encour aged to hope that he might recover. Tn& senator remained quiet up to about 1J o'clock , when ho became restless and asked for a doctor. A messenger was sent for Dr. Tape , but before he arrived Mr. Miller had passed away. He was conscious to the last , and took a sad farewell or hi * wife , who had been at his bedside all day. Mr. and Mrs. John Davis had called in a. few minutes before and were also present ; when he died. The senator leaves a wife- ami one daughter. There is no legislature- in existonce in California. The new one , to be elected in autumn , will meet next Jan- , uarv. Gov. Stonenmn , who has the ap pointment of Gen. Miller's successor , is a democrat. [ John F. Miller was born in Indiana , m 1831. his parents being Virginians ; he re ceived an academical education at South Bend , and as fitted for college at Chicago , but did not enter ; commenced the tudy of law in 1849 , and graduated at the New York StateLawsrhool inl852commencsil practice at South Bend , soon went to Cali fornia , where he practiced law for thrco years , when he returned to Indiana and re sumed practice there ; in 1860 he was a member of the state senate , but resigned to enter the army as colonel of the Twenty- ninth Indiana volunteers , and was soon placed in command of a brigade , serving under Sherman , Buell , Rosecrans ; and Thomas . , and receiving severe wounds in tho battles of Stone Riverand Liberty Gap ; promoted to brigadier general ; in thebattle of Nashville he commanded theleftdivision of 8.000 men , and was brevetted a niajor general for conspicuous bravery ; at the -i \ close of the war he was offered a high com mission in the regular army , buthedeclined _ it i , and returned to California , where ho was a collector of the port of San Francisco four year , declining a reappointincnt ; ho was a republican candidate for presidential elector in 1872 , in 1870 , and in 1880 ; he was a member of the Calfornia State Con stitutional convention in 1879 ; was elected to the United States eenateasarepublican , to succeed Newton Booth , anti-monopolist , and took his seat March 4 , 1881. His term of service would have expired March 3,1887. ] A yATURAI. BORy THIEF. A Passion for Stealing that It Seemed Im 1 v possible to Throw Off. ' A prisoner at the Central police station , says a Chicago dispatch , who is held there as C. Egbert Johnson , has been identified as Homer L. Andrews , a former postal clerk , whose arrest in 1SS1 created a sensa tion. Homer L. Andrews entered the post- office when a boy as stamp clerk. His family was excellent. He was a member of Bishop Cheney's church and sang in the choir there. A brother was in another de partment of the office , and an nunfc held a place of responsibility. She holds the same place still. Ayoun girl in the registered letter department , who was frankly ac knowledged by her associates to bo the prettiest girl in the government building was hi.s financcc. On April 9. 1SS1 , hewa-j seized by a poKtofiico inspector and search- i'd. Letters were found in his pockets , and lie confessed that bin stealings had been . : joing on for a lon-j while. A tremendous pressure was brought to extricate him. Even after his trial and conviction r , fudge Blodgett suspended his sentence iinety days because a pardon was prom ised , and he was pardoned before he evec mlered on his term ol punishment. While IB was at tho jail , and before his pardon irrived , the beautiful girl who had been en- aged to him married him. When Presi- lent Arthur released him an uproar was ! nade , but the matter was Boon forgotten , j riie prisoner had been , while in tho post- iffiee , attending the lectures at the Rush * i i Medical college. After his release he gradu- .hi ited and went to Minneapolis to practice . n's profession. This was the last anybody ho had known him here heard of him. It > learned now that Andrews led the pretty vumaii who had clung to him so devotedlv terrible life. She found herself tied to : t nan attractive in mind and affectionate in lisposition , ' , butwhocould not avoid crime. I'ogether they went to St. Louis , and there. hile in the employ of his uncle , he robbed lim of § 2,000 worth of Jewelry. That harge was compromised. In Minneapolis- , ihortly afterward , lie wjis found in os.sessiou of a valuable lot of itolen billiard cloth , but his accorn- licc in this theft was the son of a ich man , They were let go. He then went tealing horses , and three times was ar- ested for crimes of this character. He icver failed to elude capture , or to wrigglo mt of conviction after being caught. He a.s landed in the station this time by the lever work of Private Detective C. S. Stan- iy. lie tried to borrow § 50 on a stolen lorse from C. L. Eaton & Co. , and while Stanley was in pursuit of him , and almost , nthm reach of him , he leaped into a buggv lelonging ' to Maxwell Bros. , drove to W.H. Cing's office at 80 Madison street , and inder the name of G. A. Thompson , boldly sked for a loan on it. There Stanley aught np with him and seized him. Quick a flash ho flung into the fire the mortga" rhich would undoubtedly have shown his uilt. lhe pretty woman who clung to him T hrough his first escapade is now the- mther of three children. She has never nee been smirched by any of his crooked oings , but now she is broken-hearted nd discouraged. After proving her devo- lon , when his and her relatives had cast in off , she will now take herlittle ono to he home of her husband's mother. "I think , " said Detective Stanley , "that lie man has a passion for stealing , I be- evc that lie is a most peculiar ex23ple of v jine sort of psychological crookedness , , ithout being crazy. He can't help bein- cnminal.'r ° " 'A POLITICAL ORDER. Master Workman Powderly , says aM - ilelphia dispatch , upon being shown1 the- atement recently published that the nights of Labor of Illinois had form2d a olitical party under the auspices of the- rder , declared it untrue , and said that if ich a thing u attempted by any district local or state assembly of the Knights chnrter ol the body will be n i , re- illed. The order cannot be turned into a olitical party. While reform in politics i ught for , it must not come at the ex- nao of the order. No district , local or ale assembly has it in its power to de- are itself a political machine for any pur