THE TKIBUNE.
F. ITI. & E. M. KIMJIELIi , Pubs.
McCOOK , NEB.
OVEK THE STATE.
SCHOOL STATISTICS OF IfEHRASJUtl.
State Superintendent W. W. W. Jones ,
says nLincoln correspondent of theOmnlm
Bee , is patiently waiting for two counties ,
Lincoln and Key a Paha , to send in thei
enumeration of children of school age , who
the annual apportionment of school funds
for the year will be made. The state super
intendent has experienced the same vexa
tious delay that has occurred in forme
years by county superintendents failing ti
send in their returns , and after repeatei
writings all have responded except the twc
counties mentioned. Exclusive of these
the grand total of children of school age ir
Nebraska foots up the creditable sum o
251,494 , which will stand comparison will :
the increase in former years in a way cred
ible to the growth of the state. The popu
lation of children of school age is distribu
ted by counties ae follows :
Antelope 3701 Adams 5411
Boone 2724 Buffalo 5473
Brown 2340 Burt 3672
Butler. 4811 Ciiss 705
Cherry 508 Cheyenne 704
Cedar. 1803 Clay 541
Colfax 3087 Cuming 3524
Custer 4442 Daw so 2G42
Dakota 1737 Dixon 2G84
Dodge 5398 Douglas 15502
Dundy 338 Fillmore. 5182
Franklin 2G53 Frontier 1499
Furnas 2845 Gage 808
Grcely 1437 Gosper 1205
Hall 4747 Hamilton 4345
Harlan 273G Hayes 1C :
Hitchcock 885 Holt CIS
Howard 2924 Jefferson 4418
Johnson 4101 Keith 5G5
Kearney 2775 Knox 2785
Lancaster. 122G3 Loup 391
Madison 3727 Merrick 2822
Nance 1188 Nemaha 4G19
Nuckolls 3024 Otoe G7G4
Pawnee 3024 Plielps 2319
'
Pierce 131G Platte 4931
Polk 3548 lied Willow 22GO
Richardson G901 Saline 7213
Sarpy 20SG Saunders 7515
Seward 5507 Sherman 1897
Stanton 124G Tlinyer 35)75
Valley 2079 Washington. . . . 4451
Wayne 1414 Webster. 2907
Wheeler. 529 York 5555
Dawes 10S5 Garfield 403
Logan 71 Sheridan * GSG
In connection with the school population
by counties , the following school popula
tion of the principal cities of the state out
side of Omaha and Lincoln is given , so that
the census war between the places may go
on with a new basis from which to figure.
The population in school children in these
places foots up from the returns in the fol
lowing order :
Plattsmouth 1,750
Hastings 1,639
Nebraska City 1,536
Grand Island 1,636
Beatrice 1,592
Fremont 1,284
All of these places show a very creditable
increase in school population over theyear
previous.
THE XOOM Iff NEBRASKA.
Lincoln correspondence of the Omaha
Bee : The auditor of state is receiving the
installment of returns of valuations in the
different counties , but as the limit of time
for sending them in is the I5th of July , but
few counties as yet have presented their
credentials. Judging from the returns thus
far received , however , Nebraska is being
boomed in the line of valuation as well as
in population , and the increased valuation
as returned to the auditor gives promise
the present year of being in per cent of in
crease much greater than any year hereto
fore. Seven counties have thus far re
ported , and of the seven only one reports
a decrease in valuation , and that county
is Saline , which records a decrease of § 30- ,
000. The county of Jefferson presents a
valuation differing very slightly from the
vear previous , but Sarpy shows an increase
of 5120,000 , Fillmore of § 430,000 , Nuck
olls of § 200,000 , York of § 25.000 , and
Cedar county of § 40,000 , so that the gen
eral average of the few can be taken as a
fair index of what the increase will show up
when all the returns are in. It is under
stood that when Lancastercpunty's valua
tion is furnished for publication that it will
show an increase in value of § 2,000,000 ,
which will be a respectab e plum to
ward swelling the general average.
IfEERASKA POSTMASTERS' SALARIES.
The following are the changes in the sala
ries of presidential postmasters in Ne
braska under the annual readjustment for
1886 :
From. To.
Ainsworth § 1,000 § 1,100
Albion 1,200 1,300
t Ashland 1,400 1,300
Beatrice 2,200 2,300
I Brownville 1,000 4th class
David City 1,300 1,400
Edgar 1,000 1,100
Fairfield 1.000 3,000
Falls Cily 1,600 1,500
Grand Island 2,000 2,100
Hebron 1,100 1,300
Holdregc 1,200 1,500
McCook 1,100 1,500
Norfolk 1,500 1,600
North Plalte 1,500 1,600
Omaha 3,300 3,400
O'Neill 1,200 1.300
St. Paul 1,400 1,500
Sidney 1,200 1,400
Stromsburg 1,600 1,100
Superior 1,000 1,100
Tecumboh 1,000 1,500
Valentine 1,000 1.100
Wahoo 1,500 1,600
Wilber. 1,100 1,200
Wymorc 2,200 1,300
York 1,500 1,800
MISCELLANEOUS STATE MATTERS.
ENRIGHT , of Boone county , while
trying to extricate a lino from under his
horse's tail , the animal kicked him in the
lace , leaving his mark in the shape of a
black eye.
STEPS are being taken at Wilber to
organize a second cornet band.
THE assessed valuation of Hitchcock
county , as returned by the assessors , is
about § 555,000.
A PETITION has been sent to the postoflice
department praying that the mail route to
Cornell be extended to Atwood , Kansas.
THE Kimball Observer says a couple of
Kimball land agents made a § 40 bet last
week on this question : Will an applicant ,
if he settles on land before the repeal of the
pre-emption law , be allowed to file on it as
a pre-emption after the law is repealed ?
Ex MAYOR CHASE , of Omaha , is to orato
at Auburn on the 4th of July.
IN Wymore vagrants are put to work on
the streets.
GEORGE TOLLC was lodged in jail the
other night at Nebraska City. Thomas
Tolle , father of the boy , came up town
after the police to search for his son , and
stated that he was runningvild in the
woods north of town. After a long and
tiresome tramp thesearch was abandoned.
Later in the day the boy returned home
with a club , and it was feared by the
family that he might do some damage ,
hence the police were notified and after a
second chabe he was captured , not , how
ever , until the officer threatened to shoot.
That seemed to bring the young man sud
denly to his senses. He was liberated tho
next day , no one appearing against him.
EIGHT hundred of the § 1,000 required
to rebuild the fair grounds at Hastings
THE drillers at the salt mill near Lincoln
are down 300 feet.
THE Plattsmouth Jelly and Packing com
pany are talking of moving to Omaha from
which place they expect to get better freight
rates.
Work on tho cutoff from Ashland to
Omaha is progressing quite rapidly.
A large ice house with a beer storage at
tachment is to bo placed in Nebraska City.
Mrs. C. W. Barber , of Lincoln , was quite
seriously injured in a runaway last week.
Seward offers a bonus of § 500 for the
first firm that brings a manufactory , oil
or paper mill or other industry that will
use and employ a capital of § 5,000.
Water power convenient to the city can be
obtained for a nominal consideration.
THE Episcopal congregation of Lincoln
have given their pastor , Rector Al'cn , a
two months' vacation beginning July 1 ,
and he will leave for Europe July 3.
HON. J. STERLING MORTON , of Nebraska
City , sailed for Europe on the 18th inst.
WORK will be begun on the fair grounds
at Lincoln about July 1 , and will be con
tinued until the opening of the fair. The
completeness and excellent arrangement 01
the grounds at the last fair was much ad
mired , but the managers are nob satisfied
and propose this ear to excel the exhibi
tion of last year , which was pronounced
by good judges to be as good as was over
seen in any western state. A building for
the fish committee will be erected , the
grand stand will 'bo enlarged and many
other improvements will be made.
CHRISTIANA WEST , an eighteen-months-old
child , fell into a sower at Omaha and was
drowned.
MELVIN TEITSOOL , recently sentenced by
Judge Dundy to seven years in the Detroit
house of correction for stealing a letter
from a village postoffice in Washington
county , has been taken to Michigan by
United States Marshal B'erbower.
SINCE March 1st , § 105,000 worth of lots
have been sold in South Omaha in the
vicinity of the stock yards.
G. W. TOMBAUGH. a wealthy farmer re
siding near Holmesville , met with quite a
serious accident while in Blue Springs last
week. While driving along the street , the
pole of his carriage dropped , and his high-
spirited team started to run. He was un
able to guide them and was thrown out of
the carriage , striking on a pile of rock and
received several bad cuts about the head ,
as well as internal injuries.
THE stock yards company of South
Omaha has entered into a contract with
Thomas J. Liptou , Edinburgh , Scotland ,
to erect a packing house of mammoth
dimensions and proportionate capacity.
A LARGE delegation will go from Lincoln
to the Chautauqua assembly on the 5th.
At a meeting of Appomattox Post , 214 ,
tho organization decided to attend in a
bodv on that day.
THE man Prince , who was taken to Lin
coln from Hebron and lodged in the county
jail for safe keeping on a charge of bigamy ,
has received letters from each of his wives
pledging their lovo and fidelity to the last
and sympathize deeply with him in his
time of trouble. One of them desires to
know whether he really and truly loves the
other woman.
THE wife of ex-Go v. Nance has been great
ly improved in health by a residence in
southern climes.
AT Cedar Rapids the Adventists are hold
ing services every evening in a large tent
centrally located. These services will cul
minate the week after tho .Fourth in a
grand rally oi Nebraska Adventists to a
missionary meeting , representing Northern
and Western Nebraska.
PARTIES throughout the state continue
to send in certificates from tho county
clerks with applications for payment ol
bounties for the scalps of wild animals.
The appropriation for the payment of such
bounties has been exhausted , and the
clerks in tho auditor's olhcc have to
devote a considerable part of their time
to returning these applications to those
who send them in.
THE live stock sanitary commission are
receiving many notices of glandered horses
in various sections of the state.
CONSIDERABLE scarlet fever is reported
in Lincoln , with one or two fatal cases.
A WASHINGTON special says patents have
been issued to Nebraska inventors as fol
lows : W. Barry and J. R. Calden , Minden.
furnace ; G. T. Crandell , Omaha , stove
door ; S. C. Purdy , Atkinson , straw burn
ing attachment for stoves.
Geneva is soon to have a fine new opera
[
house.
UNSUSPECTING farmers continue to bo
taken in by lightning rod agents.
CONGRESSMAN DORSEY writes to the Sid
ney Telegraph saying that if people who
want postoffices established would seed
the petitions direct to him so that he could
present them to the department it would
save much trouble and expedite the estab
lishment of the offices.
Two THOUSAND people assembled at IJur
free's park in Lincoln last Sunday to wit
ness a broad-sword contest. Officers , a <
instigation of the law and order league ,
put a stop to the fun. It is not proposed
in Lincoln to allow the Sabbath to bo thus
desecrated.
IN Auburn a man who had been fined foi
drunkenness sued the saloon-keeper for tin
amount of the fine and costs. The official
dispenser of law held the claim to be a just
one and gave judgment accordingly.
A SYNDICATE has taken § 250,000 worth
of property at Florence. It is the inten
tion to make Florence a suburb of Omaha ;
and to induce manufacturers to locate in
that section. The distance IB six miles
from the metropolis.
OMAHA'S jobbing trade ten years ago was
ten millions ; now it is lour times that
amount.
May Freeauf , a tough young girl of Lin
coln , has been given a place in the reform
school at Kearney. .
AT Omaha last week a man named Grun-
nemyer lost his life by tho caving in of a
sand bank. He was soon dug put , but life
was extinct.
SHARES in tho Grand Island building as
sociation command a largo premium.
WASHINGTON special : Bids were opened
to-day by tho supervising architect's office
for stone , brick , iron , terra cotta and other
work for the public building at Nebraska
City. Tho name of the builder and the
amount of each bid was as follows : C. B.
Bickell & Bros. , of Nebraska City , § 39- ,
450 ; Smith , Sargent & Co. , of Topeka ,
Kan. , § 39,512 ; Henry Wales , of Nebraska
City , § 37,500 ; Tobin S. Potvin , of Lincoln ,
Neb. , § 34,300 ; McCarthy & Corbett , of Lin
coln , § 39,460. The lowest bidder is Tobin
S. Potvin , of Lincoln , Neb. Senator Van
Wyck thinks the bill for § 25,000 addi
tional will pass congress.
FAIRBURY'S creamery is doing a heavy
business.
THE total valuation of property in Jef
ferson county is a little less this year than
last.
last.THE
THE organization of the Chicago , Kan
sas it Nebraska railroad company , the
name by which the Rock Island is known
west of St. Joseph , was effected at this
place , says the Fairbury Gazette , at a
meeting of the stockholders held at the
Ilarbine bank , pursuant to notice hereto
fore given. A board of directors com
prising M. A. Low , H. A. Parker , C. L.
Ewing , C. P. Jilson , Thomas Harbine , A.
V. Whiting and J. R. Nelson were selected ,
the three last named being of this place.
RECEIVER BAKER will take charge of his
department in tho land office at Grand
Island July 1st.
THE Gago county Jair will be held one
week previous to the state exhibition.
FIFTEEN divorce suits and five liquor
suits recently occupied tho time of the dis
trict court of Custer county.
WORK on the new depot at Loup City is
rapidly progressing.
COL. JOHN CLARKE , of Ashland , had a
horse stolen from his stable last week.
C. C. AIKIN , the Rushville lawyer who was
tarred and feathered Monday , will bring a
suit against * ; lie instigators of the outrage ,
claiming § 25,000.
PIERCE , of Thayer county , under indict
ment for bigamy , has been taken to the
penitentiary for safe keeping. The people
there arc in the hanging business now and
Pierce was glad to be transported.
A NEW addition has been laid out to
Indianola , and lots are going off at a lively
rate.
rate.THE
THE Grand Lodge of Masons of Nebraska
was in session in Oaiahalastweek. Officers
were elected as follows : G. M. , Charles J.
Coutant , Omaha ; D. G. M. , Milton J. Hull ,
Edgar , G. S. W. , Geo. B. France , York ; G.
J. W. , John J. Mercer , Brownville ; G. T. ,
Christian Hartman , Omaha ; G. S. , Win. R.
Bowen , Omaha.
THE Lincoln tanning compnnv , so it is
stated , have lately been reducing their force
of workmen in their manufactory in that
city and have transferred much of it to the
penitentiary , where they manufacture with
convict labor. The occasion for this change
has been because , as the management state ,
the company were onabled to employ free
labor and compete with eastern factories
engaged in the same business.
AT the session of the Masonic Grand
Lodge , held in Omaha last week , the report
of the grand master showed among other
things that during the past year dispensa
tions authorizing the holding of new lodges
had been issued to Custer lodge , Broken
Bow ; Tobias lodge , Cambridge lodge , Val
paraiso lodge , Liberty lodge , Evergreen
lodge at Pierce , Davenport lodge , Hunting
ton lodge , Valley lodge at Wilsonville , Sil
ver Creek and the Chadron lodge. The re
port of C. Hartman , of Omaha , the grand
treasurer up to June 16 , I860 , was read ,
showing with § 13,570.98 left over from
last year , total receipts of § 8,805.87 , leav
ing a balance of § 12,307.24.
THE Wood River Gazette says a young
son of William McGlassen , a farmer of
Harrison township , a few miles north of
that place , was kicked in the face by a
mule , last week , so severely as to crush his
nose in a horrible manner. At first it was
thought that surgical treatment would bo
of no avail , but tho physician has treated
it in such a manner that it will in all pro
bability heal up without much disfigura
tion.
JOHN QUINN , while loading hogs at Shel-
ton , lost fourteen from the extreme heat.
THE Oxford Standard reports that a
young man by the name of Wier , living on
the Beaver , was bitten by a rattlesnake on
last week , and it was thought for several
clays that ho would die from the effects of
tho bite. Wier made it a rule to kill all tho
snakes he saw , and in going from the field
came across this snake , and not having
anything in his hand , set his foot on the
reptile , intending to catch it by tho tail
and crack its head off , as ho was in the
habit of doing other snakes , but his snake
ship was too quick for him and struck his
angs into the man's leg with tho results
before stated.
VALLEY county now has five papers.
A PROPOSITION will be submitted to tho
voters of Custer county to divide Custcr
into four counties.
:
THE assessed valuation of property in ;
Saunders county amounts to § 2,482,000.
COUNTY JUDGE LATERTY , of Valley coun-
ly , has married some 950 couples during
his official life , and received as a compensa
tion for his services from tho value of a
peck of beans to § 25.
;
NEBRASKA proposes to be patriotic on
bhe'4th. Preparations for celebrating tho
3ay are going forward in all sections of the
state.
;
JOHN H. MADARA , who has been in the
penitentiary since August 20 , 1885 , serving
jut one year's sentence for the crime of
brgcry , has gained two months good time
md was discharged on June 20.
A BAIL storm that passed over Brad-
ihaw and vicinity did considerable damage
o growing crops. g ,
IN a aomest'c row between two women , t ,
leighbors , in Omaha , one gracefully laid n
the other out with ft club. ( i
MEASURE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE.
Especially to Xuiiici-oiis Settlers in the States
of Xibrasla anil Kansas-
Washington special : To-day Senator
Van Wyck reported to the senate from the
committee on public lands , the bill for tho
relief of settlers and purchasers of lands on
the public domain in the states of Ne
braska and Kansas which passed the
house on April 5 last. Tho bill was
amended by tho senate committee by
striking out all after the enacting clause
and substituting a bill by Van Wyck , which
is of the same character with the exception
of tho omission of two clauses which pro
vided for the extension of tho provisions of
the act to other classes of settlers. Sen
ator Van Wyck's bill , which was reported
and which will undoubtedly become a law ,
providesthatforthepurposeof reimbursing
persons who , under the homestead , pre
emption , or other laws , settled upon or
pin chased lands within the grant made by
the act entitled , "An act for a grant of
lands to the slate of Kansas to aid in tho
construction of the Northern Kansas rail
road and telegraph , approved July 23 ,
1876 , " and to whom patents have been
issued < herefor , but against which persons
decrees have been rendered by the United
States Circuit court on account of tho
priority of said grant made in the act
above entitled , the sum of § 250,000 is ap
propriated ; urovidcd , however , that no
part shall be paid until lie shall have filed
with the secretary of the interior a copy of
said decree , duly certified , and alao a certi
ficate of the judge of the court rendering
the same , to the effect that such a decree
was rendered in a bona fide controversy
between a plantiff showing title under the
grant made in said act , and a defendant
holding a patent or holding by deed under
patentee , and that the decision was in
favor of the plaintiff on the ground of pri
ority of the grant made by said act to the
filing of settlement or purchase by the de
fendant or his grantor , and said claimant
shall also file with the decree a certificate
of the bill of costs in such case , duly certi
fied by the clerk and judge of the court.
Thereupon it shall be the duty of the sec
retary of theinterior to adjust the amount
due to each defendant OM a basis of § 3.50
per acre for the tract his title to which
shall have failed as aforesaid and costs ap
pearing by the bill thereof. He shall then
make a requisition upon the treasurer for
the sum found to be due to claimant , and
shall pay the same to him , taking such re
lease , acquittance or discharge as shall for
ever bar any further claim against the
United States on account of failure of title
as aforesaid.
SOME OF THE FAIR SEA
l
The only daughter of the late Prof. Leo
pold von Rankc is the Baroness von Katze. ,
Miss Grant is not breakingher heart over
Garmoyle , and she may marry an ordi
nary American , after all.
Mine. Modjeska is so delighted with her
California ranch that she wishes she had
never SOPH the footlights.
Maggie Mitchell , tho actress , could not
play old women's parts if she tried. She
will bo Fanchon to the last.
The Princess Beatrice is very busy at
present upon needle work , which is entirely
new to her. They say it is congenial.
The widow of the late Bayard Taylor
and her daughter Lillian will return this
summer after a two years' sojourn in
Europe.
Miss Minnie Irwing's latest poem is :
"Love and Fashion , " and deals with tho
social problem of the girl who sells herself
into marriage with an old man for money.
Miss Minnie Palmer will give , it is said ,
§ 5,000 for the most novel means of adver
tising. Being engaged to a crowned head
and then jilting him seems to us to merit
the money.
Mine. Christine Nilsson , it is joyously
rumored , is to marry a count , Casa
Miranda by name. The Countess Casa
Miranda will sound too sweet and yet it
has a tempestous air.
The Princess of Wales isdepply interested
in President Cleveland's bride , and only
royal etiquette prevents her writing : "Oh ,
you sweet little thing , you , how I would
like to make you a duchess. "
The Duchess do Rochefoucauld Bisaccia
is the great lady of Parisian creme. She is
of 43 with fasci
it noble-looking woman ,
nating manners. Her superb hotel on the
Rue le Varennes is tho centre of social
attraction.
The Princess Louise of Wales is studying
Swedish so that when Prince Oscar , her in-
z ; !
Lencled , comes home a little late she can ex
claim , "Well , sir , this is a pretty time of
rrght , isn't it ? Where have you been ? C
lake that ! " Ce
e :
THE CUSTER M.1SSACRE.
n
An Indian Relates JIow the Troopers Were
Slain by the Red Devils. IS
A special to the St. Paul Pioneer Press ISb
From the Custer battle field , in Montana , b
describes the celebration of the tenth anni-
versaiy of the battle by a few of its sur
vivors. The great Sioux chief , Gall , went
over the field and described the manner in
o ]
which Cn&ter's command was destroyed. tl
Gall is a fine looking Indian , 4G years old , tlti
weighing over 200. Ho was reticent at first. tidi
Finally he told h s story witli dignity and dia I
animation. "We saw the soldiers early in
fd
the morning crossing the divide. When it '
Reno and Custer separated we watched ft :
fto
them until they came down into the valley. ftA '
A. cry was raised that the white soldiers A
ti
ivere coming and orders were given for the tic
c
nllage to move immediately. Reno swept rr <
lown tlie end that the
so rapidly on upper
ir
Indians were forced to fight. Sitting Bull irti
ind I were at .a point where Reno attacked. ti
Sitting Bull was the big medicineman. The tia :
Cornell and children were hastily moved fc
ilown stream , where the Chej-ennes were en-
amped. The Sioux attacked Reno and
he Cheyennes Custer and then all became
nixed up. The women and children caught
lorses for the bucks to mount them. The
nicks mounted and charged back on Reno , A ,
shocked him and dro c him into the tim- in
jer. The soldiers tied their horses to trees inPi
ind came out and fought on foot. As soon PiAi
is Reno was beaten and driven back across
he river , the whole force turned on Custer en
ind fought him till they destroyed him. fo
duster did not reach the river , but was met tli
lalf a mile up a ravine , now called Reno iif
I7rcek. They fought the soldiers and beat trD
hem back , stop by step , till all were killed. D ;
Dne of Reno's officers confirms this. They
lever broke , but retired step by step till Cd
breed back to the ridge upon which all BO
BOai
inally perished. They were shot down in ai
line where they stood. " tlim
The former pbysclan of King Ludwlg de- nem
lares that the deceased monarch was not In
ane. A Vienna correspondent hints that the
ruth as to the king's condition and death
rill never be known. The remains were sent tlsi
Munich under escort of cavalry. si
THE TTEATHER AXD CROPS.
A Set Forth in Reports to an Agricultural
Paper.
The 'ollowing crop summary appears in
this week's issue of tho Chicago Farmer's
Review : Harvesting is in progress in por
tions of Ohio and Indiana , and in largo
sections of Kentucky , Missouri , Kansas
and Tennessee grain has already been
gathered. The yield in all these states ,
with the exception of Kansas , promises to
be nearly up to tho average , and in Mis
souri will be above the average. In Wash
ington county , Missouri , report is made
that grain is threshing out an average of
twenty-one bushels to tho acre in many
fields. In Davis and Ellis counties , Kan
sas , wheat is averaging eight or ten bushels
to the acre , but though short in quantity ,
promises to grade well. In Southern Bli- :
nois the reports of damage by chinch bugs
in the wheat field still continue and in St.
Clair county tho ravages have been so
serious as to reduce the probable yield from
five to seven bushels an acre. In Central
Illinois the outlook for winter wheat con
tinues good. A serious drouth , threatening
the entire spring uhent belt , has been quite
generally broken by copious rains , and the
danger which seemed to threaten the life of
almost the entire crop has been passed.
The average of the general yield in Dakota ,
Minnesota and Wisconsin has been lessened
probably 10 per cent by the prolongation
of the drouth , and in portions of Miune-
sotacaused an almost total blight , inwi.ich
rains come too late to revive the grain. In
Beadle county , Dak. , the report states that
the average of wheat was reduced 10 per
cent by the drouth ; in Coddin ton county ,
15 to 20 per cent ; i.i Spink county , 10 per
rent ; in Ashton county , 25 per cent. In
Dakota county , Minn. , it is reported that
the dry weather in connection with chinch
bugs reduced the average 50 per cent. In
Olmstead county some fields are reported
dead. In Steel county there was no rain
for four weeks , and the outlook for wheat
was lessened 20 per cent. In Yellow Medi-
cide county a five weeks'drouth was broken
June 12th by rainbut the present outlook
is not for to exceed one-half a crop. In Blue
Earth county wheat is shorter and thinner
than before for years. In a few portions of
Wisconsin no rains have yet fallen to re
lieve the fields. In Iowa and Nebraska no
visible injury to wheat i.s reported from tho
drouth , but oat prospects have been greatly
lessened , and in seven Iowa counties re
ports indicate that the average has been
i educed fully 2. > per cent. Jefferson and
Mnscatine counties in Iowa arc the only
ones that report this week ravages from
grasshoppers , and thus far no serious in
jury h.is resulted from this form of insect
life. The corn crop outlook in the states of
Minnesota , Wisconsin , Iowa , Kansas , No-
> * -aska , Illinois and Indiana is almost uni
formly good. Some injury by cut worms
is reported from different sections , but it is
not such as to effect the general crop out-
look. The fields in Minnesota , Kansas
and Ipwa are reported especially clear and
promising a large crop.
THE HEWS XV URIEF SPACE.
Hobart Pasha is dead.
The Delaware peach crop is a failure.
President Arthur's condition is improv
ing.
Wyoming objects to the land forfeiture
bill.
bill.H.
H. W. Beecher sailed for Europo on the
19th.
Montrealites are aiding the Vancouver
sufferers.
A crank at Rome is endeavoring to rival
Dr. Tanner.
W. P. Pruitt , a Texan , was lynched near
3pe Springs.
At Modesla , Cal. , fire destroyed 3,000
icres of wheat.
Mayor Smith , of Philadelphia , was ban-
lueted by Boston.
The Romish church officially denounces
Knights of Labor.
W. W. Hazeltino shot and killed A. E.
Morse at Milwaukee.
Tho Arizona volunteers object to being
inder regular officers.
King Ludwig was buried with imposing
jomp and ceremonies.
Timothy Wade was cut in twain by n
ocomotive at Portland , Me.
A boat containing five bodies was found
loating near Cape Ballard.
Louis Hoen shot and killed Charles Siev-
irt , a Cleveland saloonist.
Mexican soldiers are said to have killed
in Indian squaw in Arizona.
)
John D. Hopper was arrested for embez-
ling § 27,000 at Philadelphia.
Winfield Breckler , candidate for judge at
Carlisle , Ky. , is violently insane.
Arkansas and Texas negroes celebrated
mancipation day at Texarkana.
A committee was appointed by Tam-
uany Hall to collect funds for Parnell.
Elihu Root paid Comptroller Leow , of !
few York , § 40,000 due on franchises. '
Charles J. McCollough committed suicide )
y taking laudanum at Newark.
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PURSUING THE FLYING HOSTILES. '
Tombstone ( Ariz. ) special : It is the '
pinion of Gen. Miles that the pursuit of L
he flying hostiles will result in their cap- 0
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lire or destruction. At least that is his
etermination , and troops will be pushed '
fter tho fugitives as fast as it is possible \
ir them to move , and keep them goins , if
is not possible to overtake them and
> rce an engagement until they are worn
'lit. It is a well known characteristic of I
ipache Indians , that a three days' chase
ires them out and they must rest. They >
an make a Ions journey in that time , but
mist then lose this ad vantage in recuperat-
it , ' . To follow them so that they are not
.ble to make camp for a sinsjle undis-
nrbed rest will very soon wear them out ,
nd they will fall an easy prey to our >
Dree. '
TO LEARN ClttLTZATIOy.
Cheyenne ( Wyo. ) dispatch : Dr. William "
'
Olmstead , who was a brigadier general | '
the union arnij and now government C
hjsician at Washki , for the Shoshone and O
rapahoo Indians , passed through Chey- P
lue , going to Santee agency , Neb. , with L
ur Arapahoeboys , who aro to be placed in 11C.
C.
le trade school there. The bo3-sare about C.Si
fteen years old , and are anxious to learu
radcs. Their names are Grover Cleveland ,
avid Livingstone , Tom Billhead and Ned
reinstall. They are to be respectively a O
irpenter , shoemaker , blacksmith and 0 >
iddler. Dr. Olmstead said Uie Arapahoes II
re anxious to learn trades and work when IIC.
lore is anything in it , and are naturally a C.Si
loney-making and saving people. They
ever allow an opportunity to pass to
take a dollar.
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HOLT county has fifteen denominations , 0C.
hirty-five ministers , nineteen churches and C.Si [
ixtj Sabbath schools. Si
THE TRATEZS OF Atf ANARCHIST.
Parsons' Hiding 1'lace in Omaha anil Pa-
pilllon.
Chicago special : An account is mndo
public this morning of tho travels and
doings of the anarchist Parsons , from the
time of tho Hayraarket riot to his return.
It appears when tho bomb .was thrown
Parsons leaped from the wagon and ran
hurriedly homo. Here he held a consulta
tion with his wife , and deciding upon flight
took the early Rock Island train for
Omaha. Parsons'hair and moustache aro
iron-gray in color , but personal vanity has
ever led him to the uso of dark dye , and
oven his most intimate acquaintances havo
known and described him as a dark-haired
man. Before leaving home he removed the
dye from his hair and moustache. The re
sult was a thorough change in his appear
ance. On reaching Omaha Parsons went
direct to the homo of Anton Ituhe. keeper
of the road-house which sheltered Ran dur
ing hia sojourn in that city. Up to that
time the desire to apprehend Parsons had
not been known , but ho soon learned
through tho newspapers of tho progress o !
public sentiment and the yearning the po
lice had for a glimpse of him , and he bo-
came greatly alarmed. Through the medi
tation of Ruhe , it is stated he secured
refuge on a farm near Papillion. There he
remained until Friday hint , when , yieldin-j
to the advice of Captain Black , he started
for Chicago. He boldly entered Omaha ,
purchased a ticket and made the journey
of 500 miles without an attempt at con
cealment. His beard during his absence
covered his faro and when he appeared be
fore his wife Monday morning she scarcely
knew him. In the afternoon he secured the
services of a barber , and alter taking din
ner took a cab for the criminal court. Ifc
is now certain Balthazar Rail's mission to
Omaha was partly to see Parsons , but as
he has said in a previously published letter ,
Rau was so soon shadowed by the policein
Nebraska that he abandoned his project.
Paisons constantly communicated by let
ter with his wifo and later with Captain
Black.
TEXAS CATTLE SHII'JIEXTS.
A Springer ( New Mexico ) dispatch says :
Whilethodrotight in the cattle regionsouth
of this county has delayed the round-ups
of stock and been a great drawback to the
closing of a number of good contracts for
young for our northern ranges , yet Springer
is beginning to resume her old position
which she has held for a number of 3 ears
as a great shipping point , and the Atclii-
son , Topuka and Santa Fc road is now
pulling in her trains of empty cars to meet1 "
the demands on herforherds to be shipped
north. About 15.000 head of cattte aro
now grazing near Springer , and about half
as many more are reported some miles be
low here , many of which are going to bo
shipped from Springer instead of being
driven any further.
FIENDISH
PHILADELPHIA , PA. , June 23. Exactly : J14
people were poisoned at last Thursday's pic -if
nic near Flemington , N. J.
Six of these persons will probably die , and
lenty are in a precarious condition.
One of the physicians in charge of the cases
has examined the ice cream cans , and says
there was not enough sulphate of zinc about
them to do any damage : that the symptoms
are those of arsenicarpoisoniiiff , and from the
fact that those who first ate of the creau es
caped , he is of the opinion tnat the poison
ivas put into the cream by some one purposely.
As a large number of people were engaged
in pervin ! ? the cream , it will be difficult to
>
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catch the perpetrators. r
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TAKIXG THEIR OIFA" MEDICINE.
At Eau Claire , Wis. , as a retaliatory
measure against the LaAv and Order league
which has caused the enforcement of the
Sunday law as applicable to saloons , forty-
three warrants were issued for the arrest
of employes of the Dells Improved com
pany on the charge of sorting logs on Sun
day. Florence M. Bufiincton , secretary ol
the company , is included. The leading
members of the company are active in the
Law and Order league. The Dells com
pany sets up as a defense that Sunday
work is necessary in order to protect its
vast lumber interests.
OFF TO ARIZONA.
CliC3-cnne ( Wyo. ) special : Eight com-
lanies of the Ninth infantry , who have for
icveral years been stationed at Fort Rus-
el , have been ordered to Arizona where
Jen. Miles is concentrating a force to crush
ho Indians. Fort
Russell will bo gar-
isoned by the Seventeenth infantry from
akota.
THE trotting meeting at Superior on
lune 14 and 15 was well attended and
Pine music furnished.
THE MABKETS.
OMAHA.
VHEAT No. 2 65 @ 65
ARLIY No. 2 41 @ 43
IYE No. 2 55 @ 5G
'OKN No. 2 mixed 20 © > < >
ATS No. 2 : . 24 @
5UTTER Creamery 13 @
Sum : ' : Fair to good 7 @
G S Fresh 7J-j@
'HICKCNS Old per doz 2 00" @
'HICKE.VS Spring per doz. . . 1 50 @
JKMONS Choice S 00 @
ht.iNKKS Medina 4 00 @
HANS Navys 1 40 @
LMONS Per bbl 2 ,10 @
'OTTOES Salt Lake 35 @
\"ooi. Fine , per Ib 10 @
cins Timothy 2 20 @
I.KDS Illiie Grass 1 30 @
IAY Baled , per ton 5 50 @
\Y-In bulk 6 00 @ fr
lo < ; s Mixed packing 3 70 @
iivis Choice steers 4 40 @
iiiEKP Heavy grades 3 25 @
NEW YORK.
VIIKAT No. 2 red S4 > , ' @ 'i :
VIIIAT Ungraded red 70 @
OKN No. 2 45 @ i
ATS Mixed western 3.5M@
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'OKK 9 oo" @ M
RD 6 32 ©
CHICAGO.
"LOUR Winter. 4 25 @
'I.OUK Patents 4 40 @
I'IIIAT Perbushel ' ' ' '
7-'fiii
'ORNPer bushel 3.
ATS Per bushel :
lorjjr Packing shipping. 4 :
ATTL.E Stockers 2 '
EP Natives 2 (
ST. LOUIS.
VIIEAT No. 2 red '
'on.N Perbushel j
ATS Per bushel <
Iocs Mixed packing 3 !
'ATTLE Exports 5 :
HEEP Common to choice 3 (
KANSAS CITY.
ITnEAT Perbushel {
ORN Per bushel
UTS Per bushel i
ATTLE Stockers 3 ;
OGB Good to choice 3 i
UEEP Common to good. . 3 I