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OYEE THE STATE.
UXCLE BA31'8 "PENSIONS.
Washington specie. , . - tho Omaha Bee
From advance sheets of tho report of the
commissioner of pensions , now in th
.course of preparation , the following , show
ing the number of pensioners on the rolls
in Nebraska by counties , and tho amount
paid them monthly , is taken :
No. of Amount
Counties. Pen- paid
eions. Monthly.
Adams 167 § 1.576.75
Antelope 90 9G3.00
Elaine 8 44.00
' Boone 72 518.00
Brown 93 826.25
Buffalo 193 1,952.25
Burt 73 559.25
Butler 117 101.7
Cass , 120 968.08
Cedar. 26 265.00
Chase 2 14.00
Cherry 30 295.00
Cheyenne 41 324.50
Clay 167 1,509.70
Colfax 44 415.00
Cuming 42 352.17
Ouster. 143 1,185.25
Dakota 48 463.50
Dawes 63 528.00
Dawson . - . 95 802.00
Dixon .t 63 601.75
Dodge 87 716.83
Douglas 295 2,883.75
Dundy 29 272.00
Fillmore 124 1,041.50
Franklin 77 662.00
Frontier. 36 284.50
Furnas 114 983.75
Gage 201 1,660.75
Garfield 7 42.00
Gosper 17 164.50
Greeley 26 238.50
Hall 13G 1,328.25
Hamilton 79 732.75
Harlan 86 704.75
Hayes 15 138.00
Hitchcock 54 470.50
Holt 196 1,920.00
Howard ' . 65 568.67
Jefferson 43 994.00
Johnson 86 822.50
Kearney 52 461.00
Keith 46 454.50
Keya Paha 33 264.00
Knox 73 862.00
Lancaster 205 1,998.25
Lincoln 50 363.50
Logan 7 40.00
Loup 19 96.00
Madison 75 652.00
Merrick 98 797.42
Nance 34 321.50
Nemaha 79 940.25
Nuckolls . : 65 562.00
Omaha Reserve 1 6.00
Otoe 97 890.50
Pawnee 65 553.50
Phelps 50 795.50
Pierce 27 352.00
Platte 66 679.00
Polk 72 673.00
Red Willow Ill . 904.75
Richardson 118 1,158.00
Saline 210 1,525.75
Sarpy 18 168.25
Sannders 109 798.50
Seward 100 801.75
Sherman 67 557.50
Sioux 51 417.25
Stanton 16 68.00
Thayer. 17 ' 224.00
Valley 142 1,258.50
Washington 69 717.00
Wayne 23 208.00
Webster 127 1,144.83
Wheeler. 23 169.00
Wilbur 1 12.00
York 147 1,326.75
BURNED TO DEATH.
An accident very distressing and horrible
in its ultimate results occurred Wednesday
night , mention of which was made in yes
terday's Herald , at the residence of C. W.
Finn , 2422 Harney street , resulting in the
death of Mrs. George E. Titcomb , of Bos
ton , Mass. Mrs. Titcomb was boarding
with Mrs. Finn and roomed with If iss Jen
nie Webb , of Chicago , who is about 20
years of age. Mrs. Titcomb's brother , E.
M. Taylor of this city , with whom she was
visiting , is a clerk in a drug store. Mr.
Taylor , in company with a friend named
R. E. Burdick , had called upon his sister
and they spent the evening in social chat
until about 10 o'clock , when the gentlemen
rose to go. As they were leaving one of the
company inadvertently struck a large per
fumery bottle , which , falling against the
lamp , dashed it to the floor , spreading oil
and flames over the carpet. Mrs. Titcomb ,
acting on the first impulse , threw herself
upon her knees and tried to extinguish the
flames with the skirt of her wrapper. The
gentlemen attempted to prevent her and
twice pulled her away , but in her desire to
prevent a conflagration , she persisted in
her efforts until her clothing took
fire. In a moment she was enveloped
in tho flames and ran screaming down
the stairway and into the street , where
she tried to smother the fire by rolling in
the loose dirt. Her agonizing cries were
supplemented by those of Miss Webb , her
room-mate , and in a few minutes a hun
dred people surrounded the unfortunate
women , all equally anxious to rescue hea
from her horrible fate and all equally pow
erless to do so. Her brother , Mr. Taylor ,
reached the foot of the stairs simultane
ously with his sister and began to tear her
clothing from her. She struggled from his
" grasp and was again seized by Mr. Bnrdick ,
but wrenching from his hold she flung her
self into the street. The horror of her situ
ation beggars description. With every par
ticle of clothing torn from her body , her
flesh cooked until the palms and nails of
her hands were torn away in her struggles
to hide her nakedness by burrowing in the
earth , she presented a spectacle which held
those who witnessed it spell bound. She
remained in this condition until she was
carried into the house. She became un-
consciou ? at 1 o'clock , and at 4:30 yester
day morning had ceased to breath.
It had been reported that domestic
troubles had driven Mrs. Titcomb from her
eastern home. When Mr. and Mrs. Finn
were asked in regard to the truth of the as
sertion that the deceased had left her home
in Boston because her relations with her
husband were unhappy , both indignantly
declared-there was no foundation whatever
for such a statement. Mrs. Titcomb's hus
band is chief engineer of the Cape Cod canal
company of Boston. The body will be
taken to Worcester for burial. [ Omaha
Herald.
ZHSCELLAXEOUS STATE MATTERS.
The Burlington Insurance Company , ol
Burlington , Iowa , offers a reward of $200
for the best practical design for a tornado
cave , plans to be submitted to the com
pany on or before December 15 , when they
will be forwarded , unopened , to Lieut. Fin
ley , of the United Stat s Signal Service ,
Washington , D. C. , who will pass upon
them and adjudicate the award.
THE improvements made In Valparaiso
this yearwill coat about $100,000.
THE Hastings Democrat says the Sab
bath School convention which meets a1
that place on the first Tuesday and Wed
nesday in October , the 5th and 6th , gives
promise of being one of the largest gather
ings of the kind ever held there.
F. HOFFMAN and wife , of Whiting , Iowa
registered at the Merchants hotel in Omaha
one evening last week and werp assigned a
room. Early next morning the smell o
gas attracted the attention ot some of the
hotel employes , and a search was made , re
suiting in locating the leak in Hoffman's
room. He had blown out the gas. Mrs.
Hoffman was very sick from the effects of
breathing the gas , but recovered sufficiently
to be able to return home. Mr. Hoffman
was not much affected. An open transom
and window doubtless saved both of them
from being suffocated.
WOUK has already begun on the big feed
yards at South Papillion. Eleven acres of
the Beadle farm has been leased for that
purpose. J. E. Hunt & Co. , the owners ,
propose to set up the pens for winter busi
ness.
ness.THE
THE farmers near Dorchester are cribbing
their corn , and will hold for better prices.
SIXTY bushels of corn per acre is what
Elkhorn valley fields are expected to yield
this year.
THE state fair panned out very satisfac
torily financially. After all premiums and
bills are paid there will be a balance in tho
treasury of eight or ten thousand dollars.
THE fall term of the state university
opened on tho 16th and tho remainder of
the week was spent in entrance examina
tions. Principal Bonnet of the Latin
school reports a larger attendance and a
higher grade of students than there was last
year.
THE A. M. E. church conference , in ses
sion in Lincoln last week , was attended by
thirty-six regular preachets from the three
states of Nebraska , Colorado and Kansas.
The representation is taken as an evidence
of the growth 01 Methodism among the
colored people of the west.
B. & M. ENGINEERS are examining tho lay
of tho ground at Nebraska City for a bridge
over the Missouri river , whether peimanent
or a winter bridge has not developed.
JOHN MULLIGAN , who was shot at Beafc
rice the other day , died from his wounds ,
and the shooting was investigated. Tho
coroner's jury found that 1 he shot was ma
liciously and feloniously fired by Policeman
lones.
THE Tekama canning factory is putting
up tomatoes at the rate of 500 bushels per
3ay.
OMAHA is again aroused on the question
3f a railroad to the northwest , and is de
termined that it shall be built if such a
hing is possible.
THE fall term of the York college opened
yith a good attendance.
THE fair at Friend will open again in Oc-
; pber , when it is hoped tho managers will
jo favored with better weather.
LINCOLN special : This morning Gov.
Dawes received a requisition from Gov.
Martin , of Kansas , demanding a resident
) f that state , who had "taken refugo in Ne-
) raska , charged with the crime of selling
ntoxicating liquors. This seems to raise
in inter-state question never before brought
ip. The act of selling liquor in Kansas
inder the existing statutes of that state ia
elony. In the state of Nebraska it is not
leld as a crime ; our laws do not recogniza
t as a crime.
A DIVORCE case that calls up prominent
> eople of an early day in stale and territo-
ial affairs , has been filed in tho district
: ourt of Lancaster county , the parties be-
ng Watie E. Gosper , who sues for divorce
rom her husband , John J. Gosper , once
iccretary of state. The petition recites
.hat they were married in 1867 , and that
ihc was deserted by her husband on the
J5th of February , 1886 , and has been since
: hat time , therefore the plea is entered on
, he grounds of desertion , to be heard at the
icxt term of court.
COLUMBUS special : A queer case of spon-
aneous combustion has come to light on
he farm of H. M. Winslow , u mile north-
rest of the city. A large stack of millet
jnited from that cause , and the minaturo
olcano is now in its fifty-ninth day of
ictivity.
OMAHA is to have another hotel of hnge
[ intensions. It will be six stories , 132 feet
quare , and cost § 400,000. George A.
Foslyn is at the head of the enterprise.
THE delegates from the different local
issemblies of the Knights of Labor in tho
late were in session in Lincoln three days
ast week , organizing a state assembly and
iransacting1 secret work in their organiza-
.ion. .
.ion.Two
Two of our citizens being called to Edgar
me afternoon recently , says the Nelson
lerald , were considerably delayed in their
itart for home. Having a good nag and a
ight rig they concluded to make the run
liter night , and left Edgar behind the Bur-
ington & Missouri lightning express , as
lome term it , and made Nelson thirteen
ninutes ahead of tho train.
OAKLAND special : Everything indicates
; hat the Burt county fairto beheld in this
place October 21 , 22 and 23 , will eclipse
my heretofore in this county. All the lead
ing breeds of different stock are expected to
be on exhibition. Itis the aim of the man
agers to have the best exhibition of stock
svcry held in northeastern Nebraska. Sev-
2r.il horses are already on the grounds
training for the fair.
THE proposition to issue bonds to put
in water works was carried in Neligh by
twenty-two majority.
A NEW confidence game has taken to the
country in search of victims. The plan is
to drive up to a farm house , denounce the
racpacity of town grocers and sell a barrel
of sugar at one-third the regular price. It
a purchase is made the buyer finds later
that he has on hand salt enough to last for
many months.
THE Nebraska deaf and dumb institute ,
whose doors were opened a few days ago ,
has eighty pupils in attendance. The
coming legislature will be asked for some
donations for needed improvements.
THE Scandinavian population ol the
state is estimated at 81,000.
THE result of this year's farming in
Cherry county demonstrates that feed
ope , such an grasses , corn , rye , etc. , are
the most productive.
LINCOLN ie still infested with housebreak
ers and thugs , notwithstanding tho state
fair is long sine * < mr.
THE first and onlyaccident on the state
fair grounds occurred the last day , when o
lad named Barton , whose parents reside
at Avoca. was caught by a tumbling roc
at machinery hall and seriously injured.
When picked up the child was unconscious ,
but after being taken to a neighboring
building soon came to. It is thought that
the injuries are not of a fatal character.
E. if. JONES , the fireman killed in the
collision recently at Gilmore , on the Union
Pacific , left a wife and four children.
CORN in Cherry county will yield sixty
bushels to the acre , and ia out of the way
of the frost.
IN the baby show at the state fair the en
tries were as follows : For the prize for the
handsomest girl baby , Annie May Hunter
of Seward , aged 19 months , and Nellie E.
Guilder of Stratton , aged 1 months. For
the prize for the handsomest boy baby ,
Ross V. Taylor of Lincoln , aged 5 months ,
Orville Taylor of Lincoln , aged 22 months ,
Harry Hastings Melick of Lincoln , aged 14
months , and Olmstcad C. King of Bennett ,
aged 5 months. Afterdue deliberation and
much doubt and hesitation , superinduced
by the manexcellent poiats shown by all
the cherubs competing , the committee trem
blingly announced that the girl baby prizo
had been awarded to Nellie E. Gunder and
the boy baby prize to Harry Hastings
Melick.
NELSON expects the iron horse by Janu
ary 1st.
Visiions at the state fair pronounce it a
wonderful success , far superior to anything
heretofore given in the state.
PALMYRA'S skating rink is the first to
open for the season.
GRAND RECORDER H. M. WARING , A. 0.
U. W. , Lincoln , last week , received the ben
eficiary certificate and receipt for $2,000
from Mrs. R. A. Higgins , whose husband
was a member of Stella lodge No. 29. This
makes the first payment made by the lodge
since its organization in Nebraska.
Tun Ashland branch of the B. & M. it la
expected will be completed in about ono
month.
PAPERS have been filed in the district
court of Lancaster county by Leonard
King , at Bennett , suing the State Journal
company for § 5,000 damages. King was
arrested three weeks ago charged with dis
turbing the camp-meeting recently held at
Bennett by using indecent and boisterous
language on the ground. The Journal
wrote the case up as it appeared before
Judge Parker , hnce the libel suit.
IN Omaha last week a carpenter , soon
after quitting work Saturday night , in at
tempting to board a street car was run
over and killed. He had been drinking. He
was about fifty years old.
ACCORDING to the Dorchester Star , the
Bachelors' club of that city hold regular
meetings and discuss the best way of escap-
ng the pressure made upon their pocket-
looks during oyster season.
Tun Lincoln Y. M. C. A. is making an
earnest effort to secure one hundred sus-
; aning members among the business men
of that city.
D. W. SIMPSON , ex-county treasurer of
Dtoe comity , has filed a petition for a
change of venue. The petition states that
ic is afraid of being taken from the jail
and that his bondsmen will be mobbed. '
THE Young Men's Christian association
ins fourteen organizations in the state. A
ew years ago there were but two.
SOUTH OMAHA is moving in the matter of
protection against fire.
IN a round-up of women of questionable
character by the police of Omaka a few
lights ngo , a 11-year-old boy appeared in
-he police court among the captured. He
will probably go to the reform school.
THE fruit exhibit at the Cass county fair
s said to have been equal in all respects to
; hat at the state exhibition.
BURT county's tenth annual fair was a
jood show and was well attended.
THE latest game to swindle farmers is
ilayed by a man claiming to represent a
arge provision house in Chicago , such firm
jcing anxious to learn of farmers their
opinion of the harvested crop. This t.ikes
with the honest tiller of the soil , and he
answers the questions propounded. The
sharper notes down "the answers carefully
ind when he is through ho has the fanner
sign the report to give it more weight. This
accomplished the man leaves , and later on
; he note turns up in the hands of an inno
cent purchaser.
MRS. J. A. MONTAGUE , of New York , dis
covered two daughters in Omaha recently
whose whereabouts she had not known for
Eighteen years.
THE district convention of the W. C. T.
Jnion closed a very pleasant and interest-
ng session at Columbus last week. The
next meeting Till be held at David City in
December. Mrs. Woodward , of Seward ,
ihe btate treasurer of the association , de-
ivered a highly interesting lecture.
SECRETARY ROGGEN , when questioned in
elation to asking the resignation of Secre-
: ary Gere , of the state railroad commis
sion , said , "I removed Mr. Gere on general
principles , as I have felt that I ought to
lave done before. I am under no obliga-
; ions to any of them and I am not here to
je manipulated or to have what I consider
jest and my acts official or personal sub-
eels for attacks from such associations. I
shall select the best possible man with
whom I hope the public will be satisfied , to
take the vacant po'sition. "
OMAHA has organized a toboggan club ,
stock to the amount of § 500 being sub
scribed.
ON the occasion of the Weeping Water
'air 6,000 people were on the ground one
day.
day.A
A GOOD many cases of glanders have been
found among the Itorsesat Omaha. Eleven
animals have been killed thus far this
month.
THE following sign was nailed on the side
of an emigrant wagon which passed through
Ogalalla last week : "I came from Nemaha
county , Kas. , and don't know where I am
going. "
DEPUTY SHERIFF ETHERTON of Blooming-
ton was waylaid and roughly handled by
three supposed horse thieves four miles
southwest of town. He was hauled out of
his buggy and beaten , the ruffians using
threats against both Etherton and Sheriff
Brown. He was left insensible , the buggy
reins being fastened to his legs. After he
recovered his senses he managed to make
his way to the house of a farmer , who sent
him to town.
CONCERNING THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
A. Statement of Its Disposal As to Pluro-
I'neitmonla The Star Service.
Washington dispatch : A statement o
the disposal of the public lands for the fis
cal year , which ended Juno 30,1S8G , has
been prepared by Commissioner Sparks. I
shows the total number of entries to have
been 227,474 , embracing an area of 20 ,
991,967 acres , for which was received 712 ,
767. The following table shows by states
the area disposed of and the amount re
ceived :
Name of State. No. of'Acres. Amount
Alabama 226,028 § 70,582
Arkansas 277,281 65.202
Arizona 534,139 70,866
California 1.348,678 7,232,850
Colorado 1,282,674 526,286
Dakota 3,075,085 1,477,399
Florida 231.799 147.764
Idaho 272.019 106,604
Iowa 4.337 3,498
Kansas 5,636,824 1,310,376
Louisiana 142,564 74,566
Michigan 109.063 74,911
Minnesota. . 417,732 250,511
Mississippi 175.02G 52,501
Missouri 26,045 ! 53,443
Montana 911,573 216,576
Nebraska 3,511,518 1,190,442
Nevada 280,998 75,760
New Mexico 202,850 125,930
Oregon 504.802 252,546
Utah 299.776 69,534
Washington Ter. . . 544.828 246,015
Wisconsin 237.585 195,420
Wyoming 453,572 202,926
Total 20,991,967 57,412,767
The original homestead entries were
61,738 , covering an area of 9,145,135
acres. The list of selections mado by rail
way companies under the different grants
aggregate 2,315,577 acres. The number o
timber culture entries made was 34,996 ,
amounting to 5,389,309 acres. In addi
tion to the area above given final proo
was made upon 19,356 homestead entries ,
.embracing an area of 2,663,532 acrea , and
upon final timber culture er tries nninher
ing 10,031 , covering an area of 141,694
acres. In these tables are not included the
disposal of Indian lands , amounting to
15,562 entries , with an area of 1,132,596
acres from which were received § 1,607.729.
Commissioner Coleman , of the depart
ment of agriculture , has been notified that
pleuro-pneumonia has again broken out. in
Illinois , and he has dispatched Dr. Salmon ,
chief of the bureau of animal industry , to
Chicago , the seat of the disease , to examine
and report to the department whether tho
reported disease is really pleuro-pneumo-
nia. If it is , the commissioner says that
he will take the most decisive steps that
the law permits to thoroughly stamp it
out. Thegovernor of Illinois , however , has
not yet accepted the conditions proposed
by the commissioner to the governors of
the states for the suppression of the dis
ease , and this will be necessary before gov-
ernmentactionwill be taken toward stamp
ing out the disease.
Since the letter sheet envelopes have been
placed uponsalcat thedifferentpostoffices ,
about a month , over 2,000,000 have been
disposed of. New York alone taking over
400,000. All the indications point to
their becoming popular and , in a measure ,
superseding postal cards.
Advance figures from the report of Sec
ond Assistant Postmaster General Knott
show that the cost of the star service for
the year ending June 30 , 1885 , was S5- ,
414,804. The cost of the same service for
the year ending June 30 , 1886 , was § 5-
352,181 , a decrease of § 62,623 , or of 1.57
per cent. The cose of tho steamboat ser
vice on June 30 , 1885 , was § 5.sJ63,002 ,
and on June 30. 1886 , § 5,446.410 , a de
crease of § 116,583 , or of 2.71 per cent.
On July 1 , 1885 , when the net contracts
for the year were let , the total cost of the
star service , including the new service put
on , was § 5,653,660 , but by the end of the
fiscal year it was reduced to § 5,352,181.
The service now going into operation
throughout the west , including Arkansas ,
Louisiana , Texas , Kansas , Nebraska. Col
orado , Oregon , Nevada , California , and all
territories and Alnska , was let at a saving
of § 260,000 over the last fiscal year. It is
thought , however , that the cost of the rail
way service , which has been extended aa
the star service has been decreased , will
show an increase over last year.
i
100,000 STARVING FAMILIES.
An Appeal'in Their JBchalf to the People of
New Yorlt ,
Buffalo ( N. Y. ) special : The Rev. John
Brown , a Presbyterian clergyman of
Albaii3' , Tex. , is in the city in the > in-
terebt of 100,000 starving families , rcpiu
senting 500,000 people , who , he says , are
starving in the drouth stricken district of
Northwest Texas. Appeals were made by
him yesterday in different churches. Mr.
Brown says that the suffering and distress
caused by the drouth , which has existed
for the past fifteen months , was even
greater than at Charleston but that the
railroad authorities , who owned lands
which they wanted to sell to settlers , con
spired to hush up the real condition of the
people , lest it should interfere with im
migration. Thousands of familios have
not eaten meat this summer , and water is
being hauled thirty miles for household
use.
use.The object of Mr. Brown's mission , he
says , is to procure 100,000 bushels of seed
wheat , but owing to the Charleston dis
aster he had thus far received tons where
otherwwe he might have obtained thous
ands of dollars. The task was greater
than the people of Texas could perform
and in the name of humanity , mercy and
charity he appealed to the charities of the
public to help the starving multitudes.
CONGRESSIONAL RETURNS.
Washington special : Up to this time the
reports from the 325 congressional districts
indicate that not over one-half the mem
bers of the present house of representatives
will be re-elected this fall. The figures at
the two congressional campaign committee
headquarters show that the ratio o ! re
turned members will be even less than one-
half. Secretary McPlierson , of the republi
can committee , thinks there will be a very
greaj. transformation in tho next house.
The changes are nearly all confined to the
districts which have been represented with
out change for from one to three terms.
Nearly all of the old members those who
have been in the Ifbuse from eight to twen
ty years wiH be re-elected. In fact , not
over halt a dozen of the older members will
be kept at home. The east and south will
retain most of these. In the central , west
ern and northern states the changes will be
almost univeisal.
nCIORIA'S FIFTIETH TEAR.
London special : Tho Prince of Wales
has written to the lord mayor of London ,
sgugesting as a suitable memorial of tho
completion of the fiftieth year of the reign
of Queen Victoria , tho establishment of a
permanent imperial lolonial and Indian
institute. The prince suggests further that
the institute be founded upon the lines of
the present Indian and Colonial exhibition
and that its object be to prompt immigra
tion to the colonies and expand the colon
ial trade. The lord mayor has replied that
he would be pleased to have tho people
iliu a.tto t their lore lor the queen.
now MUCH JLE
t
Cashier Gonld of the Portland Sank Gel *
Atcay 7FJWi $145,000.
PORTLAND , Me. , Sept. 21. Gen. Neal Dow's
son-in-law , Win. E. Gould , cashier of the
First National bank of Portland , is alleged to
be a defaulter to the amount of § 87,000 , and
his family and immediate relatives are Almost
wild over the disgrace. Tuc bank will ttoi be
affected by the loss. Gould was locked u. on
as a model man. Recently ho built n 530,10)
residence , and Indulged In other luxuries of
living , but as far as krown Gould never specu
lated and shunned all gambling. Gould
has been arrested in a civil suit to aw.ut
the action of the Comptroller of the Curren
cy.
cy.It
It Is now thought tho defalcations of W. E.
Gould will reach § 143,003. The directors think
the bank will not lose over § S7OOJ. Excite
ment over the affair is intense. Mr. Gonld is.
55 years old , and Las aged 20 years within a
week. Besides being cashier of the First Na
tional bank.hc is also president of the Nation
al Bankers' association , also the Portland
Trust Co. , and a trustee of the Maine Savings ,
bank. It Is said he began embezzling 10 years
ago. Others declare tbr first stealing was.
done in 1SS3. There Has been much that was
pecnliar about his affairs. lie first bought a
very moderate house on Carlcton street for
about § 3,500. Later he sold It and purchased
an estate in Deering for § 17,000. Tiiis he sold
and built his present resIdeucecostingoJ,000.
He has not been asked to clvc bond for many
years. AH of his original bondsmju save his
father-in-law , Neal Dow , are dead , and Dow
can only bj lull for § 20,000 of the original
§ oOCOJ , if at all. In a similar case here last
spring it was docided that the living bondsmen
could not be held. The discovery of the defal
cation Is said to have come about as follows :
About 10 days ago Goald wjnt to New York.
During his absence a clerk discovered a seem
ing crookedness in his affair ? . He Informed
an ollicial , who in turn notified the directors ,
and they summoned an expert. The latter
soon found a $ oOOJO shortage. The directors
were astounded. As Gould was absent and a
large amount of the bank's collateral Is gone
also , they suppose : ! he bad skipped to Canada.
Investigation showthat the missing cashier
was in New 1'ork. Instead of securing his ar
rest , the directors sant a cautiously worded
telegram summoning him hoiiu to auvisu con
cerning the iiiVoStmeut of funds. Gould scorn
ed to have no fi'ar of the possibility of discov
ery and'rcturned promptly. Gov. Kobio met
him in Boston and accompanied him to this
city to prevent the last opportunity of escape.
After reaching home , anil while the invcati a-
tion was going on , the djomcd cashier was
kept in ignorance that his had reached the end
of his rope , and the know.edire which came to
him gradually was a blinding surprise. It was
then too late to escape and last w'ek came the
end. The fallen man had at last the desper
ate courage tbat sustained him. He ordered a
carriage and gave to the driver the order , "Go
direct to the jail. " He at that time acted on
the resolution of givinir himself up and getting
relief from suspcncs. The order was obtyed ,
Lut on his way hi met a friend to whom he
told his story of his fall. The jrcntleman said
to him : "But you cau'tgoto jail ; no one has
made tbe slightest charge against you. " Mr.
Gould then drove about the eity for some time
and drove to the b.mk. At the bank be was
met by the directors and at the suggestion of
one of them he went to the Fallmouth hotel ,
took a room , and was seen and consulted
with in regard to the disordered affairs of the
bank. All we-k the directors worked on the
accounts , assisted by an expert , but instead of
inding an improvement , affairs grew w orse ,
and at last it was plain that close to § 100,000
bad been lost. The directors iaid the casa be-
'ore flon. W. S. Putnam , who told them
Sould must be arrested , and that a further
neglect on their part to secure his arsvst would
make them liable for the loss. Mr. ( jouldthe
Argus hintscould , hardly have carried on such
operations as are alleged without an accom
plice. This insinuation has attracted some
attention.
A FArORAItUl SHOWING.
President Ailnms' Rei > ort of the Condition of
the Union Pacific Railway.
The directors of the Union Pacific Rail
way company have received tho statement
"rom President C. F. Adams , Jr. , of the
inancial outcome of the business of tho
road for the six months ending June 30 ,
LSS6 , as compared with the six months
ending at the middle of this year was § 11-
606,088.07 ; expenses of entire system ,
§ 7,914,705.81 ; taxes , cntircsystem , § 500- ,
060 , leaving as the surplus earnings of the
entire system3,161,322.26. Besides this
; he company received from investments
outside of the system , § 290,647.01 ; pro
ceeds of miscellaneous land sales , § 8,161.53 ;
jrofits on investments , premiums , etc. ,
? 4S9,606.27 ; from trustees of Kansas Pa
cific consolidated mortgage , § 613,230Pa
cific Express company , settlement of old
contract , § 111.075.33 , making a total in
come of § 4,704,045.40. The company ex
pended on bonds § 2,599,367.83 ; discount
and interest , premiums , etc. , § 64,062.23 ;
sinking fund requirements , company's
> onds , S330.395 ; interest on bonds of
operated roads. § 660,085 ; land taxes and
and expenses , Union division , § 35,806.46 ,
naking a. total expenditure of S3.GS9-
716.52 , which , subtracted from the total
ntome , leaves a surplus of § 1.014,328.88.
The latter amount , less the United States
eqnirements of § 225.001 , leaves a surplus
of § 789.327.88. Instead of , surplus for
he first six months of 1885 there was a
deficit of § 427,121.52.
Mr. Adams reports that there is an un-
isuul amount of repairing now going on.
The company's contracts for steel for the
current year cover an aggregate of nearly
50.000 tons , or nearly three times the
ordinary annual average , and during the
rear ail iron rails will be removed from the
nain tracks of the Union Pacific. The out-
ay during tho months of May , June and
July for repairs of locomotives , cars , re
newals of rails , rail fastenings and bridges
vns in 1884 , § 667,434.52 ; in 1885. § S3G.-
iSO.Ol ; in 1886. § 1.235.211.66. The
labilities of the company for the six
nonths endiii2 June 30 , this year , amount
o § 225,839,559.76 , a decrease of § 439- ,
945.53 under the correspondingsixmonths
n 1885. The assets for the first half of
1886 are equal to the liabilities. By Dec.
31 , 18S6 , the floating debt will be dis
charged in full. 'I he investment account
n bonds and stocks of other railroad com-
) anies , which was in the neighborhood of
5153,000,000 June 30 , 1884 , will not be
ess than that amount to the close of the
current year. During the year § 510,000
nited States 3 per cent bonds held in the
sinking fund of the company have been
called and redeemed , and the § 510.000 has
> een applied to the purchase of United
States 4 per cent bonds.
SHORTEST TRIAL ON RECORD.
DETROIT , MICH. , Sept. 21. At 11 o'clock
his morning tbe trial of Thomas Fitzgerald
or the murder of Thomas Quinn , July 11 , was be
gun and at 4:20 this afternoon the jury returned
L verdict of guilty of murder In the second de
gree. Fitzgerald will probably get a sentence
of thirty-five or forty years. The trial was the
ihertest known in this county.
POLITICAL HEWS AXD IfOTES.
Tho Eighth'Illinois district democratic
congressional convention nominated H. H.
Cody.
Q. P. Bullis was nominated for congress
by tho democrats and Farmers' alliance ,
of tho Second district of Minnesota.
The democrats of tho Ninth Indiana con
gressional district in convention at Frank
fort nominated Benjamin F. Hamtn , a
Clinton county farmer.
Tho republicans of the First congressional
district of Michigan nominated Henry A.
Robinson , who had already been nomina
ted by the labor party.
J. R. Lord and Constables Vance and
Schick were arrested for breaking up a re
publican primary and opening tho ballot
boxes , at Philadelphia.
Gilbert Raffcrty was nominated by tho
democrats of tho Twenty-first Pennsyl
vania district. Boyle , tho present incum
bent , will run independent.
Washington special : The president has
appointed H.D. Gallagher of Indiana to bo
ngent to the Indians of the Pino Ridge agen
cy , Dakota , and has commissioned Isabella
Campbell as postmasteratBlairsville , Ind. ,
and Jacab J. Muller at Ellensburg. W. T.
H. II. Bingham was renominated from
tho First congressional district , Charles
O'Neill from the Second , W. D. Xelley from
the Fourth , and A. C. Ilarmer from tho
Fifth , by tho republicans of Pennsylvania.
The convention in the Third district ad
journed for two weeks without making a
nomination.
The North Carolina republican statecon-
vention nominated a full ticket for supremo
and superior courts ; adopted a platform
which endorses tho Blair bill and denounces
democrats for their failure to pass it ; op
poses convict labor ; endorses the protec
tive tariff , and condemns the democrat ! *
party for broken promises and pledges.
The following congressional nominations
were made yesterday : John Black , demo
crat , Fourth Wisconsin district ; S. C. Cas-
well , republican , First Wisconsin district ;
Hugh J. McGuire , Democrat , Third Wis
consin district ; S. N. Dickinson , democrat ,
Seventh Wisconsin district ; Seth C. Mof-
fat , republican , Eleventh Michigan district.
A Yankton , Dak. , special says : Delegate
Gifford was renominated by acclamation
in the republican territorial convention this
afternoon. Grigsby , of Minnthaha , made
the nomination , which was seconded by
Allen , of Cass , and Fowley , of PennSngton.
The platform ( JeclareH unwavering support
of the principles of the republican party
and demands on behalf of both Indians and
citizens immediate reduction of all Indian
reservations in the territory.
It is reported in official circles that a
great deal of political and personal influ
ence is being wielded upon Secretary Man
ning to induce him to change his determi
nation to retire from tho cabinet and to
remain. IIehas.it is stated , firmly told
the president that ho positively does not
want to continue in the treasury depart
ment because he believes his health will not
: > ermit it , but the president has assured
iiim that he can take a rest whenever he
lesired , and that he can bo relieved of
much of the routine work.
A DUEL jir coirjtors.
Denver ( Col. ) special : Sheriff Nixon , o !
Bent county , Col. , has arrived here with
John Millsap , a cattleman of Texas , in
custody. About a week ago Milisap , while
joinini ; up from Texas with a , drove of cat
tle , had a fight at Trail City with Poka
Brrryhill , another cattleman who wascom-
ingnorthwnrd with a herd , and knives were
freely used. Berryhill was terribly cut in a
; ew minutes and his lif is in danger. Mill-
sap was arrested by the sheriff of Bent
: ounty , who permitted him to come
through with the stock under guard. On
irriving here Millsap procured § 10.000
; mil and was released from custody by his
iscort. The condition of the wounded man
s unknown. He was left at Trail City.
TAVG11T SEVER E LESSOR'S.
LOVDOK , Sept. 21. Tbe Australian mall
brings the news of a conflict between the Ger
man gtmboat Albatross and the natives of
Srcw If cbrides. It appears that the Aloatross
iipencd lire on tbe natives in revenge for the
nurdcr of Klein and Cnlleh. Twenty were
IviJled and many wounded. The crew of the
iMbatrothen larded , whereupon the natives
lccam ; > ed to Pentecost island , where the Up-
iioli's mate was murdered. The Germans
pursued them and opened fire with Galling
; uns. which did terrible execution. Several
tillages were burned bv the Germans.
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK.
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WHEAT Ungraded red 83 © 91
CORN No. 2 46 ©
OATS Mixed western 32 @ 34
PORK 11 2511
LAKD 7 00 © 725
CHICAGO.
FLOUR Winter . 4 05 @ 410
FLOUR Patents . 4 30 © 460
WHEAT Per bushel . 73 % © If
COILV Per bushel . 37'-j ©
OATS Per bushel . 2r j. < @ "
PORK . 9 S7JJ © 990"
LAKD . 6 12 @ 615
HOGS Packing itshipping. 4 75 © 505
BATTLE Stockers . 2 10 @ 350
Natives . 2 00 @ 375
ST. LOUIS.
5VHEAT No. 2 red
CORN Per bushel
OATS Per bushel
HOGS Mixed packing
CATTLE Stockers
SHEEP Common to choice
KANSAS CITY.
SVHEAT Per bushel 66 @ G6K
2oRN Per bushel 32 ©
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DATS Per bushel 24 25'
BATTLE Feeders 3 25 350
HOGS Good to choice 4 65 480
SHEEP Common to sood. . 4 50 495