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M’COOK TRIBUNE. V. M. KIMMELI., Publisher. McCOOK, NEBRASKA. NEBRASKA. The Bank of Blue Ilill has gone into voluntary liquidation. Several Sunday schools from various towns will celebrate the Fourth at Sur prise. A full blooded North American In dian preached in South Omaha last Sunday. The Gazette is the name of Geneva's new populist paper, and J. J. Burke is its editor. Three hundred and fifty men are pulling weeds out of the beet fields near Grand Island. Schuyler has an organized base ball nine that puts up a good game. They are ready to meet all comers. F. T. Pierson, assisted by Mrs. Pier son and the Moody quartet, began a series of meetings in Ashland. At Hastings Mrs. Frederika Naultens was granted a divorce from her hus band on the grounds of extreme cruelty’. The young men of Chapman have or ganized a literary association for hold ing debates and general improvement. The Chappell Register advises the farmers of Deuel county to put down artesian wells for irrigating purposes. In jumping from a wagon to the ground, Charles Dangler of Dodge county broke one of his legs below the knee. Four of the horses that started in the 100-mile cowboy race from Chadron. died from the effects of the usage re ceived. J. R. Sutherland of Tekamah has been appointed receiver of the State bank at Brainard and took possession last week. The boom in window’ glass at Ilold rege is the result of a hailstorm that spread desolation in the western part of the city. It is rumored that a move is on foot to organize a stock company at Ponca the object of which will be to build a steam grist mill. The Fullerton Driving association announces an extended program for the 3rd and 4th of July’, with purses amounting to $900. Charles W. Mead, who at one time was general superintendent of the Union Pacific railroad, died last week in Los Angeles, Cal. The Salem Chautauqua, which was to have been held July’ 22 to 29, has been postponed and will probably be held August 5 to 12. Harry Lefler of Cozard is the latest Dawson county victim of the strin gency, having made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. Nellie Coddington, an attractive young lady of Lincoln, suicided last week by taking morphine- . She had been jilted in a love affair. Young people of the Lutheran church of Wayne propose to feed the crowd that shall assemble in that place to celebrate the glorious Fourth. Rev. F. M. Sisson and family from Illinois arrived in Fremont last week. He succeeds Rev. George M. Brown as pastor of the First M. E. church in that city. The office of superintendent of bridges and traveling freight agent of the Elkhorn railroad have been transferred from Missouri Valley to Fremont. A South Omaha young man went against a shell game at the circus ground, leaving S15 and his watch and chain as a reminder of what a great chump he is. The barb wire factory building which is being erected in West Point is nearly completed, and in a few weeks that city will be able to boast of having a good factory. The late rains have given wheat in Johnson county a new start and pros pects now are that the crop .will be al most, if not entirely, equal to that har vested last year. During a practice game of ball at Elmwood C. 15. Lee, who was catching, had one of the bones of his left fore arm fractured by a batter swinging the bat behind him. The ministerial profession of Red Willow county will petition the coming legislature to pass a law fixing for per forming the solemn ceremony that unites two hearts. Lorenz Skibowsky of West Point, who was stricken with paralysis, died from the effects thereof. He" was buried bv the (irand Army of the Republic of which he was a member. Tlie delegates of the Modern Wood men of America of the Fourth congres sional district met at MeCool and se lected Fairmont as the place to hold the annual picnic this year. An attempt was made to get into the Douglas county jail to lynch Sam Payne, the negro who murdered Maud Rubel. Payne, however, had been taken to the penitentiarv for safe keep ing. Milliam Spies, son of a farmer living near Abbott, was found dead in the loft of the barn with a rope twisted I about his neck. From the condition oi j things it is thought the death was ac- j cideatal. George Griffith, a tramp, entered the I store of C. M. llall at Plainv.ew and ] 6tole live pairs ot pants. He was ar rested, convicted and sentenced to pay costs and serve twenty days in the county jail. On account of repeated attacks made upon County Treasurer Franz of Gage county- placed before the board of supervisors a communication asking that a committee be appointed to in vestigate the affairs of his office and make a report as to whether or not the charges made are correct. Mr. A. !■>. Campbell, who has been steward at the institution for incurable insane at Hastings for the last two years, iias resigned the position to ac cept that of register ot the McCook land office. Previous to departure for his netv position, employes of the in stitution gave h.m a tarew.all ball and handshake. The Odd Fellows talk of organizing a new lodge at Panama. Fire broke out in the residence of A. lleald at Talmage and it was entirely consumed, although all the contents were saved. The house was owned by parties living in Chicago, and was in sured for $700, enough to fully cover all loss. Five boys at Rising the other day made a cannon of a gas pipe, and, after four successful shoots, on the fifth ven ture with the ‘'machine," it exploded, and four cf the boys tasted powder, one lieing so disabled that he will remain in bed a while. No tuition will be charged at the Wesleyan university, Lincoln, hereaf ter. At the commencement Dr. Max field announced on behalf of the trus tees that instruction would hereafter be free. Degrees were conferred upon eight graduates. Paul Lyon of Nebraska City, charged with embezzling goods belonging to his employer. Capt. S. H. Morrison, the jeweler, was arraigned before Judge Chapman. lie pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. Florin Geiger, a well-to-do German farmer living six miles southeast of Utica, was instantly killed, while re turning home with a load of lumber, by his team running away and throw ing him under the wheels of the wagon, which crushed in his breast. Ihe prohibitionists of Madison coun ty will meet in mass convention at Norfolk Saturday, June 30, at 1 p. m., for the purpose of selecting delegates to the state congressional and senator ial conventions, aud to place in nomi nation candidates for county offices. A Crawford belle, Miss Mamie Grimes, through her presence of mind, pre vented a serious fire one day last week. Children had overturned a lamp and rushed out crying “fire,” when Miss Grimes ran into the house and with a bucket of water extinguished the flames. There is a yearling colt at Seward, owned by D. B. Palmer, that is a world wonder. Jle has shown a 2:16 pacing gait for one-eighth of a mile. The Seward driving park club has made ar rangements with Mr. Palmer to exhibit the speed of his colt at the meeting July 4. Mr. C. W. Wilson, who has a system of irrigation in operation upon some forty acres of his farm near Ayr, pro nounces his proposition a success, and is jubilant over the prospects opened up for him by artificial means of supply ing the necessary moisture to the crops upon his land. Seward has concluded to celebrate the Fourth of July as becomes a great people. The principal feature of the day will be a race meeting given by the Seward driving club, and though the purses offered are not large they are sufficient to insure good races and a day of fine sport. Governor Crounse has issued a re quisition on the Iowa authorities for one Ashley W. Thrasher, who is now in jail at Creston and is wanted in Cass county to answer the charge of grand larceny. James E. Eikenburv is au thorized as agent of the state to con duct the fugitive to this side of the river. A Boston dispatch says the statement of the Union Pacific railroad for April, entire system, shows: Gross earnings, 82,395.513.80; decrease, 8758,249.95. Ex penses, minus taxes, $1,960,950.45; de crease, 8368,841.47. Surplus, 8428, 554.41; decrease, 8389,408.51. The same four months to April 30: Gross earn ings, $9,246,766.37; decrease, $33,142, 631.63. The 10-year-old son of Frank Cail, living about twelve miles east of Pen der, left home and has not been heard of since, notwithstanding the fact that the entire neighborhood for miles around has been thoroughly searched for the runaway. Cail was about to chastise the boy-, and he ran out of the gate, saying as he went: “Goodbye, mother. You will never see me again.” The Madison Reporter says: Seven families of Russians live iu tents on Union creek and cultivate beets. They gather brush for fuel and drink from the creek or draw water from a tem porary well a few feet from the creek. They got 814 per acre for attending beets, and it takes the labor of one man from the middle of May to the middle of November to attend five acres. At Beatrice Antoine \\ eily, a chrome i drunk, made an attempt to commit sui cide in an outhouse in the rear of a sa loon. He was rescued in an uncon scious condition and was resuscitated. Next morning he obtained a pistol and went into a meat shop and declared his determination to blow his brains out. The pistol was taken away from him and he was locked up in jail to sober up. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fleek, at Brainard, was severely i scalded with boiling water. Mrs. Fleek placed a disbpan full of hot 1 water on the table, near which her 10 months-old child sat in a high chair, and as she turned to get some cold water the baby caught hold of the pan and pulled it into her lap. The child’s hands and parts of its body were burned to a crisp. W. H. Williams, a Schuyler police man, recently received the official no tice from headquarters at Washington that a medal is now being engraved suitably and will be forwarded soon. The award is to William H. Williams, private, company C, Eighty-second Ohio volunteers, for most distinguished gallantry at the battle of Peach Tree creek, Georgia, July 20, 18(30, when he volunteered to go to the front of the line as sentinel and thus took his life bis hands. Thomas J, Fort, president of the State Irrigation company of North Platte, visited tiie state house for the purpose of presenting to Governor C'rounse a petition signed by about seventy-live larmers of Lincoln county, asking that an official investigation be ordered into the crop conditions of the middle west of Nebraska. President Fort reported to the governor that the ; farmers were leaving that part of the ! state by scores on account of the drouth, and that unless something was j speedily done the state would not only , lose a great many of the citizens, but those who remained would be reduced to the utmost extremity. A NEW RECORD BY CONGRESS, j Only Eighty-Five 1’ubllc and Eighteen Private Mil* So Far l’aaited. Washington, June 13.—Up to to-day only eighty-five public measures have been enacted into law and the private laws are limited to the unprecedented- i ly small number of eighteen. The whole number of bills intro duced in the house is 7,433—furbelow the average. Of these 1,030 have been reported—also far below the usual number at this date. The falling off of bills, reports, etc., has been so great that it has been one of the main causes of the recent wholesale reduc tion of force in the government print ing office. It is said that the former public printer, Mr. Palmer, estab lished his force with the expectation that the amount of work to be done by this congress would keep pace with that of former congresses, and that this in part accounts for the large surplus of help Public Printer Benedict found when he recently as sumed charge. The large falling off in general legislation is attributed to the cen tering of interest in the tariff and to the depleted condition of the treasury. Senators and members have known that it was useless to press bills for public buildings and other appropria tions in view of the stringency at the treasury aud have refrained from urging private measures. Owing to delays and objections of various kinds only two private pension bills have got through the house and become laws. As a rule the private pension acts are so numerous that the total of private bills is very large. The house calendar up to date is clear of all appropriation bills except the deficiency, but there are 130 im portant general bills awaiting a hear ing and eighty-six bills of a general character not carrying an appropria tion. Among these arc bills to admit New Mexico and Oklahoma to state hood, to send a congressional commis sion to examine the Nicaragua canal route, to finally adjudicate swamp land grants, to permit pen sions to non-r&sidents, to establish consular inspection of immigrants, to investigate the effect of machinery on labor, to investigate the wages of women and children, to construct canals from Lake Superior to the Mississippi river and from Lake Erie to the Ohio river, to prohibit dealings in options, to promote the efficiency of the naval militia, to establish a uniform bankruptcy system and to aid the Southern Cotton exposition. Quite a number of these will get a hearing, but the number to be interrupted by adjournmeut will ba exceptionally large. EDUCATION FOR INDIANS. They Must Hereafter Attend Home Schools. WASHINGTON, June 18.—A provision of the Indian appropriation bill, which was adopted in committee of the whole, prohibits all Indian children from attending any school more than forty miles from their reservation until they have gone to the school provided for them at home at least four years. This provision of the bill, if it is enacted into a law, will have the effect of reducing the num ber of Indians sent away to eastern schools and very materially increas ing their home education. Several of. the western representatives are confident that the Carlisle school will suffer from the provision. There is a growing sentiment in favor of educating the Indians at home as far as possible, and no legislation of recent years has been so pronounced in this direction as that which was in corporated into the Indian bill. Representative Curtis of Kansas made a hard fight to have the section of the bill approved which secures to the Indians the principal and interest due them from Southern states for the sale of their old reservations. It amounts now to more than §3,000,000, and the states have shown a disposi tion to defer payment indefinitely. The proposition was however, defeat ed on a point of order. Delegate Flynn of Oklahoma, will again attempt to have incorporated in the bill his commutation plan for Oklahoma, permitting settlers to prove up their claims in fourteen months. Failing to secure this in the house, an effort will be made to have the senate make the provision. A PRIZE FICHT FOR SCIENCE. Two Brooklyn Pugilists Hattie in Thomas A. Edison's laboratory. New York, June 18.—In the labora tory of Thomas A. Edison, the in ventor, near Orange, N. J., last night, Mike Leonard and Jack Cushing, both of Brooklyn fought in the interest of seience before Edison and a part}- of six intimate friends. Six rounds were fought and then Leonard put his man out with a clever right hand punch. The preliminaries were all arranged several days ago by Mr. Edison's representatives and a purse of §300 subscribed, all of which was to go to the winner. The fighters weighed in at 130 pounds when they entered the twelve foot ring, which had been pitched within the focus of Mr. Edi son’s last invention, the kinetograph, which was to catch and preserve every movement of the pugilists for the purpose of reproducing them later on. Editor Brown in a Mother Hibbard. Wichita, Kan., June 18.—At King man last night when Editor Brown returned from the Populist conven tion, where he bitterly fought woman's suffrage, was met at the depot, taken from the side of his wife, clothed in a mother hubbard dress and sun-bonnet and compelled to march through the streets before a brass band. The friends of woman's j suffrage did it. To March to the l’aciflc Coast. Washington, June 18.—Galvin's army of industrials which reached this city some time after Coxey's con tingent, and have been nearly"all the time at Hyattsville, have become weary of waiting for something to turn up. and now contemplate a march from here to the Pacific coast Coxey’s Bill lutroduced. Washington, June 18.—The Coxey bill for good roads and non-interest bearing bonds which Senator Peffer introduced in the senate, has been in troduced in the house by Representa tive Geary of California. I HE lllflld II AGAIN LAUNCHED ON ITS VOY AGE IN THE HOUSE. MB. HATCH OPENS THE DEBATE. lie Says That the Hill Has Deceived the Approval of Kvcry Hoard of Trade in the Country—Mr. Warner of Now York, Delivers a Vigorous Speech Against the Measure — Bryan Speaks for It. Washington, June 20.—A letter from tlie speaker was read in tlie house, announcing that on account of sickness lie would be unable to attend the session of tlie house yesterday and appointed Mr. Hailey of Texas, speaker pro tem. The deficiency bill wras reported by Mr. Hrcclsinridge of Kentucky. Mr. Sayers of Texas will have control of the bill on’the floor of the house. The deficiency bill carries an appropriation of §1,8110,593. Senate bill granting a right-of-way to the Eastern Nebraska and (!ulf railway through the Omaha and Win nebago Indian reservations in tlie state of Nebraska was passed. The anti-option bill was then launched upon its congressional voy age. Mr. Hatch opened tlie debate with a speech in favor of tlie bill. He said there was not a single provision in the hill which had not received tlie approval of every body of trade in tlie country, its charter or rules and regu lations which required the actual de livery of articles purchased for future delivery. This bill would compel this delivery honestly and in good faith and would oblige the boards of trade to enforce their own regulations, which they had built up on elaborate systems for avoiding. When Mr. Hatch’s time had ex pired, Mr. Warner, Democrat of New York, delivered a vigorous speech against the bill, in which he main tained that while it was ostensibly drawn in tlie interest of the farmer, a careful reading showed that it “had been monkeyed with by some one who was a thousand times more a miller than the gentleman from Missouri was a farmer.” He maintained that the passage of the bill would injure the export trade of the country.which was largely carried on by a system of dealing in options. Mr. Bryan of Nebraska considered this a bill to prevent gambling in farm products and it was unjust to his con stituents (who were mainly farmers) that other men should have the right to affect the price of their product after they had taken the risk of rain, drought, grasshoppers and chinch bugs. There was no difference be tween the action of the burglar who went to a man’s house and robbed him of his goods, and the action of the man who on stock exchange drove down the price of another man's pro duct and tints deprived him of so much to which he was justly entitled. At 5:08 o’clock Mr. Bryan concluded his speech, and the house adjourned. A FUGITIVE RECEIVER. J. C. Thompson, the Absconding Cashier, Is in Charge of a Railroad. Sedalia, Mo., Jane 20.—By the ac tion of the supreme court yesterday, according to a telegram received here from Jefferson City, J. C. Thompson, the absconding cashier of the defunct First National bank, is the receiver of the Sedalia, Warsaw and Southwest ern railroad. Several months ago. on the petition of Carlos S. Greely of St. Louis, and other stockholders, Judge Richard Field appointed Mr. Thompson re ceiver of the road. The Missouri Pa cific appealed to the supreme court and yesterday the appeal was dis missed, leaving the appointment stand. Mr. Thompson is now sojourn ing in Mexico, with no prospect of re turning unless accompanied by a United States officer. Judge Field, it is expected, will at once appoint some one else to the receivership. ORDER OF UNITED WORKMEN. Supreme Lodge Completes Its Work anti Adjourns. San Francisco, June 20.—The su preme lodge, A. O. U. W.. held a short session yesterday morning and then finally adjourned. During the morning session it was decided that a member’s stand ing in the order should not be considered to be imperilled by his failure to pay assessments levied for the benefit of any funds other than the beneficiary, relief and general funds. It was decided that no sus pended or expelled member can be taken back into the order unless he be under 45 years of age. The newly elected supreme officers were duly in stalled by Past Supreme Master Work men Baxter and W'ilson. An Ohio River Steamer Sunk. Madison, Ind., June 20.—The steamer City of Madison, while re turning from Evansville en route to Cincinnati, with a big crowd of bi cycle excursionists on board, struck a dike in front of this city at 4 o'clock yesterday morning and sank. The dike knocked a hole in her seventy five feet long about midships. For tunately no lives were lost, Krakpumn's Terrible Fate. Xeodesiia, Kan., June 20.—John Thompson, a ’Frisco brakeman. was killed at Beaumont last night while switching. His body was cut in two, both bands cut off, and one leg crushed. .Tolin Walters, one of the early set- ; tiers of Illinois county, died at Prince- ! ton at the age of He was a noted ! abolitionist and a co-worker of Owen i G. Lovejoy in the underground rail- \ road work. Attorney General Olney says there is no truth in the published statement that he had decided to enter suit for 8171,000,000 against the Pacitic bonded railroads, but had employed Attorney ! ltussell for the purpose of handling the suits. ti:e elks in convention. Seventy Members wf the Grand Lodge Withdraw and Go to Atlaitle City. Jamestown, N. Y.. June 23. — At 3:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Elks' grain! lodge special session began. Exalted Ruler Apperly made a brief speech in which no reference was made to the dissensions in the order. The roll call at the opening of the session showed lil'.l members of the grand lodge present. A large num ber of lodges were not reported. There was an animated discussion concerning points of order, and finally at 5 o’clock seventy members of the grand lodge withdrew and proceeded to take the train for Atlantic City, the withdrawing delegation including members from Portland. Ore.; Buffalo, Meadville, Denver, Brooklyn, Chicago, Lancaster, Pa.; Danbury, Conn., and others. By a vote of 7ii to 10 the grand lodge approved the report of the committee on laws and appeals sustaining the action of the exalted ruler in suspending Grand Trustees Vandelier, Campbell and Laab and in appointing Midaugh, Robes and Rake in their places. By a vote of 81 to 2, it approved the action of the grand trustees in ap pointing Jamestown :js the meeting place of the grand lodge. Fifteen lodges were read out of the order of the grand lodge until they make proper returns to the officers. They were: Philadelphia, San Francisco, Baltimore, Meriden, Albany, New Bedford, Lowell, Newport, R. I.; Wilkesbarre. llrocton, Haverhill, Bos ton, Richmond, Worcester and Indian apolis. FITZSIMMONS FLOORED. The Lanky Australian Almost Knocked Out l>y Joe Choynski in Boston. Boston, June ~0.—At the Boston theater last night Bob Fitzsimmons, champion middleweight of the world and challenger of Jim Corbett, turned an almost certain defeat into victory, llad not the police interfered it was ten to one that lie would have finished Joe Choynski in a punch. As it was the match was declared a draw, but no one present will ever claim that Choynski was a foeman worthy to combat the, lanky Australian. No less than ii.OOIl cheering, howling men enjoyed the battle, the like of which Boston has never seen before. In the third round Choynski landed on Fitz’s jaw full and square, felling the Australian. He was on his back nine seconds and got up just in time to save himself, and was quite groggy, but Choynski had lost iiis head with wild leads which Fitz cleverly dodged. Fitz rapidly recovered himself and had Choynski at liis mercy and would .have knocked him out in the liftli round but for the police. TORNADO IN NEBRASKA. It Swoops Down oil Sioux County With Terrible Severity. Harrisonburg, Neb., June 20.—The northern part of Sioux county was visited yesterday by a tornado which was terrible in its severity, but com paratively small in its territory. It was about twenty rods wide and five miles in length. Everything in its path was swept from the earth. The barns, sheds, wagons and implements of D. W. Woody were completely de molished and ten rods of wire fence was swept clear. Rufus Woody and his horse in a shed were picked up and carried through the open roof and landed again about 200 feet awav. Neither received any serious j damage. No other reports of damage j have yet come in. THREE FATALLY INJURED. A Mother and Two Children Thrown i Down an Embankment in a Runaway. Leadville, Col., June 20.—Mrs. J. R. Miller, wife of a leading merchant, and her two children were thrown down an embankment by a runaway, when driving to Evergreen lakes. Mrs. Miller was very seriously cut and bruised about the head and it is feared fatally injured internally. Her little boy had his skull fractured in two places and was cut and bruised all over the body. Her little girl, Ollie, aged 5 years, was caught be tween the wheel and bed of the car riage and her throat horribly torn. She cannot recover. McKinley May Not Come West. Topeka, Kan., June 20.—Owing to ! the exciting mining troubles in Ohio, Governor McKinley has canceled his engagement to speak at the Ottawa, Kan., assembly June 21—Grand Army day. Should his duties permit, he lias promised to speak at Ottawa on Friday, June 2'J. Killed 15y Lightning. •Topi.ix, Mo., June 20.—Yesterday afternoon, during a heavy rain-storm, | the wife of J. Allen, a farmer living southeast of Joplin, was struck bv | lightning and killed. Her 10-months’ i baby, which she was holding in her ! arms, was shocked and slightly in jured. THE MARKETS. Kansas City Grain. Kansas City. Mo., June 20.—Quotations for i ca** lots by sample on track at Kansas city 1 were nominally as follows: No 2 hard. 53c No 3 hard. 51.7^3.c No 4 hard. 467/,49c re jected. 445|4<5c No 2 red, 5Jc No. 3 red 43<r, 51c: No 4 red. 44 /48c. Corn—No. 2. 347^.,ec: ; No. 3, 35c No 2 white corn, 3g@.S9c: No 3 ; white. 38^/>“9c Outs, No 2, 4054$s&41c: No 3, j 40c: No. 2 white oat.s, 41«^,12c No. 3 white, 4W240‘ie. Live Stock. Cattle—Dressed beef anl export steers. I $3.85"4.75: cows and heifers, 81 85^,{.75: Texas and Indian steers *2 60.1/4. stockers and feeders. 53(/>3 5o: mixed, $175^6 Hogs— Keccipts 13.0.JJ: shipped yesterday, j 16i The market was 10c higher for choice heavy hogs and 5c to lJc higher on others.c os- I ing with the gam lost The top was 54 87 - ' and bulk of sales 51 70 to id 80 arainst -54 77 2 for top and $4 70 for bulk yesterday. Sheep—Keceipts, l 085 shipped yesterday. ! 3.7>:5. The market was active for good and dull for common sheep at about steady prices j The following are representative sales: No. VVt Price No. Wt Price- j 21. 97 3 75 ' 49 . 90 3 59 • 9. 150 2o0 j Horses — Receipts. 4*5 shippedyesterdiy.ro The market was unchanged The range of ! prices for good are. well broke and sound j horses is about as follows Extra draft. 1.593 [ pounds. :7y /.l0» good draft. 1.10J pounds. $C0 (£t,99 extra drivers. 575-4,125. good drivers $.>0{j;7>; saddle good to extra. 560467) South ern mares and geldings, $25$65 Western range, unbroken, 423^0 Western ponies, $12y£2U. FREE COAL WANTED. Senator Hill Object* to tile Fropo»C(l< Duty. Washington. June 19.—Tn the sen ate chamber this tnorni ng, the tem perature was sweltering, the mercury standing at 81. While the senate was discussing a bill which ha I been in troduced bv Mr. IVlT -r. and favorably reported by the committee on agri culture, to pay 82,509 for an invention that would ' utilize electricity or gaseous vapor as a motor for agri cultural machinery, the tariff bill came up. At the request of Mr. Platt the two paragraphs, 293 and 299 of tlic sillc schedule passed over Saturday were again passed over. Schedule M—“pulp papers and books’’—was taken up and Mr. Fryo offered :■ protest against the tirst par agraph of the schedule, placing a duty of 10 per cent on mechanically ground wood pulp and chemical wood pulp, bleached and unbleached. The production of wood pulp, he said, was an enormous industry, employing 70, 000 men, turning out a product valued at $35,000,000 and paying an annual wage of 823,000,000. ‘Under the oper ation of the present duty the cost of paper had greatly decreased. Wood pulp had decreased in price from four and one-half cents per pound to one and one-fourth in tiie last ten years. It was produced in twenty nine states, but principally in Maine and New York. He appealed to the other side to make the duty specific instead of ad valorem and proposed an amendment to substitute equiva lent specific rates, say 82.50 per ton on wood pulp mechanically ground, chemical wood pulp unbleached 85 per ton and bleached $G 50 per ton. The Democratic members of the finance committee refused to accept the amendment and it was rejected—20 to 23. The committee figures on the va rious other articles in the pulp and. paper paragraphs were adopted and the senate took up schedule N— sundries. The following rates were fixed without debate: Hair, pencils and feather dusters 30 per cent; brooms 20 per cent; button forms 10j per cent; agate buttons 20 per cent; pearl and shell buttons one cent per line and 15 percent; ivory, glass, bone and horn buttons 35 per cent; -shoo buttons 25 per cent. The house hill placed coal on the free list. The finance committee amendment placed a duty of forty cents per ton on bituminous coal and shale, fifteen cents on slack and culm and fifteen per cent advalorem on. Coke. As soon as the clerk hail read this paragraph Mr. Hill and Mr. I’ef fer jumped to their feet. The New York senator was recognized and sent, to tlic clerk’s desk an amendment to relegate bituminous coal and shale to the free list. He made a speech in support of free coal and the redemp tion of Democratic pledges. Mr. Hill said that lie reserved the right to vote for or against the tariff bill when he should see what it is as a finality, passionately exclaiming: “God knows what the bill will be liko when it passes the senate and comes out of conference. God knows how many more extortions and conclusions will be wrung from tlic unwilling hands of the committee.” The vote on Mr. Hill’s motion was yeas 7, nays 51. Messrs. Allen, llans brough. Hill, Irby, Kyle, J’cffer and Washburn voted vea. BENNETT’S ARMY. Another Detachment Capture* a Boat and Goes Down the .IliaaoarL Kansas City, Mo., June ID.—The Coxey army encamped in the East bottoms is fast going to pieces. About fifty of them stole the fiat boat last night which was g-iven to the army Saturday. Before leaving- they loaded the boat with nearly all the provisions in camp and this morning were many miles down the river. The desertions of Saturday and Sun day leave only seventy-five men in camp, and it is almost certain that all of these will be gone by to-night. General Artz procured another flat boat this morning- from a fisherman which will hold fifty men. A rental of 82 a day and all the fish the men can catch is to be paid for the use of the boat LIVESTOCK AND PRODUCE MARKETS Quotations from New York, Chicago, St, Louis, Omaha and Elsewhere. OMAHA Butter—Creamery print. 17 % in Butter—Choice country. ]:j '■*, 14 Eggs—Fresh . 0 D'i Honey—I er . 1« lo Poultry—Old hens per . 5»V'£ o Chickens Spring per doz. 2 5; •• 300 Lemons. 3 75 (f>* 4 00 Oranges—Florida. 3 50 (5, 3 75 Pineapples Per do/. I 75 2 <0 Potatoes—New. 1 ID (q, 1 20 Beaus—Navy. 2 00 US, 2 ll Peas—Per bu. . 15. i 00 Beans -Wax. per bu 1 .‘0 ' 1 D > Unions—New Southern per bbl. 3 <0 Ci 3 5o Hogs—Mixed packing. 4 t;» (<i. 4 05 Hogs—Heavy weights. 4 65 (;£ 4 :o Beeves— Prime .-teers . 4 25 <q, 4 70 Beeves—Stockers a; d Feeders 2 -o Or, 3 40 fcteers—Fair to good. 4 <0 (q, 4 30 fcteers—Westerns. .i <>/, 4 fcheep—Lambs. 4 0j (<s 4 50 fcheep—Choice native •-. 3 00 a, 4 15 NhW YORK. Wheat—No. 2, red winter. 6i 63% Corn—No. 2. 46 <& 40-* Oats—Mixed western. 4^ 4^ a Pork.13 50 ('/J5 75 Laru... < 15 7 20 CHICAGO. Wheat—No. 2 spring. 58 <?& 591^ Corn—Per bu. 40 40J4 Oats—Per bu. 40 <& 41 Pork.1’ 10 (fel2 12 L:ird.... G e. (’£ i) tiT 14 Hogs—Packets and mixed. 4 65 Uj, ^ 75 (.attie—■Com. steers to extra... 4 SO v, 4 fcheep—Lambs. 3 *J0 US, 4 60 fcT. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 red. cash. 55 (fo 5~u Corn Per bu. 3s <& oats—Per bu. 3* ^ 30 4 Hogs—Mixed packing. 4 SO US, 4 05 < at tie—Native steers. 4 00 <6 4 50 fcheep Natives. 3 0j fa 4 40 x. KANSAS CITY. J >\ heat—No. 2 red, cash. 54 ^ 5414 Cattle—Mockers and feeders.. 2 75 (& 3 SO Bogs—Mixed packers. 4 50 Ui, 4 C3 The collapse of the Chamberlin In vestment company of Denver proves to be one of the worst failures result ing from an inilation of real estate values in recent years. The attorney generat of the United States is about to bring suit for the vast sum of 8171.000.000,the aggregate of the Central Pacific. Union°Pacific and Kansas Pacific railroads’ indebt edness to the United States. Xorsman Clark and a woman named Jennie Siley took refuge under a tree in a thunder storm near Lyons, Iowa. The woman was killed" and the man fatally injured by a bolt of lightning.
