M’COOK TRIBUNE. F. M. KI3IMKLI., PulUWlier. McCOOK, NEBRASKA. OVER THE STATE. Lowson Sheldon of Nehawka fell from a load of hay and broke his collar bone. Fall plowing is progressing, but the ground for most part is not in good condition. Mark Wheeler, arrested in Geneva for selling liquor without a license, was fined $100 and costs. Large quantities of apples are being chipped every day from Nebraska City. The quality is very fair. The pontoon bridge across the Mis souri river at South Sioux City has been reopened for traffic. Miss Hubber of Calhoun, aged 2G, was taken to lilair. She is a raving maniac and will be taken to the Nor folk asylum. The Nebraska City canning company has purchased additional machinery and will add canned apples, preserves and jellies to its output. N. Pasco, of Dodge county, lost 1,200 bushels of corn by tire last week. About $500 worth of agricultural im plements were also burned. A south-bound Santa Fe train ran into a team a few stations south of Su perior. One horse was killed outright and the other so seriously injured that it was afterward shot. The driver, named Sullivan, is in a critical condi tion. The 2-year-old girl of William Thorp, the commissioner of Loup county, Beven miles west of Burwell, fell into a barrel of water and was drowned. Not one of the family saw the accident, as all were at a melon patch except the child. Botts Bros.’ store at Admah was robbed of $100 in cash and a check for 8102 drawn in favor of John Anderson. Sheriff Mencke of Washington county was notified and left for Admah. He thinks he has a clue and will run the thief down. Fifteen horses which had just been landed from the new gasoline ferry at Brownvilie became frightened and all of them rushed back into the ferry boat, upsetting it The horses were all saved, but the boat sank in eighteen feet of water. While unloading a bull from a stock car to the stock yards at Superior, the animal became uncontrollable, and threw G. Jacobs to the ground with terrible violence, cutting a gash in his forehead. Before the man could raise, the animal made a second assault, but owing to the dust missed its victim. Friends came to the rescue and pre vented a third onslaught. Dr. T. B. Tibbetts of Liberty died suddenly last week. He had enjoyed breakfabt with his family as usual, but shortly afterwards complained of not feeling well. Twenty minutes later he was dead. Heart failure was the cause of his death. Dr. Tibbetts re sided at Liberty about thirty-five years, in fact, having spent nearly all his life on Nebraska soil and in Gage county. Corn is reported to have sold at Ne braska City yesterday for 60 ceuts rer bushel. A man who would pay that price for feed, says the Plattsmouth News, when he can get wheat for 40 cents, has a weak spot in his head. Care ful feeders say thatone bushel of wheat as feed for stock is equal to one and a half bushels of corn. Farmers in this county will soon be feeding wheat as they are over in Indiana. As a faint evidence, says the Fair bury Gazette, of the depreciation in live stouk since the hot winds burned up our prospects for corn, we give the result of an auction sale on the streets last Saturday. There were four horses disposed of under the hammer, and they brought respectively $1, $1.50, $2 and $6. While, of course, they were not first-class horses, yet they would have readily brought"$30 or $40 apiece a year ago. Grandfather Stephens of Adams county, was overcome with the heat last week and died in a few minutes after reaching home. He and his wife live by themselves a mile east of Juniata and he was in town until after 3 o'clock, when he started home. He was too 6iclc to attend to his team when he ar rive i home, and he went into the house. His wife went to a.neighbor's for help and when she returned found him on the floor dead. —The most prosperous educational institution in the west is the Omaha (Neb.) Business College and Institute of Penmanship, Shorthand and Type writing. It has a large attendance and its students are doing first-class work. It is not only the oldest college but is the largest and finest in this part of the country. Profs. Lillibridge & Roose, the well known business college men, have been engaged in educational work in this state for ten years and have a large number of ex-students holding lucrative positions or in successful business for themselves. Their beauti ful catalogue will be sent free on appli cation. Labor Commissioner J. B. Erion has entered upon the preliminaries to prove that Nebraska is able to eare for her own drouth sufferers, and he and Gov ernor Crounse have both interested themselves in the work of bringing re lief to the southwestern counties. There have been wild stories tele graphed out of Nebraska to newspapers eager to publish just that kind of mat ter, relating to the presumed general •weep of the drouth, but these two offi cials have looked well into the matter and despite the fictitious sympathy of eastern papers which have suggested outside help, they are impressed with the ability of the state to care for her own. Habtington claims the lawn tennis championship of Cedar county. Mar tin brothers of that city won the honor from McCormack and Gray at Coler idge. The match between the two pairs was played on the home grounds of the losers, and the score was 2-0, 6-2, 7-5. Andrew Warner, son of a farmer living near Cedar Bluffs, left a pony in the pasture field of it. P. Thompson and rode away to parts unknown a val uable horse belonging to Mr. Thomp son. H ai.l county will probably do some irrigating, taking water from Wood giver, South Loup and Platte rivers. Sneak thieves continue to operate in the vicinity of Heat-rice. The South Omaha strike is about over. A majority of the old men have made application to be taken back. Many of them have been taken, while others have been refused. It was esti mated when the most rnen were out that in all.there were 1,800 strikers. It is now estimated that at least 1,200 of these men have asked for their old places and that 1,001) of them were put to work. Not as many persons from the outside had been put to work as was first reported. Pupils who have completed the work of the common district schools should remember that they can enter the first preparatory class at the state university tliis fall. To such pupils the oppor tunity is offered by the state for six years’ training and education entirely free. After this year, beginning with September, 1895, the requirements for admission will be advanced. It is well, therefore, for the largest possible num ber to take advantage of the present terms of admission. Mr. Ivesterson discovered the larg est fish pond on his farm west of Fair bury covered with dead fish. An in vestigation convinced him that some one had been using dynamite to get the fish more expedtiously than could be done with a hook and line. Mr. Kes terson has spent several years in get ting his ponds stocked with fish and some of them have grown to a fair size and the killing of thousands of them of all sizes, nearly all too small to be of any use, is a crime. A letter from Logan county tells of a needy farmer who carried a sack of flour away from a grocery store after he had been refused credit by the mer chant. An oflicerof the law went after the man, but did not overtake him un til he had reached his home. The con stable looked in the door and saw a child eagerly eating raw flour from the sack, while the father looked on with tears streaming from his eyes. The flour was left in the cabin and the offi cer went back to town alone. Recently there was a day of acci dents around Fairmont. John Jen kins, living with his parents in Fair mont, struck his hand with a corn knife find cut one of the bones in the fleshy part of the member off smooth. Otto Cooper, living three miles south east of that place, while cutting corn with a machine, slipped off on one of the knives and cut his heel nearly off. Ueorge Dennis, a farm hand working on the Oldrich farm, while cutting corn, stepped on one of the knives and cut a bad gash in his foot. The dreaded Russian thistle is mak ing its appearance in Nebraska. Yard master Hewitt of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis «fc Omaha has been spend ing several days past in efforts to ex terminate this weed, which for the first time has begun spreading through the Omaha yards, and demanding atten tion. Superintendent Jaynes of the road has sent out circulars all over its line directing every overseer to root out all specimens without delay. Re ports come in that it is, with a most unfortunate energy, pushing out over the various counties of Nebraska. The last Nebraska weather crop bul letin says: Light showers have fallen over most of the state on several differ ent days, and in the northeastern cor ner of the state the rainfall amounted to nearly an inch, while In the south ern border of the southeastern portion there was none or only a trace. There is very little that is new to report as to the condition of corn. A few fields are reported in favored localities in the eastern portion of the state that may, with rain soon, make a fair crop, but generally the prospect for corn is so unpromising that the stalks are gener ally being cut for fodder. Pastures have become so short that feeding of stock has become general, and much stock is being sold and shipped because of the scarcity of feed. The presence of mind of Mrs. W. W. Bell saved the Methodist Episcopal church of Syracuse from destruction the other evening. There was a meeting at the church, but at the time of the accident there were but three ladies present. While Mrs. Bell was trying to extinguish one of the large Roches ter lamps with which the church is lighted, a defective fastening caused the lamp to fall from the frame. In its fall the chimney came off and struck her on the wrist, cutting two gashes to the bone; the burner of the lamp came off and the oil ran out and caught fire. Notwithstanding the severe cuts, which were bleeding profusely, and knowing the fact that the oil was running out of the lamp and saturating her dress, she caught the blazing lamp, ran to the door and threw it out. Fletcher Robbins, the pugilist, died at Plattsmouth. The physicians pro nounced that death was the result of Lindsay’s blows with his shoulder and elbow upon Robbins’ stomach and bow ells. When it was known that Robbins had died, County Attorney H. B. Trrvis filed the following complaints against James Lindsay: One for murder in the first degree and one for prize fighting. Against Arthur Rothery and Fred O’Neill, one for aiding and abetting a prize fight Against S. V. G. Griswold, one for aiding amd abetting a prize fight Against O’Neil, Rothery, Gris wold and others, one for aiding and abetting Lindsay in committing murder. The Sherman County Irrigation, Water Power and Improvement com pany has elected permanent officers for the ensuing year. The company has already secured deeds to the Arcadia mill race, at which point they tap the middle Loup river. The ditch will be sixty feet on the bottom to start with and is to be about thirty-five miles in length, running clear through Sher man county. About 20,000 acres will lie under this ditch and the citizens of Sherman county expect the middle Loup valley through said county soon to be one of the garden spots of Ne braska. A great deal of the stock is being taken locally and bonds are to be voted to aid the enterprise. B. C. Chase, of Californir, temporari ly staying at the Windsor hotel in Kearney, committed suicide there the other day by cutting his throat. The deed was performed while his wife was absent taking a walk. No cause for the deed is assigned. The democratic state convention will be held in Omaha September 26th. Henry Hege, a farmer of Otoe coun ty, has 4,000 bushels of corn in his cribs,* and thinks he can get along with a shortage in his crop this year. The Dixon county teachers’ institute will meet at Ponca August 21, and con tinue two weeks, under the supervision of County Superintenden t Mary Schroer. MR. DEBS TELLS HfS STORY. THE STRIKE LEADER CRITI , CISES THE COURTS. BITTER AGAINST GENERAL MILES. The A. R. U. President Draws a Big Crowd to the Arbitration Commis sioner's Hearing in Chicago—Mr. Pullman an I the General Man agers Notified to Appear aud Give Testimony. Chicago, Augr- 21.—By far the larg est audience which has yet been in attendance upon the strike commis sions sessions was present to-day, attracted by the appearance .as a wit ness of President B. V. Debs, of the American Railway union. Asked by Labor Commissioner Wright to tell in his own way what he knew of the Pullman strike and results, Debs began in a low voice a recital which grew more earnest as he proceeded until it developed into almost an oration. lie told of having received word that a strike in Pull man was imminent, and of his coming to Chicago to investigate. “I fourd,” he went on, “that the men were working for the Pullman com pany at wages upon which they could not live. I found that salaries had been cut time and again until skilled mechanics were working their lives away for wages not sufficient for a day laborer; that the town of Pullman, with its shops, its houses and its stores was so schemed that every penny the workingman made found its way back to the company. In fact, I found the workingmen of Pullman in a pitiable condition and determined I would do all in ray power, as president of the American Railway union, to improve the con dition of these men. The strike fol lowed, ,ordered by the men them selves. Then came the boycott, ordered by duly elected delegates to our convention, and theu followed the railroad strikes, ordered by the various local unions, each of which had grievances of its own.” “Would the railroad strikes have oc curred if there had been no Pullman trouble?” asked Commissioner Wright. “Ho; the Pullman strike was the prime cause. We desired to stop Pull man's cars and shut off his income, thus forcing him to arbitrate. But the railroad men had grievances of their own. The General Manager's association had been organized with the avowed intention of giving as sistance to railroads in labor troubles. The evident aim was to drive organ ized labor from existence. Ho sooner had this association been formed than a systematic reduction of railroad wages all over the country began. The cuts were made on one road at a time and in one department at a time, but the systematic regularity with which they appeared was sufficiently signifi cant. The men were ready to strike and felt they had cause. But the trouble would not have coine when it did had it not been for the Pullman matter. The time was unpropitious; business was depressed and money was scarce. I did not order the strike; I had not the power. The men did that themselves. But I do not wish to shirk any responsibility and am willing to say that I heartily con curred in and approved of the ac tion taken by the men. As to the violence, I always con demned it. I have written and spoken against it, believing and knowing that a strike cannot be won by violence. As to telegrams sent from our office counseling violence, I know of no such epistles.” "What about the ‘buy a gun' tele gram?” asked Commissioner Ivernan. “That is easily explained. The tel egram was sent by a private secretary to a friend in Butte and was merely a playful expression. It was sent as such and was so understood.” OUebs then saul that within five days after the strike was declared the union had the railroads beaten. “They were paralyzed,” he said, “but just at that time injunctions were sown broadcast and shortly after wards the officials of the American Railway union were arrested for con tempt of court. That beat us. It was not the railroads or the army, but the power of the United States courts that beat us. About that time a tiling oc curred which I desire to mention. General Miles came to Chicago, called on the General Managers' association and the next day was quoted in an in terview as saying he had broken the backbone of the strike. Now I con sider that call of General Miles as vulgarly and oat of place. He had no more right to consult with the general managers' association than he had to consult with the men of omr unions. I might say, too, that it seems strange that our letters and telegrams were made public property while not a line of the railroads’ cor respondence was published. If it had been I think we could prove that the general managers at one of their se cret meetings declared they would stamp the American Railway union out of existence. The witness then told the trouble with the railroad brotherhoods. “The brotherhoods have outlived their use fulness," he said, “and for that reason I left the firemen’s organization. They were, I fear, jealous of the American Railway union and helped to defeat us. There is now a move ment on foot to form a grand and united raiiroad organization. Within three days a proposition will be submitted to the other railroad orders whereby all present officers of the American Railway union and the other unions shall resign with no pos sibility of election to office. The principal cause of the strife then be ing removed, an organization will be effected if the brotherhoods will con sent. which shall include all other railroad brotherhoods.’’ The commissioners have notified George M. I’nllman to appear and tes tify and will also call for several members of the general managers’ as sociation. The date for Mr. l“u 11 man's testimony hus not been set. PUSHING CAMPAIGN WORK. Both Congressional Committees Strain ing Every Nerve to Gain Votes. Washington, Aug. 21.—The mana gers of the congressional national campaigns are preparing for the fall campaign with much energy. Senator Faulkner, at the head of the Democratic committee, is directing his efforts toward holding a Demo cratic majority in the house. Exten sive headquarters are in opera tion with the executive work in charge of Secretary Law rence Gardner. The work thus far has been in preparing full statis tics of districts, writing the campaign book and circulating documents. The campaign book is about half com pleted. It will be a volume of about 300 pages, showing the work of con gress and the reforms claimed to have been made in the department service. It will be furnished to speakers as a text book for their efforts on the stump. The statistics gathered are the most elaborate ever undertaken by the committee. They show not only the votes by counties for the last four congressional elections, but in close districts the figures are carried out to townships, wards, and even precincts. There is much activity at Republi can headquarters under direction of Assistant Secretary Charles II. McKee. By the decision of the Republican national committee the national cam paign is left entirely in the hands of the congressional committee, Chairman Manley acting in an advis ory character. The headquarters force is just now engaged in get ting together the campaign text book which Chairman McKee ex pects to have issued by Septem ber 19. The committee has had its headquarters open continuously since November 1 last and has circulated 2,000,000 pieces of campaign literature. This work will be pushed with even greater diligence from this time for ward. A complete canvass of every congressional district is being made. In states where a state campaign is on the work will be left in the hands of the state committee entirely. Where there is no state campaign the congressional district organizauion will be co-operated with directly. There will be no speakers’ bureau at the committee headquarters as con gressmen and candidates prefer to ar range for the speakers themselves. Every assistance in furnishing speak ers, however, will ba rendered when asked for. FOUR DEAD IN A WRECK. A Horse Causes the Derailment of a Wa bash Train—Tramps Under Cars. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 21—About 12 o’clock last night a freight train on the Wabash railroad struck a horse two miles west of Jonesburg and the locomotive and nineteen cars were ditched. Engineer C. Felton of Moberly and three tramps named Birch Miller, William Annler and J. E. Thompson were killed and the following were injured: Fireman Tilton, seriously; Brakeman Charles Fairbank, left arm broken; H. Humphrey, tramp, head cut; Peter deering, tramp, back hurt; Henry Risch, tramp, leg broken and back injured; George Williams, tramp, head cut; W. Myers, tramp, bruised and head cut; William Smith; tramp, seriously hurt. NUNS MAY BE TEACHERS. A Pennsylvania Judge Decides Against the Order of American Mechanics. Ebensburgii, Pa., Aug. 21. —Judge Barker to-day handed down a decis ion in the suit brought by W. T. Kerr, state councillor of the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics, against the board of directors of the Gallitzin school to prevent the em ployment of Catholic sisters wearing their religious garb as teachers. The judge decides that sisters may be employed as teachers, that they may be attired in the garb of their order and that they may be addressed by pupils by their religious names, but refuses to allow the Catholic catechism taught. The costs were divided. MILL WORKERS STRIKE. Eleven Thousand Cotton Operatives in New Bedford, Mass., N’ow Idle. New Bedford, Mass., Aug. 21.—The textile strike has begun and it is estimated that 11,000 persons are idle. Some fifteen non-union weavers who deserted the strikers during- the re cent Wamsutta strike are at work in one mill and a few Portuguese are working in the South end, but, with these exceptions, every mill in the city is idle. Secretary Ross of the Spinners’ union says the members of his union have lined up for a long strike and confidently expect that it will be of six months’ duration. DYNAMITE ON THE TRACK. Dastardly Attempt Made in Colorado to Wreck an Excursion Train. Georgetown, Col., Aug. 21.—Au at tempt was made last evening near this city to wreck the excursion trai n on the Colorado Central railroad re turning from around the loop. Four large sticks of dynamite hatt been placed on the rails, and though they had been crushed by the wheels pass ing over them they did not explode. There is no clew to the perpetrators. Coxey's I’rison Stripe Demonstration. MassII.eon, Ohio, Ang. 21.—J. S. Coxey announces that the proposed Labor day commonweal demonstra tion in Washington has been abandon ed and that the next attack on the capitol will be made in December when congress reassembles. A prison stripe uniform has been adopted for the army, and Brown is now wearing it The whole enterprise lias been reorganized with a constitution and by-laws. The word “Christ” has been dropped from the title “out of defer ence to the feeling of misunde rstand ing.” Wales* Yacht Niot the Fastest. Portsmouth. Ang. 21.—The Satanita beat the Britania to-day in the race for the Albert cup in the regatta of the Royal Albert club. A DETROIT BUILDER. HE TELLS A REMARKABLE STORY OF HIS LIFE. CAME TO DETROIT ABOUT FORTY YEARS AGO. Levi EUey'a Experience Worthy Serlouf Attention. From the Detroit Evening News. Away out Gratiot Avenue, far from the din and turmoil of the business cen tre, there are many attractive homes. The intersecting streets are wide, clean and shaded by large leaf-covered trees, and the people you meet are typical of industry, economy and honest toil. There are many pretty residences, but none more inviting in its neatness and liome-like comfort than that of Mr. Levi Elsey, the well-known builder and contractor, at 74 Moran street just off Gratiot Mr. Elsey is an old resi dent of Detroit, having moved here about forty years ago. He has erected hundreds of houses in different parts of the city, and points with pride to such buildings as the Newberry & McMullan and Campaw blocks in which he dis played his ability as a superintendent. “I have seen Detroit grow from a village to a city,” he observed yester day in conversation with the writer, “and I don’t think there are many towns in America to-day equal to it in point of beauty. 1 know almost everybody in the city, and an incident which re cently happened in my life has inter ested all my friends. "it is now about eight years ago since I was stricken down with my first case of illness. One cold, blustering day I was down town and through my nat ural carelessness at that time I per mitted myself to get chilled right through. When I arrived home that evening I felt a serious pain in my left leg. I bathed it that night, but by morning I found it had grown worse. In fact it was so serious that I sent for my family physician, and he informed me that 1 was suffering from varicose veins. My leg swelled up to double its natural size and the pain increased in volume. The agony was simply awful. I was laid up and never left my bed for eight weeks. At times 1 felt as though 1 would grow frantic with pain. My leg was bandaged and was propped up in the bed at an angle of 30 degrees in order to keep the blood from flowing to my extremeties. "I had several doctors attending me, but I believe my own jndgment helped me better than theirs. After a seige of two months 1 could move around, still I was on the sick list and had to doctor myself for years. I was never really cured and suffered any amount of an guish. “About two years ago I noticed an article in the Evening Xews about my friend, Mr. Northrup, the Woodward Avenue merchant. In an interview with him he stated that he had used Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale Peo ple and that they cured him. I knew him very well, having built his house out Woodward Ave., and I thought I would follow his suggestion. I must confess I did so with marvelous success. From the time I began to take the Pink Pills I felt myself growing to be a new man. They acted on me like a magical stimulant The pain departed and I soon was as strong and healthy as ever. Before trying the Pink Pills I had used any amount of other medi cine without any noticeable benefit But the Pills cured me and I was my self again. “When a person finds himself re lieved and enjoying health he is apt to expose himself again to another attack of illness. Some three months ago I stopped taking the Pink Pills, and from the day I did so, I noticed a change in my condition. A short time since I renewed my habit of taking them with the same beneficial results which met me formerly. I am again nearly as strong as ever, although I am a man about 56 years of age. 1 tell you, sir, the Pink Pills are a most wonderful medicine and if they do as well in other cases as they did in mine they are the best in the world. I freely recommend them to any sufferer.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements nec essary to give nwe life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous head ache, the after effect of la grippe, pal pitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness ! either in male or female. Pink Pills i are sold by all dealers, or will be sent j post paid on receipt of price, (50 cents a box, or six boxes for 82.50—they are j never sold in bulk or by the 100) by ad- : dressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., \ Schenectady, N. Y. Is This Libelous? The editor of Natural Science (Eng- ! land) in its last issue makes this little I fling at the United States: “Strange! are the way s of the American place hunter, and strange, as we have noted before, is the system under which sci entific appointments are made in the United Slates. One of our transatlan tic correspondents complains that he has no time for scientific work. ‘At present,’ he writes, ‘I am very busy, being engaged in politics, as I am a candidate before the republican con vention for the nomination of state geologist and have the most flattering prospects My only opponent is a local collector.’ As our friend might possi bly obtain the appointment, we have sufficient regard for his reputation to suppress his name.” “Come Outers” is the name of a new re ligious sect in Georgia. There is one divorce to every 479 marria ges in the United States. — Affrald of the Women. CaptaiD Joe Waters says in a letter declining to engage in a debate with the Populist Women's club of Topeka: “No power on earth is strong enough j to compel me to dispute with a woman. | If any of them desire to Sght me, I at : once display a flag of truce and uncon- ' ditionaily surrender. As a lawyer I ! carry this further. Under no stress, no compulsion, no apparently mag nificent opportunity for me to air my art, will I ever cross examine a woman who is a witness against me, and in ' this I think I have a wisdom beyond Mr. Butterworth. ”—Chicago Herald. THE BUSINESS SITUATION. ltradgtrecta on tbe Kffect of tlie Torlfl Hill. Nf.w York, Aug. 30, —llrnclstreets says: Special telegraphic and summer summarizing interviews vvitli more than 500 leading wholesale dealers in forty-seven cities throughout the country as to the present effect of the prospective tariff settlement and the outlook as to the effect of the senate tariff bill, should it become a law, in dicate relatively less enthusiam at larger Eastern eities, except at New York and Baltimore, almost uniform satisfaction throughout the Southern states and similar advices from the Central and Northwestern states, ex cept where serious crop damage has taken place. In the far West little interest is manifested in tariff agitation, notably at Denver and Helena, where silver attracts more attention. Portland fears the result of the reduction of the tariff on lum ber, but at San Francisco an improved demand is expected and considerable freight is offering for shipment to China. A feature is found in declara tions from glassware, pottery and iron and steel manufacturers at vari ous centers of products that wages will he promptly reduced. The serious damage to corn in Kan sas has had an unfavorable effect at Kansas City, crop damage in that state, as well ns in Nebraska and Iowa, overshadowing other conditions and characterizing trade reports from Lincoln, Omaha and Burlington. FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED. Hunk Examiner Miller’s Suicide Oue« tinned. Washington, Aug. 20.—0. P. Tucker, deputy controller of the currency, to day received :i telegram from a gov ernment official at Altoona, Pa., stating that it was very doubtful whether Bank Examiner Miller com mitted suicidi# yesterday as was re ported. An officer of the bureau will imme diately be sent to Altoona with Miller's report on the condition of the suspended hank, and an effort will bo made to arrive at the solution of the mystery. It is understood that Miller's report showed that the bank was practically without assets and that the shortage, both in cash and bills receivable, traceable to the peculations of Cashier Gardner will amount approximately to 8100,000. According to the report sent out from Altoona yesterday, Miller, after a brief talk with President .1. P. Levan of the defunct bank, went into tlie private office as though to resume his work and a few minutes later, after a shot had been heard, was found dead on the floor of the room with a bullet hole through his head. No eause for the alleged sui cide, save insanity due to overwork on the books of the bank, was. given, but the fact that the report had been completed and sent to Washington makes the case mysterious in every way. __ HARRISON TO SPEAK. The Ex- President to Maks a Few Speeches During tho Campaign. New Yoiik, Aug. 20. — Ex-President Harrison in the course of an inter view, says he has kept thoroughly posted about what was going on, and has some very decided opinions as to the news from Washington during the past two weeks. It was, however, absolutely impossible to induce him to express these opinions for publica tion. When asked for a reason ho simply said that he did not want to, and he considered that reason suffi cient “I shall make two and possi bly three speeches.” Mr. Harrison said, ‘‘during the coming- campaign. I shall make them in my own state and very near my own home. All that I have to say about the tariff and every other topic that you want me to talk about will be said then. I have numerous invitations to make po litical speeches in different partsof the country, but have resolved to limit myself to the field I have mentioned.” Verdict in the I.incoln Wreck. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 20.—-The cor oner's jury has found that tiie wreck on the Rock Island road, which re sulted in the death of eleven persons, was caused by wreckers, and recom mends that George Washington Ifavis, the colored man now in custody be held for rig'orous examination, as cir cumstances seem to implicate him. A Traveling Man Disappears Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 20—Waiter Bonney, a traveling salesman for the wholesale fruit and %-egetabIe firm of Goodrich 1> Eggs Fresh . 31 @ 11 *4 Honey —i er lb. 12 •> 35 i• ou 1 try-Old liens, per lb. 4 4.4 Chickens—Spring, per lb. 6;4@ 7 Cheese Neb. & iu. full cream. 30 >b II Lemons.'..5 09 "i, 7 09 Potatoes. 05 @ 70 Beans -Navy, per bu.. 2 0> ' 2 2.5 Hay Upland, per ton.10 00 '■<> 3 / .50 Onions—Per V* . 1 2 . 2 A ppies Per bbl . 3 0.) • 3 50 Hogs Mixed packing. 5 25 @ 5 o Ho.*s-Heavy weights. 5 3* 5 45 Beeves-Prime steers. 3 0> <> 4 7.5 Beeves Stockers and feeders. 3 75 @2.0 Bulls. 1 2.5 (it 2 00 Calves. 1 50 @ .j 25 Steers—Fair to good. 3 90 4 >0 Cows—Fair to good. 1 h.5 " 2 no SiieeD -hambs. 2 50 3 50 Sheep— Fair to good natives... 2 25 @3 25 NEW YORK. Wheat, No. 2, red winter. 5ft @ 5*u Corn—No. 2. 61 kb 64 ^ oats—White western. 37 t** 40 York.14 50 35 60 Lard. 7 01 6j. 7 95 CHICAGO. Wheat—No. 2, spring. *0 @ 50*4 Corn—Per bu. 56 u 5094 Oats—, er bu. 30 @ m/u Pork. 13 7i 6 3375 hard . 7 57 @ 7 • 0 Hogs—Packers and mixed. 5 25 _ 5 49 Cattle Com. steers to extra .. 3 ..0 * 4 49 Sfheep—hambs. . 2 00 - 4 65 ST. LOCK. Wheat—No 2 red, cash. 515$ $ 52,4 Corn—Per bu. 57