Nebraska Newspapers

    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 <fc Steele of this city,has dis
appeared and his friends fear that ho
has been killed.
LINE STOCK AND PRODICE MARKETS
Quotations from New York. Chicago, fit.
Louis, Omaha and Elsewhere.
OMAHA
Butter-Creamery print. 1-: •’ 0
Butter choice country. 34 @> 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 <b 57*4
Oats—Per bu . 34 @ 344
Hogs—Mixed packing. 5 0) -t 5 2.5
Cattle—Native steers. ... 3 1» @3 .3
KANSAS CITY.
W heat—No. 2 red, cash. 52 @ 5*4
Corn—No. 2. 52lj . 53
Oats—No. 2. 30 @ 3014
Cattle—Stockers and feeders.. 2 20 @ 3 50
Hogs—Mixed packers . 4 90 @ 5 lj