Nebraska Newspapers

    M’COOK TRIBUNE.
F. M. KIMMELL, Publisher.
McCOOK, NEBRASKA.
OYER THE STATE.
Corn fodder sells in Norfolk at S3
per load.
A new populist paper is to be started
Boon in De Witt.
The fall term of the York college
opens on the lltli inst.
Corn- fodder sells in Nebraska City at
10 to 15 cents per shock.
A prairie fire near Fremont destroy
ed considerable hay in stack.
M. M. Warner has written a com
plete history of Dakota county.
The average wages paid to teachers
in Lincoln county are $30 a month.
The people who left Danner county
when the drouth began are getting
back.
The new Union Pacific depot at Sid
ney is finished and ready for occu
pancy.
Opening of the schools of Talmage
was postponed one week on account of
repairs.
1 iik Methodists of Valentine have a
new stone church almost completed. It
will cost S3,000.
The Northwestern Veteran associa
tion will be held at Valentine, Septem
ber 12, 13 and 14.
New steel rails and 10,000 new ties
are being put on the sixth district of
the Union Pacific.
A FLOATER was found in the Missouri
river near Gibson last week. The body
was not identified.
Dodge county farmers expect to get
as much for their cx-op this year as for
the heavy yield last season.
All the Russian thistles within
twenty miles of Fremont have been
pulled up and fed to the hogs.
It is reported that there are many
cattle in the vicinitj- of Burchard, act
ually perishing for want of water.
Sheridan county has an immense
crop of hay and the farmers are work
ing hard to get it in out of the wet.
A Russian thistle, measuring three
feet across the top and of the regular
Michael Strogoff bi-and, was found in
the southern suburb of Fremont.
It is related of a Pender voutlx that
he starved himself for nearly a week
because the girl he loved would not re
cord her signatui-e in his autograph
album.
The Union Pacific has taken off all
passenger trains running northwest
from Columbus and the passengers are
obliged to lumber along on a freight or
go afoot
The West Point barb wire factory
has started up, having received a large
order from neighboring farmers. The
wire turned out is as good as any on
the market.
Jarvis Dean, a completely disabled
soldier of pierce, was granted a pen
sion of SO a month and promptly re
turned his certificate to the department
with a caustic letter.
The Dodge County Veteran associa
tion held a meeting, and after electing
Henry Bowerman adjutant, decided to
hold a reunion in the Fremont park
Friday, September 28.
The Christian scientists have a lively
organization at Norfolk, and the sick
who want to recover without taking
bitters are instructed in the art with
out costing them a sou.
The one lone Chinaman who runs a
laundry at Superior is believed to have
become insane, and the authorities are
being urged to have him confined in
jail to prevent him doing harm.
Gosper county has voted 590,000 irri
gation bonds and the boys who have
raised no crops will be given a steady
job while they fix things so there shall
be no crop failures in the future.
A base ball nine composed exclusive
ly of fat men has been organized at
West Point and has challenged any fat
men in the country to meet them on
the bloody diamond during fair time.
Mrs. Wesley Stinman of Alliance
has presented her husband with trip
lets, sound as a dollar. Two of the in
fants are girls and one a boy. Their
combined weight was fourteen pound.
The Hastings Gaslight company has
reduced the price of gas from §3.00 to
61.GO per 1,000 feet, making it the
cheapest light that can be used. The
gas manufactured is on a new process
and is of excellent quality.
Pawnee City has offered the electric
lighting company in that place, after a
careful examination, 51,250 for the
plant, including, lot, building, engine
and dynamo. The company declines to
sell out for less than §2,000.
The 6-year-old son of C. F. Prietauer
of Gothenburg went to the cabbage
patch for a leaf for his rabbit, and was
just reaching for one when a huge
rattlesnake fastened its fangs in liis
hand. 1’rompt treatment saved his
life.
The first load 'of new corn has reach
ed the market at Nebraska City and
brought 10 cents a bushel. It was in
fine condition and was raised on the
bottoms on the Iowa side of the river,
where corn will run fifty bushels to the
acre.
A drouth sufferer living near Calla
way went to tlie city authorities for
aid to keep his family from starving.
His imineuiate wants were supplied and
shortly afterward it developed that he
had enough cash on hand to get glori
ously full.
The citizens of Oxford are indignant
over a report published in certain
county papers to the effect that small
pox had broken out in Ovford. As a
matter of fact the disease has not made
its appearance there, neither have any
of the people been as much as exposed
to it
Is the case of the State vs. W. E.
Shupp of Custer county, charged with
rape, the complaining witness being of
sound mind and mature years, the
judge, after hearing the witness for
the prosecution, dismissed the defend
ant on the ground that there was no
cause of action.
George Godfrey was in Fremont
last week with 100 stalks of “Mam
moth Yellow Dent'’ corn, raised on his
farm east of that place, and started for
the state fair with the exhibit. The
stalks are over thirteen feet high and
well filled with very large ears, show
ing a good yield for the most pros
perous season.
John Coker of Sutherland ate a praij
rie chicken and a bone lodged in his
throat. He went to a doctor, but the
medical man could not extract the
bone, and he is forced to go around
with the obstruction in his windpipe.
Two mounted highwaymen have
been at work near Omaha for several
nights. They ride together and ride
rapidly from one part of the city to an
other, easily evading the police. A
number of people have been field, up.
They ride on the sidewalk and with re
volvers hold up pedestrians.
Paul Sachland, a young man 20
years old, son of a farmer living near
Hastings, fell from a west bound pas
senger train near Sidney and was badly
injured. He was in the act of climbing
upon the baggage car after the train
had started and fell in such a way that
the wheels passed over one foot, crush
ing it so badly as to necessitate ampu
tation just below the knee.
August Lessig, a prisoner in the
Merrick county jail at Central City,
charged with assault with intent to
commit murder, took a fancy to butting
his head against the wall of his prison,
and it was found necessary to confine
him in a little cell. He now refuses to
eat or drink for days at a time and
talks to himself all night long. Doc
tors believe that he is only shamming
[ insanity.
The Missouri Pacific has closed
twelve telegraph stations, all but one
being in Nebraska. The stations
closed are: Manley, Avoca, Glenroek,
Lorton, Kraemer, Ppragnc, Padonia,
Purr, Panama Springs, Welton and
Paul, Neb., and Bloomington, Kas.;
and still there’s more to follow. This
is one of the results of the drouth as
most of these stations have been main
tained for the benefit of grain shippers.
Twenty years ago school district No.
3 of Buffalo county voted S6,000 in
bonds to build and furnish a school
building. They were sold to a broker
in Council Bluffs, la. Shortly after
wards burglars entered his office and
stole among other valuables the bonds.
After affidavits and other legal pro
ceedings the bonds were issued anew to
the broker. Notice was received re
cently from the holder of the stolen
bonds and demands made for their pay
ment.
A stock owner in Laramie has con
cluded that stock can be moved on
trains more safely by padding the cars.
He has secured forty Union Pacific
stock cars, and they are now side
tracked at Laramie, and he has a force
of men engaged in padding them. As
soon as they are upholstered he will
load them with stock for the eastern
market, and he is confident that in
transit the cattle w-ill not be bruisdd
and otherwise injured so much as in
the ordinary oars.
State institutions which formerly
had farm products to sell are now ask
ing that the state purchase enough to
last them through the winter. On the
soldiers’ home farm of 160 acres the
corn, oats and hay failed. Consequent
ly the board now has four carloads of
hay and two carloads of corn on the
track at Grand Island intended for the
use of the home. The board has the
satisfaction of knowing that while the
hay was bought for §8.75 a ton and the
the corn at 60 cents a bushel, there are
persons anxious to take it at S10 and 70
cents.
One of the features of the state fair
will be a plat of ground arranged to
illustrate the method of irrigation pro
posed and the effects of the system.
There will be a complete system of
ditches and canals, with the flumes and
all the necessary connections of a com
plete irrigating plant There has been
sent in for exhibition from the irrigat
ed farm of J. E. Sanborn, near Haig
ler, on the western border of the state,
an onion which weighs about two
pounds, and was raised in the center of
a region which has suffered more than
any other from the effects of drouth.
Andrew Hamling, a German living
south of Creston, stabbed Burt Wilsey,
a youth of 18 or 19. The young man
was sitting with others upon the edge
of the sidewalk when Hamling, who
seemed to be crazed with drink, came
rushing out from the saloon and pro
ceeded to cut his way up the street. He
made a lunge at a bystander and then
at young Wilsey. As the boy turned
to get away the knife was thrust up to
the handle in his back, just beneath
the shoulder blade. Hamling took ad
vantage of the excitement and left
town on foot, and at this writing has
not been apprehended.
A Washington dispatch says: Sena
tor Manderson will be occupied for
some time with matters in the War de
partment connected with the increase
of the limits of the Department of the
Platte, and the amount also by the gen
eral appropriation of the government
to be expended at Fort Crook, near
Omaha. He has succeeded in increas
ing the limit of expenditure for this
fort from 5500,000 to 5100,000 by the
provisions of the sundry civil bill. He
is very desirous that contracts shall be
made quickly for the entire work and
the building hastened to conclusion.
Two young farmers living near Ben
nett engaged in a bare-handed knock
out over the daughter of a farmer liv
ing four miles northeast of that town.
The parties are Sam Iling and George
Crawford. A week ago last Sunday
they met at the Bennett camp meeting
and arranged the preliminaries for a
fight to take place at the Beardorf
school house ou the following Sunday
afternoon. At the appointed time the
men arrived with their seconds and
stripped for the battle. It was agreed
they should fight until one had enough.
After pounding each other for fifteen
minutes Crawford yelled enough.
Crawford was badly cut about the face
and head, and Iling sustained a frac
tured finger, besides numerous bruises
on the face.
I Rev. U. Spencer of the Auburn Epis
copal church preached his farewell ser
mon and lias left for California, having
accepted the pastorate of a cnurch near
Los Angeles.
William Hunt was shot and instant
ly killed about ten miles west of Nio
brara, by Miss Ellen Larson. Hunt
was a well-known and dangerous half
breed negro, who left his family some
time ago. About a year ago he set
about to gain the affections of Miss
Larson, but seems to have failed. On
her return from a trip to California he
renewed his attentions, and threatened
the lives of all in case of refusal.
Finally Miss Larson and her brother
started to go away. Hunt followed
and renewed his demands of marriage,
grabbing Miss Larson around the neck
and choking her. She pulled a self
cocking revolver and shot but cnce,
killing him instantly.
RAILROAD MEN ACA1NST DEBS.
Several Kmployos Ordered to Strike
Testify tu the Contempt Case.
Chicago, Sept. 8.—When the trial of
the American Railway Union officials
for contempt of the federal courts
was resumed to-day, Switchman
Krieger of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul road testified that Con
McAuliffe, head of the Milwaukee
American Railway Union, had come
to him with a request from Debs that
all the Milwaukee railway men strike.
“McAulitfe said that Debs was suro
we would win,” the witness said,
“and urged us to go out. I replied
that, if we could be assured that our
places would be secured if the strike
were lost, the men would strike. Not
many of them went out, however.”
A fireman on the St. Paul road tes
tified that he had left his place be
cause of intimidation and the engi
neer on the same line said that he ivas
told that if he did not leave his en
gine he would never get out of Cki
cairo alive.
William I. Henry of Kankakee, a
switchman of the Illinois, Indiana and
Iowa railway, swore that he had per
sonally received a telegram ordering
him to call out his men. Attorney
Irwin objected to the testimony be
cause it concerned a road not included
in the injunction, but the court de
cided to admit the evidence as possi
bly throwing light on the intentions
of the defendants. He produced sev
eral telegrams he received at Kanka
kee signed' E. V. Debs. The first was
received July 1 and road: "Adopt
measures to get Big Four out. Prom
ise protection to all, whether mem
bers or not. Appoint gobd committee
and wire name of chairman.” At that
time witness was a member of the
American Railway Union.
nJudge Woods expressed the opinion
that street car lines could be con
sidered as engaged in interstate com
merce, because persons bound for
railway stations to take trains for
distant points ride on them. He also
declared the business of the Union
stock yards interstate commerce.
Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 7.—In the
United States district court here to
day Judge Baker found Hiram Alger,
presidedt of the American Railway
union at Ashley, Ind., where Wabash
trains were stopped, guilty of con
tempt of court in violating the re
straining order of the court during
the railroad strike, • but suspended
sentence. The ease of Arthur Desheno
and Oscar Larson, two Chicago men,
who led a riot against the railroad
operators at Hammond, Ind., were
also decided. Larson was released
and Desheno was sent to jail for
thirty days.
KILLED BY A RIVAL LOVER.
Charles Morris Shot by His Affianced*}*
Side.
Waldron, Mo., Sept. 8.—While
Charles Morris anti Sarah Jones were
awaiting the arrival of ’Squire
Shields yesterday afternoon to unite
them in marriage, “Bud” Veach, a re
jected suitor, fired three shots into
Morris’ body, killing him instantly.
Veach fled to the woods and escaped.
The marriage of Morris and Miss
Jones was to have taken place at half
past three o’clock. They went to the
home of F. M. Kearns where the cer
emony was to take place. Several
relatives and a few friends of Mr.
Morris and Miss Jones were there to
bid the couple Godspeed. It was a
little after 3 o’clock when “Bud”
Veach rode up a horseback to the
Kearns’ home. He got off his horse
and walked to the house. The pros
pective bride and groom were
seated on the porch. Veach walked
up to within a few feet of
Morris and, pulling a pistol from his
pocket, held it close to Morris and
pulled the trigger. There was a leap
of flame, a heavy report and Morris
partially rose to his feet. The re
volver flashed again and a second
bullet buried itself in Morris’ skull.
The revolver spoke again and Morris
fell to the floor without a groan.
Death was instantaneous. A scene of
confusion followed. The women
screamed and the men were so ap
palled at the bloody tragedy that
they could do nothing. Veach was
the coolest one in the group. When
he fired the third shot he turned and
left the house. He did not mount his
horse but ran toward a clump of
woods and disappeared among the
trees.
The prospective bride was pros
trated by the terrible tragedy. There
is talk of lynching Veach if he is j
(japtured..
NICONTINIZED NERVES.
Tho Tobacco Habit' Quickly Broken ami
Nerve 'Force Kestored—A Boon to
Humanity.
A number of our great and most
inveterate tobacco smokers and chew
ers have quit the use of the filthy
weed. The talismanic article that j
does the work is no-to-hac. The re- ]
form was started by Aaron Gorber, 1
who was a confirmed slave for many
years to the use of tobacco. He tried
tried the use of no-to-bac, and to his
great surprise aud delight it cured
him. lion. G W Ashcom. who had
been smoking for sixty years,
tried no-to-bac and it cured him.
Col. Samuel Stoutener, who would
eat up tobacco like a cow eats
hay, tried this wonderful remedy, and
even Samuel, after all his years of
slavery, lost the desire. J. C. Cobler,
Lessing Evans, Frank Dell, George 15.
May. C. O. Skillington, Hanson Rob
inett, Frank Hershberger, John Shinn
and others have since tried no-to-be
and in every ease they report, not only
a cure of the tobacco habit, but a
wonderful improvement in their gen
eral physical and mental condition,
all of which goes to show that the use
of tobacco had been injurious to them
in more ways than one.—From the
Press, Everett, Pa
TO DOWN BRECKINRIDGE.
Kentucky Turfmen Unable to Go tho
Silveretl-ToannecI Cou^resunin.
Louisville, Ky., Sept. 8.—Special
to tl-e Times from Cincinnati, says:
A movement has been organized
among the Kentucky turfmen atLato
nia to go against Breckinridge for all
they are worth. On the night of Sep
tember 14 a special train will leave
the Latonia race track to take the
horsemen to their homes to vote
against Breckinridge. It is said they
have promised S25.000 to the campaign
fund to beat Breekinriege should he j
gut the nomination.
REPORT OF SPECIAL AGENT
A. J. WEODERBURN.
MUCH OF OUR OUTPUT IS IMPURE.
Fifteen Fer Cent, of the Total America*!
Product of Food and Drugs Is Adul
terated—Two Fer Cent, of the
Whole Is Injurious to Health
—Strict National Kemndjr
Kecom mended.
Washington',Sept. 11.—The question
of adulteration of food and drugs in
this country is discussed in detail in
the report of Special Agent Alexander
J. Wedderburn of the agricultural
department. After referring to the
fact that many stories of adulteration
are grossly exaggerated, the report
says:
The attention of foreigners lias
been drawn to the fact that the
g-reater or less adulteration exists
among us. As a result foreign com
petitor's of our manufacturers of food
products have used the fact to their
own advantage. America to-day oc
cupies the unenviable position of be
ing one of the very few countries
that failed to require by law the
proper branding of their manufactur
ed food and drugs. Whether such re
quirements would accomplish the de
sired results is unknown, but the evil
would be mitigated by wholesome
legislation. This belief is sustained
by theiesults of the food laws of
England and other foreign countries
as well as of the various states. The
concurrent testimony of the state offi
cials charged with the enforcement of
state and local laws is that a national
effort is necessary to secure enforce
ment of state laws. If it be true that
it is impossible for any state to fully
execute its laws no matter how
stringent, so long as the original
package decision stands as law, then
the need of a federal law is impera
tive.
Ihe effort to purge the country of
this crime is doing good and aids in
keeping down the adulteration of the
products we consume, but each year
brings to light new articles in which
a method to improve the profit if not
their quality lias been found. That
almost every article of food and drug
used in our country is adulterated is
proved most conclusively by a vast
amount of information gathered by
the department. The extent of the
practice is as broad as the continent
but its character injures the pocket
rather than the health.
The general character of food adul
terations is principally commercial
fraud, and the extent of criminal or
poisonous adulteration in food is so
limited as to amount to but a bagatelle
in the immense sum of products con
sumed. A large proportion of poison
ous adulterations arises from careless
ness and ignorance. Hut ignorance
is no excuse for the wholesale des
truction of life by the addition of
poisonous pigments to many articles
of food, and especially confectionery,
cream and like articles. It has been
proved that adulteration is general
and increasing, ancl that no kind of
food, in solids or liquids, is free from
the finishing touches of the manipula
tors. Whether the intent be criminal
and vicious or simply fraudulent the
result is the same, and the people
will continue to suffer until the
strong hand of the federal law steps
into supplement and support the
action of the states.
The extent of adulteration is fully
15 per cent of which 2 per cent is of a
character injurious to health. But to
furnish 65,000,000 people with food,
drink and drugs cost not less than
86,670,000,000, and it is found that the
amount of adulteration reaches the im
mense sum of 81,101,000,000 annually.
At least 2 per cent of the whole is dele
terious to health and 8135,200,000 con
stitutes the annual amount paid by
American people for sacrifice of their
lives or injury of their health.
As there exists no more serious or
exhaustive drain upon the resources
of the people than the adulteration
of their food and drug products, the
federal government should enact a
law to prevent the transportation of
misbranded, poisonous or deleterious
food and drugs from one state to an
other, not interfering with the police
powers of the states. This being
done, tfie various state laws would be
come effective and by systematic
effort on the part of the officials or
honest dealers and manufacturers,
adulterations would be reduced to a
minimum and millions of dollars saved
annually to the country. The cost of
execution of such a law would be
moderate and should be borne by the
manufacturers of food products.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
To a family at New Orleans has
been born a babe weighing only nine
ounces.
The search for the missing Dr.
Conkling at Stone Lake, Ind., has
been g-iven up.
Ed. Shuey of Logansport, Ind.,
eloped with his sweetheart and took
her mother along.
S. S. Cartwright,a wealthy bachelor,
has mysteriously disappeared from
his home in Topeka.
I>y order of Archbishop Elder, spe
cial prayers were said in ail Catholic
churches of the Cincinnati diocese for
rain.
The steamer Haytiene Republic,
which was held in libel by Uncle Sam
over a year ago for smuggling, has
been sold at Portland for $15,000.
Bishop Bonacum's priests, who went
to Washington to get the papal dele
gate to interfere in their row with
the Lincoln ordinary, failed in their
mission.
It is said that Japan has agreed
upon $750,000 as the sum sufficient to
pay for blowing up the Kow-.Siting.
Link Waggoner a noted desperado
of North Louisiana and Eastern
Texas,was shot to death in the parish
jail at Minden. La., by a mob. In
numerable murders are laid at his
door.
BOOMING TOM REED.
Joe Manley Salks Freely of tbo Repub
lican Possibilities for 1890.
CniCAQO, Sept. 11.—The Record this
morning publishes the following in
terview had by its correspondent at
Augusta, with Joseph II. Manley, tins
Republican member of the national
committee, on the Republican presi
dential nomination in 189.1:
“In the next Republican national
convention," said Mr. Manley, "Tom
Reed will be a candidate for the first
place on the ticket. All New England
will be solid for him and the delegates
from Maine will be for him in the con
vention first, last and all the time. In
the last convention in 1892 Mr. Reed
could have had the second place on
the ticket as a gift, but he did not care
for it and neither will he in ’95 accept
the second place.”
Mr. Manley was asked: “Is it not
likely that a deal may be arranged
whereby the ticket will be Reed and
McKinley' or McKinley and Reed?”
Mr. Manley, after a few moments’
reflection, replied firmly, with an em
phatic “No.” Continuing, he said:
“There is no likelihood of such a deal
for the Republicans of Maine will bo
as loyal and as steadfast to Mr. Reed
as they have been to Blaine in the
past. There is no foundation for any
claim on the part of any' friend of
Governor McKinley that Mr. Reed
was antagonistic to his eandidaey for
the presidency in 1892. McKinley
himself, during the week of the con
vention, went among the delegates
and discountenanced the boom that
was being made byr his friends in his
behalf. Certainly nothing that Mr.
Reed done could have injured Gover
nor McKinley in the convention. Reed
was loyal to Blaine.”
Touching- the presidency and the
availability of candidates Mr. Manley
made a cursory survey of the field.
He said: “There are likely to be
some candidates for the nomination
other than Mr. Reed or Governor Mc
Kinley. My ideal for the Republican
candidate is John Sherman, for he is
undoubtedly the most accomplished
man from his long experience in the
public service. But he is now 72 years
of age and past the limit. This also
applies to Justin Morrill of Vermont.
Robert Lincoln might be presented as
the favorite son of Illinois. General
Harrison may again be a candidate for
the nomination, but the ex-president
is not likely' to have the same
strength as in the convention of 1892.
Do I think the Populists will be a fac
tor in the next presidential campaign?
Well, no I don’t. I don't believe
they will hold the balance of power
in the next, electoral college. There
the choice will be as heretofore, be
tween the other two parties.”
"who are tne Uemocrats likely to
nominate for the presidency in 1896?”
“Just now there seems to be some
feeling that the party from sheer nec
essity will turn to Grover Cleveland
for a third term. Of course such a move
would be an innovation and would be
dangerous to the party. Yet there
are some people who say a third term
for President Cleveland would be no
violation of the traditions of our
country, for the reason that there was
an interregnum between his first and
present terms. But this argument is
not likely to stand, for public senti
ment would be decidedly against the
proposition as was the case when
General Grant, in the height of his
fame, sought a third nomination in
1880, after he had been out of his office
for four years. General Grant's ex
perience ought to settle the question
of third term presidential candidates
for all time.”
Referring to David B. Hill as a pos
sible candidate, Mr. Manley remarked
that the senator of New York had
proved himself an exceptionally able
man.
The tariff, according to Mr. Manley,
would be the issue between the two
great parties in 1896.
RICH HAUL OF A ROBBER.
A Pennsylvania Firm Loses 870,000 in
Ten ?«Iinutes.
Claeiox, Pa., Sept. 11.—Saturday \
night, YV. Collner & Co.,general store- i
keepers at Petersburg, this count}',
closed their store at 10 o'clock, after
putting the cash into tin boxes. The
members of the firm went to another
store just across the street, but were
not there over ten minutes. When
they returned to the store, the door
which they had locked securely was
standing wide open and the boxes j
containing bonds for 860,000, checks j
and promissory notes for 85,000 and ,
over 85,000 in cash were gone.
Much scrip illegal.
Oklahoma s Supreme < ourt Declares In
valid Large Issues by Cities and Counties
Guthrie, Ok., Sept. 11.—The
supreme court in a decision to-day de
clared that no city or county had the
right to make contracts or issue scrip
or bonds prior to the making of the
regular tax assessment,.
This makes all the scrip issued by
every city and county in Oklahoma
the first five or six months of their
existence illegal.and will cause banks
and speculators who have bought up
such scrip to lose §250,000 ’or more of
dollars.
Hatch Renominated.
Hanxipah, Mo., Sept. 11.—William
Henry Hatch, representative in con
gress from this, the First Missouri
district, and author of the Hatch anti
options bill, will doubtless be renom
nated for congress by .300 or 400 ma
jority. The above is shown by returns
from tlie Democratic congressional
primary elections just given out.
Although these figures may be slight
ly changed when the official returns
are received, Congressman Hatch's
nomination seems certain.
Drowned in the Xeoshn.
Burlington, Kan., Sept. II.—Last
night about 7 o'clock while attempt
ing to cross the Neosho river at this
point. Frank Martell of Madison, Kan.,
was drowned, and both of his horses. 1
Martell owned stock ranches near
Madison and Williamsburg.
A Nebraska Bank’s Doors Closed.
Plattsmouth, Neb., Sept. 11—The
Citizen's bank of this city closed its
doors this morning. The liabilties
are not yet known.
Secretary J. Sterling Morton’is be
ing talked of as a Democratic candi- :
date senator from Nebraska.
| CORBETT READY TO FIGHT.
! The Champion Arrnptu Sion* City’* Offer
_Jucknon** Itepresontntlve quibble*.
New York. Sept. 10.—William A
‘ Brady and Tom O Rourke, represent
ing respectively .lames .1. Corbett and
l'eter Juekson, met Ed I.loyd, the
representative of Sioux City Athletic
club,at the St. Denis to-day. Lloyd had
tho articles in which the Sioux City
club offered a purse of 935,000 for tho
light, the contest to take place be
tween May 15 and June to next at
some point near Sioux City. Each
tighter was guaranteed §2,50,.' in ease
the fight was stopped by police inter
ference.
Brady.signed instantly but O'Rouke
quibbled. He said that while he was
representing Jackson he was not
authorized to sign and therefore
would not.
Lloyd then left the meeting and
started for Chicago to see Jackson
personally.
The tight, if arranged, will take
place on a bar in the Missouri river
near Sioux City, between Nebraska
and Iowa. It has never been decided
which state has jurisdiction over this
point.
TO OPPOSE T1LLMANITES.
South Carolina Democaats Will Ileor
Kitnize the I'jtrfcy.
Charleston, S. C.,Sept.lO.—Thomas
A. Carwine, as chairman of the Demo
cratic conference committee, which
recently met in Columbia, iias issued
an address to the Democrats of South
Carolina calling for a convention in
all counties September 15, to elect
delegates to a state convention to be
belli September 17 for the purpose of
reorganizing the Democratic party in
South Carolina, considering the polit
ical situation of the state and taking
such action as their collective wisdom
may suggest for the public welfare.
This is taken to mean that full state
and county tickets will be put out to
oppose the Tillman faction, which
controls the state.
COXEY’S CAMPAIGN A CIRCUS.
The “Commonwcaler** Opens Ills Con
gressional Canvass In a Show Tent.
Massillon, O., Sept.10.—The Coxey
campaign for congress was opened at
3 o’clock this afternoon in the circus
teat and continued throughout
the afternoon and evening with an
intermission for supper. There were
contribution boxes at the tent en
trance and venders of reform litera
ture about. The parade was de
clared off, greatly to the disappoint
ment of the people, it requiring forty
horses to remove the outfit, while
Coxey lias but twenty. Coxey’s
friends are disgusted with the buf
foonery Browne has introduced.
Canada liaises Spruce Log Duties. -
Washington, Se pt. 10.—Consul Gen
eral Reilly of Quebec has telegraphed
to the state department the following
extract from the Official Gazette, pub
lished at Quebec: “Whereas, the
present rate of duty chargeable on
spruce logs is twenty-five cents per
cord of 128 cubic feet, and wfiereas it
is advisable to raise it while allowing
a reduction when wood pulp is to be
manufactured in this province, it is
ordered that the rate of dues on spruce
logs for paper pulp be fixed at forty
cents per cord, but that a reduction
of fifteen cents a cord be allowed
when the pulp wood is to be manu
factured in the province.”
Secretary Morton to Go Abroad. •
Washington, Sept. .10 —Secretary
Morton will leave to-night for New
York, where he will sail for Europe
next Tuesday. With his son, Joy
Morton of Chicago, he will make a
tour of five or six weeks in England,
Germany and probably France. Dr.
Dabney will be acting secretary of
agriculture during his absence.
One Chicago Lawyer Mioots Another,
Chicago,Sept. 10.-—In a dispute over
a lawsuit Attorney Carl Walle was
shot and badly wounded by Attorney
Leo Roeder at 125 Clark street this
afternoon. Walle’s wound is a danger
ous one.
LIV E STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKETS
Quotations from New York, Chicago, St.
Louis, Omaha ami Elsewhere.
OMAHA
Butter—Creamery print. 17 ft 20
Butter-Choice country. II ft 15
Eggs Fresh . Jl'ift J’
Honey—L er lb. 10 li
Poultry Old hens, per lb. 4ft5
< hickens—Spring, per Tb. 7 ft . s
Cheese- Neb. & la. full cream. H ft 32 9
Lemons. 4 0) ft 0 fco
Potatoes. 70 p
Sweet pot atoes, pe lb. 3ft ft 4
Beans —Navy, per bu.. 2 0) 2 25
Hay Upland, per ton. 9 50 '"Woo
Onions- Perbu . 70 ft 75
Apples Perbbl . 2 To 3 5)
iIogs Mixed packing 1 3 65 ft 5 70
llogs—Heavy weights . f» 7 i ft 5 7.*
Beeves-Prime steers. 4 40 5 •/)
Beeves Stockers and feeders. 3 25 ft 2 7 '.
Bulls.. 1*20 ft 2.25
Calves ... 140 ft 4 ■ >»
Steers—Fair to good. 3 90 4 -0
Cows—Heifers... 1 25 :.e
Sheep-Lambs. 2 27 , 3 75
Sheep—Fair to good natives... 2 25 ft 3 0j
NEW YORK.
Wheat, No. 2, red winter. 58 ft 5'
Corn No. 2 . 63 . ; %
Oats—Mixed western. ;»l 3Jft
Pork.3”> 20 15 25
Lard..& 41) ft & 50
CHICAGO.
Wheat—No. 2, spring. 53 ft 54*4
Corn—Per bu. 5* •, 55 7a
Oats—, er bu. 9 29-H
Pork..15 2 • " 15 f>0
Lard . 9 12*4
llogs—Packers and mixed. 5 .-t o 25
Cattle - Com. steers to extra .. 1 2 > 5 75
if beep—Lambs ........ ..17/) 4 35
ST. LOUIS.
Wheat—No 2 red, cash. 50 ft r.0l{ •
Corn—Perbu.. 51 ft 7h • 2
Oats—Per bu . 30 ft 30*4
Hogs Mixed packing.5 oft G oft
Cattle—Native steers. 5 50 ft 5 63
KANSAS CITY.
M heat-r-No. 2 red, cash.. 40ftft 47
l orn—No. 2. 52 T * 53
Oats—No. 2. 30*4 >. 31
Cattle- Stockers and feeders.. 2 1 t ", 3 50
Hog*-- Mixed packers . 5 00 ft 5 80
Sheep—Cho.ce western. 2 .5 ft 3 00
If Breckinridge should carry the
primaries it is said Owens will make
the race against him as an independ
ent Democrat.
The retail butchers of Kansas City
have organized for the purpose of
lighting the packing house trust.
It is again rumored that Mr,. Xellie
Grant Sartor is will soon wed Major
II. Kyd Douglas, formerly of General
Stonewall Jackson's staff, but now
adjutant general of Maryland.
John A. Ellsler, the father of Eflie
Ellsler. and an old-time actor, has
applied for admission to the Edwin
Forrest actor's homo