B _ i _ _ _ ATCOOK TRIBUNE. K TM. . KIMMELL , Publisher. _ _ H | H HcCOOKt NEBRASKA I NEBRASKA. H Tire embalming bill failed to pass H the legislature. H Tekamaii will this year get along _ _ 9 _ without any saloons. H There are three men who ' desire to H run a saloon in Syracuse this year. H The deadly "nigger shooter * ' has H been outlawed in Ulysses , and the H small boys are in tears. H Dis. W. IT. Strykek of Beatrice Hj was badly injured while attempting B to stop a runaway team. For a time R he was unconscious and was badly H bruised. B While playing around a bonfire the H V-year-old daughter of John Kline of B .Adams , was fearfully burned about Hn the lower limbs and hack , and will HH probably die. H Foil the shooting of Peter Hill at B Fargo , llichardson county , on Septem- H her 15th , the jury returned a verdict of _ _ H manslaughter against Miles L. Quimby _ _ H of Craig , Mo. _ _ BS Ex-Cong ressm ax Axdrews and wife _ _ HH have returned from Washington. Since _ _ Df his return Mr. Andrews has been kept _ _ _ f § busy entertaining callers from all _ _ Mj parts of the district , some of whom are _ _ H | applicants for oflicc. _ _ H Word was brought to Schu3ler from _ _ Hl Shell Creek , that Herman Losckc _ Hl had hanged himself. He was well _ H | known in Schtryler as one of the well- _ H < ] to-do Loseke family and is not known _ _ Rl to have had troubles of any sort. . _ H1 The cornerstone of the first Trans- _ _ H | lississippi exposition building will be _ _ B | laid by Grand blaster Phelps of the _ _ HI Nebraska Masons , a letter accepting _ _ H the invitation from tlie committee of Hj arrangements having been received. Hl Oxi : of the Peavcy corn cribs at Car- _ _ M roll was reported smoking by the rail- _ _ Hg road boys the first of the week , about _ _ H 1.000 bushels of corn being destroyed. _ _ H ] Too much dirt which retained the _ _ _ K moisture , is said to have been the _ _ Hj cause. _ _ _ _ J From Washington it is reported that _ _ _ _ f ex-Congressman Haincr is sufficiently j recovered from his severe illness to H take drives through the city during | the middle of the day. He is not yet | certain when he will leave for Ne- 1 braska. | Tiik board of public lands and buildings - 1 -ings made short work of the investiga- fl tion of the row at the Beatrice insti- H tute for feeble minded youth between | Superintendent Fall and Steward Sher- R Idan. Only four witnesses were ex- B amined. j Professor Currie , superintendent of H the Broken Bow schools , has been B offered a position as manager of a big cattle company , which proposes to purchase cattle in Mexico and elsewhere - -where , to be placed on a ranch north- -vest of Anselmo , in Custer county. Mayor Ross of Fairmont swore out a -warrant for the arrest of J. T. Clark , I proprietor of the Clarendon hotel , who has been suspected for some time of .selling whiskey and beer. The house -was searched and plenty of evidence -was found , but Clark cannot be found , Ax old man named Abram Hill , living - ing east of St. Paul across the Loup river , wandered away from home and was never after seen alive. Searching parties found the remains of the old HBBjI -man in the hill , two or three miles _ _ _ _ | from home. A verdict was returned of death by old age and an exhausted condition , after wandering around in the darkness and rain. H The labor commissioner is preparing "blanks to send out to the various eoun- ty clerks , to be by them distributed among the assessors , under the provisions - -visions of house roll No. 277. This bill provides that the assessor shall gather the industrial statistics of their various - ous precincts , to be turned in to the county clerks , who report the same to the labor commissioner. B Birdie HirxKBitAxnT , the 4-j'ear-pld daughter of H. J. Hillcbrandt of St. Paul , was seriously burned. Her mother and others had been burning j old grass and rubbish in the garden preparatory to their spring garden I -work. .The little girl stumbled and fell into the fire and before she could . be rescued was dangerously burned about the hands and face. j H II. Doerffel , an old and respected j j pioneer business man of York , died j very suddenly while , at work in his ' cigar store. He had been in poor ! | health for a long time , but opened liis store as usual in the morning. "When his son entered the store at noon with a lunch for his father lie found him lying dead on the floor by the work bench. Heart disease. The Alliance Guide has this to say B with reference to the good aecomplish- cd by their stock association : This association , which has been organized VB less than two years , has done for the BflflB .stock growers of this seetion far more _ _ H than all the rilles and shotguns in the H country have accomplished in the years Hj previous to its existence , and it can be H i > aid with much satisfaction that cattle HM , rustling in western Nebraska is almost H -unknown today , and all these good re- Hj suits are due to the influence of the HJ a-ssoeiation. H A Washington dispatch says : It is H expected that the sundry civil bill , j carrying S200,000 for the Trans-Missis- H J9ippi exposition. $175,000 for the Omaha B .and Soutli Omaha postoffiees and $ - " > . - K 000 for revetments on the Missouri H river near Nebraska City , will pass the Hj senate this week. Supervising Archi- Hi tect Aiken is anxious to get to work on H ; the government building for the expo- J H .sition , and sa3'.s that he will be able to H erect a structure that will be a credit ' H to the vast extent of territory included H in the trans-mississippi region. H A meeting of depositors in the de- H funct Beatrice savings bank was held H ! to ask that a new receiver be ap- H pointed. H The Dixon Tribune states that the H creamery at that place paid 18 cents H for milk in March. This is clear of ex- H penses. A good showing. H Two hundred and ninety cases of HJ eggs and a ton and a half of hotter is H -the record of one day ' s shipment from H Leigh , Colfax county. H Dr. A. II. Miller , a leading physician | • of Culbertson , was severely injured Hj His team upset the buggy and' his leg I H | was broken in two plaees above the j H Jcnec. | "hhiiiiiiiiiiib of - * - * " -g * jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjm | - - • feHSaiiii - ifrrir'Trrr iBB MM ip frr" ; r'i i a hit .I. r yjz. , , " i m TURKS MEET GRBEKsT FOUR HUNDRED OF THE LAT TER ARE DISLODGED. rarka nave About J60,000 Gooil , Well Equipped Troops In Line Greeks Have About 80,000 Itegnlars and 20,000 Irregulars on the Line. Greek Invaders Defeated. Larissa , Greece , April 17. The Greek invaders under Chiefs Luzzo and Zermos captured a village held by two companies of Turks , killing eighty of them and making twenty-five prison ers. A strong Turkish force attacked the 400 Greeks in Krania and after a fierce fight they routed the in vaders. Most of them were driv en into the mountains , but some escaped to Baltino. Chief Milonas , the leader , was wounded. It is reported that the Ethnikc Hetairia ( national league ) has ordered the Greek irregulars to retreat into Greek territory , regarding further bloodshed as useless unless the regular army of Greece shall support the irregulars. The Greeks have about 50,000 regu lars and some 20,000 irregulars on the frontier , but they count a great deal on reinforcements to their armies through risings in Epirus , Albania and Macedonia. The Turks have about 150,000 good , well equipped troops in line. Of these fourty-four battalions are Redifs , raised in Roumelia , in all about 30,000 men , who are divided among two re serve divisions. At Monastir flying columns have been formed to watch the Servian frontier , and all the sup plies possible are being pushed for ward to the three Turkish divisions at Elassona , Grevena and Janninna. The Turks are weak in cavalry , having only about 8,000 mounted men on the frontier. They are , however , very strong in artillery and infantry. The transport corps is well organized , field telegraphs have been laid between all important points , artesian wells have been bored at Elassona and the broken bridges in Macedonia have been re paired as much as possible. The Turk ish forces at Salonicahave constructed a line of iedoubts round the gulf and down the Aegean coast to Ivaterina. Krupp and Armstrong guns have been mounted behind those defenses and a line of thirty torpedoes has been laid across the bay from Cape Kara. BIG BICYCLE SWINDLE. Secured 850,000 Through an Alluring Ad One Under Arrest. New York , April 17. William S. Thompson , who was indicted in Chicago cage last October for carrying on swindling { operations through the mails , has been arrested here and is held in $2,500 bail for hearing. It is alleged that Thompson sent out letters offering to send bicycles worth 100 upon ' receipt of S45. Persons who sent money ' claim that they never heard anything more from Thompson. Thompson had been arrested in Chicago cage i and furnished § 1,000 bail. The concern i of which Thompson was the head ' sent out circulars offering a prize to 1 the person making the greatest number i of words out of the letters in the 1 title " " "Empress bicycle. Later on circular ( letters were mailed to those . persons who had failed to win the j prize , offering them a $100 bicycle for § 45. In Chicago , Thompson was known as "William S. Thompson" and in this city ' as "C. Thompson. " ' Thompson and ' his associates had obtained about 650,000 ' by means of the swindle. TO RECALL THOUSANDS. Over a Fourth of the Spanish Army In Cuba Will I > o Sent Hack. Washixgtox , April 17. Accoring to information received here , when the rainy season shall set in in Cuba . , 10 , - 000 Spanish troops will be sent back to Spain , and soon afterward 30,000 more will be recalled. The Spanish insist positively that it means only that little or nothing of the insurrection i emains ; that Gomez has only about fifty or a hundred fol- lowerers , and to watch these under the conditions in which the campaign has been necessarily conducted a few thousand men are quite as effective as the 180,000 men which have been main tained in Cuba. The Cuban contin gent , on the other hand , insist that the Spanish financial resources are ex hausted and that the troops are to be tvithdrawn because of lack of money to keep them in service. FIFTEEN FLOOD VICTIMS. Colored People on Dnvis Island Perish Louisiana Levees Still Stand. VicKSSURQ , Miss. , April 17. Fifteen colored people , nearly all \yomen and children , were drowned Wednesday by the flooding of Davis island , once the property of Jefferson Davis. The other hands of the plantation on the island were rescued from the top of the levee by the government steam boats John R. Meigs and Atlanta , The loss of stock on the rich island has been very jrreat. New Orleans , La. , April 1G. The weather bureau predicts that the Mississippi river flood w _ ill reach its maximum by next Tuesday , and water will cover the wharves and wet adja cent streets. The Louisianaleveeline is still holding , though rises of three inches and more a day are quite com mon. Omaha Exposition Contracts Let. Omaha , Neb. , April 17. Contracts were awarded this morning for the removal of 80,000 cubic yards of dirt on the site of the Transmississippi exposition. The excavations will be for lakes and lagoons. The work will be ' commenced at once. Heavy Reward for a Kansas Burglar. Eldorado , Kan. , April 17. A safe was ' broken into at Latham , this county , Wednesday night and a large imount \ of money stolen. A reward of • is offered for the capture of the i Ihief and recovery of the money. * l . nt n ' i m iv I * i - ' i > 'in ' i mnwmmmim iliini'Miw ' * ! ' 4 * - * - iii i m - . - . i Hi. . .i . , . - - r. MRS.TILTON PAfcoES AWAY The Woman Connected With Henry Ward Heccher Dies Very Quietly. New York , * April 17. Mrs. Elizabeth It. Tiltonj the wife of Henry Ward Beecher's accuser , died Tuesday. News of her death did not become pub lic until yesterday. Since the famous Beecher trial she had lived in strict retirement. In re cent years she had shared her home with her widowed daughter. Even the fact of her death was kept secret , and there are no external signs of mourning about the house where her body lies. Theodore Tilton , her hus band , is in Paris , where he has lived ever since the Beecher trial. For a long time Mrs. Tilton was al most totally blind , but less than a year ago she underwent a difficult op eration and regained her sight. Then , about a month ago , she suffered a par alytic stroke , froin which she was slowly recovering , when in the latter part of last week she was again stricken. The funeral services were held last night. Few were admitted to the house. Malachi Exeter , a preacher of the Plymouth Brethren , to which sect Mrs. Tilton belonged , officiated. The interment will take place to-daj' . CIVIL SERVICE ORDER. Rational Republican League Delegation Urges Its Modification. Washixgtox , April 17. A delega tion representing the National Bepub- lican League called on President McKinley - Kinley yesterday to urge some modi fications of existing civil rervice rules. The delegation urged that they repre sented more than 1,000,000 of the young Republican voters of the coun try , and that under the civil service , as extended by Cleveland , offices which it was never intended should be placed in the classified service had been so placed , and that they had practically been put out of the hope of young Republicans to obtain. In all there are some 40,000 offices which the delegation urged should be removed from under the civil service rule. Members of the delegation claim that the president is in thorough sym pathy with their movement , and confi dently expect that the necessary exec utive order suspending the civil ser vice over the offices mentioned will soon be issued. Switzerland's President Arbitrator. Washixgtox , April 17. The presi dent of the Swiss republic has been selected as arbitrator of the boundary dispute between Brazil and French Guiana. The territory involved ex ceeds that at issue between Great Bri tain and Venezuela and includes rich gold mining districts. It was thought President McKinley would be desig nated as arbitrator , but as France was one of the parties to the treaty , a European arbitrator was preferred. To Succeed Crittenden. Washixgtox , April 17. The presi dent has made a private announcement of the name of the next consul gen eral to Mexico. The place will go to A. D. Barlow of Missouri. Barlow is the brother-in-law of D. M. Houser of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Publish ing company and the appointment will be made on the joint recommendation of < National Committeeman Kerens , D. M Houser and Major John L. Bit- tinger. Judge Storrow Vails Dead. Washixgtox , April 17. Judge James A. Storrow , the well known lawyer of Boston , about 00 years old , fell dead in the Congressional library yester day. In the proceedings incident to the arbitration treaty between the governments of Great Britain and Venezuela for the settlement of the boundary line dipute Judge Storrow acted as special counsel for the Vene zuelan government. Crlstow's Axe Still Busy. Washixgtox , April 17. Record breaking has been the axe work of "Headsman * ' Bristow the past few days and to-day he made 127 fourth class postoffice appointments , 06 of which were to fill vacancies caused by death and resignations , and 54 for re movals at the expiration of four years' service. Kansas was almost neglected , Indiana being now as heretofore the chief beneficiary. Shot Himself on His Wife's Grave. Little Rock , Ark. , April 17. Cap tain Samuel Lyons , one of the oldest citizens of Little Rock , was seen to enter the Jewish cemetery about noon yesterday. Shortly afterwards a wo man passing screamed and said that a man had shot himself. Captain Lyons was found lying on his wife ' s srrave dead , with a pistol clutched in his hand. He wasGS years of age. His wife died in 1S77. "Watchdog" Holman Better. Washixgtox , April 17. Representa tive Holman of Indiana , who has been seriously sick from stomach troubles for the past ten days , was somewhat better this morning. He is still quite weak , but is able again to take solid food. There is nothing alarming in his condition , though it will be some days before he can resume his duties at the capital. Gives 8250,000 to a Church. New York , April 17. The appraiser of the estate of Maria Louise Vander- bilt. wife of William n. Vanderbilt , filed his report with the sui'rogate yes- terdaj' . The value of the personal property is found , after deducting expenses - penses and paying certain debts , to be SG25.478. Under her will she gave § 250,000 to St Bartholomew's church. Big Sew Orleans tflre. New Orleans , April 17. One of the , most picturesque structures in the city. known as the Moresque block , owned by Gauch & Sons , was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. In less than two hours the edifice had collapsed , and upwards of § 400,000 had gone up in ; smoke. Francis' Order Held Up. WAsniXGTox , April 17. Secretary Bliss , of the interior department , has held j up an order issued by the authority - ' ity j of his predecessor , conferring i ] 48,000 acres of land upon the state 1 university of Missouri , as an additfon ] to its endowment fund. < - .w ! ED'S POUBf 8111118. THE HOUSE MEETS ONLY TO ADJOURN AGAIN. THE DEMOCRATS EXPLAIN. Bailey , Do Armond and Other Minority Leaders State Their Positions on the Contest Within the Demo cratic Party In the House iUr. Bland's Pacific Roads Resolution Shut Out. Washixgtox , April IS. The House , by a party vote , decided to adjourn from to-day until next Wednesday. The session was a comparatively brief one and was devoted almost en tirely to explanations by Messrs. Bailey , De Armond and otheis of their positions in the contest within the Democnatic party in the nousc as to what course the party should pursue with reference to the Republican pol icy of adjourning for three days at a time without attempting to enact leg islation. Mr. Bailey opposed adjourn ment because Mr. Bland would be shut off from offering a Pacific rail way resolution. AN OMANA DYKE BREAKS. Only a Railroad Embankment Holds the Cut-Off Lake Flood Back. Omaha , Neb. , April 19. The Mis souri river here is stationary , but a great stream is still running into Cut off lake- which has risen six inches since last night. The first dyke across the foot of the lake gave way this morning , and a gap thirty feet wide is letting the torrent do' .vn into the ba sin above the second dyke. There the water is rising rapidly. This dyke is crossed by a railroad track and train load after trainload of material has been dumped there to strengthen the threatened embank ment. It alone now stands between the flood of water in Cut-off lake and the railroad yards and factories below. Every energy is now bent to save that dyke. WILD ADVANCE IN WHEAT. Chicago Prices Are Up Four Cents , Closing at the Top. Chicago , April 19. Wheat this moiming went up in a wild whirl 4 cents a bushel and closed at the tip top prices , with • 'calls" for Monday 4 to 5 cents away. The market opened very tamely at a slight decline from Thursday's last prices aud halted for a few moments. Then a large volume of buying orders poured in and the price started to advance rapidly. May wheat went from G9 c to 72c in a few moments. It dropped back to 71 } c and then went up again to 73c , the last orders being billed at that price. July wheat was even stronger than Ma5' closing at only } ic discount To Prosecute Keofer. Toi'EKA , Kan. , April 19. About the first action Bailie Waggener will take , after returning from Texas , will be to prosecute Representative Horace An drew Keefer for perjury. The dis closures made before the investigating committee by the Leavenworth repre sentative. Mr. Waggener designates as lies. The railroad attorney proposes to prosecute Keefer to the extreme limit of the law. Kansas Politician Charged With Theft. Fort Scott. Kan. , April 19. Carroll E. Shaffer , a son of Senator E. T. Shaffer , recently sued Patrick Gorman , a stock feeder , for S3.000 for slander , charging that Gorman had called him a thief. Gorman filed an answer yes terday , charging Shaffer with haviug stolen twenty-one hogs and hay. wheat and other property , specifying seventeen different counts. Gorman and Shaffer are well known Populist politicians. The Czar Shows Mercy to Exiles. Xoxdox , April 19. The Berlin cor respondent of the Times says that the Russian minister of war publishes in the Russkij Invalid an order of the czar providing hereafter all criminals condemned to imprisonment in Siberia shall be conveyed there by railway in stead of being compelled to make the march by way of Tomsk and Iruski , which caused terrible suffering to thousands. Bound to Have Cheap Fares. Ixdiaxapolis , Ind. , April 19. In dictments have been returned by a special session of the grand jury against President A. L. Mason , Super intendent Miller Elliott , a dozen con- ductoi'S and other officers of the Citi zens Street Railway company , for violation lation of the 3 cent fare law. Mason and Elliott were arrested and promptly gave bonds. The "Lone Fisherman" Dead. Baltimore , Md. , April 19. James F. Maffit , the veteran actor , died in Johns Hopkins hospital last night , after an illness of four weeks. Maffit ! was known to theatergoers in the . United States as the "lone fisherman , " in the burlesque , "Evangeline. " A Benefit Association Assigns. Lyxx , Mass. , April 19. The 500 members of the Equitable Aid union , [ a mutual benefit insurance order of ! Pennsylvania , received word yesterday from : the president that the order had gone ' into the hands of an assignee and had ' suspended. F. C. Shroodcr Dead. Kaxsas Crrr , Mo. , April 18. F. C. Shroeder , , the well known grain com mission merchant and member of the board of trade , died very suddenly at his home , 1414 Brooklyn avenue , at 8 o'cloclc this morning. SENATE COMMITTEES. Republican Committee Votes to Accept the Democratic Proposition. Wasiiingtox , April 19. The Repub lican committee on committees of the Senate agreed unanimously to accept , so far as it is .empowered to do so , the uroposition made by the Democrats for the reorganization of the Senate com mittees. The proposition which the committee has agreed to accept pro vides that the Bepublicans shall fill all the committee places which were filled by Republican senators during the last congress including the chairmanships vacated by Republicans , and that they shall bo given one additional place on the ap propriations committee , vacated by a Democrat , and that the membership of the committee on postoffiees and post roads shall be increased from nine to ten in order to give the Democrats an additional place on that committee. This arrangement will result in leav ing Republicans at the head of all the important committees , but a majority of the membership of many of them will be anti-Republican. There are indications that committee recommendation will not be received with favor by all the republican sen ators. GLADSTONE SEVERE. Bitter Against the Rulers of Germany and Russia. } Loxdox , April 19. Mr. Gladstone has written a letter to the Macedonian leader. Captain Dampzes , in which he says : "Under the present deplorable scheme , all the British government has the right to do , seemingly , is to plead its opinions before a tribunal of two youthful despots , the emperors of Germany aud Russia , and to abide by their help to execute their final deter minations. "Our disgraceful office seems to be to place ships , guns , soldiers and sail ors at their disposal for the purpose of keepins- down the movement for the liberty of Crete , and of securing to these young despots , who have in no wise earned the confidence of Europe , ' the power of deciding questions which rightfully belong to the. Cretans. " The Larissa correspondent of the Times says : "Everyone here continues to declare that an outbreak of war Is inevitable within the next two or three days , especially as it is now known that , in high quarters at Athens , a peaceful solution of the difficulty is regarded as almost hopeless. " SMALL BOYS TAKE POISON. Arkansas Lads Left at Home Alone Coolly Commit Snicldo Together. Favetteville , Ark. , April 19. Two sons of a Mr. Hesson , living at Green land , five miles south of Favette ville , aged 15 and 9 jrcars. became angry because they had been left at home while their parents were here , bathed , dressed in their best clothes , wrote notes to their parents , pinned them on the door , took strychnine and went to bed. Both died before their parents returned home. The notes bade the parents good bye and ex pressed the hope that they would meet them in heaven. Wool 3Ien Dissatisfied. Washixgtox , April IS. Western Senators , after several conferences , have reached an agreement to stand together for important changes in the wool schedule of the Dinglebill. . The Senators most prominently identi fied with the movement are Messrs. Mantle , Carter , Shoup , Warren and Burrows. They have not onlj- agreed upon a line of amendments , but have decided to insist on their inclusion in the bill. The meetings have also been attended by many prominent wool growers. The proposed amendments are directed mainly to closing the many loopholes for evasions and fraud which woolmen agree abound in the Dingley , and were also found in the McKinley law. Another Scaling Commission. Washixgtox , April IS. The Presi dent has decided to appoint another expert commission to act in conjunc tion with one already selected by Great Britain to visit Behring sea this summer to study the conditions sur- rennding seal life. It is the purpose of the state department to endeavor to secure the consent of the British gov eminent to the adoption of a modus vivendi suspending all sealing on land and sea while the experts are at work during the approaching season. Ne gotiations in this direction are now in progress. Fire at si University. Berkeley , Cal. , April 19. Fire at the University of California entirely destroyed the building occupied as the college of agriculture. The fire is believed to have started either from an explosion in the chemical laboratory or from the heat generated by the use of an incubator. The loss is estimated at S10,000. Chinese to Be Admitted. Washixgtox , April 19. Secretary Gage has instructed the customs offi cers at Pembina. N. D. , to admit 179 Chinese who are en route from China to the Nashville exposition. This ac tion is taken on the statement of the director general that their admission is necessary under concessions made to exhibitors and others. Fatally Injured at a Fire. Marshall , Ma , April 19. A. T. George , a St. Louis grocery drummer , died suddenly at Slater yesterday. At the big fire at that place he was help ing a customer save his stock , and was run into by a man carrying a box oi tobacco. He died from the injury. Ttrenty-One Sailors Saved. Philadelphia , April 10. Captain Haavig , Mate Hellisen and nineteen seamen of the Norwegian ship Senta , who were supposed to have been lost at sea , were brought into this port on the British ship Snowflake from Pan- rath for Philadelphia. No one on board the Senta was lost , but all ex perienced a distressing time durin"-the twenty-four hours prior to their res- cue. The abandoned ship was re- j cently reported at London as having been sighted by " the steamer Idaho. ' and until this morning it was believed that all who had been on board the unfortunate vessel were lost. _ I A Hold Denver Robber Caughfc jA * 1 Sacramexto , Cal. . April 14. : James' M ? fH - M Collins , now in jail here , acknowledges M ff M that he is "Cuckoo" Collins , wanted by t < H the police of Denver for the robbery of V \ * | the jewelry store of Gottcsleben Ss - fc M Sons , March 0,1890 , of a tray contain- fH ing 510,000 worth of.diamonds. J M H Two Stores Involved In Failure. . i / j fl Atchisox , Kan. , April 14. W. L- • ' ? M Sandiers , operating general stores at.W . H Frankfort , Kan. , and Falls City. Neb. , < H has failed. The assets and liabilities. Mare believed to bo. M are not given , but are j1 large. t M Serious St. Lonls Fire. ' " | St. Louis , Mo. , April 14.--Tho five- ' l H story building at Main street and Park | avenue , occupied by the St. Louis Kc- 1 frigerator and Wooden Gutter Manu- M fnoturine Company , was destroyed by- M fire this forenoon. An estimate of the * H loss puts it at SG0.000. Two firemeiu H and a boy were injured by falling H walls , but not fatally hurt. H Wanamaltor Doesn't Wnnt It. y"\ | Philadelphia , April 14. John Wan- H amaker has declined to be a candidate H for stale treasurer of Pennsylvania. 4S ! " /s fl CHANDLER'S SCHEME. | § "T H The Senator Proposes to Take Possession- B of the Armor Plato Factorlo * . S ' M Washixgtox , April M. Senator ' ' x | Chandler of New Hampshire said last | night that he would introduce two- H bills directing the government authorities - H ities to take possession of the great. Harmer armor plate factories of Carnegie , \V < BP Phipps & Co. , limited , at Homestead , vr E Pa. , and of the Bethlehem Steel com- f HL pany at Bethlehem , Pa. , and operate ' \ M them with government forces until all ) H the armor plate needed to equip the- f H new battleships should have been com- t | pleted. H Negotiations With the Indians. i f Washixgtox , April 14. The an- H nounccment that T. B. Cabannis , one J of the members of the Dawes commission - M sion , had resigned , that another va- * V l " caucy was seen to be created , and that. " B Dennis Flynn , the cx-dclegate from J H Oklahoma , and Thomas Needles of H Illinois were to be appointed to the | ' vacancies , have unsettled the ncgotia- H • tions between the commission and the H I I Indians. Telegrams are being _ re- r j H ceived here urging upon the administration - / | tration the retention of General Frank H Armstrong on the commission as nee- j H cssary to effect the conciliation of the- / - > H Indians. / J H Four Men Injured by Dynamite. _ H DkAihvood , S. D. , April 1 Carelessness - | lessness in handling dynamite resulted H in an accident in the Holy Terror _ H mine by which four miners James _ | _ _ H Hopkins , John Hidland , Slierinan Dun- J _ H ning and Joseph Everly were danger- J _ _ H ously hurt , the last two named-fatally. _ H Accidentally Shot Himself. _ _ H Trextox , Mo. , April 14. Baker ' < • H Smith , while out hunting , accidentally % j M killed himself with a shotgun. Ho ' 1 was riding in a cart , when he struck a. t 1 stump , discharging the gun , the entire- _ _ H charge passing through his heart. He * _ _ H was married and had two children. | IOWA PATENT OFFICE REPORT- H _ DesMoixes , April 10. Tiie venerableM"i t < H Geo. Schramm , of Des Moines , has/ ' - H been granted a copj-right for his "New _ _ _ | Versification ot the Immortal German _ _ H National Hymn , 'The Watch on the _ _ | Rhine. ' J H J. W. Billings , of Grinnell , Iowa , has | _ _ _ | been allowed a patent for a toy gun J _ _ _ in which the barrel is adjustably connected - _ _ H nected with the breech in such a manner - _ _ H ner that a wafer cap can be inserted. _ _ _ j in the breech chamber and exploded J _ H to fire a ball from the barrel to shoot _ H squirrels from high trees , etc. ' ] _ _ H J. A. M. Tyler , of Lexington , Neb. , < f _ _ _ j has been allowed a patent for an. ' ] _ _ | improved mechanism for raising and. ' j l lowerino- bu v ton- " H A patent has been allowed to L. _ _ H Fleishman , of Des Moines , for a nut. _ _ _ | lock consisting of a nut that has an J _ H angular bore and a circular screw _ _ _ | thread of larger diameter at one end. j _ _ H of the angular bore in combination _ _ _ | with a bolt having an angular portion. _ _ _ | and a second nut having an internal / _ _ | screw to engage the internal screw in _ _ _ | the angular bore of the first mentioned _ _ H Valuable information about obtain- fl _ | ing , valuing and selling patents sent. _ H free to any address. _ _ _ | Our practice is not confined to Iowa. _ _ H Inventors in other states can have our w ' _ _ | services upon the same terms ay J 3 | Hawkeycs. ft J H Tnos. G. and J. Ralph Ortvjo , * 7 rt _ _ H Solicitors of Patent * . „ * / _ _ | LIVE STOCK AND PIIODUCK MA2JKF.lv _ _ i Quotations From New York , Clilcago. St- _ | Louis , Omaha and Elsewhere. " | OMAHA. 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