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Cheng Gounig Independent Valentine NEBRASKA CONBESS OJF LABOB OFFICERS CHOSEN FOR THE COMING YEAR mcl Goaapers Is Elected to Fill tlio Presidents Chair List of Other Officers University of Chicago Gets Anotber Million Federation of Lahor Elects Officers ITxw Yoee At Saturdays session of Ow American Federation of Labor the proposition to send fraternal delegates to the international congress of socialistic porkers at London next August was laid on the table Immediately after the afternoon session had convened the convention went into eoutive session to hear the report of the grievance committee At 8 oclock the tjoors were thrown open and tho question of the nomination of officers was taken nj Vice President Duncan nominated for the prcsidonoy John McBride the present incumbent Delegate Feuracht jiroposed the namo of Samuel Gompers for 5esident By order of the chair tho roll was called for verification 1 Gompers was elected by a majority of 18 Vote Gompers 1041 MoBride 1028 Every socialist delegate voted for JIcBride Peter J McGuirc was the unamious choico of tho convention for first vice president and he was so declared elected James Duncan of the Granite Cutters Uational Union of Baltimore was re elected second vice president defeating 0 P Reichers of tho United Garment work ers Tho vote resulted Duncan 1866 Belchers 789 James OConnell of the International Machinists Union of Chicago was unan imously elected third vice president John B Lennon of the Journeymen Tailors Union New York was unani mously re elected treasurer the secretary casting the vote Aug McGrath of the Typographical Union Boston was re elected to the office f secretary tho president having cast tho ballot Gets Another Million i Chicago Miss Helen Culver of this city has given 1000000 to the University of Chicago the entire gift to be devoted to tho increase and spread of knowledge within the field of the biological sciences In defining the uses to which the money anay be put Miss Culver said I mean that tho gift shall develop the work now represented in tlio several biological de partments of the University of Chicago by the expansion of their present re sources that it shall be applied in part to an inland exjxjrimcntal station and to a marine biological laboratory A portion of the distribution of the gift shall take the form of university extension lectures to be delivered by recognized authorities atsuitablo points on the west side of Chi cago To secure the above ends a portion not to exceed one half the capital sum thus given may be used for the purchase of land for equipment and for the erec tion of buildings Patriots of America Chicago W II Harvest the apostle of free silver who is better known as Coin has launched his new political party According to the prospectus which Mr Harvey gave out it is to be an oath Bound secret organization with the title of Patriots of America Its especial mis sion is to advance the cause of free silver as well as to eliminate selfishness from politics and it is expected to rapidly over come all existing political parties The national officers are W H Har ivey first national patriot Charles HMc jClure national recorder and James F Adams national treasurer Mr Harvey was first elected head of the order and he jthen appointed Messrs Adams and Mc Clure and the organization was declared complete An A P A Protest Washington The A P A is en gaged in a vigorous warfare through peti tions and otherwise against the confirma tion of the nomination of Gen J J Cop piiiger to be brigadier general Tho peti tions charge that Gen Coppingers pro motion is made over the head of a score of skillful brave and gallant officers and assert that he has become an American citizen only within the past three years They further say He is the Irish Cath olic volunteer who with others left Ire land to go and fight for Pope Pius IS against the freedom and unity of Italy and who for pretended gallantry was created by the Pope a chevalier of St Michael and made honorary aide de camp to Pope Pius IX Great Shipbuilding Strike Belfast The shipbuilding trades f trikers rejected the terms offered by the employes London The news that the strikers in the shipbuilding trades at Glasgow and Belfast had refused the employers terms caused a great depression in stocks and commercial circles for no doubt the su premacy of Great Britain in shipbuilding is threatened and large contracts for for eign warships are likely to go to Germany and other countrie3 It is believed how ever that the employes will have to yield under government pressure in the end Postoffice Fraud Order Washington The postoffice depart ment has issued a frud order against tho Chicago Advertising Un ion of Chicago The union ad vertised for parties to distribute circulars and is charged with dropping all com munication with them after exacting 450 membership fee Weekly Bank Statement New York Bank statement Reserve decrease 1903000 Banks hold 18391 000 in excess of lejjal requirements Missouri State Poultry Show St Louis The annual exhibition oJ the Missouri State Poultry Association was formally opened in this city at tho Exposition building with 2000 of tho finest birds ever placed on exhibition Most of the entries which consist of all kinds of poultry came from Missouri but many have been received from Illinois Kansas and other adjoining states Venezuela Is Firm Washington Senor Andrade tnq Venezuelan minister to the United States lias received a cablegram from Caracal s b ubljoatlon In tho London Times giving frfcat Is purported to bo an interview with President Crespo No such statements it jis sejdj have dyer beon made to tho Gov arment The article quoted President Crespo as expressing a willingness to make reparation to Great Britain for the Uruan incident which Lord Salisbury is endeavoring to separate from Jthe long pending boundary dispute The position of the Venezuelan Government is as has been stated frequently in dispatches that the Uruan incident and the boundary dis pute are inseparable tho liability of the Government for the Uruan affair beinc dependent on whether or not it occurred oh Venezuelan or British soil Word reaches here from British Guiana that thp country is much exercised over the prospects of war with Venezuela on the boundary question Tho local militia has begun a series of sham battles with the colonial police in which Georgetown is defended against an imaginary attack Tho press of British Guiana condemn the policy of the London authorities in withdrawing troops from the West Indies and other British colonies leaving the colonies to provide their own defenses War on Bloomers Rochestek N T The Lord is with me in this fight and be will sustain and direqt my actions He has told me that the wearing of bloomers by women is sin ful and that for tho honor and glory of his name they must be abolished Rochester is already wicked enough without suffering the plague of bloomers With uplifted hand and in a ringing voice Mrs William Chrisholm tho orig inator of the anti bloomer crusade in Rochester made the above declaration Mrs Chrisholm declares she has been inspired to attempt the salvation of the women who wear bloomers Not only bloomers but every article of apparel worn by the new woman which in the least infringes on the time honored prin ciples of conservatism is included in her crusade The new woman she asserts is a sinful and pernicious signof the de generacy of the age Caught on a Needle Swindle Loganspobt Ind A man and wo man passing as J W Evans and wife and another man calling himself Ander son came here and began selling needles for making fanoy work They agreed to furnish work for all the women who should buy of them A few needles were sold at 5 each and then tho swindlers bought at almost fabulous prices all the work which was brought to them by the victims The first purchasers by their talking advertised the people and in a short time the rooms of the fakirs were crowded with persons anxious to get a slice of such a good thing When a couple of hundred of the needles had been dis posed of at 5 each the trio loft for greener fields Pittsourg Secures It Chicago Pittsburg has been selected as the place for the National Prohibition Convention next year Two ballots were cast by the national committee at its meet ing in the Sherman House The national executive committee of the Junior Prohibition League decided to hold jts convention in Pittsburg May 27 1S9G the same time and place that the national party meets A meeting of the Prohibition Press Association will be heldat the same time Ex Gov J P St Johns resignation Jfrom the executive committee which was presented two years ago was brought up and accepted W B Canfield of Waco Texas was electedito fill the vacancy Against Sweatshops New Yohk A strike of 20000 tailors in New York and Brooklyn is threatened soon Henry White general secretary of the United Garment Workers of America jhas been told that ten tailors contractors in Brooklyn who gave bond to the Brotherhood of Tailors not to return to the sweating system have forfeited their bonds These contractors employ 200 men who have already gono on a strike and precipitated the light One thousand stone masons went on a strike on 100 buildings on account of the violation of he unions yearly agreement The strik ers are members of the New York Stone Masons Protective Union Disorder in the Italian Chamber Rome A disorderly scene occurred in the Chamber of Deputies over a discussion of the Governments proposal of army en listments Sig Marazzi wanted to read an old letter from Premier Crispi con necting au alleged inconsistency with his present attitude The president of the Chamber refused to allow the letter to be lead but Slg Marazzi insisted and a great uproar followed in the Chamber The sitting had to be suspended in order to restore order but later it was resumed and the session ended quietly Wholesale Jail Break Mubphysboro 111 A wholesale jail delivery occurred at the county jail here The prisoners that escaped were John S Jones incarcerated for murder C W Colton horse stealing George Brown and Charles Smith burglary George Cordon laiceny Two prisoners Clias Terrell colored held for larceny and James Lipe refused to escape expecting acquittal in tho January court The men broke tluough the roof of the cells which were but lately put in and thought to be safe Tin Plate Men Meet Pittsbukg Pa All the tin plate fac tories in the country but one were repre sented at the meeting of the Tin Plate Manufacturers Association here The session was long and tho discussions ani mated The probability of a change in the tariff bill was the subject canvassed in all its phases Owing to the peculiar po litical conditions it was deemed unwise to make a vigorous move towards petitioning for an increase in the rate Fired Into a Train Cincinnati A dispatch from Louis ville Ky says A train containing the Garfield Club of Louisville returning from Frankfort was fired into at Emi nence Ky About thirty shots were fired and windows shattered The passengers dropped to the floor and escaped injury except by being cut by broken glass Claim South Omahas Site Omaha Neb Five heirs of Peter Cas sady at Princeton 111 have sued for the site of South Omaha The litigation in volves nearly 1000000 They base their claim on a technicality in the original transfers of the land years ago when it was of little value The claim involves 238 acres or 1730 lots The Democratic Convention Philadelphia W F Harrity chair man of the Democratic National Com mittee has requested the secretary of the committee to notify the members thereof to assemble in Washington on January 16 next for the purpose of selecting the time and place for holding the next democratic Mob Threatens a College Topeka Kan Popular indignatjen at the outrageous manner in which the graves in Rochester Cemetery have been dosecrated reached a crisis in 26rth To peka when a mob began to forjn with he avowed purpose of burning the Kansas Medical College The police learned that there was a movement on foot to assemble a mob ip sack the institution which is located at Twelfth and Taylor Streets when the faculty of the college called upon them for protection The students were a sent home and the college building was taken possession of by a largo squad Of policemen A detail of militiamen from Battery B of this city was stationed at the atsegju to prevent a capture of the arms stored there Upon the request of ie sheriff e Governor ordered the infantry company at Lawrence to be ready to respond to a call at any moment P E Lillis identified tho third body at the college as that of his mother who cMed recently A N Drake of North TofcibKi whose wife died last week discovered thfit her grave had been robbed Tho con was found at the Kansas Medical College On Monday I O Van Vleet who had buried his wife but a few hours before found her mutilated and disfigured re mains on the dissecting table at the col lege This discovery led to the arrest of S A Johnson a student who acts as jau itor of the institution It was these reve lations coming one after another thj caused a wave of indignation to swej over tho city The mob violence threat ened was but a natural outcome The mob on the advice of the police dispersed Armenias Last Appeal London A dispatch signed by a num ber of Armenians of Constantinople has been received hero saying Armenia is at her last gasp Tho work of extermination continues The number of people massacred reaches 15 000 and 500000 survivors have taken rcf uge in the forests and mountains when they feed on herbs and roots Hnnjjr and cold have begun to make great tar ages among them In the name of hu manity and Christianity save us Boston The news that Armenia had cabled an appeal for help to London is taken in missionary circles here as unde niable evidence of the desperate need of those who have suffered from Tttrkieh depredations and have been deprived of everything they possessed by miudorous infidels Rev Judson Smith D D sec retary of the American board of foreign mission commissioners said to a reporter for the Associated Press The statements are entirely credible Although information received by us shows the number killed to reach about 50000 since our latest advices were sent there have been a number of additional massacres wnicn may bring tno iota up to 100000 as stated in the appeal Bradstreets Weekly Review jNew ioik iraustrceis report sys With the exception of mild weather at cities in Missouri Kansas Nebraska and Minnesota colder weather has stimulated sales of seasonable merchandise at nearly all points but only by contrast with pro ceding weeks Wholesalo trade is dull merchants preferring to reduce stocks as the end of the year to make ready for an nual inventories In retail lines particu larly in holiday specialties there has been marked increases in demand though thus far in some instances not equal to expec tations Irregularity is shown in mer cantile collections general trade through out the country being relatively most satisfactory in the central Mississippi valley Failures for the week have been 38 in the United States against 349 last year and 54 in Canada against -40 last year Fierce Gales in Virginia Nokfolk Va The lower section of this city was badly flooded the result Of the terrific northeast gales reigning in this region for the past week The weather bureau here has issued warnings to detain all shipping in tho harbqr A fierce windstorm swept tho oily doing groat damage The weather is very bit ter The telegraph wires are down be tween here ana Hatteras and no vessels have arrived from the Carolina sounds owing to the heavy gales National Civil Service League Washington The National Civil Service Reform League elected the follow ing officers President lion Carl Shurz Vice Presidents Chas Francis Adams Boston A R McDonohue New York Bishop H C Potter New York J H Pleasants Baltimore Henry Hitohcock St Louis H C Lea Philadelphia i Franklin MacVeagh Chicago Bishtfp S V Ryan Buffalo Wm Potts Farming ton Ambushed by Indians Albuquerque N M It is reported that two miners wero found beside tile trail between White Oaks and Jicarrilla One was dead and the other was mortally woun led Tho latter stated that they had been ambushed by eleven Indians shot and robbed The band is said to have committed depredations in various parts of the territory They are thought to bo Apaches from San Carlos Agency Afro American Conference Detroit Mich The national confer ence of Afro Americans called for the purpose of discussing matters relating to the welfare of the race began in the Sec ond Baptist Church here About fifty delegates put in an appearance and the scarcity of prominent colored leaders was very noticeable Circuit Court Commis sioner D Augustus Straker delivered the address of welcome Insurgents Destroy- Plantations Havana The insurgents have burned the plantation of Manuel Ita in the Cam aguani district of Santa Clara and not far from the capital of the province Tho plantation was the property of the widow of Tomas Ona The steamer Catahna ar rived here from Spain and brought with her four small gunboats for coast service lilt iuuiiuij iuajuii uuinu ouu namo I Whale in Deloware Bay AlfTT mTrttrxr Tl A Vvt t 1 f fully ninety feet long is in tho Delaware Bay and dees not seem to bo able to work its way out again At times it rises above tho surface creating a great dis turbance the shallow water being lashed into foam with the whale spouting like a geyser In all probability it has strayed from a school that was seen off Cape May Chair Manufacturers Chicago After a four days session tho Northwestern Chair Manufacturers Association ooncluded its work here H D Burkhardt of Toledo O was elected president- and A Raable of Chicago aec retary Tho old price list and rate of GATE UP HER LIFE BEATRICE E P Savage North Platte HAS A SAD SUICIDE CASE 9 OF Superintendent McKelvey of the State Industrial School for Girls Is Removed Richard Outcalt Ac quittedMorgan Sentenced to Hang Sad Ending of a Young Life Beatrice has a sensation in the shape of a suicide On the evening of November 29 a man and a woman got into a hack at the Burlington depot instructing the driver to take them to the Grand Central Hotel Upon their arrival at the hotel tho woman registered as Mrs Carrie Brown Keokuk Iowa the man request ing the clerk to register him as A F Tur ner but giving no place of residence At noon the following day Turner departed on a Burlington train The woman re mained at thehotel until last Saturday the last seen of her being at tho dinner hour She was uncommunicative and but little was known of her except that she claimed that she was expecting her hus band to arrive in the evening The fact that she did not appear at supper time occasioned no comment as it was sup posed she had gone to a train to meet her husband Not putting m an appearance the next morning the clerk went to her room and receiving no answer to a knock on the door climbed up and looked through the transom Seeing the bed had not been occupied it was decided that the woman had left town Atl oclock an entrance to the room was forced and the woman found lying dead upon the floor face down with a bullet hole in the right temple and an other in her left breast a 22 caliber re volver clasped in her hands At the coroners inquest the fact was re vealed that the deceased would soon have become a mother As far as psssible she had obliterated every trace of her iden but by the use of a glass the name Carrie Turner could be traced upon the cover of a writing tablet found in her trunk although an effort had been made to erase it There was also found in the bottom of her trunk a piece of wrapping paper which had plainiy written upon it A F Turner the name of the man regis tering at the hotel and riding up from the depot with her Delegates to Sidney The following delegates were appointed by Governor Ilolcomb to attend the third annual convention of the State Irrigation Association at Sidney December 18 and 19 as delegates at large 1 A Fort North Platte J II Earner Cozad John EBecker Kearney I C Condon Oma ha J K Yandemark Valparaiso Peter Erickson Brewster George HLawrence Genua W N Nason Omaha Colonel Sargent F C Patterson W L Hand Kearney F I Foss Crete E A Gerrard Monroe J H Nuckoll Lexington L C Stock ton Sidney L H Jewett Broken Bow John H Powers Cornell M A PDaugh erty Ogalalla J IJ Mockelt Lincoln E L Heath Rushville IRemove McKelvey and His Help After a protracted session at Lincoln the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings adopted a resolution removing J D McKelvey as superintendent of the State Industrial School for Girls at Gen eva and appointing in his place Rev J W Seabrook O W Paine of Long Pine was appointed bookkeeper to succeed Chris Jensen and Mrs Bohne of Milford matron in the place of Mrs J D McKelvy Outcalt Acquitted The federal jury has returned its ver dict in tho case of Richard Outcalt who was cashier of the Capital National Bank at Lincoln which failed in January 1893 Outcalt was charged with making false entries in the books to decieve the bank examiners ne was acquitted This is the bank of which C W Mosher now in the federal prison at Sioux Falls was president Prepared to Boom Their Town A meeting of the business men of Ne braska City was held in Memorial Hall for the purpose of considering propositions from several manufacturing enterprises which desire to locate there In a few moments enough money was subscribed to bring to the city a large factory for the manufacture of farming implements Much enthusiasm was displayed H H Hess Discharged H H Hess of Surprise who made an assignment some two months ago and was afterwards arrested on complaint of the Central National bank of David City charging him with obtaining money on false statements wasjdischarged by County Judge Hale there being no evidence in troduced in court to show that Hess was guilty of the charge Ex Treasurer Hill Acquitted The jury in the case before the supreme court at Lincoln in which the state sought to recover from ex Treasurer Hill and his bondsmen the sum of 236000 lost in the failure of the Capital National Bank in January 1S93 returned a verdict for the defense This is the end of the second irial of theease At a former trial the jury disagreed mproving Hastings Water Plant The new 300 foot ten inch well at the Hastings water works has been completed The test showed that the well under this process would throw as much water as the seven other wells are now throwing vith steam pumps A solid column of water from the live inch pipe was forced ut to the height of over thirty feet Terrible Struggle with a Bull The opportune arrival of his son with a gun saved S Hollings worths life one day recently while he was engaged in a tussel with a vicious bull on his farm near Te jumseh The fight had been in progress for some time and Hoi lings worth was al most exhausted when the boy brought the un into action and killed the bull Twelve-Year-Old Boy Thief John a 12-year-old son of Erastus Alls 3ian of Lincoln was arrested at Dorches ter on the charge of stealing a road cart harness and robe of Andrew Winkler A t he trial the boy pleaded guilty and will go to the reform school Meeting of State Dairymen The eleventh annual meeting of the tfebraska Dairymens Association will be held m the chapel of the State University at Lincoln on December 17 18 and 19 1895 Adams County Pioneers Meet The sixth annual meeting of the Adams County Old Settlers Association was held in Hastings at tho courthouse As the weather was fine there wasalarge attend- ance and it seemed as if every old settler in the county was present The super visor rooms were used for dining pur poses where about 200 old settlers ate dinner with their families Tho district court room was used for a meeting rodjni President Hanchett called the meeting to order and Rev Isham offered an appro priate invocation Secretary Brass then read the minutes of the previous meeting It was voted to hold the annual meeting in the court house in Hastings on Decern ber 12 3896 It was voted to hold an old settlers Fourth of July celebration at Flemmings Grove on the Blue It was also voted to appoint an executive com mittee of six instead of having a board of vice presidents as now with ono from each precinct Citizens Hunting Thieves J R Monroe living south of Plattsr mouth has reported the theft of twp horses from his place ono a black mare the other a brown mare The thief is described as being a man about 83 years of age 5 feet 10 inches high weight about 160 pounds with a red moustache Cass County offers a reward of 550 for the arm rest and conviction of tjie thief A large number of oitizens and farmery south and west of Plattsmouth have secretly organ ized for tne purpose of calling a halt on the petty thievery that has been going on for the past three weeks in that county It is said the society treasury contains a great deal of money for the above purpose which will be expended freely Must Vacate the Streets At a meeting of the city council in Boat rice an ordinance was introduced and passed to its second reading requiring telegraph telephone and electric light companies to remove all poles from the streets and place them in the allys An other ordinance was passed to Us second reading ordering a special election to I e held January 60 1896 whereat will be submitted the question of voting botid to the amount of 10000 for tho purpose of erecting and maintaining an electric light plant Wants Ten Thousand Damages Peter Halvorson a farmer living north west of Hastings filed suit in the district court for 10000 damages against tho Mis souri Pacific Railroad The plaintiff al leges that October 21 he was thrown from his wagon and run over by a train whjfe crossing the Missouri Pacific public cros sing He sustained a compound fracture of the bones of the left leg and other In juries He says that the crossing was in such bad condition as to cause the acci dent and therefore asks 10000- damages J S Jones Not Guilty of Murder The jury in the Jones murder case on trial at Lincoln returned a verdict of not guilty J S Jones was placed on trial for killing Constable Jerry Peck at the town of Martel nearly two years ago Since that time he has been out on bail The defense was self defense The shoot ing in which Peck met his death was the result of a quarre and evidence was ad duced at the trial that Peck had on sev eral occasions threatened the life of Jones York County Fugitive Surrenders Edward Long one of the two brothers who a few nighs ago at York assaulted Oliver Crowder while in company with a young lady surrendered to Sheriff Price Bail for his appearance December 19 was fixed at 500 which was furnished His brother Frank v ho is also charged with the assault or in fact as the complaint reads Shooting with attempt to kill has also been released on bail To Save Walkers Neck A petition asking the Governor to com mute the sentence of Walker to imprison ment for life is being exiensively signed in Lexington Walker is under sentence to be hanged January 12 A large num ber of people are convinced he 16 now crazy A death watch has been placed over the prisoner and some preliminary arrangements are being made for the ex ecution To Examine Gage County Books The Board of Supervisors in session at Beatrice adopted a resolution to employ an expert accountant to make an exami nation of the books in the offices of the clerk of the district court the county judge and sheriff those three officials re tiring from office the first of the year Tecumseh Thief Jailed William Gabriel a Tecumseh crook was caught in the act of stealing some millinery and run in by the police He pleaded guilty to theft in police court and was fined 50 in default of which he was committed to JaiL Heavy Loss of a Farmer by Fire A barn belonging to William Campbell five miles south of Wilsonville burned together with eight head of horses ana mules thirty head of hogs six tons of hay and several sets of harness the damage amounting to 2000 Hotel Porter Under Arrest George Abbott a porter at the Barker Hotel Omaha was arrested while at tempting to make away with 50 worth of clothing belonging to M Y Hedding Frontier County Agriculturalists The Frontier County Agricultural So ciety held its annual meeting at Stockville A M Stewart was elected president and L M Graham secretary Morgan Sentenced to Hang George Morgan who about a month aero raped and killed 10-year-old Ida Gaskil in Omaha was found guilty of murder and sentenced to hang Nebraska Short Notes Over 20000 head of sheep have been shipped into Gordon for winter feeding The Kearney cotton mills have resumed operations substituting steam for water power There is no water in the Kearney Canal and the inhabitants are patiently waiting for a freshet Miss Warston Kearneys young woma lawyer tried her maiden case recently and won it Old fashioned mule power has succeeded electricity as a motive power on the Beat rice street railway The Sioux City ONeil Western Rail way paid its 1893 taxes into the Pierce County treasury wich amounted to 3 32S69 together with over 600 interest H G Stewart a member of the Ne draska Senate who participated in the sensational encounter with the sergeant-at-arms last winter has entered the jour nalistic field and is now the editor of tho Crawford Beacon The beet syndicate at Yalley is contem plating a syrup factory to consume the beets it could not sell to the sugar factory It has enough beets to make about 70000 gallons of syrup A catamount or wildcat was killed about a mile north of Brownville last Monday by Ed Majors It is seldom one of these animals is now seen in this sec tion though in former years numbers were killed every year OLD ROMAN IS DEAD LIFEWORK OF ALLEN Q THUR MAN ENDED Surrounded by Loved One3 and Un conscious of Physical Distress the Great Mans Soul Takes Flight Twenty one Graves Robbed Due to a Fall Judge Allen G Thurman died in Colum bus Ohio shortly after 1 oclock Thurs day afternoon So peaceful was the end and so quietly did dissolution come tha the change was hardly noticoable to the loved ones who surrounded his bedside He had lived with his son Allen W jThurman since the death of his wifer several years ago and being unable to leave tho house he occupied apartments In the second story of the residence where he spent the last days of his life in a re markably pleasant and agreeable man ner The beginning of Judge Thurmans fatal illness dates from Nov 7 last when he fell heavily while walking across the library floor A few days after the fall his life was despaired of but he rallied from the shock and at times apparently seemed to have regained his old time vigor Nov 18 Judge Thurman was 84 years old and on that date several of his old friends called on him and had a pleas ant chat On that occasion he smoked st A cigar wun nis inenus anu seemeu un usually cheerful and bright Since the accident he had his good days and his bad ones He had been confined to his bod nearly all the time and his physician called on him daily That he was steadily growing weaker was apparent to all and it had been known for some time that hi lease of life could not be protracted much longer On account of his confinement to bed Judge Thurman began to be afflict ed with bed sore3 and in order to relieve this unpleasantness he at times sat np and stood up but he had not attempted to walk since his fall At 10 oclock on the day of his death Dr Whitaker founJ the patient gradually sinking He gave him a little water and whisky which was swallowed mechanically At the final scene all of the family were at his bed side He seemed to be free from all dis tress and during the morning hours all that the sorrowing family could do was to moisten his parched lips at intervals Those present at the death scene were Mr and Mrs Allen W Thurman and tho following grandchildren Lee Miss Katherine Allen G Jr Daniel C and Starling Thurman all children of Allen W Thurman The death of Allen G Thurman re moves a picturesque and impressive figuro from the ranks of the Democratic party During a long career in politics Mr Thur man had devoted most of his energy to tho public service in channels where i was most effective and the sum total of his endeavors imposes a large debt o gratitude upon the public at large Al though a Virginian by birth Mr Thur mans life work was done hi Ohio and it is with the Buckeye State that he is identified His service on behalf of the commonwealth was long and honorable including a term in Congress fonr years on tho State Supreme bench and a long and very creditable record in the Unitetl States Senate It was while in the Sen 1 ate that he won the sobriquet of Old Roman a title which his hung in popu lar memory as pertinaciously as did his maxim A tariff is a tax which he made the watchword of the campaign wherein he was defeated for the Viee Presidency He was born at Lynchburg Va in lS13r and removed to Chilicothe Ohio with his parents when six years of age Thurman was not a religious man in the strict sense and very often he was poetically profane yet both his private and public life was remarkable for its prrity Since the death of his wife two years ago he had been more secluded than ever He had felt her loss more than his stoical spirit would display yet his grief had been that of a philosopher Judge Thurman was a rich man The estate of his wife had been well managed and greatly increased The Thurman family has always been among the most aristo cratic in the State and the younger gen eration is prominent in the social circles of Columbus TWENTY ONE GRAVES ROBBED Conditions Developed by Investiga tion of Cemeteries Near Topeka - Fierce excitement prevails at Topeka Kan over the report that out of thirty graves examined in the Rochester and Catholic Cemeteries twenty one were found empty John Cuthbert a reputa ble man who has been with a party of men examining the graves of relatives brings this information and threats are made against the faculty and students of tne medical college Many of the medical students have left the city and several of- tne faculty have not been seen The col lege is in control of the police The Catholics of the city have been greatly aroused by the discovery of the bodies at the Kansas Medical College Rev Father Hayden has interested himself in the mat ter and denounces the college as a menace to the community Lawyers have been employed and the college authorities will be proceeded against t r4 1 L - snrkm i ujn F Th MeW W fc W John Boyd Thacher isnt nearly Ur medalsome as he should be Oscar Wildes humiliation is complete Zola has refused to sign a petition for his release If football games can bring in 40000 in gate receipts why dont Corbett and Fitzsimmons enter college Nebraska is now making whisky from beets This is reversing the usual plan of making beats from whisky That man Hayward must be thorough ly bad he will not even confess now that he has ever confessed South Carolina is a funny State they actually interfered and prevented a jyncnmg down tnere the other day Football may be an eminently proper game but nervous persons addicted to heart disease would do well to stick p checkers If Corbetts new piny jK to be as it I advertised a triumph of realism i will never do to give the star a striking Dart in it V- A