3S -- 1 I ii 1 J I w h 4 -- ii I k 1 lite fb Valentine tmotvni SUCCESSOR TO CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT ROBERT B GOOD - Editor Pbop VALENTINE fe The NEBRASKA HOME EULE EOE CUBA SPAIN CONSIDERING A SCHEME FOR SELF GOVERNMENT Move Believed to be Rather liate in the Day but is Expected to Please a Majority of Spaniards Black Plague in China Home Rule for Cuba A Madrid special to the New York World says The Madrid Government it Jias leaked out is about to try to steal a march on President Cleveland It is making preparation which it pre tends are voluntary to put into force in the West Indies same scheme of colonial nome rule based upon the bill which passed the Cortes in January 1895 The reforms will go into effect as soon as Gen Weyler guided by hints on the subject from the Spanish legation in Washington deems it expedient Military men and statesmen having colonial experience generally think it rather late in the day for this strategy But it is likely to please the majority oi the Spaniards and as they fancy their Government can thus avert American mediation by demonstrating to Europe and the American republics that Spain is disposed to make concessions to her colo nies The Madrid press reports that all the ministers strongly deny that this tardy move has been dictated by any indication Irom the United States Government 1 CO OPERATIVE FACTORIES Plan of Window Glass Workers to JigUt MajjTctujrers WattowGlaSs workers A5 socia lion the -Wealthiest labor organization in the world may decide to fight the facturers on equal grounds by erecting factories at various points to be run on the co operative plan This is the result of a determination of the manufacturers to close the factories throughout the coun try on May 29 The question will be sub mitted to a vote of the membership of the association after a meeting to be held this week It is proposed to push the matter -so that definite action can be taken at the convention which will doubless be held in July Master Workman Campbell says the idea is to erect six factories one each in Pennsylvania New York New Jersey Ohio Indiana and Illinois Black Plague in China The steamer Gaelic arrived at San Fran cisco from Hong Kong and Yokohama via Honolulu Owing to the prevalence oi the black plague in Hong Kong the steamer was sent to quarantine island The cabm passengers fifty in number were allowed ro land but the 200 steerage am n iasseijgers were kept on board A case of smallpox developed during the voyage from Yokohama to Honolulu and there was a case of black plague just before the steamer left Yokohama Most of the south China and island ports have de clared a quarantine against Hong Kong A case of plague is reported from Singa pore The German officers engaged in organ izing and drilling the new Chinese aririy at Nangkin were attacked and badly beaten by a Chinese mob News from Corea states that the Corean Icing is still domiciled at the Russian leg ation but that the Russians are endeavor dug to persuade him to return to his pal ace Outbreaks Among the Coreans against the Japanese are still frequent and a number of Japanese have been killed To Break the Match Trust Edward Irwin of Chicago attorney for a number of shorts in Diamond match deals has prepared a petition for an in formation praying for the dissolution of what he calls this most gigantic of all trusts Mr Irwin has a big bundle containing the record of this trust in other states notably Michigan and Wisconsin Mr Irwin claims that the match combine in some respects resembles the -Fund W scheme and that it also is a public foe in that it has a monopoly of the match busi ness for the country and can -charge any price it chooses for this household neces sity There has been no effort to prose cute by indictment the officers of a trust or combine in Chicago though they are known to exist and the law on the sub ject seems clear A prosecution against a trust would be watched with public in terest Wires Must Go Underground The municipal assembly of St Louis lias passed a bill to bury overhead wires The bill requires that all wires go under ground July 1 1900 except messenger call clock burglar alarm and wires of that character which are not strung on poles and insulated Corca Seeking a Loan A Corean envoy has been dispatched from Yokohamato St Petersburg to nego tiate a loan of 8000000 giving Honig yong the northern province of Corea as security Balloons for the English Army Two balloon sections have been ordered 2t Aldershot one for Suakim and the other for the expedition on the Nile Pope as Mediator A Pall Mall Gazettes Rome dispatch says The papal nuncio at Madrid has been instructed to propose a mediation of the pope to bring about a settlement of the troubles in Cuba or urge on Spain the acceptance of Clevelands reported offer of mediation He Cheats the Gallows Charles Morris the confessed murderer of Mr and Mrs Douthetts suicided at Xenia Ohio by cutting his throat when told to get ready to go to Columbua to be fcanged FITZ IS NEARLY KILLED Prize Fighter Has a Very Narrow Escape from Electrocution Robert Fiztsiramons the prize fighter tame within an inch of being electrocuted the other night at Cleveland Ohio As it was his pet lion Nero was killed and Fitzsimmons severely shocked and quite seriously injured On account of the extremely warm iveather the lion was taken to the roof of Rumseys gymnasium on Erie Street vhere he was chained up Shortly after Midnight Fitzsimmons accompanied by Ernest Rober the wrestler and Lewis Robertson an attache of the gymnasium went up on the roof to see the animal On reaching the roof Fitzsimmons called to the lion which upon hearing his mas ters voice sprang forward to the length of his chain and over some electric light wires Showers of sparks followed the contact of the chain with the wires The lion received a shock and again jumped toward Fitzsimmons who sprang back against the wall of an adjoining building The lion sprang past him drawing his chain taught across the pugilists thighs who cringed under the severe shock In his agony the lion leaped over the edge of the roof and hung by his neck Fitzsim mons was pulled from under the chain and removed to his hotel There is a burn across his thighs and a small burn on the knuckle of the index finger of his right hand That is all the visible evi dence of the terrible ordeal although Fitz was in a dazed condition over an hour When the lion was pulled up from the side of the building where he had been suspended he was dead THE WEATHER HELPS TRADE General Improvement in Retail Busi ness the Past Week R G Dun Cos Weekly Review of Trade says The sudden change from sleighing to midsummer heat with fair business in most cities has raised the prevalent idea that good weather only was needed to bring general improvment of business Sales of wool for the two weeks of April at the three chief markets have been only 5464000 pounds against 11559200 last year and 10182500 in 1892 Somewhat more demand for staple cottons has been aroused by bargain prices but the closing of many millsfor a time is urged as neces sary and one of the largest and oldest mills the Lawrence abandons production of heavy goods and turns to hosiery Wheat rose about 5 cents last week met some reaction but is a shade higher than a week ago Later accounts are more promising as to winter wheat and west ern receipts in the two weeks of April are 8838502 bushels against 2234917 last year while Atlantic exports for the same weeks have been only 2301917 bushels flour included against 3718888 last year The small exports so late in the season and western receipts proving that the yield last year much exceeded any esti mates have left little confidence in pre dictions of scarcity After remaining un changed for many days rumors either way having no effect cotton rose a six teenth CALIFORNIA HAS A FROST OrchardsintlfiTCenter of- the UState Damaged by Cold Weather Dispatches from Fresno Cal says that serious damage was done in the vineyards there and that the frosts will cause a short raisin crop Two thirds of the grape crop in the vicinity of Calistoga was de stroyed and fruits of all kinds suffered to some extent Cherries apricots and prunes suffered from frost in the vicinity of San Jose and the ranchers arc dis couraged over the prospects of the sea sons crop The frost had a killing effect on grape vines in the vicinity of Stockton and the vineyard men declare that there will not be half a crop of grapes from the neighboring counties American Arrested in Cuba The State Department at Washington has received a cablegram from Consul General Williams at Havana announcing the arrest of the Protestant bishop Al berto Jesus Diaz well known throughout the south and to many church people in all parts of the United States Diaz is a naturalized American of strong Cuban sympathies but his friends deny that he has participated in the rebellion Stock Drowned A storm which swept the western part of Yernon County Wis April 17 was the worst in twenty years Farms were washed into ridges and valleys and barns granaries and other buildings were swept away A dreat deal of live stock is reported to have been drowned in the Bad Ax Valley The loss is estimated at 20000 An Indian Village Submerged The village of the Indians on the Bad River Reservation near Odanah Wis was flooded by overflowing streams The entire -village was under water for two hours No lives were lost but a great deal of valuable property was destroyed The town is in danger of being swept away Sweden to Raise the Duty on Pork The Secretary of Agriculture is in re ceipt of advices from the United States Minister at Stockholm Sweden that the irksdad voted to increase the custom rates on smoked pork to 30 ore per kilo and on pork of other kinds to 20 ore One hun dred ore equals 268 cents of our money Pardridge Is Dead Edward Pardridge of Chicago the fa mous board of trade plunger who by con stantly taking the bear side did more probably than any other man in the country to depress prices of grain died Friday of Brights disease Old St Louis Shoe House Assigns The C W Parish Shoe Company one of the oldest in St Louis made an assign ment of its entire stock and fixtures valued at 30000 for the benefit of its creditors No statement of the liabilities is given m Alaska Mine Explosion The steamer Willapa from Alaska brings news to Seattle Wash of a ter rific explosion in the new tunnel between the Treadwell and Mexican Mines Four men were killed MONSTER STRIKE LIKELY Federation of Labor Preparing foi the Eight Hour Struggle- A special from Boston to the Chicagc Record says As the result of the eight hour proclamation recently issued by the executive council of the American Feder ation of Labor plans have been prepared for a monster strike which is planned to extend to New York Chicago St Louis Portland and all the cities where the force of such a move would be most keenly felt The strike will be for the enforcement of the eightv hour work day which is now refused President Gom pers and Secretary McGuire of the feder ation will be here soon to confer with the leaders They have been ascertaining the strength of the unions and advance reports from them say that the unions are prepared financially It can be safely predicted that at the least computation 60000 men will he in volved in the strike and if once started the labor leaders say it will tax the re sources to the greatest extent to prevent such scenes as were enacted in Chicago or still worse as were witnessed in the Homestead affair KILLS DEADLY GERMS Diphtheria and Typhoid Baccilli Succumb to Roentgen Rays Profs H P Pratt and Hugh Wightman of Chicago have announced to the world that diphtheria and typhoid germs are ab solutely killed by the Roentgen ray This statement is made without reserve The decision was reached when the last germs which had been exposed to the ray failed to show signs of life under the glass the deadly bacilli remaining idle and inactive in the midst of the best and most tempting imitation of the human tissue Prof Wightman prepared four new colonies of epidemic breeders They were labeled as cholera tuberculosis hog cholera and diphtheria germs The wo physicians are risking their professional reputations by the prophecy that no one of the four groups will ever be able to recover They are certain of the effect on the diphtheria germs and confident concerning the other three BATTLE OF SAN CLAUDIO Spanish Troops Saved from Defeat by a Gunboat Details of the battle between the Ai fonzo III battalion and the insurgents under Maceo at San Claudio show that a Spanish gunboat which so opportunely went to the assistance of the troops found the latter had been forced to retreat be fore an overwhelming force of 5000 in surgents The Alerta heard the firing while cruis ing off the coast and headed for San Claudio where the warship found the Al fonzo III men barricaded in houses in and about the little port A hot tire was opened upon Maceos forces from the gun boat and the insurgents beat a hasty re treat over the hills and disappeared SAW FOUND IN HIS CELL William Taylor Again Plots to Es cape from Jail In the ceil of William Taylor the Meeics family murderer taken to Kaiisas City from Carrollton Mo to prevent a lynch ing Marshal Keshler found a steel saw eight inches long and a half an inch wide It was concealed in an old satchel brought from Carrollton by Taylor With the tool Taylor would have been able to saw his way out within half an hour could he have worked uninterruptedly for that length of time After making the discovery Marshal Keshler ordered two deputy marshali to watch the murderers cell day and night and refused to allow him to see anyone but his lawyers MAINE FOR REED Made the Unanimous Choice of an Enthusiastic Convention The Republican state convention held at Portland Maine to choose delegates to the national convention was very enthus iastic The enthusiasm center was the name of Thos B Reed the unanimous choice of the convention as a candidate for President of the United States Reed buttons were everywhere During the delivery of a stirring address by the chair man the mention of Reeds name caused an outburst of applause lasting five min utes Bulawayo Reported Captured It is reported in London that Bulawayo has been captured by the Matabeles A dispatch from Aldershot says the Middle sex regiment has been ordered to start immediately for South Africa Consider ablelanxiety is felt in London regarding the situation The Government is openly blamed for inaction A Boundary Row Settled Argentine and Chilli have reached an agreement on the boundary question The question of granting a port on the Pacific ocean has yet to be considered Eva Booth Appointed Commander Eva Booth the youngest daughter of Gen Booth has been appointed com mandant of the Salvation Army in Can ada and Newfoundland MARKET QUOTATIONS Sioux City Cattle Stockers and feed ers 300 to 360 Hogs Prices ranging from to 340 Grain Wheat 50c to 52c corn 153 to 18c oats 16c to 10c rye 20c to 25c hay 450 to 5600 but ter 14c to 15c eggs 7c Chicago Cattle Beet steers 315 to 450 stockers and feeders 320 to 380 llogs Prices ranging from 350 to 395 Grainr Wheat No 2 spring 64c No 3 spring G5c to 65Jc No 2 red 6Sc to mc corn No Z SOc to 30o No 2 ellov 30Kc to 30c cats No 2 19c No 2 white 19c to 20c No 3 white 190 to 22c rye No 2 37c flax seed No 1 92c timothy seed 320 Kansas City Cattle Beef steers 310 to 400 stockers and feeders 310 to 380 llogs Prices ranging from 310 to 845 Sheep 250 to 400 South Omaha Cattle Beef steers 320 to 400 stockers and feeders 275 to 375 Hogs Prices ranging from 320 to 345 Minneapolis Grain Wheat Aprii 63c May 61c July 63c No 1 hard on track 68c No 1 Northern 62c BIG BOW AT THE END SECRETARY CARLISLE SPEAKS IN CHICAGO ITree Silver Advocates Create a Scene at the Meeting They Fire a Volley of Questions at the Speaker Police Take a Hand in Affairs Carlisle at Chicago Secretary of the Treasury John G Carlisle addressed an audience in the Chi cago Auditorium for nearly two hours Wednesday night on the financial ques tion Gold was down on the program and had the platform Silver was down on gold and had the fun Altogether says a correspondent the address of the gold advocate was as near a Harvey Horr de bate as the friends of the white metal could make it And it only wanted a little more warm blood and a little less police to end in a row Mr Carlisle had held his long and august form in the vision of the people for two hours when the silver men began Then the lights went out and that ended the incipient debate They began this way Mr Carlisle had just thanked the people for listening to him Col J C Roberts a prominent member of the Peo ples party and one of the editors of the National Bimetallism who had stumped the South for Mr Carlisle in the days when the Secretary talked not of gold but of silver arose in his seat and in a voice that was heard above the din of IZXtf L3Sf32ua2 sAww ss of the intended invitation they immediate ly sent out for the representatives of the association and firmly demanded that no such invitation should he issued RED LAKE RESERVATION Grand Hush for Homes to Take Place on May 15 In an irregular rectangle in northwest ern Minnesota with a length of 112 miles and a breadth of 100 with a fron tier of about 500 and containing 900000 acres ready for settlement is the great Bed Lake reservation the last of the large northwestern Indian reservations It is to be opened to the settler on May 15 The entire reserve consists of about 4000000 acres but much of it contains pine and will not be allowed for settlement while more is to be reserved for the 1500 In dians of the Red Lake Chippewas and will not come into the market until the band is wiped out or has become suffi ciently civilized to take and improve al lotments and cease to be the ward of the nation The reservation is virgin territory of meadow oak openings reclaimable bog prairie and brush lands an unbroken wil derness of pine and hardwood forest of tamarack cedar and spruce swamp of muskeg and of lake brook and river Save the freighters roads to and from the trad ing post at the agency at the south shore of the lake in the center of the lands and the marks of the surveyors ax and scribe on section line3 and corners there are no signs of the intrusion of the white man on this the greatest hunting and fishing ground held for the northwestern Indians Were it not for the prevalent industrial and financial depression there would be a rush to this promised land as great as was - Vifct fl f CAH6 Of ytiTTSON roscau W00A JKlii r l I 1 JCA S J 1 1 f II f t 4 MAP WHIT fARTh RESERVlTlOAf OF THE cheering and other noises demanded the attention of the chairman M J Carroll who had called upon Secretary Grady to read a resolution thanking Mr Carlisle for having accepted the invitation of trade unionists to address them I desire to ask Mr Carlisle said Col Roberts to answer one question said the people and Mr Carlisle did not turn his retreating form M J Carroll who had not called for short words of testimony in closing jump ed up with the resolutions in his hand Whereas he began Why dont you let the speaker answer the question shouted another man ris ing in an excited little group a Whereas Mr Chairman why dont you- The whereas seemed to have it and the resolution which advised all the work ingmen to read Mr Carlisles speech and voted him unlimited thanks was read al though for the rising din it might as well have been Weylers proclamation The groups of silver men who were intent upon asking the question were noisy and belligerent But two policemen had Col Roberts in their eyes and found him and conducted the Populist to the rear Chairman Carroll finally managed to put the resolution of thanks to a vote There were thunderous yeas but the noes would have carried any ordinary caucus Little whirlpools of turmoil were forming in different parts of the house and the policemen were kept busy The crowd too was moving homeward Hurrah for Eugene V Debs any way yelled a silver man This called forth a vigorous response Hurrah for John G Carlisle shouted a gold man in the gallery The house was plainly gold By this time the police had circulated their rotund forms quite thoroughly and the belligerents were quieted The question which they wanted to ask and for which Col Roberts rose related to Carlisles speech in 1878 when he pro nounced the demonetization of silver the most gigantic crime of this or any other age which would ultimately entail more misery upon the human race than all the wars pestilence and famine that ever oc curred in the history of the world The silverites had fun earlier in the evening by distributing the following trib ute to Mr Carlisle until the police stop ped them John G Carlisle of Kentucky after a lifetime devoted to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 was sud denly converted in 1893 to the gold stand ard in order to secure a seat in Cleve lands cabinet He now comes here fresh from the banquet tables of the Wall street gold bugs to tell the idle and starving work ingmen of Chicago how they may be suc cessfully robbed by the gold bugs for the uext four years DEBS BARRED OUT Faculty of Chicago University Re fuses to Iet Him Address Students Division of opinion and not a little feel ing has been aroused among the students of the Chicago University by the decision of the faculty in barring E V Debs from speaking to the students some time dur ing the next quarter At a meeting of the local oratorical association it was agreed to invite the labor leader When the members of the faculty were apprised w f - dxV m4 HuBBAft v 1 county RESERVATION that at the opening of the Oklahoma coun try and as it is there is the greatest move ment of people that the Northwest has ever seen German and Scandinavian farmers are in the majority of incomers The States of Iowa Minnesota and Dakota have furnished the largest quota Southern Michigan the Dunkard colonies of In diana Nebraska and even the New Eng land States are looked on to be represent ed later by hundreds of colonists The Red Lake lands are beautiful for situation well watered by streams whose sources are in never failing springs while ten to fifteen feet will tap the underground veins in any part of the lands to be open ed There is no danger of drouth There are no prettier locations for homes in all the West than on the streams that the Red Lake Indians have so zealously guarded for these many years and are now about to give up Around the streams and bordering the lakes is the timber growth which next to the meadow grass will yield to the fortunate possessor the most ample returns until the cleared land may produce crops This timbered growth comprises all the woods common to the North poplar predominating and all in a thrifty condition The timber is inter spersed with hazel bushes an unfailing sign of excellent soil Several railroads are preparing to cross the lands in the near future most of them running to the Lake Superior entrepot of Duluth which will give the finest market in the North west to the grain and produce raised Among these roads is the Farmers Rail road of the North Dakota agriculturists under the lead of D W Hines The opening of this reservation will have widespread results It will push the frontier into Canada it will settle the vacant lands in northern Minnesota and make them tributary to the wholesalers of Minneapolis St Paul and Duluth it will double the population of the sur rounding towns in a month it will add 25000 people to the census of Minnesota in the first year it will infuse new blood and new life into the farming communi ties of the Northwest jyBBJ if ifiy fnWBHBPffr GEN FITZHUGH LEE Something of the Newly Appointed1 Consul General to Cuba Gen Fitzhugh Lee the newly appointed consul general to Cuba is a nephew oi Gen Robert E Lee and served under the GEX FITZnUGH LEE and looking well great Confederate leader during the war of the rebellion He was born in 1835 at Clermont Fairfax County Virginia and was graduated from the military academy in 1856 Commissioned as lieutenant in the Second cavalry he went to the fron tier was severely wounded by the Indians and was recalled to be instructor of cav alry at West Point When the war came Lieut Lee resigned his commission and joined the Confederate cause At first he did staff duty and was adjutant gen eral of Ewells brigade In September 1861 he was made lieutenant colonel of the First Virginia cavalry and soon af terward was promoted to be colonel He served in all the campaigns of the army of northern Virginia In 1SG2 Lee was made a brigadier general and a major general in 1803 At Winchester in 1864 he was disabled by a severe wound which kept him from duty for several months In 1S65 he was placed in command of the whale cavalry corps of the army of north ern Virginia and a month later surren dered to Gen Meade at Farmville and re tired to his Virginia home In 1865 he was elected Governor of Virginia Gen Lee goes to Cuba with absolute liberty to travel about wherever he pleases unob structed and unrestricted by the Span iards Should the President desire any in formation concerning the state of affairs in Cuba the new consul general will he in a position to gather it It is known that Gen Lee while being a fair man warm ly sympathizes with the insurgents FARM WORK PROGRESSING Weekly Reports of the Weather Bu reau Coverinc Crop Prospects The Weather Bureau in summing up the situation in weather and crop circles says that in the Southern States the wek has been generally favorable for fafm work which has made good progress In the more Northern districts owing to the lateness of the season farming operations are much delayed but are being pushed forward as rapidly as possible Cotton planting is now quite general in the north ern portion of the cotton belt is well ad vanced in tne southern portion and the early planted is coming up In Florida it is nearly finished Winter wheat isre ported in excellent condition in Nebraska and eastern Kansas j and much improved m in Iowa Missouri kansas Tennessee and northern Illinois Less favorable reports are received from Wisconsin Michigan Ohio West Vir ginia Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania and New York in some of which States it has been winter killed and is in poor condition No corn has yet been planted north of the Ohio river but some planting has been done as far north as Kentucky and Virginia West of the Mississippi some corn has been planted as far north as southern Nebraska Planting is nearly completed in Oklahoma and is in progress in Missouri In Illinois and Indiana plow ing for corn is general In the Southern States corn planting pleted is practically com START A BLAND BOOM Missouri Democrats Declare for Free Silver Coinajce R P Blands boom for the presidential nomination on a free coinage of silver platform was launched with great enthu siasm by the V Iw v r E THREE KINGS IN COUNCIL s o u r i Democratic State convention at Sedalia It was the largest gathering of J the party ever held in the State for in addition to the 535 delegates over 2000 visitors were pres ent Chairman P BLAND fitt of the Stntn Cen tral Committee called the convention to order in Woods Opera House at 1230 oclock After prayer by Rev J S Mey er ex Congressman William M Hatch was announced as temporary chairman and Jeff Pollard of St Lonis as tempo rary secretary Mr Hatch made a spir ited address and throughout its delivery was cheered long and loud The mention of Mr Blands name as one of the most valuable and faithful of Democrats brought forth a flood of applause and cheers Mr Hatch hoped the Chicago convention would adopt an unequivocal silver platform Heads of the Triple Alliance Who Held an Important Conference at Naples ILast Week lf MtilAtkXToflfacilm yMuWJr s vi x y A 1