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SEVERAL TOWNS VISITED
DESTRUCTIVE STORMS
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Horses and Cattle Killed and Fine
llesidences Blown to Atoms Forest
Fires Do Much Damage in West
Virginia Six Shot in a Riot
Tornado in Kansas
At 5 oclock Sunday evening a terrific
tornado swept down on the town of
Frankfort Kau from the southwest
Everything in the north and west ends of
town was completely wrecked Some of
the best residences of the city were blown
to atoms Reports coming in from the
country where heavy damage has been
done will materially swell the loss
Many are reported painfully injured but
so far as known no one has been killed
Many horses and cattle have been killed
The Methodist and Christian churches
were demolished and the Presbyterian
Church was badly wrecked A score of
people are left homeless and are being
cared for in public halls and in the homes
of more fortunate citizens
A report from Topeka Kan says A
tornado struck the north part of the town
of Sabetha a small place northeast of
here near the Nebraska line late Sunday
evening destroying the Grand Island rail
road depot an elevator and about twenty
residences Twenty or twenty five peo
ple were injured several of whom will
die Twenty families were rendered
homeless losing all they had
FOREST FIRES
Immense Damage Being Done
by
Them in West Virginia
Hundreds of men from all sections
bravely but ineffectually fought the forest
fires which at 7 oclock Sunday night
after continuing forty hours burned more
fiercely than ever Lumbermen who
estimated the probable loss at 5500000
state that amount has been exceeded and
are unwilling to make any further pre
dictions of the loss The Middle Fork
tract is completely wiped out The ad
joining forest is burning with indications
that the entire county including the
towns and villages will be devastated
unless a rain prevents The weather is
dry the high winds continue and the at
mosphere is stilling with smoke and heat
Women and children in the mountain
villages are preparing to flee from their
homes for refuge in the larger towns
The fires started in several places at the
same time from no known cause It is
now thought to have been the work of in
cendiaries who are seeking revenge
against the new owners So far as known
no lives have yet been lost
SIX SHOT IN A RIOT
Drunken Italians Break Up a Ball
Game at Macadoo Pa
Six persons were shot and a number of
bthers seriously injured in a riot at Maca
doo a town four miles from Hazleton
Pa A game of baseball was in progress
when a gang of drunken Italians charged
upon the players and spectators with re
volvers clubs and stones A few days
-before an Italian had been arrested for
assault A number of young men took
him from the constable and unmercifully
beat him The Italians threatened re
venge and carried out the threat The
first inning had just been finished when
there was a pistol shot followed by a
promiscuous discharge of fire arms The
crowd attempted to run away but the
Italians chased them discharging their
pistols and throwing stones The foreign
ers were almost mad with rage and blazed
away incessantly until the police arrived
jWard who was catching was seriously
injured and is in a critical condition
Duel with Jackknives
Two farmers from Platte County Mis
souri engaged in a duel to the death with
pocketknives in a saloon at Leaven worth
iKas John Hornbuckle was so badly
slashed and stabbed that he died within a
jfew minutes Stone Steward was fright
iully wounded The men had been friends
and came to town together but became
lintoxicated and quarreled and fought over
a transaction a year ago
Wealthy Frisco Woman Shot
Mrs Philopena Langfeldt a weathy
widow aged 61 was found dead at San
Francisco Her throat was cut and the
Tooni covered with blood Her money
and jewels were gone A young man
giving the name of Blanther recently
ifrom Mexico who had been playing cards
rwith her is suspected The police are
Qooking for him
Dead With a Hole in His Head
Samuel Meiswanger a cattle buyer was
jfound dead in his buggy at Dayton Ohio
with a bullet hole in his head Bertie Mc
jDonald of Brookville has been arrested
and admits that she fired at him in the
dark the other night as he drove away
jfrom her saloon The horse went on to
iDayton a distance of ten miles
Killed hy Lightning
While fishing Charles Brought and
William Cook of Hojden Mo took ref
bge during a storm under a large tree
-which was struck by lightning and both
were killed instantly A younger brother
of Cook was present and received a severe
shock
Broken Denver Bank
It is learned that the federal grand jury
has found three indictments against John
J Riethmann sr John Riethmann jr
Charles McClintock and Charles Kunse
miller jr officials of the defunct Ger
man National Bank of Denver making
sensational charges against them
Oklahoma Bank Fails
The Jirst National Bank at El Reno
Oklahoma has closed it doors The officers
depoaitbrs will be paid in full
cers say
flLhe asset and liabilities are unknown
arelpposedto he about equal
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SCORES ARE KILLED
Terrible Cyclone Strikes the Town
of Sherman Texas
A dispatch dated May 15 from Sher
man Texas says Just a few minutes
before 5 this evening a cyclone not ex
ceeding two blocks in width but carrying
widespread destruction and death in its
wake swept through the western half of
the city traveling almost directly north
The approach of the terrific whirlwind
rwas announced by a deep rumbling noise
uot unlike reverberating thunder A
fierce and driving rain accompanied it
Late to night it is reported that forty
people have been killed south of town in
addition to the citys death list Wagons
are unloading the dead and injured every
moment
The clouds when first observed were
parted at the lower side converging into
a perfect funnel shape while a boil
ing seething mass of vaporous
clouds was rapidly revolving in the rift
The air was suddenly filled with trees
and twigs and the downpour of rain
brought with if a deluge of mud from the
point where it seemed to have first de
scended to where it suddenly arose from
the ground just north of the city It left
terrific marks of its passage not a house
In its pathway escaping not a tree or a
shrub left standing or that is not twisted
and torn out of shape Fences are gone
The iron bridge on Houston Street is com
pletely wrecked and blown away not
withstanding its hundreds of thousands of
pounds of steel and material The num
ber of persons wounded will reach not
less than one hundred and it will be
several days before the exact number of
fatalities can be given as many persons
especially children are missing and many
of the injured are in such critical shape
that a score may die before morning
Denton Tex May 15 A tornado
struck the town of Gribble Springs eight
miles north of Denton this afternoon
Four persons were killed and five others
so badly injured that they cannot live
The property damage is great
Justin Tex May 15 A cyclone struck
the town of Justin to day at 220 p m
blowing twelve houses down killing W
J Evans of Keller Tex and badly in
juring seventeen others The storm also
did much damage north of here
WAITING SPIRIT IN TRADE
Little Change Looked for Now for
Several Months
R G Dun Cos Weekly Review of
Trade says It is now the middle of May
too late for business to change materially
until the prospects of coming crops are
assured and definite shape has been given
to the presidential contest by the con
vention There is a prudent disinclina
tion to produce much beyond orders or
to order beyond immediate and certain
needs If this waiting spirit prevails two
months longer it will crowd into the last
half of the year an enormous business if
the outlook then is good For the present
there is less business on the whole than a
year ago though in some branches more
and the delay following months of de
pressions is to many trying and causes
numerous failures
Failures for the week have been 224 in
the United States against 211 last year
and 33 in Canada against 37 last year
The Indiana Gerrymander
The Indiana supreme court has reversed
the finding of the lower court which held
that the legislative apportionment enacted
by the Democratic Legislature of 1885 was
unconstitutional Therefore the members
of the Legislature to be elected next No
vember will be chosen under that law It
was claimed this apportionment was 9
gerrymander but the court did not enter
into that phase of it
All in the Interests of Reform
Free fights followed the meeting of the
common council at Hammond lnd a few
nights ago A mob of angry cirizens be
came aroused to fury by the councilmens
action and precipitated a hand-to-hand
battle The measure that caused the
trouble was a bill to redistrict the city
Free All hut Five
It was reported on the London stock
exchange that the Johannesburg reform
prisoners except the five leaders have
been released subject to three years po
lice supervising There are fifty -nine of
them They are under sentence of two
years imprisonment and 10000 fine
Armenians Arrested and Tortured
A dispatch to the London Daily News
from Berlin says The Constantinople
correspondent of the Nessische Zeitung
reports that the Sultans fears of assas
sination have led to wholesale arrests of
Armenians who are barbarously tortured
to force confessions from them
Oregon Beats the Worlds Record
On its official trip the battleship Oregon
made a world breaking record of 1778
knots an hour getting a bonus of 175
000 The machinery ran smoothly from
start to finish and there was not the
slightest accident
Attempted Suicide
Charles Taylor a prisoner in the county
jail at Rawlins Wyoming attempted to
commit suicide by slashing his left arm
with a razor He is suffering with heart
disease and said he wished to end the
matter quickly
British Steamer Ashore
The British steamer Woolwich Captain
Raebbin which sailed from New York on
April 5 for Jeddap Aden Signapore etc
and which passed Port Said on May 6 is
ashore on reefs
Deporting Canadian Cree Indians
The President has approved the act
making provision for the deportation of
Canadian Cree Indians from Montana and
their delivery to the Canadian authorities
Cholera Cases Increasing
An Alexandria Egypt dispatch of jthe
13th says There have been sixty three
new cases of cholera and twenty two
deaths in the past twenty four hours
Weyler Extends His Offer
Capt Gen Weyler has prolonged in
definitely the period given the insurgents
in which to surrender and obtain pardon
Forty Arrests for Lose Majeste
Forty arrests have been made for lese
majeste at Frankfort-on-the-Main
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DA SHBGHT
BANK KOBBJBT
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turner uounu l ana GnggtO
and
sjaxwuu stolen
One of the most daring bank robberies
which ever occurred in Xlifnois was at
Buffalo thirteen miles from ftpriimfield
I on the 14th the cashier being bound and
gagged and 11000 carried oif by the rob
bers Two masked men entered the bank
just as Carl Kloppenburg tire cashier
was locking up the safe preparatory to
going to his dinner Kloppenburg was
the only person in the bank at the time
The robbers seized him from behind
bound and gagged him and then took all
the money in the bank amounting to 11
000 William P Dawson who entered
the bank some time later saw Kloppen
burg lying on the floor bound and re
leased him Kloppenburg could give but
a meager description of the robbers It is
though they are experts at the business
The country was scoured by mounted men
without success
NOT ALLOWED flPO LAND
Passengers from Havana Detained
at Hoffman Island
The steamer Segueranca arrived at New
York on the 14th from Havana bringing
fifty three cabin passengers Eighteen
passengers were ttnable to produce cer
tificates of acclimatization from the United
States medical inspector at Havana and
were transferred to Hoffman Island
where they will be detained Among the
detained passengers are Creelman Law
rence and Biddle Cuban war correspond
ents for New York City newspapers who
were ordered to leave Havana by Gen
Weyler The correspondents were most
anxious to proceed to the city but the
health officer would not allow them to go
They were sent to Hoffman Island in the
lower bay
BICYCLE GOSPEL BRIGADE
One Being Organized Among
the
Salvationists at Washington
The bicycle is to be adopted by the Sal
vation Army Staff Captain Blanche Cox
who went to Washington recently to com
mand the army in Delaware Maryland
Virginia and the District of Columbia is
organizing a bicycle brigade with which
she will travel through the states
under her jurisdiction and endeavor to
gain as many recruits as possible for the
army
Washakies Slayers Indicted
The United States grand jury at Chey
enne Wyo found indictments against
William Lamoreux and B F Odell for
the murder of Jim Washakie a sub chief
of the Shoshones and grandson of Chief
Washakie of that tribe Washakie was
shot and killed while trying to recover his
wife whom Lamoreux and Odell had
kidnapped Lamoreux is the halfbreed
son of Jules Lamoreux one of the wealth
iest stockmen of central Wyoming The
men will be tried in July
Proves Fatal to Two
Mary Eismann a servant employed by
James Allan Clark of San Francisco
committed suicide by asphyxiation turn
ing on the gas in the kitchen and her ad
joining bed room Clark who was 80
years of age needed the girls attention
and receiving no answer to his calls went
into the kitchen closing the door behind
him Being very feeble he was quickly
overcome by the gas and was found dead
on the floor a few feet from the body of
his servant
Whipped Till Blood Flowed
Austin Pusley a negro near South Mc
Alester I T received 100 lashes and
John Prola an intermarried white citizen
thirty nine lashes on their bare backs
Pusley was charged with larceny and
Prola with selling coal contrary to law
The lashes were laid on by a Choctaw
sheriff who applied hickory switches
with such vigor that the blood spurted in
streams In order to add to the prisoners
agony salt water was used to wash their
wounds
His Life for a Pair of Spectacles
Peter Russell a farmer living near
Attica Mich committed suicide On re
turning home from work he found his
wife had bought a pair of spectacles from
an agent Hot words ensued Russell
took his revolver and shot it off through
the door His wife entreated himtopuc
up the weapon and he told her to leave
the room and he would do so As she
turned to go he placed the weapon behind
his ear and blew out his brains
Gormans Amendment Beaten
The Senate on the 18th defeated 40 to
23 Senator Gormans amendment to the
river and harbor bill limiting expendi
tures under contract to 10000000 annu
ally
Would Not Stand a Reduction
About 100 employes of the Salem Knit
ting works which are owned by John P
Sheppard went on a strike on the 14th on
account of a reduction in wages
Anti Missionary Riot
An anti missionary riot broke out at
Kiang H Yin China The British mis
sion was looted and burned The mis
sionaries escaped
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Sioux City Cattle Stockers and feed
ers 5340 to 380 Hogs Prices ranging
from 305 to 3224 Grain AVheat 48c
to 50c corn 18e to 21c oats 14c to 15c
rye 25c flax 80c hay 450 to 550 but
ter 14c to 15c eggs 7c
Chicago Cattle Beet steers 345 to
485 stockers and feeders 300 to 390
Hogs Prices ranging from 305 to 355
Grain Wheat No 2 spring 62c No
3 spring 65c to 65c No 2 red C6c to
tjfic corn No 2 29c to 29sc No 2
yellow 29Kc to 29Kc oats No 2 19c
No 2 white 21c to 21c No 3 white
21c to 21c rye No 2 36Xc flax seed
No 1 86c timothy seed 830
Kansas City Cattle Beef steers 300
to 400 stockers and feeders 275 to
400 Hogs Prices ranging from 250
to 330 Sheep 250 to 355
South Omaha Cattle Beef steers 340
to 400 stockers and feeders 300 tc
400 Hogs Prices ranging from 31C
to 325
Minneapolis Grain Wheat May
60c Juty 0034c to 60c No 1 hajd on
j track Glc No 1 Northern 60c
OF A GitEAT STATE
NEWS
from All parts
nebraska
OF
Farmer and Son Injured hy Being
Dragged hy a Runaway Team The
Latter Has Nearly all the Ribs on
One Side Stove In
Farmer and Hjs Son Hurt
An accident occurred on the Hill ranch
four miles north of Cowles the other even
ing Mr Hill wis trying to pull the
clevis pin which held three horses to a
lister when the horses at whose heads
Hills son Harry was standing became
frightened and plunged forward knock
ing Harry to the ground Hills foot
caught in the machine and the horses ran
away dragging him by the leg The boy
was caught in front of the machine and
dragged some distance when it passed
Dver his body The horses stopped at a
wire fence and Hill released himself and
went back and carried the boy to the
house but no signs of life were evident
for some time Physicians were
moned and an examination
all the ribs
jciIjLED IN SELF DEFENSE
Grant Santees Slayer Acquitted in
Holt County
The case of the state of Nebraska
igainst WmR Welch was brought to
close at Chadron Friday by the acknowl
edgment of the county attorney that the
state had failed to make a case against the
defendant
During the last few hours of the trial
ihe defense introduced some very sensa
tional testimony showing that Santee the
murdered man had sworn to kill Welch
On the day of the murder it was proven
lliathe had in his possession a small iron
2levis which was afterward found on his
person and which it is alleged he used
to inflict the blows on Welchs face and
aeck
The testimony was very much one sided
and it was evident early in the trial that
the state was only trying to satisfy pub
lic curiosity as to the circumstances sur
rounding the killing because of the ver
aict of the coroners jury which it
seems was not based on the evidence or
the facts in the case
Welchs wife who had stood the strain
aver since the shooting broke down com
pletely when the result was announced
and was carried senseless from the court
room
Welch was accused of the murder of
Grant Santee it being alleged that the
crime had been committed on May 5 at
Welchs home neir Ida The two men
were not friends and on the day in ques
tion Santee went to Welchs home A
quarrel ensued and in the altercation
Santee knocked Mrs Welch down and
started for Welch The latter shot him
Welch immediately drove into Chadron
and gave himself up to the authorities
Burglary at Pender
Burglars effected an entrance through
one ot the windows of the Pender Drug
Companys store building and succeeded
in escaping with quite a large amount of
jewelry and a number of watches A tray
of watch chains was found on the side
walk in Iront of J Heaths residence in
the rear of the building entered evidently
dropped by the thieves in their haste
The value of the stolen property is esti
mated by the Pender Drug Company at
13J0 It offers a reward of 25 for the
conviction of the parties and the return of
the goods
Texas Cattle for Nebraska
During the week beginning May 15 the
Union Pacific and Elkhorn will ship into
the vicinity of Chadron about 50000 head
of cattle to be unloaded at stations in
northwestern Nebraska southwestern
Dakota and Wyoming The bulk of the
shipments will be from El Paso Texas
and will b3 consigned to the following
parties Cordeletes Mining and Cattle
Company 20000 William Nation Cattle
Company 10000 and the Wilcox Arizona
Mining Company of Phoenix 15000 head
Settled in Full lor a Shortage
At a meeting of the Beatrice city coun
cil a proposition was accepted from Geo
E Hawkins to pay the sum of 250 as
settlement in full for all claims of the city
against him for shortage as shown by his
books while holding the office of water
commissioner This action is not under
stood to be a compromise so far as crimi
nal action ajjainst Hawkins is concerned
Found a Floater
It is supposed that the floater found
on a sandbar in the Missouri river below
Dakota City was the body of a farmer
who suddenly disappeared from the Wash
ington House at Sioux City last March
The description does not tally exactly
with that of the farmer but it does in the
uain
Stone Companys Big Contracts
The Nehawka Stone Company has re
ceived the contract for several hundred
cars of riprap rocks and for 600 cars of
rock for the sugar factory These con
tracts with a standing contract of 150 cars
a month will kmake this a busy season
there
Grafton Mans Peculiar Action
Constable James Welsh of Gratton
loaded his wagon the other day with tools
and accontreinents and left for parts un
known As he was a first class citizen
and held in high esteem there is some
speculation as to his reason for the move
Both Wanted to Drive
After indulging pretty freely in Ord
Whisky Mr Simmons and a neighboring
farmer from the Dry Cedar fell to quar
reling as to who should drive on their way
home During the scuffle Simmons fell
out of the buggy and was badly hurt
Roller Mills Completed
The O A Cooper Roller Mills which
have been in the course of construction at
Humboldt for the past four months are
completed The old mill was destroyed
by tire November 3 The mills capacity
is 150 barrels per day
Porter Murder Case
The Porter murder case came up for
trial in the district court at Springview
being an adjourned term on purpose for
this case Porter has already admitte i
the killing but says he did it in
He has since however employed
the best of counsel and is making every
effort possible to clear himself
Application for Water Claims All In
Secretary Akers of the State Board ot
Irrigation has concluded the taking of
evidence in the applications and claims
for water rights in Sioux County Fully
seventy claims were disposed up
Nebraska Fugitive Arre3ted
About three years ago a man named
John T Ryan entered the room of one of
the girls employed in the Goos Hotel at
Plattsmouth and stole her pocketbook
The girl succedad in h tiding him until an
officer arrived and he was arrested tried
and convicted While he was in jail an
insane man made an assault on him with
a knife and cut three gashes in his scalp
Shortly after this Ryan escaped from jail
and has not been heard from until re
cently when word was received from the
authorities at Denver by Sheriff Hallo way
that a man answering Ryans description
had been arrested there for assault and
battery A rough drawing of the scars on
the mans scalp was enclosed which tally
with the ones made at th3 Urn Th
sheriff has departeJ for Denver to get h s
man
Fremont Physician Insane
Dr J S Devries of Fremont was ar
rested on a charge of carrying conceale
weapons the complaint being made by
City Marshal Nelson at the request ol
Mrs Devries who feared that he would
kill her and their children He was very
violent and considerable difficulty was
experienced in making the arrest Foi
some time past the doctors friends have
noticed that he did not appear like him
self and have feared that his mental fac
ulties had become impaired by the use ol
cocaine His condition was rapidly be
coming worse and his family decided thai
something must be done Hence his ar
rest
Failed to Return a Team
John Nelson hired a span of horses anu
buggy of J P Twohig of Sioux City to
be absent two days He drove to Bancroft
and put the team up at the Bancroft Hotel
barn and left for parts unknown Two
hig became alarmed and instituted 3
search He was notified of the team being
there and identified the property Nelsou
is about five feet eight inches in height
medium build wears full stubby beard
clad in brown overalls and jacket and i
about 40 years of age Fifty dollars re
ward is offered for his apprehension
Charged with a Henious Crime
August Hillie a German unmarried
about 40 years of ace was brought before
Justice Briggs at West Point on a charge
of criminal intimacy with the 14-year-old
daughter of Ferdinand Klichert living
east of that town and was bound over tc
the district court The case is a very
aggravated one on account of the tender
age of the girl and the fact that she
claims he used force in his first attempt
and by subsequent threats tepeated the
crime a number of times
delicate condition
The girl is in a
Postmaster Bound Over
Justice Archer at Plattsmouth bounu
Fred Patterson over to the district court
in the sum of 500 on the charge of shoot
ing with intent to kill Pattersou is the
postmaster at Rock Bluffs He has a farm
which borders on the river and some days
ago he had a dispute with a neighbor as
to the ownership of land which the Mis
souri has transferred to the Nebraska side
Patterson had possession of the land and
when the contestants attempted to evics
him he shot one of them through the
arm
Kicked to Death by a Mule
Herman Glade a prominent farmer in
Hall County was kicked in the abdomen
by a mule and died from the injuries
Mr Glade had been working the animal
in the cornfield and was unharnessing it
when it dealt the blow A physician was
at onc3 called bntfrom the beginning had
but little hope for recovery as the inter
nal injuries were so serious Mr Glade
was 55 years of age and leaves a wife and
five children
Novel Journey of Nebraska Men
Zed Cox and a friend of Republican
City entered Superior in a novel way
They floated down the river in a full
rigged sailboat of their own manufacture
twenty feet long and of good proportions
They will proceed down the Republican
into the Smoky from that stream into the
Kaw then into the Missouri and from
there into the Mississippi down to Cairo
then up the Ohio to Cincinnati
Adams County Bank Sued
Berg Story of Hastings have filed suit
against the Adams County Bank for dam
ages to the amount of 20000 In their
petition the plaintiffs allege that the bank
has appropriated to its own use a large
amount in notes and other securities
which it now fails to account for The
notes weie placed in the bank as collateral
security
Killed by Lightning
Ihe county coroner was summoned to
the Bobbins ranch which is about twenty
miles northeast of Fullerton where John
Strum a Swede laborer had been struck
by lightning The cause of his death was
so apparent that no inquest was held The
young man was 23 years of age
Fairburys Ice Plant
The new ice plant of the Fairbury Ice
and Cold Storage Company has started
up For the present it will manufacture
ihree and one half tous per day and will
increase thejproductDasDthe weather
grows warmer
Malignant Diphtheria at Crete
Diphtheria in malignant form has
broken out in Crete witli one death The
school board has closed all the publio
schools
The Wife Objected
Just before the ship America left her
dock in San Francisco last -week for
a voyage to the fish canning station at
Copper River Prince William Sound
with a large party of canners and fish
ermen a search was made for stow-
awajs Down among the stores in the
hold a stowaway -was found who prov
ed to be a woman the wife of one of
the fishermen She objected to being
partedfromhim for the several months
of the fishing season and declined to
leave the ship fiercely fighting the
sailors who tried to take her from the
hold Finally she was lassoed with a
rope about her waist and hoisted out
of the hold and over to the wharf
where she sat crying bitterly as the
ship was towed out into the stream
When you decide that a thing is- well
to do do it
An opportunity missed may be an
eternity lost
Perseverance is the best school for
manly virtue
The shuttle of time weaves the gar
ments of eternity
Sunshine is a flower maker smiles
make the blossoms of the soul
He who has brain and muscle to sell
is a capitalist by native right - -
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NATIONAL SOLONS
REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT
WASHINGTON
detailed Proceedings of Senate and
House Bills Passed or Introduced
in Either Branch Questions of Mo
ment to the Country at Larue
The Legislative Grind
By a vote of 51 to G the Senate Thurs
day inaugurated aa investigation to be
conducted by the Senate Committee on
Finance into the facts and circumstances
connected with the sale of United States
bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury
during the last threi years In addition
to some minor business the bill was pass
ed extending the time for building a rail
road by the Dennison and Northern Rail
way Company through the Indian terri
tory Also the bill to send to the Court
of Appeals the case of book agents of the
Methodist Episcopal Church south
The House Friday voted to give each
member 100 a month for recess clerk
hire A bill was passed to appropriate
5000 for the deportation of the Cana
dian refugee Cree Indians from the State
of Montana There are about 500 of
these Indians They have been in Mon
tana since the close of the Riel rebellion
The pension bills favorably acted upon
at the last Friday night session were
taken up and passed The river and har
bor bill was completed in the Senate w
thr ciception ur -the item for a deep sea
harbor on the Pacific coast A hill was
passed authorizing the Sioux City and
Omaha Railroad Company to constrnct
a railway through the Omaha and Win
nebago reservation in Thurston County
Nebraska Both houses adjourned until
Monday
In the Senate Monday the Santa Mon
ica deep water harbor fraud was debated
most of the afternoon The heat was so
terrific that early adjournment was taken
The House has practically finished its
work and did nothing of importance
The work of the House Tuesday was
confined to preparations to oust Mr
Downing the only Democrat in the Illi
nois delegation Mr Moody Republican
of Massachusetts presented the minority
committee report stating that Downing
was fairly elected The animated con
test in the Senate over a deep water har
bor on the southern coast of California
was brought to a close by a compromise
between the points of Santa Monica the
terminus of the Southern Pacific and San
Pedro the locality urged by the Califor
nia Senators Senator Frye chairman of
the Commerce Committee finally harmon
ized the differences by referring the de
termination as between Santa Monica
and San Pedro to a commission to consist
of three civil engineers a naval officer
and an officer of the coast survey The
compromise was accepted by the Califor
nia Senators and was unanimously pass
ed An amendment urged by Mr Gor
man limiting the expenditure under the
contract authorizations to 10000000
annually led to a lengthy debate A mo
tion by Mr Vest to table the amendment
failed yeas 20 nays 31
Because of opposition by Mr Moody ot
Massachusetts and Mr Dalzell of Penn
sylvania both Republicans the House
Wednesday reconsidered its action in
unseating Mr Downing Democrat of
Illinois and decided that before Mr Rin
akers claims could be considered there
must be a recount of the vote The river
and harbor appropriation bill was passed
by the Senate after an unusually stormy
experience lasting many days As finally
passed the bill makes direct appropria
tions of 12200000 and authorizes
continuing contracts of 04000000 an
aggregate of about 7G000000 The bill
was passed with amendments authorizing
the construction of a bridge over the Mis
sissippi river to the city of St Louis from
some suitable point between the north line
of St Clair County Illinois and the
southwest line of said county Bills were
also passed to authorize a life saving sta
tion at Port Huron Mich and to es
tablish a railroad bridge across the Illi
nois river near Grafton 111
When the Moose Sheds His Horns
Very few people have ever seen a
bull moose shed his horns This trans
formation usually takes place between
Jan 1 and Jan S during which time
the animal is very ugly The bull
moose in the Ellerton moose park In
Roseau commenced shedding his horns
on the date mentioned and during the
process performed some queer antics
He would run and jump at everything
in his way butt trees and fences and
his mates were driven by the big fel
low hither and thither A kicking
bronro was turned into the park and
for a few minutes the fight was terrific
the bronco coming out winner with his
heels Finally the moose backed away
and made a run for the horse This
was too much for the bronco who fled
for dear life with the moose in full
pursuit The race was made around
the corral ten times before the moose
could be stopped and the horse taken
away from the enraged animal which
was accomplished with no little trou
ble and danger Minneapolis Journal
Money in Gunmaking
Herr Krupp the gunmaker is the
richest of the Prussians being taxed
on an income of 1700100 Baron
Rothschild comes next with a taxable
income of 1400000 Only seven per
sons in Prussia report incomes for the
last year above 476000
Streets of Old Paris
The Paris exposition plans are full
of ingenuity One interesting corner
will represent old Paris with repro
ductions of vanished streets and quar
ters celebrated in literature that have
vanished before the march of progress
The air breathed by the hello girls
in the Chicago telephone companys
switch room is washed dried heated
or cooled and ironed or rather com
pressedbefore they are permitted to
use it It was- found necessary to
keep the air free from dust to secure
perfect action of the switches and so
the air is sprayed in the basement
dried of moisture by centrifugal force
brought to the proper temperature
and forced into the room at a rate of
ten thousand cubic feet a minute
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