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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1896)
IM rl 4 Jfr r kd i 5j - Waknfine fammvnt SUCCESSOR TO CHEERY COUNTY INDEPENDENT ROBERT B GOOD - Editor PjoP VALENTINE i i n1 ml NEBRASKA LAND IN VENEZUELA 15000000 ACRES BRINGS UNDEf FORCED SALE S50 Part of the Land Is in tfee Disputed Territory French Socialist Deputy Pelted with Mud at Carmeaux Other Items of Interest Venezuelan Estate Sold New York The right and title of the estate of the jdonoa Company of Vene zuela nominally consisting of 15003000 acres of land on the Orinoco liiver was isold under order of -court in Brooklyn the other day for500 The property was given on concession to Ceriums Fitzgerald Sept 2 1883 -He formed a stock company and came to this country to lloat the shares Part of this land is in the dis puted territory and although it is said to abound with lakes mines and lumber forests it was with great difficulty that Fitzgerald sold even a few shares The company is m debtto the extent of 95000 and upon -an order of Judge Van Wyck of the supreme court the property was put up lor sale and purchased by YV H Stafford and 11 Baxter in behalf of the creditors Grovers -Princeton Home Washington- Private Secretary Thur ber ouuiirnis the statement that President Cleveland has purchased a residence at Princeton N J and will make his per manent home tlieie after the close of the present adminisi ration President Cleve land wilJ retain his property at Buzzards Bay and use it as his summer home The Princeton purchase has been under con sideration only three weeks Mr Cleve land picked the locality when he and3Irs Cleveland visited theie recently lor the purpose of making an address JLater Mr Cleveland again visited Princeton and looked over several houses wiiich were ottered ana made her selection Jloubed 31 Juures Cakaleaux -France M Jaures the radical socialist deputy lor Caimeaux and other socialist members of the Cham ber attempted to -address a mass meeting here but the whole party were received with mingled hisses and cheers and weie pelted with mud M Jaures was the champion of the glass workers in their great strike last year but has fallen mtu dislavor with Jus Carmeaux constituents by the part he took in the opening of a new-co-operative glass lactory at Ally which the Carmeaux workman view as a rival Poison in Sandwiches Hollidaybuhg Pa a number ol people composing a wedding anniversary unity atlhe home of Mr and Mrs Angus iSa Slew att in Township were poisoned by eating ham sandwiches but the natureof the deadly ingredieut has not yet been learned Forty cases of poisoning are reported While the sickness of i the guests is -of a serious character no faiauties have yet been reported The doctors believe that the antidotes they are adminstering will be effectual but they cannot definitely stale the cause of the poisoning Revolt in Chili - SA3 Diego Cal The British ciuisei Wild Swan from South America brin as particulars of the movement which led to the present Chilian revolution Dissatis faction over elections and inflamed feeling over small incidents led -to a conspiracy for the overthrowing of the Government The revolution has now reached great proportions andtbe officers of the Wild Swan say the political system of the coun try is honeycombed with corruption and that very seriousresnlts may be expected ot the uprising Was a Prisoner of the Czar Sax FuA7pisco John Ellis Olsen who is the only American prisoner ever confined at that most dreaded of Russian prisons Saghalien island off the Siberian coast and who made his escape from that place of confinement about a year ao after encountering many adventures and vicissitudes is -once more back in his home in this city which he left in 1S91 Whole family Burned Perry X Y The home of Luther Greenman a farmer living Xour miles north of here was destroyed by fire and the entire family consisting of Jive per sons were burned to Heath The dead Luther Greenman Jdrs Greenman Lot tie Greenman Arthur Greenman The building was consumed The fire was caused by a defective stovepipe What It Cost 6o Amuse Wales Loxdox The Daily Mail state- that the fetes at Blenheim castle in honor of the visitof the Prinee and Princess of Wales to the Duke and Duchesof 100000 Underground JRoad for Chicago Chicago A trust lr iGOUCO was filed by the General 1Jecirtc huhvay Company t secure Hie issue of bona nr the first underground eitioinc rnt waj in Chicago Wattecson Ku Jeuniqd Neav Tokic Co Henry YrVntlensun arrived from Europe on tJeinienccjnhii steamship St Paul lie WuQcuinr au ed by Mrs Watletson Poet Austin pearly Drowns Lgn dox A2fredjAustil tlie poet lau reate had a narrow escape fros2drowj ing inthe Tweed through Mlisglvom a fishingboat tDr Jameson Very III LoDor Dr ameson leader f the Transvaal raid undergoing fifteen m euthiJ imprisonjirour is said to be critically ill Pope Will Not Sanction It 1 J P Tardival editor of jLa Terita who has just returned from Rome deolares that the pope will not sanction the acceptance by the Roman Catholic hierarchy of Canada of the Man itoba school settlement on the terms re cently made public j Besidents of Hawaii Jollify Sait Fbancisco The residents of the Hawaiian Islands were informed of the outcome of the recent ejection November PA by steamer from Yokohama There was a big jjoj li ficaljon in Jonoluln Jn th9 syening Tried to Rob a Street Cat Kaxsas City Mo Friday night four men led by Oscar Bridges said to be a bridge and parachute jumper of more or less notoriety made an unsuccessful at tempt to hold up and rob an electric car filled with passengers bound for Inde pendence Bridges was arrested after a desperate tassel with the molorman The other men -escaped but their names are known and it is believed they will be cap tured When the car reached a lonly spot midway between the two cities Bridges Giuna dced jumped on the rear platform and going through the car to the front boldly thrust his revolver at the bi east of the motormao Another of the gang who had quickly followed Bridges and who wore a mask had just entered the rear door and was in the act of order ing the passengers to hold up their hands when the conductor threw him from the car which the motorman in some manner had -been able to start The two remain- 1 ingrobbers who it appears were to cover the conducior Decame irigmeneu ul uie quick action displayed by him and when the second robber alighted on the ground they made off to the woods The police gave out the mens names as Oscar Bridges Eugene Kidgway Ernest Pudg way and James Repine all under 22 years of age The Ridgway brothers live at Sheffield a small suburb near the scene of the holdup Repine 21 years oid lives at Centropolis a suburb of Kansas City Bloody Pennsylvania Affray Pittstox Pa Three men were fatally shot and several others more or less seri ously wounded in a drunken riot at Dur yea Duryea is a small mining village three miles north of Pittston and there is a large colony -of foreigners there who work in the unities They celebrated Thanksgiving day principally by drink ing and the tavern of Anthony Palley was their headquarters As the day grew -older and the miner grew drunker trouble began to biew The shooting occurred about 3 oclock in the morning Pallev the taverukeeper says that a number of Polanders weie drinking in his place when a party of young Americans entered After much drinking they began to taunt the foreign ers This led to a quarrel in which the Amercans assumed the aggressive and set upon the Jolanders with canes The first blow had no sooner been struck than the foreigners drew their guns and bul lets began to fly The Americans beat a retreat Dun Cos Weekly Review New York R G Dun Cos Weekly Review of Trade says When the rush of orders after election slackened many be gan to think business dwindling Subsi dence of deferred orders is notdeciease of business Wheat has risen over 6 cents for the week without material change in foreign advices which have been on the whole less stimulating Corn has sympa thized with wheat only a little and is coming in freely The most important factor in the wheat market is that the vis ible supplies do not gain as much as had been expected Wool has been and is still bought largely for -speculation and early purchasers are unloading on the lat ter but the mills are not yet doing much more than invOctober Failures for the week have been 300 in the United States against 279 last year and 38 in Canada against 47 last year Arrested Tor Forgery Kansas Ciot Charles H Bailey son of the late probatejudge Q P W Bailey of Independence Mo was arrested here for forging a letter of credit for 1001 on the National Live Stock Bank of Fort Worth Texas Bailey cashed the letter of credit securing 5 930 from the Metro politan National Bank of this city and 100 from the Chrisman Sawyer Bank of Independence Mo When Bailey was arrested all the money except 150 was re covered Bailey says he is not guilty and that the letter was sent to him by an uncle Says Our Friendship is -Cheap Berlin TheEremdenblatt discussing ihe settlement of tlie Venezuelan ques tion says Lord Salisbury acted cleverly in so directing his jpolicy thatiGreat Brit ain is again friendly with the United States His consent to always submit certain disputes of the two Anglo Saxon nations to arbitration emphasizes this bentiment of kinship Therein lies the sagacity of the British nation Great Britain does not wish to have an enemy in the United States and the price she pays therefor is not great Two Lives Blotted Oat Indianapolis The dead bodies of Herman Myer and Nora Richardson weie found on a sidewalk in poolsof blood on the south side in this city Myers handclutched a revolver every chamber ot which was empty Three bullets had entered the womans body Myer was shot near the heart Letters in Myeis pocket showed the woman was about to become a mother and had urged Myer to come to Haughville and marry ber at once It is thought Myer killed the woman and took his own life as the result of aiguarrel Claims He Was Robbed Sx Loons Phil Lee treasurer of the ocal branch of the National Hod Carrieis Union claims three men held him up at pistols point near Fifteenth Street and Franklin Avenue and robbed him of the funds q theiuniou which he had on hi- person This is the story he fold William Rankin president of the union when a demand was made upon him for the money- flVill Kill It for Good Washington During the last session M Congress a proposition was made to divide the appropriations among the vari ous committees of the Senate but by a very decisive vote the whole question was referred to the shortsession If the mai mer is brought up again it will probably ibe laid on thettable for good and alL Urnjsaiay nji Revolt Growing New Yoke A HeraJds Buenos Ay res ipatch says The -revolution xuvlei way in the Uruguayan sspublic is grad ually gathering -strength Its exact pro portions aie as yet unknown here as all the telegraph lines have been seized bv the Government and nothicg allowed to come out Gift from As tor New York Announcement is made iiy the Cliuldrens Aid Society that AVilliam Waldorf Astor has made if a gift of 50 000 The mone Mr As or jrcrovides shall be used to erect a selinol biuMing as a memorial -to his wife who haa bren gje vtiy inteiected in the Society j workup to the day of hr death PortiiirnJ Imports Wheat Word from Ma ceo PuirADEipniA The first direct and authentic news from the mountain camp of Gen Antonio Maceo that has been re ceived in this country since Gen Woyler left Havana for the front two weeks ago came Thursday by special messenger who stopped in this city Gen Maceo sends greeting to his countrymen in the United btates and in a few words assures them and the friends of Cuba throughout the country that his gallant band is safe and able for a lime at least to take care of it self no matter what tlte Spaniards may do The message is directed to the New York junta and reads We have withstood theenemy in many encounters and are prepared for any move he may make Wo have rendered him much injury and will be able to withstand any of his attacks for some time to come Assure our noble Iriends in the United States that the cause of liberiy will not suffer in Pinar del Rio To those who are friendly to our cause Isend greetings Axtonio Maceo Holmes as a Hoodo Philadelphia Howard Perkins superintendent of the Moyamensing prison who committed suicide by shoot ing himself had charge of 11 II Holmes during his incarceration in Moyamensing prison and superintended the arrange ments for his hanging Superstitious persons are speaking ot him as another victim of the arch criminals evi eye Linford L Biles foreman of the jury that convicted Holmes was killed by electricity Dr Maltern of Pi iladelphia who was a witness against Holmes died suddenly Mrs Anna Harvey of Chicago who lived in Holmes castle committed suicide The girl to whom Kotan of Holmes counsel was engaged died sud denly At least a dozen persons who were interested in the conviction of Holmes have met with death accident or misfortune Big Copper Deal Detroit Mch A special to the Tribune from Houghton Mich says A deal by which German capitalists acquire possession of five Houghton cepper mines were practically closed on the 25lh The mines are the Huron Grand Portage Sheldon Columbia and Isle ltoyale The pm chase price was under 1750000 but the merging of the five properties and de velopment on a large and modern scale will require an additional 1000000 Work for 500 to 1000 men will be fui nished by the consolidated properties t Killedby aiexican Peons Sax Francisco Private advices re ceived in the city from the American col ony at Metlaltonca in thestate of Pueblo Mexico gave definite information of the assassinations by peons which the Mex ican Government has until now been able to keep secret There ate several Califor nians in the colony and in view of recent events they are fleeing to this country for their lives The colony was formed abouf four years ago and numbers 200 souls Two Killed and Throe Hurt New York An engine baggage anu mail car on the Pennsylvania road was derailed at New Brunswick N J En gineer J M Egan and Fireman H W Chihoster were instantly killed and three others injured The accident was caused by the breaking of an axle ou a freight car of a train on an adjoining track throwing the car against the passenger train No passengers weie hurt Coinage Law of 1S73 Washington rThe official history of the change in the coinage law made in 1878 will be included in the annual re port of the director of the mint for the liscal year 1890 Director Preston has been searching the files of the treasury and of Congress for every scrap of data bearing on the subject and will mako the most complete presentation of facts and docu ments which has ever been attempted Illinois Official Vote Springfield 111 A tabulation of the official vote of Illinois for president shows the following vote McKinloy 604467 Bryan 463299 Palmer 0195 Levering 799 middle of the road Populist 1087 Matchetr Socialist 1252 The vote on governor cannot be given as several coun ties have made no return to the secretary of state Crisps Son to Succeed Him Atlanta Ga The Democratic con gressional convention to nominate a can didate to succeed to the unexpired term of Hon Charles F Crisp was held at Haw kinsville Charles R Crisp eldest son of the late speaker was nominated by a ris ng vote Irish Bishop Dead Cork The Most Rev William Fitz gerald D D Roman Catholic Bishop ot Ross is dead MARKET QUOTATIONS Chicago Catle common to prime 350 to 525 hogs shipping grades 300 to 350 sheep fair to choice 200 to 350 wheat No 2 red 77c to 78c corn No 2 22c to 24c oats No 2 18c to 19c rye No 2 35c to 37c butter choice creamery 20c to 21c eggs frosh 20c to 22c potatoes per bushel X5c to 30c broom corn common green to fine brush 2c to oc per pound Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to 500 hogs choice light 300 to 350 sheep common to prime 200 to 325 wheat No 2 85c to S7c corn No 2 white 24c to 2Gc oats No 2 white 22c to 23c St Louis Cattle 300 to 475 hogs -300 to 350 wheat No 2 SSc to SSc corn No 2 yellow 21c to 23c oats No 2 white ISc to 20c rye No 2 33c to 35c Cincinnati Cattle 250 to 475 hogs 3 00 to 350 sheep 250 to 350 wheat No 2 S7c to 89c corn No 2 mixed 21c to 22c oats No 2 mixed 20c to 22c rye No 2 30c to 38c Detroit Cattle 50 to 475 hogs 300 to 350 sheep 200 to 350 wheat No 2 red 91c to 92c corn No 2 yellow 23c to 24c oats No 2 white 20c to rye 37c to 3Sc Toledo Wheat No 2 red 91c to 92e corn No 2 mixed 22c to 24c oats No 2 white ISc to 19c rye No 2 37c to 39c clover seecL 515 to 525 Milwaukee Wheat No 2 spring 7Sc 1 to 80c corn No 3 22c to 24c oats No 2 white 19c to 21c barley No 2 30c to i7c rye No 1 37c to 3Sc pork mess 050 to 700 Buffalo Cattle 2i50 to 500 hogs 300 to 400 sheep 200 to 350 wheat No 2 red 94c to 95c corn No 2 yellow to 27c oats No 2 white 23c to 24c New York Cattle 300 to 525 hogs 00 to S42G sheep S200 to rfio Lesbos The Sovarunient of Portugal t No 2 rejj S5c to Sfa corn No 2 has authorize Uhe niifrlatiun of 3Jv to 30c oats So- 2 white 22c to 24c f uuuKiiosoi unear iosLi pleniU tlj lier creamery life to 23e eggs west- jieiency in thi Miivnal iunply jprn 20c to 25c OF A GEEAT STATE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF NEBRASKA Charles H Elliott Confesses to the Murder of Guy Hutsonpiller at the Windsor Hotel Omaha Didnt Know His Victim was Dead Confesses His Crime Charles H Elliott now in the Douglass County jail has confessed to the muider of Guy Hutsonpiller his friend in the Windsor Hotel Omaha His confession covers twenty typewritten pages He says Hutsonpiller was about to leave for Montana and continues I owed him 15 and wanted him to sign a receipt for it and he would not 1 told him I would not pay unless he lid He called me a fool and said ho would take it out of my hide Elliott says he then picked up a coup ling pin and struck his frid and be coming alarmed at his luud breathing went to a drug store and bought some chloroform saturated a towel with it and put it over nutsoupillers face He then left the hotel and took the 445 North western train east and was arrested at Cedar Rapids He did not know at that time that Hutsonpiller was dead He adds -I only took 2135 of Hutsonpillcrs money The rest of the money found on me about 6 was sent me by my uncle at Akron Ohio As to Presidential Electors Governor Holcomb has received an au tograph letter from Secretary of State Olney requesting the executive to fur nish the Department of State with four copies of the certificate required under section 3 of the act of Congress fixing the day for the meeting of the electors of president and vice president and provid ing for and regulating the counting of the votes cast Secretary Olney encloses a copy of the act approved February 3 18 7 which relates to the duty of the executives of the several states in certifying to the Secretary of State of the United States the appointment of such electors Section 3 of the act referred to makes it incum bent upon the governor of each state in the union to send in a certificate contain ing a full list of presidential electors to gether with the canvassed vote by which they were elected as soon as practicable after such ascertainment And further provides for his furnishing to the electors ol his state the same certificate in tripli cate under the seal of the state and the electors in turn aie directed to forward this certificate along with their lists of all persons voted for as president and vice DLosident to the Department of State Bank Burglars Caught In tho last forty days twenty six banks in eastern and southeastern Nebraska have been burglarized with losses amount ing to more than 30000 Officers repre senting different detective agencies secret service men of the United States and rail road detectives have all been trying to locate the band of safe breakers and four suspects are in jail at Hebron Hanover Kas where they were captured was used for headquarters for the band to leave its boodle and then start on another raid Large amounts of money in gold and silver were found buried in tho cellar of the house where the men were captured Gold watches and valuable jewelry of all kinds were discovered in various parts of the building Deserts Wife and Baby Frank Sodenburg living east of St Ed ward took his wife and baby to town jnd left them with a bundle of clothing Dn the sidewalk The husband and wife have not agreed lately and in conse quence Sodenburg took this step Friends took the woman and baby to a hotel where they were cared for The father of Mrs Sodenburg is camping on the trail of the unnatural husband and father and jhould they meet there will doubtless be trouble of a serious kind Rival Liquor Dealers Work The bootlegger stock in trade is abun iant at Decatur but tho trade has fallen off considerably of late the direct cause of which lies in Bancroft The Decatur saloon keepers have two bars one lor In dians and one lor white men The Ban croft liquor dealers have combined and say if they are molested they will carry it to the supreme court 3000 has been laid nside by them for this purpose College Flag Pole Raising The large flag pole which has been itanding in front of the Republican Am phitheater at Hastings during tho cam paign was given to the college and the pole raising took place Saturday after noon between the college and the dormi tory Mayor Evans Pattison of the col lege and several other college professors delivered short addresses Bryan Residence Quarantined Ruth the youngest daughter of Hon William Jennings Bryan is ill with diph theria and the family lesidence on D Street Lincoln was placed under quar antine by Health Officer Rhode The childs condition is not considered dan gerous Governor Appoints a Delegate Gov Holcomb has named H D Travis of Plattsmouth a delegate to the southern harbor improvement and coast defense convention to be held at Tampa Fla on January 20 There still remains ten or a dozen delegates to be appointed Wesleyan Gets Its Revenge The game of foot ball played at Lin coln between University of Nebraska and Wesleyan University resulted in a score of 28 to 0 in favor of University of Ne braska Has n Three Legged Calf Banker J B McGrew of Bloomington is the owner of a three legged calL It has two well formed hind legs and one large front one and is in good health Farmers Wife Cholced to Death Mrs P Kinney wife of a farmer living near Shelton was choked to death by a piece of meat She had been in poor health for some time Pardons Ford Wright The sentence of Ford Wright from Dixon County to two years and six months in the penitentiary for man slaughter has been commuted to one year four months and two days by Gov Hol comb which commutation together with his good time liberated him at once Tampered with the Returns Herman Faulk was found guilty in dis trict court at Kearney of tampering with election returns 3- year ago when he was running for townsfiip assessor on Jhe Pop ulist ticket The Vote ot ilmendmeiis The c re 1 force ul ibe office of Secre tay of S ate Pper hs tabulation of the returns ments to tie cmi titution completed the on thi The full vote stands as olows Amendment to the constitution relating to the number of judges o thi supreme court and their term of oltlce Yes 81 570 no 378C6 Relating to compensation of supreme and di net court judges Yes 61119 no 4853 Renting ro com pensation of the ofli csof the executive department Yes5altj no 47611 Relat ing to increase in number o supreme and district court jugde Ye 5934J iio46V6 Relating to trial by jury Yes 73 578 no 39006 Relating to ofScors ot the execu tive department Yes 07015 no 40597 Limiting the number oi executive state officers Yes 6 240 no 41033 Provid ing for the investment of tne permanent educational fund of the state Ye- 73 47 no 30 019 Relating to merging of the government of cities of the metropoli tan class and tho government of counties wherein such cities are located Yes 565GJ no 47 C31 Prescribing the man ner m which vote hall be cibt Ye 62 33 no 4137 Relative to donations to works of internal improvement and man ufactones Yes 6J479 yes 45Gi9 Nebraska Women Honored At the national convention of the W C T U held at St Louis which adjourned the 20th Nebraska was ably represented by a lull delegation headed by Mrs S M Walker state pres ident Among the important appoint ments were Mis Anna M Bunting David City vice Sue will be associated with Mrs Matilda B Carse in promoting Hie financial interests of the temple Mrs Buuting will devote her energies to the section of country lying west of the Missouri River Mis C M Woodward was reappointed for the fifth term national superintendent of work among railroad employes In response t a memorial from tho Xebraska State Womans Christian Temperance Union Mrs Woodward was made a committee on railroad rates for the national couveiir tiou in 1S97 Calamity for Osceola The worse calamity that has ever hap pened iu Polk Oouaty lor some time was the burning of the Osceola creamery the other day It was at noon and there were but two of the employes in the building It is said that the fire caught fioni the smoke stack cinders dropping from it on the roof All that was saved was the en gine house engine and some butter and eggs The plant was worth 10000 and there was an insurance on the building and machinery of 3000 It will be a great loss to merchants and employes ior there was paid out in the town and county 150 a day It will be rebuilt ini mediately Bought Stolen Property Fred Weise who runs a small general store at Fremont was arrested on com plaint of A C Maxwell who charges him with buying stolen property The evidence showed that he had purchased at a low figure a couple of blankets which had been stolen from Maxwell and that he had also purchased for a song some other properly which had been stolen and had told a couple of men now In jail serving sentences for petit larceny that he would buy stuff of them He was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of 550 and took un appeal to the district court Narrow Escape of a Bralceman E M Debley a brakemau on the ac Joseph Grand Island got off a freight zt ICriirhrrifrl - - uiUilo tiuxL train was moving at the rate of twelve miles an hour He slipped and two car wheels passed over his foot Deblev would have been killed had not a couple of traveling men pulled him fiom under the cars The phenomenal part of its was the skin was not broken nor will his ioof need amputation Keeping Corn Prices Up Corn husking is progressing rapidly in the vicinity of Bennett - Many are haul ing their corn into town as they husk it Local corn dealers have men hired to watch the roads from the country and as a farmer comes in they climb on his wagon and try to persuade him io hanl his load to his employers cribs M iny new cribs have been built for the storing of corn It is being bought in Bennett lor 13 cents lv 14 cents per bushel Files a Contest E O Kretsinger defeated fusion candi date lor stale senator in Gage Counly has filed papers at Beatrice instituting con test proceedings against the successful candidate George A Murphy The grounds are quite varied such as pur chase of votes lriu1 in miking up the election boaids in di erent precmct use of whisky tosecu e voles and others to numerous to menuuu Kervo of a Young Woman Through the heroic efforts of Miss Mary Poweis the home of Editor Powers at Pierce was saved from burning The gas oline stove leaked and caugut fire and would have caused a conflagration had not Miss Powers smothered the flames with a blanket Hiss Powers face wrs burned a little hue no serious results to curred otherwise Indians as Witnesses Marshal Page of Decatur took a lot of Indians to Omaha who had been sum moned to appear bcfoie Judge Shiras court as witnesses against some white men who have been carrying on the bus iness of booth gging lor an unlimited length of time The bootleggers weio spotted some time ago After a Grain Buyer Mason City citizens have become thoroughly aroused over the action ot the local gram buyer in keeping the market a few tents lower than the towns on either side of that place and are organiz ing a commercial club to better handle the matter She Wants Divorce Again Mrs Maria Mclntire hied her petition iu the district court at Nebraska City for divoica from J H Mclntire on the grounds of alleged cruelty and port She secured a divorce from the de fendant in 1839 but was soon remarried to him Three Prisoners Break Jail The prisoners in the county jail at Ne braska City celebrated Thanksgiving day by overpowering the jailer and locking him in a call and making their escape They Avere awaiting trial one for perjury and two for burglary Game Fish for Nebraska Waters Superintendent W J OBrien ti the Nebraska Pfsh Commission was at Sidney recently with the fish car and distributed black bass catfish croppie and carp The waters of the Lodge Pole are being handsomely stocked SPANIARDS 13 A TRAP V DYNAMITE DEALS DEATH AND- DISMAY IN THEIR RANKS tVeylers 3ri Led Into Aiubnsh by the Wily jlacco A Avftil Slaughter of the Royal Forces Men and Horses Blown to Bits Two Thonsand Killed Unconfirmed but apparently authentic information comes of the rout and fear ful slaughter of the army under Genv Weyler in Cuba Col Jose Reyes aid-de-camp of Gen Maceo passed through Jacksonville Flaj Thursday He says there has been fierce fighting in the Rubi hills in Iinar del Rio The most sanguinary battle of the war was fought there and 2000 of Weylers men were killed in two days and not less than 4C00 wounded When Weyler went into the field he hud 3r00U men in three columns one of 13000 under his direct command one of 10000 under Gen Echague and the third of 10000 under Gen Munore They found Maceo intrenched in a crescent shaped rartge of hills Gen Munore wn directed to onst him from this position and Gen Echague to execute a Hank movement and cut off the Cuban generals retreat Jen Munore went forth gallantly upon the field but wnen ne nau arrived at tne toot ot ray hills his forces met with n withering fir that cut gaps in the ranks Maceos nu shot from behind rocks and trees ai gradually gave way before the Spaniards who encouraged by what they thougut to be victory pursued with extreme con fidence of success Without the least premonition a deafen ing explosion was heard and a scene fol lowed resembling the mine horror at Petersburg during the civil war Horse and men were blown high in the air and fell to the earth dead and mangled A dynamite mine had been touched off by Maceos electrician Macoo then used his dynamite guns and still greater havoc was wrought Col Reyes men say that Weyler lost 700 men in the explosion and 500 more in the charge that followed as well as 1000 wounded On the following day Maceo who- i knew of the reserve force under Weyler retreated to a stronger position He was there attacked by a column under Echague who was driven from the field Eight hundred men were killed and 1300 wounded It was in this fight that Echague lost his leg It was torn off by a dynamite bomb His men then became panicstricken They feared another mine and would not obey when ordered to attack a second1 time On the the third day Maceo again re treated maneuvering continuallv to en trap Weyler into a filed that had been honeycombed with dynamite In the meantime Weyler heard that there was danger of an uprising in Havana because he had failed to crush Maceo and he has tened back to the capital In a letter brought by Col Reves to prominent Cubans Maceo says Have no fear I am like a turtle in his shell If they get into my shell God help them VICTIMS OF FOOTBALL List of Thursdays Killed and Wound A raTj i A careful comnilation of tho mmnito reported from all over the country in Thursdays football games bhows the list of dead and wounded to be about as fol lows The dead William Rue Brooklyn knocked down and instantly killed during a rusn of two teams Ihe injured Anderson bruised in a free-for-all fijrht bone broken Bergeron Cleveland T O Marrow Deadwood S D left torn ou M OMalley ears torn off badly- team collar Frank Coffcen Lafayette Ind arms and legs bruised by being jumped on by eJht men Harry Coy half back of the University of Chicago team shoulders dislocated 1 Clancy Chicago badly bruised in the game at Detroit Mich Benjamin R Davis South Chicago body badly crushed will probablv die iMlw ird Graham Boston riht leic dislo cated in prame with Chicago Athletic Club - Hinckley captain of the Belolt teamr kicked vi the small of the back left arm badly bruised Hooper South Bend iun s knocked oiu of place for r short tjire not serin m u S Hotehkls Mayfair knocked down and trampled on during Evanston gamer arm broken and injured internallv Andrew Johnson arms and back carved in Tame- Black in a disnitf nvcr rlx nm pires decision at Oreeiirov i La Sol Johnson Iekin both eyes blackened nose broken ard toes mashed Robert Kenned- New Orleans jumped or aid ridden over will die nay u wH Wheaton X D left gouged ont and left hip broken eyr Lewi captain of the Racine team struck in the breast and stomach and can ried from the Held ear Grand Port Wash botfr Scovill center of Riverside Athletic team right ankle broken Thomas Stocker Scranton Pa part of scalp torn off Tucker full back for the Missouri team head badly hurt during Kansas Citj game taken to hospital C Upp Toledo crushed about the body Id a game with the Michigan freshmen Samuel Werner Akron team shouldei blade fractured and body bruised Whitney right end for Kansas team hnrt in the stomach during the Kan sas City game taken to hospital Fred White Pekin knocked senseless while making a rush Herbert Whitcomb San Francisco swal lowed st of teeth during the excitement of play Frank Woolly Tower Minn hit over the head with a brick thrown by an Indian scalp badly cur The injured expect to be in shape to play again next Thanksgiving The Cleveland Steel Company of Cleve land owned by the Itockefellers is erect ing a big crucible steel plant and will manufacture that article on a large scale It will be the only concern of the kind in this country as all crucible steel which is used for the manufacture of cutlery and fine tools is now imported from Swe den Indictments were made public at St Paul against the St Paul Soo Wis consin Central Great Northern and Greati Western Railroads for refusing to turn over unclaimed freight to a licensed pub- lis warehouse man after twenty days from receipt of the same by the railway companies The members of the United States bat tleship Oregons inspection board which had been ordered by the Secretary of the Navy to inspect the report on the fitness of the vessel for active work convened on board the ship at San Francisco v W j s f 4 r W
