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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1897)
i i jsMcasfiatfSaaagX3are - V gfeWggJl HE DAYS DOM SUMMARY OP LATE NEWS BY WIRE ST0M OP WIDE RANGE ADVICES FROM ALL OVEH THE COUNTRY Meroury Goes Below the Record Breaking Temperature 1b Chicago on Monday Much Suffering Re ported in Some Sections General Storm News The following dispatches -were all re ceived under date of Monday January 25 1807 Chicago t From the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic seaboard and from Winnipeg to Galveston an area of low temperature almost unprecedented in extent and sever ity prevails Advices show there is much suffering in the large cities and in some of the agricultural sections InChicago Mon day the temperature was lower than either Sunday or the day before Sunday the mercury registered the lowest mark in the history of the weather bureauhere This morning the government thermometer marked 20 degrees below at 8 oclock and was stationary with noTeliefin sight Denver It is 10 below here At some joints in the state the temperature dropped 70 degrees in fourteenhours St Louis Last night was the coldest of the season There is much suffering among the poor Over 800 were sheltered at the police stationlast night Some were badly frozen Kansas City It is the coldest of the sea son with a terrific north wind A great loss of cattle is reported At 10 oclock this morning it was below Minneapolis The lowest temperature last night was 80 below with a severe wind No destitution is reported St Paul It -touched 82 below here La Crosse Twenty six below yester day morning and 28 this morning No destitution or much suffering is reported Duluth The government thermometer registered 32 below and private instru ments much lower Cleveland It was 15below this morn ing within 8 degrees of the lowest in over twenty years There is much suffer ing among the poor The telegraph ser vice is badly crippled by snapping wires Cincinnati Many thermometers reg istered 10 to 12 below this morning Evansville Ind A drop of forty de grees in twelve ihours -to tzero occurred here Toledo It was 26 below the coldest since the signal service was established Pittsburg Itascold throughout west ern Pennsylvania In this city it is 7 to 10 below preceded by a heavy snowfall Toronto It was 3 below this morning with promise of -much colder The cold wave is general tnrougnout uniano Buffalo N Y -The thermometer stood at zero all night with a heavy wind At 8 oclock a m it was 1 below Various points in western New York reported i vtsaapcratare beloWTtero St Joseph Mot JtwslO below this morning Milwaukee All alarm for the safety of the ice crop has vanished Saturday night the temperature fell to 18 below This morning it was 20 The suffering of the poor and Jiomeless is bitter Relief organ izations are over whelmed with applications for help Huron The work of clearing the snow from all lines on this division of the Chi cago and Northwestern Railway began in earnest this morning The cuts are so solidly packed with snowi that rotary plows must do most of the work and itwillbea day or two before trains can be moved reg ularly The train from Pierre due here Saturday morning is snow bound at High more but has not all the state money on board as reported nor was the depot at Arlington damaged by -wind as stated It - iwas 24 degrees below zero thismoming Keokuk Io It is 11 to 15 below in this neighborhood Davenport Io A blizzard struck here Saturday afternoon and ithe -temperature -has been falling since Last night t i touched 20 below and was even lower in some sections This morningiitvwasil8 be- low and clear Omaha All over Nebraska generally -the cold wave has abated and rthe wind is moderating- There is little snow The lowest temperature reached sis H8 below- Famons Flephan Dead Jeannettee ie oldest and theqnly female African ele phant in Amexifia is dead at rthe -winter quarters of the Wallace shotra mearPenj Ind The cause of the brutes death isun iknownbut forforty days she refused to lie down aad had partaken of but little if ood JeannetSe -was 120 years old and was im ported -in 1824 Her weight ras about t00 pouads Sultan ITears HistOwn Subjects A Constantinople dispatch says the srd ttani3 dejected at the prospects of bis Mo jhamedan subjects backing the European tdemands His grand vizier and foreign minister are both exhausted with worry ifrom the palace and tte grand vizier is seeking jpermissien to resign Five Years for Selling Secrets Ex Captain Guilo has been -sentenced to five years in a French- prison r selling military secrets to foreign powers Big Cargo of Cotton The steamer Shawmut having Sn tow the barge Atlas has arrived at Boston from Galveston with 8150 bales of cotton the largest consignment ever groujht to that port The tow started on Jan 4 and ccv ered the distance of 2250 miles at a aver age speed of about 180 miles a day Willis Remains Brought Home The remains of the late minister to Ha waii He Alberts TTiflis reached Louis ville Ky Sunday after a long journey from Hawaii Mrs Willis accompanied the remains vUnzni tfj w J SrtRi6 m jZUffimjfiM BRADSTREETS REVIEW Increased Demand for Wool an en couraging Feature Bradstreets says The most encour aging feature of the trade situation this week is the increased demand from manu facturers for wool The decision of print cloth manufacturers to curtail the output will emphasize recent sales of the heavy surplus stock and promises a better market To these may be added the increase In the volume of domestic bank clearings a gen eral steadiness of the prices and the health fulness of general trade in almost all de partments Demand is increasing in al most all lines with few exceptions although very slqwly Prices appear to include few if any that are higher than a week ago while flour wheat corn lard crude petroleum tin Bessemer pig iron and steel billets are lower Wool remains firm at practically unchanged prices Leather is also firm and unchanged as are lumber cotton print clotks pork coffee and sugar Exports of wheat flour included as wheat from both coasts of the United States this week St John N B included amount to 2916706 bushels as compared with 2948000 bushels last week Exports of Indian corn this week amount to 8520 822 bushels compared with 8757000 bush els last week SENOR PIERAS PREDICTION Says the Rebels Will Soon Establish Their Capital in Cuba Senor Fidel Piera secretary of the Cuban junta arrived in Cleveland Friday after noon enroute to Columbus where he ad dressed a big mass meeting Saturday even ing In conversation with a reporter Mr Piera said 1 have juat received letters from Presi dent Cisneros of the Cuban republic and Gen Gomez President Cisneros says thatthe reports of his ill health are all fabrications and adds Never while 1 am alive will I con sent to cease fighting with only Spains promises as an inducement The letter from Gomez read in part as follows All the stories in which it was stated that I had proposed to compromise are lies of Spanish invention I have not written Spain or anybody -else in regard to the matter and I never made any such state ments to anyone I can tell you as a sort of state secret said Senor Piera 4that it will be only a few weeks until the insurgents will be in possession of one of the large and import ant cities at which our capital will be es tablished7 EVENTFUL SENATE SESSION Discussion of Foreign Affairs De velops -a Series of Sensations The national senate session Friday de veloped three distinct sensations The most important of these was the presenta tion by Senator Sherman of a letter from Minister Rodoriguez the representative of the Greater Republic of Central America including Nicaragua in effect protesting against the execution of the Nicaraguan canal projectjby the United States under the concession granted in 1887 to the Nicaraguan -Canal -Company As the bill for this purpose was about to be voted on by the senate the appearance ot the letter created consternation among its friends Senator Morgan its chief supporter at once declared that the letter was inspired by Great Britian who sought to drive the United States from the isthmus by using the Central Americans as a catspaw He asserted that Minister Rod eriguez had oome here to execute such a plan and that it -was an open threat against American control -of the canal The de bate was very earnest and the letter made a profound impression on the senators Senator Vilas declared that it struck a death blow to the -canal project proposed by the pending bill Iieopards Fight to Death There was an exciting fight to the death between two large male leopards confined in a cage in the -whiter quarters of Lemon Bros circus at Argentine Kansas The leopards had been on unfriendly terms for several days but Keeper Fisher was able to control them When the fight began there was a scene of wildest pandemo nium the other animals joining in the bubbub Circus employes from all over the building ran to the menagerie room They saw Zerke the winner of the bat tle standing over the dead body of Spot The victor was sucking the dead leopards blood Keeper Fisher explained that the display of unusual rieiousness made by the animals was caused by their being fed on horse meat Will Fight a Duel Baron Otto von Boyssi Loifling of Mu nich is at the Waldorf New York and rumor says he is here io claim an Ameri can heiress as his bride but -on this point he is silent In relation to the possibility of sanguinary interruption of his impend ing joy he speaks freely- This interrup tion nothing less than a challenge to a duel which will be fought within a year if the illness now afflicting the challenger does not forestall the event New Scheme of Huntingtons It is stated that Collis P Huntington has acorps of engineers in the field making a preliminary survey for a rail way from the port of AJvarado south of Vera Cruz Mexico tothe port of Salina Cruz on the Pacific coast aRd that if he can seeure an advantageous route he will ask the gov cernmetff for aconcession for operating ihe Ifne in connection with the Pacific Mail steamers thus doing avay with the Pana ma route The Coffee War The legal battleover tfce Woolson Spice Company began in the conunon pleas court at Toledo Friday Judge Morris presiding The morning session was consumed in read ing the original petition of the Arbuckles asking for a receiver for the Woolson Com pany the answer of the latter and their I demurrer The afternoon session was de J voted to arguments on the general de jmurrer Over sixty witnesses will be 1 tailed Earthquake Shakes Bombay A special dispatch from Bowbaj sys that three severe earthquake shocks have j occurred there Wi IS A CUBAN VICTOR FALL OF SANTA CLARA RE CEIVES CONFIRMATION Details of the Battle Brought to the Oity of Mexico by Recent Arrivals from Cuba Cold Weather Extends Over a Wide Section Capture of Santa Clara Various travelers arriving in the City of Mexico Sunday from Cuba confirm the capture of Santa Clara by the Cubans and also bring news that the insurgentshave been fighting in the near vicinity of Ha vana and a few days ago wrecked a pas senger train withhrtwo miles of that city Two young Englishmen direct from Cuba Harry E York and Lee A Harvey have reached Mexico having passed several weeks in Cuba and with the insurgent army part of the time and the remainder in the field with the Spanish troops Har vey received a shot through the left -arm They are preparing a report lor Senatof Cameron which will be forwarded to Washington in a few days The Cubans are not in want of men but money ammunition and medicines There are not over 25000 Cubans1 while the Spaniards and volunteers now number 286000 men mostly very young and not good fighting material All operations are in the nature of guer rilla warfare Both sides are systematically burning plantations and the country will be reduced to barbarism Harvey says it was told him in the Cuban camp that Maceo had his lower jaw shot away but was alive and recuperating Gen Gomez is not treating for peace and although there is a peace party among the Cubans it is a small one The capture of the town of Agutec by the Cubans was a brilliant piece of work Three thousand Spaniards held the place but the Cubans showed better generalship At Santa Clara the Cubans took and held the town just long enough to ruin it Har vey does not consider there is any decided prospect of victory for either side MERCURY SEEKS THE BULB Wave of Frigid Weather Extends Over a Wide Section A Washington dispatch of January 24th says A severe cold wave now extends as far east as the Ohio valley and southward to Texas where the temperature has fallen from 20 to 40 degrees in the past twenty four hours It is below freezing in Ten nessee and central Texas it is below zero in Ohio Indiana Illinois and Missouri and 20 degrees below zero over the Da kotas and Minnesota Light local snows are reported from southern New England and southwest ward over the Ohio Valley Tennessee and northern Texas The weather is generally fair in the northwest and the south Atlantic states The indications are that the cold wave will extend eastward and southward over the Atlantic and gulf coasts Monday The temperature will fall to near zero from Virginia northward and freezing weather will extend southward to the gulf and south Atlantic coasts BAD CHICAGO BLAZE i Northwestern Stove Repair Com panys Factory Destroyed The Northwestern Stove Repair Com panys factory 225 to 287 West Twelfth Street Chicago was entirely destroyed by fire Sunday night When the fire engines arrived it was found that every fire plug in the neighborhood had been frozen and fifteen minutes elapsed before a stream could be brought to bear on the flames During this time the fire spread with such alarming rapidity that the residents in the vicinity of the fire began to move their household effects out of their homes Finally when water had been turned on the flames enveloped the entire building The firemen however kept the fire confined to the stove factory The damage done to adjoining buildings was entirely by water Loss 425000 RHODES VISIT TO ENGLAND Intense Interest in the Case of the South African Napoleon The consequences of Cecil Rhodes ar rival in England are awaited with more curious and in many quarters more anx ious expectations than has preceded any other event of the kind since Warren Hast ings was brought home from India The people of England are perhaps equally divided in sentiment On one side are those who regard the Jameson raid as a splendid achievement and regret that it was not successful on the other side are those who believe it was merely a morally squalid though financially big stock ex change move and a disgrace to British hon esty and fair dealing with otherpeople Alleged Alaska Outrages The report on complaints on the part of members of the Russian orthodox church in Alaska on account of alleged outrages by the agents of the Commercial Company will not likely lead to any diplomatic ne gotiations between the United States and Russia Koetsbu the Russian minister said that as he understood the matter the persons alleged to have been maltreated are not Russian citizens but citizens of the United States though members of the Rus sian church The state and treasury de partments are still without information in regacd to the reported troubles Twenty Five Hundred are Dead It is Telieved that fully 2500 persons per ished as a result of the earthquake which occurred on Kisham Island Persia re cently Kisham Island is the largest in the Persian Gulf and is situated about fif teen miles from its entrance Its popula tion is estimated at 5000 mostly Arabs Weekly Bank Statement The weekly frank statement shows a re serve increase of il895275 The banks hold 57067800 in xcess of the legal re quirements 3600 Package Missing A registered mail package containing 3600 for Denver is reporttM to have been stolen between Cheyenne am Cgijcago WlDDED TO HIS SISTER Shocking Discovery Made by a Kan sas Man Aflthe celebration of the thirty ninth wedding anniversary of Peter Wilson and wife a highly respected couple in the vil lage of Mulvane a few miles south of Wichita Kan a few evenings ago a most cruel exposure came to light by chance The romantic story runs thus In 1838 Alexander Taylor his wife and two children located at Richmond Ind having moved there from Noble County Ohio Soon after taking up their residence there the father went as a volun teer to the Florida Indian war leaving his wife and children in Indiana He took the fever on the expedition and died and -Mrs Taylor dying soon after left her two chil dren Peter andRachel aged 6 and2 years respectively to the care of strangers Isaac Ashton and Robert Wilson friends of the Taylors adopted the children Ashton tak ing the girl and Wilson the boy Shortly afterward they moved away When Peter Wilson was 17 years old he went to Sioux City to become a carpenter and at a tem perance meeting met Rachel Ashton Three years later they were married and shortly after settled near Mulvane On the re cent anniversary celebration Wilson sent for his aged father to be present and it happened that Isaac Ashton was passing through the town on his way to visit a son in Oklahoma Mrs Wilson her rd of it and had him remain to the feast During the evening he and old Robert Wilson met grew reminiscent and it took but a little while to develop the fact that Peter Wil son had married his sister Rachel STREETS OF TORONTO DARK Electric Light Station Burned by a Spark from the Dynamo A spark from a dynamo in the Toronto Electric Light Companys building started a fire which resulted in the total destruc tion of the big dynamo Business depend ent on electric power was obliged to shut down until new dynamos could be in stalled Loss 150000 fully covered by insurance Sold Under Foreclosure After years of litigation the Produce Cold Storage Exchange property in West Lake Street and the river Chicago representing an investment of upward of 2500000 was sold under foreclosure on the real estate board for 125000 The holders of a first mortgage of 200000 will receive about 50 cents on the dollar the balance will go to the attorneys in the case and holders of 1000000 common and preferred stock and 800000 second mortgage bonds will re ceive nothing The owners of the ground who have received no rent for five years will have the plant of which the buildings cost 800000 and the appliances and ma chinery 175000 Snub to Bismarch According to a Berlin correspondent Emperor William was invited to attend the wedding breakfast last week of the daughter of Count von Wedell to Count von Bismarck Holen to which the Bis marck family had been invited and re fused to meet Count Herbert Bismarck Count Zu Eulenberg the court marshal tried to arrange matters but the emperor was obdurate and Count Herbert Bis marck was asked to remain away from the wedding A Michigan Collision A disastrous collision occurred between a car loaded with coal and a trolley car near the Michigan Soldiers Home at Grand Rapids Motorman John Vake was killed and conductor Frank McAlvey was badly injured The coal had been taken to the home two miles north of the city by a switching motor When uncoupled the brake was found to be out of order and the car ran back down a grade until it met the trolley car Labor and Religion Form a Union Beginning the 25th a weeks revival will be held in Racine Wis under the aus pices of the Trade and Labor Council Re ligious services will be the feature and ad dresses will be made by Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor Henry D Lloyd and others Anti Theater Hat Ordinance Killed Kansas City The city council has de cided that there shall be no restriction or limitation as to the character of headgear which women may wear in the theaters MAEKET QUOTATIONS Chicago Cattle common to prime 350 to 575 hogs shipping grades 300 to 375 sheep fair to choice 200 to 400 wheat No 2 red 77c to 79c corn No 2 22c to 23c oats No 2 15c to 16c rye No 2 36c to 38c butter choice creamery 19c to 20c eggs fresh 13c to 14c potatoes per bushel 20c to 30c broom corn common green to fine brush 2c to 54c Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to 525 hogs choice light 300 to 375 sheep good to choice 200 to 375 wheat No 2 87c to 89c corn No 2 white 20c to 22c oats No 2 white 20c to 22c St Louis Cattle 300 to 525 hogs 300 to 375 wheat No 2 90c to 91c corn No 2 yellow 20c to 21c oats No 2 white 16c to 18c rye No 2 33c to 35c Cincinnati Cattle S250 to 500 hogs 300 to 375 sheep 250 to 400 wheat No 2 92c to 93c corn No J mixed 23c to 24c oats No 2 mixed lSd to 20c rye No 2 35c to 37c Detroit Cattle 250 to 525 hogs 300 to 375 sheep 200 to 375 wheat No 2 red 90c to 92c corn No 2 yellow 22c to 23c oats No 2 white 19c to 21c rye 38c to 40c jluicuu rueiii jo reu wc xo yoc corn No 2 mixed 21c to 23c oats No 2 white 17c to 19c rye No 2 37c to 38c clover seed 525 to 580 Milwaukee Wheat No 2 spring 76c to 7Sc corn No 3 19c to 21c oats No 2 white 18c to 20c barley No 2 25c tc 34c rye No 1 38c to 39c pork mess 750 to 800 Buffalo Cattle 250 to 500 hogs 300 to 400 sheep 200 to 425 wheat No 2 red 93c to 94c corn No 2 yellow 25c to 27c oats No 2 white 21c to 23c New York Cattle 300 to 525 hogs 300 to 425 sbep 200 to 450 wheat No 2 red 89e to 90c corn No 2 28c to 29c oats No 2 yrhite 22c to 23c butter ereamerv 15c to 25o ezss West i 7 w Wm - j j ii oc y - J era 12c to 16c STATE OF NEBRASKA NEWS OF THE WEEK N A CON DENSED FORM A Nebraska Citizen Charged -with the Shooting of One Gillmore at Blakeman Kan Evidence to Be Against Him Seems Much Circumstantial Evidence On December 22 1896 G W Gillmore of Blakeman Kansas was shot through the window of his house about 780 in the evening The shot took effect in the face and the doctor took out twenty eight shot and some were buried so deep that they couldnotbe extracted In spite of his severe wounds he will probably get well Saturday Reuben Rinker of Bertrand this state was arrested by Sheriff Knudsen charged with the crime He demanded a hearing and the evidence developed the fact that Rinker was seen on the morning of December 21 going on horseback from Bertrand to Oxford and the liveryman in Oxford identified him as having come to his barn the night of December 21 and leaving a horse The man who did the shooting was tracked from Blakeman Kan to the residence of G W Gillmore three miles from town by his tracks in the mud but the tracks were lost soon after the shooting and while the man was making his way from the residence of Gillmore The livery man at Oxford further testified that Rinker came after and got his horse the 23d of December After hearing the testi mony the court remanded Rinker to jail at Holdredge to await the requisition papers from Governor Holcomb STATE DEPOSITORIES New Treasurer Asks the Banks to Furnish New Bonds The most interesting feature of the new administration of the state government is the settlement between ex Treasurer Bart ley and State Treasurer Meserve The governor and the treasurer have preserved a dignified reticence in regard to the mat ter Treasurer Meserves invariable re ply is that the settlement is being made in sash and that no certificates of deposit or other evidences of indebtedness are being accepted The new treasurer has refused to accept certificates for the state funds in the depos itory banks leaving the matter open until the supreme court decides the question but while refusing to accept certificates Treasurer Meserve has intimated to the depository banks that he will receipt for any amount of cash they may want to turn in on account As soon a3 he had taken possession of his office State Treasurer Meserve addressed a letter to all the solvent depository banks defining his position and requesting them to turn their holdings of state funds back into the state treasury as soon as possible Many of the depository banks are adopting the treasurers suggestion and are forwarding their holdings to the state treasury It will be Treasurer Meserves policy to secure new bonds from all state deposi tories He does not wish to be understood as questioning the security but he thinks it will be better for all parties interested that the depository law be enforced in spirit as well as in letter Many of the de pository bonds now on file with the au ditor date back to the first year of Govern or Crounses administration in 1893 while still many more date back to the second year of Governor Crounses term Object to Taxes on the Bridge The Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company has brought suit in the district court to restrain the county of Otoe and city treasurers from collecting 2160 which has been assessed against that cor poration as owner of the railroad bridge across the Missouri River at Nebraska City The railroad company states that it is ready and willing to pay 110250 the cor rect amonnt of taxes The point in con tention is whether or not the west half of the bridge is in the city and school district limits The railroad company maintains that it is not Thieves Set Fire to a House The third robbery in a few weeks has occurred at Inavale Thieves entered the residence of P Eddy during the absence of the family and after ransacking the house took two suits of clothes and a few minor articles Before leaving they set fire to the house in two places and after locking both doors from the outside dis appeared Mr Eddy returned before the fire had got a good hold and with the as sistance of some neighbors succeeded in putting out the flames Northwestern Medical Association The regular meeting of the Northwest ern Medical Association was held at Chad- ron The association embraces all of the towns in northwestern Nebraska the Black Hills and eastern Wyoming But little outside of routine business was trans acted and the place of the next meeting was not decided upon although it will likely be at Fort Robinson Among those in attendance were Drs Leas Meredith Pringle Wilson Furay Ellmore and War rick Elevators Open to Grain The Omaha Elevator Company through its agent Mr Morehouse at Osceola has notified the farmers in Polk County that it win DuiKi cribs sufficient and Avill take all the corn that the farmers have a mind to bring in if they have to buyupallthe land that joins them to put the cribs on The farmers are all busy hauling the corn Votes to Impeach the Mayor The city council of Nebraska City after the transaction of some routine business went into executive session the other night and rumor has it that a resolution preferr ing charges of impeachment against Mayor C W Stahlhut was introduced and passed February 1 is the time set for the mayor to answer the charges High Hjaymen Secure Xothir Will Lewis of Decatur while escorting a country girl home was held up by high waymen Two guns were held to his head while the bandits went through his pockets Xo booty was secured however and Lewfs has willingly confessed he knows what it is to be scared now Sentenced for Stealing Clothing Thomas Cavanaugh and Thomas Leland who were arrested on the charge of steal ing some clothing from the store of H II Fass at Nebraska City were tried found guilty and sentenced to thirty davs in the county jail and to pay a fine of 685 each Officers for Board of Agriculture At the meeting of the State Boardof Agriculture in Lincoln the following offi cers were elected Mr Doolittle presi dent in place of E A Barnes retired R W Furnas seYary and Mr Mclntvre treasurer UNIVERSITY REGENTS REPORT Institution Has Progressed with Economy In the thirteenth biennial report to the governor the board of regents of the Uni versity of Nebraska shows the continued prosperity of the university during tjfi financial depression of the last two years The attendance has not decreased the students are with few exceptions not be low collegiate grade and the regent maintain that the people of the common wealth have every reason to be proud of the position which the university now oc cupies among the educational institutions of the country On account of an appropriation from the the last legislature which was less by 19 590 than was asked for current expenses followed by a further reduction in the in come due to the partial crop failure the board has been compelled to economize in expenses It is shown that the University of Nebraska is conducted with great econ omy when compared with similar institu tions in other states Nebraska is fourth among twenty one states from which sta tistics were received in the number of stu dents attending but sixth in size of in structional force Further retrenchment would mean impairment The report estimates an apparent shrink age of about 35000 in the revenue due to 1 a shrinkage in the grand assessment roll of the state which involves a loss of 12750 to the temporary university fund 2 a falling off in the income from lands leased and sold of about J80W in the two years The regents point out that it is necessary to augment the tem porary university fund either by an in crease in the rate of tax levy or by appro priations from time to time from the gen eral fund of the state and urge the latter policy as the simplest Stanley CJaycomb Again Stanley Claycomb who became notorious through a trial at Des Moines Iowa ajjf d another at Omaha for body snatching has been released from jail at Omaha where he was sentenced for the work and at once instituted suit for 5000 damages against Sheriff McDonald The action grows out -of the sheriffs efforts to enforce discipline Claycomb was boisterous A pair of hand cuffs were attached to each of his wrists and his arms were extended to their full length in a horizontal direction with the hands about six inches above theshouldersv The loose portion of each handcuff was then fastened to the bars of the cell Ha was left in this position all night The treatment had the effect of quelling some of CI ay combs exuberance but he recites that it also left him a cripple for life Columbus Postmaster is Short Postoffice Inspecter Swift was at Colum bus and investigated matters in the post office there and found postmaster D F Davis over 600 short in his accounts Davis has been temporarily removed awaiting advices from the department He was appointed postmaster in 1892 by President Cleveland and about one year ago was found short by the inspector but was allowed to continue by his bondsmen making good the shortage It is thought that this last transaction will result in hurrying up the selection of one of the nu merous aspirants for the office and it is generally conceded that M K Turner for twenty six years editor and publisher of the Journal of that city will be ap pointed Contracts For Beet Raising The blank contracts for the raising oi beets for the ensuing year are now in cir culation among the farmers in the vicinity of Grand Island and Tin trnnhlp hno an faf I been experienced by the factory people tc mjjuoiuioo IU U1C CUU Li IU 13 JiJCS contract books are usually closed some time in March and it cannot now be defiVv A V nitely told how creat the acreage this veai will be and whether or not there will be any difficulty in makincr up an acreace as large as that of last year Last seasons con tract contained a clause providing for the payment of an additional dollar per ton of beets upon the payment to the factorvoi the bounty The factory did not this year pay this dollar not having received it from the state Sues the Rock Island for Damages The case of Edward R Sizer adminis trator of the estate of Peters to secure damages against the Rock Island Railroad Company for causing the death of Peters is to be tried at Wahoo The petition calls for 5000 damages and was taken to Wahoo on a change of venue from Lancaster County The case grows out of the case of the State against G W Davis who is now serving a life sentence in the penitentiary for wrecking a train in Lancaster County The railroad relies on the defense that tho wreck was caused by a third party Kearney Industrial School The Board of Public Lands and Build ings held a lengthy session in the office of State Treasurer Mesere at Lincoln the other day All the members of the board were present The following appointments were made James Holland of Custer County assistant superintendent of Kear ney industrial school for bovs tpanhprs Prof C D Griffin of Lincoln J H Bays tin of Red Willow County and L B Fen ner of Box Butte County Patrick OShee of Lincoln was named as custodian of school buildings Sheep in Sannders County Over 50000 Sheep will be wintered in Saunders County this winter X B yiejiui ivunuo win control 4vS000 and will place them at different points through out the county Mr licrggren received word a few days ago from New 3Iexico that a train en route to Wahoo carrving 2 100 of his sheep had been thrown fronf the track in the mountains of Xew Mexico and but VdO of his 2400 sheep were saved Louie Mielenz has also purchat ed 3000 sheep which he will winter on his farm atlthacal A time lock has been put on the safe of the Ciarkson State bank St Paul people are talking of organising a creamery company North Platte people are talking of bav in a race meeting hi June A wolf hunt was indulged in by the citi zens of Dodge one day recently The people of Wayne have organized a Young Mens Christian association J W Johnson of Wilson precinct Colfax County has lost fifty six hogs from cholera The Lutherans of Sutton dedicated a new church Sundav Xeligh ice men have shipped a large quantity of ice to outside points during the last two weeks Two Valparaiso men have shipped in 4400 sheep from Xew Mexico to be fat tened on Xebraska com Lew Peters of Old has been arrested charged with stealing timber from a neigh bors timber claim Frank Forsyth an Auburn boy fell in the street and in a few minutes was dead Apoplexy was the canto 1
