THIS TOE WORLD
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL
PARTS
JUMPS THE TRESTLE
BAD WRECK ON THE ELECTRIC
LINE AT WATERLOO IOWA
Fifteen People are Injured Half a
Dozen of the Thirteen Passengers
on the Car are Badly Hurt Con
dition of the Kest Not Serious
Street Car Takes a Plunge
An electric car on the Waterloo and
Cedar Falls Electric Interurban line
while running at a speed of about twenty
miles an hour left the track Monday
morning as it approached the river bridge
near Waterloo iowa falling from the
trestle work to the bank fifteen feet below
There were thirteen passengers and four
employes aboard All the passengers were
injured only two of the employes escaping
unhurt
The injured are E B Tibbitts motor
man left arm and left leg crushed condi
tion serious Frank Latier conductor
hips badly bruised W H Morton Chi
cago a traveling salesman serious inter
nal injuries condition very serious D B
Morris Chicago traveling salesman cut
about the head Miss Charlotte Cunning
Iiam Waterloo serious internal injuries
Tannic Flieekenger Cedar Falls injured
in neck windpipe cut Frank Foulk
Waterloo ribs broken and other internal
injuries The other eight are badly bruised
lrat none of them are in a serious condi
tion
SACRED EMBLEM DEGRADED
No Protection in the United States
Tor the Insignia of the Hed Cross
Miss Clara Barton president of the
American Red Cross Society who has just
-returned from the international Red Cross
conference at Vienna said that excepting
this country the leading nations had
passed laws protecting the title and insig
nia of the Red Gross On this point Miss
-Barton said
It was humiliating to confess before that
great assemblage that in our own en
lightened country there are 281 persons
corporations and firms who are using the
name and sign of the Red Cross as a trade
mark for private gain that there
are innumerable bodies of people here
-who have founded Red Cross societies for
local purposes who are in no way connect
ed with the general organization The
JRed Cross delegates were amazed to learn
that the wealthy men of this great repub
lic had not endowed their Red Cross nor
could they understand why our congress
had not prohibited by stringent laws the
prostitution of humanitys sacred emblem
JOKE WITH VICTIMS
oX
OTWI1 35 Teople on
a Portland Street Car
A car on the Oregon City Electric Line
of Portland was held up by two masked
nen at Meldrum Station four miles from
Oregon City Monday night There were
thirty five passengers on board and the
highwaymen went through the pockets of
U of them getting about 90 One of the
s obbers jumped on the front of the car
and with a revolver ordered the motorman
to stop the car while the second robber
climbed on the rear end Conductor John
Anderson stepped inside and quickly
turned out the lights but he was held a
prisoner b3 the man on the rear platform
who stood guard The robber who boarded
the car in front made the motorman go
inside and then he quietly searched each
passenger joking as he went through the
car
EX QUEEN LIL VERY ILL
Two Physicians in Almost Constam
Attendance on Her
Ex Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii is re
ported very ill at her apartments in Wash
ington She returned from a trip to San
JFraueisco ten days ago in bad health She
had contracted a heavy cold on the journey
eastward and a physician was at once
summoned She has since been steadily
jjrowing worse and while the greatest
secrecy has been maintained by her secre
4ary and servants regarding her illness it
Js reported that symptoms of pneumonia
3iave developed and that her condition is
regarded as serious Two physicians are
in almost constant attendance upon her
Train Hits a Street Car
A well filled car on the State Street line
of the city railway at Elgin III was
Jburled from the track by a Chicago and
Northwestern train Monday Three peo
ple were injured as follows Henry J
2Telix bad scalp wound Frank Fiske
fcadly bruised and cut Mrs Frank Fiske
cut on the head and badly bruised ser
iously hurt The escape of the passengers
from death is miraculous The car was
lifted bodily and hurled to one side land
Jng on its wheels and half demolished
Embezzler Ward on Trial
After a delay of more than eighteen
jHonths A K Ward under ninety six in
dictments charging forgery and embezzle
anent securing thereby 250030 was placed
n trial at Memphis Tenn Monday
Mountain Climber Frozen to Death
During an ascent of Mt Ayarat by mem
bers of the recent geological congress Dr
Cloeber professor of medicine was frozen
-to death
Mr laugtry Becomes Insane
Mr Langtry the husband of Lily Lang
try was fonnd wawdering on the railway
at Cicwe a town thirty four miles south
east of Liverpool Eng He was in a dazed
condition and subsequently became delir
ous He was placed in the lunatic asylum
t Chester
The Drought In Illinois
The present drought in Illinois is un
paralleled for this time of the year The
precipitation in September was 38 of an
inch It was also the hottest September in I Bolivia
4iie history of the weather bureau
BRADSTREETS REVIEW
Drouth Has Checked Distribution of
General Merchandise
Bradstreet s Weekly Review says Dis
tribution of general merchandise in the
renlral west and northwest is further
checked owing to the prolonged drouth in
Kentucky Illinois Kansas portions of
Missouri Nebraska Iowa Minnesota and
the Dakotas Telegraphic advices to
Bradstreets report serious damage in Kau
nas and parts of Nebraska and Iowa where
early planted wheat is up and budding
out That planted later is not likely to
sprout Fall plowing is now impossible
six weeks without rain having dried up
pastures and compelled farmers to feed
stock
Manufacturing industries throughout the
west particulary iron and steel continue
active and there is an increasing tendency
on the part of the interior merchants to
pay more promptly While the volume of
trade has decreased at Chicago it is ahead
of the like record in recent years
There is a moderate improvement in
business in the south
BIG CHICAGO GAS DEAL
Two Old Companies Consolidate and
Reorganize
The deal for the sale of the Universal
and Mutual Fuel Gas Companies of Chi
cago has practically been closed The
stock will be placed in trust with the Illi
nois Trust and Savings Bank McMillan
Co have issued a prospectus for the
new company together with a request for
subscriptions to its bonds and preferred
stock The bonds are to be subscribed at
par but each subscriber is to recive in
addition two and one half shares of pre
ferred stock for each bond taken Full
paymeut is to be made by December 1
1897 The new company is to have an au
thorized issue of 4000000 of 6 per cent
cumulative preferred stock and an author
ized issue of 10000000 of first mortgage
per cent forty year gold bonds to be
dated December 1 1897
SUBMARINE WRECKING BOAT
Successful Test of the Argonaut at
Baltimore
A Baltimore dispatch says A private
trial of the submarine wrecking boat Ar
gonaut has been had in the dry dock
where she was built the result of which is
said to have been highly satisfactory -to
her inventor and owners She was sub
merged in twenty one feet of water re
maining under the surface for two hours
during which time constant communica
tion was kept up with those who were in
her cabin and engine room by means of a
rubber tube
Many tests of her engines were made
and while the trial was merely prelimi
nary the inventor asserts that enough was
learned to make it certain that the boat
will be able to perform the work for which
she is designed
ARRESTED AT A WEDDING
Members of a Bad Gang of Ohio
Outlaws Captured
ctm ioo n oaU and Bert Wines two
members of a gang that has been terroriz
ing the inhabitants of Meigs and surround
ing counties in Ohio have been arrested
under sensational circumstances Hysal
was standing beside Miss Georgia Mauley
atthehomeof Squire Long near Pomeroy
awaiting the words that would make them
man and wife when officers suddenly
appeared on the scene and made a prisonei
of him before any resistance could be
offered Wines who was a guest at the
intended wedding started to run but wa3
captured after leading the officers aspirited
chase Howards aggregating 2000 had
been offered for their capture
THREE VILLAGES DESTROYED
Disastrous Fire in the Lumbering
District of Ontario
Information from Casselman Out is to
the effect that the whole village has been
destroyed by fire and that the villages of
South Indian and Cheney have also been
burned These villages are in the center
of a large lumbering district and bush lires
are raging in the vicinity
Guiteaus Pistol Recovered
Washington police have recovered what
they believe to be the pistol with which
Guiteau shot President Garfield and have
put it in the cabinet at headquarters for
safe keeping Property Clerk Sylvester
said that it had been obtained from a citi
zen who had had it in his possession for a
number of years The pistol was taken
from police headquarters July 2 18S1 the
day President Garfield was shot by Col
Geo B Corhill then district attorney
Subsequently it disappeared mysteriously
and trace of it was obtained only recently
Gold Tide Toward America
One million three hundred thousand dol
lars in gold has been engaged in London
for shipment to America making the total
engagements for import since September
SO 5100000
To Build a Fast Fleet
A Paris special says a French steamship
company will shortly construct a fleet of
steamers for Havre Xew York service
capable of averaging fully 22 knots an
hour
Maidstone Epidemic Spreading
The typhoid fever at Maidstone Kent
England is still spreading There are now
1830 cases of the disease and new cases
are hourly being reported
Bringing Gold to America
The American liner Paris sailed from
ooumampton saruruay wun aU2buw in
gold consigned to different New York
houses
Portland Packing House Burned
The Simraerzan Packing Companys
plant at Portland1 Ore burned Sunday
morning Loss 80000
75000 Fire in Henderson Ky
Thelohnson Block Henderson Ky was
destroyed by fire Wednesday Loss 75
000 insurance 82000
Minister to Bolivia
The president has appointed George IT
Bridgeman of New York minister to
AN INHUMAN WEETCH
OHIOAN ACCUSED OF BURNING
HIS WIFE ALIVE
Before Aid Could Be Rendered Mrs
Wm Peyster of Canton Had Her
Clothing Burned from Her Body
and Her Flesh Laterally Roasted
Woman Burned Alive
Residents of the tenderloin district of
Canton Ohio who investigated screams
saw a column of flames in the rear yard of
the home of Wm De Pejstcr Sunday
night In the flames was found Mrs De
Peyster and before aid could be rendered
she was dead the clothing burned from
her body and her flesh literally roasted
De Peyster when found would give no
explanation of what had occurred and
was placed under arrest on suspicion of
murder -Neighbors say lie and his wife
had been quarreling all night
Maggie Greathouse tells of a former
attempt of De Peyster to kill his
wife several months agp At that
time when he was arrested for
disorderly conduct she says after a pro
tracted quarrel between Do Peyster and
his wife she went to their room
in answer to a call for help and
found Mrs De Peysters night robe on fire
and saturated with oil which De Peyster
had poured over her after breaking the
lamp He had ignited the garment The
two women fought him off and extin
guished the flames The De Peysters have
born unenviable reputations for some time
and have conducted several questionable
places
FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Gov Leedy of Kansas Wont Show
Mercy to Murderers
In an interview Monday afternoon at
Topeka Kan Gov Leedy advocated cap
ital punishment for murder in the first
degree The present Kansas law provides
that a person convicted of murder in the
first degree shall remain in the peniten
tiary one year at least and then shall not
be hung until the governor signs the death
warrant
There are about fifty persons in the pen
itentiary sentenced to be hanged but who
are permitted to live because no governor
of Kansas has signed their death warrants
Gov Leedy says he will not sign their
warrants as that was the duty of preced
ing governors but he intimates that he
will sign the warrants for the execution of
all murderers sentenced to hang during
his term of office
A MYTHICAL ESTATE
Treasury Department Gives Alle
ed
Heirs of Joseph Ball a Tip
The treasury department has had many
inquiries from time to time about the
alleged estate of one Joseph Ball of Phil
adelphia which is supposed to be held in
trust in the treasury department The
letters speak of this truct and an alleged
81 year lease given uy Mr Ball to eortain
valuable property in Philadelphia To all
of these inquiries replies are sent out in
forming heirs that there is no such
fund in the treasury and that the only
rocord in the treasury department of
Joseph Ball of Philadelphia relates to
a claim of about 8000 which he filed as an
underwriter against the government in
1S01 for cargoes seized by the French
The claim is one of the ordinary French
spoliation claims
WEYLER MAKES NO PROTEST
Cables Sagasta that He Is Ready to
Submit to His Superior
The Spanish cabinet on Saturday held a
few hours session during which the decis
ion previously arrived at regarding the re
call from Cuba of Capt Gen Weyler was
confirmed In reply to an inquiry by Pre
mier Sagasta Capt Gen Weyler has
cabled the following statement to the gov
ernment
I have always been and in every case
shall ever be the first man to accept re
spect obey and enforce the governments
orders I would not allow any demonstra
tion to go beyond the expression of per
sonal affection and the approval of any
policy
Veteran Newspaper Man DeadT
Charles Gallagher for years connected
with the Missouri Republican now the St
Louis Republic died Sunday from typhoid
fever He was 77 years old and was one of
the best known newspaper men in the
west During the past few years ho had
devoted his time to magazine writing
Fanatical Chief Killed
The Brazillian legation in Washington
has received an official cable from Rio de
Janeiro that Canudos the stronghold of
the religious fanatics in the interior of the
state ot Babia has been captunl by fed
eral troops and Antonio Conselhedro chief
of the fanatics is dead
Big Strike by Chinamen
Two Chinamen who have been mining
in the Cassiar district British Columbia
have arrived at Victoria They took out
40000 and have drafts of the Hudson Bay
Company to show for it There is much
excitement in Chinatown
Estimates for the Navy
The estimates for the support of the
navy for the next fiscal year have just been
prepared by Secretary Long and sub
mitted to the secretary of the treasury for
transmission to congress They aggregate
31991727
Short Tobacco Crop
Commissioner of Agriculture Moore of
Frankfort Ky in his monthly report says
that the tobacco crop has been cut short
16 per cent as a result of the drouth in
Kentucky
Eight Burned to Death
It was learned Monday that Mrs Bree
kin a halfbreed and her six children and
a man named Tencau lost their lives in
the prairie fires near St Anne Manitoba
Horatio King for Congress
Gen Horatio C King has been nomi
nated for congress by the Shepard or in
pendent Democracy of the Third district
of New York
NEEDS MO HELLO GIRL
St Paul Electrician Devises a New
Telephone System
John J Schoenleber of the Northwest
Engineering Company of St Paul has in
vented a device by which a practical tele
phone system may be operated independ
ent of a switching system at a central sta
tion and whereby the users are entirely
protected from interfering callers while in
communication with a distant person The
device is simple and requires no attention
to keep it in working order The instru
ment is operated in the same way as the
ordinary telephone with the addition of a
dial switch which in the throwing of the
pointer from home position by automatic
means locks the receiver hook from use
and prevents the receiver from being hung
up again until the switch is returned to its
normal position
A CARNIVAL OF CRIME
Marks the Close of the Annual Fes
tival in Kansas City
Festival week at Kansas City closea
with an unusual number of crimes and ac
cidents John W Dunlap was stabbed
through the heart during a fight with
drunken cavorter W H Gould a negro
was beaten to death with a rock during a
row L B Noah of Gallatin Mo died of
morphine supposedly suicide Andrew
T Brennan of San Francisco was killed by
a switch engine John Bennett a packing
house hand was killed while trying to
crawl under a moving car The Kansas
City Transfer Companys barns were
burned and eighty horses including four
fancy coach teams were destroyed The
Wales Building Fifth and Deleware
Streets was also partly destroyed by fire
250000 BAD PAPER FOUND
Officials of the Asheville N C
Bank Placed Under Arrest
Wm E Brooks president W II Pheh
land cashier and J C Dickinson a di
rector of the defunct First National Bank
of Asheville X C have been arrested on
indictmeuts from the United States court
in session at Greensboro charging them
with embezzlement and conspiracy
They were released on 30000 bail each
National Bank Examiner Maway has
made some startling discoveries One of
these it is alleged reveals the fact that
250000 of accommodation notes signed
by insolvent persons and filled out by
officials and some forged papers are in the
bank C B Leonard the man who is said
to have secured the note signers has fled
to Mexico
CAPT WIBORG RELEASED
Served Sixteen Months in Prison toe
Filibustering
Capt J II n Wiborg of Philadelphia
has been released from prison after a six
teen months sentence for carrying on the
Danish steamship Horsa a filibustering ex
pedition to Cuba There was a fine of 300
and costs or 500 in all attached to the term
of imprisonment but Capt Wiborg could
not raise the money The regular term
expired last Saturday but this default
would have added thirty days to Ills con
finement A popular subscription headed
by a Philadelphia newspaper raised the
money however and the captain was
Saturday night restored to his wife and
children
Work for 1500 Men
Minneapolis employment agents report
that work is ready at hand for 1500 men
The men are wanted for the woods and for
railroad work Agents say that men are
hard to obtain although the wages are
good and railroad fares are advanced to
send workmen to their destination
Message from a Dead Man
A bottle containing a letter from Ed
Mason one of the men of the steamer
Chicora which was loit on Lake Michigan
nearly three years ago was found on the
beach west of Chesterton Ind the other
day
Jumps Into the Lake
Ill health is said to have caused Thomas
ADillon president of Cavanaugh Co
distillers and wholesale liquor dealers of
Chicago to suicide by jumping into tho
lake
Forest Fires in Colorado
Forest fires are raging in the timber
southwest of Easter Park Colo Unless
there is a rainstorm the destruction will be
enormous
3IARKET WUOTATIONS
Chicago Cattle common to prime
300 to 550 bogs shipping grades
300 to 450 sheep fair to choice 200
to 423 wheat No 2 red 00c to dxc
corn No 2 2Sc to 20c oate No 2 19c
to 20c rye No 2 40c to 47c butter
choice creamery 20c to 22c eggs fresh
13c to 14c new potatoes 38c to 50c per
bushel
Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to
525 hogs choice light 300 to 450
sheep common to choice 300 to 400
wheat No 2 91c to 93c corn No 2
white 2Sc to 30c oats No 2 white 22c
to 24c
St Louis Cattle 300 to 525 hogs
300 to 425 sheep 300 to 400
wheat No 2 97c to 99c corn No S
yellow 2Gc to 28c oats No 2 white 21c
to 23c rye No 2 42c to 44c
Cincinnati Cattle 250 to 525 hogs1
300 to 450 sheep 250 to 425
wheat No 2 93c to 95e corn No 2
mixed 29c to 31c oats No 2 mixed 21c
to 22c rye No 2 4Gc to 48c
Detroit Cattle 250 to 525 hogs
300 to 450 sheep 250 to 400
wheat No 2 93c to 95c corn No 2
yellow 30c to 31c oats No 2 white 22c
to 24c rye 47c to 49c
Toledo Wheat No 2 red 95c to SMSc
corn No 2 mixed 29c to 30c oats No
2 white 18c to 20c rye No 2 47c to 48c
clover seed 320 to 330
Milwaukee Wheat No 2 spring S5c
to 87c corn No 3 28c to 29c oats No
2 white 21c to 23c rye No 1 47c to 4Sc
barley No 2 40c to 43c pork mess
775 to S25
Buffalo Cattle 300 to 550 hogs
300 to 450 sheep 300 to S475
wheat No 2 winter 95c to 9Uc corn No
2 yellow 32c to 33c oats No 2 white
25c to 2fic
New York Cattle 300 to 550 hogs
350 to 500 sheep 300 to 450
wheat No 2 red 99c to 100 corn No
2 34c to 35c oats No 2 white 23c to
Me butter creamery
Westrni Ulc U IS-
loc to -De eggs
STATE OF NEBEASKA
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON
DENSED FORM
Bondsmen of Defaulting Ex State
Treasurer tToseph S Hartley and
the State Now Pitted Against fJnch
Other in District Court
Big Sum at Stake
The bondsmen of defaulting ex State
Treasurer Joseph S Bartley and the sover
eign state of Nebraska are now fairly pit
ed against each other in the legal arena of
he district court Omaha for the big stake
af over half a million dollars the amount
of Hartleys defalcation for the embele
jnent of a portion of which the latter is
now under sentence to serve twenty years
in the state penitentiarv and to pa a line
itf 30376S
The trial of this big and well known
zivil suit has begun before Judge Powell
It was instituted at the last term of the
district court by the state against Hartleys
bondsmen to recover the amount of the
latters defalcation which in exact figures
is placed at 55579009 together with inter
est from January 7 1897 the date on which
Bartley should have accounted for the
money
There is an expectancy that the trial will
Tie a long one There is no doubt that
every legal point on which either side can
expect to gain an advantage will be closely
fought Time will probably cut little
figure
AGAINST CATTLE THIEVES
Supreme Court Settles a Number
of
Appeal Cases
Among the decisions handed down by
supreme court during its sitting at Lincoln
are the affirmations of the trial court in the
cases of Catron and Granger both of
Sheridan County In ealh of these cases
the crime charged was cattle stealing
which under the law passed in 1885 is a
penitentiary otfeuse the same as horse
stealing Appeals were taken to test this
law Similar appeals came from other
western counties until there were seven
or eight cases depending upon a decision
as to the validity of the law The decision
handed down in the Granger case upholds
the law and practically decides all the
vsther cases The Catron case was appealed
an the same grounds buthad an additional
2laim of error because of alleged miscon
duct on the part of the prosecuting attor
ney
Long Lost Man Found
George II Robinson the chief rate clerk
Df the Union Pacific office of passenger
Accounts disappeared from Omaha May
29 His abandoned bicycle and part of his
slothes were found on the river bank
Robinson has written to his friends He
says he has not realized until recently
what he has been doing His letter indi
sates that he is now engaged in out of
sloor work and that his health is restored
He has been in Illinois Indiana Ohio and
now is in Michigan Robinson was deputy
grand chancellor of the Pythians and the
members of Nebraska lodges and others of
die order sought for him dilhgently all
over the United States olfering large re
wards He was supposed to have suddenly
become insane and drowned himself in the
river
Quarrel Ends In a Killing- I
A corners jury empaneled at Nebraska
City found a verdict to the effect that Wil
iam Reisch the German dairyman who
was found in a dying condition on the
street early the other morning came to his
death from a blow inflicted by Lee Dillon
Pillon was placed under arrest to answer
io the charge of homicide The evidence
sends to show that the men quarreled over
a trifling matter finally coming to blows
And that Dillon struck Reich in such a
manner as to cause his death
Hog Cholera in York County
Ilog cholera is ravaging in the northern
portion of York County Charles R Keek
ley a prominent farmer living a few miles
north of York has lost over 20f hogs al
ready and unless some efficacious remedy
an be found soon he will lose 400 more
Other farmers in that part of the county
are suffering serious losses owing to the
epidemic
Sentenced For Stealing- Jewelry
William and Wallace Stanley a search
Of whose premises near Unadilla a few
days ago revealed stolen plunder to the
value of 250 J weie arranged in district
ourt at Nebraska City upon the charge of
robbing a Palmyra jewelry store last De
2ember They nleaded cuiltv and were
T
each sentenced
penitentiary
to three years in the
Hogs Dying by the Hundreds
Some strange disease is working sad
havoc among the hogs on the Looking
Glass Creek in Plntte County Opinion is
divided as to whether it is the old time hog
cholera or not Over 1500 hogs have died
within the last forty days Remedies that
Heretofore have checked cholera to some
extent have proved of but little value in
hese cases
Governor Approves the Bill
The governor has received a voucher
from the exposition commission for the
payment of ground rent on the exposition
grounds for the Nebraska building The
sharge is 25 ceiits per square foot for l4 m
eet making a total of 355020 i nu
has approved the bill
Contract for a New Building
A t the meeting of the board of regents of
fhe University of Nebraska in Lincoln the
contract for putting up the new Mechanic
Arts Building was let to Grace Kelley
whose bid was 25638 Some additional
items will make the amount slightly in ex
cess of thee figures
Falls Down an Elevator Shaft
Jacob Godtel a fanner was trading in
the hardware store of Stanton Carney
at Clay Center He stepped backward
into the open elevatar shaft and fell to the
cellar below His hip was dislocated
Diphtheria In Piatt County
There are three cases of diphtheria in
the family of Richard Ives living about
five miles northwest of Columbus
Unveil a Monument
le monument erected to the memory
of the late Frank Bauer bv the Woodmen
of the World was unveiled at Xebraska
City with appropriate ceremonies There
were a large number of visiting Woodmen
present from Plattsmouth Auburn Ham
burg Syracuse and nearby towns
Small Decrease in 3Iortgages
The Otoe County mortgage record for
the moriv i of September shows a small de
crease in indebtedness During the month
thorn trorn t uTitit r f innrriroifac filat
WHICH PARTY COMES FIRST
Great Question
Xow Agitating thcr
Minds of Some Politicians
GEORGE MORGAN IS HUNG
Valley Countys Showing
Yalley countys mortgage record for the
month of September is as follows Seen
farm mortgages filed amounting to 400
seventeen satisfied 13118 three town
mortgages filed 2200 seven satisfied
The ninth annual meeting of the Beaver
Valley Harvest Home and Exposition So
ciety founded by Hon John Gillilan
opened its gates to the public Wednesday
and 3030 people passed the turnstile to
view the exhibits and listen to the inter
esting program arranged for the day
Badly Injured in a Itunaway
While Mrs Kavan of Morse Bluffs was
taking her children to school at North
Bend the other morning her horse took
fright
and ran away throwing Mrs
Kavan out of the buggy and badly injur
ing her C L Morse who caught the
runaway was struck in the side by tho
point of the shaft
Build a New Livery Barn
Work has commenced on a brick livery
barn 48x42 feet on the Harbine lots on
Fourth Street Fairbury The building
will be two stories in height and finished
in good style
Take Cash From a Bank Safe
The safe in the Boelus bank was blowiv
open the other night The robbers ecrelX
1200 and escaped leaving no trace
bank was insured against theft
Henry T Specht Is Acquitted
Henry T Specht charged with a
assault upon Miss Buckholtz of Berlin
was acquited by a jury in the district court
at Xebraska City The parties belong to
prominent German families and consider
able interest was manifested in the case on
this account Specht was 18 years of age
and the girl about 20
Shot While Examining a Gnn
dK s10t in the left hand while ezr
aggregating 823533 nineteen released 1
amounting to 25550
K
There is much differenced opinion even
in the fusion ranks as to the proper course
to be pursued by the secretary of state in
regard to the ballot protesis Some be
liere he should leave the Silver republi
cans on the ticket and rule out the Na
tional Democrats some say they should
both be ruled off and others think they
should both be allowed to go on the ticket
A prominent free Silver Kepublican at the
state house at Lincoln was interviewed on
the puestion He gave it as his opinion
that both parties should be allowed to go
on the ticket and said that in case either
was ruled off the matter would be appealed
to the courts He said that the Silver Re
publicans had complied with the new law
in holding their convention while the Na
tional Democrats had not but the differ
ence was so small it would be hard to ex
plain to the people who were already im
patient of technicalities After reading
section 7 of the Australian ballot law
where it says Provided further that in
such case neither candidate or caucus shall
be allowed to use any party name or em
blem hitherto adopted by any political
party the gentleman said he believed a
strict suling on that section would shut out
both Silver Republicans and National
Democrats
Slayer of Ida Gaskill Protests Hif
Innocence to the Last
George Morgan was hanged Friday
at Omaha for the murder of Ida
Gaskill in 1895 He protested his
innocence His victim was but 1
years old and had been choked v
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death after she was outraged The evi
dence was mainly circumstantial but was
very conclusive
Chief Refuses to Give a Bond
The trouble that has been brewing Be
tween the fire department and the city
council at York for some time threatens tc
reach a climax unless the council makes
the concessions demanded It seems that
there is a difference of opinion as to ths
authority of the council to interfere with
the affairs of the department The imme
diate cause of the friction however is the
demand which the council has made for s
bond of 500 from the chief of the fire de
partment The chief refuses to give s
bond claiming that inasmuch as lie re
ceives no material salary for his services
and has no personal supervision of the fire
apparatus he should not be held responsi
ble The departmedt supports him to a
man
Seward Will Have a Flour Mill
Mulfinger Harrison leading grain
buyers of Seward have submitted a propo
sition to the Business Mens Fraternity to
build a cereal mill for the manufacture ol
oatmeal and the various products of cornT
etc They propose to put up a mill to cost
15000 if the citizens will donate 1000
which sum is not to be paid until the mill
is completed and in operation Machinery
will be put in for manufacturing all the
products of wheat oats and corn and thtr
mils are to be enlarged as the demand for
their products increase A committee has
been at work securing snbscriptions and
has already very nearly secured the re
quired amount making the mill a cer
tainty
I State Irrigation Association
The State Irrigation Association held
their meeting at Lincoln last week The
following are the officers for the coming
year President A G Wolfenbarger
vice president W R Akers secretary
Joseph Oberfelder treasurer T C Lloyd
The committee on resolutions were in
structed to report to the executive com
mittee which was authorized to act on the
report President Wolfenbarger stated
that the executive and other committees
would be appointed at an early date am
announcement of the selection made
through the public press
Thrown from a Wagon and Hurt
A serious accident happened recently to
Mrs Moody wife of a prominent fanuez
living five miles northeast of West Point
The family had just returned from town
and during the unhitching of the team one
of the tugs was left fastened The team
started and threw the woman out of the
wagon breaking her arm and dislocating
her wrist and foot
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Girl of Thirteen Is Missing
Pearl Wilsey a girl about 13 years of
aje has disappeared from her home in
Kearney and all efforts to find her have so
far failed She has a light complexion is
fairly good looking and weighs 113 pounds
It is believed she has gone south and
officers have been notified to watch for her
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