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ROBERT GOOD Ittltor and Prop
VALENTINE - NEBRASKA
IOWA SOEONS MEET
TWENTY SEVENTH GENERAL AS
SEMBLY CONVENES
Only An Organization was Effected
the Frst Day Funk of Hardin
Elected Speaker of the House by
Acclamation
Iowa Solons In Session
The Twenty seventh general assembly
of Iowa met Monday morning in Des
Moines and an organization was effected
In both houses and the members sworn in
Emmert of Cass Democrat was sworn in
as senator from Cass and Shelby and
Christie of Wright Democrat as repre
sentative from Hancock and Wright
Each has a contest on his hands to be de
termined later by a recount of the votes by
special committees
Mr Funk was elected speaker of the
house by acclamation In taking the gavel
he said the duties of the legislature were
as grave as have confronted any session
since the war The state demands meas
ures that will reduce the state debt and
do iwithout crippling the administration
dn any way The new revenue law is but
an experiment as yet Its aim was to levy
a larger share of taxes against interests
that in the past have not paid their full
share These interests will be here impor
ttuning to be relieved of these new bur
dens It will be the duty of the assembly
to consider carefully every such request
before any measure be adopted to reduce
the revenue
A resolution was presented in the house
to reduce the number of house employes
but it was held to be out of order for the
time being
In the senate Lieut Gov Parrott was in
the chair The new officers were elected
and members sworn in A resolution was
adopted for a committee of five to confer
with a like committee of the house relative
to inaugural arrangements The gov
ernors message was not presented at the
first session
TO MAKE WORK FOR THE IDLE
New 5Tork Typographical Union In
dorses the Pingree Idea
How to find work for the unemployed in
the large cities on a self sustaining basis
is a question which Typographical Union
No 6 of New Tork is tryiug to solve The
officers of the union have come to the con
clusion that the cultivation of the unused
land is the most reasonable form of
relief and it has unanimously decided
to make use of the vacant lot farm
F H Goodyear of Buffalo president of
the Buffalo and Susquehanna Kail way and
owner of a tract of land in northwestern
Pennsylvania has offered to Big Six from
H000 to 2000 acres for a colony He ex
pects the presence of the colony to bring
business to his road Title will be con
veyed after the colony is fairly established
The union expects to raise 10000 and the
donor of tthe land will contribute a like
amount The union has appointed a com
mittee to consider the project
BEEF COMBINE TO RETALIATE
Move to Place a High Tariff on
French and German Products
A Chicago dispatch says the beef trust
5s going to fight Europe Chicago export
ers and producers of provisions including
jthe so called Big Four are preparing to
retaliate upon the French and Germans
who insist upon placing embargoes and
loutrageous tariffs upon exportations of
ipork canned beef and lard from this
country At their solicitation Represent
ative Belknap has introduced a bill in the
Louse at Washington providing for a tariff
of 50 per cent in addition to present rates
on the more important products sent to
Khis country by foreign nations which re
fuse to observe or make reciprocity treaties
MURDERED IN THEIR BEDS
Massachusetts Farmer Wife and
Daughter Slain with an Ax
Francis B Newton a prosperous farmer
of Brookfield Mass his wife Sarah and
10-year-old adopted daughter were found
murdered in their beds Monday morning
The crime was discovered by neighbors
whose curiosity was aroused by the low
ting of unfed cattle They were killed
with an ax The hired man is missing
and the authorities are making a search
for him
Another Monetary Commission
Senator Chandler had a conference with
President McKinley Monday upon the
subject of bi metallism He said after
the interview The president stands firm
in favor of international bi metallism as
promised by the St Louis platform The
presidents intention is to again send en
ivoys to Europe as soon as conditions are
favorable for continuing the negotiations
Sparrow Bounty Frauds
States Attorney Morris of Illinois has
recovered Richland County orders to the
amount of 500 which had been fraudu
lently given to six boys as bounties
on sparrow heads Birds were cut up into
unany pieces and decorated with feathers
jso as to appear like heads The ages of
the boys range from 11 to 14 years They
lielohg to good families
Invite Bryan to Talk
The Mississippi house of representatives
passed a concurrent resolution introduced
by -Representative McClauren inviting
Hon WJ Bryan of Nebraska to address
the present session of the legislature
There ws only one dissenting vote
Exports and Imports
The exports of specie from the port of
New York for the week amounted to 32
000 in gold and 1102850 in silver Im
ports were Gold 817831 silver 157
218 dry goods 2390152 general mer
chandise 728718L
REVERSES THE COMMISSION
Judge Speers Decision in an Inter
state Commerce Case
Judge Speer of the United States court
at Macon Ga handed down a decision
Saturday reversing the finding of the in
terstate commerce commission in a case in
which it was sought to secure lower rates
from Cincinnati and Louisville to Griffin
Ga than to Macon which is sixty five
miles further south Judge Speer holds
that Macon is a far more important com
mercial point with more competing rail
roads and entitled to lower rates than
Griffin on the score of these advantages
In the opinion he says
Shall the government undertake the
impossible but injurious task of making
the commercial advantages of one place
equal to those of another It might as
well attempt to equalize the intellectual
powers of its people There should be no
attempt to deprive a community of its
natural advantages of those legitimate re
wards which flow from large investments
in business industries and competing sys
tems of transportation to facilitate com
merce The act to regulate interstate com
merce has no such purpose
CONTROL OF THE SEX
Medical Fraternity Interested in a
Vienna Doctors Statement
The medical fraternity in New York
city is very much interested in the report
from Vienna that Dr Schneck had dis
covered the secret of exercising an in
fluence over females so as toJix the sex of
their offspring Dr George F Shrady
editor of the Medical Record said
I think Dr Schencks discovery is prob
ably a revival of the old theory which
holds that the sex of a child is determined
wholly or in part by the manner in which
its parents are nourished The study of
animals has shown that the female when
confined to a low diet if it conceives at all
will bring forth a male Contrarily when
the diet is of high nutrition the issue is
likely to be a female The breeders of all
sorts of animals have gone to great length
in attempts to indubitably prove this the
ory and to a certain extent the results
bear it out Of course there are excep
tions
LAST STRAW FOR SPAIN
United States it is Said May Be
Asked to Use Good Offices
A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune from
Washington says Spain is considering a
formal request to the United Slates to use
its good offices to stop the fighting in Cuba
Intimation has been made at the
state department that the Sagasta
government had become convinced that
the only way to save Cuba was to accept
the often proffered good offices of the
United States Canovas repeatedly re
plied to President Cleveland declining
these good offices and Sagasta did the
same last November Now the prime
minister has become completely disheart
ened over the evident failure of autonomy
CREEKS WILL CONTEST
Acts Giving Federal Courts Juris
diction to Bo Fought
The Creek council in spite of the mes
sage of Secretary Bliss warning them not
to do so has passed an act appropriating
20000 to be used in employing attorneys
to fight the constitutionality of the act of
congress giving the United States courls
full jurisdiction after January 1
All acts of the Indiau councils after Jan
uary 1 must be approved by the piesident
of the United States Secretary Bliss has
already said that he would not recommend
such an act as the Creek council passed to
the president for approval
MAMMOTH ICE HOUSE FALLS
Two Men Killed Five Fatally and a
Dozen Seriously Hurt
The Toledo Ice Companys mammoth
ice house in course of construction at
Whitmore Lake Mich collapsed Friday
killing two men instantly probably
wounding five and injruing a dozen
others
Policemau on Pension Roll
The recent crusade to expunge from the
pension list all persons who are not en
titled to pensions may cause an upheaval
in the police force of St Louis It is stated
on the best authority that at least fifty
men on the police force are drawing dis
ability pensions from the government and
also drawing their salaries as able bodied
policemen The police board it is stated
by one of the commissioners will investi
gate the matter
Dr Joseph ODwyer Dead
Dr Joseph ODwyer died in New York
Friday after an extended illness from
tubercular meningitis Dr ODwyer took
high rank in the medical profession A
few years ago he achieved international
fame by inventing tubes which have been
adopted throughout the country for the
purpose of saving children suffering with
diphtheritic croup
Three Trainmen Badly Hurt
A Kansas City St Joseph and Council
Bluffs passenger liain southbound col
lided with a Chicago Burlington and
Quincy freight at St Joe Mo Friday
Fireman Frank Brown of St Joe had both
legs cut off Eli Messenger of Clinton
Iowa legs broken and Engineer O W
Wright of St Joseph legs crushed
Shoves a Child Under the Ice
Sunday morning an unknown man broke
a hole in the ice in the Missouri River at
St Joseph Mo and shoved a small child
into the opening A man who witnessed
the affair told a boy to notify the police and
followed the murderer across the river
into Kansas Neither pursuer nor pursued
have been found
Double Mississippi Lynching
Jim Watts and Sam Cole negroes of Nel
jon County Mississippi were lynched in
Pea Ridge Kemper County a few
jays ago They went to Pea Ridge
to visit relatives and became too thick
with their kinsmens wives The lynchers
are said to be negroes
Weekly Bank Statement
The New York weekly bank statement
shows a reserve increase of 0476000 The
banks now hold 22261000 in excess of
the legal requirements
BURNED THEM A1IVE
HORRIBLE FATE OF TWO SEMI
NOLE HALFBREEDS
Met Death at the Hands or an En
raged Mob in Oklahoma Charged
with Outraging and Murdering a
Farmers Wife Other Items
Are Burned at the Stake
A dispatch from Fort Smith Ark Sun
day says Justice in a more horrible form
than that meted out to Henry Smith of
Paris Tex was administered by a mob on
the Oklahoma border Friday night to J
Marcus McGeisey and Palmer Simpson
two Seminole Indians They were
charged with murder their victim being
Mrs James Shnmons a respectable farm
ers wife living in Oklahoma The crime
was a most revolting one and the criminals
were punished in a most revolting manner
Mrs Simmons was outraged and murdered
the body being horribly mutilated The
murder and mutilation so enraged the
neighborhood that nearly the entire popu
lace turned out to down and punish the
guilty parties The trail led the posse
to the home of McGeisey near Maud a
small town in the Seminole nation where
McGeisey and Simpson were arrested The
prisoners were carried back across the line
into Oklahoma Territory and near the
scene of their crime they were executed by
Judge Lynchs order in the most horrible
manner that human minds and hands
could devise They were burned at the
stake The Indians met their doom
with the usual stoicism of their race After
life was extinct the mob allowed the fire
to die down and they quickly dispersed to
their several homes
EXPLOSION IN A MINE
Six Workmen Believed to Have Per
ished in Kansas
Six lives are supposed to have been lost
by an explosion probably of damp or gas
at 640 oclock Saturday evening in the
Mt Carmel Coal Companys mine near
Chicopee Kan Had the accident occurred
half an hour later the forty men of the
night shift would have been caught
The explosion which was accompanied
by a loud report wrecked the blacksmith
shop and other buildings at the surface
and started a fire in the timbering How
ever the fans were quickly started and the
fire was extinguished Twenty minutes
after the explosion two men escaped from
the smoking shaft by climbing up the
framework
BRYAN SPEAKS IN CHICAGO
Silver Champion Guest of Honor at
a Jackson Day Banquet
A host of Democrats quite a number
of them from Iowa Indiana and Wiscon
sin celebrated Jackson day in Chicago by
a banquet at the Tremont House Saturday
For an hour or so prior to the feast Mr
Bryan held a reception in the hotel par
lors and shook hands with a large nnmber
of callers Nearly five hundred were
seated at the banquet Mayor Harrison
presided and acted as -toastmaster Mr
Bryan was received with cheers when in
troduced
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TOW BOAT BLOWN UP
Half a Dozen Killed in an Explosion
on the Allegheny River
The towboat Percy Kelsy which left
Pittsburg Pa Saturday morning with a
tow of coal barges blew up near Glenfield
and was completely wrecked Six or eight
of the crew were killed and at least four
injured The cause of the explosion is un
known The boat was literally torn to
pieces and the tow scattered and lost The
hull sank almost immediately and the
scattered portions of the upper works
floated down the river with here and there
a human form clinging to them
Gang of Swindlers Arrested
St Louis On Monday police officers
arrested four Italians Carlos Pasquino
Jose Arno Charles Cerutti and Frank
Bassi in a small room in the Italian quar
ter of the city on the charge of swindling
The prisoners are suspected of being the
perpetrators of swindles in every promin
ent city in the Unithe States Pasquino
had 4000 in his possession and could not
explain where he got it
Slayer of Terriss is Insane
It is possible that Richard Arthur Prince
1he assassin of William Terriss the actor
will be declared insane by a commission
in London and sent to an asylum without
trial as is sometimes done His friends
have now procured his examination by an
insanity expert who declares the prisoner
to be insane
Major Moses P Handy Dead
Major Moses P Handy special United
Stales commissioner to the Paris exposi
tion of 1000 who recently returned from
France broken down in health and went
to Augusta Ga to recuperate died at
noon Saturday His remains were taken
to Berlin Md for burial
Wage Scale Signed
The wage scale at the 10 inch mill of the
Homestead Pa works has been signed
by the employes The men objected to the
cut but Superintendent Corey showed that
it was necessary to compete with other
manufacturers This places the entire
plant in operation
Tornado in Kentucky
At3S0 oclock Sunday afternoon a cy
clone struck Morgan field Ky unroofing
the old Methodist church and the parsons
house totally demolishing several business
houses Harvey Sellers the city marshal
was instantly killed by falling walls
Durrants Body to be Cremated
A dispatch from San Francisco Monday
says No funeral arrangements have yet
been made by the Durrants and their sons
body still lies in the parlor of the Durrant
home It is expected that it will be cre
mated in the Odd Fellows crematory
Ohio 3Iiners to Ask an Advance
The Ohio miners iu convention at
Columbus decided to ask for an advance
of 10 cents a ton when the contract for
next year is made
BRADSTREETS REVIEW
The New Year Opens Well for
Trade in General
Bradstreets Weekly Review of Trade
says The year opens with a tone of quiet
confidence prevading nearly all branches
of business with encouraging actvity in
the iron trade a resumption of work by
many thousands of industrial employes in
the western glass industry a largely re
duced volume of business failures as com
pared with corresponding periods in pre
ceding years and a general outlook cer
tainly not inferior to any previous year at
this time While the volume of distribu
tive business is no larger industrial activity
is a special feature unconfined to any one
section but especially noted in the west
Resumption of work after the holidays
has been generally encouraging in that
section
Bank failures in 1897 followed the gen
eral tendency of business mortality in all
other lines of business The reputation of
the banking community for conservatism
however is borne out by the relatively
heavier falling off in the number of fail
ures and the reduced volume of liabilities
of banks and trust companies as com
pared with preceding years than in ordi
nary commercial circles
QUICK JUSTICE IN INDIANA
Young Burglar Tried and Sentenced
on the Day of His Crime
Early Friday morning a burglar was dis
covered in the store of John P Thomas at
Claypool Ind After a desperate struggle
during which several shots were ex
changed the robber was captured and
proved to be Clarence Thomas grandson of
the proprietor The latter is justice of the
peace At 630 a m he gave his grandson
a preliminary hearing and bound him over
to the circuit court At 8 oclock he ar
rived in Warsaw where court is now Jin
session At 9 oclock the case was called
Clarence pleaded guilty and at 930 a m
Judge Biggs sentenced him to an indeter
minate term of from two to fourteen years
in Jeffersonville prison
CONFERENCE WITH GOMEZ
Rumored that Blanco Lee and
Palma Will Meet Cuban Leader
It has been rumored that Gen Fitzhugh
Lee the United States consul general at
Havana will accompany Capt Gen
Blanco when the latter takes the field It
is further reported that Senor Estrada
Palma the delegate to the United States
of the Cuban insurgents will arrive in
Havana shortly and accompany the cap
tain general and Gen Fitzhugh Lee to
the field and that a conference with Gen
Maximo Gomez will follow The report
has caused a sensation in Havana
FOUR MEN ARE LYNCHED
Two Murderers and Two Rapists
Executed by Arkansas Mobs
Four colored men have been lynched in
the vicinity of Bearden Ark within the
last few days Two were rapist and two
murders The ravishers Devo and
Huntly were swung up three miles north
of Bearden and the murderers met their
fate a few miles south of Bearden The
work was done by two separate mobs and
according to reports created little excite
ment
Money Plentiful in the West
There is a great glut of funds in the
western country banks says a dispatch
from Chicago Bank deposits have
doubled within a year in some sections
The present phenominal condition of a
plentitude of money in the great agricul
tural sections of the west has not only a
far reaching bearing on general business
and industrial conditions throughout the
nation but also on the problems connected
with the equalizing of capital distribu
tion in all parts of the country
Wholesale Chicago Burglary
Burglars entered the residence of W W
Jacobs of Chicago and stole 20000 worth
of mining stocks besides a collection of
rare coins musical instruments rare books
jewelry silverware and clothing
m iri
Big Fire at Glasgow
During a fire at Glasgow Scotland an
explosion killed four firemen and injured
a number of other people The damage is
250000
Hanging in Georgia
Simon Hopkins colored was hanged at
Cambridge Ga Friday for the murder of
a man named Harris
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Chicago Cattle common to prime
300 to 575 hogs shipping grades
300 to 375 sheep fair to choice 200
to 475 wheat No 2 red S9c to 91c
corn No 2 26c to 27c oats No 2 20c
to 22c rye No 2 45c to 46c butter
choice creamery 20c to 22c eggs fresh
21c to 23c new potatoes 50c to 65c per
bushel
Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to
575 hogs choice light 300 to 375
sheep common to choice 300 to 451
wheat No 2 00c to 92c corn No 2
white 27c to 2Sc oats No 2 white 24c
to 26
St Louis Cattle 300 to 550 hogs
300 to 375 shebp 300 to 475
wheat No 2 92c to 94c corn No 2
yellow 24c to 26c oats No 2 white 22c
to 24c rye No 2 45c to 46c
Cincinnati Cattle 250 to 525 hogs
300 to 375 sheep 250 to 475
wheat No 2 91c to 93c corn No 2
mixed 28c to 30c oats No 2 mixed 24c
to 25c rye No 2 46c to 48c
Detroit Cattle 250 to 525 hogs
300 to 375 sheep 250 to 450
wheat No 2 89c to 91e corn No Z
yellow 28c to 30c oats No 2 white 24c
to 26c rye 47c to 48c
Toledo Wheat No 2 red 91c to 93c
corn No 2 mixed 27c to 28c oats No
2 white 21c to 23c rye No 2 46c to 47c
clover seed 320 to 325
Milwaukee Wheat No 2 spring 86c
to 88c corn No 3 26c to 28c oats No
2 white 24c to 25c rye No 2 47c to 48c
barley No 2 38c to 43c pork mess
875 to 925
Buffalo Cattle 300 to 550 hogs
300 to 400 sheep 300 to 500
wheat No 2 red 94c to 96c corn No
2 yellow 31c to 33c oats No 2 white
27c to 29c
New York Cattle 300 to 550 hogs
300 to 425 sheep 300 to 500
wheat No 2 red 100 to 101 corn No
2 34c to 36c oats No 2 white 28c to
29c butter creamery 15c to 23c eggs
Western 21c to 24c
STATE OP NEBRASKA
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON
DENSED FORM
The State Board of Agriculture Has
Received Reports From All the
Counties Stating that Wheat is in
Excellent Condition Short Notes
Condition of Wheat Crop
The state board of agriculture has re
ceived reports from all the counties in the
state showing the condition of Nebraska
wheat to be 96 In view of the extraor
dinary cold weather of the last month this
is considered to be an excellent indication
The same report shows the condition of
range cattle to be better than for many
years
MAN AND WOMAN MURDERED
Double Killing Occurs in a Farm
House Near Fairbury
George Baker and his wife living on a
farm two miles west of Fairbury were
both killed about 6 oclock on the morning
of January 4 by shots fired through the
window of their bedroom and indications
pointed to William Baker the dead mans
brother as the murderer Bloodhounds
were put on the trail and about four miles
from the scene of the murder William
Bakers body was found the top of the
head having been blown olf by the same
shotgun used to commit the murder
There is no explanation for the crime
The shooting occured while Baker and
his wife were dressing Each victim was
shot in the face death resulting instantly
Two panes of glass were blown out of the
window and the faces of Baker and his
wife were filled with shot Quail shot was
used and the charges were unusually heavy
Bakers hired man was at the barn and
heard the shots but paid no attention to
them until another man came running
from the house and told him Baker was
shot The two ran at once to the house
and looking through the window saw the
bodies lying on the floor They were so
frightened they did not make the facts
known till some time afterward
MUST GO TO PRISON
Supremo Court Affirms Sentence
of
Ex Treasurer Hartley
The supreme court has rendered a decis
ion affirming the penitentiary sentence of
twenty years imposed on ex Treasurer
Bartley convicted in the district court of
Douglas County of the embezzlement of
735000 The opinion is very lengthy and
is concurred in by all of the judges Bart
ley since his conviction last fall has been
in the county jail at Omaha Bartley took
the announcement very coolly showing
no surprise or even the slightest emotion
He gave no expression whatever of his
feelings
Bloodhounds Detect Thieves
Short work was made in capturing two
of the three men whoheld up and robbed
Dr Hitchcock the East Lincoln druggist
The Beatrice bloodhounds were sent for
and when put upon the trail went direct
to the Fedawa residence in the eastpart of
the city where Jay Fedawa and a man
giving his name as J W Rice were capt
ured and taken to jail The third man
has not been located The quick capture
of the men has established the efficiency of
the dogs for tracking thieves and will no
doubt have the effect of frightening the
other thieves who have been plying their
trade so freely this winter
Involves Omaha Property
The supreme court has handed down an
opinion in the case of Brown Johnson
Co the London bankers against Phoebe
Rebecca Elizabeth Elwina Linton and
Adolphus Frederick Linton reversing
the decree rendered by Judge Ferguson
rendered about three years ago The suit
involves a mortgage of 10000 on a tract
of fifty acres on Center Street Omaha
The mortgage is sustained by the supreme
court and Brown Johnson Co will get
a decree tor 10000 with interest from
October 21 18S9 amounting now to about
70000
Verdict of Coroners Jury
The jury empaneled by Coroner Swan
son after viewing the body found by Chris
Rolss three miles from Elkhorn and
listening to the evidence of several wit
nessesfound that the deceased came to
nis aeam Dy uis own nanas xne man-
had burrowed into one of Mr Rolss straw
stacks On removing the stranger from
the hole it was discovered that the man
had a knife wound in his neck from which
the blood was still pouring He died
without uttering a sound The stab in the
neck had severed the jugular vein
Capture a Post office Burglar
Shortly after the robbery of the post
office at Arapahoe a description of the
burglars was given the public A few
days since a couple of tramps appeared in
Curtis One was immediately arrested
Postoffice Inspector Dice ordered the fel
low to be held at all hazards until the
proper officials could come after him as
he was also wanted for robbing the post-
oihee at Exeter in Decemher A reward
of 200 had been offered for his capture
Jail Breakers Interrupted
The fifth attempt to escape from the
county jail at Nebraska City in as many
weeks was made by the prisoners last
week Thomas King who is awaiting
trial on the charge of burglary obtained a
small steel saw with which he sawed off
the lock of his cell door He was discov
ered just as he was in the act of liberating
the other prisoners
Quarrel Over a Girl
A J Howard a young man of Ord shot
at William Rutherford the other day at
the Rutherford home northwest of that
town The shooting was done at the dis
tance of about a rod but no one was hurt
Howard was arrested and charged with
attempted murder The cause of the
trouble was a dispute over a girl
Loses a Finger t
J H Walker met with a serious accident
at Juniata by accidentally getting his
hand into a corn sheller The forefinger
had to be taken otf
Safeblovrers at Roseland
Safeblowers visited Roseland the other
night They blew open the safe at J H
Popes grain office but only succeeded in
getting a few cents in stamps Duncan
Brothers office was also enteerd but noth
ing was taken as their safe is not closed
Crazy Woman at Large
The crazy woman sent to the asylum
from Humboldt recently Mrs Beck made
her appearance in the vicinity of her old
home again on January 2 She was seen
and recognized but before she could be
arrested she bad disappeared
CUBAN RELIEF COMMISSION
Governor Holcomb Names Men Who
Will Take Part
Governor Holcomb has appointed the
following persons as members of the
Cuban relief committee Rev H C Row
lands General P H Barry and M D
Welch Lincoln J E Utt W N Nason
Omaha The appointment of the commit
tee was prompted by the receipt of the
following telegam
Governor Silas A Holcomb Lincoln Central
Cuban Relief Commutes appointed by President
McKInloy urges upon your excellency the Imme
diate formation of efficient committees for the
collection of funds food clothing and medicine
In your state for Cubas starving people to br
transmitted free by this committee to Consul Gen
eral Lee Havana May wo depend upon your
hearty co operation Wire answer
Stephen E Barton
Chairman
Senate Favors Indian Exhibit
The United States senate has passed tre
bill to provide for an exhibition of Indian
life during the Trans Missidsippi exposi
tion in Omaha cutting the appropriation
down from 100000 as proposed by Sena
tor Allens bill to 545000 The Indian af
fairs committee had reported in favor of
50000 It is believed that the bill should
it pas3 the house will be the means of as
sembling in Omaha during tho coming
summer the most interesting Indian ex
hibit ever seen in tho world It is the in
tention of the promoters of the cnterprise
to bring up families of the Moquis Arapa
hoes Navajoes and other manufacturers
of pottery and textile fabrics from the
southwest as well as to have a good dis
play of the tribal life of the northern and
western Indians
Banker Mills Goes to Prison
B D Mills of Lincoln late president of
a defunct national bank in Harlan County
has been taken to the penitentiary to servo
a sentence of five years He was con
victed with Ezra Whitney treasurer of
Harlan of embezzling 11089
county funds and the supreme court
affirmed the sentence
Bold Hold Up
Another bold hold up occurred in Lin
coln tho other night Three footpads com
pelled Dr Hitchcock to stand and deliver
and secured a gold watch and 40 in cash
as their booty Highway robberies have
been frequent for several months and the
police seem to be powerless to stop them
Nobraska Short Notes
The Peavey Elevator Company at Her
man has changed local managers John
Byrne retiring E W Burdie an old res
ident and well known stock and gram
buyer will represent the Peaveys at Her
man
The people of York are bothered by the
petty thieving which has been going on
lately The other evening a set of barness
was taken from tho York Hotel barn and
a number of articles are reported missing
from other places
Homer Jolts of St Paul and A V Yar
mau went out hunting near Palmer and
met with a serious accident While both
were in a wagon a gun which they were
fixing exploded and both men were hurt
Homer Jolts lost one eye and one thumbs
and Mr Yarmen lost an eye
Benjamin McKeons drug store at Fair
field was ransacked by burglars recently i
The work was evidently that of a novice
as a clumsy but ineffectual attempt was
made to pry open a cash drawer Two
slot machines were carried off bodily and
they probably contained 5 to 10
The second annual show of the Repub
lican Valley Poultry Association held at
Superior last week attracted general at
tention not only in the immediate vicinity
but from all parts of Nebraska and Kan
sas Hundreds of visitors were in attend
ance daily and many are the favorable
comments
Complaint was filed the other day with
the board of education at Nebraska City
against Harry Morgan principal of one of
the ward schools by A O and W J Har
rison who allege that their sister Nellie
Harrison was compelled to climb stairs
an excessive number of times as punish
ment of some infraction of rules The
girl was 11 years of age and a fow days
after the punishment is said to have been
inflcted was taken ill and died two or
three days later of inflamation of the
bowels
Ewing reports not a single vacant resi
dence in town
Thieves put in a busy night at Niobrara
recently Four places were entered the
same night
Two thousand head of cattlo were un- V
loaded at Ewing in one week They are
to be wintered in that vicinity
T J Bennett and wife of Stanton were
seriously ill for a few days as a result of
inhaling gas from a hard coal stove
William Blakeley a wealthy Nebraska
pioneer is dead at his country home near
Liberty Gage County aged 75 He came
to the state forty years ago
Depredations among cattle by wolves
are reported from the south divide in Kim
ball county which has heretofore beett
tolerably free from the pests S A
cott has sustained some losses
Some unknown party knocked at the
door of Mr Hansens home near Wood
River recently and when the door was
opened by his daughter Grace discharged
a gun full m her face tearing away the
nose and ruining the sight of one eye
The Oxnard Beet Sugar Company fac
tory at Grand Island closed down on beets
at about 3 oclock Friday Dec 31 that is
to say the last of the beets went into the
factory at that time and turned out the last
sugar from beets The sugar manufact
ured this year will be about 6750O0
pounds
Regardless of the fact that the largest
hay crop in the history of Kimball County
was harvested last fall a shortage is al
ready in sight This is due to the demand
for feed by those who have brought cattle
in to winter from the south and west which
started in the winter thin and required
considerable feed
Bad blood has existed at Tecumseh be
tween William Knight and Timothy Lanc
for some time as Lane has been paying
undue attention to Knights wife Knight
happened to meet Lane and hi3 wife out
for a walk He saluted the couple by pall
ing a bull dog revolver and firing it four
times at Lane Lane got away without a
scratch
Rev E A Witter of Edgerton Wis bar
taken charge of the Seventh Day BaptisS
Church at North Loup This i3 the largest
society of the denomination in the state
While Mr Singleton was moving a smaU
house over the railroad at Lewiston c
chain broke and compelled them to stop on
the track Men were sent in both direct
ions to flag the trains but for some reason
the trainmen did not see the signals antf
tne train ran through thehousecompletely
demolishing it The engineer jumped f
before reaching the house and the trai
ran about a mile before the conductor
could get to the engine and reverse it
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