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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1898)
IU S TITrW II IIIIIMI I THE WORLD OYER LATEST NEWS FROM EVERY LAND REWARD A TRAITOR ARANGURENS SPANISH SCOUT NOW OFFCIER Sunday Closing Ordinance Rigidly Enforced in Toledo Ohio Milk Ilei Were Stopped -News StanIs and Cigar Counters Made no Sales AranKiircns Betrayer Rewarded Kamero who betrayed Aranguren the Cuban leader lias been commissioned a lieutenant in the Spanish army Tor that service Kamero was a scout of Arangu ren brigade and was captured by the Spanish forces Jle was given the option of betraying A rangurcn and getting 530 or be machetted lie chose to lead the Spanish forces to where they could butcher Arangurcn while he was practically alone TOLEDO TIED UP TIGHT Even Milk Men Were Brought In Under the New Ordinance Toledo Ohio a hitherto wide open town was shut up tight Sunday last by order of Chief of Police Kaitz to all per sons who do business on Sunday Satur day night all saloons were ordered to re main closed all day Sunday Milk dealers were ordered to stop serving their custo mers and cigar stands were ordered to stop selling papers Druggists were warned that if they sold anything except picscriptions from physicians they woujd be arrested Candy stores and cigar counters weie closed Manager Strobel of the Toledo Marine Hand and Bandmaster Vandorn were taken to the police station for giving a band concert in the afternoon A crowd gathered and hooted the police and for a time a riot was feared Manager Stevens of the Peoples Theatre and Manager Mc Faddenof the Wonderland were arrested in thcevening Fully 3000 people gathered in the vicinity oi the playhouses to hoot the officers FOOD SUPPLIES FOR SOLDIERS Large Orders for Shipment to China Secured by This Country The officials of the Pacific Mail Steam ship Company in San Francisco say that within the past few days there has been an astonishing increase in the shipment of food supplies to the orient consequent upon the gathering in Chinese waters of Ihe English German French and Russian warships They also state that a few days ago a representative of the English gov ernment placed an order in Kansas City for L003 tons of beef to be sent to the English fleet in Chinese waters The Russian government they also stale has given a big order to two Chicago houses for canned goods and beef The agents of the French and German governments have also placed orders for meat supplies both in Omaha and Chicago TO FORCE MEN TO MARRY Proposed Ohio Law to Punish Men AVho Do Not Wed Representative Parker of Cleveland who lias introduced the bill in the Ohio legisla ture to require candidates for matrimony to submit to medical examination will have it amended so as to make it obliga tory upon male persons of marriageable ace and physically fit to marry to take unto themselves wives Failure to do 0 is to be punished with a money fine which he has not yet decided upon but favors a heavy annual tax Will Keep Hands Off Other than to take measures to protect the Nicaraguan canal commission from injury the United States government will not interfere in any way in the revolution in Nicaragua says a Washington corre spondent The gunboat Newport which conveyed the commission to Greytown is still at that post and the cruser Alert is at San luan del Sur making a survey of Brilo Harbor Schintz Found Guilty Theodore 11 Schintz the former banker lawyer of Chicago has been found guilty of embezzlement as charged in the indict ment Jlis punishment was fixed at im prisonment in the penitentiary Schintz failed some months ago for 809000 The Franz Eitel estate aggregated 12000 when Schintz took possession of the estate and 27 when he surrendered the control of it tJaps to Invade Klondike Japan is going to invade the Klondike says a San Francisco dispatch A stand ing army of 5000 able bodied laborers is being got to gelher to go to the gold fields and in a month or so they will make a de scent upon Dawson City It is said that the Japanese will be brought over by a syndicate and trouble in the Klondike is predicted Ex Mayor Sutros Mind Failing Adolph Sutro ex mayor of San Fran cisco builder of the famous Sutro Tunnel has been adjudged mentally incompetent The loss of his mental faculties is attrib uted to his weight of years and to two strokes of apoplexy Knitting Mills Start Up The Winthrop knitting mills at Lake port N II which have been closed down for several months resumed operations Monday on full time May Bar Our Horses Too The Minister of agriculture said in the Prussian diet Friday that American horses had developed influenza after importation and added If importations increase wo shall certainly deforced to adopt a suitable quarantine to protect ourselves Charged with a Dual Murder Frank Belle was arrested on a ranch near Elmira Cal and lodged in jail charged with murdering his brother and sister Be wis and Susie by poison He thought he would not receive an equitable share ol bis lathers estate MANIACS FEARFUL WORK Arkansas Farmer Kills II is Father Hlolhcr and Son Sol F Autry a fanner accompanied by lis family went Friday to visit his aged father and mother living near Mulberry Arkansus Shortly after his arrival Autry became engaged jn a religious argument with the old folks Suddenly he grasped an iron bar killed his aged father mother and 10-year-old son and j criously wound ed his wife and three remaining children two of whom arc not expected to live 1 1 is wife and eldest daughter although badly hurt managed to notify the neigh bors When they i cached the house they found Autry a raving maniac with his clothing on Hie He was overpoweicd after hard struggle The three dead victims of the crazy man lay on the 11 ior beaten burned and mangled almost be vond recognition KAISER REFUSES WAR MEDALS Will Not Be Given to Germans Now Citizens of the United States The kaiser has declared that citizens of he United States who while still German subjects aided Prussia in the famous over throw of Napoleon III in the Franco Prussian war will not be given medals for their services in that war A large num ber of the citizens of this country who fought there and desired lemembrances of the days of their invasion of France sent for their medals recently and among the number who thus made application were several residents of Milwaukee and vicin ity Their applications have been re turned together with the news that medals could not be given to persons who were now citizens of the United States BATTLE WITH RUSTLERS Cowboys Rout a Gang of Cattle Thieves Killing Ope Word has been leceived of a pitched bat tle between cowboys and cattle thieves west of Glasgow near the Dakota line in Montana One of the thieves is reported dead During the present winter stock men in the northern part of Montana have sustained severe losses from thieves driv ing their cattle across the line into Dakota where the brand was changed and the stock disposed of The cowboys organized and surprised the thieves Thuisday in possession of twenty head of stock After a hot fight the rustlers were put to flight leaving one dead Jury Fails to Agree After being out seven hours at Kansas City the criminal court jury in the trial of J W Keith a Christian Scientist tried for failing to report to the health depart ment a case of diphtheria in his family has failed to agree and has been dis charged It stood six to six Mr Keiths child died of the disease He treated the child from a Christian Science standpoint and failed to report the case or placard the house Frances Niger Claims The London Times- referring to the claim of France to an outlet on the navi gable part of the Niger for her Soudan and Dahomey establishments says France has no right whatever to such an outlet and a pretension to obtain it at Englands expense is a proposal which could only be accepted on the hypothesis that Great Britain had lost the power to defend her legitimate possessions Get Damages for False Rating Minter Brothers of Warrensburg Mo have secured judgment against the Brad streets Commercial Agency for 27000 In 1890 Minter Brothers were retail dealers at Sedalia An attorney of Bradstreets at that place reported to the agency that Minter Brothers were insolvent A busi ness failure followed and Minter Brothers alleged that it was due to unjust rating Wilson Preparing Tor Action Secretary Wilson has taken steps for the collection of all information obtainable in the department of agriculture bearing on the shipment of fresh fruit to the Ger man empire preliminary to an action nec essary after a full official information as J to the scope of the decree of prohibition is obtained Fraudulant Banking Charged A dispatch from Omaha says that Frank B Johnson Win II Johnson and C A Sharp manager cashier and president of the defunct Midlaud State Bank have been held for trial in the district court on the charge of fraudulent banking They gave bail in sum of 2000 each for appear ance Charged With Embezzlement Archibald McLaren was arrested in Cleveland Ohio Saturday on the charge of appropriating to his own use 15000 belonging to the order of Scotish Clans of which he was treasurer The shortage was discovered when John null of St Louis was elected to succeed him Earthquake in V A distinct earthquake shock was felt at Lynchburg Ya Sunday Special dis patches show the disturbance was felt through southwest Virgina Bedford City reporting that a sound as if of an explos ion different from the usual rumbling preceded the shock Y M C A Building Destroyed Fire on Friday night at Scranton Pa totally destroyed the Y M C A building which contained two stores in addition to the association assembly hall and large 225000 Big Deal In Cattle Gentry Hicks and Keys jr of Checotah I T have sold through C M Keys Co of the National Stock Yards St Louis to James and T A Parkinson of Wagoner 1 T fl030 head of steers to be delivered April 1 1S98 The deal amounted to 250- 000 Seven Killed and Thirty Six Hurt A mail train and freight collided near Troon Scotland Saturday The engineer and fireman of the freight and five work men on the mail train were killed and thirty six injured some fatally Warship Brooklyn Sails Thecruiser Brooklyn left Ney York Friday for the West Indies 3t3B3 SEE OMENS OF WAE SPANISH NAVAL MOVEMENTS DEEMED MENACING v Transformation or the Steamer Cm did do Cadiz to ji Cruiser Causes Much Comment Among Congress men Other Items of News scarcely have surprised Washington more than did the news that the Havana steam ship Ciudad dc Cadiz is to be transformed at Barcelona into a cruiser to escort the Spanish torpedo flotilla to Cuban waters The Madrid government intends to utilize her merchant marine in preparing for war In congressional circles the draft ing of the Ciudad de Cadiz is regarded as an indication that matters are progress ing toward an open rupture between the United States and Spain A great major ity of the senators and lepresentatives prefer to believe as they hope They want I a speedy settlement of the Spanish Cuban question and care little how it is accom plished De Lome Spanish minister says he knows nothing about it lie has re ceived no communication on the subject The Washington navy yard is now run ning night and day making guns with which to arm the auxiliary navy should hostilities occur This armament is in tended for the St Paul St Louis New York and Paris and subsidized liners which arc so constructed that they could be speedily changed into com meice de stroyers CALL TO MOUNTED POLICE iSxtra Force Ordered to Be Ready to Proceed to the Yukon Information received from Lethbridge on the Canadian boundery is to the eflect that great excitement has been caused there by orders received from the domin ion government for every man of the mounted police to hold himself in readi ness to proceed to the Yukon at a -moments notice for temporary duty The orders which were received by wire by officers in command of the divison are said to be due to the existence of serious trouble between the Canadian and United States authori ties in Alaska relative to the attempt by the Americans to get provisionsointo the Yukon free of duty ostensibily for the relief of the distress but in reality for sale to the highest bidder SHOP FORCES REDUCED Ten Per Cent Cut on Union Pacific from Omaha to Ogden An order reducing the Union Pacific shop forces between Omaha and Ogden 10 per cent has been issued Two hundred and seventy five men are dismissed from the shops at Omaha Grand Island North Platte Sidney Cheyenne Laramie and Ogden One hundred of these come from Omaha The officers of the road decline to say how long the reduction will be in force The Omaha shops worked 1000 men forty hours during the past week TRAIN STRIKES A SLEIGH One Man and Two Women Killed in Saginaw Mich Just before 5 oclock Sunday afternoon a Michigan Central freight train from De troit ran down a sleigh containing a man and three women at Saginaw Mich The man and two of the women were killed and the third woman badly injured There was no gate or llagman at the cross ing The driver was unable to stopju time Court Protects Union JLahcls The supreme court at Boston has given a decision in the case of Thomas Tracey vice president of the Cigarmakers Inter national Union of America against Joseph Baker ordering a decree for the plaintiff The suit was brought under the law for bidding the fraudulent use of trades union labels The court holds that the statute protects such trades unions as well as merchants and that manufacturers must stop unauthorized use of the union label as well as counterfeits of it King Wins lroui Farmer Burns In the wrestling match between Jack King and Farmer Burns at Marquette Mich Saturday night King won in the presence of 750 people King got Ins falls on an inside hold and Cornish collar and elbow Burns threw King catch as catch can King weighed 200 pounds and Burns 170 Taken OfT the Ice Floe A St John N F dispatch says that the sixteen fishermen who went adrift on an ice floe in Trinity Bay have escaped They were on the tloe for thirty six hours with out fire food or adequate clothing All were frostbitten and seriously injured by their terrible experience Radiator Company Fails The International Radiator I to Slic ing Company at Cheektowaga N Y cap italized at 100000 made a general assign ment Saturday No statement of assets or liabilities was given and no preferred creditors are named Renominate Boutcll Congressman Henry S Boutell of the Sixth district of Illinois who was elected to fill the unexpired term of Congressman Edward Cook deceased has been I naled by the Republicans of his district to dwellings The damage is estimated at succeed himself Cow AVrecks a Train A cow derailed a Texas special on the Iron Mountain road near St Louis Sun day morning resulting in the death of Engineer Francey and Fireman Childs and the slight injury of two passengers For Deep Waterway Plans The war department has sent to con gress an estimate of 225000 for use during the coming year iu planning the deep waterway from the great lakes to the At lantic A Chicago Fire The four story plant of the Vulcan Iron Works was destroyed by fire in Chicago Sunday njght The loss was 75000 cov ered by insurance I lBJMUimwm I JEALS AT A PENNY A DISH FlYneriment Mission for the Poor Started in Kansas City An experimental mission where the poor are tojbe served meals at a penny a dish and a bed for 5 cents with a bath throw n in has been started in Kansas City under the direction of the Seventh Day Advent is ts A hundred and fifty cots have been placed in a large room in a building on the second floor In the basement bath tubs and showers have been provided together Congressmen WUM ll 10I im 8KiiiiK ciomcs an a Ilr fv iwm - a W l - 1 1 l t 1 lauuoryin which a man mav was n ins ilpcl iniiini nf f ii - UUclllOll OI Well 1KJ111 S 111 111 would A m i - Iln ni - jri l own clothes The meals consist entirely of vegetables meat being barred became of its expense and the work of cooking it and because the management aic believeu in vegetarianism BIG CONSOLIDATED The Lake Shore Is Merged Into the New York Central The Lake Shore on Friday became tin property of the New York Central ami Hudson River Railroad Company The final arrangements lor the transfer of the Lake system to the control of the Central was made Friday morning when the di rectors of the Central met to consider the proposition made some lime ago for a union of the two roads into one system to be operated hereafter as one road stretch ing from New York to Chicago Nearly all of the directors were present and ihoj e who could not be on hand sent proxies favoiingthe purchase by the Central of the Lake Shore Road BIG LAND CASE SETTLED Decision in Action of Archbishop Ireland Against the Omaha Commissioner Hermann of the general land office in Washington has decided the case of Catholic Archbishop Ireland of St Paul involving 8000 to 30000 acics of laud contracted by him from the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha road and af terwards found not couveyable from the government to the road The archbishop has located many schools on the properly Hermann holds that the archbishop had no right to purchase under one contract in volving 5000 acres but had such right un der another In the first case however the rights of settlers are protected SAVED THE SERENES CREW Portuguese Steamer Rescues Sail ors of an American Bark The Portuguese steamer Cevenuin which arrived at New York Sunday from Oporto brought nine of the crew of the American bark Serene which was wrecked December ol at Lexioes near Oporto during a heavy northeast gale as hereto fore reported The crew landed with diffi culty saving only the clothes they wore Capt Dalling remained with the vessel to look after the owners interest Worden Reprieved Again Gov Budd of California has granted Salter Worden awaiting execution at Fol som prison for part icipation in the wreck ing of the Overland train in Yolo County during the strike in 1894 another reprieve until June 17 this year The reprieve was issued that the commissonerof lunacy appointed by Gov Budd to look into Wor den s mental condition might continue his investigation Three Papers are United Judge Leslies Weekly and Demorests Family Magazine have been consolidated The papers will hereafter all be published by a new corporation known as the Arkell Publishing Company of which W J Arkell is president The place of publi cation will continue at the Judge building 110 Fifth Avenue New York Oregon Murderer Hanged Gus Wachlin the murderer of John Ledrich was hanged at Hillsboro Ore Friday The murder was for revenge be cause Ledrich had Wachlin sent to the penitentiary for stealing one of Ledrichs cows As soon as he got out of the peni tentiary Wachlin went to Ledrichs ranch and killed him Indian Gongress in Favor Senator Allens proposed amendment to the Indian appropriation bill providing for a congress of Indian tribes next fall at the Omaha exposition has been favorably reported by the senate committee on In dian affairs Itpiovidesan appropriation of 45000 for the service SLjKIET quotations Chicago Cattle common to prime 300 to joU hogs shipping grades 300 to 400 sheep fair to choice tfUOO to L7o wheat No 2 red 97c to Olc corn No 2 2t5c to 2Se oats No 2 22c to 24c rye No 2 4Gc to 4Sc butter choice creamery ISc to 10c eggs fresh 13c to 17c potatoes common to choice lc to lc potatoes common to choice 02c to 155c per bushel Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to S525 hogs choice light 300 to 400 sheep common to choice 300 to 430 wheat No 2 03c to 0c corn No 2 white 2Sc to 20c oats No 2 white 23c St Louis Cattle 300 to 330 hogs 300 to 400 sheep 300 to 4o wheat No 2 07c to OSc corn No 2 yellow 20c to 27c oats No 2 white 24c to 2Gc rye No 2 40c to 4Sc Cincinnati Cattle S230 to 523 hops 3C0 to 400 sheep 250 to 475 mixed 20c to 31c oats No 2 mixed 25c to 27c rye No 2 4Sc to 50c Detroit Cattle 250 to 550 hogs 300 to 400 sheep 250 to 450 wheat No 2 04c to 03c corn No 2 yellow 2Sc to 30c oats No 2 white 2Gc to 27c rye 4Sc to 40c Toledo Wheat No 2 red 05c to OGc corn No 2 mixed 2Sc to 30c oats No 2 while 23c to 24c rye No 2 40c to 50c clover seed 315 to 323 Milwaukee Wheat No 2 spring 01c to 03c corn No 3 2Sc to 30c oats No 2 white 23c to 26c rye No 2 47c to 40e barley No 2 3Sc to 41c pork mess 050 to 1000 Buffalo Cattle 300 to 550 hogs 300 to 425 sheep 300 to 500 wheat No 2 red OSc to 100 corn No 2 yellow 32c to 33c outs No 2 white 28c to 20c New York Cattle 300 to 550 hogs 300 to 450 sheep 300 to 500 wheat No 2 red 103 to 104 corn No 2 35c to 37c oats No 2 white 2Sc to 30c butter creamery 15c to Jlc eggs I Western lSe to 20c l STATE OF NEBRASKA NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON DENSED FORM Sureties foy Barrett Scott Dissatis fied with Supreme Court Decision Ask for a Rehearing ol the Case Alleged Errors Pointed Out Bondsmen Want a New Trial The attorneys for the bondsmen in the Barretw Scott case have filed a motion for a rehearing in the supreme court there bc inj seventeen specifications of error cited They allege that the court erred in its de cision upon the liability of sureties after bond has been filed and approved and other sureties sign without tiieir consent and that there was an erroneous a pplica tion of the law and decisions of courts as to the effect of additional sureties signinir the bond after it has been delivered and tiled without the knowledge or consent of the prior sureties That there was an erroneous application of the law relative to the effect upon the sureties when the office held by Scott became vacant by the failure to approve the bond at the time re quired by law It is also claimed that the cases cited in support of the decision were not applicable to the case at bar and that there is no law or ruthority upon which such decision could be correctly based The ninth specification is as follows The answer of Joseph S Bartley and other defendants alleges that the statutes concerning official bonds were a part of their contract and they signed said bond with reference to said statutes This case holds in case at bar that such statutes en tered into and becahie a part of the con tract which by the signing the sureties endorsed as their agreement This being the law the case should not have been reversed General misapplication of the law and authorities is claimed DOORS DO NOT OPEN State Bank of Crawford is Forced to Close The state bank of Crawford did not open its doors on February 4 C J Grable the cashier is in the east Francis C Grable the promoter of various enterprises is its president A C Hobson assistant cashier says the bank will pay out depos itors and all liabilities in full The bank has been conducted on a conservitive safe and paying basis and it is general ly con ceded by local creditors that its paper and assets are gilt edged Its assets are about 40030 and liabilities outside of stock about 20000 There is no excitement Local depositors express unbounded confi dence in Grable and Hobson and it is be lieved the bank will open its doors n a short time Bootlegger Bites George U Goiens station agent for the Kansas City Omaha Kailroad Company at Benedict has been arrested and taken to York on the charge of obtaining money under false pietenses and forgery It seems that a certain party was engaged in selling liquor unlawfully and a letter was written to him ostensibly by tiie county attorney but which is a forgery stating that charges had been preferred against him for selling liquor but that he thought that they could be bought off and if he the parly selling theiiqur would sendsix 20 bills to him the county attorney be thought the whole matter could be squelched The bootlegger immediately bit and followed the instructions to put the money in an envelope and mail it to him but did not observe the injunction contained in the letter to the effect that the letter was not to be mailed iu the usuai manner but that it should be handed to the station agent The cash reached the county attorney and duly restored to the original owner while the forged letter is in the county attorneys hands Sentational Eviction Case On Saturday January 8 Sheriff William D Ferris of Wahoo evicted Mrs Hattie Aughe from the old Aughe homestead on Wahoo Creek north of town on an appli cation of the owners of the property through John P Aughe who claimed to have a divorce from Mrs nattie Wilson a Lincoln widow to whom he had been mar ried three years before The property was advertised by the referees to be sold on January 25 but Mrs Aughe went to Lin join and secured a temporary injunction eslraininji them from action Last week she again appeared before Judge S G Sedgwick silting in chambers in the Lan caster County District Court and the temporary injunction was made per manent on her affidavit that she had never been legally divorced from John P Aughe preventing the sale taking place John Aughe claims to have in his possession the decree of divorce His late wife threatens to bring action against Sheriff Ferris for ousting her from the farm Sold Liquor to Indians Deputy United States Marshal Allen Friday evening placed under arrest Chas Phillips Wm Brown Harry Basdall and a man giving his name as Dutchy all of Homer charged with selling liquor to In dians They were all taken before United States Commissioner Sloan at Dakota City where Brown was discharged liasdall gave bonds and had his case continued and Phillips and Dutchy were found guilty and sentenced to sixty days each in jail at Omaha leaving for that place Sat urday morning in charge of the marshal Postofnce Robbers Caught Postmaster Sherman of Wahoo received a telegram from York the other day re porting the postoffice robbery at Itisiug and giving a description of the supposed burglars Sheriff Farris detected the men and placed them under arrest When the sheriff searched them he found 2670 in cash and all kinds of skeleton ke3s files and other burglars tools The men gave the names of C Clark Clyde Daily James OBrien Bill Ttedmon Jim Peel They aie in jail at Wahoo Sneak Thieves Busj Sneak thieves are becoming numerous around Exeter this winter -articles of every description being taken from a hitching strap to a nice Lit hog out of the siock yards Honors for dliiler Lanfles F Miller formerly of Nance County and Silver Creek was called to the home office of the Prudential Insurance Company at Newark N J and advanced to the office of superintendent of the Mc Keesport Pa division at an increased salary Ilescued from Danger James II Dorrance an old settler of Fairmont while watering his horses was taken witl a fit and fell between the wheels and my there until someone came along and helped hini into the wagon and took him home SAYS THE BONDS ARE VALID Suproaie Court Sustains those Issued in DouIns County The supreme court has handed down an opinion upholding the validity of tho Douglas County exposition bonds It holds that Iheaetaulhorizing thecounly to vote on bonds was a special acl and that in the matter of the number of otes required to carry the bonds the special act governed over the general pro vision It is also held that fhe voting of bonds for the purpose of aiding the expo sition was constitutional being for a pub lic purpose that the bonds in question were legally voted and that the auditor is required to register them and certify astu their validity In the matter of ihe Douglas Count funding bonds the court has ordered i re argument with directions specifically that the question be argued as to whether the amendment made by the legislature in ISS3 to section 131 article 1 chapter xviii of the compiled statutes was germane tc to the original section This amendment related to the number of votes required Ic adopt a proposition to fund a countys in debtedness Herman Looses a Lumber Yard About two months ago the Edwards Bradford Lumber Company of Sioux City established a yard at Herman It has now closed a deal for the stock and good wil of the Herman Lumber Company known as the grange lumber yard This leaves Herman -with but one lumber vard Politician in the Pulpit Captain W II Ashby the well known Populist politician who has renounced pol itics and will hereafter devote himself to evangelistic work He deliveied a good address at Beatrice was forceful and earn est and impressed his hearers with his sin cerity Nebraska Short Notes It is reported that the Cudahy Packing Company will erect a mammoth ice plan to handle next seasons crop at Ashland The order restoring trains Nos 1 and 6 to the fast service on the Bnrliugtohois greatly appreciated by the people of Ash land Grand Island will this spring elect a city elerk to fill vacancy four ward council men and three members of the board oi education Mrs Jeptha Masher a farmers wife liv ing four miles south of Fairmont Agency slipped and fell on the ice the other morn ing and broke her arm A Klondike party has been organized at Tilden The members left Sunday in tending to establish a practical route via the McKenzie Itiver The party was provisioned for eight months The Union Stock Yards Company and Grand Island Live Stock and Commission Company have secured a lease of the large banking room iu the Security bank build ing at Grand Island for an William G Howe a farmer residing near Herman met with a painful accident a few days since He was hauling a load of straw and striking a bad piece of road the wagon upset and he had the bones in one of his ankles broken On account of non arrival of speakers a full program was not given at the Webster County burners institute in session at Bed Cloud last week Dr Peters of the state university gave a good talk on diseases of chickens wliich was followed by a dis cussion Two laborers were seriously injured at the new Armour ice house near Memphis recently J Ferry got his hand caught on a pike pole tearing the palm wide open W G Harris while at work in- one of the roorasr goi his right foot badly crushed between two large cakes of ice The new creamery at Silver Creek has commenced operations Utica business men are making an effort to- secure a ercamerj Fnllerton people are talking o f puttinfj in an eleetrie light plant The Santa Fe road is shipping a train load of ice daily out of Superior The annual joint meeting of the teach ers associations of Antelope and Madison Counties will be held at Tiiden February 12 The teachers of Logan County assembled at the court house in Grandy last Saturday and perfected a county teachers associa tion The Catholic parish at Orleans has re ceived a donation of 3500 from a New York woman to assist in building its new church The county board of Custer County has decided to check up the books of all county officers who have served during the last four years The acreage of fall wheat sown in Cus ter County last fall exceeds all previous years Up to last week farmers reported it in fine condition With the present snow to feed and nourish it the possibility of it winterkilling is no longer probable and every indication is that Custer County will have the largest yeld of winter wheat known in her history The acreage or spring wheat doubtless will also be larger thah ever before Gibbon has received its new fire engine Over 1100 chattel mortgages were re leased in Gage County during January Hastings capitalists are talking of erect ing and operating a large cold storage plant The present enrollment of the Pawnee City academy is the largest within the his tory of that institution The B M and St J and R I rail roads have paid 21043 into Adams County treasury for 1897 taxes Sheriff Losey of Madison County is ne gotiating with a Tennessee sheriff for a pair of Siberian bloodhounds Brownville people are talking seriously of erecting a canning factorv to dispose of the surplus fruit of that vicinity Albion officers raided a temperance bill iard parlor and a drug store and succeeded in capturing a quantity of liquor at each place The people of Grand Island are makin an effort to raise 2500 to help the college out the institution being in pressing need of that amount of money The county commissioners at Osceola decided that Mrs Johanna Carlson was a lit subject for an insane asylum and or dered her taken to Lincoln E B Judd a barber of Humboldt has disappeared He has left a wife and baby as well as a number of creditors It ia thought he has gone to the Klondike Bobert Ingram of Emerson shipped a car ot popcorn to Chicago and Joe Daily a r Vl vauke3 The exPect to realize about 200 per car About seventeen acres yield a car of popcorn Prof Morey has just received the pre immary programs for the Central Educational Association meeting to be held in Keamor rn ml three days Tbe Parana extenteom i 7 h i M 0 r r T Si tS A A fhl i i f f 1 j I - I J ll I x j - f r --