i I m I vt Ci AROUND THE EARTH OCCURRENCES THEREIN FOR A WEEK MOBE MONEY FOR WAB BOTH HOUSES PASS EMER GENCY WAR BILL The Amount Appropriated by the Measure Is 35720945 Naval Officers Dont Believe Dewey Threw Petroleum Bombs Money for the War Washington- Several war measures were passed by the senate Monday and notwithstanding their importauce not one of theua elicited The lightest debate Probably the most important measure passed by the aenate was the emergency war deficiency bill carrying 35720945 Senator Ha wley ecureti the passage of a bill providing for the enlistment of a vol unteer brigade ot engineers and of 10000 men iu the south who are immune to yel low fever these enlistments to be in addi tion to those provided for in the presidents call for 125000 volunteers Some amend ments had been made to the appropriation bill in the senate and a conference was agreed to between the two houses The conferees soon came to an agreement and the bill was then passed by the house carrying the amount above stated DISCREDIT MADRID REPORTS Not Believer that Dewey Threw Petroleum Bombs Into Manila Washington Naval officials are in clined to discredit the statement in dis patches from Madrid that Admiral Dewey employed petroleum bombs in the reduc tion of the city of Manila In fact no definite information could be obtained that the American squadron was supplied with such instruments of destruction The belief is prevalent in official circles that if a fire occurred the Spaniards confronted by the inevitable fall of the city them selves applied the torch thereby carrying into effect the threat which they have made concerning both Maniia and Havana that the cities should never fall into the hands of the Americans except as heaps of smouldering ruins CHASKA CUTS HIS THROAT Cora Belle Fellows Former H us- band Tired of Life Xiorraua Neb Samuel Campbell or ChasUa - the half breed Indian who made fame ten years ago by marrying Cora Belle Fellows cut his throat Sunday morning while in the cell of the county jail A few weeks ago he was arrested for stealing harness of his Indian friends to the amount of 75 and he was held to answer to the May term of the district court Various attempts have been made to procure a bond ot 500 for his release but none up Jo the present time has been satisfactory to the county judge Becom ing discouraged he attempted to take his life and declares he will succeed another time r IMPORTANT SEIZURE Steamer Argonauta Captured by the Gunboat Nashville Key West One of the most important captures made since the outbreak of hos tilities was that of the Spanish Argonauta by the gunboat Nashville news of which reached here when the warship arrived The Argonauta had ou board Col Cor i jo of the Third Spanish cavalry his first lieutenant a surgeon a major and ten privates and non commissioned officers All were held as prisoners of war The steamer also carried a large cargo of arms and ammunition She was bound from Batabano Spain for Cienfuegos Cattle to Feed the Miners Tacoma Wash At least 2100 steers will be driven over the Dalton trail to Dawson starting from Pyramid Harbor in June C W Thebo representing Butte City men has purchased 1200 head and lack Dalton is gathering 700 more for the same purpose Thebo has shipped over half his stock to pastures between Tacoma and Puyallup where they will be fattened The balance will arrive within a week They have been selected with great care and will average 1500 pounds each when shipped from here Each band of 100 cat tle will be in charge of six Montana cow boys and each cowboy will be provided with a saddle horse and a pack horse to carry his food for the entire journey This arrangement will require seventy eight cowboys and 156 horses Murder by Striking Miners Steubenville Ohio Five of a party of Slav miners were shot at from ambush as the were going to work One was fatally wounded The miners have been on a strike Three hundred voted to go to work and because they insisted upon going into the mine the shots were fired by a party of strikers A Town Nearly Wiped Out Wichita Kan A Canada Texas special says The town of Mobeetie Texas was almost totally destroyed by a cyclone Sunday morning John Stocker Mrs R Wright Mrs Rufus Kitchen and baby Patterson were killed and many in jured The population of the town is 200 Elevator and Warehouse Destroyed Augusta Ga The Georgia railroad elevator and warehouse capacity of 150 000 bushels of grain and the warehouses of Busey Carswell burned to the ground Monday Total loss estimated at 1200000 All the stock was comprised of grain and provisions Brings Explosives from England New York The Atlantic transport line steamer Michigan which arrived Suuday night from London brought 560 cases of cordjtc addressed to the com mandant of the Brooklyn navy yard Nominated for Congress BELLEVILLE Kansas The Republican congressional convention of the Fifth Kan sas district unanimously nominated W A Calderhead of Marysville Prof Carl Betre Dead Kansas City Prof Carl Betre orig inator of the system of calisthenics taught in the publicschools died here the result of an operation i ii ii Shenandoah Reaches Liverpool Liverpool The American ship Slieu andoah reported captured by the Spanish gome days ago arrived Friday afternoon A TORNADOS HAVOC First Twister of the Season in This Latitude Sioux City Specials on Sunday record the disaster wrought by the first tornado of the season in this latitude It was not nearly so severe as some which have vis ited the northwest only three fatalities being reported The storm seems to have formed be tween 4 and 5 oclock Saturday afternoon in Dixon County Nebraska and crossed the Missouri into Union County South Dakota going northeastwardly crossing the Sioux at Akron into Plymouth County crossing the Sioux City and Northern at Maurice in Sioux County the Omaha road at Ashton in Osceola County and thence southeastwardly through OBrien County and into Buena Vista County Another storm is reported at about the same time in the vicinity of Oto and Smithlaud Woodbury County but no news of important damage has been re ceived Near Elk Point considerable damage was done Many buildings were razed John Johnson the oldest son of Lewis Johnson was sitting on the north side of the house He was found twelve rods from the building lying dead in a ditch by the side of the road A piece of timber had entered his head behind the right ear making a hole in which one could put his four fingers The storm then crossed Brule Creek sweeping everything beforo it It then crossed the Big Sioux River moving in the direction of Akron Iowa The wind caused great destruction in that locality it is said A great many of the hail stones were of the size of lemons Shade trees and windmills and other things in the path of the storm suffeied greatly At Maurice Iowa the depot was blown lown Houses barns and elevators suf fered the same fate Nearly everybody in town had taken refuge in storm caves or there undoubtedly would have been aumerous casualties At Whiting the new house of James Mc Clain was turned bottom side up and com pletely demolished Mrs McClain saw the storm coming and ran out of its course thus saving her life The storm passed one mile west of Shel don demolishing farm buildings and in juring six persons Several buildings were blown to pieces n the vicinity of Alta Later dispatches from points in the path of the storm show the damage was greater than first reports indicated OBrien County Iowa seems to have suffered more than any other section At the Lemkahls place eight miles south of Sheldon two children were killed No jther fatalities are reported in Iowa BANK PRESIDENT A DEFAULTER Examiner Laid a Trap Which Dis closed Peculation Washington The comptroller of the currency has received a telegram from Bank Examiner Ewer stating that he hac taken charge of the Hampshire County National Bank of Northampton Mass The president who the examiner says i a defaulter to the amount of 75000 or 103 000 is reported as missing The president of the bank is said to be also president oi the Hampshire Savings Bank and the dis covery of the defalcation was madt through a ruse The government exam iner made an arrangement through the state examiner for an investigation of tlm two banks at the same time They are located in the same building and by thii scheme it was made impossible for thosu in charge to transfer funds from one to the -other to cover up shortages In its last statement the officers of the Natioual Bank reported Capital 250000 deposits 520000 surplus 50000 GRAIN FOR SOUTH AFRICA Ship with 75000 Bushels Aboard Clears from Portland Ore Portland Ore The German barl Amazone has cleared for East London with the seventh carge of grain that has left Portland for South Africa this season She was dispatched by Sibson Kerr and carried 74666 bushels of choice bluesteir wheat valued at 68500 The British bails Semantha also completed her cargo and cleared for Queenstown or Falmouth foi jrders with 183079 bushels of wheat valued at 119773 She was loaded b Eppinger Co The grain trade witfc South Africa is much larger this season than in any previous season In addition to the seven cargoes that have eft Portland for South African ports foui vessels have cleared for there from Tacoma Telephone Service on the Field Washington For the first time in the experience of any army in actual service the commanding officers of the United States troops will have complete outfits for maintaining telephonic communica tion with the various brigades regiments etc that go to make up divisions or corps of any army For this the officials are in debted to Gen A W Greely the chief signal officer By means of the communi cation thus afforded commanders will be able to immediately send instructions to subordinates in the field and to receive re ports of movements Gen Greely also has equipped and ready for service his field telegraphic outfit Chinese May Go Back Seattle Wash Unexpected compli cations affect the disposition of forty eight Chinese which are now on the Japanese liner Yamaguchi Maru lying in this port The party of Celestials was brought over for the Trans Mississippi Exposition at Omaha When notified of their arrival the manager of the exposition replied stating that lie did not want any more Chinese They were not allowed to land and it is believed the steamship company will be required to carry the party back to China Extra Guards for Powder Houses St Louis Owing to the suspicion that the recent destruction of the powder mills at Santa Cruz Cal and Dover N J by explosions may have been the work of Spanish spies the managers of the eight big powder companies having headquar ters in this city have placed a double guard at all points where powder is stored or manufactured There are five powder storehouses near here carrying thousands of tons of explosives Set Back for Drunkenness Washington Lieutenant Commander Charles A Adams attached to the re ceiving ship Independence at Mare Isl and was convicted by courtmartial of intoxication and sentenced to dismissal The president has mitigated the sentence by dropping the officer forty nine num bers putting him at the foot of the list ot lieutenant commanders The commuta tion was made because of Hie courts rec ommendation in favor of the officers- splendid sea record i BRADSTREETS REVIEW Opening of the War Has No Appre ciable Effect New York Bradstreets says The lack of excitement nervousness or inter ruption to the ordinary orderly conduct of public affairs and particularly busi ness operations with which this country has passed from peace to war seems likely to become hysterical When contrasted with the records where extant of busi ness conditions at periods in the countrys history when war was the final result of the strained relations the temper with which the country has recognized the out break of hostilities with a foreign power is not only proof that the dullness and de pression of the past six weeks have largely discounted the effect usually witnessed but furnishes a valuable index to the gen eral point of view taken by the business community as to the outcome of the pend ing war Little or no effect upon general trade distribution of an unfavorable char acter is perceptible in the reports of the past week Perhaps the most notable because most uniform feature has been the unanimity with which the fluctuations of leading staples have beenmarked up These ad vances too have not been confined to food products but include many widely differ ing articles alike of home and foreign growth MILITIA TURNED DOWN The Organization Is Ignored by Gov Leedy of Kansas Topeka Kansas It is clearly the pur pose of the state administration to turn down the state militia and the three reg iments from Kansas must be made up largely of raw recruits Gov Leedy re ceived a message from the war department authorizing him to organize the state troops to suit himself Immediately upon securing this authorization the governor telegraphed to the captain of every Kansas militia organization directing that all army clothing and equippage belonging to the state or federal government be for warded at once to the adjutant general in Topeka This step in effect disarms the militia and has raised a storm throughout Kansas Following this action Gov Leedy named five recruiting officers as signing them by congressional districts and these officers will enroll the Kansas volunteers Gov Leedy orders that after the companies are recruited they shall elect their own company officers All reg imental officers the governor will appoint and the supposition is that the national guard will be all but ignored RUSSIA IS AGGRIEVED Accuses America of Ingratitude for Past Favors London The Moscow correspondent of the Standard says Public opinion in Russia so far as it is expressed sympa thizes with Spain Apart from admiration of the courage that ventures upon a con flict with an overwhelmingly superior an tagonist Russia lias received a severe blow in the suspected friendly agreement be tween the United States and England The Russians do not forget placing their fleet at the disposal of the north in the war of secession in 1861 and they are bitterly aggrieved that the United States is not equally mindful of this service now Indians Refused the Cattle Browns Valley Minn A S Cross field of this city and Joseph R Brown Chief Two Stars and D K Simon of Sis seton Indian reservation started for Wash ington Friday morning to make a demand oirUncle Sam for a portion of the money due the Indians under treaty The gov ernment has offered the Indians a pay ment of 100000 in cattle but the teds have refused this and will insist upon a cash payment Abandon a Barge in a Storm Wilmington N C The tug John Harland towing the barge Carrie L Tyler with a cargo of phosphate rock encountered a gale off Cape Lookout on the 27th The barge became unmanagea ble and with five men on board was aban doned by I he tug which filled with water and dragged ashore at Lookout light The crew of the tug was rescued but it is feared the men on the barge were lost Blancos Conscription Decree Washington Secretary Quesada of the Cuban legation here said that Gen Blancos order conscripting Cubans be tween the ages of 15 and 5 J in the Spanish army showed the dire extremity to which the Spanish commander was driven Senor Quesada said that up to this time the Spanish authorities have not utilized the services of a single Cuban company or regiment Searching for Russian Embezzler Chicago The police of this city are searching for Gabriel Ribine and Tbeo phile Przilenski who are said to be fugitives from St- Petersburg Russia Ribine is accused of embezzling 900000 from a Russian estate while he was em ployed in the Russian court of wards Przilenski is charged with stealing 75000 from the Russian government Tanners Hopes Shattered Springfield III Gov Tanners hopes of leading the Illinois troops to the front were dashed to pieces by word from Wash ington that he would not be placed in command by McKinley As a result Col J R B Vancleave inspector general has resigned Tanner and his general officers held conferences and there may be other resignations New York Exeeds Its Debt Limit New York Comptroller Coler has issued a statement of the citys finances showing that the city has exceeded its debt limit by over 125000000 Mr Coler includes however 27765813 for lauds acquired and not paid for and 15112115 for contract liabilities which may not have to be met for some time Slain by Chinese Brigands Vancouver B C Oriental advices say a party of twenty brigands attacked a hamlet near Taipeh China March 31 killedKank Kin Shang his wife mother children and servants numbering fifteen who resisted the attempt to rob their house and assaulted their daughters The robbers then fired the house Bank Wrecker Gets Four Years Columbus Kan Alexander Warner a Republican leader in the state legisla tuie who was recently convicted of hav ing wrecked the bank at Baxter Springs of which he was president was sentenced to four years in the state penitentiary Railroad Deal Denver A deal involving about 3 00000 it is said between the Union Pa cific and the Union Pacific Denver and Gulf railroads has been consummated here by the latter company securing con trol of the Union Pacific shops in this city Responding to a resolution of inquiry in regard to the enforcement of the liquor law in Alaska Secretary Gage sent a statement to the Senate in which he says that notwithstanding the effort of the department it is still a fact that the law is openly violated It has he says been reported to the department that forty saloons do business in Juneau a town of less than 4000 inhabitants while in Sitka which contains less than 1000 white inhabitants there are twelve open saloons The universal public sentiment in the territory says the Secretary is bitterly opposed to the enforcement of the liquor law and the efforts of the officers are met with intimidation threats of vio lence and attempts at bribery The Sec retary closes with the statement that it is impossible to enforce the present law against the existing public sentiment Officials of the money order department are somewhat at a loss to understand why a formal prohibition should have been issued forbidding the further ex change of money orders between this country and Spain except upon the as sumption that the order follows some pre scribed form previously used The fact is there has never been any interchange of money orders between Spain and the United States The Spanish Govern ment has shared with Mexico and the South American States the distinction of never having sought to establish a money order system within its own borders and therefore has never been in a position to negotiate a money order convention with the United States Patriots in the employ of the Treasury Department who desire to enlist in the army or navy for service against the Spaniards are to receive encouragement from Secretary Gage who has had a cir cular prepared to be used in replying to the numerous inquiries coming in from employes of the department throughout the country It announces that those who desire to leave the service temporarily for the war may be reinstated under existing civil service rules at any time within twelve months from the date of separa tion from the service 9 The model of the battleship Maine which has been on exhibition in the corridors of the Navy Department and has been surrounded by a crowd of tour ists almost continuously since the explo sion at Havana has been removed to the basement to be packed for shipment to Omaha where it will be exhibited this summer at the exposition One of the messengers estimates that the model has been inspected by an average of i000 persons a day since the 13th of February Over GOO doctors have applied for ap pointment as temporary surgeons in the navy for the war although for months there have been several vacancies in the regular service which are permanent and carry with them a pension Thi difficulty is in passing the examination imposed by the medical board It is so severe that few young men can pass it although there is always an abundance of candidates -V T Gov Atkinson of Georgia and Gov Taylor of Tennessee have both applied for commissions as brigadier generals in the volunteer army and assignment to the command of the troops from their respec tive States Both gentlemen express their intention of resigning their governorships if they receive appointments and they understand that it is necessary for them to do so It has been decided to send the insur gents in Cuba a quantity of muskets and carbines that are stored in the arsenals They were discarded by the army when the new Krag Torgensen rifle was adopt ed and are similar to those that have been served out to the militia in the sev eral States The arms are in excellent condition although they are not up to date There is a real estate dealer in Wash ington named William McKinley There used to be a real estate dealer here nam ed John Sherman and he caused his venerable Senatorial namesake a good deal of annoyance It looks queer to see signboards upon vacant lots offering property for sale or rent by William Mc Kinley In 18G1 the postal business of the coun try had increased from 513000000 to 9GOuO000 a year and the last official report of Government disbursements showed that it cost 48000000 a year to transport the mails and 4 1000000 to handle them The aggregate number of pounds handled is 000000000 William Jennings Bryan has written a letter to President McKinley offering his services to the Government in any posi tion in which they may be useful The letter is brief but courteous and asks for any assignment the President may see fit to give him Ad jr Gen Corbin is the busiest man in the department perhaps the busiest man in Washington working nineteen and twenty hours a day to get the volun teer army started and the new regiment of regulars under way Congress had an opportunity to con template war from a new point of view when Secretary Alger asked for an ap propriation of 3401999738 to pay the ordinary expenses of the army for just two months The President has received a touching letter from a gentleman in Richmond who offers to raise an entire regiment of Virginia colonels but this has become a delicate subject down in that quarter It is believed in Washington official cir cles that after the insurgents are fully armed and equipped they will be able to send a force of 50000 men against Ha vana The President is bearing up well under the strain and public receptions have been resumed wgtegBaegwgwMgtfgtj DENTISTS AND THEIR CHARGFS Extortionate Fees Asserted to Be Un common in the Profession It is ordinarily supposed that as a rule high charges are seldom made by the members of the dental profession for their services The dentists them selves maintain that this supposition is entirely correct They say that big fees for professional services go to the law yers and the physicians and that they seldom receive sums commensurate with their services when compared with the services and pay of the mem bers of the two professions mentioned One of the oldest and best kuownjUen tists in Chicago said the other daythat dentist die younger than any other pro fessional men This fact which he said was statistical lie said Avas due to the severe nervous strain under which the dentists work For this rea son it Avas contended that the dentists are a class paid less than they should be and that large fees and those which could be called extortionate were heard of very infrequently Although the dentists may not get as large fees or get them as often as Iuav yers surgeons and physicians they nevertheless make some charges once in a while that take away the breath of the patients Some time ago a dentist achieved considerable notoriety by charging a wealthy South American 9000 for filling nine teeth The South American however was no easy vic tim even if he did come from the wrong side of the equator and he pro ceeded to give the dentist a tussle in the courts The dentist brought in an item ized bilL that was characterized by more nerve than any suffering man ever thought he liad in an aching tooth This bill was such a AA onder that it was straightway passed into the ar chives of dentistry as the most remark able dental document ever produced Among other things in the itemized bill was a 50 charge for the use of a gold plated cuspidor There were a number of other almost equally ridiculous items In the bill There was quite a little fight over the bill which in the end was cut down several thousand dollars Ill tell you how one man got even with a dentist who overcharged him said a State street doctor The dentist sent the man a bill for G0 for some work lie had done for the mans daugh ter The victim thought the bill seem ed pretty large for the Avorlc that had been done so he showed the biJL to an other dentist who was thoroughly com petent but who did not make a practice of overcharging and asked him what would have been a fair price for the work The dentist said he AAould have been glad to do the job for 25 or 30 The man thought of going to law over the affair but concluded it was not worth while He determined to get even by giving the man a long hard disagreeable task in getting his money A lawyer advised him that if he gave the collector a little something on ac count every time he came around the dentist could not do him any legal dam age Then the man determined on his course Every time the collector came to his place of busines he gave him a quarter of a dollar on the bill and made the collector give him a receipt lie kept that thing up until he drove both the collector and the dentist half crazy Finally the dentist said he would knock off SIS if the man v ould pay the remainder of the bill The man avIio had been overcharged laugh ed in his sleeve and paid ihe rest of Uie reduced hill Chicago Chronicle The largest mass of pure rock salt in the world lies under the province of Galicia Hungary It is known to be 550 miles long twenty broad and 250 feet in thickness In the long Arctic nights there is a constant difficulty in keeping awake Greely had to make very strict rules to Keep his men awake during the long Arctic night Beds were not allowed to be made and the men were compelled to get up and move ahout When you pinch your finger you think you feel pain the very same instant but really the hurt and the pain are not simultaneous although they seem to be so If a person had an arm loog enough to reach the sun it would be 132 years before he Avould feel the pain of the burn It is reported that an English officer named Harrington has discovered in India a working telephone between the two temples of Pauj about a mile apart The system is said to have been in op eration at Pauj for over two thousand years In this connection we may ob serve that Egyptologists have found unmistakable evidence of wire between some of the tem ples of the earlier Egyptian dynasties but Avhether these serve a telegraphic telephonic or other purpose is not stated The Rich and the Poor Not long ago a London preacher In dulged in a little bit of sarcasm over a small collection And he did it very neatly in a preface to his sermon on the following Sunday Brethren he said our collection last Sunday Avas a very small one When I look at this congre gation I say to myself Where are the poor but as I looked at the collection when we counted it I exclaimed Where are the rich A Valuable Clerk Merchant Hae you had any experi ence in chinaware Applicant Years of it sir Merchant What do you do AAhen you J break a valuable pieced Applicant Well er I usually set it together again and put it Avhere some customer Avill knock it over Merchant Youll do London Tit Bits This getting married is like renting a door for the purpose of keeping a wolf from it P O address Mernman Nebr Right oar cropped Hole in center of left ear Range Lake creek S D STOCK BRANDS Metzger Bros T E iJlSSEeISEIEuSCsS Pullman Neb Cherry Co Rraud on left dde and thigh Earmark square crop rteht ear Southern branded cattle have hut one brand on left side Native cattle have throat wattle RaiiLt on wordon and Snake Creeks Horses have same urandou lett thigh A Rctvartl of SlOO will be paid to any person for information leading to the arrest and final conviction of anv person or persons steal ing cattle with above brand Joseph W Bow net William M Dunbar Lessee from Heine Kroeger UU Ct IfrAU j2jjSgi5 IfcTil ii 1JVT1 JPkwmmMfilSh Horses s on left shoulder Rraud is small Earmark Quarter clip behind half cir cle forward on left ear Range Lone Tree Lake Cody Neb DUn Either side Alsr HESJjl William Shanijien Cody Neb Wm 1 Jack LePoint Mcrriman Neb Cattle branded on left side Some on hip also Earmark round hole In center ot left ear Also iiseBSon Bl tea And kJcW side- spa1 Louis F Richards low on right Lett ear oi cattle Split Range neau oi uay Creek Henry Pratt Rosebud S D Left side Horses same on left shoulder Deerhorn clip on some cattle Dulap uudei side oi neck on right stde Range Lake Corn ana Bear creeks Charles H Faulhaber Hrowntee Nebr Either right or left side on cattle Horses same on left shoulder Left eareutotT of cattle Range Loup river Marshall Wolfenden Kennedy Net Some Zi on the left hip - rBJi Merriman Neb Charles JBenard Rosebud S D Range Rig White and Rad Rivers mmLa mfl I 3iX IB W R Kissel Urownlee Neb Also some below lett hit Also m Charles C Tackett W1L right hip Range Kissels Ranch Wheeler Bros Cody Neb Range on the Snake Rver and Chamber lain Rat Rosebud S D Range head of An telope near St Marys mission Horses branded on left thigh William F Schmidt Rosebud S D On left side Horses branded same on left hip or shoulder Range on norse Creek E22 XT T V