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NEBRASKA
BL0W1J UP BY OREGON
CAUGHT TRYING TO RUN THE
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One of tho Big Warships 13 inch
Shells Hits the Spanish Destroyer
She Goes Down With AH
-First Blood for the Oregon-
News Ijas been received from Port An
tonio confirming the report that the Span
ish torpedo boat destroyer Terror or the
Furor sister ships had been sunk by an
American warship Itappears that the Ore
gon saw the craft sneaking close to shore
and heading toward the harbor of Santi
ago She signaled the craft to turn to and
her signals were improperly answered
whereupon the Oregon opened lire upon
her A 18 inch shell struck the torpedo
boat amidships and she sunk with all
handB It Is believed the torpedo boat de
stroyer may have been the Furor of Cer
veras Meet as the latest reports concern
ing the Terror seem to show that her
boilers were still out of order
Another dispatch Tuesday morning says
the above cannot be confirmed but that it
is believed that the destroyer lias been
sunk The boat was fired on by three of
our warships and a shell from the Massa
chusetts is supposed to have sent her
down
SANTIAGO BOMBARDED
Dispatch from Havana Tells or the
Attack
Havana June fi 7 p in- At 8 oclock
Ibis morning twenty four vessels of the
American fleet opened fire upon the forts
at the entrance to Santiago harbor and
along the coast line The filing ceased
about 11 oclock Further details are not
yet known here Yesterday Col Aldea
with a Spanish force sustained a fire near
Punta Cabrera from the insurgents on the
land side and from the American war
ships The Spanish forces are well in
trenched on the line from Sibourney to
Aguadores and today they checked an
attempt of the American forces to land
and repelled them
There are also dispatches from Cape
Haytien that tell of the attack but do not
give
A DOUBLE LYNCHING
Suspected Negro Murderers Strung
Up Two More Iiikely to Die
An excursion boat trom Quincy 111
and nannibal Mo arrived at Clarksville
Mo Sunday witli about 300 negroes They
got into a free fight and City Marshal
Meloan wenton hoard to quell it lie put
Curtis Young under arrest when some
body in the crowd shot the marshal in the
back killing him A posse ornfty citizens
gathered and went on board the boat and
arrested Sam Young Curtis Young Bob
Taylor and Charles Taylor all colored
and look them to jail During the nigh
Curtis and Sam Young were taken horn
jail and hung It is feared the other two
will sutler the same fate
Ten
BIG SHAM BATTLE
Thausand Men Take Part at
Ghickamnuga
Another big sham battle was the event
of the day Monday at Chickamauga be
tween legiments comprising the First di
vision of ihe Third corps Ten thousand
men participated Regimental and com
pany drillkeepthe men pf the other divis
ions employed All the officers fiom Gen
JRrooks down are congratulating them
selves on the excellent appearance of all
the camps and the perfect success of the
sanitary piecautions and the remarkable
liealthfuluess of the men especially in
view of the fact that the changes made by
the men in climate diet and water are so
radical
KENTUCKY SHAKEN UP
Severe Earthquake Shocks in North
era Partof the State
There was a severe earthquake in nortn
ern Kentucky between hU ami -3 oclock
Monday morning At Paris persons were
thrown from bed At Millersville many
people were panic stricken ami lied from
their homes the shock lasting two min
utes At Maysville it was very strong
and lasted thirty seconds At Cynthiana
the shock was accompanied by aloud re
port
Row at an Irish Demonstration
Great excitement was caused at Belfast
Ireland Monday by a national demonstra
tion in honoi of the revolution of 179S
Seviral collisions occurred between the
demonstrators and the opposing crowd
Stones were thrown a general melee fol
lowed and arrests were made
Hepots From Dewey
The navy department says Dewey re
poitsthat insurgents have won several
victories over the Spanish at Cavite
province and taken 5J
men prisoners
officers ahd 1890
Damnge by a Flood
The dam of the Uiekerson Milling Comr
pany at Granlsburg Wis broke Monday
causing a great Hood The water is the
highest in forty jears No particulars
as to damage
Texan Cattle Quarantine
Gov Culberson or Texas issued a
proclamation Wednesday declaring that
from and after May 31 1S9S no cattle in
Greer County Oklahoma shall be moved
into any portion of the state or Texas west
or north of the sate quarantine Hue prio
to November 13 ISKS
Mississippis Xew Senator
Gov McLauriu of Mississippi has ap
pointed Congressman William V Sullivan
to the United States senate to succeed the
late Senator Walthall
wiiwgwiwiiuBi ii ui nil i
SPIES MUST LEAVE
Carranza and On Bosc Will Have to
Get Out of Canada
Steps have been taken by which it is ex
pected that Lieut Carranza who has con
ducted the Spanish spy system from Mon
treal with his associale Senor Du Bosc
former first secretary of the Spanish lega
tion at Washington will be expelled from
Canada within the next few days unless
they adopt their own means to leave be
fore an international inquiry is railed as
to their presence in Canada TheCai
ranza letter detailing his spy systenwas
communicated to ihe British ambassador
Sir Julian Pauncefote together with all
other information bearing on the opera
tions of the Spanish officials in Canada
The ambassador was quick to act in the
matter and without waiting the slow pro
cess of the mail ho cabled the entire mat
ter to the foreign office No doubt is enter
tained as to the speedy action of the
authorities in London now that a specific
case has been made out against the Span
ish officials in Canada
CUPID CHOPPERS ARE FREE
Omaha Exposition recides Not to
Prosecute Statuary Destroyers
Misses Mauer and McCormiclCarrcsted
at Omaha for mutilating undraped statu
ary at the- Trans Mississippi Exposition
grounds have been released for want of
prosecution The company concluded
this was the easiest way out of the matter
The girls are lieutenants in the Salvation
Army and a number of the higher
officers of that organization fnj St
Louis and Chicago were presenLtpSender
them aid The mutilation wasomniitted
last week Since then Booth Tucker had
wired Mayor Frank Moores that jf the
girls were released they would be trans
ferred to another station but the girls re
fused to go saying they desired to stand
trial as they had done nothing their con
sciences did not approve The statuary
destroyed was on a building withing a few
feet of the Salvation Army rescue home
of which Misses Mauer and McCormick
am the directors
CAPT GRIDLEY DEAD
Commander of Admiral Deweys
Flagship Dies In Japan
Capt Charles V Gridley commander of
the cruiser Olympia and one of the heroes
of the brilliant victory at Manila is dead
The announcement of his death was ic
ceived by the navy department Sunday
afternoon in c cablegram from Pay
master Gait of the navy dated
at Kobe Japan June i The dispatch
reads Capt Gridley died today Re
mains accompany me on Coptic Capt
Gridley is the first American of
ficer ot great prominence whose death is a
direct result of the existing war with
Spam He was the commander of
splendid flagship and one
of the admirals chief advisers
CESTROYED A DESTROYER
Americana Said to Have Sunk the
Terror
A dispatch from Port Antonio says A
vessel that has arrived here from Santiago
lie Cuba reports that the Americans sunk
on Friday night the Spanish torpedo ooat
destroyer Terror The assumption
based upon dispatches from Madrid has
been that the Terror after leaving Fort
cle France went to Porto Rican waters
and it is probable that the Port Antonio
dispatches confuse her with her sister de
stroyer the Furor as has been seveial
times the case in dispatches from other
points
Stage Coach Held Up
The mail stage en route between Santa
Inez and Santa Barbara Cal was held up
near Red Gate by a masked man with a
shotgun Two passengers weietielieved
of SG5 The tobber did not distuib the
mail Sheriff Hacks and posse went m
pursuit of the robber with bloodhounds
with good prospects of captui mg him
-Armour Gives Another 300000
Philip D Aimour has added 5J000 to
the endowment fund or the Armour In
stitute of Technology in Chicago Aimour is
the founder of the institute and the original
endowment of 51500000 was intended to
be sufficient The rapid growth of the
school however hasr rendeied necessary
this source of income
Fatal Accident on a Cruiser
A fatal accident occurred on the cruiser
San Francisco at Provincetown Mass
Sunday By the fall of one of the whale
boats from the davits Klaas Wisselt
coxswain was drowned and Seamen
Sevenson sustained a fractured leg Wes
selt was SO years old
Snow Storm in Colorado
A late touch of winter was felt in the
Rocky Mountain country Saturday At
Sherman Wyo where the Union Pacific
crosses tlje divide five inches tffWow fell
It also snowed heavily aV CelTtraf City
Colo and many other mountain Towns
Minnesota State Lnds Sold
The state land sale held at Mora Minn
was very successful 2200 acies being sold
at from 5 to 0 per acre The sale was
largely attended and bidding sharp
Swan B Molander of the state auditors
office conducted the sale
Are Believed to Be Spies
Jose Castellanos and Frank Miller be
lievedto be spies were brought and locked
up at Atlanta Ga Castellanosis a Span
iard and has traveled all along the At
tic coast Miller is Euglish No papers
were found on them
Ex Congressman Morse Dead
Hon Elijah Morse died at his home in
Canton Mass aged 57 years Mr Morse
was elected to the Fift3 first congress in
1SS3 He served four terms in congress
retiring in 1S98
Camp Alger Not Unhealthy
The board of officers toinvestigate the
alleged unhealthfulness of Camp Alger
Va reported the place healthy but rec
ommended that no more troops be sent
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Chicagoan Suicides California
C M Charnley jr of Chicago com
mitted suicide at Los Angeles Cal by
shooting himself in the head He was
despondent through illness
V
BURNED AT THE STAKE
Shocking Fate of a Negro Outragor
in Louisiana
A thousand people gathered atDoyline
La to witness the burning at the stake of
William Street a negro who attempted
the ruin and murder of Mrs Parish The
ciime was committed on the evenincof
May 30 The people erected a post near
the lailroad track near the town quietly
piled the light wood and kindling satur
ated with coal oil preparatory to chain
tfrg Street to the post He confessed
the crime to a colored minister but
said a negro minister named John Rhodes
were implicated He was tied to thestake
and uttered not a word as the great crack
ling flames shot up in succession above
his head It was a shocking sight which
lasted ten minutes when Street was a
charred mass The woman whom Street
assaulted is in a most critical condition
and could not iden tify Street when caught
until a doctor held open her eyelids
WILL ALL BE EXECUTED
Dominican Revolutionary Kvpedi
tton Marches Into a Trap
A Porty Placa Dominican Republic
dispatch says A revolutionary expedi
tion was landed at Monte Ciisto from
Ilayti tinder the leadeiship of Senor Jim
enez who yai foimerly a merchant in
New YJor Tfie government had been
advised of 1 lie movement troops were in
waiting for the party and all were cap
tured The leader Jimenez was teserved
for examination but a subordinate Gen
A Gusiin Morales was saot without de
lay It is almost certain that the whole
party will be executed
THREE MEN DROWNED
The Tu Record Sinks in the Ship
Canal at Duluth
The tug Record sank in tho ship canal
at Duluth Minn Saturday Three of Ihe
crew were drowned They were Capt
John Hricklet M R Cook Steward
George Richards engineer The Record
was meeting a steamer as she entered the
harbor Just as she got alongside and
was maklig fast the steamers line the
strong current setting out into the lake
swung the tug broadside against the
steamers stern and the Record went
down like a shot
TO REMOVE VAN WYCK
Such Action It Is Said Will Be
Taken by New Yorks Governor
Mayor Van Wyck of New York will be
removed pending an Investigation into his
action in removing Police Commissioners
Hamilton and Philinns Senator Piatt
has urged the governor to take this step
and he believes that he will do it Gov
Black will call a special session of the
legislature to convene about June Ti
Lets Up on Censorship
The government censorship on cable
dispatches has been modified to the extent
oi allowing commercial houses to send
code messages to Brazil and Venezuela
The only restriction on these messages is
that they shall not pass between Spanish
officials The modification was clue to re
tlUlJli commercial houses having
large communications with Venezuela and
Brazil The censorship not only inter
rupted theii communication but subjected
them to expense in not beiiiir ahip t r nn
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dense messages General Gieeley felt that
the modification would not prove dis
advantageous to the government
Miners Xeed Help
The United Mine YVoikers Union at
Ilnzleton Pa have adopted resolutions
appealing to congiess for an appropriation
toielieve the people of that region who
are in gieat want owing to the dullness in
the anthracite coal trade They also peti
tion the government to use anthracite coa
wherevei it may be practical to do so
200000 Fire at West Superior
The Webster Chair Factory at West
Superior Wis was totally destroyed by
fne Sunday morning The factory is five
miles from the center of the city The
loss is S2J0009 partly insuied The build
in was stiuck by lightning
Sporting Editor Dead
Charles Baird a well known writer on
sporting topics and an authority on cy
cling and golf died Saturday in Chicago
of injuries received in a bicycle accident
two weeks ago
EZAKKET DOTATIONS
Chicago Cattle common to prime
300 to 550 hogs shipping grades
300 to 450 sheep fair to choice 1250
to 475 wheat No 2 red 109 to 111
corn No 2 32c to 34c oats No 2 24c
to 25c rye No 2 4Gc to 4Sc butter
choice creamery 15c to 17c eggs fresh
9c to lie potatoes common to choice
50c to 65c per bushel
Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to
525 hogs choice light 300 to 450
sheep common to choice 300 to 450
wheat No 2 99c to 5101 corn No 2
white 33c to S5c oats 5sTo 2 white 30c
to 31c
x
St Louis Cattle 300 to 550 hogs
300 to 450 sheep 300 to 475
wheat No 2 9Sc to 100 corn No 2
yellow 31c to 33c oats No 2 2Gc to 29c
rye No 2 51c to 53c
Cincinnati Cattle 250 to 550 hogs
300 to 450 sheep 250 to 475
wheat No 2 red 100 to 108 corn No
2 mixed 35c to 36c oats No 2 mixed 2Sc
to 29c rye No 2 50c to 52c
Detroit Cattle 250 to 550 hogs
325 to 425 sheep 250 to 450
wheat No 2 105 to 107 corn No 2
yellow 35c to 37c oats No 2 white 30c
to 32c rye 55c to 57c
Toledo Wheat No 2 red 105 to
107- corn No 2 mixed 34c to 36c oats
No 2 white 26c to 28c rye No 2 44c
to 46c clover seed 320 to 330
Milwaukee Wheat No 2 spring 111
to 113 corn No 3 33c to 34c oats No
2 white 2Sc to 30c rye No 1 46c to 4Sc
barley No 2 43c to 49c pork mess
1125 to 1175
Buffalo Cattle 300 to 550 hogs
300 to 475 sheep 300 to 450
wheat No 2 red 106 to 108 corn No
2 yellow 37e to 38c oats No 2 white
33c to 34c
New York Cattle 300 to 550f bVgs
300 to 475 sheep 300 to 500
wheat No 2 red 105 to 107 corn No
2 39c to 40c oats No 2 white 33c to
34c butter creamery 13c to 17c eggs
Westera 10c to lie
STATE OP NEBRASKA
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON
DENSED FORM
Connscl for Sureties in the Engene
Moore Case File Their Brief with
with Supreme Court Claim to Be
Liable Only for His Official ActH
The Moore Case
The counsel for the sureties in the Eu
gene Moore bond case have filed their brief
with the clerk of the supreme court Alter
reciting the wording of the bond the brief
says
It is clear from the language quoted
that the sureties upon the bond bound
themselves only to make good the loss of
money received by the principal by virtue
of his office and by authority of law They
uu not guarantee the honesty of this con
duct nor undertake to indemnify persons
dealing with him outside his official ca
pacity for the consequences of his acts
They did not extend or limit his authority
as auditor They bound themselves solely
to make good the loss of money received
officially
It is obvious that so far as the sureties
on the bond are concerned there is ami
can be no question of honesty morality or
fair dealing and that the contract of such
sureties is to be strictly construed
After quoting a number of authorities to
show that theie could be no conviction or
judgment where the receipt of the money
embezzled was unauthorized by law the
brief takes up the question of estoppel as
follows
It is finally urged that the sureties are
estopped to deny the constitutionality of
the law under which the fees were re
ceived The best answer to this argument
is that the sureties do not deny the con
stitutionality of that law They merely
aver that since the adoption of the present
constitution that law so far as it touches
the right of the auditor to receive fees has
been non existent Heie is no question of
a law to be upheld until declared uncon
stitutional but a simple case of no law at
all There is no principle or precedent by
which a party to a suit can be estopped to
aver the non existence of a law
Asks an Injunction
The Chicago Burlington Quincy Rail
road has applied to the district court for
an injunction to restrain the village board
ofWilberand the county commissioners
of Saline County from levying or collect
ing any tax to pay the principal orjnterest
on the bonds issued for the construction of
the waterworks alleging that they were
illegally issued iii excess of the 10 p r cent
of the assessed valuation of the village at
the time of their Jssue in ISfli Judge
Hastings granted a temporary order and
the case will come on for hearing at
October term of district court
the
IV reck Near Blair
A freight train broke down in a cut
nn the Ficmonr Elkhorn and Missouri
Valley Itailroad just west of Blair the
other day blocking the track The Black
Hills express which was following dashed
into the wreck at top speed The engine
baggage cars and mail cars were derailed
The dead and injured are Lucien S
Cook engineer passenger train Injured
Fred Owens fireman passenger train will
die Charles Hassaid mifl clerk James
N Mason mail clerk
Kong of the pas
sengers werp injured seriously All the
injured men live in Missouri Valley
Hiirt in altunaway
Ernest Krause aged 18 years son of
Gottlieb Krause a prominent farmer liv
ing near Columbus was very badly in
juitd in a runaway accident the other day
He was coming into town on the running
gear of a wagon after lumber and when
near the city limits on the north a team
following him became unmanageable and
ran away jumping squarely onto his
wagon and onto him trampling him badlv
and running over him He suffered a
fracture of the skull beside other injuries
aloat i he head and face The chances are
against his recovery
Shooting Scrape
News has been received of a murder
committed about thirty miles south of Hay
Springs in the sand hills Three ranch
men by the names of Kinkaid Sylvester
and Chase had some difficulty over fencing
pasture land and the result was Kinkaid
was killed It is not known which one of
the two men did the shooting but it is
said to be Chase There is great excite
ment over the affair as there are supposed
to be several ranchmen implicated in it as
they wanted to gjt Kinkaid out of the
country There is expected to be more
trouble
Discovers a Shortage
Early last December the board of com
missioners of Cass County contracted with
E P Hovey an expert accountant of Lin
coln for a thorough and systematic ex
amination of the records of the county
treasurers office during the period be
tween January 0 ISO and February 21
1S0S Mr Hovoy has submitted his com
plete report to the board Surprising as it
may seem when considering the fact that
the books have been examined regularly
by the state examiner shortages of over
5003 were brought to light
Baggageman Killed
Al McKinney who until recently was
employed by the Burlington road as bag
bageman at Nebraska City was killed in
a railroad accident at St Joseph last week
He went there to work for the Maple Leaf
road a short time ago He leaves a wife
and two children
New Postmaster
S II Steele the newly appointed post
master at David City has taken possession
of the office Alfred II Etting ex deputy
county treasurer has been appointed
deputy postmaster and will have charge
of the business of the office
Boy Drowned
A party of boys were swimming in the
river above the city of Fairbury and one
of the number Claud Morris about 15
years old wadd into deep water and was
drowned The body has not been recov
ered
Got the Wrong Bottle
John A Westberg living at Lincoln
drank corrosive sublimate the other day
mistaking it for alcohol and died from
the effects of the poison He had gone
into a dark closet to take a drink from a
bottle of alcohol and by mistake drank
from the wrong bottle Medical aid was
ofvno avail and he died in great agony
- - Mercer Renominated
Hon David H Mercer of Omaha re
ceived a unanimous renomination for a
fourth term in congress from the Second
f Nebraska distrlctRepublicans s
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MAXIMUM RATE CASE
Tho United States Supreme Coart
Amends the Former Ruling
The supreme court of tlie United States
on application of the attorney general of
Nebraska modified its decree in the max
imum freight rate case as prayed Tho
opinion was by Justice Harlau The
motion was to strike odt the words And
below those now charged by said com
panies and also the words And par
ticularly from reducing its present rates
of charges for transportation of freight
to those presented in said act in the ease
of Smith against Smith
In granting the application to eliminate
the court said
The general question argued before ns
on the original hearing was whether the
rates established by the Nebraska statute
looking at them as entire were so un
reasonably low as to prevent the railroad
companies from earning such compensa
tion as would be just having due regard
to the rights of both the public and the
companies In our examination of that
question it was appropriate and necessary
to inquire as to the earnings of the re
spective companies under the rates estab
lished by them looking at such
rates as an entirety We do not intend
by an affirmance of the several de
crees to adjudge that the railroad compa
nies should not at any time in the future
it tuay Saw proper reduce the rates under
which they onducting business at
the time the final decree were rendered
nor that the State Board of Transportation
should not reduce rates on specific or par
ticular articles below the rates which the
companies were charging on such articles
when th decrees were entered We did
not pass judgment upon the reasonable
ness or unreasonableness of the rates on
any particular article prescribed by the
statute or by the railroid companies If
the state should by statute or through its
board of transportation prescribe a new
schedule of rates the question will arise
whether such rates taking into considera
tion the rights of the public as well as the
rights of carriers are consistent with the
principles announced by this court Of
course the reasonableness of a schedule of
rates must be determined by the facts as
they exist when such schedule is put into
force
The decree as originally entered not
only enjoined the State Board of Trans
portation from enforcing the maximum
rates but also enjoined the officials of the
railroads from making rates lower than
those in force at the time the decision was
rendered
Prisoner Escapes with Plunder
The negro who stole some goods at Dun
can was apprehended at Silver Creek and
the Duncan parties were notified to come
up and prosecute On the arrival of the
prosecutors they were escorted to the
lockup to see tli2 prisoner but ail
show such a party had been
there was a hole 12x10 inches m the wall
and a torn window screen to show where
he ha 1 made his last break for liberty
The stolen goods and grip were left on a
table in the room adjoining the cell while
he was a prisoner When he left he took
everything with him except a coat two
vests and the grip
Big Increase in Deposits
The sworn statements ot all banks
doing business in Cutler County have been
recently published The returns show
the total amount of deposits to be 635
01824 nn increase in deposits over the re
port of two months ago of nearly 3 per
cent Fully 0 per cent of the deposits in
that county arc tlioe oE farmer joau
agents report but little demand for money
and the records of the county clerks office
show mortgages were being paid off and
released in a way that bids fair to wipe
out a vast amount of farm loans
Silver Forces will Fuse
The Democratic and free silver KeptiD
lican state committees in session at
Omaha decided to hold conventims at the
same time and place to be settled after a
conference with the committee from ihe
Populist state committee which meets
June 14 W J Bryan was present at the
session of each committee and advised
steps looking to fusion
Newsboj Painfully Hurt
A C Cohen an Omaha newsboy re
ceived a painful injury in attempting to
board a moving street car inthateitv
The car struck the curve as he grasped tlie
rail and he was thrown beneath the wheels
He was quick enough to save himself how
ever with the exception of his foot which
was caught by the wheel Two toes were
badly crushed and amputation was neces
sary
Raising Recruits
Judge Jesse T Davis and Don C Van
Deustii of Blair have secured seventy five
signers for Company E Third regiment
and have requested Gov Holcomb to send
a man to examine and muster the boys in
so they can commence drilling
Sneak Thieves at Shelton
Sneak thieves made their appearance at
Shelton the other night The cellar of J
W Webber was entered and a quantity of
eatables were taken The cellar of Rev
C C Wilson was visited and two large
baskets of dishes taken
Woman Is Burned to Death
Mrs EllaSymonds was burned to death
at her home in Omaha by the explosion of
coal oil which ignited her clofliiug Her
injuries did not prove immediately fatal
ami sue iingemi m teiribleagony nearly
twenty four Iioiits -
Nebraska Short Notes
The town of Arcadia is going to put in
electric lights
The Craig creamery will start ud again
in the near future
W W Havins of Lortette Boone
County has lost a number of cattle from
black leg
The Minneola church was blown half
way off its foundation during the wind
storm the other day
The Elkhorn Valley district reunion oi
the Grand Army of the Republic will be
held at Piainview June 12 to 15
The Banner County Stock Association
is issuing a brand book containing the
brands of the members of theassneiation
The sheep men in the vicinity of Bayard
report great luck with their lamb3 this
spring as high as 100 per cent ia some
cases being saved
The beet fields near Stanton are in good
shape this year and the acreage about one-
third that of last year There is every
prospect for a large yield
Reports from over the stale Indicate
thata large partof thecorn is now planted
and much of it is up As a general thing
a goad stand isrep6rted -
There was only one criminal case on the
Merrick County docket at the present
term The defendant pleaded guilty and
will uo to the penitentiary
f j s Sifts H 11 v 8ii ri - 1
i rfailfvyrvl
Most of the day Saturday was spent by
the Senate in discussion
of the war reve
nue bill several Senators being heard up
on different features of the measure A
proposition was made to vote upon the
amendment offered by Mr Gorman of
Maryland limiting the excise tax upon
railroad steamboat electric light tele
graph telephone express and other corpo
rations to those whose
gross receipts ex
ceed 250000 annually and making the
tax one half of 1 per cent Mr AJdrich
moved to lay upon the table the amend
ment offered by the committee for which
Mr Gormans amendment was intended
ns a substitute This brought on- the most
important vote yet taken in the Senate
upon the bill The vote resulted in yeas
41 nays 27
The Senate remained in secret legisla
tive session for three hours on Tuesday
The entire time was given to a rather free
discussion of the Hawaiian question
based on a motion declaring it to be the
sense of the Senate that the question of
annexation should not be discussed in
open session At the conclusion or the
debate the Senate voted viva voce not to
pursue tlie subject further except behind
closed doors Consideration of the pond-
ing war revenue measure was continued
in open session but no real headway was
made The House passed a
ing the construction of a railway bridge
across Lake St Francis near Lake City
Ark A concurrent resolution directing
the commission now codifying the crim
inal laws to prepare and submit a code of
civil law and procedure for Alaska was
also approved A number of private bills
were passed and the House in committee
of the whole passed a bill authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to keep open
during June and July this year such life
saving stations on the Atlantic and gulf
coasts as he might deem advisable
Wednesdays session of the House was
given to the consideration and passage of
a bill called up by Mr Jenkins Rep of
Wisconsin to remove all political disabili
ties incurred by the third section of the
fourteenth amendment to the constitution
The debate gave rise to notable speeches
from Mr Grosvenor Hep of Ohio and
Mr Settle Dem of Kentucky upon the
obliteration of all section feeling and the
reality at last of a reunited country Iu
cidental to the debate several members re
viewed the conclusion that a member of
Congress could not hold simultaneouslv a
military and civil office Upon its pas
sage the bill received a unanimous vote
Marked progress was made by the Senate
toward the final disposition of the war
revenue measure The committee amend
ments on nearly sixty pages of the bill
were passed upon The interest of the
session centered in the action taken upon
the amendment of Mr Gorman Dem of
Maryland levying a tax of one quarter
of 1 per cent upon the soss receipts of
all corporations doing a business exceed
ing 250000 a year By a direct vote
upon it the amendment was rejected 27
to 34 The Gorman amendment so modi
fied that it levies a tax of one quarter of
one per cent on all corporations engaged
in the refining of sugar or petroleum was
passed Yeas 33 nays 20
The Senate continued its consideration
ot the war revenue bill through its
on of Friday completing everything but
the bond provision and the amendments
proposed by the Democrats to take its
place The speech of the day was made
by Mr Butler Populist of North Caro
lina The House practically without de
bate passed the urgency deficiency bill
providing for emergency expenses of the
army and navy departments incident to
the war
Two very important votes were taken
Friday in the Senate In lieu of the
rclgniorage amendment offered by the ma
jority of the Finance Committee Mr
Wolcott Rep Colo proposed an amend
ment directing the Secretary of the Treas
ury to coin the silver bullion in the treas
ury and to issue silver certificates against
it The amendment was agreed to 48 to
31 several Republicans voting for it Mr
Aldrich Rep R I then pressed the
amendment of the Finance Committee
providing for the issue of 1COCCOOOO
of certificates of indebtedness and 300
000000 of bonds to be used
for the payment of the expenses of the
war After an extended debate the ques
tion was brought to an issue and by the
decisive vote of 45 to 31 the bond amend
ment was incorporated in the bill as a
substitute for tlie amendment to issue
legal tender notes s
Germanys Puzzling Law Systems
No less than five systems of law are
in use in Germany In moving from
one place to another tourists are often
greatly puzzled when they find that an
act perfectly allowable in one State Is
a crime in another A still greater conf
fusion often results when the right of
property is considered
Tho Barn Owl a Good Provider
When the barn owl has a young fam
ily it hunts diligently and brings to its
nest about five mice in an hour As
both of the parent birds are actively
engaged both in the evening and at
dawn forty mice a day is a low esti
mate for the total capture
Well QualifleJ
Recruiting Officer Im afraid yon
are not heavy enough for a cavalryman
We want men who can ride right over
anything If necessary
Applicant Thats all right sir Ive
been a London cab driver for seven
years
This and That
In France bicyclists use a whistle in
stead of a bell
Dried apricots are now sent from
California to London
The word squirrel is from two Greek
words which mean shadow tall
Tife first life boat station In Great
Britain was established in the year
1S24
Truffles will soon be cultivated od
scientifie principles and are likely to
become cheaper
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