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\ TERNGRA1 W VALENTINE , NEBRASKA , JANUARY 5. 1899. NUMBER 50. YOLTJME HE GLOBE SUMMARY WHAT OUR NEWS MARY DbES. ktLLIONAIRE IN AN . n * . a. WARD * COHK-WARD' -r Became So Violent that . B.foreatened to Exterminate His _ .7hole Family-Was Prominent in Gotham's Financial Circles. Drink Made Him Insane. -,30 lloyt , millionaire and agent of the was removed from his .Iloyt estate , fe on West Seventy-third Street , New _ L Thursday and locked up in the ulco- /TcwardofBellevue Hospital , lie was Pitercd 011 the records as "insane , andj Put in the alcoholic ward of the insa laulion. Jesse Hoyt is a member of the Id family of Iloyts , whibh lias been prom- lent in New York city for the last four Vrations. The family millions were \ < le in the northwest , some of Hoyt's ancestors having been builders and owners of the Lt and Pere Marquette Railroad. , the Voimand St. Peter Railway , a part of 1 Chicago and Northwestern and the fcaukee and Northern. Mrs. Hoyt said lier husband had been drinking heavily 'became so violent that he threatened Ve and that of her children. "OR CUBAN SOLDIERS. i likely Be Advanced by .can Government. J are progressing in the mat yiaent of the Cuban troops so ; l ing down their arms they may ruied to enter upon ciil pursuits am"1 Jlieir living. Probably no further ap-'i Lation from congress will be necessary1' Vie the president to carry out i it should be decided , as it undoiibt. . ill , to advance money , chargr lagainst the revenues of Cubs > cial deficiency appropriation bLS in item of $3.000,000 as an emer md which the government may us- - mrpose , and the idea is to advance " r the payment of the Cuban sol- .of this fund. It is understood , that the president Jias not \40 \ CONFEDERATE PENSION 'Southern Soldiers Living in York Condemn Butter's Kftorts. The following resolution , offered by Com radeBeasley , formerly of North Caroling was unanimously passed at a meeting # ie Confederate Veteran camp of : V- Tork , Thursday night : ' Resolved. T.at the Confederate Vetera New York condemns muumea. enn the efforts of Senator Butler I Carolina ( who is not a Confcdera Veteran ) to debauch the manhood of tlf to obtain pensions for e south by seeking S federate soldiers from the United State tnd that anv similar.offortby any southe nenber of congress will be abhorrent fhis camp and meet wilh unqualified coj dcmnatiou. _ TN" TO LAY CABLE Issues Orders i\ -\V-.r department \ the Purchase of an Iron Ship. ( , ,1 Kimball of the quartermaster's partmenU i 2f * w * ' } VdS , , . , ved orders from the war department/ 5 -are at once an iron -hip from 1.000 tog tons for use as cab'e ship to lay cal o'connect tlic islands of the riiilippiii The department has already entered this purpose 100 milw of marine cal tiling P25 IMI * . The cable ship nf anjinmodate on the forward dec-lag 'Ki\ing out" machinery , \\hich will \r , from fifteen to lu only tons , and a t < Hj i-ighing from fne to ten tons. BIG TEXAS ROB ERY. \j J Farpo oio esti'iuiif N made for labor , ton -on egir- . ! ' produced at a iibout ; ci-uiv for food , or about cent an i z . If nil of the food to lit's MV converted into e Tn-olit oi'a il i ? 'n egcrs would l-re even wli'Mi pr'cos are very low , lith deppntNJi whether the hens food int.i eir-i- . flesh or suppqi "oodles. Ii N ai fact deinonsrrrft ever. Jltit whc'ii a dozen eggsjp" 'lietcd tlu-y i--irry from the farnei1 tie of tlu * nutritious elements < fll in proportion io their value in and on ; hii : -fount i they jir fs111' iiblo -uiythiiiir that can be plV on the f.jrui.Poultry Keejor. Corn in ( ierninny. t A lar f htnv of thf $1,000,0 0 Anu-rii--ui thit corn : now goes Jly to Kiiropr 5 > for the Gi'rni.-inJTf For the iii t two years thejyf farnu'iIKMII \ \ \ Jp.-iniinjr how i his corn lo ] \l \ < stoc-k. It is es , that th 'n will be a yearly laurn , 150,001 M M > ! Inishels of Ainonetl ' ) for thi > i urpo-e in the Germ ev bultural disirifts alone. Previc German faniuu-s had fed ontsJt barley n ml oilier cheap ' 'krheir own land is too ( rait thpni to jjrow feed. To Tnn Skins. A. .7. Lo . in the Epiton Jtlie folly 'iut ; instructions : D jheep .skiH ? . and uch small ? ; POISON SENT BY MAIL. Iher Mjtterious Case in "Which [ Wrong Person Was Victim. > . Kate , J. Adams , a well-to-do woman , [ poisoned Thursday in her handsomely- L'shed ' apartments on Eighty-sixth t , New York. Her death is connected a curious chain of events. Mrs. was a widow , 50 "years old. She wit B | with her son-in-law , Edward Adams , : agent. Harry Cornish , a well athlete and physical director of [ nickcrbocker Athletic Club , boards kml the Rogers family. Mrs. Adams llie fee ' Thursday morning with a severe ache. Her daughter , Mrs. Rogers , ad- Id her to take some brome seltzer. She [ some in Mr. Cornish's room , and gave ie jer mother a fair sized dose. In a few finds Mrs. Adams was in great pain evidently suffering from the effects of poison. Dr. Hitchcock was called ind tried to counteract the effects of the Uon , which he declared to be cyanide of iassium. Mr. Cornish and Dr. Hitch- jk both tasted the poisonous stuff and in l.iw minutes both were prostrated by the I cts of the slight quantity they had taken. Potter was called in. He revived the i men , but Mrs. Adams died , hlr. Cornish states that on Christmas day [ received a neat package addressed to Jiself containing a sterling silver medi- | e bottle holder in a Tiffany box , and in i holder was a bottle marked "Bromo I'tzer. " The package was anonymously It , but Mr. Cornish says he thought [ thing of this , as he frequently gets pres- Jts in this way. It was this bottle that tf rs. Rogers got for her mother , and out of liich Mrs. Adams drank with fatal effect. fr. Cornish says he cannot think who [ otild have any designs on his life. list ICE HOMES FOR JACK TARS j M. C. A. Planning to Erect Them at Various Seaports. Commander Philip is at the head of a 5'i t-coinmittee of the international corn- fee of the Young Men's Christian Asso- } on , which is planning to build a home [ jack tars near the Brooklyn ( N. Y. ) " Jo- yard , to cost $100.000. But the home - ' fBrooklyn will not be the only one. ' re will be others , costing almost as much , l Itoston , Newport , Norfolk , San Fran- fo and perhaps in Manila aud Havana , se buildings will be for enlisted sea- i , and later there ill be similar build- Is in the large cities for enlisted soldiers , ( fe cabins or rooms will resemble state- Ijrns on ships , but will be separated with , rre screens , so each lodger will be by him- - If. There will also be a bar , but no in- : fcicating drinks will be sold. BIG KANSAS FAILURE. ityoclcmen Go Under with Inabilities of Half a Million. nWord reached Abilene , Kan. , Tuesday Jat Catlin Bros. , the extensive stock feed- | 's of Milton Vale , had failed , with liabil- : ies of $800,000 to $500,000. Their bank c3 Closed Saturday. They have been feeding - : J5,000 head ot cattle and are said to have lost heavily. The impossibility of securing f an extension on rcatured cattle paper Ish ' | aid to be responsible for the failure , which ' 5 all straight. It is said the failure will , ( itr'fc a heavy loss to several commission c bffees of Kansas City , through whom they ; wb' > W much paper. C Dynamite Moves a Saloon. " Citizens of Woodbine , Kan. , blew up with dynamite a building in which a "joint" had been started a week ago. Everything in the building was destroyed , \ timbers being thrown for rods , and adjoin ing stores were somewhat injured. No one d was hurt. The keeper had been ordered to " .cave , but refused to do so. A "joint" in , Kansas is an illegal saloon. / Killed at a Funeral. * ; the funeral of Mrs. W. Martin at Ne- ; Mieh. , a team which drew a hack ; * . carrying mourners ran away. William | % * 4Kevern , a pallbearer , who was walking " ' s the hearse , was run over and almost istr instantly killed. Frank Sheron , a livery- ras * J5ani who was driving the hearse , was arthrown from it and injured , though not seriously. _ iThirty French Officers Arrested. Thirty officers have been arrested inn jparis and all sentenced to four days' im prisonment for subscribing lo the fund ' l tarted by the Libre Parole to enable Mine. IB.n h.jBIenry to meet the expenses of her contemplated - a ! plated prosecution of Joseph Reinach ! , i , for ut daring her late husband , Col. Henry , a traitor. Jamaica Dedicates a Pier. The new pier at Jamaica market , Kings . ton , Jamaica , which was built for the ac commodation of tourist steamers and foreign > rhe eign warships , was opened Tuesday. heW German training ship Molte , which is now ' cruising in West Indian waters , partici pated in the opening ceremonies. Military Plot Is Hatched. The Paris correspondent of the London onmt Daily Chronicle sa\s : "It is asserted that the French police have seized several bundles of letters , whose contents prove that a military plot is in thorough working , order. " Klevator Burned at Minneapolis. urn A loss of $150,000 was caused at Minne uiia ; apolis Tuesday night by the burning 10of in j elevator "I , " together with its contents of 00,000 bushels of wheat. The property be longed to Wheeler , Carter & Co. Gillett Located in Mexico. John Green , feputy sheriff from New Mexico , wbo is in Denver , received inform ation that Grant C. Gillelt , the fugitive cattleman , is making his headquarters at Jimenez , Mexico. INSURGENTS TAKE ILOILO. Spanish Forces Evacuate All Sta tions in South Philippines. A dispatch from Gen. Otis , at Manila , re - ceived in Washington Wednesday after noon , confirmed the fears of the war de partment officials as to what had taken place at Iloilo. Gen. Otis says : Sent Col. Potter on fast vessel to Iloilo on the 24th lo communicate with Spanish Gen. Rios. The latter evacuated on the evening of the 21th , and Potter is thirty- nine hours late. The insurgents took possession of the city on the 2Gth and Potter found Agui- naldo's flag flying. Cannot now report what have been the results. Will not hear from there for four days , as there is no cable communication. The Spanish forces evacuated all stations in the southern islands except Zamboanga. Mindanao by orders , they say , from Madrid. The evacuation of the southern Philippines - pines by the Spaniards has undoubtedly done much toward complicating the prob- lem of extending military jurisdiction over the islands by the United States. It will now be necessary to expedite the execution of the original plans , and it may be fully expected within a week that important events Avill have happened in the islands. It is presiimed that Gen. Otis will de mand the surrender of Iloilo into his hands , and this demand may at once raise the issue between the insurgents and our own government of possession of the islands. The province of Iloilo is set down in the official directories as having a population of 472,000 and it is the second in importance of the Philippine group. WILL BE NO DELAY. Seventy-One Senators Will Vote to Ratify the Peace Pact. A Washington special to the Chicago Post Wednesday says : There will be seventy-one votes in the United States senate for the ratification of the peace treaty , according lo the present count , with seven senators on the doubtful list , all of whom may go Avith the majority. The president will submit the treaty im mediately upon the reassembling of congress , and it will be taken up with out delay. Xot to exceed half a dozen speeches against the treaty are looked for , and the majority Avill not seek to prolong the debate b\- unnecessary speechmaking. Three or four senators will present the case and the argument on behalf of the administration , the peace commission andvl tbe nation , and then the matter will be allowed to rest. The opinion prevails that two weeks will cover the time consumed in discussing the treaty in the senate , and that a vote will be reached on January 20. It will then only remain for congress to Appropriate the 920,000,000 called for in the treaty. Then there will be a formal ex change of the documents. The war- , maybe ' be legally closed and all necessary formalities - ities observed in connection therewith be fore the middle of February. It is barely possible that the end may be technically reached by February 1. WIDOW'S UNFORTUNATE LOVE It Leads to Murder and an Attempt at Suicide. Mrs. N. L. Borglund Wednesday shot and killed Peter Hanson , a tailor , and then cut her own throat at Dultith , Minn. , but was not effective in her own case and will probably recover. Mrs. Borg lund is a widow , 40 years of age. She kept a number of boarders , among them being Hanson , vho is her cousin. He is 30 years of age , but although ten years his senior , the widow was wildly in lova with him. Hanscu paid her considerable attention for a time , but lately bad been quite devoted to a younger and fairer woman. FIVE TRAINMEN HURT. Switch Engine Blows Out Its Crown Sheet. Five men were seriously injured as the result of an Ohio Southern switch engine blowing out its crown sheet at Springfield , Ohio , Wednesday afternoon. Engineer Schellinger and Fireman Welch were blown out of the cab and both were very badly injured. Conductor Snow and Brakemen Layer and Brickman were blown thirty feet and badly injured. Some of the injuries may prove fatal. Two Thousand Miles in Open Boat Capt. McDonald of the burned bark C. D. Bryant , accompanied by his wife and children , arrived at San Francisco Wednes day from Honolulu on the steamer China. The Bryant , which was bound from Puget Sound for Africa with a load of lumber , burned at sea on November 5 and the sur vivors traveled 2,200 miles in an open boat when they reached one of the Hawaiian group. Robbers Secure $7OOO. The dry goods store of Henry Wessel of Baltimore , Md. , was entered by burglars Tuesday night and a considerable' of money and checks aggregating $7,000 was taken The valuables were in a safe in the countintg room , the door was blown off by dynamic and $6,800 in specie and currency , the remainder in checks of small denominations , taken. Christmas in Bad Weather. Most of the Americans in Santiago cele brated Christmas Monday , though hardly able to realize that this is the Christmas season , in the midst of the discomforts of summer weather. The pal ace clerks pre sented General Wood wUh a magnificent gold-headed tortoise shell Buried Beneath the Ruins. A new two-story building in course ol erection at St. Louis , Mo. , collapsed Wednesday afternoon , burying two work men. Two or three workmen were hurt , but not seriously injured , &urr f * $ . representativ " DEATH OJ ? MOBJRILL. VENERABLE SENATOR EXPIRES IN WASHINGTON. Aged Vermont Statesman the Victim of Pneumonia Total Eclipse of the Moon Visible in Many Places Pinna for a New President's Palace. Senator Justin S. Merrill of Vermont , the venerable "father of the Senate , " died at 1:25 o'clock Wednesday morning at his residence in Washington. There were at the bedside the Senator's son , .Tames Mor . i-ill , Miss Swan , the sister of his deceased wife , and Senator Proctor , his colleague. He was attacked by grip about a week previous , but as the disease was mild in i'ovm , he attended the sessions of the Sen- ste ( up to the holiday adjournment. His condition . was not considered serious un til the day before his death , when pneu monia developed. He grew rapidly worse , and Monday night became unconscious , in which ptatc he remained except for a few short lucid intervals. The Senator suffered a severe attack of pneumonia last winter. His wife died last summer just SENATOR MOBRJM. . before the adjournment of Congress , and Mr. Merrill had been visibly failing since. Justin S. Merrill was born at Strafford , Orange ] County , Vt. , on April 14 , 1810. He received an academic education and I engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1848 , when he took up agriculture. He was elected to Congress in 1855 as a Republi , can , and represented his native State in the Thirty-fourth , Thirty-fifth , Thirty- sixth J , Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses. During his several terms in Congress he always took a leading part in all financial and economic legislation , and was the father of the famous tariff bill of 1861. This bill became known as the Merrill tariff bill. Senator from Vermont , . 1866. Mr. Merrill was elected to the Senate from Vermont in I860 and has served con tinuously ever since. He had been a mem ber of Congress for forty-three years and had at all times been earnestly interested RIOTERS AT HAVANA. Deeds of Violence PreccdeHoistinjr * of Stars and Stripes. Serious rioting occurred in Havana Tuesday night. Before it was quelled American regulars had to be called for. They did their work so well that one Spanish sailor was killed and a dozen Cubans and Spaniards injured , some fa tally. The trouble started through the resent ment of some Spanish soldiers and sailors because the American and Cuban flags were flying everywhere in the city , which event the Cubans were boisterously cele brating. A Spanish soldier , marching with his company to the wharf , tried to pull down a Cuban flag in Bomba street. He was shot at and dangerously wound ed. Desperate fighting followed between Spaniards and Cubans. Lieut. Miller of the Tenth United States infantry , whose company had been brought into the city for just such an emergency , and was stationed three blocks away , sent Sergeant Adams with a detail of a dozen men to preserve order. The regulars soon reached the narrow street and forming in line swept all be fore them at the point of the bayonet. Midway in the block is a cafe. When the Americans reached there they were fired upon. A quick order from Sergeant Adams and a dozen rifles rang out as one. Nearly every shot told , for eight or ten persons were seen to drop. One Spanish sailor was killed and the rest , Cubans and Spaniards , were wounded. That single volley scattered the crowd like so many sheep. The American soldiers captured four of the ringleaders in the disturbance and marched them back to their quarters.1 None of the American regulars was in jured. The city Wednesday was prac-i tically in the hands of the Americans. A PRESIDENT'S PALACE. A Movement for the Erection of a $ IOr- 000,000 Executive Mansion. A movement is on foot for the erection of a new executive mansion for the Pres ident. Paul J. Pelz , the architect of the Congressional Library , has prepared elab orate drawings and diagrams for the pro posed mansion. The projectors want the Government to build a home for the Pres ident that will be a credit to the nation. They have found an ideal site on Meridian hill , bounded by West Sixteenth and Fourteenth streets. The crest of the hill is 202 feet above the Potomac , while the Capitol site is only 90 feet above the river. They say fifty-two acres can be secured at moderate cost by condemnation , be cause there are few buildings on the land. , The White House grounds have twenty- one acres. Mr. Pelz's plan is drawn on a scale of striking grandeur. The proposed building is in the form of the letter H. One wing is set aside for the living apartments of the President and his family , and the other is devoted to social and state functions. The con necting structure is to Lav.- roof garden. In the rear of the building is an elaborate system of conservatories inclosing an enormous court that is to be covered. The site is a mile or more north of the White House , which is to be retained for office purposes for the President. The new mansion is to face south toward the THE PROPOSED XEW WHITE HOUSE. ir legislation. Mr. Mori-ill's career as Sen ator exceeded in length that of any other Senator in the history of this nation. Thomas H. Benton , the first Senator from Missouri , served thirty-one yearsin the Senate. Senator Merrill was widely known in educational circles because of his success ful advocacy of the act of 1802 granting land to the various States for educational purposes. The act came to he known as the Merrill land-grant act. It was from the proceeds of this fund and from his private resources that Exm Cornell found ed Cornell University. At that university and at many others Mr. Mori-ill's name is held in high honor , and a building at Cor nell is named for him. The Senator had been for some year ? the patriarch of the Senate and held a warm place in the affections of his asso ciates. He likewise enjoyed the fullest confidence of his constituents , who. not withstanding his years , re-elected him in 1890 for a fifth consecutive term , which would not have expired until March 3 , 1903. MOTIONLESS FIVE MONTHS. Milwaukee Girl's Straince Trance a Puzzle to Physicians. For five months Tiny Broeschit of Mil waukee has not spoken a Avord and lies in her little rooin entirely oblivious to her surroundings. Every effort to attract her attention or make her so much as raise an eyelid has completely failed. She'is gradually wasting away : death is tlu only thing which her family and friends think will relieve her from her suffering. She has become greatly emaciated , takes but little food and seems simply to exist with out interest in the outward and apparent world. She is not in a trance , for during the greater part of the day her eyes are wide open and fixed 'with a wistful glance upon one corner of the room , where she seems to see things that other people can- Jnot see. " Hypnotists are experimenting with the &irl "andfcclaim to have made progress in revivinffKer. They expect to ultimately snccee f. tehrsicians , however , find no change in flS&ri's' condition _ _ White House , and its approach from the south side is io be buttressed by walls , terraces and broad flights of stairs , some what after the style of those on the west side of the C'apitol. The architecture is like that of the Congressional Library , but Hie plan calls for white marble in stead of granite for the building. It is estimated the work will cost ? S,000,000 to $10.000,000. and require eight or ten years for its completion. LUNA'S FACE HID IN ECLIPSE Obscured for tlie Third Time in the . , Courfee of a Year. For about an hour and a half Tuesday night , where clouds did not obscure , it Deemed as if a black hand had been put over the face of the moon. Her silver face wa : blotted out and the sky was as if she had never been. In her flight about the earth she slid for a period of six hours and eighteen minutes through the converging DIAGRAM OF THE ECLIPSE. shadow o the earth that projects like a great invisible cone into space in the di rection away from the sun. For an ir | and twenty-nine minutes the eclipse is total to observers whore the sky was clear. As the shadow of the earth has swung about its tremendous circle during 1S98 ) the moon has three times passed through it. .Tan. 7 there was a total eclipse that , like the one of Tuesday night , was visible throughout the Americas , Asia , Africa and Europe. July 3 the silver orb that floats jn the sky had a section of its bright surface obscured by the shadow of a par- tifj eclipse that could he seen only in rbpe. The eclipse Tuesday followed to second a schedule that was calcinated : fnlly fifty years ago by the astronomer * of that time , _ ' N , / STATE OF NEBRASKA' NEWS OP THE WEEK IN A CONDENSED - DENSED FORM. Special Election will Be Held at Fremont oa Proposition to Re fund City's Bonded Indebtedness Will Be Great Saving if Carried , Fremont Will Drive aBargain. . * At the meeting of' the city council of Fremont last week an ordinance was passed , without opposition , calling .a ' spe cial election for January 80 to vote o'n the proposition to refund the bonded Indebted ness of the city. The bonds now ; > ut bear 6 and 5 per cent , interest. It is proposed to refund them with twenty-year 4 per cent , bonds , date of March 1 , which will make an annual saving to the taxpayers of $1,600 , iccording to the estimates of the city treas urer , the bonded Indebtedness of the city being $209,000. Previous bond issues of the city of Fremont have been in good demand and it is probable that u fair premium cap be obtained on them , which will still for- Iher reduce the amount of the annual ap oropriatioiis. Verdict for Cheyenne County. The injunction suit of Euclid Martin , ad ministrator of the estate of William J.Max- \vell , against A. Pease , treasurer of Chey- snne County , was heard at Sidney before District Judge II. M. Grimes. The ruling of the court stated that the petition failed to state facts sufficient to entitle him to the writ prayed for and it was accordingly de nied. This is the suit whereby the county treasurer seized 100 head of horses of the Maxwell estate on ii distress warrant for failure to pay nearly $600 in personal taxes. Clergyman Under Suspension. Bishop A. R. Graves has suspended Rev. Tyrer of Ord because of a series of ser mons recently delivered from his pulpit , lie is said to have declared himself an evolutionist lutionist and a disbeliever in many portions tions of both the nen- and old testaments. The Episcopal community there is excited over the verdict and , as Rev. Tyrer is pop- tilarT many declare they will support him in opposition to the will of the bishop. Omahas Want an Agent. A petition is being circulated at the agency in Thurston County , proposed at ) he request of the Omaha tribe , asking that hey be given a separate agent. They. maintain that they are neglected and that. there is business enough for two agents. Mr , Chase , who drew the petition , says that it will be generally signed by both' tribes. He believes that itwill bethemeans of re-establishing the Omaha agency. Cuban Veteran Rejoins Regiment : Corporal John Jacobs of the Twelfth reg ular infantry , who fought in all the Cuban battles and has been at his home in West Point for several months , left last week to join his regiment , which is "fattened at Jefferson Barracks , Mo. He et.ne home on thirty days' sick leave in August , but had to have his leave extended several times 011 account of his severe illness. He expects lo leave soon for Manila. Suicide at Cody. Suffering with an intense and acute pain , the result of a short and recent illness , M. Underwood , proprietor of the Elkhorn Eating House at Cody , put an end to his Bufferings by shooting himself. Under wood was a well-to-do man and was successful in the hotel business. No other reason than his sickness can be as signed for the ra.sh act which cost him his life. Fourteen Horses Cremated. J Yi W. A. Cole's large feed and livery stable- at Bloomington were totally destroyed by fire. Fourteen head of horses were burned. The fire was under good headway before it was discovered , and being full of hay , the barn was thoroughly ablaze in five minutes. No one knows how the fire originated. The total loss was 35,000 , with $800 insnr * ance on the barn. Farms Bring Good Prices. E. D. Marcelhis has * old his 200-acre farm one and one-half miles from York to Artemus Miller for § 10.000. There have been a number of sales of York County farms lately at advanced prices over what the same land was offered at one year ago. Child Kicked by a Horse. The 7-year-oid son of J. D. Barhart of Korth Lotip was kicked ba horse while playing in the barnyard and when found was unconscious and for some time his re covery was considered doubtful. His con dition is now more favorable. Blind Boy Stricken. James Burns , living near Holstein fellto Hie ground a few da\s since and died a short period of unconsciousness. been blind for eight \ears and had learned several trades at the institute for the blind at Nebraska City. Scotchman Proves a Swindler. A Scotchman has swindled a number of v his fellow countrymen in and around Wil- ber by imposing upon their race friendli ness. He borrowed considerable sums of money on various pretexts and thea disap peared. Arrested for Murderous Assault. Bruce Madison , who stabbed Wallace Scott at Fairmont over a game of cards , Las been captured at Trenton , He will waive examination and is under bonds oE EI.OOO , which he uili be unable to give. Town Under Mail Quarantine. Five new cases of smallpox are reported from Wilsom ille * making a total of seven. ' Postmaster Asec of Beaver City has served notice on tire mail messengers that ha vould receive no mail Irom that town. Burlf/jgton Depot Burned. Fire destroyed the east half of the Bur- fington ik-.pot at Superior , entirely eonsum- the freight room ? and their contents. The prompt work of the fire department saved the. remainder of the building. Teacher llobbed. Miss Kitty Bothwell , who teaches just outside of Grafton , had the misfortune to be robbed of her purse , containing § 3Q and re turn ticket , while in the Lincoln B , & depot ,