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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17. 1897.
Coming Events.
North Nebraska Soldiers' Reunion at
Norfolk, August 23-27.
Omaha Fair, Sept. 510.
Soldiers Reunion, Omaha, Sept. 510.
Nebraska State Fair, Lincoln, Sept
9-16.
Fair at Schuyler Sept. 2124.
Platte County Fair at Columbus, Sept
2730.
Fair at Albion Oct. 46.
Republican State Convention, Lin
coln, Wednesday, October 5th. Platte
county is entited to 6 delegates.
A sevebk earthquake shock was felt
the other day throughout the Island of
Cyprus.
The 25,000 republican gain in Ken
tucky shows a little how the wind will
blow next year.
Moonet, the man who attempted to
blow up an English vessel, at New York,
with dynamite, has been pronounced in
sane.
At a meeting of the officials of the
Union Pacific the other night at Denver,
Thomas L. Kimball was appointed
second vice-president.
The west bound express train was
robbed the other night thirty miles east
of Tuscan, Ariz. The train was ditched
and robbed by four men.
Geobqe H. Palmer, a New York Wall
street broker, committed suicide the
other day at Coney Island. He was de
spondent over his recent failure.
Smalij-pox and yellow fever are re
ported in Havana, Cuba. During the
month of July there were 104 deaths
from yellow fever and small-pox.
At a meeting of the Cabinet the other
nrt..nn tliA finnncinl situation and
Canadian fisheries question were the
principal subject of discussion.
Tiik Ashland mine, near Hurley, Wis.,
caved in the other afternoon, killing
three men and injuring another so badly
that he is not exacted to live.
A fire at Cedar Rapids, la., the other
morning burned the packing house of
T. M. Sinclair & Co., causing the de
struction of $90,000 worth of property.
Jos. W. Burgett of Corning, la., was in
town yesterday. He says that Iowa
farmers are already cutting up corn to
feed to their stock, and it is very poor
corn, too.
A report comes from Ft. Madison,
Minn., that says the Catholic church at
8L Paul, or near there, was wrecked the
other evening by a.storm. Much other
damage was done.
J. V. Baptist, a young man, was ar
rested the other day at Jacksonville,
HL, charged with robbing the mails.
He confessed that he had been doing so
systematically for years.
Charles Williams, who was confined
in the jail of Logan county, Ya., for the
murder of the county surveyor, James
Aldridge, was taken from jail the other
evening by citizens and hung.
The police at St. Joe the other day ar
rested one Haggerty, who is wanted at
Lincoln, Neb., for stabbing a man and
for escaping from custody. His victim
died shortly after being stabbed.
Herson Smith, of Fulton, Mo., was
shot and killed the other day by his son
Mentor. When brought to the test he
admitted doing the shooting, and says
he was persuaded to do bo by his sister.
Twenty-tubes persons at Pittsburg,
Pa were poisoned by eating cake the
other day, made with chrome yellow or
some other deadly compound in it The
cake was obtained at a baker's shop in
the city.
A report comes from Lock Haven,
Pa., that Mr. and Mrs. Colby, an old
couple living in the mountains near that
place, were murdered the other night.
It is believed that burglars committed
the deed.
In the suit brought by Mrs. Cora A.
Spencer to recover her child, it was held
by the court that the father was the
proper custodian, the Judge basing his
decision upon what he regarded as the
best interests of the child.
Senator Riddleberger, of Virginia,
was arrested the other day on an order
of Judge Newman, for contempt of
court, by publicly ridiculing the rulings
of the judge, and locked up all night in
jaiL There was great excitement and
the senator's friends proposed to relerse
him. An organized mob afterwards re
leased hiin from prison.
Mrs. Etta Dbtsinger committed sui
cide the other afternoon at Council
Bluffs, Ia by taking morphine. It is
said that her husband was angry with
her because she provided white shirts
for him instead of colored ones, and her
feelings was so wounded that she ended
the trouble by taking her life.
Jambs G. Blaine, wife and daughter
arrived in Dublin on the evening of the
6th inst, from Belfast. In an interview
with a United Press representative, Mr.
Blaine stated that he intended to remain
in Ireland for some time, and quietly
look around and examine the condition
of the country.
A FEARFUL DISASTER.
W reck of as ExcaraioH Trala.
Last Thursday night, about midnight,
occnrred one of those horrible catastro
phes which will happen occasionally in
these days of swift travel by rail.
The dailies of the next morning all
over the country, were burdened with
the details. To us it iB-wonderful that
escaped, the certainty
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mediate death in such a combination
being almost assured.
The site of the wreck was a bridge
east of Chatsworth, I1L, on the Vermil
lion. about 100 miles southwest of Chi
cago. .
The train was an excursion train
bound for Niagara Falls and was com
posed of two locomotives, baggage car,
superintendent's car, six day coaches
two chair cars and six Pullman coaches.
There were about seven hundred pas
sengers, mainly from Peoria.
The Vermillion at the point of the
wreck is described as a mere run across
which a boy could jump, and with no
water in it. The bridge was almost
twenty feet across and about twelve feet
high.
The engineer had protested against
running the train as a double-header,
saying it ought to be in two sections, but
his protest was not heeded.
the section boss contradicted.
Chicago, August 13. The Inter
Ocearfx Forest, HL, special says: Your
Mirresnondent has found a number of
men at Piper City who positively con
tradict the testimony of Timothy
Coughlin, the section boss, that he and
his gang put out all the fires along the
track before they left their work Wed
nesday evening. These men were of a
party which went from Piper City to the
wreck on a hand-car. They say as they
passed along the track east of the wreck
they saw a fire burning in the hedges
and grass all the way along. The best
evidence obtainable is that the fire built
by the section hands was within 100 rods
of the burned bridge when it was left.
There is a general sentiment among the
residents here that the section men were
largely to blame. Very few people, ex
cept the officials of the road, give any
credence to the incendiary theory. There
was not nearly as much robbing at the
wreck as at first supposed. Things
thought to have been stolen are being
found among the debris as it is cleared
away.
ROBBED BY FELLOW-PASSENGERS.
In regard to the robberies, Mr. Cook,
who is on the coroner's jury, says he saw
several men taking valuables and money
from the victims, but he declares it was
the work of fellow-passengers and not of
the residents of the neighborhood. In
every instance where they were inter
fered with in their nefarious work they
protested they were relatives of the
dead or wounded, as the case might bo.
But if there are dark sides to the story
there are many bright ones, and the
brightest of all was the charity of the
citizens of Chatsworth and Piper City.
Between the two peoples there was a
generous rivalry as to who could do
most for the relief of suffering humanity.
From Chatsworth to the scene of the
disaster, there is a steady down grade.
The train pulled out of Chatsworth at
11:42 p. m. When it approached the
bridge the train was going at a high rate
of sueed. estimated at forty miles an
hour. The road is almost a bee line, and
there were not any obstructions. The
forward engine crossed the treacherous
bridge. Its tender went through and as
it dropped, it broke from its coupling,
and the locomotive sped away down the
track.
The second engine plunged along into
the break and into the ditch by the
roadside, falling upon its side. The cars
following, crashed together into one ter
rible mass. Their trucks and wheels
were jammed into a mass in the gully,
and into the bank on the opposite Bide.
The bodies of the cars went over the
break and were piled up in splintered
ruins for 100 feet along the track and in
the ditches on either side of the em
bankment. Several of them sprang into
the air and fell on one side or the other,
on their Bides or tops. Several of the
passenger coaches were splintered
LIKE PAPER BOXES,
and were bo telescoped into each other
that one car could not be distinguished
from another. The baggage car, Sup't.
Armstrong's car, and eight passenger
coaches were torn to pieces. The first
Pullman coach, the Tunis, stopped right
at the edge of the break, and her for
ward truck went half way into the gully.
The front of this car was broken, but
none of the five Pullman coaches follow
ing were injured. No person was hurt
in any of the six sleeping cars.
Engineer McClintock, of the second
engine, was instantly killed, his head
and chest were crushed to a pulp, and
his brains scattered upon the grass. He
leaves a wife and three children. His
fireman, Applegreen, jumped from the
cab the instant he felt the jar. He fell
into the ditch and rolled out of danger;
only his right hand was bruised. He
hardly knows whether he jumped or fell.
The baggage car was telescoped by the
car of Superintendent Armstrong, which,
strange to say, received less damage than
any of the day coaches. Baggage was
scattered far and wide and
the superintendent's car
was thrown right across the track with
the end in the ditch. It was occupied
by Mr. Armstrong and the wife and
daughter of General Freight and Pas
senger Agent Gould, and by the wife of
Train Dispatcher Parker, of Peoria.
None of these were seriously injured.
Armstrong was tnrown from the car
through the end, which was torn out,
and fell on his face, which was badly
scratched. The women were in bed, and
were bruised only slightly.
Hardly anyone of the passengers in
the day coaches escaped without injury,
and nearly seventy were killed out
right. the story in detail.
Chatsworth, DL, Aug, 11. Charnel
houses and hospitals make up tonight
what has been the peaceful village of
Chatsworth. Of 800 merry excursionists
journeying by here to the Falls of Nia
gara twenty-four hours ago, fully half
the number have since passed through a
maelstrom more fearful than all the
whirling waters they were traveling so
far to see. Eighty-four of them black
ened, mangled corpses, are scattered in
depots, schools and engine houses here
and at Piper City, or are being carried
on trains in all directions to their homes,
while 115 bandaged and moaning crip
ples are stretched on all available matt
resses, beds, chairs and floors in this vi
cinity, struggling for a little lease of life.
The streets of Chatsworth are filled with
crowds of anxious seekers for friends
and relatives, and with other crowds of
bustling people, hurrying for medicines,
slowly bearing rude pine coffins to the
trains, or talking earnestly of the horror
that has caused consternation. In
directly The little ditch which the culvert
spanned was about ten feet deep, and
the timbers had burned away by the
fires which had been raging in this vi
cinity. The heavy-laden train, rushing
down a grade of about forty-eight feet
to the mile, struck the culvert. The eye
of the engineer could not detect the
burned frame work henth the track.
I because enough of the culvert remained
in position to hold the rails in position,
but as the wheels touched it the crash
came.
The rapidity with which the train wsa
going may be imagined when it is under
stood that the first engine leaped over
the chasm, and holding to the track
went on but little injured. The second
engine plowed its way along the track
for nearly two hundred feet and finally
went over on its side, a most complete
wreck. Pilim? on top of and telescoping
one another came the regular passenger
coaches with their loads of human
freight, and such a mass such an in
describable, tangled mass of splintered
cars and mangled bodies!
All night long and all day the work of
removing the dead and wounded occu
pied the eood people of the vicinity, and
many helpers who came from adjacent
cities. At 9 o'clock this evening, when
the Associated Press correspondent left
tho scene, it was thought all but six or
seven bodies had been removed.
ONE LUCKY MAN.
The only man on the wrecked train
who lingered on the scene till tonight
unharmed was the porter of the only
Pullman car damaged. It was the fore
most of the string of six sleepers com
pleting the train. The tenth passenger
coach was a total wreck, as were all of
its predecessors, but the sleeper stopped
with the forward end over the burned
bridge. The colored boy's story was
about as accurate account as could be
gotten from any of the passengers. He
said it was about 11:30, and the train
had been sailing along at about thirty
miles an hour when they reached the
top of the hilL about two miles beyond
Chatsworth. "At the top of this grade
there is a turnpike crossing, and I re
member the engineer whistling for it, as
is the custom, and then down grade we
went with a dash. A moment later came
the crash, and everybody was shaken
violently, and many in our car were
bruised.' It was an awful jerk, lunge,
and then an abrupt slip, and we were
standing still. When we in the car look
ed out we were so horror-stricken we
could not tell what to do. Our car was
afire in front, and all efforts were direct
ed to extinguish the flames. The people
in the sleeper behind us were not so
roughly handled as we, and came to our
rescue. As many of us as were able then
went to work to help those in the day
coaches ahead. It was dark as pitch,
and the cars were heaped so promiscu
ously that we could not get at them at
all. The awful sights and groans and
the horror of the whole thing was
mobe-than i could stand.
News was sent to adjacent towns as
soon as possible. It was a dreadful wait
before any assistance came, although I
suppose it was only a little while. We
were little better off then, for their pro
visions were inadequate for the great
work on hand. Physicians were sum
moned from all the neighboring towns,
and by three o'clock in the morning
officials of the road were on their way
from Springfield with all the doctors
they could muster. It was two hours
after the wreck, and, to add more suffer
ing to its horrors, rain began to pour,
and for several hours drenched the suf
fering and the dying. But the horror
micrht have been worse, had not the
burning culvert been extinguished when
it was as the debris would have burned,
causing a dreadful holocaust, in which
hundreds who escaped it, either wound
ed or injured, would have been burned
to death. Not a soul in the forward ten
cars could have survived. But the en
gineer of the first engine returned to the
wreck and gave us what water he had,
and after that gave out we extinguished
the flames with dirt thrown upon the
the burning timber. Back in the little
city, after the dead had been cleared
from the floor of the school house and
the weary Samaritans were arranging for
watches during the night at bedsides
elsewhere,
THE CORONER'S INQUEST
was begun. The Superintendent of the
road and his assistants were sworn, but
before any material facts were reached,
ndiournment was taken until tomorrow.
For one of the worst features of the
affair no excuse is possible. There were
vandals at work at the wreck.
In one instance a wounded man called
to a passr-by to help him. Instead of
doing so the villain reached down, took
a watch from the injured man's pocket
and fled. In another instance the dead
body of a mother was robbed of all the
jewelry on her person. Perhaps the
most harrowing incident was the case of
a man who, wounded, crawled out of the
wreck and lay in an adjacent corn field.
Here he groaned and sent forth piteous
appeals for help for a short while. Then
came a sharp crash and all was over. His
misery had unnerved him, and drawing
his pistol from his pocket he quieted all
pain with a bullet through his head."
THE CATASTROPHE WAS ASCRIBED
to the origin of so many other recent
great calamities, namely, unprecedented
drouth. The tall grass under a little
culvert on the Toledo, Peoria k Warsaw
road, a few miles east of Chatsworth,
had been rendered by the sun dry as
tinder, and last night a locomotive spark
set it ablaze. The timbers of the cul
vert caught fire and were smouldering
unseen, when the train of sixteen coaches
of excursionists came along. There waa
a terrific crash, and an accident almost
unprecedented in horror had passed into
history.
That was the brief story gleaned on
the streets of Chatsworth this evening.
A short ride brought one from the sick
ening sights of the city to the place
where the catastrophe occurred. The
tangled iron and wood and various de
bris presented much the same appear
ance it did at the time of the accident
The engine, shattered out of all shape,
lay in the ditch about two hundred feet
beyond the culvert, and broken cars
were strewn all about. The culvert,
which was about thirty-two feet in
length, showed broken and burned tim
bers, and gave evidence at a glance of
the cause of the accident.
The dailies of Monday state that train
dispatcher Hibbard Bays the ill-fated
train was running at the rate of fifty
miles an hour. The distance from For
rest to Chatsworth, six miles, up grade,
was covered in seven minutes.
The reports of the dead and wounded
vary but it is thought they will reach
100 and 200.
The Chicago Times of the 15th says
that two men had been arrested on a
charge of being the 'incendiaries who
caused the Chatsworth horror. The
proof at the hearing before a justice was
considered strong enough to hold them
in custody for trial.
LiBcr frost Yesterday's Dailies.
O. B. Selden assassinated in his office
at Mannville, Wyo. Attempt on his
wife's Ufa Assassin not known.
A terrific thunder storm at Clarkson
Monday night, lightning striking an
elevator.
Messengers from White river, arrived
at Rawlins, Wyo., reported 150 Utes
fighting at Beaver creek, 15 miles from
Meeker. Families are rushing into
Meeker and more Indians coming. The
news at Glenwood Springs, Colo., was
that a battle had been fought, and that
the Utes got the worst of it.
Gladstonians carrried the Chester
election and the masses rejoice against
the classes.
At Leon, la., James Reynolds, who
committed an assault on Miss Noble,
two weeks ago, was taken from prison
by a band of masked men and hanged.
A report came from Winnipeg the
other day which says that . southern
Manitoba was visited by a terrific hail
torm, doing great damage to crops.
A little Indian war is reported from
Glenwood Spring, CoL, in which the
sheriff undertook to arrest some criminal
bucks for horse stealing, and Colorow,
the head leader of the gang who refused
to give up the bucks, commenced firing
on the sheriff's posse. The firing was re
turned killing one buck. That is the
way the war commenced, and now Ad
jutant General West has issued an order
for all infantry, cavalry and artillery
companies to get ready to move at a mo
ments notice. Gen. West left imme
diately for Glenwood Spring, the scene
of the trouble.
The citizens of Janesville, Minn.,
were in an uproar of excitement the other
day over the elopement of tho Rev. D.
Seymour, pastor of the Methodist
church, and Mrs. Fanny J. Henry, wife
of J. A. Henry, editor of the Argus.
Both were prominent in society and re
ligious matters. Seymour was regarded
the ablest preacher ever in Janesville.
Mrs. Henry has been for years the or
ganist and a leading member of the
church.
Patents granted to citizens of Ne
braska during the past week and re
ported expressly for the Journal by C.
A. Snow & Co. patent lawyers, opp. U.
S. patent office, Washington, D. C. W.
L. Cook, Omaha, refrigerator car; J. A.
Cumming, Crawford, planting attach
ment; W. H. Cushing, Plattsmouth,
garment-supporting clasp; C. P. Hur
ford, Oakdale, reel bolt
Horrible murders occurred not long
ago near Macon, Ga,, Capt Richard
Woolfalk, a well known farmer, his wife,
four children, and Mrs. West, an aunt
of Mrs. Woolfalk, were found murdered
in the house, having been knocked in
the head and their throats cut Tom
G. Woolfalk, son of Capt Woolfalk by
his first wife, was suspected of the crime
and has been arrested.
Reports from southern Wisconsin
last week say that portions of the Btate
will be reduced to a black desert unless
soon visited by rains. Scores of wells
fed by springs have gone dry, and far
mers in many instances are compelled to
go many miles to the lakes for water for
household purposes. The prospect of
no relief from the drouth is disheart
ning to the people.
Herman Smith, a farmer, living near
Barnwell, Wis., committed suicide the
other day by placing his temple against
the muzzle of his shotgun, and with a
stick prepared for the occasion pushing
against the trigger; in an instant his
brains were scattered against the house.
He leaves a wife and several grown-up
children. No known cause for the hor
rible deed.
A fire broke out the other day in
Pittsburg, Pa, in the basement of Holtz
mayne's upholstery establishment It
spread rapidly to other buildings and
before the flames could be subdued sev
eral of the finest and costliest business
blocks in the city were destroyed. The
aggregate loss of property is placed as
high as $2,000,000.
Harrington Stone, one of the horse
thieves who participated in the killing
of constable De Long near St Joseph,
Mo., it is said proposes to give away the
organized gang of horse thieves, num
bering thirty-five, who have been
operating for the past four years in
northwestern Missouri and southern
Iowa.
John Beall, a boy 13 years old, of
Eaton, Ohio, has made confession to
killing his mother. At the time, he
charged the crime on tramps and
alarmed the neighbors to catch them.
He can give no reason for the horrible
deed except that he waa angry at his
mother for some fancied favoritism
shown by her to his sister.
F. A. S. Perry, of New London, Conn.,
an eccentric person, and. probably in
sane, fired two bullets into T. C. Whitt
lesey, business manager of the Day, in
flicting probably fatal injuries. The
Day had published, with humorous
comments, a disjointed placard which
Perry had posted on his house.
Late advices from Panama, state that
the famine which is raging at Antioquia
is at its height In San Vicente two
children in one family have died of
starvation. $20,000 have been raised in
Madellin, but this is not enough. The
relief committee in Rio Negro has 200
families to support
Way Repablieaas Smile.
Official returns from 115 out of the
119 counties of Kentucky give Buckner
a plurality of 13,852, and a majority of
1,389. The same counties gave Cleve
land a majority of '34,198. O. Republi
can. The noted woman horsethief, Sarah
Wheeler, who has been in jail at Chi
cago, was convicted the other day for
failing to return a livery rig, and sen
tenced to three months imprisonment
John Taylor, the Mormon President
recently deceased, had eight wives and
numerous children.
NEBRASKA NOTES.
David City, had the other day. another
stirring up with wind and hail.
Seward is to have an oat-meal mill to
cost 20,000. A good tiling for a town.
The normal school and business col
lege building, at Fremont, has been sold
for $8,000.
St Edwards was visited by a severe
storm the other day. A man named
Witherspoon8 was killed.
Applicants for teachers' state certifi
cates will be examined at Fremont Aug.
17th, at Aurora Aug. 28th.
Mrs. Julia Shelton is the efficient Su
perintendent of Schools of Cheyenne
county eighty school districts.
The bore for salt at Lincoln iB down
2,200 feet That is strange, when evi
dence of salt water appears on the sur
face. Plaltsmouth's two canneries put up
25,000 cans a day; Grand Island's one
cannery employs 125 hands and puts up
30,000 cans a day.
Carrie Thrasher, to end a life of ill
repute, committed suicide at the Lin
dell Hotel in Lincoln, the other morn
ing, by taking morphine.
Prof. J. A. Smith, an old resident, has
purchased J. A. MacMurphy's interest
in the Wahoo Wasp, and takes posses
sion of the office at once.
L. D. McKnight a young man, hail
ing from Berwyn, Custer county, com
mitted suicide the other morning, at
Harvard, by shooting himself through
the head with apistoL He leaves' a
wife.
At Nebraska City the barn of E. S.
Hawley was struck by lightning, during
a storm, and entirely destroyed. Loss
about $1,000. Ed. Sheldon, while trying
to save property adjoining, was severely
injured by glass.
Stephen King was caught in the act
of stealing a horse from the stable of a
colored man in North Lincoln the other
night. He had been arrested, but at
this report had not had a hearing.
Elmer E. Thompson, a prominent
young ranchmen who wub accidentally
shot by the discharge of his gnn, died
last week at Fullerton. His remains
were taken to Muryville, Mo., for burial.
Hiram Schoonover, of Brownville,
shot and killed his mother-in-law Mrs.
Glass, in his corn patch, the other night,
mistaking her, so he says, for a pole-cat
His case is being examined by legal pro
ceedings. The other day at Falls City, William
Barada made an assault on Peter Dedier
with a hatchet, and inflicted blows and
cuts upon his head from which he died
in a short time. The parties are half
breed Indians.
Hon. S. P. Rounds and wife left Oma
ha the other morning for Denver and
Munitou. They will be absent from the
city several weeks. Mr. Rounds has
been quite unwell for some time, and he
goes for both recreation and health.
Postmaster Thomas Morton, of Ne
braska City, proprietor of the Neieti, the
first paper published in Nebraska, died
on the night o'f the 10th. He had been
afflicted for months with kidney trouble
and had been constantly failing. He
was 62 years old, and came to Nebraska
in 1854.
A cylinder of nitrous oxide gas in the
express office, at Hastings exploded
shattering the glass front of the
office to pieces. The concern was to be
reshipped to a dentist somewhere in the
west The "machine" had been tested
and marked within the safety limit
The Grand Island district camp meet
ing of the M. E. church, under the
direction of Rev. J. W. Shank, presiding
elder, closed its meetings on the 2d inst
Large numbers attended the meetings,
and it is said to be the most successful
camp meeting ever held in that part of
the country.
Rob. Smith had a piece of wheat that
averaged 22 bushels per acre, while we
hear that Frank Hodges had one piece
averaging 24 end two-thirds, machine
measure, or about 27 bushels by weight
While the average yield will be less than
usual, the quality of the grain is said to
be above thut of most years. Fullerton
Telescope.
Governor Adams, of Colorado, has re
plied to the communication of Governor
Thayer, and says that he has no power
to interfere with the draining of the
South Platte river in Nebraska by citi
zens of Colorado. He claims that they
are acting under state law, and relief, if
any, must come from the legislature.
Washington Letter.
From our regular correspondent.
If the democratic party is responsible
for anything it certainly is for the gov
ernment of the District of Columbia and
the city of Washington both being al
most under the direct control of Mr.
Cleveland himself; yet, this is the only
place in the United States where the
people have boldly met in public, de
nounced these rulers as corrupt and in
efficient and demand their resignation
or removal at the hands of the president
as tho penalty for their misgovernment
The city and District are governed by
three commissioners, who were appoint
ed by President Cleveland; and ever
since their advent to power, affairs have
gone from bad to worse; one of the com
missioners has bought a $500 horse and
other personal property at public ex
pense; but, what has given greatest dis
satisfastion is the advance in waterrates
and the discovery that the water ac
counts are in a confused condition,
giving rise to the conviction that there
is crookedness in that department Then
the commissioners have promulgated
new and unnecessary city ordinances,
the enforcement of which is incon
venient and vexatious to the citizens,
besides, being burdensome to the poor
er class of people. The charges against
the commissioners are before the presi
dent and his action is awaited with
much interest.
The scales are beginning to fall from
the wondering eyes of the civil-service
reformer, and many of these goodly men
now sadly realize that they have been
misguided into believing that the mere
shadow of reform was its substance.
Geo. Wm. Curtis, the Grand Mogul of
the Mugwumps, for a moment shakes off
the gloom and grief that enshrouds him,
to confess his disappointment at the un
toward result of his experience with
Naat's "democratic tiger," yet, like the
true devotee that he is, he still clings to
Cleveland, his fallen idol, with the con
soling reflection that it might have been
worse! Mr. Curtis finds that the civil
service act applies to about 14,000 of the
115,000 Federal offices; that there are
some 58,000 leading offices, with patron
age to dispense, and in the twenty-nine
months of Cleveland's administration he
has appointed 48,000 democrats in these
places a record that tells its own story.
Mr. Kepler, the gifted artist of "Puck"
has been in Washington this week, it is
said with the avowed object of straiten
ing out the kinks in "reform'' and cap
turing the scalp of the offending Big
gins, but, I fear he has met with little
encouragement
The bond circular of Secretary Fair
child, while harmeless of -itself, may be
regarded as a storm signal by the finan
cial world chargable to the unsound
fiscal policy of the democracy in im
potently permitting the vast accumula
tion of the treasury surplus. In consid
ering Mr. Fairchild's action, and the
reasons he gives therefor, I can but con
clude that the young secretary is a guile
less financier who has yet to cut his eye
teeth. The Treasury Department reports for
July a decrease of $6,663,748 in cash on
hand, and an increase of $4,047,133 in
the circulation the former being chief
ly in gold certificates; there was a de
crease in the circulation of national
banknotes.
Another treasury scandal is in the air
something like the Harvey affair
though efforts are being made by Con
troller Durham, who denies it To state
the mafctatf briefly, it appears that
through the igaoraace or negligence of
the' treasury naVialfija big batch of Cali
fornia land surteyinjf accounts that were
paid many yean ago' have been worked
over and paid again. When interviewed
upon the frauda,-Commissioner Sparks
was decidedly non-comnuiai anu ms
manner was such as to impress one with
the truthfulness of the charge. Full de
tails cannot now be given. It is no se
cret that the Controller and Commis
sioner have long been at logger-heads
officially; '
Bacon's bondsmen have notified the
goveminent that they are ready to make
good his alleged shortage as soon as the
amount is certified to officially. About
twenty patent attorneys of the Dis
trict of Columbia who borrowed $5,000
from the late financial clerk and failed
to repay it, have been duly warned that
unless they refund the sum at once it
will be deemed a sufficient reason to de
bar them from further practice before
the Interior department
There was a scion and a few springs
of royalty all the way from Siam in the
Capital a few days since; they were for
mally received by the president, with
the usual interchange of commonplace
countries incident to such an occasion.
The Prince, whose name I dare not
write, for fear of the possible injury it
might inflict upon the jaws of my read
ers, was favorably impressed and pro
nounced Washington a more beautiful
city than his own Capital; he took among
his soveneirs some of the photographs
of Mrs. Cleveland and chips from the
Washington monument R.
The new Haaores Book, ''Samaatha at Sar
atoga," by JMiah Allen' Wife.
One of the most prominent personagos
of the literary world just now is Miss
Marietta Holley, popularly known as
Samantha Allen, or Josiah Allen's wife.
She became a favorite very early in her
literary career, and each new issue from
her pen has added to her fame, until, for
her latest work, "Samantha at Saratoga,"
Messrs. Hubbard Brothers paid her a
princely sum, and the book is decidedly
a hit It will doubtless outsell all her
previous issues, as it unquestionably
outshines them all in the fascinating
vein of humor in which Miss Holley is
so happy and so rich.
Preparing for this work, Miss Holley
went to Saratoga and spent an entire
season, with eyes and ears open, and
with brain and pencil vigorously at
work. She went in her famous assumed
role of Josiah Allen's wife, her imaginary
Josiah at her side, with his characteris
tic blunders, faux pas, and quick, boy
like enthusiasm. As Samantha Allen,
Miss Holley is observant, unsophistica
ted, outspoken, and sound to the core on
every question of propriety. Such a
couple in the whirl of Saratoga would
certainly develop many remarkable
situations and utter many funny com
ments. It is here the humor of the book
arises. Plain, back-country, village life,
and gay, artificial Saratoga life are so
wide apart, that each side becomes
ludicrous to the other. These ludicrous,
laugh-provoking contrasts are the dom
inant features of Miss Holley's book.
To these mirth-making presentations
of the author the artist's pencil has
added a rich entertainment . Over a
hundred drawings have been made es
pecially to illustrate the text by Freder
ick Opper, the leading artist of Puck.
Burt Wilder, too, has done a share in
embellishing this attractive book. These
artists make their pictures talk, and be
tween the text and the talk of the pic
tures the reader looks and laughs and
laughs and looks again. Altogether,
the book is a rare product, and its pur
chasers will not be disappointed. Pub
lished by Hubbard Brothers, Philadel
phia. Citizens of West Point are making
efforts to establish a twine factory.
DraakennfM or the Liquor Habit Positively
Cared by Adalninterlng Dr. Haines'
Golden Speelie.
It can be given in a cup of coffee or
tea without the knowledge of the person
taking it; is absolutely harmless and
will effect a permanent and speedy cure,
whether the patient is a moderate drink
er or an alcoholic wreck. Thousands of
drunkards have been made temperate
men who have taken Golden Specific in
their coffee without their knowledgeand
today believe they quit drinking of their
own free will IT NEVER FAILS. The
system once impregnated with the
Specific it becomes an utter impossibil
ity for the liquor appetite to exist For
full particulars, address GOLDEN
SPECIFIC CO., 185 RACE STREET,
CINCINNATI, O. janl2-87y
Two strong men, were killed by light
ning, the other evening near Sheldon.
To CoMunintivea,
or those with weak lungs, spitting of
blood, bronchitis, or kindred affections
of the throat or lungs, send 10 cents in
stamps for Dr. R V. Pierce's treatise on
these maladies. Address the doctor,
Buffalo, N. Y.
The Burlington and Missouri railroad
is strongly hoped for at Fullerton.
A Certain Care for Catarrh.
TaiMBK, Tenn, Feb., 28, 1887.
Gentlemen For seven years I have
had catarrh. Three years of that time
I was unable to work. Unfortunately,
early in my affliction my breath became
very offensive. For seven years I could
smell nothing, and had no taste. How
offensive my breath was all those seven
years I need not tell. What were my
sufferings of mind at not being able to
taste or smell anything, can be easily
imagined. I was treated by physicians
all during that time, and I tried numer
ous medicines advertised. I bought
one course of treatment I saw advertis
ed for $16 that was not worth five cents.
Last spring a year ago a pamphlet from
the Swift Specific Company came under
my notice, and I determined to try the
Specific. Fourteen small bottles com
pletely cured me that spring and sum
mer. Worked in the crop for the first
time in four years, and I have been
working right along since without hav
ing the slightest return of catarrh. The
wonderful cure of me has been the
means of bringing 8. 8. S. to the success
ful notice of many neighbors. I regard
it as a wonderful blood purifier, and a
certain cure for catarrh when given a
fair trial. Yours truly,
Sam. A. Coles.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free.
The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, At
lanta, Ga.
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Money to loan on improved farms In this and adjoining
counties, at current rates. We are prepared to close loans
promptly, in all cases where title and security are satisfactory.
Office up-stairs in Henry Building, corner of Olive and
Eleventh streets. jaiyw-wtr
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or on live or ten jeora time, in annual iuj merits to
lot of other lands, improved and unimproved. Tor
business and residence lots in the city. We keep
Platte County.
COLUMBUS.
W. T. RICKLY& BRO.
Wholesale and
Ereslx i Sa.lt IMIeats.
Gave, Penltry, and Fresh Fish. All Kinds of Sausage a Specialty.
t"Cash paid for Hides, Pelts, Tallow.
Olive Street, second door
Heat Itadiator.
"In peace prepare for war;" in entnmer, pre
pare for winter, and among your preparations
don't forget that if you can save one-third to
one-half on your expanse for fnel, by an np-
Bliance of little cost, it will iy you to take a
ttle troable to provide yourself with one.
Vrancis Marak. ;r of Everest, Kan., the in
ventor of the appliance referred to, is here dis
poning of territory, and has made some sales of
coantiea.
The appliance is an ordinary drnm except that
it is divided into apartments running the length
of the dram; one of these iB virtually a contin
uation of the pipe, when the damper is not
turned, and makes a direct draft when desired
for starting a fire; when the- damper is turned,
the partitions are so arranged that the heated air
and smoke go alternately upward and down
ward through all the apartments (usually fire in
number, owing to the relative size of pipe and
drnm) and finally up the chimney. Tho princi
ple is precisely the same as that of the famous
Wannnnite hmtinir furnaces, and aonlied to cook
or heating stoves, utilizes a great deal more of
the heat evoivea rrom me iuei man is uone ny
the ordinary drum. The pictures of progress
are these:
A fire, on the ground, under the open canopy
of heaven; two posts, a cross stick and the pot
of victuals hanging over the fire.
Second, the same, only a rude wall around, and
a cone-shaped roof, with a hole in the middle
for the smoke to curl out at.
Third, the open grate, in the open fire-place, a
great portion of the heat escaping up the chim
ney into the outer air.
Fourth, the stove.
Fifth, the stove and drum, increasing the
amount ofsurface heated by the same fuel.
Sixth, the greatly improved drum, or Hadia
TOB, with a more Intense and therefore more
penetrating heat from the same amount of fuel;
forming a reservoir for heat except us it escapes
through the metallic enclosure, and what little
get oat through the chimney.
Abundant certificates can Iks given from those
who have used the IUuiatob that it does all
that is claimed -for it, but tho following are suf
ficient: IlLCr. HlLLR. NCBK., )
March 21. 1S7. J
I have tested the qualities of the Marak Radia
tor, and it gave satisfaction in every particular
he claims for it. Da. A. J. Kodokrs.
Columbus, Nkbr..
Jnnel.H7.j
on but cook stove and found it to do all that he
yiaima It caobed the kettle to boil and the
.- .. l.ut .n?jlr with finM-lijtlf th fnal urn
had been using without the Radiator. We got
DIBjgXggl W1U1 lCDIUCUU",Uiu uj7 uivu woo
hot eaoogfcrto bake biscuits.
tfuaa ju. oiuwiw.1.
AND DEALERS IN-
GARLAND
STOVES AND
RANGES
always fok sale at
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HEHR7 IUC-AT2 a CO.,
Have a Fine Lino of Staple and Fancy
GROCERIES,
Crockery and Glassware,
Which were bought cheap for cash, and will be wild
at very low prices.
Street, Columbus. Nebraska.
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for salo at from 3.&0 to $10.00 pr acra for cafh
ruit purchasers. We have also a large and choiot
sale at low price and on reasonahje terms. Also
a complete altctrnctof titlo to all real eatatu u
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north of First National Bank
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TIE LARGEST ill FIIEST STICK
west of Omaha, at
GREISEN BROS.
Tho lest manufactories of the country
represented. Not to bo undersold
by anybody. Como and see
prices at
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