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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEK M. 1887.
Republican Stati Ticket.
Fr 'ftfiB&SSESTZSl Dodge.
For Kegente of the State University,
B. B. DAVIS, of Bed Willow.
GEOBGE KOBKRTS. of Knox.
RepaMicam Jmdlciml Ticket.
For Judges Fourth Judicial District,
A. M. POST. ,
WM. MAKSHALL.
RepaUicam Commty Ticket.
For Treasurer,
GUS.G.BECHEB.
For Clerk,
HENRY RICKEBT.
For Sheriff,
to. C. BLOEDORN.
For Clerk of the District Court,
J.ILBACR1DER.
For County Judge.
H.J. HUDSON.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction,
Ii. J. CRAMER.
FrSarVeyGrEORGES TRUMAN.
ForCorone
Elect competent men to office.
The immense paper mills at Middle
town, O., are reported burned.
The latest account from Tampa, Fla.,
reports fourteen cases of fever, and three
deaths.
Vote for Beecher for county treasurer.
He is honest, capable every way, and
entirely safe.
Faibbain, a stock broker of London,
has absconded. His liabilities amount
to about 80,000.
A vote for Sacrider for clerk of the
court will be a vote for a good man, who
will make an efficient clerk.
Last week news from the Crow agency
Montana, reports that quiet reigns; but
no arrests have been made.
It is officially announced in London
that the Niger districts, western Africa,
are under British protection.
Nebraska zephyrs should prevent no
republican in Platte county from deposit
ing his vote in the ballot-box.
Disagreeable duties are often de
layed, but where they concern the pub
lic welfare, they are performed, soon or
later.
The Irish privy council will meet in Dub
lin this week for the purpose of adopting
measures for the total suppression of
the National league.
The C. J. Baird & Co. bank at St
Charles, HI., was robbed of $10,000 the
other night. The safe was blown to
pioces with dynamite.
Bct a short time remains for republi
cans to close up their election work.
See that you leave no room for regrets
about it after the polls close.
Mrs. James A. Garfield and her
daughter Mollie, who were passengers on
the steamer Arizona from New York,
have arrived safe at Liverpool.
Vote for Cramer for superintendent
of public instruction. He holds a teach
or's state certificate and is well qualified
in every respect for the position.
The report last week relative to yel
low fever at Tampa, Fla., says: "Four
deaths and five new cases since last re
ports. Several cases in Ybor City."
Rev. J. H. Vickess, of Liberty, Tenn.,
brutally beat his daughter the other day.
Sho was found in the woods unconscious
with her skull fractured. She will die.
Dr. Bat Nance, brother of ex-Gov-Nance
who was recently arrested for
killidg Willis Forney, at Eldorado, Kas.,
has been acquitted on the ground of
self -defense.
Mrs. Jacob Steltzfus and Mrs. Bar
bara Steltzfus, of Lancaster, Pa, while
out riding the other day, were struck by
a Pennsylvania railroad train and in
stantly killed.
Tiros. H. Davis, formerly cashier and
assistant freight agent of the New York
Central railroad, pleaded guilty the
other day to the charge of having stole
$15,000 from the company.
The advisory committee of Plymouth
church has selected the Bev. Lyman
Abbott, editor of the Christian Union,
as temporary pastor. The Bev. Abbott
will take charge next month.
The republican county central com
mittee as well as every republican town
chip committee in Platte county, muBt
not think they have no labor or duties to
perform in the coming election.
Phtt.tp Kuhx, of the Republic at Ish
pening, Mich., whose dead body was
found in the Republic mine. The cir
cumstances indicate that Kuhn was mur
dered. Two men named Boss and Freid
liPghanH last seen with him have been
arrested.
It is always very am using to an old re
publican to hear young chaps in the
faith, trying to get in excuses after the
election for not having performed their
full election duties. Be careful that you
do not have any excuses to render this
. .year.
- " Patents granted to citizens of Ne-
braeka during the past week, and re-
ported expressly for this paper by C. A.
" Snow & Co, patent lawyers, opp. U. S.
. patent office, Washington, D.C.: W.H.
Tibbits, Crab Orchard, car coupling; J.
Dalton, elevator.
Mr. Kavaaaagk.
The Lindsay Sentinel, an organ of the
Kavanaugh clique of democrats, has
something to say to the Journal, and
the Democrat of this place, another or
gan of the Kavanaugh clique,quotes the
Sentinel article, styling it "Weighty
Words of Wisdom." We have space to
notice only one or two features of the
article. First, the assertion that Henry
C. Carrig, if he had been nominated for
treasurer, "would have received the same
scoring that is being so generously ac
corded to D. C. Kavanaugh." This is
not true, because Mr. Carrig is a differ
ent style of man, altogether. The Senti
nel and the Democrat ought to have
shown better judgment than to chal
lenge public scrutiny of Mr. Karn
augh's record as an official. The Jour
nal does not deal in "chaff" of any kind,
has always been slow to make accusa
tions airainst public officers,knowing wel
that in the estimation of the publio they
are more sinned against that Binning,
but to meet this challenge and settle
the matter, outside of assertions by
newspapers, will make the following
PROPOSAL TO KAVANAUOH'S PARTISANS.
If we prove, by the affidavits of truth
ful democrats of Platte county and by
the affidavits of truthful republicans of
Platte county that D. C. Kavanaugh,
while holding the office of sheriff of
Platte county, has, by his conduct, done
that which would be the cause of im
peachment and removal from office, then
Mr. Kavanaugh is to resign the office he
now holds and withdraw his name from
the ticket on which he is running.
Mr. Editor of the Lindsay Sentinel
and Mr. Editor of the Columbus Demo
crat, will you blow this "chaff" off the
barn floor? Shall we proceed with the
affidavits? Will you accept the condi
tions? This will settle the matter with
out the public being required to take
the word of a newspaper organ.
Henry J. Hudson,
Republican nominee for County Judge,
was born in London, Nov. 28, 1822. He
moved to America in 1851, accompanied
by bis wife and three oldest children.
He lived in Illinois until April 1857,
when he removed to Nebraska, where he
has lived ever 6ince, raising a large fam
ily, each one of them an honor to their
parents.
To give even an outline of Mr. Hud
son's public career would more than fill
all the columns of the Journal. In the
early days he was elected representative
from Monroe, Platte, Dodge and Wash
ington counties to the legislature, but
was "whittled" out of the position in a
contest; later along, in 1871-'2, he served
a term in the legislature, and was unani
mously selected by bis fellow-members
as one of the managers for the House in
the impeachment trial of Gov. Butler.
Mr. Hudson has been three times post
master; Justice of the Peace eleven
years consecutively, and afterwards six
years, resigning the position; county
clerk three times; county commissioner,
three terms; as county supervisor, under
township organization, he is now serv
ing his second term, and is chairman
of the board.
For the office of County Judge Mr.
Hudson is peculiarly well qualified a
man of family and experience, ho real
izes the importance of faithfully guard
ing the interests of the widow and the
children in the settlement of estates of
decedents, and he would see to it that
justice be done. For an intelligent dis
charge of the duties of the office, with
great credit to himself and with honor
to the county, no one questions Mr.
Hudson's ability to far exceed his com
petitor. He ought to be elected unani
mously. Dr. F. J. Schup,
The republican nominee for coroner,
was born at Canal Dover, Tuscarawas
county, Ohio, July 15, 1854; in 1856 his
parents removed to Wyandott county,
Ohio, where his father still resides. In
the public schools of Upper Sandusky
the future doctor received such educa
tion as he could derive from them, and
in 1873-4 he attended the Medical Uni
versity of Kentucky and in 1875-6 the
Columbus Medical College at ColumbuB,
Ohio, where he graduated Feb. 29, 76.
Shortly afterwards he took charge of
the office of Dr. R. N. McConnell, one of
the principal surgeons of northern Ohio,
while the doctor was absent in Europe.
After spending quite a while traveling in
Europe taking advantage of every op
portunity offered to more thoroughly
equip himself for his life work, the Dr.
returned to America, and in the spring
of 1880 (having been here the previous
fall) located in this city where he has
been ever since, most of the time in part
nership with Dr. Martyn. Dr. Schug
has been surgeon (ranking as major) of
the 1st Regiment Neb. Natl Guards ever
since its organization; also for a num
ber of years secretary of U. S. Pension
Examiners' board. He is a gentleman in
every respect, as his conduct here has
shown; as a physician and surgeon he
is most thoroughly capable, attentive
and efficient and this would be, as it has
been, his record as coroner.
Xartlm C. Bloedorn,
The republican nominee for sheriff, was
born in Wisconsin, May 27th, 1857, and
came to Nebraska in 1869. Since the
age of eleven, therefore, Martin has been
a resident of Platte county.
By trade, Mr. Bloedorn is a black
smith and machinist. In 1880 he went
into business in Humphrey, in the
blacksmith and implement business, in
which he is now engaged.
Mr. Bloedorn is a well-behaved, in
telligent gentleman, as kind-hearted as
can be, but one who, knowing his duty,
would perform it, which is a quality in
executive officers that is of untold value
to communities. Those who by nature,
by inclination or by association go to
the "bad," are apt to avoid the city or
the county that is watched over by a
vigilant official, and thus many a dollar
uselessly expended in the prosecution of
criminals is saved to the tax-payer.
Prevention is always better than cure,
and a sheriff, ever ready to do his duty,
will save Platte county more than his
wages every year.
As much as possible the voter should
be personally acquainted with the man
he helps place in power, and we advise
all who have the opportunity to make
the acquaintance of Mr. Bloedorn.
Lewis J. Cramer,
Republican nominee for Superintendent
of Public Instruction, was born at Tiffin,
Seneca county, Ohio, Dec 7, 1847. In
his youth he attended school, and did
such work as boys brought uptm a farm
are required to do.
Mr. Cramer has a diploma from Hei
delburg College in bis native city, and
holds a Nebraska State Teacher's Cer
tificate for life.
His present position as head of the
public schools of this city he has held
for the past eleven years, an unusual, we
may well say, remarkable "tenure of
office," from numerous school boards.
He is well acquainted with the people
of the county, thoroughly so with the
teachers, and with the needs of the public
school system of Platte county.
Every man, woman and child interest
ed in the welfare of the schools should
make an effort to have voters east their
ballots for L. J. Cramer.
There iB a growing tendency by the
people to regard school and judicial
matters as a little aside from politics
generally. If this feeling is allowed to
prevail, Mr. Cramer will receive a unani
mous vote.
Henry Rickert,
The republican nominee for County
Clerk, was born in Oldenburg, Germany,
in 1850. In 1858 he came to Nebraska
with his parents, his father pre-empting
160 where Henry now lives. In 1865,
when Henry was fifteen years of age, his
father died his mother is still living
with her son and only child. Mr. Rick
ert now owns 400 good acres of land in
Shell Creek valley, and is a man highly
esteemed by his neighbors and his ac
quaintances generally. In Bismark
township, where he resides, he has held
the office of justice of the peace, clerk,
school director and treasurer, and has
always shown ability, honesty and faith
fulness in the discharge of duty. When
Mr. Rickert was a lad of fourteen he met
with an accident that permanently bent
his spine, but does not prevent his do
ing a man's full work.
We can assure our readers that Mr.
Rickert is, in every way, worthy the
office for which he is nominated.
John H. Sacrider,
Tho republican nominee for Clerk of the
District Court, was born in Duchess
county, New York, March 3d, 1839.
At the age of twelve he became a resi
dent of Illinois, living first for a short
time in La Salle county, afterwards in
Henry county. He passed his youth
partly on a farm, at school and as a clerk
in a store.
In 1862, he joined Company D of the
56th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers,
and served his country as a soldier,
faithfully and well, until March 28, 1865.
In 1871, sixteen years ago, Mr. Sac
rider came to Platte county, taking a
homestead under, the government his
valor helped to save, the hundred and
sixty acres in Monroe township that has
since been his home.
Mr. Sacrider is a man of good judg
ment, a scholarly, well-informed man
and an excellent penman. He will fill
the office of Clerk of the District Court
with honor to himself and the county.
Gas. G. Becher.
The candidate for county treasurer,
was born at Pilsen, Austria, in 1845. In
1848, his father emigrated to St Louis,
Mo., at which place, in the Christian
Brothers Academy, Gus. received a con
siderable portion of his education. In
1857, Mr. Becher's father removed to
this city, Gus. following in 1859, in the
meantime going to school. For eight
years thereafter he was clerk in the
hardware store of Hurford & Bro. at
Omaha, where he made many friends.
After that he came to Columbus, and
for tho succeeding four years was en
gaged in the United States service,
under Major Frank North, with the
Pawnee Scouts. In 71, he served as en
rolling clerk in the senate. After his
return he started in his present busi
ness, in which he takes great pride, and
in which he has been fairly successful,
enjoying the confidence, and winning
tho good will of every man with whom
he does business. The county's money
and the county treasurer's duties will
be safe in his hands.
A Very Thin Argument.
It seems to be a fact that a democratic
saloon keeper offered to bet that Kav
anaugh would be Platte county's next
treasurer, whereupon an ardent repub
lican who happens also to be a stock
holder in one of our banks, bluffed him
off. On this exceedingly thin founda
tion the Democrat comes out with a
scare head "The Banks for Becher."
According to this new system of logic,
if a republican saloon keeper should
offer to bet that Becher would be our
next treasurer and an ardent democrat
who happened to be a stockholder of a
bank in the city would bluff him down
by putting up $100 on Kavanaugh, then
of course, according to the improved
Bystem of logic, not only that one bank
but all the banks in the city forsooth
and in the county would be for Kav
anaugh. Fine logic! Wonderful intel
lect. The infants had better go to
school to Whately for a while.
Campaign Lies.
Republicans, it is already apparent
that the current campaign in this county
is to be one of unusual activity on the
part of our political enemies, and it
does seem as though nothing will be so
low that some of them will not resort to
it. We shalLkeep this paragraph stand
ing during the campaign to be added to,
as the campaign proceeds. ATat7 these
lies to the counter.
That Becher will foreclose all the
mortgages he has taken as loan agent,
in case he iB not elected treasurer.
That Henry Carrig will be Kavanaugh's
deputy, if K. is elected.
That Bloedorn is a sot.
No more competent man than Wm.
O'Brien could have been named for the
office of county judge. Columbus Dem
ocrat, Oct. 14, 1887. D. Frank Davis,
editor.
The Kavanamgh Ticket.
In this day and time of stuffed cau
cuses and packed conventions and cor
rupt party dictators it is time for all
honest journals to say "No man can
serve two masters." They should choose
between the people and party manipu
tors. The Argus has made its choice
and bo have the other democratic pa
pers of the county. They have then
idea of democratic doctrine and we have
ours. We believe the late democratic
convention of this county showed about
as little respect for the fitness of men
for the offices as it could. We are asham
ed and greatly mortified that it is possi
ble for the democratic party of Platte
county to be used as a tool. Platte Cen
ter Argus. '
Jas. Burrows in a communication to
the Argus replies to some anonymous
fellow who had something to say about
"running around, driving up the Po
landers, who don't know a finger from
a thumb;" this, with reference to the se
lection of delegates to the democratic
convention; Mr. Burrows aBks the un
known correspondent for "the names of
the men who were rounding up the Po
landers ready to be branded." Of course
men will have their little disputes about
how things were done. Absolute moral
perfection is not expected in a political
campaign, and nobody is very much sur
prised to know of deflections, greater or
less, from the straight line, but the time
is pretty close at hand when neither Po
landers or any others "can be rounded
up to be branded," or be "driven like fat
hogs."
The great statue of Abraham Lincoln
was unveiled at Chicago, in Lincoln
park, on the afternoon of the 22d, in the
presence of a largo assembly. At 3
o'clock the firing of cannon startled tho
crowd, and as the echoes died away over
the waters of Lake Michigan, little
"Abe" Lincoln, son of Robort Lincoln,
stepped up to the base of the flag-covered
bronze figuro of his grandfather and
pulled the rope which held the covering.
The folds slowly unloosed and dropped
at the base, and the tall, erect figure of
Abraham Lincoln shono brightly in the
sun. A shout went up from tho 5,000
people assombled, which was responded
to a moment later by a renewed roar of
cannon. Tho oration was delivered by
Hon. Leonard Sweet.
The annual report of Gov. West of
Utah estimates the population at nearly
200,000, and the assessed taxable valua
tion of property at 35,865,865. Com
mercial affairs are in a prosperous con
dition; agricultural products abundant
and of excellent grade; the stock inter
est flourishing, and the mining outlook
promising. It is probable that the
question of Utah as a political factor
in national affairs will be considered in
connection with her application for ad
mission; but neither great political par
ties, so far as the past history of this
people is concerned, can lay claim with
any degree of certainty to their sup
port. The so-called "chaff on the barn floor"
has been spit at by the Democrat but
not, by any means, blown away. We
still leave our challenge to be accepted
or rejected, and if Kavanaugh or his
organs think there is no hereafter, either
very near or a little more remote, they
will find themselves mistaken, as they
never have been before. Voters who;
heretofore, were seemingly ignorant of
anything wrong, are beginning to find
out; we candidly and cheerfully say to
all honest, well-meaning men, don't take
as conclusive what any one man tells
you, but find out for yourself just what
the facts are. Our challenge, which is
perfectly fair and honorable in every
particular, still remains for acceptance
or rejection.
The judicial convention at Schuyler
last Monday evening nominated Judges
Post and Marshall. Two very good se
lections. Judge Post has grown in fa
vor every day since he went on tho
bench and is the peer of any district
judge in the state. The people will not
be apt to let him go for any judicial ex
periment. Judge Marshall, although
but recently placed on the bench by ap
pointment, has already shown himself
capable of administering law and justice
impartially. He'll do to tie to. Post
and Marshall heve carried this district
before, and ought to this year. C. C.
NonjHireil.
The Schemer must do Their own Work.
The Argus is not a campaign paper
and will only support the democratic J
nominees as long as it can find them
within the pale of fitness and merit.
Such men can bo found all along the
party line and if tho party manipula
tors undertake to make the democratic
party a tool with which to gain personal
benefits, irrespective of the duties the
party owes tho people, then they must
work their schemes without the aid of
the Argus. Platte Center Argus.
F.ulxincation or Darkness Necessary to Their
Election.
We know it is rather grating on the
ears of the old tiiuo party fixers to hear
a paper give an honest expression of its
views on party matters. But somehow,
tho Argus has gotten into the habit of
telling tho truth, and if it hurts tho
democratic nominees all we have to say
is that we are sorry. They have been
placed where falsification or darkness is
essential to their election. Platte Cen
ter Argus Democratic.)
"Buffalo BiLL".and the "Wild West"
crowd have their own sport nnd enjoy
ment. The Grand Duke Michael visited
them a short time ago in London, and
thought he would show them how a
Russian could shoot. After making
what he considered a good score, he
challenged the marksman of the plains
to beat it; but they scornfully turned
the job over to a "squaw," Miss Annie
Oakley, the California girl, who beat hie
royal nibs so badly that he quit abash
ed. "D. C. Kavanacqh will be our next county
treasurer in spite of the few disgruntled dem
ocrats who would have him slaughtered."
Lindsay Sentinel.
The Kavanaugh ticket is losing
ground every day some of the candi
dates more than others, it is true, but
all of them are losing ground. That a
change is needed is a general impres
sion, but that it should be from one
office into another is not the kind of
change demanded. "A new set of fur
niture in the Court House" was the
brief but pointed saying of an honest
farmer of Monroe.
Of all the attempts at argument, wit,
sarcasm or satire, those of the ex-republican
from Colfax county and his repub
lican assistant on the Democrat of this
place are the flimsiest and the weakest.
The Democratic fathers should put the
twin infants into a cradle, and rock them
to sleep to the tune of, "Bye, baby, bye
love." After the campaign is over (if it
shall so happen that it will be over
even after election,) they may be made
useful or ornamental in some shape.
EX-POSTMASTER GENERAL HaTTON, is
about to start the publication of a one
cent morning paper in New York city,
of strong republican tendencies. It is
also reported that Mayor M. P. Handy,
of the Philadelphia News, will be Mr.
Hatton'a principal associate.
A fire broke out the other afternoon
in
the eastern part of Cincinnati. A
strong gale was blowing at the time
from the river to the hills and the
houses hi that direction which made the
scene a fearful one. Every fire depart
ment in the city was called out. About
twenty dwellings and tenements were
destroyed, besides a saw-mill and much
lumber. The losses of .property, it iB
believed, will aggregate at least $150,000.
We regret to say that we do not re
member the exchange from which the
following seutiments were clipped: "The
officers are the government. Bad men
in office means corrupt government for
tho people. Any citizen who will aid or
sit quietly down and allow the govern
ment under which ho lives to be in
jured, should have his attention called
to the error of his way."
The Fremont Herald (dem.) published
at Fremont, the homo of Judge Maxwell,
tho republican nominee for supreme
judge, throws out the following sly hint
with regard to O'Day's candidacy: "The
nomination of O'Day for supreme judge
isn't exactly taking like wild fire through
out tho state, nnd it is feared Maxwell
may manage to squaezo through!" Ugh!
The following from the Lincoln Dem
ocrat, shows the kind of "endorsement"
O'Day is receiving from his own peoplo
forjudge of tho supremo court: "Asa
candidate for judge, O'Day will simply
help Maxwell to run ahead of his tick
et." Democrats all around are begin
ning to think the republicans have all
fired good tickets in tho field this fall.
The Lindsay Sentinel speaks of the
opposition to Kavanaugh and his ticket
as "a handful of kickers," and says they
will accomplish nothing. If there is
only a "handful," why mention thorn at
all, and if they "will accomplish noth
ing," why concern yourself so anxiously
about them. Tho two things don't hang
together.
Enough Said.
D. 11. Carrig in Platte Center Argus:
"I hod by tho isHue of the Democrat of Oct. 14,
wherein it statea that I am a supporter of Kav
nnnugh for treasurer. I sever promised Mr.
Knvannunh Unit I would support him, nor never
uuidtt such statement to tho Columbus Democrat.
I think tho editor of that paper took it on him
self to make mich statement."
Tom O'Day, of Antelope county, is the
democratic nominee for Judge of the
Supreme Court. What a comparison
between him nnd Judge Maxwell, the
republican nominee. The north is no
farther from the south than is the latter
above tho former in ability. Albion
Neics.
A vert sovere rain and wind Btorm
prevailed at New Orleans one night last
week, tho wind reaching a velocity of
forty-eight miles an hour. Trees, fences
and buildings were blown down. A
great deal of tho sugar cano has been
blown flat.
Phillip Amofle, an aged farmer liv
ing near Punxpatwanie, Pa., was visited
tho other night by four masked men,
who beat him and his wife almost in
sensible, tied them to a bed, and then
robbed the house of $700 and some
jewelry.
From Dublin we learn that three ten
ants on the estate of Lord Canricate,
have been evicted. Patrick Campbell
resisted the officers, and while thus en
gaged,his daughter Margaret was struck
on the head and seriously injured. Eight
women and two men were arrested.
A fearful epidemic of typhoid fever
is reported raging at Iron Monntain,
Mich. Over 100 people are down with
tho disease and from one to seven
funerals occur daily. Tho local physi
cians are ill and exhausted and medical
aid has been summoned from Chicago.
A report from San Francisco last
week gives additional details of the dis
astrous fire at Hankow, received per
steamship Rio De Janero, which gives
the number of lives lost at 1,000 and the
value of property destroyed at 2,000,000
teals.
Secretary Faikchild has approved
the recommendation of Collector Ma
gono for tho removal of twenty $1,400
clerks in the New York custom house.
It is said these clerks have failed in two
separate civil service examinations for
promotion.
The news from Berlin states that for
tho past few days persons sleeping in the
open air at Carlaruhe, Crefield and else
where, have been frozen to death. The
severe weather which haB prevailed is
nnprecedent at this season of the year.
Mrs. Andrew Letts, a woman living
near Lathrop, Mo., gave birth to twins
the other day, the combined weight of
which was three pounds. ijotn are
lively as crickets and will doubtless live.
They occupy cigar boxes for cradles.
At London severe snow storms were
reported throughout Italy last week,
greatly injuring crops and animals.
The storm was accompanied by a hur
ricane in some parts, unroofing a num
ber of houses.
A report came from Buffalo, N. Y.,
ono morning last week that the Kent
and Lake View hotels, with a number of
cottages at Lake View, near Jamestown,
were burned. The total loss will reach
$125,000.
Michael Mires, an employe at the
Brier hill furnaces, Youngstown, Ohio,
while at the top of the furnace making
some repairs was stupefied by a puff of
gas, fell into tho furnace and was cre
mated. Jesse L. Hall, Indian agent of the
Kiowa and Comanche Indians in In
dian Territory was recently an embez
zler to the extent of $30,000. These ras
cals must soon vamoose the government
ranch.
NEBRASKA NOTES.
Mr. L. H. Bradley, of Omaha, has been
admitted to practice law.
George Young, employed in Renney
& Lumbard's planing mills at Fremont,
the other afternoon amputated two of
his fingers in the jointing machine.
Governor Thayer has appointed Elijah
Filley of Gage county and J. W. Dolan
of Indianola as delegates to represent
Nebraska at the national convention of
cattle growers, at Kansas City, Oct. 31
and Nov. 1.
Jesse Mortimer, a sick patient sent
from Fremont to Omaha, the other
evening, died at Omaha the next morn-'
ing. Nothing is known of the man or
i his relatives, except the fact that he is
an Englishman and about 55 years old.
The report was sent out last Friday
from Lincoln that the Supreme Court
had decided the present registration law
of this state unconstitutional. The
news was creating a considerable ex
citement among politicians at Omaha
and Lincoln.
R. Morrison, one of Phelps county's
most respected citizens, was killed the
other evening by a freight train on the
B.4M. Cheyenne branch, while walking
on the track struck by a train running
without a headlight on the engine. He
lived but a short time after being struck.
Quite a fire at the village of Waverly
one morning last week. They received
some help from Lincoln, but before they
got the fire subdued five dwelling houses,
three stores, a butcher shop and a black
smith shop were consumed. The loss
will be about 915,000.
The death of John C. Seeley, at Scrib
ner, was reported last week. Mr. Seeley
has been prominent in the affairs of that
section for many years, representing that
district in the legislature in 1875, and
has served two years as county commis
sioner of Dodgo county.
In the third judicial district the re
publican convention held at Omaha last
week nominated for Judges of tho Dis
trict Court O. H. Ballou, Douglas
county, 'Lee S. Estelle, of Douglas
county, M. R Hopewell, Burt county
and A. U. Hancock, Sarpy county.
Charles Walters, a baker employed at
George F. Wolz's bakery at Fremont for
several months, was missing for several
days last week. After returning from
the excursion to Omaha, and arranging
his business for the noxt day, he has
mysteriously disappeared, is unaccount
able, as he was a man of good habits.
His wifo and child are much alarmed,
and hope he will soon make his ap
pearance. One afternoon last week at Platts
raouth a terrific explosion occurred in
the paint shop of the Burlington & Mis
souri river railroad, by the bursting of
the hot water tank. The tank burst at
the top, blowing a hole through the
ceiling and lifting up a corner of the
roof about twenty feet square. Nearly
all the windows in the building were
blown out. Several of the shop hands
were injured but none of them killed.
The other morning a terrible collision
of two freight trains occurred on the
Burlington & Missouri River road, three
miles from Lincoln. Israel Davenport,
brakeman on the outgoing train, was
caught between the engine and cars and
so terribly injured that he died in a
short time. The engines were wrecked,
and fifteen cars, loaded with freight,
burned to the ground. The blame is
attached to the conductor of the out
going train.
W. A. Stow, attorney at law from
Omaha, who was stricken with paralysis
at Lincoln Tuesday of last week, died
Thursday evening at fifty minutes past
6 o'clock. From the time he fell on the
sidewalk, going to his hotel, until death
came, he remained in an unconscious
condition. He is said to have been a
close student, a very hard worker and a
faithful advocate, and had Just been
nominated by tho democratic party at
Omaha for district judge.
Washington Letter.
From our regular correspondent.
If the reader will reflect for one mo
ment I know he will endorse my con
clusion that this administration is one
of the huge shams of the age. It came
into power with flying banners inscribed
all over with the word "reform" and with
promises as thick as the forest leaves, of
benefits that should follow the "turning
out of the rascals." The same vote that
elected Cleveland President gave him
forty-three majority in the House of
Congress. Now behold the result Near
ly three-fourths of the administrative
term has expired, and not a single meas
ure of national importance has been
passed. Mention if you can what has
benefited the people outside of the reg
utar routine, or marked this administra
tion with any characteristic feature.
It can not be done. The whole admin
istration of Cleveland thus far has been
purely negative. All promises of "re
form" were long since forgotten. The
great ambition seems to be flutter for a
while in the public gaze, and then this
administration will pass down and out
as one of the most unmitigated failures
on record.
Congress will be urged this winter to
pass some measure looking to the cor
rection of the present system of heating
railroad care. It undoubtedly has the
power to legislate upon this subject,
and the experience especially for the
past year has fully demonstrated that
tho stove must go, and some other means
of heating be devised that will insure
greater safety to the traveling public.
A strong effort will be made by the
District democracy, aided by varidhs
state clubs organized here, to have the
next democratic national convention
held in this city. Several meetings
have already been held, and considera
ble correspondence had in relation to
the matter, and the leaders in the move
ment claim that there is a fair show of
success. Washington is getting to be
the central point of numerous large an
nual gatherings, and the number is con
stantly increasing. The project to build
an immense hall, with seating capacity
for 8,000, with all modern conveniences
is meeting with great encouragement.
The commissioner of the general land
office is remarkably modest in his de
mands, considering that he is an im
portant factor in a "reform" adminis
tration. In his estimates for the next
fiscal year he asks for 175 additional
clerks and an increase in the appropria
tion for his bureau over that of last
year, of nearly one million of dollars.
If all bureau officers were like Sparks,
and their requests should be granted by
Congress, there would be no occasion
to worry about the surplus in the treas
ury. Figures at the treasury show that dur
ing last month we exported flour to the
value of $5,351,812, and wheat to the
value of $4,701,860. This year the Sep
tember exportation of wheat has fallen
off over one-half, and the exportation of
flour has increased almost two-thirds
over the corresponding month of last
year.
Indianapolis was the first city visited
by the President in his "swing around."
It held its municipal election last week
and went republican by a largely in
creased majority. A fair indication of
what is coming.
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Money to loan on improved farms in this and adjoining
counties, at current rates. We are prepared to close loans
promptiy, in all cases where title and security are satisfactory.
Office up-stairs in Henry Building, corner of Olive and
Eleventh streets. juiyimtr
SPEICE & NX3KTH,
General Agents for the sale of
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Union Pacihc and Midland Pacific 1J. It. Ivinds for nalo at from 43.00 to $10.00 per acre for cash
or on five or tan ) mum timo, in annnal pnymntrt to uit purchawr. We have also a larxe and choic
lot of other lanilN, improved and unimproved, for salo at low price and on rft9onabl terms. Alao
husmotw nnd reaidenew Int in the city. We keep a complete abstract of title to all real ettt in
Platto County.
COLUMBUS.
W. T. RICKLY& BRO.
Wholesale and
Xreslb. ! Salt lvescts,
Game, Poultry, and Fresh Fish. AH Kinds of Sausage a Specialty.
C&-Cash paid for Hides, PelU. Tallow. llihet.t market price paid for fat cattle.-
Olive Street, aecond door north of First National Bank.
The rumor that an attempt was made
to wreck the Presidential train near
Memphis, may havo some foundation,
but it is regarded hero almost universal
ly as a slim attempt to produce scenic
effect on the last act of an e"xceodinfly
stupid play.
During tho last few days several Con
gressmen have taken up their abode
among ns, and many old familiar faces
are now recognized on the avenue. I
met Congressman Barnes of Georgia,
yesterday, who is the heavy weight of
the House, 325 pounds strong, but albeit
a good jovial fellow. He is a strong par
tisan democrat, and pretends to think,
with a nervous twitching alxjve the eye,
that Cleveland is doing "pretty well."
Randall spent a day here last week on
his return from Atlanta, and exhibited
numerous letters of endorsement from
various sections of the south, and invi
tations to visit them, which shows pretty
clearly that it will be hard work for
Carlisle and Mills to read him out of
the party.
One of the proudest men in Washing
ton today is Commissioner Oberly. He
has "downed" the Virginia and Ohio
clubs in tneir rebellion on civil service,
is sustained by his two colleagues, and
has the official endorsement of the New
York mugwump reform association.
What greater honor can ono man
achiever True it don't reduce the price
of bread stuffs, or relieve any burdens,
but then Oberly is satisfied and corres
pondingly proud, and he is part of the
administration that is seeking praise.
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GROCERIES,
Crocktry and Glassware,
Which wore bought cheap for cash, and will be Hold
at very low prices.
Street, Columbus. Nebraska.
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The best manufactories of the'eountry
represented. Not to be undersold
by anybody. Come and Bee
prices at
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