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H i: I s lT ti I S3 fr IM -i ft r &Bhimhxxs Qtmttml. Entered at the Post-office, Columbus, Neb., as second-class mail matter. M. ISSUED EVEBY WEDNESDAY BT K. TURNER & CO., Columbus, N1. TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year, by mall, po6tago prepaid, "J Sir months, LOO Three months J Payable in Advance. y Specimen copies mailed free, on application. TO SUnSCBIBEBS. When subscribers change their place of resi dence they should at once notify us by letter or pobtal card, Rivinjr both their former and their present post-office, the firnt enables us to readily nnd the name on our mailins list, from which, being in tj pe, we each week print, either on the wrapper or on the marfiin of your Joubn .L, the date to whicli your subscription is paid or ac counted for. Remittances should bo made either bj moDey-order, registered letter or draft, payable to the order of M. K. Tubseb & Co. TO COBBESPONDENTS. All communications, to secure attention, must be accompanied by the full name of the writer. We reserve the right to reject any manuscript, and cannot agree to return the same. We desire a correspondent in every school-district of Platte county, one of good judgment, and re liable in every way. Write plainly, each item separately. Give as facta. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1887. Sekatob Paddock has gone to Wash ington. The Central bank of Canada has sus pended payment. Fast freight and passenger lines seem to bo the order of the day. Woxdekfuii reports continue about the very rich gold ledge in Arizona. Col is reported to be getting very scarce in Philadelphia, Pa., and unless there is change, boon, for the better, a famine will result. It is rej)orted that forest fires are rag ing near Alton, 111., and prairie fires are causing great damage to farms in the vicinity of Vandalia. Ix the southern part of Pike county, Missouri, it is reported that a party of farmers lynched two tramps who as saulted two ladies last week. AN IMPORTANT SUIT. Tun last report from Tampa, Florida, gives three new cases of yellow fever on the loth, but no deaths. There were thirteen cases in the hospital. A DCSTitucTiVE fire visited Central City, Col., one day last week, which nearly destroyed the business portion of of the town. Loss of property $30,000. A hepokt from Canton, China, says that the steamer Wah-Young was burn ed in Canton river last week and about 400 passengers are supposed to be lost. The Wahoo Wasp respectfully refers to Mr. Gilkeson as a pattern of popu larity, the fact that Judge Marshall only ran about 700 ahead of his ticket in Dodge county. Char. Canavan, a porter who was bit ten in New York by a dog sometime in October hist, died one day last week of hydrophobia after a night of most hor rible suffering. Johann Most has been rele;ised on $1,500 bail. Ida Hoffman, the wife of a physician who was present, proposed to go his bail, was accepted, and the trial sot for the 22d inst. J. L. Truman, supervisor for Monroe twp., was in the city Thursday. There were three ties in the late election in Monroe, and it is not yet known who the supervisor will be for next term. The coroner's jury in the case of Lingg'e death says: "It was brought about by the explosion of a bomb alxmt two inches in diameter, and filled with dynamite, said bomb being exploded by his own hand.' Titiioid fever is so provelent in Al bany, N. Y., that the mayor has issued a proclamation :isking all citizens before using the water obtained from the river to boil it, as the seeds of disease are supposed to bo in it S. M. Bukdette, of Lancaster, Ky., has been appointed a revenue agent, and assigned to temporary duty at Peoria, 111. Burdette is a well known newspa per man, and was lately connected with the Louisville Courier-Journal. L. F. STErnENS of Booneville, Mo., has been appointed receiver of the Fifth National bank at St. Louis, Mo. There is a rej)ort that the grand jury had found an indictment against Cashier Crecilius for making false entries. At a meeting of the Plymouth church, Brooklyn, the other day a call was ex tended to the Rev. Charles Berry, of Wolverhampton, England, to till the vacancv caused bv the death of Henry Ward Boocher. The salary is $10,000. The- official list of the next House of Representatives shows that the mom bers will number 1G8 democrats, 153 re publicans and four independents. The independents are Anderson, of Iowa, Nichols, of North Carolina, Hopkins, of Virginia, and Smith, of Wisconsin. John Bright writes a long letter pro testing against any land-purchase act for Ireland. Ho contends that the Ash bonrne act, improved if necessary, will serve all purposes for the gradual trans fer of land to tenants, when such is needed. The scaffold at the power house of the new railroad on the Fifth avenue in Pittsburg, Pa., gave way the other after noon and threw a number of men to the gronnd. Two of them were fatally crushed: the others sustained painful cuts and bruises, but were not fatally injured. A receiver has been appointed in the county court at Pittsburg, Pa., to wind up the affairs of the Badger gas company. The bill alleges that the com pany is insolvent, and that its in debtedness will reach $100,000. The as sets are thirty-one miles of pipe lines and 3,000 acres of gas territory in Beaver county. Miss Cabrie Buntax, a wealthy and beautiful Cooperstown, Pa., lady, was married to James D. Ball on October 22. The couple started south with the god speeds of the three hundred guests pres ent at the wedding. The bride was tak en ill at Washington, Del., where she died. The remains reached Coopers town the other day. The town is in mourning. TTgRR Most, the New York socialist, was arrested on the 17th for making in cendiary speeches. The grand jury found an indictment against him. The indictment is based on section 451 of the oenal code, affecting unlawful as semblies and incitement to riot to kill Which May Reralt in Good to Colnmbns and Platte County. A very important suit is about to be brought against the B. & M. road grow ing out of its consolidation with the Atchison & Nebraska road several years ago. The parties plaintiff in the case base their action on the statute, which prohibits the consolidation of competing lines of railroad in the state. A lengthy letter covering all the legal points in the case has been furnished Attorney General Leese, and it is under stood that a demand will be made that that official institute quo warranto pro ceedings. The author of the letter to the attorney general takes the position that this road by entering a combination to stifle competition, against. the express words of the constitution has broken faith with the state to such an extent as to render it liable to a forfeiture of its corporate franchise. A glance at the history of the Atchison & Nebraska road will add light to the fact that it was a competing line and was consolidated with the B. & M. railroad to destroy competition. The Atchison & Nebraska was built from Atchison to Lincoln in 1872 and from that time nntil 1880 was a parallel and competing line with the B. fc M. railroad on local business in the state south of Lincoln and in Lincoln on through and local freight east. In the state before the consolidation took place, there was a brisk competition ex isting between the roads for the trade of the country extending as far north as Columbus, to which the Atchison & Ne braska had been built In the year 1880 the Burlington road became the owner and assumed control of this road. The stock of the Atchison & Nebraska at this time was $3,500,000. Of this stock the B. & M., through William Endicott, jr. and W. J. Ladd as trustees, acquired S3.347.000. leaving only $3,000 of stock to be held by private individuals for the purpose of keeping up a nominal organ ization for tho Atchison & Nebraska. Of these thirtv remaining shares five are held by E. E. Pratt, five by A. G. Stan wood, five by George W. Holdrege and five by Henry Parkham. Four per cent bonds of the B. & M., payable in 1010, were issued to tho amount of $3,347,000 to furnish tho money tor this illegal absorption of the Atchison & Nebraska stock. At present the B. .t M. railroad exercises complete control over the op erating and freight department of the road making rates, contracts and assum ing all the rights of ownership. All competition existing between the roads prior to their merging has been destroy ed. The present constitution of Ne braska, adopted five years before this consolidation took place, reads as follows on the subject of the consolidation of competing lines: "No railroad corpora tion or telegraph company shall consoli date its stock, property, franchise or earnings in whole or in part with any other railroad corporation or telegraph company owning a parallel or competing line" The letter calls attention to tho Tact tliat courts do not allow corpora tions to do indirectly what the law for bids their doing directly, and that this was a consolidation in fact if not in name; that it is the effect and not the form upon which courts enter judgment. A citation in the presentation of the question is from an Ohio decision in the case of a consolidation, which was mod est as compared with the one in question, was killed by quo warranto, upon a statutory law while the same statute law exists in Nebraska and a like prohi bition is contained in the constitution itself. It is learned indirectly in connection with working up the facts in this case that the railroad, as if fearing something of this character has withdrawn from its offices in this state as much as possible of the record of this conspiring transac tion, and to get at the facts has been the work of weeks. There is not a town on tho line of the old Atchison & Nebraska road from Columbus to the southern state line that has not been robbed and filched from by this consolidation by which the B. & M. road destroyed com petition. Many of tho counties voted bonds to get the competition and from such places there should come appeals at once to the attorney general to prose cute the case, to destroy tho illegal and unlawful consolidation and have the old Atchison & Nebraska road placed by the courts in the hands of a commission to sell the road, pay its bonds, declare its lranchise in the B. & M. forfeited and let it commence business in Nebraska again as a comieting line from Colum bus on the nortli across the state to the south, thus saving $1,000,000 to tho dis trict traversed. Attorney General Leese has proved himself a man not to be bought or bulldozed by the corporations and when he prosecutes he does it fear lessly and honestly. Lincoln corres pondence Omaha Bee. No doubt" exists among intelligent people as to what has often been charg ed, that English capitalists have time and again tried to work the politics of this country so that results wpuld be beneficial to themselves. England don't like the United States to have a tariff, more or less protective of American in terests as against English, and hence has always allied herself with the ene mies of this country (to divide), or with those of our own people who tend to wards absolute free trade, and direct taxation for the support of the govern ment. Of the present state of affairs a New York banker says: "The British manufacturers spend mil lions of dollars in efforts to further, free trade. The administration, too, is help ing the free traders. And what is the result? Look at the balance of trade, or the difference in the totals of our exports and imports for the last three years. In 1885 the difference was $148, 000,000 in our favor. In 1886 it was $44,000,000, and in 1887 it had become reduced to $24,000,000. The gold is going out of the country every year in larger volume, and yet the British free traders in this city demand the distribu tion of the surplus, and the breaking down of the tariff system. What will be the result of such action, if consummat ed? Only to send more gold out of the country, and soon the government will need to negotiate a loan in Europe to pay its ordinary expenses, as was done under James Buchanan." JUDICIAL. Forjudges of the Fourth Judicial District. COUNTIES. Communities along the line of the Union Pacific railroad are rejoicing over the evidences of thrift and prosperity that the management is Bhowing. Ev erylxxly has confidence in "Tom Potter," as he is familiarly called; even outsiders, who can only judge by results that are noticeable, know that there is a different power at tho helm. By better manage ment than of old time, the Union Pacific can redeem herself from discredit, pay off her indebtedness to the government, make more money-and do more good for the communities through which the line passes. Mr. Potter has already done a good deal; he evidently knows what yet ought to be done, and the Journal, for one, would like to see him move along in the same direction until all the causes for just grievances of the people along this great thoroughfare have been re moved. "The right wrongs no man." A komb was exploded the other night at the Iowa iron works at Dubuque. They run a night force and some twenty of them were employed on a large boiler in the loiler shop. They were startled by a sudden explosion on the other side of the boiler. It made a terrible noise and was heard in many parts of tho city. The bomb, which was picked up, was made of inch and a half gas pipe about two feet long. The pipe was split in several places. Fortunately the explo sion was all in one direction, away from the men. The flooring and parts of the building were set on fire which, how ever, was extinguished by the men. No yther damage "was dond. It is a wonder that there was not a great loss of life. Dodge Saunders Colfax Butler Platte Merrick . t. Nance Total . 1578 1591 874 1225 1399 751 638, 8256, 1975 1601 917 1342 1149 839 587 161111369 13981024 876 1062 1963 631 335 8413J72761 891 1138 1168 452 251 6866 lianium's Show Itnrned I'p. Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 20. Tho main building of Barnum & Bailey's "greatest show on earth" was destroyed by fire this morning at 10:20. The alarm was sounded and in less than thir ty minutes the building, which was 600 by 200 feet and two stories in height,was entirely consumed. The fire originated by the explosion of a lantern carried by a watchman in the horse building, set ting fire to the hay and straw. Before the first alarm quit sounding the whole building was enveloped in flames and no one dared approach it, being fearful by the crazed animals. Three elephants were burned up and thirty-six broke from their fastenings and dashed through tho sides of tho burning struc ture, roaring and trumpeting in a ter rific manner. Six elephants and a large African hippopotamus rushed about the streets presenting a sickening appear ance. Their sides were burned and great pieces of flesh a foot square fell off. Thirty elephants and a large lion have started across the country toward Fair field and Eaton. Great excitement has seized many tesidents and they have barred the windows and doors of their houses. In the horse-room were all the ring animals, trained stallions, ponies, etc., and all were burned. In the cat room were birds, monkeys, rhinoceros es, hyenas, tigers, lions and all the me nagerie, which also fell a prey to the flames. A great deal of valuable tent and other property was also burned. The total loss is estimated at not less than S700,000, with but $100,000 insurance. Later. It is now learned that the watchman discovered the fire while mak ing his rounds, and started to give the alarm, when some unknown person hit him on the head with some blnnt in strument,felling him to the ground. One of the three elephants burned was the "Sacred Wnito Elephant. " TnE sooner workingmcn learn that the ballot is the only dynamite they have a right to use in this country, the better it will be for them. Every man's rights leave off just where another man's rights begin. Every man has a right to his opinion, but he has no right to force his opinion on anybody else. Tho only opinions which prevail in the govern ment of this country are those that are held by the majority of its citizens, and the ballot is the only means by which it can be ascertained what opinions are in the majority. Let the workingmen vote as they believe, and right will prevail. Norfolk News. A prominent business getleman of this city advocates leaving the tariff about as it, and distributing the surplus in the treasury among tho several states to be applied to tho payment of current state expenses, thereby securing a reduction of state taxes. A measure of this kind could, he thinks, be passed at the next session of congress, and would certainly please tho people who have to pay the taxes. The political party inaugurating and successfully carrying out such a plan would, he thinks, receive the approbation of the country. Patents granted to citizens of Kansas and Nebraska during the past week, and reported expressly for this paper by C. A. Snow & Co., patent lawyers, opp. U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. C: W. R. Archer, Greene, Kan., sulky harrow; C. W. Hale, Eureka, Kan., wrench; L. B. Hopkins, Council Grove, Kan., bed slat fastener; A. J. Shaw, Conway, Kans., cane or corn harvester; H. J. Bell, Lin coln, Neb., gas meter; M. Lester, Inavale, Neb., fish hook attachment; E. W. Wall, Pishelville, Nob., rubber back-pad for harness. The other morning a large bomb was found in the city hall leading to tho po lice station in St. Joseph, Mo. An hour later another was found back of a large wholesale grocery house. Both were taken to a point above the city on the river bank and exploded by the chief of police. They were both of dynamite and evidently constructed by an expert lomb maker. The anarchists number about 150 and are of the most rabid character. The feeling against them is intense. Wm. McLaughlin, a section man in the employ of the U. P. road at Council Bluffs, while going to his work last Sat urday morning, was struck by a train of freight cars, which came up behiud him, and instantly killed him. His left arm was cut off near the shoulder and his head was frightfully mangled. He had been in the employ of the company for a number of years. The train was backed and no brakesman on the rear end to give him notice of its approach. Lamar replies to Sparks and says: President Clevoland is the actual author of the land reforms which have been in augurated by this administration, and as for Sparks taking credit for these great achievements Lamar only laughed. "The work will go on just the same when the change is made in the head of the general land office," ho said with vigor: "No man is absolutely essential in this government.' The President accepted the resignation of Commissioner Sparks, to take effect on the 16th inst. News from London of the 20th states that the Dutch steamer, W. A. Scholton, Captain Teat, which left Rotterdam on the 19th for New York, was sunk by a collision with the steamer Ross Mary, of Hartlepool, at 11 o'clock at night, ten miles off Dover. She carried a comple ment of 230 passengers and crew. Tho steamer Ebro of Sutherland, rescued ninety of the crew and passengers. One hundred and thirty-two of the passen gers and crew drowned or missing. . The remains of Mabel Patterson were found the other morning lying in a shallow pool of water just outside of Youngstown, Ohio. The night before she visited several saloons with a Btrang er, but when seen last she was not in toxicated. The condition of tho girl's body indicated a struggle and that she had been choked to death. A searching investigation was being made by the coroner. Attorney Gen'ii Leese seems to le always either doing or contemplating some pretty effective work for the state. In public officials there isn't anything so refreshing to the people as a firm de termination to see that the public in terests, so far as entrusted to officials, is sacredly cared for and protected. The attorney-general is a 'good railroad com mission within himself. Elsewhere we print an acconntof the relations between the B. & M. and the old A. & N. R. R. companies that may prove to be of interest. Pet and Marshall. Judge Marshall of this city has re ceived returns from this judicial district, the 4th, to show his overwhelming vic tory. The amount of his majority is somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000. Mr. Post of Columbus has also received an endorsement similar to this. These gentlemen have good reason to feel proud of their magnificent victory. The people of this district have assured them by their ballots that they are also proud of their judges. Post and Marshall have been tried and found reliable and competent. With such men on the bench the judiciary will be kept pure and justice will do her perfect work. Fremont Tribune. A petition was circulated the other day at Hartford, Conn., and freely sign ed by the members of the Unity church, calling a special meeting to take action in relation to the Rev. J. C. Kimball, the pastor, who created contempt in his Sparks, the Land Commissioner at Washington City, in person delivered to tho President a letter defining his course in the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railway land grant cases. He refers to Secretary Lamar's letter of the 11th inst., and cites the cases in question which were adjusted by him in Septem ber. Tho letter was a spirited and vig orous one, defending himself against the allegations of his department chief, inti mating that his decision and action was in accordance with the spirit of his in structions, and then follows his resig nation. TnE St. Paul 'Free Press (dem.) urges the democratic party of Nebraska to begin now the campaign for next year and make it very vigorous. Undoubtedly the democracy can make it vigorous. With the presidential ticket, state ticket, three congressmen, state legislators and U. S. senator to follow, the campaign should be a very interesting one, indeed. Among republicans set down by the Free Press as probable candidates for U. S. senator are Manderson, Thurston, O. P. Mason and Rosewater. It seems to be a foregone conclusion that Grover Cleveland will be the next democratic candidate for the presidency. That settled, it becomes a question of the very first importance to republicans Whom shall we nominate against him? for on the answer to this undoubtedly hangs the success or failure of the party in tho coming campaign. TnE railroad committee appointed to arrange a reduced tariff of freight rates to Illinois points has reached an agree ment and will soon report to tho mana gers. The rates agreed upon will aver age 25 per cent, lower than at present, and will make a difference of about $3,000,000 a year in the revenues of state roads. On the farm of Louib Strong, near Cheviot, Ohio, gtis was struck the other evening at the depth of 335 feet. The well flows at the rate of 5,000,000 cubic feet daily, with a pressure of several hundred pounds to the square inch. The gas will be piped to Cincinnati, twelve miles. The severe wind storm at Fremont Friday night blew down a two story building in course of construction in the southern part of the city. No other damage of any extent is reported. It was reported last week that the U. P. was .distributing telegraph poles be tween here and Albion. It now turns out that the only grounds for the report is that a car load to be used for repairs have been unloaded at Albion. General Van Wyck, wife and little daughter. Happy, are in Washington. The general is looking after pension mat ters for his friends. He has leased his residence on Massachusetts avenue and gives posession December 1st. Union Pacific engine No. 5 ran into and killed an unknown man the other evening three miles beyond Millard. The stranger was walking across the bridge and failed to notice the coming train. He was thrown a distance of thirty feet. On the afternoon of the 20th, Charles, the 12 years old son .of Frank Kendall, was drowned while skating on Wahoo creek, Saunders county. A number of his playmates were presont, but could not render any assistance. The body was recovered in a short time. The O'Neill mail carrier brings the re port that the prairie fire of Saturday and Sunday did immense damage in south ern Holt comity, destroying hay, corn in the field and a large number of farm houses. It is said the fire was started in tho northern part of Garfield county by hunters.- -Wheeler Co. Gazette. Mrs. Win. Harley, of Nebraska City, committed suicide-the other day by tak ing morphine. She had some trouble with her husband about a charge of in fidelity preferred against her by her hus band's sister, which was the cause of her takiug her life. The parties were re cently residents of Rulo. Congressman and Mrs. Dorsey, of this city, leave this week for Washington. They will live, as during the past two seasons, at the Riggs house. Mr. Dorsey goes early to do some preliminary work liefore Congress convenes. He is an act ive worker in tho departments and his constituents thoroughly monopolize his time with pension, laud and other busi ness. Fremont Tribune. E. H. S. Jones, of Osceola, who has had the reputation "of keeping a tem perance drug store" at the post office, was arrested the other morning for Bell ing liquor without a license or permit. He waived examination (on three counts) and was hound over in the sum of $500 by Judge Sheeseley to the next term of the district court. Max E. Bittner was the complainant. A dynamite bomb was found the other morning on the front steps of the City National bank, at Hastings. It was an inch and a half gaspipe about a foot long and securely closed at both ends. It had a hole alxmt half way between the ends from which protruded a fuse nearly a foot long. Tho fuse was saturated with oil and had been set on fire, but from some cause failed to burn. A very destructive fire occurred at Bloomington one day last week. It was discovered in the rear of the post office and soon six large stores and the build ings occupying the north side of the Court house square were burned to the ground. Nothing was saved from the post office and but little from any of the buildings. The loss will reach from $15,000 to $20,000. The fire is believed to bo tho work of an incendiarv. Nevertheless an honest count would have elected u republican president in 1884. Things are settled in this country quite frequently and then they are usu ally unsettled the next year. It is the man who carries the most electoral votes in 1888 that will be elected, whatever the settlement of 1887 said about it. State Journal. The Farmers' Union met Saturday, Nov. 12th at Piepere hall. Holding a grand mass meeting for the purpose of completing arrangements for organizing according to law. The hall was well filled with the best and most wideawake farmers around Leigh, and after a report from the various committees on stock subscription had been received, it was moved to proceed at once and raise thirty more shares of stock so as to en able to organize immediately, which was done by securing thirty shares in as many minutes after which the following named gentlemen were chosen directors for the remainder of the business year: V. W. Graves, S. N. Case, L. K. Watters, Henry Wurdeman, I. J. Nichols, J. M. Devine and T. K. Matzen; on motion A. M. Walling was chosen treasurer, and the following named stock holders were appointed a committee on by-laws: R. D. McKee, J. M. Devine, V. W. Graves, A. M. Walling and I. J. Nichols; on mo tion of J. M. Deviue no stock holder shall be entitled to moro than two votes, carried, after which tho meeting ad journed to meet in one week to hear the reports of the committees. Leigh Ad vocate. A. C. Records, for a number of years a resident' of Dodge county, but now of Lin wood, Butler connty, in the practice of law, is in the city today. Mr. Records with a number of other people were re cently looking over the historic battle ground where the great tight between the Sioux Indians on one Bide, and the Pawnees, Omahas and Otoea on the other, occurred about twenty-five years ago, near where Linwood now stands, and among' other interesting relics, one of the party picked up an old medal which is very interesting. It is of pure silver 14 inches in diameter, weighs about twice as much as a silver dollar, and is in a good state of preser vation. One side is ornamented with a coat of arms nearly like that of the state of New York, and is inscribed "Erie Ca nal.Com. 4 July, 1817; Comp. 20 Oct.1825. Presented by the city of N. York." On the reverse is a mediaeval design, rep resenting the union of the coast and in land country, and the inscription: "Union of Erie with the Atlantic." The medal is of excellent workmanship, and the mystery is how it came there. The old Indian battle ground is a grim place to visit; grinning human skulls and bleaching bones are to be seen on all sides, and many valuable relics have been found and preserved by the resi dents of that vicinity. (Fremont Tribune. EKNST & SCHWAEZ, -MAXUFACl'UKKUS.VXDDHALERSIN- XVii tej It 1 iHKiXaiMkUjiHtiiak- AND SUPERB LAMP FILLER GOAL OIL CAN COMBINED, ..r.. : .. 1- . - .. . ' "" 'r ".. roauwnre. cjeanim-sH ami wnnplicitv. cannot In excelled. :"":"-" "'""-"1'iij '"; ;.vf im-ninisaixiw. nil Lnum Fillerx. .f - ..r ..-- Him plosion. It emlKxlieM the Absolute safety Kunranteed. V . !! -.n 1-1IUTW. m iiiiiiiil' u;ti 1111 ii.iiu. . . a . or cmt-ide of can. Ue it once and jou ill not l it! u it f 0- v tim J'iV !? , u' re lnnre cans a well a umall one, therein- snvm. tl. fr,., , ' .1 .l.MTS,,m.1 -. It work in ...-n- v i:t.y l ".:.." :"-'i,""""MuiniiuiriniiHrn th dr.. u.;ii. , I TIT! flTlfl nMFnit.ui ... . - - . .. ---. a... "" """ worKsa.i-i.a-torily. Minall can. Every can made of the very 1 sample can ami iret oriccs Call and ie, GIRLIHO STOVES AND RANGES AIAV.WSTOKSALKAT but t mnith BAIER PERFECT STEEL BARB WIRE. -IfloubuyityoUKetloOrodMor fence from 100 ponmU of ire. which tmotheruilld...-; ERNST & SCHWARZ. Boone county now has three murder ers in its jail. Two of these murders were out and out, the result of whisky. The third is simply the act of an insane man, and is therefore out of the count as to cause and effect on the liquor question. Has Boone county made any thing out of high license? Fullerton Telescope. Thomas Green, who is a correspond ent of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, shot and killed Lew Baldwin, of Nicholasville, Ky., one morning last week. They had a controversy about the reports sent out about the election, The G. A. R., at a meeting of the na tional pension committee, have decided upon a pension measure, to be presented to the next congress, which includes a disability bill, equalization of disabili ties, pensions for veterans' widows and severely maimed veterans. P. II. C. Hill, a prominent broker in Philadelphia, Pa., has suspended. lie was a bear on the market, and was short 10,000 shares of the Beading and 3,000 shares of St. Paul. He was a member of the New York stock exchange, but sold his seat a week ago. Hon. Hugh J. .TeweIt, ex-president of the Erie railroad, is very seriously ill. He is still at his son's country place at Glenville, Hartford county. Dr. Parker of New York is attending physician, and fears Mr. Jewett's injuries may prove fatal. The Hancock chemical company's packing house for dynamite was blown up one day last week, at Hancock, Mich., and Bix men killed. There were 1,500 pounds of dynamite in the building. NEBRASKA NOTES. The evidence consists of notes of his P38' wno created contempt in his in which Baldwin and others were Saturdav night speech taken by police- J Sunday sermon by comparing the Chi- charged with unlawfully conducting the m&n-Xtoin ana owuo. v-sv UMW.uwka mm iUC oaviur. eiecuon in tieeeamine county. The President has appointed Jones C. Ecker postmaster at Mineola, and Peter Cockerill postmaster at South Omaha. Governor John M. Thayer was given a banquet last week by company C of the Nebraska national guards, at Nebraska City. The test well at the salt basin, Lin coln, 2,561 feet deep, has cost 822,000 and nothing of commercial interest was derived. 268 horses have been killed in the state by the state live stock commission since April 1 condemnation momey up- waras oi sii.uuu. Two inmates of the state hospital for the insane died recently Rosina Sim mons from Buffalo county, and Amelia Grandel from Madison. The shooting of R . Brewer at Cedar Bapids, by a man named Wolf a short time since, turns out now, from a statement furnished by a nerson wtin was present, to have been entirely un- I0'000 and the rePublicans carried Hlin- JTW """" UH Mrs. Miranda Shellenberger was put on trial at Lincoln for tho murder of her 11 years old stepdaughter. The fa ther had previously been tried at Ne braska City and found guilty of murder, and was afterwards taken from the pris on by a mob and hanged. Mrs. Shellen berger asked, and obtained a change of venuo to Lincoln. The first trial re sulted in the non-agreement of the jury, the second ended Saturday night in her acquittal. A very destructive tiro visited Stuart, Holt county, last Friday, destroying an entire block, including two valuable buildings of J. F. Haight, with the stock of hardware and groceries, J. C. Jofdan's blacksmith and agricultural store, Wood's livery barn, Chambers's saloon, tho Press office, barber shop, butcher shop, Dr. Roysberry's office and dwelling, Harvey's law office and Mur phey's residence. The statement does not show how the fire originated. The loss will reach 330,000. Two Pinkerton detectives were in Omaha the other day in search of clues to aid thorn in the capture of tho Rev. D. B. Brown, who swindled the First National bank of Central City out of 81,500. The detectives believe he com mitted this fraud under an assumed name, and that his real name is James Stevens, and an all-round swindler of extraordinary cunning. The detectives are said to have obtained important clues which will soon lead to the appre hension of the forger. A fire started about 4 o'clock on the morning of the 19th inst., in the western part of Grand Island, destroying the barn of J. H. Wiley, in which were five thoroughbred horses, the property of Mr. Norris. Owing to the prevailing high wind and the shell-like structure of the barn, the llames spread with such rapidity that it was impossible to save any of the animals. The fire de partment responded and worked hard to prevent the spread of the fire, but could do nothing to save the barn or its contents. The loss of property will not be less than 83,000. The sale of the Mercer lot at the cor ner of Farnam and Sixteenth streets for 875,000 is a fair indication of the in crease in the value of inside property in this city the past few years. Three years ago Mr. Mercer paid 830,000 for it, and the price then was considered very steep. There is no more valuable cor ner in the city, and none that has been a greater eyesore. The old rookery now occupying it is to be pulled down to give place to a ten story block, built by Philadelphia capital a very promising beginning to next year's building opera tions. Omaha Republican. O yes! the New York election settles it of course. Still it does not settle it quite so much as it was settled on the eve of the presidential election of 1884. The fall before that campaign New York went democratic by 200,000 majority, Ohio by 10,000, Pennsylvania by 40,000, Connecticut by 23,000, New Jersey by V'anuinpton letter. From our regular correspondent. One of the most notable characters seen nearly every day upon the lieauti fnl drive to the Soldiers' Home, is the historian Bancroft. He is nearly nine ty years of age, bnt can ride his horse as graceful as a dashing brigadier. Every day he devotes certain hours to labor on his exhausting history of the United States, he then mounts his horse and with his valet a few rods in the rear. goes Hying into the country for recrea tion. There is something remarkable in his personal appearance. Tall and straight, long white hair hanging to his shoulders, thin face with full beard, and head covered with an ordinary cloth cap with an unusually large vizor. All take delight in doing him honor, and point with pride to the great literary achieve ment of the great old American. I never know until the other dav how they tested concrete foundation, and was greatly interested in the experiment I witnessed at the now Congressional library site. Yon know that is to bo an immense structure, and must have a good foundation. They will use there over 'J),WV barrels of cement. The ground on which the concrete is laid is required to stand a pressure of 2 tons to the square foot. Now in making these tests the process is this: Four short iron pillars are placed on the ground about four feet apart. These are exactly one foot square at the bot tom, and resting on these are two iron rods about a foot in height, on which is a flat car loaded with thirty tons of pig lead,and this weight being equally di vided between the four square feet cov ered by the iron pillars, solves the prob lem. Everything used in this building will be subjected to the severest test and when completed will le the finest structure on this continent, if not the wide world. ' Several weeks ago I alluded to the bitter feeling existing in the Interior department regarding Land Commis sioner Sparks, and predicting his resig nation or dismissal. The quarrel has reached the culminating point, and Sec retary Lamar says in a long letter that either himself or Sparks must go. It will be Sparks. The Post, the adminis tration organ here, says: "He is proba bly the most unpopular official in the government, a title which he has earned by strict attention to the business of making himself unpopular," which is just what the republicans have claimed. His dismissal will rejoice thousands of honest land settlers of the great west, who have been most shamefully outrag ed by his unjust decisions and unwise interference. Let Sparks go back to the shades; he never should have been dug up. Congress sometimes makes the most egregious blunders. Last winter they passed "an act to restrict the ownership of real estate in the territories to Ameri can citizens," and have just discovered that in the body of the act the District of Columbia is also included. This will preclude even foreign legations from owning more real estate in Washington, which certainly was never intended un less by the crafty politician who drew the bill. Several Congressmen have been interviewed, who express their en tire ignorance of Buch legislation until shown the act, which of course will be speedily mended. But then it shows how careless even our law makers are. The department of agriculture has gathered some very instructive and sug gestive statistics. There was planted this year 73,000,000 acres of corn, which gave an average yield of twenty bushels to the acre. The potato crop averages fifty-four bushels to the acre, and the yield aggregates 234,000,000 bushels, 30, 000,000 less than last year. Other fig ures are being tabulated at the depart ment, and will be itemized in subse quent letters. All concede that the late elections settle beyond a doubt the renomination of President Cleveland, but how it will affect the second on the ticket is not quite so clear. Gen. Black's boom has pretty much subsided. That of Gen. Vilas is looking up a little. Southern men say they do not ask for or want it, and are willing it should go to the west, but want no soldier. An Indiana citizen stands the best chance, and the one most likely to carry that state will win the prize. U.-'l HHJR7 RAtJiE I GO, llavoa Fine Line r Staph and Fancv GROCERIES Crocksry and Glassware, Which wort bought cheap rr c:.sli. and will !c at vcr lou prictis. M Eleventh Street, fiiiiimliug. Nebraska. nmlO-tf Mckinley & carnahan, COLUMBUS, NEB. 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. juiynx;u SPEICE & NOETH, Genn-al Ayi'ttlsfor the .siilr of ESE3-AJL ESTAT Union Pacific ami Mnllund Pacific U. H. U-inil for n.il at from $3.00 to 10.00 ir acre fur cash ornn tavenrten )ritr tmip.in aunual ijnunl toHiiit iur!i.i..r. We lmv.t alc a larund choice lot of other lands. imirontl nnl iiumi.r..c!, for Kilt at low j.rico ami on n-aw.ualih. trm AIo bnuij anil muilencu lot in Ihc citj. V Lrv a coinpl. U attract of nth- !.. all n al -tate in 1 Mattel otint. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. KM W. T. RICKLY& BRO. WhnlrNilenuil Ihtail IVal. 3ivesuts, Game, Poultry, and Fresh Fish. AH Kinds of Sausage a Specialty. tTah paul Tor Hhl. IVIts, Tallow. Hiihet market pric jwn.l fr fat cattle." Olive Street, second door north of First National Bank. . an.tf The Bismark Academy is progressing in a tine manner, new pupils heing en rolled weekly. Thanksgiving is drawing near, and the people of this neighborhood are pre paring to duly observe it. Corn husking is mostly tinislied in this vicinity; among those still husking may be named Ixjuis lleideu. Otto Mueller and E. M. Stiukly. Look out, Kd.f the winter is coming. We noticed twenty two loads of hogs going by ine other uay ami an average of about ten a day since; this indicates that the farmers are disposing of their hogB in a lively manner: among those whom we noticed particularly wore John Wise, George Henggler, Martin Mier, John Ahrens and many others. Charles. TIE LARGEST MB IIIEST STOCK west of Omaha, at GREISEN BROS. The lest manufactories of the country reprebented. Not to be undersold bv anvbodv. Come and see prices at GREISEN BROS. and Michigan by a mere scratch. ADDITIONAL LOCAL. SN Bismmrtk Township. 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