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S.Sp -Vi rikTSr5A 52?:;; -1v? r '-vi -dsgsjfeSfisssi K - s: tr-CQSS j?4tgy?t . -r v iX Sfi&i 58 -?: -P -r-Vjf 'Ha iU - - - 4 crfvV ASt- -&& -"Sf-3 A ifPi.Sr - j. -i- - "C k I r i. 5r 41 v-r l' IttmtmsgirotmI- mm avast wmmmmtxwK 1C K. TURNER AOO.f C h ar aaauMH ante readily wnica, mi the JeWeSaUthe to said or - to bm acdnJt Alio bo sis he the fall Of U V W the itsM to relset smnnr .-We WEDNESDAY, JUNE B. IB. 8aow fell in Michigan Thursday. A mock of earthquake was felt oa the left beak of the Setae im Paris, Friday. At Creto a $35 school house ia be ing erected, aad at North Piatt a $30, 000 teak baadnfr A" OMMHrovonx of the its that the American have not obtained what the? tad at the Samoaa ooaf Osxaxoma ia bound to aettk) ap any way. Fourteen applications hare been to eater town sites, to the King- land district, and twelve in the Quthrie district Heavy frosts ere reported in livings ton, Orlaana and Monroe counties, New York, last Wednesday. All aorta of garden track was killed. In some parts the damage is heavy. Has. Eua W. Peattie, assoristn ed itor of the Omaha Herald, has written The Story of America," which asahis tory ia very highly spoken ofJt includes an aeeoant of events of the last ten Tax largest fret payment on record in the pension ofioe waa made last Wed nesday to Philip Flood of Co. E, 42d Ohio Talaateer infantry. His disability dated back to Nov. 14, TO, and the it of arrears allowed is fl&VKB. Na inn's CoL Wm. F. Cody, (Buffa lo MUX being made mach of in France. last Wednesday the Vicomteese Chan doadeBrealks gave alxeakfast in his honor, the guests including many mem beta of the leading families of France. Cams and Japanese news say that on May 3d, great fires occurred at Yoko to,destroyiag a thousand houses. Many lives were lost, and about ten thousand people made homeless. On Oshimss island an eraptkm took place April 18th and destroyed more than half the houses of the island. Karris is beginning to have her cy- rnerience. Last Taasday after disastrous cyclone passed over t, Chase ooanty. Capt. Brown and his daughter were lolled, and his wife had a leg torn of and a eon had a leg aad arm broken. Six or eerea other are reported killed. Near Mo- ako, Wednesday, a cyclone formed and carried everything before it whenever struck the earth. Great dam are was done to crops and people sought safety in their cellar?. Tax worst busted up boom on earth is probably that of Los Angeles, CaL The delinquent tax list of Los Angeles coun ty this year occupied 500 columns of twenty-six inches, set in solid nonpareil. At the Nebraska rate for publishing such a list Ike publisher would get 938,000, enough to tarn every other publisher in the state green with envy. We doubt very much whether the tax lists of the entire state of Nebraska would amount to the above sum. It ia a great thing to have a boom. Seward Blade. Tax confederate element in Baltimore is very much wrought ap over these two passages in the speech of Gen. W. Bus sey there last Thursday evening: There is as mach difference between the cause for which they (the confederates) fought and the cause of the Union as between hesTisi and hell, and it ia a crime to teach the rising generation that there was anything in the cause to justify tak iag mp arms.n These two sentences are pointed out aa putting iron. into the soul of the confederate element in Balti more: "If we are to put down anarchism, we must have one flag. If these confed- are to be brought out and the snnrchists may bring outweeir iag.n IS good men had always i free to express their hcneet opin- in Baltimore, doubtless Union sol diers would not have been shot down like dogs in the etreets of that city, while passing through to the defense of Utu Capitol of their country. I waxdbtcd to the country, Tom, Isat ida the brook, I tried to catch the nimble trout with line and baited hook; the banks were just aa muddy and the it just as slow, as in the days I i to ish some twenty years ago. No with me, Tom, I squatted there alone, and tried to yank out sire ish where, alas! were none; auitoesbstme just as hard and chanted just aa low, aa when they used to bore their wells, some twenty years ago. Aad while I tried to wipe them one and Weak their dreary song, tike bankrolled into the creek aad carried me r the water waa as moist, my friend, aad the mad aa deep below, aa waea I tolled iato the creek some twenty years Xae nae got wound around my the hook stack ia my eye, the pole twirled Voaad the same old way aad ast me aa the iy; I reeled off naught could r I earaad as loudly as tweaty years ago. And wheal through the waads to reach my wass fall of last my ears were fan of mam; bit me, Tom, juntas r, that left its trade i aaJ5Sfei.jferB fV Biiwii.M g FwJSall iaAilMJI - .. si i i luiwwinrffaw. it -' -- mr tetter Cj'. ..as ii i 1Mb list rillM - - AAttahaaAr arisaVatthaa SSf(S Jatote"-Mh i aasWiitiim anatml fK lentifnWmta eWgnlU (myebletotteesasref iLK.iiM.ACo - - m. a- eoneaassnamt la sesry achool rtiitrn Plart eaemty. ens ef jap frj?"!-?' IU .. . iB twy wr.rtU palely, gfa ' 00pACBBMX vaw"j aw aawmwaae . mark on my,lsg aome tweaty years ago. : Aad then I to the annhat weaves you, ' jf I, ilUiim.iBilsiiminiilsi aewraaah,I had tobayamess;snd WswlsssM show, aad tali the same U JsisaCsal, of twenty yam age.-WaMsaaBwa. w jl li. I in ijr- i ---si i u Zli-i J en iwswasMwi ! -7FjagHSaaawsssaanaaY-tW"ajfjBM Vm f .y JC3r JailLsJ'ir "'"""" '"" T""'"i l'iiiaiiiiiTiasefrtsri"'iiwfii'ii . .--i "l.?.. jm'L "-.'irT; ."".".. ."fS?'rT:,y' Wx2&EtiHKMtMaSMmmmum5uBimmB22mB3BBtK ' ...,- , -TOftatiTWi- -m r&-&&HSSai5KV&mB'. J--TlJt4e4SSWKi2iCrXS'" . y,-S- irtksa-.3ifi-.-i AaAi At about 5 o'clock Friday morning the de lta Ia selecting from the mass of a dosen papers the sise of Tax JotrxvAi. could be tiled with de- la order-to aaderataad the nature of alsawtyit m accessary to describe the respective locations of the It lias about two and n half miles Bortheast of Johnatown, and ia the site of the old reservoir, which was one of the feeders of the Pennsylvania canaL This sheet of water waa formerly known as Onaamaugh lake. It is from 900 to 900 fast above the level of Johnstown, being in the mountains. It is about three and a half miles long and from a mile to a mOe and n quarter in width, and in same places it is 100 feet in depth. It holds mora water than any other reservoir, natural or artificial in the United States. It was held in check byn dam TOO to UOOO feet wide. It ia ninety feet in thickness at the base, and its height is 110 feet. The top has a breadth of over twenty feet. Beoogniring the menace which the lake held to the region below, the South Fork club, which owned the reservoir, had the dam inspected once a month by a Pennsylvania road engineer aad their investigation showed that nothing less than some convulsion 'of nature would tear the barrier away and loosen the weapon of death. The steady rains of the past forty-eight hours in creased the volume of water ia all the small mountain streams, which were already swelled by lesser rains earlier in the week. xwar txoubahx xjvxa xor. Saxo Hoclow, (1 a. m.) June 2. The first accounts sent out of the Johnstown disaster are far below the wildest esti mates placed upon the extent of the calamity, and instead of 2000 or 3,000, it ia probable that the death list Till reach 8L00O many say 10000. It isnow known that two passenger trains, two sections of a day express on the Pennsylvania railroad, have been thrown into the maddened torrent and the passengers drowned. These trains were held at Johnstown from Friday at 11 a. m, and were on a aiding between Johnstown and Cone maugh station. The awful torrent came down a narrow defile between the moun tains, a distance of nine miles, and with a fall of 800 feet in that distance, sweep ing away the villages of South Fork, Mineral Point, Woodale and Conemaugh, leaving but one building standing, a woolen mill, where but an hour before had stood hundreds, and dashing on with the roar of a cataract and the speed of the wind upon the fair city at the foot of the hills. The plain in which bnt yesterday sat Johnstown sits in the mountain like a jewel of the oaeen's diadem. The great Gautier Steel works sat in this plain, and the city below it, railroad tracks bounding it at the base of the moun tains on the north. Here is where the trains were standing when the tide wa ter, like a catapult, came down upon them with such resistless force that heavy trains, locomotives, Pullmans and all were overturned and swept down the torrent and were lodged against the great stone viaduct, along with forty-one locomotives from the Johnstown round house, the heavy machinery and ponder ous framework of the Gautier mill, the accumulated debris of more than a thousand houses, furniture, bridges, lumber, and human beings. The low arches of the stone viaduct choked up immediately and the water backed back over the entire level of the valley upon which the city stood to a depth of what, from the waterworks,' in dicate about thirty-eight feet. In the great sea thus formed, thousands of peo ple were struggling for life. The scene today was one of the most harrowing possible to the imagination of man to conceive. The accumulation of drift gorged up at the viaduct to a height of forty feet and then took fire from the upsetting of stoves or lamps. Then were strong men made sick at the sight. As the flames crackled and roar ed among the dry timbers of the floating houses, human bodies were eeen pinion ed between house roofs, locomotives, freightjpassenger, Pullman and baggage cars. The flames licked with haste their diet of human flesh. The scene was hor rible beyond description. From infancy a few days old to the wasted figures of aqe, all were burned before the eyes of thr beholders, and no rescue rrom suon s fate waa possible. Strong men turned away with agoniz ed expressions and women shrieked at the horror of the scene. The dead have beed computed at not less than 8,000, and the number may even exceed tins estimate. This seems incredible, bnt un til the waters will have abated and the work of removing the dead from the tre mendous mass begins, it will be impos sible to tellhow many lives have been lost The Associated Press correspondent was the first to cross to Johnstown prop er by meana'of a basket suspended from a cable, as passengers are removed from wrecked ships. Here the scenes were magnified in their horror. Here were residences of the little city's most wealthy and intelligent people. Here were found the bodies of some of the most prominent citizens, with all the members of their families. Cider, Mar ket, main, Locust and Washington streets have been swept clean and bare of all buildings of whatever character. and the inhabitants seem to have fled into the streets at the first warning of danger and rushed to their deaths. For those who remained in their bouses had an opportunity to flee to the upper stories. When bouees were frame they were floated .from their foundations end meny were saved. The Hotel Hulbert, a brick structure, had sixty-five guests, and sixty-three of these were killed by the falling in of the floors and walls. The Morell library, the school house, the Alma hall, the general stores and omoee of the iron company, and one other brick building are all of probably two thous and buildings that have not been floated from their foundations or caved in. The atone viaduct is forty feet high from the river bed at low water and over this the water rushed in a resistless flood. On the wear aide is the Bessemer rail mills of the Cambria Iron company. Although warned to flee to the hill aides many of the men, resting in fancied security, loitered about the mills and were en gulfed in an instant Today their bodies are strewn along the Conemaugh, Biski metas and Alleghany rivers, and are be ing caught as tar down the Ohio river aa Boehester. The most awful culmination of the awful night was the roasting of a hun dred or more persons lost in the flood. The rajas tt houses, outbuildings and other structures swept away the new railroad bridge at Johnstown, and from aa overturned stove or some such cause the upper part of the wreckage took are.. There were crowds of men, women and children on the wreck, and their rare aooa'added to the awful of horror. They were literally roasted ia the flood. Soon after the fire burned itself oat others warn thrown asasaat taa fifty people in eight whan the ed, broke ap aad w fiVthoaght the property loss ia the vioiaity of Johaatown wfll be about tUjOOOLOOO. At Nineveh, jest above New Florence, a reporter says, was foaad the ant loaee-lOB dead. What had fertile farms looked like worn-oat brick yards. Great tress had been twisted aad torn like weeds, and broken for aulas. JoBQBRowa, Pa., Jaao mtaa that thai Proaahly I large reservour above Johnstown, Ft, rashed down to the city earryiag straotiea. deaslatioa aad swath is mass, xaors warn aome .ma iA era swan under tne -T- . -.yf -V aaaaaGLaae&5&.- ..1-H , J-4Sdfl3lga&it& &Jt . .. AtsfcL . iC iL. iVAAe-.,- . - . . the earth as comslstsly as if they had aovsrbsan created. Maaa street from end to end, is feet mas with it m m This alls the street from freeaeatlr hi froats..sm buildings ia filled the with re- minders of the terrible f k wnnli anil ikm th Talaad in tWt bridge, a dastatteprobablyof two aulas, a acnp or tecntory neany nan a wow in width has been swept clean, not a stick of timber or oar brick oa top of another being left to tell the story. Afldayiong men, woman aad eaOdraa ware plodding about the desolate waste, trymg ia vain to locate the boundaries of their former homes. Nothing but. a wide expanse of mud remained, with heaps of drift-wood, however, for their ooataaiplstioa, These losses, however, are as notsang compar ed to the frightful-sacrifice of preooae human lives to be sesa oa every hand. During all this solemn 8unday Johns town has bean drenched with the tears of stricken mortala and the air ia filled with sobs and sighs that come from broken hearts. The total loss of life is fairly estimated at 8,000 and maybe much greater. Prob ably one-third will never be recovered and it will take weeks yet to enable even n done estimate to be made. wooDKurrs confession. Ms Gives the Details ef Deettr Cream's The most sensational development so far in the investigation of the Cronin case was announced lata last Wednesday night in the shape of a new confession by Black alias Woodruff, ia which he tolls the whole story of his connection with Dr. Cronina murder. It seems that he was not directly connected with the murder itself but simply acted aa the driver of the wagon which disposed of of the dead man's body. Woodruff was taken by Capt Schaak and hie men to the scene of the murder, to the aawer where the body was found and to the place where the trunk was first seen. He gave driving descriptions to the detectives, and in every instance located the exact places. According to his confession ho was di rected by those who had charge of the conspiracy (and whose names Capt Schaak reserves for reasons that are palpable) to go to Dinan'a stable where he would obtain a horse and wagon. He was told to drive the outfit to the neigh borhood of the Carlson cottage, and also knew for what purpose he was to go there. He arrived at the cottage about twenty minutes before Dr. Cronin was driven up. Three-quarters of an hour after Dr. Cronin entered the cottage, the man who is known as Williams opened the front door of the cottage and signaled Wood ruff, who at once drove up. Assisted by a third man the trunk was loaded into the wagon and Woodruff was directed to drive eastward to the lake to a certain point, which Woodruff has designated to Capt Schaak. The trunk audita contents would have been deposited in the lake had not inter ruption came in the shape of the ap proach of a policeman. This caused a change of plans and immediate steps were taken to get out of the officer's way. A circuitous route finally brought them again to the Evanston roadand as they had been driving nearly an hour with their ghastly load one of the men suggested the sewer. They stopped at Fifty-ninth street, the top was taken off the manhole and the trunk lifted from the wagon. It waa impossible to put the trunk into the manhole. So, as the key had been lost the top waa kicked in and the body put in the sewer, and the trunk again placed in the wagon. They then started for the cottage intending there to burn the trunk, but on reaching the spot where the trunk was found they heard the noiso of wagon wheels and throwing the trunk out of the wagon drove rapidly in another direction. At Fullerton avenue Woodruffs compan ions bade hin good night and left him. The remainder is devoted to Wood ruff's wanderings in his attempt to sell the horse and wagon. He also states that there is nothing in the woman story first told by him. The names of King and Fairburn were those of two old friends which occurred to him at the time of his first story. They had noth ing whatever to do with the CONDITION OF RANCE. Teiay Ceamarei With Oae aaaret Tears Age. There is a pretty good object lesson in optimism in the condition of France to day aa compared with a hundred years ago. Then there was not a savings bank in the country; now there are deposits in such institutions aggregating $600, 000,000. Then the gross value of person al property was 60,000,000; now it is $1,600,000,000. Then the national in come was $600,000,000 a year; now it is 6,000,000,000. Then land was worth on an average $40 an acre; now it ia worth $186. Then there were 10,000,000 acres of wheat at 11 bushels an acre; now there are 17,500,000 acres at 18 bushels each. Then agricultural laborers got 13 cents a day; now they get 50 cents. Then it cost the government $2200,000 to col lect a revenue of $186100,000; now it costs $3&V500,000 to collect 600,000,00a Indeed, almost the only item that shows no great change is thatof direct taxa tion, which baa risen from $726000,000 to $802,000,000. Statistics are usually dry reading, but those figures are juicy, enough. They show that we have no monopoly on progress; our sister repub lic has her share, and a big one it is. New York Tribune. Bresklya's Oaservsaee ef tea Day. BaooaxTir, N. Y., May aa President Harrison breakfasted early at the resi dence of Joseph F. Knapp, ia company with Secretary of the Navy Tracy aad Mayor Chapin. After breakfast several prominent cttisene called and shook hands with the chief executive. It was aear tea o'clock when the president and hie party started oat to review the parade. It is estimated that 30 per sons were packed oa Fort Green plaza aad mteraaoting streets, as the head of the cofauaa fanned by. The G. A. B. as they passed. the aresideat, lifted hat to the man who had the left of the aad he, too. The ia for i aad letter After taa review, the with aad Tracy, to Mr. WJ acid. It had arranged that the saoald attead the at Gea; Great's tea ia thai city, hat j was was Bwrun aa mM fifteen to tweaty hMMtaiwata7the KLI TJP IB WawUC CAS. era Shortly after taa team aa taa waukee k Northera raOway palii Wat of Beame, Wis, last Wedaeaday sight a man walked through the veer eeeeh to the ear door aad drawing a revolver ipelledthe brshaaisa to five ap all I the w had ia his peeket Ha it through all the the car in the walk ahead as ha relieved aim of his cash until ha reached the Waea he had finished from the train ia the dark jast -as ft pulling into Elba Junction. must have secured thee or four dollars and one or two gold wateaea. COFNTsTWErriSS CAFTCID. Ui Win Task. IllkH i's A posse, coaaiatiag of two sheriffs, a deputy marshal aad eight atiaeaa,made a raid on a gang of counterfeiters, who have been operating in the lod of Versailles, 111 Four captured and, besides . coanterfeitiaf tools and coins, a large quantity of Olioit whisky was found. Capt Porter of the secret service took the four man to Springfield, where he had them bouad over in $100 bonds each for counter feiting. Fields, one of the counterfeiters, turned state's evidence aad the captur ed birds bid fair to be of BMre import ance than the oaVeals originally thought A Mystery At Wkafta. About 6 o'clock last Tuesday an unknown woman, while in the aristocratic part of Wichita. was bound and gasaed by two men who drove rapidly behind her and carried her away in a covered carriage. The woman was about twenty-five years of age, and was richly dressed. She arrived ia the city the Sunday previous but refused to register at the hotel where she stopped. She said her name was Mrs. Beinhart of Cincinnati. It is stated that Beinhart is not the woman's name, but that she comes from a prominent Illinois family, and that the two men had been hired to put her out of the way. Patests Grsatea To citizens of Nebraska during the past week, and reported for this paper by C. A. Snow & Co., patent lawyers, opposite U. S. Patent office, Washington, D. a D. J. Arnold, Omaha, galvanic battery. Sylvester C Dunham; Willow Springs, paint; J. W. Haughawout, Omaha, snow plow; W. W. Johnson, Palmyra, sample holder and box pull; CL N. Newoomb, Omaha, conveyor; H. 0. Sector, Lincoln, transparency; H. O. Thomas, Cheyenne county, vegetable parer. WasBlagtSB Letter. From oar ragalsr oorrwpoadeat. The president returned today from a trip to salt water. He left here Satur day afternoon on Postmaster General Wanamakers steam yacht Bestless, with a party composed of the following gentlemen. Private secretary Halford, attorney general Miller, representative Anderson, of Kansas, and General George B. Williams. The postmaster general plaoed the yacht at the president's dis posal but asked to be excused from ac companying him because he did not wish to be absent on Sunday from his Philadelphia Sunday school. The, party expressed themselves as havMsgaad a delightful trip. The gossips have it that the present situation in Hayti is very ticklish and that some fighting may be necessary on the part of Uncle Sam in order to carry out the Monroe doctrine. It is reported here that France is about to interfere in the affairs of that country and that Sec retary Blaine and the president after consulting the' rest of the cabinet had determined to send an American com mission on board one of the strongest war vessels to see that France' and the rest of Europe keep their hands off. Many people believe that this commis sion has already been appointed, and that the whole thing will be kept secret until it is all fixed or unfixed as it 'may turnout No official information oan be gained on the subject either at the White House or the state department Of one thing the country may be assur ed. The administration will never allow any European power to gain control of Hayti either directly or indirectly. The season of the year ia rapidly ap proaching when the newspaper fake reigns in all its glory. To give an idea of the small foundation required to build a "fake1 of the greatest magnitude it is only necessary to mention a little cir cumstance that occurred last week. United States Treasurer Houston left for Indianapolis for the purpose of making arrangements for bringing his family to Washington. A vary simple and natural occurrence, and yet the "fake" correspondence built upon it a story of two columns, detailing the row between Mr. Harrison and the president and stating positively that Mr. Houston had tendered hie resignation and would not return to Washington. The president made fewer appoint ments last week than in any week since his inauguration and the liona share, as far aa importance goes was csptareti by by senator Quay for Peansylvanisns, B. F. Gukerson, being made second comp troller of the treasury and S.B.Holli day commissioner of customs, to say nothing of David Martin, appointed col lector of internal revenue for the Phila delphia district There were a few more appointments made such as U. 8, attor neys, marshals, etc, aad oae United States consul at Prague, which was cap tured byBobertCLSpoonerof Wiscon sin, a brother of senator Spooaer. The department of the Potomac, Q. A Beheld a memorial service tropoKtan church last night a large attendance of veterans, inulading the president, who occupied General Grant? old pew. It is estimated at the paaaoa ofaes that there will be adssVasaeyof about $16,00000 in the anycoadatiua for the eoauag fiscal year, whisk, hegjas Jl? 1st This is laity the lea of the lata lymade has estaaates too asaslL ItseeaaedaUttWaaeertosseaMnoB the streets of the Virginia state last week; they m avbutl of aYiniaia camp of ecaas, that had been to a. to take part ia the BtlfpsfB fH tM iBf Vfaf, . a rested to the sasseory of the Alsasadria JibHH that iiBBJoaara that hare lest aad a lag are catitied to $79 aaMsnaamaaadar of thecivfl which provides that hereafter the of all parties eligible for na bs made pabuc. This larnaalof the raise as siaee the of the nnmaiiasina the hots thsstsBdiBsTof the aepUeaata have has act of the two tret-class it, ha should at oace to the editor of thie paper. Secretary .Proctor returned from trip. XlaKattsTa KOTBa. Corporal Taaaer, ssoas. will deliver the oa the Fourth. Miles Henry, the aotorioas obaaty murderer, was captured at Cue. tar City, Dak, by the sheriff of Custer county last Taesdsy. Henry Mayer and family, who have been viaitiag the past four years ia Germany, arrived at their home ia Grand M. J. Judd,of the Union Paeiac rail way bridge gang, fell from the bridge over the sand draw, at Ogalalla, Taasday, injariag.him internally. dark Gillespie a six-years-old boy of Lincoln, was run over Wednesday by a book aad udder truck. Both wheals passed over his body and he died ia twenty minutes. The driver is blamed with driving too fast and too oarslaanly. Several Indians from the Winnebago reservation have filed oompknats against a teacher in the Winnebago eharaina him with criminal with a number of bis female pupils. Aa investigation will be immediately insti tuted. It is claimed by aome that revel ations will be made implicating more than one in the disreputable affair. Last Tuesday a little child of Mr. Jeff Forco, living three miles south of Craig, was sitting on the floor by the oook stove. It pulled one of the legs from under the stove, causing an upset ad pouring a kettle of hot water oa itself scalding it terribly. The re from the stove also set fire to the child's clothes, burning it so badly that it died the next day. Scandal mongers are busy with the nasty actions of one a W. McClelkn, a carpenter and stair builder of Lincoln. He is a much married man it seems He left a wife in the east has another at Lincoln, and in the meantime has been making love to a German girl who has promised to marry hhn. The details are very nasty and McClellan ought to be pumsned accordingly. Two Bohemians were returning to their homes northeast of Schuyler hat Wednesday with a load of bridge piling. When about three miles out of the city, it appears that the wagon broke down and the horses taking fright ran away, instantly killing one of the men, named Novak, and breaking the other man'e leg. It ia reported that they were both drank. Hecht's packing house at Kearney was burned about 5 o'clock Thursday morn ing. The fire resulted from spontaneous combustion. The building is a total wreck. The loss is at least $90000Jpart ly covered by insurance. Mr. Hecht was in Omaha at the time, trying to per fect arrangements with the Union Pa cific road for a switch to the packing What promised to be a disastroas fire aipped in the bud at Craig Wednes day night A danoe was in progress in a large building adjacent to the hotel and a residence. About 2 a. m. fire was discovered in a abed in the rear. It spread rapidly, but by hard work was gotten under control before mach dam age was done. It is supposed to have been fired purposely. A car loaded with wagons and plete camping outfit was sent west over the Union Pacific road today by Will Reynolds -for the use of the Reynolds Bros, on their big sheep drive. Aforoe of seven men accompanied the outfit One of the men, Mr. Johnson, who has superintended two or three drives, will have charge of one band of sheep and "Cash" Bjynoldo'another division. They have 1200 head. Fremont Tribune. George Sprecher received notice Mon day that a pension had been granted him. He made application for this pension five years ago, and will get eight dollars a month from that time until last Au gust and twelve dollars a month since then. Uncle jssorge is now eighty-one years of age, and he enlisted long after his age would have exempted him from military duty, serving until the close of the r.ar. Such men will never receive n greater reward than is their due. Schuyler Herald. H. E. Williams, son of J. H. Williams, of divide, was quite seriously injured on Monday by his arm getting caught it the eoga of a coca, sheller while shalKng corn at G. H. Patterson's, on the Bidge. He was wesafsg a loose blouse at the time and the begging sleeve caught in the cogs aad drew in his arm between the elbow and hand, mangling his flash severely and auddag an ugly wound, but not injuring the bone. Mr. Williams, by rare presence of mind, saved further in jury by throwing himself to the ground aad thus preventing his arm being drawn further ia the auchiaary. As it m he gets off with aa ugly flash wound. He was brought to FuOsrton to have the wound disanMV Jiminsl A few days ago Farmer John Loag, weU known and bring west ef Nebraska Oty, gave employment to-a' young deaf aad dumb bibb whsrsaid he was ia vary Ssvaral dafs later ha waited to go to his at Dhaoj, to ate hat sick pre ham amoaay to go After ha had gone it of aw other Ha gava his hasse as Caas. Hum, sad had with aha a diploma from the iasU. tats far the deaf aad dumb at Oawhs, Mr. Loag foaad oa that HHha had damoaad of at the goods to a esald talk aad 1 ef Z. JE4-1 -rS .X'-?A Jt rm- -n.ri- 1 e , W&9 aawM aVsVsX taw) MM? tweaty-eaa eases affected by the da- beau kept secret n there is a at reaablioaa meanoasa lor . -Mr ..- -- -w I- aW VMMMy WSIBB1 SRnW US' BBSSB1 tnia raw aaifailai tn Banians sswsh frssa ths obbobHb aaYsuCiua silk a aUiug at steak eats, ha waa atraak ssrf Msnsnfc. Iy kBkd. He was terribly matihaia. the body. identify the thathewasaeeetioamaa. As oae eknjaed taa body it was taken to laaa maun asaaaailaim anw wmm.waanam usannaBjjesBee. It was learned that thevietisa Uasea May Slat ADMTKOTAL LOCAL refreshed the small theosol '.the areleokiag aaumberof our busy cultivating ooro at pressat George Hodel was viaitiag Mr. or uraad frame Mr. aad Mrs. viaitiag their daughter, Mrs. W. H. Swartsleyafewdaya age. T.M.W0saa lately. Wis noticed that Joseph hie Oregon to to tare for the A large auarter of the neighbors at tended tae.decoratioa servioss at Co lumbus oa the 30th, assay of them to lay flowers oa the graves of dead rel ativeo or friends. It is rumored hare lately that Frank TiaohsJager aad Fred Steager contem plate making n trip to Switserlaad hi a few weeks, bat we were informed later that Mr. Lachainger is not going, for a time at least We stated last week that it was Ger hard Loaeke's team which ran away and injured John HeibeL bat we have bean credibly informed that it was Henry Grotleuecbenls team, not having seea either of the parties, however we are in doubt as to which it was. George Henggler baa had a bow wind aull erected lately. Belle Swartsley has bean dangerously ill with rheumatism in the head, the past week, but is at present slowly re covering. William Moore baa been breaking aome prairie lately and sowing the to flax. He also lost oae of 1 lately sad we notice that he driving n new team for possibly tne outcome of a trade. George Hodel has purchased some hay of George Henggler. Chabxbb. Palesuae. J. M. Anderson has built an addition to hie house. Mr. Stevens has his house painted. Mr. Rolf ie putting a foundation under hie house. John Berlin lost n young oolt last week. Nela Berlin has gone to Nonpareil, Box Butte county, to plant his timber lain. W. D. Hanchett has a new cultivator; Mr. Abrahamson also. Mr. Haylit ia building quite n largo bam. Some of our farmers have commenced cultivating corn. Poor old Charlie is dead! In very kind ness his master, Mr. Jones, had shot As near as can be learned he not far from thirty years old. Why kit not right.aud proper to write obituary notices for horses and dogs who have worn out their lives in our service? Far more honest and truthful eulogies aught be written for the dumb servants than are written many and many n time for the human race. FredrikaSueasoo has the mumps. Prof. Bush of Albion visited over Sail or at Palestine. His former coagrega tioa were extremely wall nleased to see his faauhar face in its old place ia the desk oa Sunday morning. MA cheerful countenance doth good fike a niedkane." Dab. Received too lata for last week. En. JounxAU Howard Roe was a Columbus visitor Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm, HfJliagshsad left for Oenterrin, J oa Thursday last. Miss Sadie Erwia, sister of James Erwin, is seriously DL Bert Strother left tor a visit to Fair mont Friday evening. Samuel Alexander visited Colambaa Monday. Several car loads of hogs sad cattle are being shipped from Monroe this week. Joseph Webster returned Thursday from Red Oak, la, where he had been to purchase shorthorns. Mr. Webster be lieves in improviag his cattle. D. W. JenkiBsoa and family visited Newman Grove Saturday combiaing bueueess alia pleasure, as ae brougat home a goat we preume to initiate mem bers into the Monroe branch of the Harmony club, for we mast have har mony in Monroe or we cannot do any thing. T. rx x. Review of the weather near Genoa the month of May, 1$m. for laaantoamsjntatsof the month SMS wluBBsatB usnwy Kaa sua n Lowest do on the 2d O T. .. 17 ... 11 3 IS ie .. 2JB i which rain felL. of lainsaU. Du lis aims small net jssr Ui Tkundcfatoraas oa the fth, 10th, 14th. Sight ice on the 1st and 3d. 8faghthefloatheflth. Frost oa the 1st and 3d. Lunar cornea 3d. A vary high wind storm from south sad exwtheeet oa the 4th and 6th, sl- aaale. itn ass bean uacosamoaiy cool aad dry. although tha temperature has been 6.71 above the mean of May last year, stfll it has been SMT below the aasaa for the past It rreamtneTuMa. Coaaty Suaermteades TaWaswAT BWaWalB aB this of the ooanty the fret of Geo. F. Billies formerly of He wfll , Mm. J. C.Caldwell, tea short to of oar ball siae, t2aMW V mm aba t Cttrahm; than, last avadaf ; eeaie, ft I ! It If ia later of the MaaMjawowa hay- No oae was able to reauias although H was Taa lata rains M A. A W con and email grain enflBaWaWaTsBfai -Sv.ti...-JF!Ji,r' -J..SL L. .... - " Tr-nnrrruuii mil in mnmrixmrmim?,'-i'-- .1-51 T- JB- -3M-f -S - -- n tt" ;' "- -tf 1 1 . j m l-mmt . ..J t ER3STST & -VUtUr&CTUUMaHDPaaurttlK-- Bail bbbbbV aBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa SUPERB LAMP FILLERS AND COAL OIL CAN COMBINED, WUtktotaahtr.eamwmutmBa.rlmnUmmn aarl iiplicity.eiiaot bgUgd. I Tisnsin tts simile ariasisjl ia ukUesogay art tmkmt the nmk sbowe all 1jm. filter. No dsaaar ef s Slnstaai, AhoWfarmw"te. NpUnac.viBaortetafoteU oa ta ieer.taM mUU(ch. UaitoaeKtjrNiilIaotkwttliMHitrorfiTtiaNiUccMt. It work is I I WU pmi njiraiy " II imIi. . aw7Wwuti uin , laaaaastsriess. BAKER PERFECT If yaa kay it yea tlW rose of ft frost SPEICE General Agent raeiaeB.R. en tie artaayaan ftee. ia an Jet of illiilisjj. istBrarad sad Imnaamssdisiiissiii Inn iatai stored. itfeeeity. we COLUMBUS, -eaBaakew4BBtBfthflr rtnatuC3jBBBfS55?!" OMAHA MEAT MARKET! We save jaet opened a market on NEBRASKA AVENUE, where we beat of all kiads of 56 POULTRY, ETC. We ask the people of Colanbas to by honest dealing aad jest scaka. ire dec5-88tf Three days is a very short time in which to cure n bad esse of rheumatism; but it can be done, if the proper treat meat is adopted, aa will be seen by the following from James Lambert, of New Branswkk, Ills. MI was badly afflicted with rheumatism in my hips and legs, when I -bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. Itcumlmein throe days. I am all right today; and would insist on every one who is afflicted with that ter rible disease, to use Chamberlain's Pain Balm and get well at once." For sale by all. druggists. An epidemic of measles k prepailing at Greeley Center. It was mentioned by the late Horace Greely, that nothing "succeeds like suc cess!' If this be true, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy will always be popular, as it never fails. It-is intended, especial ly for coughs, colds, croup and whoop ing cough, and ia undoubtedly the best and most reliable medicine in use for those dhweses. It is decidedly a success. For sale by all draygista. PBOBATE NOTICE. OTATEOF NEBRASKA, ) MRlfff OS1 VLiittK l 88. la ths ntmmtr eoart.'tn and for said county. In - " r: - i" . - a .. ... j i or tne estate oi mary neusie, oe- j lsss of asfal eonntr. At a aion of the county court for said eoanty at the ooanty Jadge'a osVe in (Sambas. I eoantr ob the list dar of Mar. A. D. readtogendnling 'ate daly recited petition of Barah J. Jesaiags. praying that letters of admln- ietnrJon be issued to her on tne of said Thereapon, It ia ejoerea tnat tne zita oay oi Jane, A. DL 188S, at is o'clock a. hl. ue asMgnea for the hearing of said petition at the eoanty Jedge'aoaace ia said ooanty. .... n5i It Is farther ordered, that dae legal notice be siren ef the pendency and hearing of said petition by pabllention in Tax Countsus Joubmaz. for three eonsecatire weeks. (A tree copy of the order). JJMO, UMUM nnAfllfll7 mwm3 H. . HCBBUH. Cosnty Jadge. NOTICE PEOBATE OF WILL. Haldeabrind. deceased. Ia eoanty coart Platte eoaaty Ben. The atato of Nebraska to the heirs and next of Ida of the said AdasVHaldenhrand. deotased. Take notice, tnat neon aung or a written ii etismt narnortiaaTto be an aathenticated eoor ef the last wiU aad testament of Adam Halden brand for probate sad allowance, it is ordered that said matter be est for bearing the Uth day of Jane. A. D.M8S, before said cosnty coart. at the hoar of o'clock a. m.,at which time any person may appear and contest tne .same: ana notieaof this proceeding is ordered pablishrd three weeks saccearirely in Tax Coutxbos JotrnaTAL, a weekly newspaper, pabUahed ia the Ia testimony whereof, I hare hereunto set my tad aad the seal of the eoanty coart at Colnm- this Bah day of May. A. U. wm. It H. J. Hcdsok, uosaty Jaoge. BRASS SEEDS! Blue Gran, Clover, Timothy, Orchard Gnuts Seed, etc. at KMMI tflilfCI i MM. Cnas.F.KvArr. Fbavx K. KsArr. Cwtnelirs ud Biiliirs. lon'brfekaa .few, Bpseial attoBtioavaa to hnefc -m ifcii.ir -- Co iniTen. m 4 SCHWAKZ; !! mil. I.I II ll I T I .L. -. ... "! m iiimiI1HWWu ia neiTBHl wihi wuc naiiaiBnimiy. CaUaadae STOVES AMD ..' RANGES ALWAYS FOB BALK AT IIRT i SOliM: STEEL BARB WIRE; MSpoeadaof wire, wfcie so other will do.1 ERNST tk SGHWABZ. 44-2t & NOKTH, for ike safe e BUS to tMLM ear aare for east rtNteeaitsenaaaara. we fcara also a lata sad c aoiai i, for aale at lew pries ss4 ob leMeaable tame. :Alet ksap a eaaiBlate aeatiaetof tkle to all nal aetata u n rill keep the ver na a ahare of their patronage, which we hope to lease aie on a call. TURVERat THE IMPORTJBU KICKIel JTAUJStS ! And ABDALLAH, lOwnl by Mark 31. Coed, of tLKekwwill Btaadforthe Jabr to. MRS: Mondays, at the a. ra. to 2 n. m. 1 P. m ia to the farm of J. H. Beed. then back to TBesdeys, at ax. a near uiear Ureea in tne will so to the farm of A. Hautht. oathe fur the night. Wednesday, wfll notoJ.C.PMllii toJ.C ipe'a fans. S miles aoafnwa Cekunbn. rataraing to Co- lambasiathe Tharsdays. will go to to the farm of "-- for dinner, then 2 miles wast of Platte Center, for the aJafct. Fridays, after a. m through Platte Castor back to Gleasoa A Terrell's barn. Colambaa, till Mondays. These are both fall blood imported Pereheroa horsm, and the horse LeHsacy is an exceptionally fine bred hone, being sired by Dunham's now famous horse laFerte. Parties in charge will giTe fall partiealara, and take pleaeare ia show. lag tne norma to all persona who will call at i oitaeaboYe -PEDIGREES: LsBascr. F.B.No.aa. PercberoaStad Book of Ameri ca 6, or Praaee MM. Dark Grey; foaled 18M: imported 1868. Brad ' byM. Msiwtsnent. of tit. Oermaa. TheiL . py iEff" ---- Cwtti he by Philibert lSe) .'....-. (TBI). heby gaperior iM frsty Dei? iSSSL - m' shebynalibert IMS (7SB N gPlor to (7 . he by Farori I fail) AaDAXXAB. F. B.N0.M. Pereheroa Bead Book of Amri. ea.4J14.of Fraace. Orey: foaled in 188S; imported ialSSS. ' Wjdrtlhttwmds7 - . le-K5?iri!5te - TChmi "v1-: Dam, Kobine, belonging to Mr. Gannier. Terma-Toiaaaje.aM. Heaaon serrice. $12. These horses are in -- f u ur u . 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