The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, July 24, 1889, Image 2

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 21. 1889.
Cuhtox, Ia has a case of small pox.
Yioajow fever is reported at Quebec
The London Hipper" is again becom
ing the talk of the world.
C. M. C. Spookeb of Iowa, was ap
pointed post office inspector last week.
The president has appointed Hon.
A. J. Sampson of Denver, CoL, consul of
the United States at Paso Del Norte,
Old Mexico.
A shock of earthquake has been felt
on the island of Arra and the mainland
of .Scotland last week. Houses were
violently shaken.
At Bad Rriver Station, Wia, Thurs
day, Joseph Frnsch murdered his 18
years old bride. Cause unknown and
the murderer escaped.
Ok the night of the 19th inst, burg
lars entered the jewelry store of H. J.
Bodwell of Lynn, Mass., and stole
$12,000 worth of jewelry.
It was reported last week that the
wheat crop in Hungary was below the
average and is in poor condition, owing
to the shrinkage of grain.
ADDrxand Kate Gordon, and Myrtle
Granby, from 11 to 14 years old, were
drowned in the river near Paola, Kas.,
while bathing the other day.
The prohibitionists of Virginia have
held a state convention and placed in
nomination Hon. Thomas . Taylor of
Loudon county for governor.
At Frackville, Ru, on the night of the
20th, a dwelling occupied by an aged
couple, Michael McGrath and wife, was
destroyed by fire and the old people
perished.
' Bev. Edward E. Bankik, one of the
best known Presbyterian ministers in the
country, died Monday morning at New
ark, N. J., of heart failure at the age of
seventy.
These was another horrible murder
committed in London. The body of a
woman was found mutilated in the usual
frightful manner in Castle alley in the
Whitechapel district.
An inflated bag, answering the de
scription of Campbell's air 6hip, passed
over Louisville, Ky., Sunday night It
went from northeast to southwest and
appeared to be two miles high.
Robert Dalton, a U. S. marshal,
while in the discharge of his duty last
week, was shot fatally by Lee West, at
Oklahoma, Kas., but before he expired
Dalton shot West, killing him instantly.
A fire visited Sioux City the other
night destroying the Rink opera house,
the store and dwelling of M. Collins and
the bakery of C. E. White. The loss of
property is estimated at $120,000. How
it started, no one knows.
Four hundred houses and public
buildings were destroyed by fire in the
town of Pake Sunday. Many children
are reported missing. Hundreds of peo
ple are rendered homeless by the fire
and the greatest distress prevaila
Jawttee, Net Charity. .
The interview with Pension Commis
sioner Tanner, published in the Inter
Ocean of Sunday, was largely devoted to
clearing up misapprehensions, or willful
misapprehensions, ae the case may be,
of hie position.- Everaince hie appoint
ment there has seemed to be a studied
effort to put him in a false light. Indeed,
it began when his appointment
merely one of the might-he's. He
represented as in favor of shoveling out
the public money to old soldiers with in
discriminate prodigality on the theory
that they all ought to have pensions for
the asking. There was no foundation
for anything of the kind. He has no
theory of pensions beyond a faithful ex
ecution of the law as made by congress,
and in cases of doubt giving the pen
sioner the benefit of the doubt. Presi
dent Cleveland's policy was to seize upon
every technicality or pretext for with
holding a pension. The Tanner policy
is only simple justice. Even in a crim
inal prosecution the individual is en
titled to that benefit, not on the ground
of mercy but of fair dealing, and much
more should that policy obtain in the
case of soldiers who are applicants for
pensions.
The underlying principle of pension
payments is justice, not charity. The
old soldier who knocks at the door of
the pension office is not a mendicant
seeking alma On the contrary he is a
workman worthy of his hire. The gov
ernment had always pensioned its hon
orably discharged soldiers, under cer-.
tain conditions, the government itself
being the sole judge of the conditions.
It was perfectly well understood at the
time of enlistment that the United
States looked after its ex-soldiers
through the Pension Bureau. We have
had three wars, and a pension roll in
connection with each. No formal words
were needed to make that feature of the
contract intelligible and binding. The
government could not afford to pay any
thing like what the service was worth at
the time, for it was hard pressed for
funds, and the pension roll is a part of
the original cost of war.
The non-pensioned portion of the na
tion is not impoverished by these pay
ments. The pensioners do not go abroad
to spend the money they receive from
month to month. Neither do they spend
it on imported luxuries. They are poor
people who stay at home from necessity
and expend their stipends in the pur
chase of the necessaries of life. Each
summer millions of American money are
expended in foreign lands and go to the
enrichment of Europe, but the millions
which are monthly paid to pensioners go
almost immediately into the channels of
domestic exchange.
There is something demoralizing in
being an object of charity, however de
serving the person may be of pity, and
it would be cruel injustice to place the
ex-soldier in that category. He will
never be paid for his services. Money
can not compensate him for his priva
tions, hardships, and dangers he en
countered in his country's behalf. Nor
can any country afford to assume that
these deferred payments are eleemosy
nary in character. Inter Ocean.
THE RIPPER
thin, and
with cream and fresh
butter. Who does aot
the
dfllCTO
of the first
chicken pie
it to tee
the season, and if you.
man's eyes shine just i
dish of crisp fried cUoksn. I know one
who never tires of it. And the eggs, too,
how the children do love them like is
not nearly strong enough to express
their affection love is the word. Hyom
want to make little boys happy in cold
weather, just give thorn some eggs to
roast. Likely as not the eggs will pop
open in the fire and ashes will get mixed
with the yolks, bat that doesn't matter;
not a particle will be lost.
For an invalid .there is nothing so
tempting as chicken broth; it is much
more palatable that the various extracts
of meat, beef juice, and koumiss, that
one gets out of a drag store, which to
my thinking are exceedingly trying even
to a well stomach. And yet how few
families among the poorer people, or
even those in moderate circumstances,
have a bountiful supply of paultry. How
often have I seen little children sit down
to a meal of salt bacon and soda biscuit
No wonder their little faces are sallow
and peaked, while the father complains
of enormous doctor's bills. But if you
ask the mother why she didt raise more
chickens this year, ten to one she will
say it was her husband's fault; either he
would keep the brood sows in lots next
the house, or she could not get coops
made tight enough to keep the vermin
out, or something or other happened to
them that a man of average intelligence
might have prevented. fEx.
AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE.
IRELAND.
Mr. J. H. Reed Gives Smm Iatereatiag Facte
is a rumor in circulation that
Senator Manderson is to go to the su
preme bench of the United States and
that Gov. Thayer will appoint ex-Senator
Alvin Saunders to take his place.
There is probably no foundation for it
i
Bhode Island's legislature in special
session to enact a license law, was pre
sented with a bill which provides for
. wholesale license fees from $500,to $1,000
to be determined by a license commis
sioner, and retail fees of $100 in Provi
dence, running down to $250 in towns
according to population.
A cloud burst near Lancaster, Ohio,
Thursday, caused a bad washout on the
Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo
railroad, delaying traffic for some hours
and causing a great loss of crops. The
little village of Georgesville in the same
county was fired by lightning the same
night, and half the town' consumed.
DuRnra the rain and wind storm last
week the town of Princeton, in Butler
county, Ohio, was blown away. There
were about thirty houses, including .a
saw mill and a school house. All are
gone. The brick school house was lifted
into the air and the roof carried 200
yards and lodged in the top of a big
tree.
At 8 o'clock last Friday evening there
was a cloud burst one mile northeast of
Bellefountain, O., and an immense body
of water came pouring down upon the
unsuspecting inhabitants. People ran
for their lives; water in the public park
stood six feet deep at one time. Satur
day morning the streets were strewn
with dead cows, buggies, demolished
stables and general debris.
Ax Intelligencer special of the 21st
from the flooded district of West Vir
ginia statrs that it is feared the death
bat will be much increased when points
now cut off from the outside world are
heard from. A Lite dispatch says the
village of Morristown, Wert county, was
swept entirely away. Great suffering
i among those who lost all they pos-
and the county commissioners
win issue aa appeal for aid. The cloud
hurst occurred on Limestone mountains,
i the five creeks that flooded have a
source. The damages to crops
inestimable, and farmers will be de-1
The tJreat Excitement ia London Continues
Unabated.
The World's special from London of
the 20th says: Toward midnight Friday
the life of another woman was attempt
ed close by Castle alley. A woman and
man were seen to approach the dark por
tion of the thoroughfare near the old
gate at the east portion of the station.
The pair did not remain long in the cor
ner before the woman was heard to say,
"No I won't" The remark was address
ed to a dark man of medium height,
with a slouch hat and foreign appear
ance. The man seized her, dragged her
a short distance and flung her on the
curb stone and
PRODUCED A DAGGER.
Screams of -'Jack the Ripper" and of
murder attracted crowds of men and
women from all directions. Among the
first arrivals at the scene were several
members of the local vigilance associa
tion, which has only just resumed its
work. Before the man had time to get
far he was seized and a
drradfui. struggle ensued.
He had a long knife in his hand and it
was some time before he could be de
prived of it Eventually it was taken
from him. Even then his fight for lib
erty was of a most determined nature.
In the midst of the fray the woman
crawled away. Police whistles were
heard in all directions. A great number
of officersj both of the city and metro
politan force, appeared on the scene.
When the police reached the spot the
man was cut and
bleeding profusely
from wounds inflicted by the crowd,
which had raised the cry "lynch him''
and were throwing all kinds of missiles
at the exhausted prisoner. Under strong
escort cf police he was got to the police
station, where he was charged. In re
ply he said: "The woman robbed me."
When asked why he drew the dagger, he
replied that he had done so in self de
fence. He said he was a sailor and gave
a Scotch name, adding that he had ar
rived from South Shields about a week
Lago. When asked where he was on the
morning of the 17th inst, he could not
say. He did not know where he had
stayed while in London. A small knife
was found in his possession, together
with his seaman discharge papers.
ANOTHER MURDER REPORTED.
A World special from London, dated
July 20th, says: At 3:30 this morning
another murder of "Jack the Bipper"
class, and capture of the murderer re
ported. This last crime occurred just
outside the Whitechapel district, near
London bridge. Shrieks of a woman
heard from the rear of St George's
buildings. The police caught the man
as he was running away, knife in hand.
It was reported that the woman's throat
was cut and the body mutilated.
Another special of the 20th says: The
man who gave himself up yesterday and
confessed that he had committed the
crimes laid to the door of "Jack the
Bipper," says his name is Win. Brady
Today he told the police magistrate that
the confession he made yesterday was a
true one, whereupon the magistrate re
manded him for a week.
The Noted Caaaterfeiter, Nebwa Drigpi, to be
Locked Up at Ciaciaaati.
Washington, July 19. The Chief of
the Secret Service Bureau, Treasury De
partment, this morning received a tele
gram from Dayton, Ohio, saving that
Nelson Driggs and his confederate, Ger
tie Driggs, two of the most notorious
counterfeiters in this country, had been
arrested by the secret service detectives.
A decoy deal has been in progress for
some time between the detectives and
Driggs for the sale of $25,000 in $10
United States Treasury notes. Driggs
agreed to the sale, and yesterday met
the Treasury agents at a place near Day
ton to turn over the spurious money.
Seeing himself caught, he made a des
perate resistance to arrest, and succeed
ed in severely wounding one- of the
detectives. Driggs has been repeatedly
arrested, and is considered the most
skillful counterfeiter in existence. The
Treasury Department officials say that
his arrest is the most important one ever
maae Dy tne secret service Bureau.
Dayton, Ohio, July 19. Captain John
S. Bell, Chief of the Government Secret
Service, will take Nelson Driggs and his
wife and baby and Mrs. Mary Brown to
jail at Cincinnati for complicity in the
counterfeiting deal that was turned up
yesterday. Driggs, who is 80 years old,
is out, under the escort of detectives,
visiting friends in hopes of getting $10,
000 bail.
All hopes of capturing Jim Guyon,
alias Jim Hank, alias Jim Hamilton,
with whom the detectives had the skirm
ish yesterday, have been abandoned. All
of the but issue of $40,000 counterfeit
$10 notes is now in the hands of the
Secret Service Bureau, but the plates
have not turned up.
FLOODS IN CHINA.
Six Thoasaad People Drowsed by a Cload
Bant.
San Francisco, CaL, July 1& The
steamer City of New York has arrived
from Hong Eong and Yokohama. In
telligence had been received from Hong
Kong that early in the morning of the
2d ult, that the Chan Cing and Pong
Yuen districts were flooded by the burst
ing of a water spout or tornado, and the
level country flooded with nearly thirty
six feet of water. The villages of Chae
Kon and Ha-Kue-Hui in the Ping Yuen
district and Cueong Tarn, Hop Lui, Ngai
Ku, Sam Chan Eiu and Sam Po Hui in
Chan Ping district were overflowed and
many houses wholly swept away, while
others were inundated. Upwards of six
thousand lives were lost
Lead OfJee Changes Likely.
Senator Paddock is expected to arrive
in Washington again Tuesday or Wed
nesday, and it is believed that his return
will be followed by a number of addi
tional changes among the land officers
in the Nebraska districts. There are
several cases ready to be acted upon,
and as soon as the two senators from
Nebraska say the word the changes will
be made. Assistant Secretary Chandler,
of the interior department, under whose
charge these land offices come, does not
believe in making any fuss over matters
of this kind, but is' quite willing to ap
point republicans instead of democrats
whenever he thinks the good of the state
demands it, and the appointive powers
in the state reach an agreement Wash.
Cor. Bee.
Fvattry.
There is nothing that will take the
place of poultry; it is always ready; the
Utica Herald: President Cleveland
found Mary Ann Dougherty, a veteran's
widow, of no use except as a target for
fat-witted sarcasm in one of his many
pension vetoes. Denied by him a pen
sion of $8 a month, she is appointed by
President Harrison's secretary of agri
culture to a position in which she can
earn $1.50 per day. The veterans' friends
are at the helm.
On the farm of Henry Hoffman near
Hobart, IncL, Sunday morning, the hired
man went down into a well to get a
piece of meat which had fallen into the
water. He was overcome by foul air and
fell into the water. A neighbor named
Michael Hoffner went down to rescue
him and was also overcome. Neither of
the bodies have been recovered up to
this evening.
Now here we have it pretty rich, if so
be we have it at all. A telegram last
Wednesday, says: "A twelve foot of bi
tuminous coal was found this afternoon
at South Sioux City, Neb, at a depth of
sixty feet The augur first went through
slate and then struck the coal. Sam
ples burned freely and there is much ex
citement over the find."
STOLEN DOGGEREL.
The Three Graces.
FAITH.
With eaaer appetite I fx auae eye
Upoa the piece of hackelberry pie.
BOFX.
How Siaular the berry aad the ty!
Aad yet, Mayhap, it ia a bm j pie.
Iatoite depths I peer, aad paaa the pie
Uatoatyaaasryaeicaboraittiac by.
most wholesome dish a mother can set
before her children is stewed chicken, I S i"
tucbjritysjrifl next seascm. J cooked with a few Irish potatoes shoed J bnlla,
The day iaeold aad dark aad dreary.
It laiaa, aad the and is aawer weary;
BatitaaUwaUeajeashferacMaad
Cirl aad her fellow.
Abeat the lslaad aad ito Peesle.
Considering the prominence it has
held, especially in these later years, Ire
land is but s small country. The entire
area is only 32,000 square mike, about
two-fifths that of our state of Nebraska.
A small island to 'command the attention
it now has of the civilized world. We
have not far to seek the cause. A sturdy
little nation, loving liberty, and bravely,
if not always wisely, insisting upon her
rights from a great nation, wickedly op
pressing her.
Though the area, including her vast
stretches of mountains and bog bonds,
which cover one-seventh of the island, is
so limited, it has a population of over
5,000,000, and, before the great famine of
'46 and subsequent huge emigration, had
over 8,000,000.
It will best serve my purpose, before
entering upon the more descriptive parts,
to speak briefly ot the political troubles
that have so long and sorely disturbed
the country. It was my desire, during
my visit, to learn real facts, whether
they accorded with my sympathies and
preconceived opinions or not and I tried
to study both sides fairly and carefully,
both while in Ireland and afterward
during my longer stay in England.
Time will not permit me to discuss the
matter at length, but some general facts,
as I learned them while on the ground,
and some incidents which I shall refer
to, further along, may be of use to those
of you who care to havo a clearer notion
of the much discussed Irish question.'
First, the conservative party in Eng
land profess to believe, at least, that
home rule for Ireland means entire sepa
ration from Great Britain, at least, they
claim, it would result in that, and say,
that under the circumstances, the island
is too near for a separate government
In this they are clearly right Again,
they claim that the Irish have no just
cause of complaint. If they would
quietly obey the laws, trouble would
cease. To prove that they are not pre
pared for home rule, which means local
government, they cite the resistance to
laws, and especially to the disturbances,
riots and bloodshed, so frequently oc
curring in connection with evictions.
In short, they claim the Irish to be a re
bellious, troublesome race, needing to be
restrained and governed by the most
stringent laws, ijet us iook lor a mo
ment at their grounds for these claims.
In Ireland, the land is not tilled by
those who own it,as with us,but held by
larger estates which are divided into
parcels, cultivated by those who lease
them. Leases are usually for a series of
years. Formerly the same family fre
quently occupied the same farm or hold
ing for several generations. When our
cheaply raised grain and meat began to
find their way across the water, prices of
Irish produce declined and it became
more difficult for the Irish tenants to
pay their large rents. In many in
stances, entirely impossible. The result,
evictions. That is, the delinquent ten
ant was forced to leave the farm which
may hare been their home for years, and
on which he expected to spend the re
mainder of his life. He may have put
valuable improvements upon it, for
which he will get no remuneration. He
has not money enough to get to Ameri
ca. Has no place to go, except he take
the place on another estate from which
some other delinquent like himself has
been driven. He imagines, at least, that
he is wronged, and when the agent comes
to order him away he refuses to go,
peacefully. Sometimes a score of ten
ants on the same estate have notice to
leave at the same time. They talk over
their grievances. The result is, com
bined resistance, which, when the time
comes, is often encouraged by the pres
ence of large numbers of sympathising
neighbors and friends. Not unfrequent
ly the priest and member of parliament
are present Then come the scenes
cited as showing the rebellious character
of the Irish peasantry, and their unfit
ness for self government If it is but a
single family or two, to be evicted, the
police make easy and quick work of it
If a number of strong handed farmers
are ordered to leave the same estate, the
resistance is often long and bloody.
Sometimes the scenes at these evictions
are quite pathetic I remember one in
stance where a sick woman not expected
to live, was roughly carried out on her
bed and left in the street The 'crying
of women and children on being thrust
from their homes is often touching.
Sometimes the scenes are desperate and
bloody, but the final results are always
the same. Soon or later the tenants
are driven from their holdings. How
futile the efforts of a few farmers,
against the will of their landlords, back
ed by 12,000 English constables, and
they by regiments of English soldiers
quartered in all parts of the island, who
have the great English parliament be
hind them.
That there is much resistance to law
ful authority in Ireland, and that .it
often results in furious disturbance and
bloodshed, there is no doubt Before
looking for a cause for this, I wish to
speak of the feeling I met with in Eng
land toward Americans about this mat
ter. Many times Englishmen said -to me
that they wondered at Americans espous
ing the cause of the Irish, when they
were the occasion of so much trouble at
home. They cannot believe but we owe
all our riots, labor troubles, eta, to the
Irish, among us, who, they are sure, are
all bad, and only bad. Their knowledge
of the Irish in this country's confined
to what they know about them in our
great centers, as New York and Chicago,
where the worst element of our foreign
population is found. It seems to be im
possible for an Englishman to conceive
of a large number of Irish on farms and
in villages all over our country thrifty,
law-abiding, respected citizens; I had
no idea of the bitterness entertained by
a class of Englishmen toward us, before
visiting England, and if they were right
in their position toward the Irish, I
would not blame them for their hatred
of us. They claim that had it not been
for the moral support the Irish and their
leaders have received from this side of
the water, the. matter would have been
settled long ago, and I believe they are
right about this. -But I'm sure it would
have been settled the wrong way. But
what is worse, they accuse us of low
motives claim our friendship is simply
a bid for the Irish vote.
During the early part of winter I spent
a week at Florence, Italy. At the same
boarding place was an
highly educated, Christian woman,
thoroughly familiar with European mat
ters and among the best informed about
our Amerioan people, I had
conversation one evening she had
favorably of some of our institutions,
when she remarked that England would
like to retain her friendship for America,
but our conduct made it very hard to do,
and then spoke of our government not
ratifying the fisheries treaty as being all
wrong, and said its treatment of Lord
Sackville was most wicked and disgrace
fuL Said she could not speak her con
tempt for a government that would
stoop to do such acts merely to influence
a few Irish votes. Said that our whole
treatment of England in the Irish mat
ter was all wrong. I had learned that
it was little use to attempt argument
in such cases, but ventured the remark
that I did not think America wished to
interfere with English affairs, but that
many of our people felt that it would be
better, for all concerned, if the Irish had
more liberty in conducting their home
matters. Her eyes fairly flashed as she
said: UI do not wish to be rude, sir, but
I must say to you it is none of you
Americans business." She was a genu
ine lady and she at once apologized for
her manner, but, though less spiritedly,
no less decidedly insisted on her posi
tion, and she fairly expressed the feel
ings of most of the so-called higher class
es of English society. And why not?
Looking from their standpoint, they
certainly make a strong case against
Irish home rule, and so, against us for
sympathy with them. Had I gone to
England, as most tourists do, without
going into Ireland, I should have return
ed greatly perplexed, if not quite con
vinced that home rule is all wrong. I
can understand now, why so many
Americans visiting England come home
with their faith in the Irish cause
shaken.
Let us look at the other side for a mo
ment And first, except a few extrem
ists, the separation of Ireland from
Great Britain is neither urged nor de
sired. The home rule party, including
Mr. Parnell and Mr. Gladstone, its best
and most powerful exponents, most em
phatically oppose dismemberment But
they claim it is possible for Ireland to
remain in the government, and yet,
without injury to the rights of any, have
control of her own local affairs, and that
in justice, she should have. This is the
gist of the whole home rule matter. But
how can this be in view of the disorder,
rebellions, riots and bloodshed that have
been so frequent for years? I can only
give you my impressions after close ob
servations, and some facts gathered on
the ground. First, four-fifths of all the
land in Ireland is possessed by 3,750
proprietors; each holding upwards of
1,000 acres. More than one-half of all
the land in Ireland is held by 749 per
sons. Fourteen men each, own beiween
50,000 aud 100,000 acres of Irish soil, and
three men own upwards of 100,000 acres
each. I would like to have these figures
taken with all their meaning, if possible,
because I believe in this holding the
bulk ot the land by the few, is to be
found not only the source of the Irish
trouble, but much of the trouble in
other European nations. Imagine, if
you can, four-fifths of the land in the
eastern half of Nebraska being owned by
3,700 men in blocks of from two to three
sections to a whole county, and so held
that it would be next to impossible to
change ownership. Suppose, we who
look to the soil for a living, were obliged
to rent our farms from those men, here
and there as we could, and that at ex
orbitant rents. Think you it would
interfere any with the peace and pros
perity of the state?
But how did this state of affairs come
about in Ireland? It came about by
the lands of loyal hearted men. who
stood by their country in times of
trouble, being confiscated and given, in
great estates, to men loyal to their
enemy's government But you say this
occurred centuries ago, much of it, and
present proprietors are not to blame.
Very true, but it it was our own case,
would it not leave a sore place? Would
we not feel that the government should
do something toward mitigating the
great wrong done by its predecessors,
even if done centuries ago?
It is true the English parliament has
recently voted a considerable sum to be
used, ostensibly for the purpose of assist
ing the tenants to buy lands, by making
loans to them, but really in the interest
of the landlord who wants to sell his
lands at prices greater than could be
otherwise obtained. I cannot go into
this matter here but to one giving it
careful attention, it is very clear.. So
much so I wonder at some American
friends of home rule, blaming Mr. Glad
stone for vigorously opposing the bill.
There are other aggravating circum
stances, of the few land holders, but a
small portion of them have their perma
nent residence on the island. Their
homes are in London or on the conti
nent where most of their incomes are
spent Their business all transacted by
agents, whose personal interests urge
them to collect the most rent possible,
and leave the least expense possible on
the estates, in the way of improvements,
-which certainly does not tend to culti
vate a friendly feeling between landlord
and tenant
Then there are the larger tracts on
most of the estates, which are drawn
from cultivation, for parks, hunting
ground, etc In the hotel where I stop
ped in Killarney, hung a conspicuous
placard, "11,000 acres of hunting grounds
to let, 200 undercover." All this for the
gratification of a few, so-called "gentle
men," while thousands of peasants were
half starving for want of an 8cre to
cultivate.
murder in the first degree far kfiUng
Chauncy West at, a negro denes, May 18
has bean ssntsuced to bs hsagsd Kov. L
It is claimed thst,st a depth of
North PlaUe. With the last
ot coal st South 8ioux City,
is quite
NEBRASKA NOTES.
Hastings intends to bore for natural
grs.
A lodge ot Free Masons wfll be form
ed at Valentine.
Telephone connects Omaha and Exeter
as well ss other towns.
The barbers of Fremont will class
their shops on Sundays.
Chrrles H. Connell has been appoint
ed register of the land office st Valen
tine. The Fanners' National bank, with a
capital ot $60,000, has been authorised
at Pawnee City.
Last week the gang of burglars work
ing in Fremont had secured $1,400 in
Fdurhsh ladv money and goods.
who was spending the winter there. Aj Wn. Carson, colored, convicted of
July 17th, while
pond Bear David City in company with
John Dean, W.J. Murphy nankin from
seven to ten feet of water and
no mors alive.
Collecter Peters has made the follow
ing appointments of deputies: John M.
McMahon, Omaha; Andrew Kerr, Be
atrice; John Jacobean, Hastings; F. D.
Simmons, Seward.
a M. Walworth, postmastsr at Loup
City, fell dead ia his oa.ee lest Friday,
without warning to any one. Hisgrief
stricksn wife and daughter have the
sympathy of the citizens of Loup City.
Thursday evening, Edward Zaman,
while bathing in a pond near Osceola,
drowned. It is supposed that he
attacked by cramps while in the
water, and was unable to reach the
shore.
The government, it seems, is to prose
cute 8. R Calhoun, late deputy revenue
collector for the alleged defalcation to
the amount of $6,000 of government
money, and this notwithstanding the
fact that his father has proffered to
make good the deficiency.
John & Miller of Norfolk has brought
suit against the parties who, he alleges,
assisted in giving him the "razzle-dazzle"
degree in "the association" recently.
He chums $1,500 damages for disfigure
ment of his countenance. News.
The coroner's jury in the Erwin case
at Schuyler brought in a verdict of acci
dental shooting by Charles Edgar.
When the verdict was read to young
Edgar he confessed that he and Erwin
were playing with the revolver and it ac
cidentally went off in his hands, killing
Erwin, and that he was afraid to tell the
truth at first
Revenue Collector Peters has made
the following appointments: Deputies
Charles H. Adams, of Saunders county;
Frank Whitehead, of Custer county; C.
Selah, Holt county.' Storekeepers
Judson Hughes, Dodge county. Gang
ers Jonathan Edwards, Sarpy county.
Storekeeper for Deer Creek J. J. Bon
ner, of Arapahoe county.
A son of Win. Pultz, living near Kock
Bluffs, while riding on the lead horses
attached to a self binder, with six horses
last Saturday, the team became fright
ened, ran away, threw the boy between
the horses, where the master wheel
went over him. He was in a mangled
condition but still alive. One leg was
broken, with a bad scalp wound and his
body badly crushed.
A bad accident happened to a west
bound freight train on the 21st on the
Fremont, Elkhorn k Missouri Valley
railroad, about five miles west of Nor
folk. A broken flange on a car wheel
caused the train to jump the tracks
throwing eleven cars and the caboose off
the track and badly tearing it up for
some distance. Thomas Laby, a brake
man, was thrown from the top of a car
to the ground and badly injured.
Three elevators burned at Blue Hill at
1 o'clock Monday morning. All three
were on fire on the inside at the same
time. The chipper of the fire bell was
tied and the bell could not be used for
several minutes. Five thousand bushels
of corn and considerable small grain
was burned. The elevator belonged to
Senator Hoover, Keopler k Son and Mr.
Trowbridge, and were about a block
apart The fire was of incendiary
origin without doubt
The resolutions adopted by the teach
ers present at the Summer School of
Methods at Fremont are not of the usual
stereotyped form. "We as teachers
unite in acknowledging that words sre
inadequate to voice the joy of our hearts
for the privileges of the past four weeks.
To Dr. and to Mrs. Haflman, wa say,
with child-like simplicity, We thank
you.' We believe, indeed we know, that
new force has been added to the Master's
words, Ye shall know the truth and the
truth shall make the free.' "
John Zeilinger and family, living a
few miles northwest of town, had a call
too close to be enjoyable in the midst of
the thunderstorm of last Thursday
night A stroke of lightning struck n
chimney on his residence, knocking it to
smithereens, opening a great hole in the
roof, knocking to pieces a bedstead im
mediately underneath in which one of
the boys was sleeping, then descending
into the sleeping apartments of the old
folks it made kindling wood of their bed
stead, as it had done with the one above,
and threw both the occupants out upon
the floor, where Mr. Zeilinger found
himself covered with plaster and debris
upon regaining consciousness, and yet
nobody was injured beyond being stun
ned into unconsciousness for a few mo
ments. The house was badly used up,
shingles and boards being torn off, and
partitions shattered, yet nothing was set
afire. The whole family was stunned,
and it is wonderful that all escaped with
their lives. One of the boys sleeping in
a part of the house remote from where
the bolt struck, on a straw matrass, was
the most severely used. The others
credit their escape, which appears mi
raculous, to the fact that they were
sleeping on feathers. The damage to
the building is shout $500 and is cover
ed by insurance. David City Tribune.
Frank Garving while bathing in the
Republican river near Alms, was drown
ed.
SPBICE & NORTH,
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VEBRASKA.
OMAHA MEAT MARKET!
Wa haw Mt opeaed a
aw market oa NEBRASKA AVENUE,
beat ot all kiata of
will keep tho verj
POULTRY, ETC.
w- ..v tiu. nnl of CbhMbaa to gire a a share of their patroaaK?. which we hot to
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Hal ia rail.
TURI.CR fc CARSTENS,
that the United States is ahead of the
world in the interest it shows in helping
the farmers improve their condition by
bringing them the aid ot science. The
pamphlet should be read by every intel
ligent farmer; it may be obtained upon
application to the department.
The steam plate printiug presses havo
all been removed from the bureau of en
graving and printing, secretary Window
having decided against allowing them to
remain. The plate printers are conse
quently happy.
Secretary Bask has removed W.W.W.
Bowie, state agent of the agricultural
department for Maryland, and abolished
the oaaee, for the reason that the infor
mation desired can be obtained by regu
lar employes of the department here for
money.
The Persian minister who was so
deeply offended by numerous paragraphs
in American newspapers relating to the
Shah, has gone home disgusted with us.
He left without taking official leave of
either the president or secretary of state.
Well, we shall try to worry along some
way without him.
Statistician J. R Dodge, of the de
partment of agriculture has gone to the
Bocky mountain region to investigate
the means used for the collection of ag
ricultural statistics.
Commodore Schley has just returned
from Philadelphia, where he went to
accompany the new steel cruiser "Balti
more" on her trial ocean voyage. He is
enthusiastic in his praise of the magnifi
cent ship and thinks it will be one of
the most formidable war vessels afloat
when armed and equipped. 'The new
vessel will be commanded by Commo
dore Schley as soon as it goes into com
mission. It is stated at the interior department
that no more special land agents will be
appointed for some time to come, but
quite a number of changes are expected
among the registers and receivers of the
land office.
Secretary Proctor has returned to the
city; he shows the effects of his recent
indisposition but is now all right.
The treasury department has decided
that in the redemption of mutilated legal
tender notes three-fifths of a note shall
entitle the presenter to its full value
and less than three-fifths to nothing,
unless an affidavit is filed that the miss
ing portion of the note has been de
stroyed. Heretofore the practice has
been to redeem these notes on the basis
of tenths, that is, the note was divided
into ten parts and as many tenths as
were represented by the parts presented
were paid for.
Postmaster Gen. Wanamaker has cre
ated a flurry in telegraph circles by
taking advantage of the law authorizing
the postmaster-general to set the price
the telegraph company shall receive for
the transmission of government messa
ges. The price now paid is one cent a
word and the telegraph companies chum
that the business is done at a loss at that
figure, but Mr. Wanamaker says the
price shall be reduced to one mill a
word.
The report that senator Washburn of
Minnesota is financially embarrassed is
not believed here. The report was not
started until the senator was on his way
to Europe. He told a friend just before
leaving Washington last week that for
once his business interests had been put
into such shape that he could leave them
and be certain they were being properly
sdminietered. He has gone to Carlsbad
Springs under orders from his pbysi-
ing a new home should examino those.
states before deciding upon a location"
elsewhere. Improved farm lands adapt-
ed to stock raising, dairying, grain, grass,
and fruit growing can be obtained- at'.'
low prices and upon easy terms. -Thriving
towns invite the merchant, mechanic
and business man. Abundance .of coal
timber, ore, water power, etc. Free.sftes
for manufactures. -
Persons desiring further information
will be answered promptly and free of
charge by M. V. Richards, Land 'and-'
Immigration Agent, B. & O. R. R. Balti-..
more, Md. 12 eow-4t .
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CHEAP. ONLY $15.
Woycb wire aad slats, eat willows, split bnanb '
or anything of the sort, aaetl; after pratts are set.
fence can he made aad stretched on the tcnmnil,
ia the winter, by a boy or ordinary farm hand,
10 to 40 rods a day, aad can work it over any
around. The man who has one of thene ma
chines can baild a fence that is more dnrablt ani 1
safe than any other, aad make it at less coot.
The machine aad a sample of its work ran be
sees, in the city oa 11th street at Ernst & Schwarz
hardware store. WUbell mchines. or territory.
or contract to pat np fences.
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J. R. MATHEWBON.
SHERIFFS SALE.
By Ttrtno of an order of sale directed to m
from the district court of Piutte county, Ne
braska, on a decree obtained in oar said court at
the May A. D. 1880 term thereof to-wit: on the
first day of Jane, 1889, in favor of Jacob A.
Hood aa plaintiff, aad against Mary Compton,
('has. Compton, interpleaded with Hash Havhs, '
Mary Plant, Gas. G. Becher and Geo. W. Galley
as defendants, for the earn of Two Hundred anil
Fortr-eJKlit dollars, aad twenty cents, and costs
taxed at $21.75 and accruing costs,' and the
farther sum of $141.00 in favor of Hash Hash,
1 hare levied upon the following real estate
taken as the property of said defendants, to
satisfy said decrees to-wit: Lot one (1), of A. J.
Arnold's oat lots to the City of Columbus, in
Section twenty-four (21), Township seventeen
mj, iiuugu uuo it jj wwt, in raane county, Ne
braska, aad will offer the same for sale to the
Nebraska, that beinir tk hnitilinir wimnln ih.
last terra of Court was held, at the hoar of oa
o'clock p. m. of said day, when and where doe
attendance will be given by the undersigned.
uaieu, i4inmDas jaiy sua, Ktw.
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M.O.BLOEDORN.
Sheriff of said County.
Dame rumor is again busy with Mr.
Blaine's health and says that it is so bad
that it is not probable that he will ever
resume the active duties of secretary of
state. This is simply rot I saw Mr.
Blaine a day or two before he went to
Bar Harbor and he was looking remark
ably well, and from his conversation and
general bearing it was easy to see that
be was feeling ss well ss he was looking.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office at Grand Island. Neb..') .
Jaae28th, 1S8. f
Nnftim III lumiiv cpivmi thmt thA ftnllrtwin.
Bimwl MOttlor haa KImI until nf ttia inlinilnn ,""
make final proof ia support of his chum, aad
that said proof will be made before Register and
Receiver at Grand Island, Neb., oa August Utb,
1889. viz: Reabea . Cratty, homestead 17308 for
the NJS. i sectioa 2-19-3 west.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upoa and cultivation of,
aid land, via: Charles H. Aagee. Charles W.
Blair, Alexander gteea, George L. Diefenbach.
all of Silver Creek, Neb.
Any person who desires to protest against the
allowance of such proof, or who knows of any
substantial reason, under the law and the regu
lations of the Interior Department, why such
proof should not be allowed, will be given aa '
opportanity at the above mentioned time aad
place to cross-examine the witnesses of said
claimant, and to offer evidence in rebuttal of.
taat submitted by claimant.
SjalyS J. G. Hioai.vs, Register.
NOTICE OF CHATTEL MORTGAGE SALE.
Notice is hereby gives that by virtue of a
chattel mortgage dated oa the J2d day of Sep
tember, 1888, aad duly filed for record in the
oflfce of the Coaaty Clerk of Platte County
Nebraska, oa the 22nd day or September, 1888.'
aad executed by S. E. Davis, to M. H. White, to
secure the paymeat of the sum of $125. and upoa
which there is now due the sum of $113.00. That
before the maturity of said note and mortgage.
aad for a valuable consideration, said M. II.
White sold, aad assigned said note to the First
Natioaal Bank, of Columbus, Nebraska.
Default having been made ia tho payment of
said sura, and no action at law hnvini. La hail
to collect said sum, therefore we will sell the
property hereia described, vix: One black geld
ing i years oiu; one sorrel gelulng V years old;
oae brown mare about 10 years old; one dray
wagon, and oae set of doable harness, at public
auction in front of Gleasoa x Tyrrel's livery
barn ia the city of Columbus, said county, on
the 31st day ot July. 1889. at 2 o'clock' ia the
af ternooa of said day.
Fiasr National Bank.
Assignee.
C. J. Gaslow.
Atfy.
Dated. July 10,1889. 12JL
Waaamgtsn Letter.
From oar ngmlar eoriwvoadaat.
Senator Sherman's friend ex-congress
man Akmzo Hart of Ohio, kas at last
received the appointment which was
tendered him early in the adauajaira-
tion, and was afterwards, forsom
hung up until now. It will bs
bered that swutnr flsy had a fsmdidstw
for the ssme position sobsitor of inter
nal revenue, and that he was unite
angry when he found that the place had
bees offered to Hart The man that sen-
ator Clay indorsed for the position has
long sgo been appointed to a better one,
while Mr. Hart patiently waited and
wisely kept his mouth closed. He eri.
dently believes in the aphorism "all
things come to him that waits."
task has issued s very large
of "Farmer's Bulletin Ho-Va
nags pamphlet explsastery of
the work of the experiment stations ef
Grass" Amy Eaeaaaawat at Milwaukee.
It is estimated that fully 120,000 peo
ple will pass through Chicago en route
to Milwaukee to attend the Grand Army
Jsncampment. As there are but two
railway lines between the two cities,
and this immense number of people will
have to be transported in two or three
days, it is apparent that the resources
wfll be taxed to the utmost.
Parties desiring to attend from points
in Nebraska, will, by taking the Chicago.
Milwaukee k St. Paul railway from
Council Bluffs (which is the only direct
line to Milwaukee from Council Bluffs)
avoid the great crowd and rush at Chi
csgosnd be sure ot the best accommoda
tions m the way ot free chair cars, sleep
ingaad dining cars through to destina
tion, and will have the privilege of re
turning via steamboat from Milwaukee
to Chicago if they so desire.
Half fare has been made for the round
trip. Children between five and twelve
years of age, half of the excursion rate.
For further information apply to J. E.
McUure, Western Pass, Agent, O, M. k
St. P. By, 1501 Farnam street, Omaha,
PROBATE NOTICE.
The State of Nebraska, Coaaty of Platte. In tho
coaaty court, ia aad for said county, fa tho
maiier oi cne estate or Jacob bwygart,
ou, tmvc UI nuu GUUBiy.
At a session of the county court for said coon
ty, noldea at tho coaaty judge's oBice in f'nlnm
bas,ia said coaaty oa the 13th day of July. A.
D 1889, present, H. J. Hudson, county judge.'
9,SSdB &? tb? ? verified petition
of. William Wright praying that letters of ad-
uihimioi oo lsaneu
said deceased.
ring
tohi
to him oa the estate of
Tbereapoa, it is ordered that the 8th day of
Aagast, , A. D-1889, at oae o'clock, p. mJbo as
signed for the hearing of said petition at the
coaaty judge's oaace ia said coaaty.
Aad it ia further onloml that ilnn 1m1 .
be gives of the pendency aad hearing of said
petitioa by publication ia Thi Coujubcs
Jocbxai. for three consecutive weeks.
(A tree copy of the order.)
Dated Columbus, Neb Jaly 15, 1889.
rlialiK H.J.HUOTO.
Coaaty JodgeC-
Itshows
OsBvesiest MarkHa, Gawd Ball, Pare Water
ani Exectleat CHawte
Are advantages to be considered when
looking up n home, busisess locstion,
farm, etc. West Virginia, Maryland aad
tho fmenaaJoah Valley, Virginia, affords
with many more advantages. No
of the United States offers su
perior cffcctaaiti9s,aad persons seek.
LAND FOB SAKE.
A FINE IMPROVED FARM
for sale u Shell Creek valley,
aear Colambne, coatainiag 2
acres of ' - ahnnt ir m
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