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WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1889.
London and Paris Lave wooden streets.
One hundred and fifty saloon keepers
in Cincinnati hare been arrested for
keeping open on Sunday.
Capt. George Dewey has been ap
pointed chief of the bureau of equip
ment in the navy department, with the
rank of commodore.
Sis Juuan Pauncefote, British min
ster to the United States, has sailed for
England. He will return in October
bringing his family.
Fsox present indications Knox coun
ty will have her old-time double-header
delegations knocking at the doors of the
republican state convention.
Thursday was Mr. and Mrs. Glad
stone's golden wedding day; numerous
handsome and costly presents were re
ceived, and many persons called.
At the inquest held in London on the
body of the woman murdered in White
chapel, the fact was developed that there
were sixteen wounds on the body.
Mcrat Halstead has been informed
by his physician that his disease is in
curable, and that death is a question of
only a short time. He is now in Europe.
Haw a mile west of New Prague,
Minn., Thursday afternoon a tornado 200
feet wide demolished crops and destroy
ed a house and five cars laden with
wheat No lives lost.
A oood crop of wheat is reported in
Minnesota. That portion of the state
which has been examined near to the
Manitoba railroad, will furnish for ship
ment at least 32,000,000 bushels.
Frost came last year to the great
Dalrymple farm in Dakota on the 17th
of August, and killed a large quantity of
wheat Harvesting for this year has
begun there already, so that their wheat
is out of danger from frost
One day last week at PhoenixvilIe,Pa.,
Arnold Francis and a boy named Kimes
were killed by the bursting of a separa
tor at the Kimberton creamery. John
Heim, the owner of the property, had an
arm badly fractured.
A rkpobt came from Vienna on the
28th of a terrible cyclone in Hungary,
Transylvania and Bukovinia, which
swept over several thousand square miles
of territory. Hundreds of people were
killed, crops destroyed and enormous
damage done to houses and churches.
Last week the cowboys did some
lynching in Carbon county, on the
Sweetwater river, near Independence
Rock, Wyo., where they hanged by the
neck to a big limb of a Cottonwood tree,
until they were dead, James Averill and
Kate Maxwell, two notorious cattle
thieves.
Mas. Lucy E. Parsons, widow of the
noted anarchist, made a flaming speech
at the hundredth anniversary of the
storming of the Bastile, celebrated by
the socialistic societies of Chicago, last
Sunday. She waved the red flag with a
vengeance, and was loudly applauded
by the crowd.
A fearful storm, accompanied by
rain, wind and lightning visited Chicago
Saturday night; eleven persons were re
ported killed during the storm, some by
falling houses and others by lightning.
Great damage to property was done.
Said to be the worst storm that ever vis
ited the city.
Susan Mash, a colored lady of
Dee Moines, la., was taken suddenly ill
and died at her residence on the morn
ing of the 24th. She was the oldest
member of the African M E. church,
was a mother, grandmother and great
grandmother of most of the colored peo
ple of east Des Moines, being 106 years
old.
A woman was fined twenty-five dollars
and costs, the other day, in New Jersey,
for an unruly tongue. She is the only
woman brought before the judge in that
state, as a "common scold." The judge
gave her some advice, which, briefly
stated, was to "hold her tongue," and
added that men, especially, have a horror
of scolding women.
Brother Sxatxs of the Fremont Her
ald is considerable of a humorist as is
evidenced by his suggesting, after a
mention of the rumored consolidation of
.the Republican of Omaha and the Jour
nal of Lincoln, that "the next thing in
order will be the consolidation of the
Brewer's Journal and the Gospel Mes
senger on a mutual platform."
The lynching of Jim Averil and Kate
Maxwell at Independence Rock in Wy
oming the other night is likely to lead
to other serious consequences. The cor
oner's jury charge the crime upon John
Darbin, A. J. Bothwell, Ernest McLane,
Tom San, Robert Conner and Robert
Gilbreath. Sheriff Hadsell has arrested
all these men and they are under bonds
of $5,000 each for appearance at court
The Hastings Gazette-Journal plant
mad bmilding were burned Monday
aaonuBa and is almost a total loss.'
Oatside of Omaha and Lincoln, it was
the largest establishment of the kind in
the state, and owned at present, by re
eeat parchase, by 8. P. Bounds, jr. It
was a three story building, 06x100 feet
The loss oa the bmilding is $10,000. The
total loss oa the GasetteJournal es
tablishBMBt caaaot be estimated now,
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MORE GOAL DISCO VEKEb.
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Sisax City.
The excitement over the discovery of
coal at Soath Sioux City last week still
continues. As has been stated the coal
was found in boring a well at the school
house. There was no thought of finding
coal and no measurements of the differ
ent strata were taken. After the find,
however, it was decided to sink another
well, which was done, with the following
record of boring: Sixty feet to the first
slate; one foot of slate; two feet ten
inches of coal; two inches of very hard,
flinty stone known as "horseback" in
mining parlance; three inches of sand
stone; two feet and seven inches of coal.
Just below this last stratum the augur
stuck and thework stopped. The coal
is in small bits as if cut up by the augur;
it is soft and burns freely with a flame,
leaving a red ash. It is what is known
as lignite, which is a mineral coal re
taining the texture of the wood of which
it is formed. W. B. Coffin, who made
the discovery, lived several years in Col
orado, and says that this appears to him
to be identical with the coal used in
Denver and other places, which is pre
ferred by the people there to any other
for smelting and making steam. Its ap
pearance and the way it burns leads him
to believe it is the same as the Colorado
coal
To determine the extent of the bed an
other well will be bored on the premises
of Mr. Pollack, about 100 rods distant
from the school house well, work on
which began on the 23d. As soon as
possible a shaft will -be sunk and the
coal subjected to the severest tests to
determine its commercial value. Mr.
Coffin thinks there is an immense de
posit of it, as all the wells within fifteen
miles of it indicate it by their water. In
shallow wells the water is fair, but in
deeper ones it is much poorer in quality.
Your correspondent is not a coal mine
expert, but it is evident that the find
should be fully investigated, and if the
coal can be mined cheaply and proves to
be of good quality for fuel and steam
making, it will be a great thing for this
section, and the busy Nebraska neigh
bor in particular. Mr. Coffin, who made
the discovery, has no financial interest
in it beyond the $4,000 offered by the
state of Nebraska for a vein of coal
within its borders more than thirty-six
inches thick. He thinks he has a good
claim for this, and will continue investi
gations with a view of establishing it be
yond question.
For the Colnmbos Journal.
Jottiags front Arkaasaw.
An unwelcome visitor the Bmall pox
is here in Stuttgart Two men were
sent to the hospital; one died, I don't
know whether the other is alive or 'not
Several cases a few miles from here, and
one man died. One new case here this
morning, and only the Lord knows how
many have been exposed to it Every
body and all his family have been vacci
nated. Sir Thomas Moore said "I make
it my business to wish as little as I can,
except that I was wiser and better;"
and that is what I do, but I can't help
wishing that the small pox would never
come where I live, for I'd a deal rather
have a thousand dollars any time than
to have that! But like a camel at a
fountain taking in what is to last him
over a desert place, it is well for us to
take our fill of happiness while we can,
for we will have to pass over many desert
places in this life, where the winds of
adversity will blow fiercely.
Stuttgart has now about twelve hun
dred inhabitants. The M. E. South has
a fine new church here, and have just
been holding their district conference in
it Many talented men were present
It lasted a week; and one of the dele
gates who staid at our house during that
time, said he fought in the southern
army, although he was opposed to the
war. Of course he lost all his slaves,
and he said he lost all his cattle, horses
and poultry and even his fence; and that
the southern soldiers robbed him as
freely as did the northern! But he said
he was glad that slavery no longer ex
isted and that the southerners in general
are also glad. The southerners are
friendly and hospitable to the northern
ers, but I thought differently before I
came to live among them.
Peaches began to ripen in May. Some
are small, but many of them the largest
I ever saw. A man was here a few days
ago with a wagon load of them which
would average about ten and a half
inches in circumference.
N. D. H. Wakzer.
Nebraska to tke Frost. -We
print the following, sent out by
the managers of the State Fair. Every
body who can, should attend the ex
hibit as it more than any other one
thing, will show you what Nebraska is
doing in this year of grace:
There never has been in
the" enure
nisTory oi jueDraaKa sucn grand crop
prospects, taking the state as a whole,
as the present season. The State Board
of Agriculture recognizing this fact, is
making extraordinary efforts to press to
the front in all respects. Arrangements
have been made to run excursions to
Nebraska, from all important points in
the East during the State Fair to be
held at Lincoln September 6th to 13th
next The object being to show the
wonderful products of our state. Join
ing in this effort, all the railroad com
panies in the state, in keeping with
their characteristic, and unprecedented
liberality in such respects, have agreed
to transport all products to the State
Fair free. It is now not only a privi
lege, but a duty on the part of all pro
ducers, to join in this movement and do
their part Let each county in the
State make a special effort, to advertise
itself at the coming State Fair. All
public-spirited, enterprising citizens
should consider themselves a committee
of the whole to this end, and act at
once, and thoroughly.
The Scrisacr Beer.
A carload of beer in transit from Quin
cy, HL, to Scribner, Nelx, was seized by
constable Hamilton, at Des Moines, a
few days since under the restrictions of
the Iowa prohibition law. A replevin
suit was begun upon the ground of an
infringement upon the inter-state com
meroe act, and by decision of the district
court the beer was ordered released.
Upon leaching the consignees, Messrs.
Kerkow k Bauer of Scribner, the con
signment is reported three kegs short,
three kegs empty, one bored and plugged
and twenty-two with government stamps
destroyed. Constable Hamilton is now
under arrest by a United States marshal
for breaking open a sealed car in transit
and for the mutilation of the stamps.
Fremont Herald.
If that consignment had had to run
the gauntletof another prohibitioa state,
thert. wouldn't have been anything left
of it,
Capt. Beahee of the steamship Saale,
eestbound from New York July 11th,
sighted an iceberg that he describes as
follows: "It seemed to be about 500 feet
high, its two immense glistening spires
reminding the spectators of a magnifi
cent cathedral sheathed in silver. Its
length was estimated at L800. The berg
was sighted by the lookout early in the
afternoon, and the Saale was wisely
kept at a long distance from the gleam
ing mountain. That night the captain
spent on the bridge, for the ice monster
was followed by several statollitea, small
in comparison, but large enough to be
dangerous and it was thought possible
that there was a vanguard. No other
bergs were sighted, however." It was
the largest they ever saw.
The Omaha Bee thinks Nebraska
should congratulate herself on the ap
pointment of ex-Chancellor Manatt as
consul to Athens, and says that Manatt
has done much towards elevating the
standard of political morals in Nebraska.
This will be news to most Nebraskans,
the greater majority of whom, we ven
ture to say, never heard of Manatt until
the disturbance last year in university
matters, which resulted in his removal
Furthermore, it was expressly stipulated
by the delegation that his appointment
should not be charged to Nebraska.
Seward Reporter.
Princess Louise, eldest daughter of
the Prince of Wales, was married at
noon, Saturday, to Alexander George,
Earl of Fife. The ceremony took place
in the private chappie of Buckingham
palace, the first marriage that ever took
place there. The Princess is approach
ing her 23d year, is short in stature and
is very plain looking. The Earl is a
distant relative of the queen, is within a
few months of his 40th year and a liber
al unionist in politics. He is much op
posed to Mr. Gladstone in his Irish pol
lic and in a public speech not long ago,
said that the Gladstonians should be
treated as traitors.
STOLEN DOGGEREL.
MAOHUnt FOKTBY.
The flies may him 'round candy sad tram
Till they nuke one almost blaspheme.
Bat we fool 'em s time with a spoon and a dime.
For they never light on ice cream.
IRELAND.
Costissatioa frost Last Week's Josraal or
Mr. J. H. Reed's Lectare.
It was midnight of the 2d of Septem
ber last that I bade good bye to the
friends I had formed on the "City of
Berlin" on our ten days' voyage across
the Atlantic, and climbed down the
stairs to the little steamer that had come
out from Queenstown to take us ashore.
I remember very well the homesick feel
ing that came over me as I watched the
long lines of lights on the grand old
steamer as she slowly moved off again on
her way to Liverpool, then turned to
those on the strange shore, where I was
soon to be landed.
At the wharf, we were directed into a
low, wooden building, through which
run a wide counter with two or three
uniformed officials standing behind. I
had thought I was coming into a free
trade country, and did not understand
the arrangement, but the rest did and
the counter was soon covered with a
motley row of bags, boxes and bundles.
The officers, perhaps from being called
up at the unseemly time of night were
evidently in bad humor, as they pulled
over their contents. One of them reach
ing me growled out "Any wines, cigars,
liquors?" I said "No, sir." With two
or three sort of formal digs at my bag,
he was about to pass on, when he felt
something hard, and turning up one side
pulled out a cigar box. Handing it to
me with a look of, "Iv'e caught you now,
old fellow," said, "Open that, sir." Be
fore sailing I had received some medi
cine in a cigar box and to save re-packing
put it in my valise as it came. He gave
one look at the contents, a growl and
moved on to the next, while I took a
good hearty laugh.
Queenstown, a city of about 11,000, is
principally known from its being the
place where the great ocean steamers
from New York to Liverpool touch, and
the passengers get their first news of
what has been going on in the world
since they left New York, and where
those trom Liverpool get 'their last pa
pers and dispatches before starting
across the ocean. It has a magnificent
harbor, large enough to hold the entire
British navy.
It was with a peculiar sensation that
I set out the next morning for my first
ramble in a foreign city. Besides every
thing being so strange, the first realiza
tion of being on Irish soil, a total
stranger, and alone, and that the Atlan
tic actually lay between me and my
home and friends, occasioned feelings
not easily described. Though 9 o'clock,
the streets were quiet A few sailors,
leisurely moving about The little
shops were being opened. No vehicles
except the little milk carts drawn by
donkeys the size of sheep. Leisurely
strolling along, a conveyance suddenly
drove up from behind. Raising his hat
the driver said, "Can I show you about
the city, sor? only a shilling, and Pll
show you everything. A foine view of
the harbor from the hillor." The Irish
jaunting car is a peculiar affair. The
horses used in them are small but very
fleet They are much used by business
men in Cork and Dublin. A man stops
to the door of his store or office, beckons
to a car driver, one is always in sight
and is at his pavement in a jiffy and
the man is whirled off to the bank or ex
change in half the time it takes a Lon
don hansom to get around. I wanted
an experience on an Irish jaunting car,
and climbed up, and away we went, fly
ing. There is not much of interest at
Queenstown, but as we wound up the
long hill back of the city the views were
splendid. I got my first sight of Irish
furz along the side of the road, and got
down for some samples. Possibly some
of you remember it as it grew on its
native heath, and will be interested in
these dry bits that I pulled.
My money was in drafts on the Inman
Line Company. When I went to the
agent to get one cashed, he sent out to a
bank for the funds. The young man
came in with a package which I took to
be the money rolled in a piece of news
paper, bat it proved to be the money
itself. It was but 5, about twenty-five
dollars, bat the passage was 'large
enough for $600 of our money. The
Bank of Ireland notes are of quite thick,
rather aott, white paper, about the size
of a half sheet of cosaaierrial note paper.
The engraving covers bat a small por
tion of the bill, but water marks in let
tering and designs, fill the entire note.
As I saw the money in use by the farm
ers in the markets, much of it was dirty
and disagreeable. The note of the Bank
of England is also on white paper, and
has very little colored engraving, but it
is only about half-the size of the Irish
note, and on fine hard paper. As it
comes crisp from the bank, it is the most
beautiful bill I ever saw. The want of
color ia not so objectionable, as no Bank
of England note is paid out the second
time, even if it gets back to the bank
the same day issued.
In the afternoon I took the train for
Cork, and here I must risk tolling what
may be an old story to some of you, by
describing the European passenger and
freight cars. I thought I had a pretty
correct notion of them, from my read
ings, but found I had not I approach
ed the station on a street that looked
down upon the railway yards. They
were filled with vehicles so entirely dif
ferent from anything I had seen, I should
not have recognized them as belonging
to a railway, had it not been for the
tracks they stood on. The passenger
cars are called "coaches," and the freight,
"goods wagons." The coaches are much
shorter, lower and narrower than our
passenger cars, and are divided into
apartments, each with two seaHpnning
across the car from side to sKte facing
each other. Apartments are entered
from both sides. In the first-class
apartments there ia plenty of room, but
in the second and third the seats are so
near as to make it uncomfortable. ,The
first-class are luxuriously upholstered,
and the seats divided in the center by
low arm rests. In the second-class the
seats are not divided, are simply benches
well cushioned, with the straight backs,
padded as high as the head. The fare
in the second is about two-thirds that of
the first a difference much greater than
the accommodations, but it serves a
purpose. It is said only English dudes
and shoddy Americans ride first-class,
but I saw nice looking people in them.
The third-class are yet smaller than
the second, sometimes slight cushions on
seats, but they are usually plain boards.
The fare is about one-half that of first
class. I usually traveled third-class,
ostensibly to mingle with the common
people, but really to accommodate a lean
pocket-book. But I found in England
and Scotland, as well as here, that many
business and professional men, when
women were not with them, traveled
third-class. The first- and second-class
apartments are often in the same car,
and sometimes all three. There is no
communication between the apartments
or cars, a narrow plank along the out
side of the car allows the guard to make
his way by holding on to iron rods run
ning along part way up. There are no
conveniences whatever in the cars ex
cepting in a few first-class, designed for
the longest runs. The system which
seems to me to be very objectional is
general, all over Europe. The apart
ments are lighted by gas lamps let in,
and removed from the roof. They are
heated by hot water in cast iron tubes
about the shape and size of a half flat
tened section of a stove pipe about three
feet long, which are changed every 50 to
100 miles. The cold tubes are pulled out
without any trouble, but when they
come to nut the hot ones in to a full
apartment, the efforts of the gentlemen
to hold up their feet and the ladiesto
protect their skirts is often more ludi
crous than elegant
The "goods wagonB" in Ireland are
very small, not more than half the size
of American freight cars. The roofs of
many are so low that the space between
the doors is left uncovered for conveni
ence of loading. When filled and doors
closed, a tarpaulin is drawn over the
open space. Much of the freight is
hauled in open care. In England you
seldom see box cars, but long trains
with all sorts of goods, covered with
great black tarpaulins. The road beds
in both England and Ireland are excel
lent Great precaution is taken against
casulties. The feature of no surface
crossings now being agitated in our
eastern states, and I believe recently re
quired in Connecticut is universal m
Great Britain and Ireland. Between
Killarney and Dublin, a distance of
about 175 miles, there are over 300 bridg
es or viaducts carried over their double
tracked road, in place of surface cross
ings. Some of heavy stone work but
most of solid brick arches, with long,
easy approaches, protected by solid
stone or brick sides. The original ex
pense must have been immense.
Cork, twelve miles from Queenstown,
a city of about 80,000, is a port of con
siderable importance. It has several
large cathedrals and churches. Some
fine bridges over the river Lee of which
the Parnell and St Patrick are of note;
some good buildings. In St Patrick
street is the handsome statue of Father
Mathew, the Irish temperance apostle.
I was surprised to see the farm products
being shipped from Cork. I had thought
of Ireland as needing most of her agri
cultural produce for her own large popu
lation. If 5,000,000 people were crowd
ed into two-fifths of Nebraska, we would
not expect to send many cattle and
hogs or other produce away. The sec
ond day I was in Cork I saw them load
over 2,000 head of cattle, hogs and sheep,
onto one great vessel, to be taken across
the channel to England, and every day I
saw quantities of stock and produce load
ed for export It seemed very strange
and unexpected at first, but on looking
iiito the matter I soon found the cause,
and it seems to me it has a very serious
meaning in it On account of the rich
soil, even temperature, and moist climate
some of the finest grass lands in tha
world are found in some parts of Ireland,
and as a- result, a fact I confess I was
not aware of before, some of the finest
cattle and sheep in the world are found
on her pastures. Had I not visited Ire
land first, I should hardly have credited
what I was aftorwads told and saw at the
great London cattle market, that the
best beeves received there were
from Ireland. Long rows of American
fat steers stood there, and you know
none but our best go to England, but
they were not equal to the splendid
Irish Shorthorns standing not far away.
I had thought of the little black
Kerry cattle, as the stock raised there,
at least if they had anything better that
they needed them for their own eating,
and I was continually surprised at the
beautiful, uniform, well-fattened sheep
brought in. It was not an uncommon
thing to see a man leading a single fine
lamb or fatted sheep through the streets
of Cork, on his way to the dock, often
little bunches of three or four, brought
by their owners, and larger flocks that
had been picked up by buyers farther
away. I did not see many live hog
shipped, but large quantities of bacon.
The English talk about the pork eating
Americans. Irish bacon is served at the
best hotels and boarding houses all over
England, as well as being a common
meat for all classes. Well, what does all
this mean? It means that the Irish
raise and fatten good stock. It also
means that when fattened they are
obliged to send it to their English
neighbors to get money to pay the ex
orbitant land rents, and be content,
themselves to live on potatoes and cab
bage. NEBRASKA NOTES.
Holt county farmers are well pleased
with this year's prospects.
The M. E. church at Osceola has cele
brated its eleventh anniversary.
It is said the word Nebraska is of In
dian orign and means "shallow water."
Stromsburg is to have a $15,000, brick
hotel, also a normal and business college.
Knox county real estate has been as
sessed at a million and a quarter of dol
lars. Camp meeting will be held by the
Methodists at De Weese, on the Blue
river August 5.
The stake money, $20,000, has been
paid over to John L. Sullivan and his
party of backers.
Hastings wants the republican state
convention. So does Columbus. Cant
Columbus have it?
Forest fires were reported Sunday
near Gunnison, CoL, Banner, Idaho,
Santa Barbara and Chico, CaL
Catholics at Alliance intend erecting a
church building of brick 40x60, with a
15x15 addition, to cost about $6,000.
The electric motor railway for cities
in Nebraska is becoming popular. Lin
coln now talks of establishing a line.
At Auburn, a peach of the early Craw
ford variety, measuring eight inches in
circumference, is on exhibition. It was
grown at Auburn.
Three Indians and Henry Rice, a half
breed, have been arrested, suspicioned
with being the murderers of young
Benjamin of Pender.
A Fremont boy named Frahm stubbed
his toe a week ago, injuring his foot so
severely that lockjaw resulted, from
which he has just died.
Miss Mabel Peck has been presented
with a check for $250 by the Fremont,
Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad for
her brave deed of heroism.
The elevator at North Bend belonging
to J. E. Dorsey, was burned at midnight
on the 27th. The value of the property
is unknown. The fire is believed to be
of incendiary origin.
Willis McCreary, of Hastings, a young
son of attorney McCreary, was reported
on the 28th to be dangerously ill from
eating canned corn beef. The attending
physician says it is a case of poison.
The whole family have been ill, but not
seriously.
Broken Bow has agreed with the man
agers of the state fair exhibit to donate
a city lot worth $150, to be awarded to
the person who gathers and delivers the
best and largest collection of garden and
farm products for the county exhibit at
the state fair.
The Ewing Democrat says that little
Bert Gordon, a boy eleven years old, liv
ing three miles from that place, whose
father committed suicide last spring, is
probably the youngest farmer in the
state. He has put in and cultivated
thirty acres of corn, which is looking
fine, doing all the work himself.
John Calhoun, late U. S. deputy col
lector of revenue, is to be prosecuted on
at least six or eight charges. The father
has already proffered to make good all
losses, but it does not appear right to
let him go without punishment, on that
account; it would virtually be buying
exemption from punishment for crime.
Quito a riot was reported at Lincoln
in the state prison on the 26th, led by
the notorious "Big Frank" from Omaha.
The convicts were pretty well spanked
and soon overpowered by the guards and
for punishment of leaders they were put
in close confinement and to be fed on
bread and water only.
The Omaha Republican says, "The
chances are that the republican state
convention will be held at Hastings.
As none of the nominations to be made
will be of political importance there will
not be much of a crowd." Give Colum
bus one chance for the convention. The
crowd will be satisfactory here, we have
abundant hotel facilities.
Chas. Baltrusch thought it would be a
shrewd, "cunning" thing to refuse his
Pilot at the post-office while owing an
unsettled balance on subscription. He
paid it in to the county court the next
day, and it cost him just $2.60 extra.
The honorable business way to discon
tinue a subscription to any paper is
shortest and best, and will invariably be
effective without extra cost or trouble.
-Blair Pilot
Brakeman R C. Lewis was thrown
from the top of a freight train at noon
Friday while switching in the yards at
Humboldt and fell beneath the wheels.
The cars passed over both legs, crashing
them to a jelly, and the brake beam
broke bis arm, cut a deep gash in his
head and otherwise badly mangled him.
He lived about two hours. His home ia
at Green Bay, Wia, where his father re
sides and where the remains were sent
The $35,000 in canal water power
bonds at Ogallala was carried by a vote
227 for to 15 against The canal when
completed to full capacity will furnish
1,000 horse power and give Ogallala a
perpetual right to fifty horse power for
electric light, besides all the water nec
essary for water works. Work wfll
commence immediately and be pushed
to completion within four months. The
canal wfll he eighteen miles long, fur
nishing water for over 12,000 acres when
necessary for irrigation.
The people of the north part of Ander
son township,PhelpB county, are in great
excitement at the recent discovery of a
case of small pox in their neighborhood,
Anthony Hufford, who lived in Kearney
during the spring and early summer.
He moved to the place where he now
lives about June 1, and was taken sick
about three weeks ago, since which time
he has been' growing worse. It is report
ed that he can live but a short time. It
was not discovered until a week ago that
assail pox, and that it
aung its worst form, in the
the neighbors had called at
and helped the family ia va
ries ways. Several persona have been
exposed to the. dausflo, and it would1 not
be rarprisjag to hear of other cases of
small pox soon developing ia that vicin
ity. Families are moving away, and
the email pox scare is high.
Last Tuesday aboat noon a man was
robbed about half a mile west of Wilber
by two strangers. He was a farmer
named Shinfeld and had sold some hogs
during the morning, having about $53
on his person at the time of the robbery.
The scheme-was concocted by the two
fellows, and one of them secured a ride
with him on pretense of having relatives
in his vicinity. They were met by the
accomplice, who wanted to pay the
stranger in the wagon a debt, but could
not make change. The fanner offered to
change the bill, and on producing his
wallet it was grabbed by the fellow in
the wagon and thrown to hie accom
plice, who ran into a corn field. Bobber
No. 1 jumped from the wagon and also
got into the corn field. They were hunt
ed for during the afternoon, but not
fount One is reported to have been
since captured at Lincoln on the train.
The other escaped.
Burglars effected an entrance toSaare
k Smith's general merchandise store at
Newman's Grove last Tuesday night, by
forcing the front door. They madeahort
work of the safe by cutting a hole in the
side and extracted $280. The cash box
has not been found yet Nothing else
was disturbed. The tools with which
the safe was broken open were stolen
from Joseph Engleke's blacksmith shop,
and were left by the safe. &F.Keerby,
a lightning rod peddler, was arrested
Wednesday on suspicion. He is identi
fied by Peter Galligan, a farmer, living
near Lindsay, as the man who entered
his house Monday and intimidated hie
wife with a revolver and stole a lot of
clothing, which was afterward recovered.
We understand that notices have been
posted all along the roads in the neigh
borhood of- the Loebe place, in Everett
township, warning the people of the ex
istence of the smallpox cases in his
family, and with the intention of pre
venting any members of the family, or
others who have been exposed, .from
coming to the towns or otherwise en
dangering the spread of the dinonna
The fact of Loebe coming to Hooper for
a coffin after the death of the first child,
when a box had been prepared for its
interment, is severely censured. It was
understood yesterday that a second
child had died, and that three others of
the family were down with the disease.
Everything is being done, by quarantine
methods and vaccination in that vicinity,
to prevent the spread of the disease, but
it will be extra good fortune if it does
not spread beyond its present limits.
Fremont Herald.
Friday morning about 7 the fami
ly of Frank Kos, living in the south part
of Plattsmouth, were startled by hearing
two. pistol shots fired in quick succes
sion in an up stairs bedroom. Otto, the
nineteen years old son, rushed to the
room and found his aged father sitting
beside the bed in a pool of blood with a
smoking revolver in his hand. Aa the
son entered the room the father pointed
the revolver at him, saying to leave him
alone or he would kill him. The boy
had hardly reached the foot of the stairs
when another shot was heard, which
caused him to turn regardless of danger.
The last shot entered the old gentleman's
heart, which caused his death in twenty
minutes. Mr. Kos was eighty-two years
old and until lately had worked at his.
trade, painting, in the B. & M. shops. He
has been considered slightly deranged
for several years ago he shot himself in
the leg in an attempt at suicide, although
he claimed the shooting to be accidental
Harry W. Nieman writes the Quill
trom Sitka, Alaska, on the 13th inst, an
nouncing the arrival of himself and N.
W. Wells by the steamer Corona. He
sends an account of their trip which will
be published in our next, also mails a
copy of The Alaskan, a weekly newspa
per published at Sitka by Maurice E.
Kenealy. It is now four years old and
is an interesting publication, being a
five column folio, all home print In it
are found mostly patent medicine adver-
usemenis as in united states papers.
Most of the reading matter is descrip
tions of Alaska aaerTpersonal notes re
garding the arrival of tourists. In it are
found advertisements of Alaska business
and professional men, etc. Among the
attractions found on its pages is a time
table showing the daily rising and s et
ting of the son. On December 20 the
sun rises at 8:50 a. m. and -sets at 3:10 p.
ul, the day being only six hours and
twenty minutes long. On June 21 the
sun rises at 329 a. m. and sets at 8:31 p.
m, thus making the day seventeen
hours and thirty-two minutes long. At
this last date there is hardly any night,
the twilight being the dividing line be
tween the two days. The paper is an
interesting curiosity and Mr. Nieman
has our thanks for it and for the letter
for publication. f Schuyler QuflL
Wasalagtsa Letter.
Frost oar resmlsr oorieepoadast.
The president has endeared himself
to every working republican and proved
himself to ben master in the delicate art
of political manipulation by bringing
about harmony between the Mahone
and anti-Mahone republicans of Virginia
thus changing the coming gubernatorial
campaign in the state from the "forlorn
hope" it promised to be,to n spirited fight
in which the united republicans will
have about six oat of ten chances to car
ry the state. It is interesting to note
how this was brought about Some
weeks ago, it will be remembered a
large delegation of anti-Mahone republi
cans visitod the president to ask that
their faction of the party be given recog
nition in the distribution of the federal
patronage in the state. Of course the
president told them that he coald not
and would not recognize any party fac
tion in Virginia or any other state and
incidentally he asked why both factions
did not submit the questions upon which
they differed to the republican national
committee and. let that body deride
them. They expressed n willingness to
do so, and Gen. Mahone showed an
equal readiness to have the national
committee deride the matter. In ac
cordance with this understaadiag
Messrs. Quay, Clarkaoa, Dudley, Fens
enden, and Hobart of the national com
mittee met in this city to near both
aides. Both sides presented copies of e
eaU,tobeianaed to the repnbUoaa vo
the disease
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lots ia the city. We
COLUMBUS.
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OMAHA MEAT MARKET!
We hare Jaat opeaed a meat
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POULTRY, ETC.
We ask the people of Colamban to
deserve by hoiMst dealiaic and just scale.
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em of 'Virginia, for a state convention to
nominate a governor and other officers,
and both were represented before the
committee by the leading men in their
ranks. The hearing lasted all day and
all night The committee then conferred
with the president and it was unani
mously decided to throw out both "calls"
and issue a new one substantially that
presented by Mahone. The decision was
accepted by both sides and they return
ed home determined to carry the state
for the nominee of the convention. Im
mediately following the decision the
president anointed CoL J. D. Brady,
who has been the leader of the anti
Mahonitos, collector of internal revenue
for the Fourth (Richmond) district, and
P. H. McCalL a red hot Mahone man,
collector for the Sixth district It is
generally recognized by both parties
that the party is now really united in
the Old Dominion. If the same condi
tion of affairs had existed last Novem
ber the vote of the state would have
been cast for Harrison and Morton.
The president Mrs. Harrison and
Private Secretary Halford left Washing
ton for Deer Park Saturday afternoon.
The president's vacation program, sub
ject of course to change, is as follows:
He wfll remain at Deer Park two weeks
and then return to this city for several
days, after which he will go to Bar Har
bor to spend two weeks with Secretary
Blaine. He will then return to Wash
ington for a few days before going to
Deer Park to remain until about the
first of October.
M. M. Hurley formerly postmaster at
New Albany, IncL, has been appointed
third auditor of the treasury. All of the
accounting officers of the treasury are
now republicans.
A small batch of consular appoint
ments were made Saturday and it was
stated that no more would be made un
til Secretary Blaine's return in the fall.
The need of a residence for the presi
dent and his family separate from the
public offices in the White House is
again being discussed. It grows more
pressing each year as the growth of pub
lic business makes greater encroach
ments upon the private portions of the
White House. Congress could not do a
more popular thing than to provide for
the building of a suitable residence for
the president
The state department has received a
letter from ex-Congressman Horr declin
ing the consulship at Valparaiso, Chili,
to which he was recently appointed.
Government officials are looking
anxiously toward Hayti, aa interesting
international complications are likely to
arise there at any time.
Ursad Amy Escsatpaieat at Milwsakee.
It is estimated that fully 120,000 peo
ple will pass through Chicago en route
to Milwaukee to attend the Grand Army
Encampment 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
cagctand be sure of the best accommoda
tions in the way of free chair cars, sleep
ing and 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.
McClure, Western Pass. Agent C, M. k
St P. By., 1501 Farnam street Omaha,
Neb. 13-4
Hon. James Whitehead, of Custer
county, appointed deputy collector for
the northwestern district of Nebraska,
has accepted the office and taken the
necessary oath as deputy.
DONT MISS THE OPPORTUNITY
To Visit Ogsa saa Salt Lake City, Utah, or
Hailey, Idaho.
A grand excursion to the above named
points will leave August 20th via the
Union Pacific, The Overland Route,"
aad for this occasion the exceedingly
low rate of $30.00 to Ogden and Salt
Lake City and return and $35.00 to
Hailey, Idaho, and return, has been
made from Missouri river terminals.
This excursion affords our patrons a
magnificent opportunity to visit Garfield
Beach on Great Salt Lake, the finest
bathing resorts in the world, and also
visit Hailey Hot Springs, famous for
their medicinal properties. Tickets
good for thirty days.
For further particulars address E.L.
Lomax, G, P, A, Omaha, Neb.
A six years old son of W. J. Benjamin.
a farmer living near Pender, was shot by
a Winnebago Indian on the 28th. Great
excitement prevails among the citizens,
and three Indians have been arrested.
Harvest xearsisas via tke Bsrtisxtos.
August 4h and 20th.
September 10th to 24th.
October 8th, 1889.
On the above dates round trip tickets
at greatly reduced rates will be sold at
all stations of the Burlington Route
east of and including Grand Island,
Hastings and Red Cloud, Nelx, to points
in Nebraska, Ksnsas, Colorado, Montana,,
Utah, Wyoming and Idaho, For tickets
and farther information caU on your
eearest B. k M.RR ticket, agent, or ad
dress J. Francis, Q. P. and T. A. Omaha,
far sale at
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market on NEBRASKA AVENUE, where wo will keep the very
bt of all kinUa of
rito Bit a dhaiv f tht'ir patronage, which wo hope to
llena (five a call.
TURNER fc CARSTENS.
The National Earsmpaieat U. A. K.
Milwaukee, Wis., August 26 to 31, 1889.
The 'Barlingtontonte" will sell round
trip tickets to Milwaukee at one fare for
the round trip. Tickets on sal August '
21st to 28th inclusive. Tickets good for
return leaving Milwaukee August 27th
to September 5th; this limit can be ex
tended to September ftrth by surrender
ing ticket to agent at Milwaukee. Be
tween Chicago and Milwaukee passen
gers can ttke the C, M. It St. P., C.
N. W. or Goodrich line of steamers.
Further information on application to
W. Wiiitson, agent B. & M. By.
The baby of Mrs. Cal Babcock, of.
Schuyler, got a needle run clean through
one of its fingers, last week. Its mother
was holding it in her lap while sewing, at
the time.
Assnal Resales
of soldiers and sailors of Nebraska at
Kearney August 12 to 17. Bound trip
tickets will be sold at rate of one fare
from Columbus by the Burlington
Route. Tickets on sale August 12th to
16th, good returning August 18th. '
The coal find at South Sioux City is
said to be genuine. Another hole has
been sunk 170. rods away from the first
find, and coal found near the surface.
i. A. K.
The National Encampment of the G.
A. R. will be held this year at Milwaukee,
Wia, August 26th to 21st Agonts of
the Union Pacific railway will sell tickets
to Milwaukee and return at the lowest
one way firat-class fare in Nebraska and
Kansas August 21st to 28th inclusive;-in
Colorado and Wyoming August 20th to
27th inclusive; limited to return leaving
Milwaukee August 27th to September
5th, final limit September 10th. For
those who desire to return later than
September 5th the limit on tickets will
be extended to September 30th on ap
plication to the joint agent of terminal
lines at Milwaukee. Nebraska, Kansas,
Colorado and Wyoming should be well
represented at this encampment and all
should go via "The Overland Route.'
For further information apply to any
agent of this company or E.L Lomax
G. P. A., Omaha, Neb.
At the depth of forty feet in digging a
well at Nelson, a bone was discovered
with other debris, evidently placed there
ages ago by the action of water.
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Grand reunion of the soldiers and
sai lore of Nebraska at Kearney, August
12th to 17th, 1889. The committee have .
secured for location, the spacious
grounds, overlooking Lake Kearney, and
the program, consisting of sham battles,
dress parades, artillery drills and duels,
and magnificent display of fireworks,wilI
be the most attractive ever offered.
For this occasion the Union Pacific,
"The Overland Route" will sell tickets
from all points on its lines in Nebraska,
at a rate of one fare for the round trip.
Don't fail to attend. For other informa
tion apply to your nearest ticket agent
or E. L. Lomax, Gen'l Pass. Agt, Oraa
ha,Neb. GOSHEN
FENCE IACHIIE!
CHEAP, ONLY $15.
Worea wire and slate, cat willows, split boards
or aaythinir of the sort, used; after poets are set,
fence can be made and stretched oa the sroaad,
ia the winter, by a boy or ordinary farm haad.
10 to 40 rods a day, aad can work it over say
sroaad. The raaa who has oae of these ma
chine can baild a fence that is more durable sad
safe than any other, and make it at less cost.
The machine aad a sample of its work caa be
sea iathecity oa 11th street at Ernst & Schwsrs
hardware store. Wilbell mchiaes. or territory.
or contract to pat ap fences.
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