i s, i-Cgri.yv jVsV- . VJfc xri-? -. V ? u z . 5t 5iJSS5,La? te aPon What i, more prowkte d ;: y&. ""' VUi,au uuw our carerauy quoted items below. It would ttitimp buy StfeW2S?SiSSw.i1!25,2rt ! minds sad ftsttdious taste. Ourmmoth collections are arriving every day. v TKT will OCfer E-sctraordirLaar Bajcgraixis tox OSbAs TKTeais. All goods delivered free of charge to any part of this county, either by mail or .a& lr r The greatest bargain sale of handkerchiefs ever held in this city, during this week 50 doz. Handkerchiefs for this week going at 1 cent each. Hemstitched and fancy borders. 30 doz. Ladies and children's handkerchiefs, all sorts of designs and fancy borders for this week, 2 cents each. 25 doz. all linen handkerchiefs, hemstitched for this week, 2 cents each. 25 doz. all linen handkerchiefs, escolope, hemstitched and embroidered, choice for 10 cents each, worth np to 35 cents. 20 doz. pure linen handkerchiefs, narrow and wide hemstitched, escoloped, plain and fancy borders, choice for this week, 12 cents each, worth up to 40. 18 doz. extra fine pure linre; handkerchiefs, plain and fancy hemstitched, for this week, 18 cents each, worth up to 45 cents.. 22 doz. silk handkerchiefs, all colors and new designs, choice for this week 25 cants 16 doz. pure silk handkerchiefs, all new colors, for this week 45 cents. 10 doz. cashmere and silk mufflers in light and dark colors, for this week 25 cents each. 10 doz fine silk mufflers for this week, 37U, 49 and 09 cents. 10 doz. extra fine silk mufflers in beautiful patterns for this week 79 cents. Don't fail to examine our hand embroidered Ponger silk handhercbiefs. Handkerchief perfumery at half price. As Acceptable Holiday Present. fflpTOW IS HE FUR W FOB W WML ' - - . fc. .jj 1 . M ii' 1 SS . , ''J.IJ-L ,..-W II J. f - - - - . MM JsHI HflLmV sflLmV mmLmV mLmmV ftLLHiLLLmV LsLmm JmflmVmmm M Ik .M Ik Ik li :Ik mM 1711 smv Vmk isa. smw mma Bmmmm smilms mm" ' imH"4ism mmT wimmW sms mHmmi mmi iM,,, B: None mora welcome, none more serviceable than a stylish dress pattern for Christmas presents. We will deliver to any address, by mail or express, all goods free of charge, until Christmas. 10 yards of all wool tricots 42 in. wide this week for $3.75, buttons, thread and twist free. 8 yards silk finish Henrietta 44 in. wide this week for $3.00, buttons, thread and twist given free. 10 yards English Henriettas 38 in. wide for this week, $150, buttons, thread and twist free. 6 yards French broadcloth, the very best grade, high satin finish, 54 in. wide for this week, $5.90, buttons, thread and twist free. 8 yards of 48 in. French Henriettas regular 125 quality for this week, $7.00, buttons, thread and twist free. 17 combination suits for this week $2.49 each, buttons, thread and twist free. sb,'lkb Tim -m ense Saxgra&ns. sBk' 20 yards of soft black gros grain silk for this week, $18.50, buttons, thread and twist free. 20 yards of all Surah silk $16L50 for this week, buttons, thread and twist free. 20 yards of black and colored Surah $10.00, buttons, thread and twist free. 18 yards of colored silks for this week $14.00, buttons, thread and twist free. Mail Orders will Receive Prompt Attention. same Ladies' and gents' rolled gold plate Caff Buttons 50c, 75c and $1.00. Warranted. Ladies' Ear Rings, all shapes and designs, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00. Look at them. Warranted rolled cold xruuues uu x jua, wiuibw varicijr, xvv, vv, ouc, uvc, iuc, l.W. oeieci now lor ilOlldaiTS. Hair ornaments, over 200 styles to select from, 15c, 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c Rolled gold and silver Bracelets 40c, 50c, 75c, $1.00. All new designs. Side Combs of all descriptions gold, ebony, silver and garnet trimmed. Watch Charms, Fobs and Watch Chains oxydized silver, rolled gold plate, 45c. 50c, 7oc, $1.00. I r-f&t v -r . i ' A YS- . 13. U I IP J. A. Barber & CO., Clumbus, Nebr. New Store, New Goods, New Prices. Mail Orders Carefully Attended to almnhus mxmL Entered at the Poefcoffioo, Colnmbiu, Neb., m acond-ciau mail matter. ISSUED ETKBT WKDSESDAT BT K. TURNER 6c CO., Columbus, Nol. M. tebhs or 8UB8caipno: Jnoyear, by mall, poetage prepaid, $2.00 iis. month!. 1-J run) niontna, Payable in Advance. Specimen copies mailed free, on applica tion. TO 8UBMEXBKBS. When subscribers change their place of rcsi doncotheyehoaldatooee notify as by letter or ivwtal card, giTing both their former and then ptveent post-office, the first enables as to rerulily had the name on oar mailing, list, from which, , i'in4 in type, we each week print, either on the wrapper or on the margin of your Joubxal, the dalu to which yoar snbscription is paid or ac counted for. llemittances ehoold be rrnde eitkor by money-order, registered letter or draft. IM) able to the order of M. K. ToaaxB & do. TO OOaBXSFOHDKNTS. All commnnications, to secure attention, ranst li accompanied by the full name of tho writer. W rewrve the right to reiect any manufcrr.pt. ji:nl cannot agree to return the same. Wo U-mh' k correspondent in eTery school-distriit of P!.-iit county, one of good judgment, anj i lintilH in 0T017 way. Write plainly, each ittn fpur.ilely. Gire as facts. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBEIt 1, 1859. Jeff Davis is reported verj- weak. A blizzaud prevailed at Litchfield, Minn- on the 27th ult The state fish commission arc now provided with a fish car, in which they ship fry lo 1k planted in tho various rivers, lakes and ponds of the state. A DESTKOCTrvi: cyclone passed over Buford county, N. C, Wednesday; one residence was blown down and tho fami ly, consisting of father, mother and four children instantly killed. Ten men and two women are under arrest for the train robbery on the Santa Fe road, the last captures having been made at Oklahoma City Friday, of Bob Donnelly, C. W. Lee and George Far mer. Beed, the man from Maine, was se lected as speaker of the house, by tho republicans. No better choice could have been made, a smart man every way, be will make a splendid presiding officer. The eight story, brick Tribuno build at Minneapolis, was destroyed by fire Sunday. There was only one fire-escape to the building and it was where the fire raged hottest Tho loss is $350,000 and about twenty lives. As The Journal was going to press last week, Lynn, the city of shoes, in Massachusetts, was being devastated by fire a square milo of the business por tion of the city being wiped out in eight hours, and $10,000,000 worth of property lost. Over CjOOO persons are deprived of employment, and 200 families were ren dered homeless. Hastings manages to keep talked about, at least, which, after all, is a good deal for a town beginning to put on metropolitan airs. The workmen at the gas well are said to have struck sand stone and that indications for gas are strong. It is incidentally remarked in this connection by tho reporter that the actual depth of the salt deposit is fifty . five feet; an inch or two, more or less, makes no difference, of course. Xew Land OSice. A Washington correspondent says:. Senator Paddock is going to reintro duce his bill for the establishment of two new land offices in Nebraska. Tho bill passed the senate without any trouble in the last congress, and also got a ma jority vote in the house, but was beaten by Mr. Holman, who demanded a quorum unless the bill was changed to make only one land office, instead of two. Senator Paddock is confident of being able to pass the bill this session. In this, as in all other matters, the senator is constantly on the lookov f Nebraska interests. BOSTON'S LOSS. Acres of Basiaess Blocks Destroyed. Last Thursday at about 8:20 a fire broke out in a six-story granite building owned by Jordan, Marsh & Co., Bedford street, corner of Kingston. The flames raged for six hours and burned over territory covered by mag nificent structures and entailing a loss of $5,000,000. Neighboring cities and towns were called on for assistance. Contents of houses apparently fire proof were completely destroyed. Several firemen lost their lives. The origin of the lire is not surely known but it is attributed to electric wires. The insur ance, so far as heard from, amounts to abort $2,750,000. Coming so soon after the big fire at Lynn, it is said that many of the smaller insurance companies will probably suspend. The great fire of Not. 9th, 72, which covered a portion of .the territory of this, destroyed about $100,000,000 worth of property. Twenty The Silr Convention. We give, as a piece of current history that may le important hereafter, the resolution of tho silver convention at St. Louis last week, and tho remarks of Mr. Fitch, as briefly reported: Resolved, that the demonitization of silver has worked the practical violation of every contract then existing in the United States, entailed unaccounted losses, reduced prices more than thirty per cent and that its effects is practical ly to make debts perpetual; that it caus es a contraction of the currency, which reduces values until there is no profit left to the farmer, planter or men of small capital who depend upon the sale of their products for returns for their labor; that we believe that a certificate of the government, backed dollar for dollar by gold and silver coin in the treasury of the United States is a safe antfosound currency and has been ap proved by tho people; that considering the contraction caused by tho surrender of national bank notes dnring the past three years and the vast sums that must be collected by the cancellation of gov ernment bonds during the next three years, the necessity of restoring silver is as manifest as is the justice of such a policy; 'iat tho gold and silver of the west'pr iringiu a steady stream upon the east for forty years vitalized every foim of business there and steadied and upheld tho credit of tho nation through a great war and made resumption possi ble, and that what wo now demand is as much moro to the interest of tho east than of west as the productions of the east exceeded in value tho productions of the west; that we believe in the equal rights of gold and silver and the face coinage of both, and that no nation ever had or ever will have too much gold or silver coitiB. Mr. Fitch, in an exhaustive speech on the labor difficulties, laid all tho blame for tho poverty stricken condition of the working classes at the door of tho capi talists who demoralized silver. 4Por twenty years," said he, 'wo have had abundant prosperity, but at tho end of it we find wealth centered in a few hands. What has the laborer for his twonty years of toil? Ho can boast that the ag gregate wealth of the nation has largely increased, of factories established, cities erected, rivers bridged, transcontinental highways reaching from ocean to ocean. He can call the roll of millionaires and thousands will respond where before the war there was less than five hundred. He can wipe the sweat from his weary faco and reflect that among the 8,000 millionaires may be enumerated twenty American citizens who gathered S150, 000,000 from the toil and tears of 60,000, 000 people. He can walk weary and shelterless in tho shadow of the palace ho has built, but may not enter. I seek not to assail tho rights of capitalists or to arouse against them the prejudices of poverty or un thrift, but for twenty years capital has tampered with the people's money and gathered to itself illicit gains by increasing the burdens of industry. 'The fight for the restoration of silver is a fight of debtors against creditors, the labor against the capitalist, the poor against tho rich. It is useless for the monopolists to tell us prices have been reduced because of the increased pro duction of India. This may bo an ap proximate cause, but I say the prime cause will be found in silver demonetiza lion alone. England has become today tho greatest silver consumer in tho world, and yet in all her vast empire she produces less than seven per cent of the world's supply, and Germany, the co conspirator in the work of demonetiza tion, produces less than three per cent. England is tho bunco steerer of the world and Uncle Sam is the gentleman from tho rural districts. How much longer will our miners, planters and farmers consent that the senators' and representatives at Washington shall con tinue to legislate in the interests of Wall street? Is it not time for tho American eagle to raise and shako tho Liverpool salt from its tail? Great applause. It may be that sudden remonetization of silver would produce some temporary disturbance in Wall street, but the eastern and western boundaries of this nation are not found between Pearl and Broadway. Wo are hero to represent the cottages and cabins cf this country and thoir interests should bo protected though tho bulls of tho Wall street bucket shops bellow with rage." To the People or Platte County. If you are in favor of an examination of all county books, please send in your petitions to tho county board by the next ir eting, January 7, 1890, and in struct ije samo to bo ordered. Henri Rickekt, Supervisor for Bismark Twp. The above paragraph penned by Supr. Bickert, touches the subject in the right place. The right of petition is yet re garded as among the sacred privileges of an American citizen, and it ought to be effective in all matters of this sort. Many members of the board have said that the demand by the people for an ex amination of the books was not 'loud' and tho matter had better be, at least deferred, and so it was. None know better than the supervisors themselves (who, like Rickert, are in favor of the measure) that it is nearly useless to work for it, unless it is strongly backed by petition from the people. There are too many men, openly and secretly, ut terly opposed to examination, and for some reason or other, very much inter ested concerning it, to lead us to believe that it can bo effectively ordered and m3de, in the near future. It would seem, however, that one of the natural results of the late election ought to be overhauling of at least some of the records. However, "we shall see what we shall see. J. A. Baxter 2 Co. Washington Letter. From our regular corrMpomlfnt.l Secretary Noble has created a fresh commotion among the employes of the pension office whose pensions were re rated under Commissioner Tanner, by demanding the resignation of five of them, nil holding prominent positions in the offices. They refuse to resign and propose to make a stubborn fight for their positions. One of them is said to be backed by a prominent member of the cabinet, and another has filed a petition signed by 1,000 Union -soldiers asking that he be retained in office. The outcome is anxiously watched by the other re-rated employes, who feel that upon it depends their fate. Of course if the secretary does not change his mind these men will have to go. No subordi nate official 'has ever yet succeeded in getting the best of a cabinet officer, but great pressure is being brought on Mr. Noble, and there is a possibility that he may change his mind, though the chances are against it The long delayed Philadelphia federal appointments were made by the presi dent last week. So far as could be learned here they are entirely satisfac tory to the republicans. The international maritime conference expects to complete its business before Christmas. Secretary Blaine gives a complimentary to the members tomor row evening. The members consider the conference a success. Ex-Senator Bruce will get the best appointment in this city recorder of deeds if the prominent citizens here do not succeed in convincing the president that tho "home rule" plank in the Chi cago platform makes it incumbent upon him to appoint a man who is a citizen of the District of Columbia, and who does not vote in some of the states. Bruce has lived here ever since he was senator, but he has kept up his citizenship in Mississippi, hence the opposition to him. Thomas Clay McDowell has been ap pointed collector of internal revenue for the Sixth district of Kentucky. He is a son-in-law of the late Col. W. C. Goodloe whom he succeeds in office. The ap pointment would have been given to Mrs. Goodloe, the widow of the deceased collector, by the president, but the treasury officials thought it was not a suitable position for a woman. Senator Quay, who has been credited with taking an active part in the contest for the speakership and the other house offices, denies that he has interfered in the slightest manner or that he intends to. He is friendly to all the candidates and thinks he would be puzzled which one to vote for if he was a member of the house. If ho was a member of the house, it is more than probable that he would be getting a good many votes himself. Mr. Clarkson has been acting post master general for several days in order to give Mr. Wanamaker a chance to complete his annual report. Congressmen, just from Ohio, Imtli republicans and democrats, all agree that Calvin Brice will be elected to the senate to succeed Mr. Payne. Jotting frost Arkansas. We sit here today without fire and have the windows up. There has not been enough frost to kill late potato tops, nor tomato vines, and monthly roses are in full bloom in the garden, and many other flowers. A woman who was ninety-five years old and a man who had lived eighty-one years, have just left us, and we miss themvery much, but they were ready to go, were waiting to be called away, and methinks, surely the gate of the eternal, golden city was left "ajar" for them to enter. There have been several cases of ty phoid fever and pneumonia here of late. Stutgart is now an incorporated city, and has 1,200 inhabitants. CoL Crocket, a grandson of David Crocket, is the mayor. The supply of tramps is greater than the demand here. They always go to the back door; I never knew one to come to the front door and ring the bell, till today. As I opened the door, he said, Tin kinder hard np, won't yon give me some dinner?" Said L "well, go around to the backside of the bouse, and there is a pile of wood and a saw, and yon may work while I am getting your dinner." He hesitated a moment, and then turn ed and went to our house on the next lot, and I couldn't help smiling, for I was sure he would get the same kind of an answer as I gave him, and he did, so he went on, hoping to find some bouse where he could get dinner without working to pay for it. Nov. 26. N. D. H. Wanzeb. Prof. Loieextzv memory system is creating greater interest than ever in all parts of the country, and persona wish ing to improve their memory should send for bis prospectus tree as advertised - anower cotmmn. w-sv NEW GOODS NEW STORE. HUMAN SACRIFICE. The Minneapolis Tribune's Ser-en-Story Bidding Burned. FIRE ESCAPES WERE LACKING. Seren Live Were Lout u& Many PersoHS Itedljr Injured The Building a Man Trap and Its Owner Responsible for the Ilorror. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec, Tribune building was burned on Satur day night and several lives were lost in the dibaster. All night long the steamers threw water on the burning and smoking ruins without cessation. The force that was on duty during the night was relieved' by auother and the good work went on unceasingly. A few spectators stood around during the entire night and as soon as light began to dawn in the east others came, so that as early as 8 o'clock there was a considerable crowd on hand. Dark and forbidding the walls of the wrecked building loomed up in the giay light of early dawn, and as the bpecta tors gazed the awful fact that frenzied human beings, half stifled with smoke and singed with flames, had but a few hours before made the death plunge from the giddy height to the hard, cruel stone pavement lielow, seemed to dawn j upon them afresh with all ef its terrible force. As thi day advanced and the light became more distinct Tho Completeness or the Wreck became apparent. The upper floors Iiad given way .and then- weight.together with the job presses and heavy iron safes, had carried all into a confused mass iu the basement Here and there an iron girder remained in position, but so insecurely fixed that it appeared that but a slight jar would be required to send it crashing to tho bottom. Chief Stetson and the other members of the fire department appeared to doubt whether all the inmates of the building liad escaped. Chief cf Police Brackett, who has handled many fires in the past, thought there could not be over two or three bodies in the ruins. The elevator man who was reported missing turnel up saf) and sound. Charles A. Smith, the elevator man on the night service, did very creditable work. He was a new man, having only been iu the place since the first of the week. After the fire broke out he made five trips, the las. when the shaft was actually on fire, and saved a number of people. Smitli says he smelled fire for three-quarters of an.hour before he could find its location. After looking on all the floors he finally felt the heat on the third floor and was about to break in the door of the fateful room when the tran som burst and the flames sprang up. He is confident tliat the fire originated in E. A. Harmon's office and worked through two partitions before breaking into the hallway, but this seems well nigh itn (lossible. Smith is sure that More Pronto Were Burned than have been reported. He says that at it live minutes before the lire was diM-overed, he curried a heavy, dark complexioned lady to the sixth floor. She asked for the editorial rooms of The Pioneer Press. He did not take her liat-k in the elevator, and he is sure she could not have gone down the stairway. Smith also says that a tall young man with a black moustache shot himself on the seventh floor near the composing room door. Smith was up on his last trip and called to the young man to come into the elevator, Cut he seemed dazed by the heat and smoke and delib erately drew a revolver and fired into his own head, falling as Smith supposes quite dead. Just before he fired the shot he exclaimed: "My Cod My Wife and" Then tho bullet did it work. Chief Stet son charges that the loss of life is due to the absence of proper fire escapes. The Typographical union, No. 42, met in the afternoon in Labor temple to take action. A committee on resolutions was appointed, and pending their report the recording secretary began collecting evidence regarding the repeated efforts of the men to have fire-escapes placed on the building and to place such evidence at the disposition of the coroner. Anton. J. Dahl, a book-binder, was on an upper floor and is believed now to be among the dead. The following is a complete list of the dead and injured as far as can be ascer tained: Dead. MILTON PICKETT, assistant city editor of The Pioneer Press. JAMES F. IGOE, Associated Press oper ator. EDWARD OLSEX. president of the Univer sity of South Dakota at Vermillion. JERRY JEXKIXSOX, a printer. ROBERT M'CUTCH EON. a printer. W. H. MILLMAN. commercial editor of The Tribune. WALTER E. MILES, operator and agent of the Associated Press. .. lajnred. WiuiAM Lown, printer, burned on hands audfacs. E. C. Andrews, printer, harned on hands and facs. George E. Wahdcx. printer, burned od bands and face. Frank Gekber. a deaf mate printer, hands and face burned. Adah WiciBMEiR, printer, hart about the hips. Charles Au Wii.i.f amb. managing editor of The Tribune, badly burned about the bead snd face. W. H. WuxLAMs, foreman composing room, badly burned, about face and bands. S. K. Jones. Pioneer Press reporter, bands and face slightly burned. Frank Hoover, printer, burned about the seek. The total loss is ab ut $300,000. The Tribune loss is placed at $50,000, with t2C..K)0 insurance: The Journal: loss, We show complete assortment of Corticelli embroidered Silk, Outline Silks, Wash Silks, Rope Silks, Ribbon Chenille Arasene Silk Silks, Pongee Silks, Surah Silks in delicate colors. Just the thing for scarfe and fancy work. -Wool Felts in all colors. China J. A. BARBER A CO K $00,000 and id half uibureit; Hie iriuune job office lost $55,000. on which there was about $10,000 insurance. Other ivinor losses make the aggregate stated and the insurance foots up $150,000. HAD FOR COtTGHLIX. Evidence .Showing- that He Had CrralaAs Knives When Arrested. Chicago, Nov. 30. In the Cronin case Judge Longenecker resumed his speech. The states attorney dwelt for some time on the showing of the motive that actu ated the conspirators to commit the crime and told again how the murdered physician had openly cliarged the triangle with misappropriating the funds of the order and for tlie purpose of covering the theft of the triangle, claiming a de ficiency had been expended in the dan gerous work abroad when the money had gone no farther than the pockets of the triangle. The State Sprang a Sensation tliat had come into its possession Friday morning by showing by Officer Flynn that when Dan Coughlin was arrested two knives were found on the suspect. and that the knives belonged to Dr. Cro nin. To identify the knives Mr. T. T. Conklin took the stand and swore that they were identical in every detail with two knives carried by the witness for two vears. and given by him to the doc tor shortly before the murder. He was not positive that they were tho same, but lie believed them to be so. The tes timony created a decided stir iu the room. Couctiilii Looked Hard at the Ceiling and tried to assume indifference, but the nervous twitching of his eye lids and hands told a tale of anything but com posure. A Farmers Trnst. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 2. Judge Pef fer of this city contributes to The Forum a strong array of figures and facts to show that the farmers aro rapidly get ting together for their own protection. Judge Peffer looks upon this movement as one of the most promising events for the farmers' welfare. There are, he says, 4,500,(KH) farmers in the United States. Of this numler at least 1,000,000 are now organized in various associa tions, having essentially the same end in view the improvement of the condi tion of the agricultural clas?. A move ment is no'v on foot to consolidate all these associations and extend them so as to include eventually in one body, hav ing one difinite aim, not less than 4.000,000 farmers. Sanol Strikes a 2:05 Gait. San Francisco, Nov. 30. Robert Bon ner, in company with half a dozen friends, paid a visit to Senator Stanford's Palo Alto farm. The old journalist's late purchase, Sunol.was brought out for ins new owner to look at. Marvin was behind her, and after a little warming up went a quarter. Seven split second watches were held and all marked 31 seconds when the quarter mile post was reached. It was a 2:05 gait. Bonner was delighted. He said the mare would do 2:05 in another vear. Sight Killed by a Cyclone. Charlotte, N. O., Dec. 2. A de structive cyclone passed over a portion of Buford county, doing great damage. The residence of a farmer near Wash ington, the county seat, was blown down and the whole famiiy, consisting of the father, mother, and four children, were killed instantly. A factory near Wash ington was blown down and two persons killed, while a dozen others receved seri ous injuries. The reports are very meagre and it is impossible yet to get all the names of the killed. A County Seat War. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 2. A new county seat war is on in Wallace county. Sha ron Springs has been the temporary county seat for five years, but Wallace received the majority of votes at the re cent election. When the attempt was made to move the records from Sharon Springs the court house was guarded by armed men. who wonld not allow the removal. The case has be en taken be fore the supreme court, and pending the decision the guard at Sharon Springs is maintained. Powderly's Conspiracy Case. Pittsburg, Dec. 2. The famous con spiracy -suit of Edward Callaghan against T. V. Powderly, J. R. Byrne and Peter Wise came up for trial before Justice Merritt at Scottdale. The justice decided that there was not sufficient evidence presented to hold the defend ants for court and dismissed them. Jail Delivery at Wllbcr, Neb. Wilber, Neb., Dec. 2. Four prisoners, all incarcerated on a charge of grand larceny, escaped from the authorities here about 4 o'clock Sunday morning. They effected their escape by prying one of the bars from one of the windows of the room in the court house in which they were kept. Diphtheria la Lincoln. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 30. Three well developed cases of -malignant diphtheria have developed in this city. One death was caused from the disease. All places have been quarantined and every effort will be made to prevent its spread. Tw9 Men PerUh In a St. Panl Fire. St. Paul, Minn., Dec 2. The Wash ington hotel, a two-story stone building opposite the union depot, was burned shortly after 4 o'clock. Two men per ished from suffocation. One was Lo renzo Leonard, an Italian, aged 3-1; and the other Cxistoforo Pult, a Swede, aged 18, employed as porters for the hotel. NEBRASKA NEWS. The question of the location of electric lights at Plattsmou h has been taken into the courts. The trade carnival at Geneva was a great success. Train disnatchers and a full force of XaU Onbn always division station otticiab liavc been sta tioned at at Alliance and tliat place is now a full-fledged railroad uivision town. The girls Rusie and Sadie Runyan. the principal figures in the sensational ad duction case at Nebraska City. hae been taken to the reform school. The Un on Pacific and Burlington and Missouri companies will build a union depot ut Beatrice next spring. Sirs. Cookinghani is making it warm for Humphrey saloonkeepers for selling liquor to her husband. Newman Grove suffered severely from a fire last week. Anderson Brothers departed from Waco a few days ago, leaving bills un-' paid to the amount of $1,300. The family of J. F.Gable,near Ohiowa, were poisoned by eatiug coffee cake. The mother died In great agony. The other members are out of danger. W. W. Haskel, editor of the Ord Quiz. f has been sued for $10,030 by Dr. L. . Crane for libel. The colored Methodists of Nebraska i City held an interesting meeting, in which dirk knives figured, and adjourned to police court. Charles P. Mathcwbon of Dakota City has received the appointment a clerk of the Winnebago and Omaiia agencies. Three highwaymen attacked a Ne braska City butcher the other night. Two were knockedanut in short order. The third wa fleet of foot and saved llilUM.'lf. The Loup City en amery was awarJed the second prize for butter at the recent fat stock show in Cliicigo. Alno Cordcs of Cortland was adjudged insane by the board of insanity commis sioners a'nd ordered sent to the asylum at Lincoln. The matter of granting a license to run a billiard hall in Fairmoiit, came up before the city council and the proposi tion was beaten by one vote. Hannah Corwiu of Elba, has sworn out a warrant charging her husband with committing incest with his 11-year-old daughter. He was bound over in the sum of $1,000. The . itizen's State bank and T. F. Mct'onaughy, a merchant of York, have made assignments for thelienetit of cred itors. The bank will probably pav in full. The winter term of the Stromsburg college commenced last week with an increased attendance. Chadron has a public library. Two Beatrice men have patented a portable corn Inu-iker, which is drawn through t -e fields and husks the corn as clean as could he desired. It Is claimed it will husk twelve acres a day. Editor Fellows, of the Auburn Post, is fishing for the postofKce. Tl e receiver of the defunct Farmers' and M rcliauts' bank at Humboldt has payed the first dividend of 30 per cent. The amount paid out at this time is $10. W4.14. The total amount of claims al lowed and in litigation is $65,653.88. The city of Omaha voted bonds for an aqueduct over Tenth street, thus insur ing a new union depot. Hastings Odd Fellows and Free 31a- sons think the propriety cf the respective organizations is exempt from taxation and are disputing the county assessments iu t;ie courts. H. S. Boal and Arht Cody were mar ried at the Cody residence iu North Platte. Among the numerous and elal orate ire.-eiiH was u draft from the brides father. Col. Win. F. Cody, for $5,000 and a deed to a w.y cottage." Hiirglars broke into the Central Citv postottit-c early Thursday morning, blew open the safe and secured $3!Nl in cash. Alliert Nebou, living live miles north of Chap nan's, liad hit bauds so badly inaliPil in a corn shelter that amputation was necessary. Harry W. Hall, who escaped from prison in 188, was captured at Prove Lity, Utah. lieal i ice's new Sunday ordinance pro vides for lniil stands, restaurants, news s!and.s and cigar stores keeping open on Sumlav, and meat markets to 0 o'clock a. m. Sunday morning. The Fremont Savings Bank of Fremont has filed aiticlej of incorporation. The editoral "scrap" between Editors Maon and Merritt, of Hastings, threat ens to culminate in a duel. A farmer near Inland has raised 17. 000 bushels of corn on 100 acres of land, or an average of over ninety bushels to the acre. Several Salvation army women at Crete armed themselves with rawhides and administered a lashing to tome young men who interfered with their street service. A great religious revival is in progress at Uavenport. Mrs. llobert Duncan of Nebraska City mysterit usly disappeared. She is about to become a mother, and it is her mmi 1 is affected. thought The h .ct sugar factory company has decided to locate at Grand Island, the required amount being subscribed, which was $10,000. THKMAHKETS. Chicago, Dec 2. Wheat Receipts. 195 cars: shipments for forty-eight boars. 18,938 bu. The market opened easy. Mo to 9fc lower, and under the pressure of -free offerinzs of wheat which bad beii delivered and thrown on the market, prices declined to Teffc for De cember and 83c fur May. Deliveries were large, aggregating nearly 1,300,QM bo. There was much uncertainty about the visible sup ply, which held (speculators back. When posted it showed 1.344.UUU bu. increase, some what less than estimated Saturday. At tho decline there was good buying of wheat, aad prices recovered and closed at about Satur day's closing figures. Corn Receipts. 4St cars; shipments for forty-eight hours. SU.vtS bu. Market steady to strong. Oats-Receipts. Id cars; shipments, 300JM bu. Market strong and bigber. Provisions were dull aad prices not ma terially changed. The visible supply of corn increased 104.0)1 bu.. and oats decreased 783. 000 bu. 1:15 p. x. raicss. WHEAT December. Ttc; January. SOtfc: May. 8Hc CORN-December. 31?iV&31)c: January. 31c: May. :3t4Q.t3c. OATS-Ueceinber. 2Cttd30Jlc: JannaryOJic: May $ FORK-Year. J8.S0: January. tJ:H: Febru ary. JTr. May. .$. , , . LARD-Year. gUfftt: January. $5JK!4: ? ruary. fS.3fc May. jB,0aeJ.n7U. SHORT RIBS-Year. $4.75: January. HTOf ,?5; February. HX; May, ftM. Omr elsssst atteatlem. A .lluuirter Satokettnck. Tlw moust.T chi.uney of the new Fall River lion Works mill, the largest in America and the fifth largest in the world, was completed recently. It is 250 feet above the ground. The bottom of .? foundation is seven feet below tide water and sixteen feet below the ground, making the total height of the chimney SOGfeet. The base is square for a dis tance of about thirteen feet from the grouuu. men tapers up gradualiv for aloiit eight feet. an., from that lip the chimney is cylindrical in form. The diameter at the base is thirty feet, at the narrowest part it i.s fifteen feet. The flue has a uniform diameter of eleven feet. The walls at the bottom are thirty two inches thick and in the thinnest part twelve indies. It is built of brick above the foundation, the minber used leiua; 1.700.000. X Y. Teh-ram. A Dos; That Prints a Taper. Printing presses are usually run in this country by steam power, by water pow er, electric motors, and by main strength and awkwardness; hut the machine that grinds out The Plain City Dealer is run by dog power. A large wheel about ten feet in diameter and about two feet in width is connected with the drive wheel of the press by means of a belt. Cleats aro placed about a foot apart on the inside of the wheel, where "Joe." the journalistic dog, walks his weary round and thus causes the wheel to re volve. Joe has run the press for about five years, and has faithfully earned his hash every week. It is now about time for him to die and go where good dogs always go, and the proprietor of The Dealer is casting around for another ca nine. Part of Joo is shepherd and the rest is common, every day dog. Colum bus Evening Post. NOTICE. Notice i hi'ivUy giteu Hint M-rilitl proiwyMlr will be received at the offire f Hit roiint -lrk of Platti roiinty, NVbranka. uutil 1 o'clock . in. Wednewlay, Januarj lt, 1MX. forthe fiirni.-hinjc of tin following rtiippliet), or ho much llifrcof it may he nwl! n wr application from the varioua ronnty ciflren on lilt in thii oHio, t h T&rionri nrticlet in grot reprt-Hvntint;. to wit : BOOKS. 1 eight qnire irinttl !-. I rtvor.t. 8 liianK lirintl mortgage record. numpriral indexes. funeral miscellaneous record. transfer register of accounts. road record. chattel mortgage indea. records. trfttsnrerVcash bonk. delinquent tax list. warrant'rwoni books. urvevort n-eonl. ttheritf'ri 1 4 r. l l l l l 611 .3 ' 1 " 1 " 3 two 1 nix 1 2 anrvevor'ri noekf-t field note book-. 2 books, 1.0UO each, lithographs I blank war rants (ait t-r wunnle on hit in county clerk's office.) 18 booth, 1UI men, t'iwu collectors tax re ceipt (uumltercd.) 50 liook. f0 each, lnnciUeotrrt tax receipts fnnmbemi.) 25 set poll bonk. IS books, KM each, printed township warrant. M) road ntcfNvr'ri receipt book. firt " reconKiind returns. Ii0 " " laws and instruction). 'JO a-eeor ! Ixxtkn, 3W each, tretisunr'n tax receipt- f.r lHl0. M books. ItiO each, treiihiirer'n tax ret-ii! for ISM and Uick. lilMMikrt, 100 each, chattel tile. R fheritTV pocket docket. 1 iinoice iMMik, ier sample in clerk'- llice. BI-AVKt. I'.'.fliiO aborted blank. l.MlOriMil tax . official Ixtndi'. 500 cert iticntit ol" election. ."Ill road iielitionn, appraisement-., report i, etc. STTIONKKV. ( ream- IB H. lewd cap paix-r. t! " 10 Hi. H " Hill. 2 " tpe writing 12.000 letter heads printed 12 II)". re-mi. 10,000 note " " Bile). " ZflOli 10 in. xxxx white emelni, ";ov't" at tern. printed. 8,000 ! in. xxxx white entelopt-. "Uo t" iwt tern. printed. .100 V in. maniila enve!oje-,, "fiof't" lattern, printed. 8.!UJ0 i in. xxxx white enieloiM. "Oov't" pattern, printed. 10 grov (ilncinnm ien, aHortd numbers. 10 " Falcon " No. 49. 1 " " " No. 341. 1 " " " No. 311. 10 " Faher'ti rubber bamls No. 32. 4 " " " " No. 113). 3 " " inciln Not. 2 and 2. 3 " ceiar. 1J5 " " " red and blue. 1JJ " " " green. Itiqnarts Mark writing fluid, Arnold'. 4 " " " " leviM Hi's. 1 " " " " I'arterV. .". " crimen 1 " green K " mncilage 2 dozen safety ink well-. ', " mucilage I " henvj (!t nk rulers. I " knife frixoim. WuMenholm'rt. 3 " FaberV comb. rernVrera-er". 3 " " Jut. en-tioli5erf. B " common 21 hoxett fordnp.tex receipt (ir sample in county clerk's office.) 1.0U0 flat head staple fatener. 1.000 Mcftill'H " 1,000 "1"' " ii 100 sheets profile paier. 20 yards manilla draw ing par. IB " mounted " tf heavy stoppered ink wells. 1 dozen Shannon letter files. 50 portfolio envelopes 1x11 inches. 50 " '.Jxll 200 court wrappers for road We. 12 rubber stamps. 2,000 gummed seals. 1 ream bill heads, printed. 2 dozen 4x4x10 inch document boxes; 2 dozen 2x4x10 inch document boxes (per sample in clerk's office.) 3 boxes crajons. tf feather dusters. 1 dosen brooms. 1 Rominston tvne writer No. 3. All records to be full leather-bound and made from bett quality of heavy linen ledger paper of standard manufacture, and indorsed with appro priate titles and numbers. All letter and note beads to be made from best quality of heavy linen paper. Bidders will inclose samples of paper, with weight per ream marked thereon, also envelopes, with their estimates. Separate bids will be presented for books. Masks and stationery. The board of supervisors expressly reserve the right to reject any or all bids for the furnishing of the above supplies, or any portion thereof. If contract ahall be awarded the successful bidder will be required to give good and suffi-l neat bonns in uoume tne amount or coiai oi contract price, for the faithful fulfillment thereof. By order of the board of (supervisors. Dated this sotn day oi novemoer a. u. iaw. Joax bnvmt, ideel Couaty Clerk. A ill K VIKN'JVA BAKERY RESTAURANT -: Open at ail Hours :- TIIKOXLY KUOT-CLASS VXAK'V. TO UNT IIICKAl). A JIIIAI. OK I.U.M'II. - DYSTEBS SEHVED IS ALL STYLES. A full Hup of Confectionery and Fruits and a line or cigars unequaled in tlie citv. Our aim is to give tho best for the least money, and to please all: F- E CRANDAIX. Prop- ilvcliM LOUIS SCHREIBEK.: All kirn's of Ufpaii-ing Short Notice. Buggies, doue Was- ohs, etc., nm!e t order, and all work (inar- aHtecd. Also sell the world-famous Walter A. Wood Mowers. BeaBers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-huders-the best made. B"Shop opposite the "Tatteraall," on Olive St.. COLUMBUS. 'JB-m GOSHEN FENCE MACHINE! fJHEAP. OiSnW 15: Woven wire nuil slats, cut willows, split lxanlit or.tnjthingof thexort, used; after pt)iireser, fence can l made and stretched on the 'ground, in the winter, by a Imj or ordinary fiirni hand, 10 to 40 rod a day, nod ran work it over au. ground. The man who lias one of Iht uiai chiiiertcan build a fence that is moreiliirableantl safe than any other, and make it at lets cost. The iiuu-hiue and a simple of Itn work can be s.en luthecit on lllh street nt Kmut A Schwarz hardware store. Wlllwll incliines, or terriliiT), or contract to put up fences. 1 maj t f .1 . It. M AT 1 1 KWSON. KB 9aM mxtt msvaawBiVHaasmv Uyc-TaM.MBBBrTKVhMFBHHBBav KJnaaavTal--viifiililiT4.T3iH mMrmVMiujjI05AlHillmY rCATACPt! TWICE CM u-r. do not wash snrAr ai.1.. , HA4trAvi'tt'ftfcr g2T-For sal) and money re'nnili-d, by satisfaction giwrantrod or DA.TTID DOWTY, Coi.cracH.NnaASK. " ' IseptCm LAND FOB SALE. -T" A FINE IMPROVED FARM for sale in Shell Creek valley, near Columbus, containing 200 acres of land; alnmt 120 acres under cultivation; 10 acres heavily timbered, re mainder mostly in clover and blue erass uasture and hay land; 1'jO fruit trees, apples, pears, cherry, plums, etc., some bearing: all kinds of ornamental" trees and shrubs: l'-0 full-bearing grape vines. The farm entire is fenced, and di vide 1 into small fields by fence. Dwelling house of seven rooms, granary, corn cribs, large horse stable with hay-mow, cattle barn which holds 80 tons of hay; hog house; 2 wells; running wttsr in pasture. For further particulars inquire at Jocax i. office, or address, II. 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