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WHOLE NUMBER 102.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1889.
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COLUMBUS, NEB.
Cash, Capital - $100,000.
DIRECTORS:
LEANDER GKRRARD, Frcs't.
GEO. W. HULST, Vice Pr-e't.
JUL1UB A. REED.
R. H. HENRY.
J. E. TASKER, Cashier.
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Authorized Capital of $500,000
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-T - -OFFICERS:
C. H. SHELDON, l'ro.Vt.
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. . DANIEL SCIIRAU, Ass't Cash.
STOCKHOLDERS:
C. II. Sheldon. J. r. Decker,
Herman 1. H.OchlricIi, Cnrf KienUo.
Joans Welch, V. A. McAllister,
f. Henry Wurdeman, 11. 51. Winslow,
corse w. uailcy, S. U. Uroy,
Frank Rorcr, Arnold F. H. O
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.lcjosits; liny ami sell exchange on United States
nml Euroie, anil buy and sell available freciirit ieH.
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ticular, and so guaranteed.
. SCNIFFROTN t PUTH,
DEALERS IS
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WIND MILLS,
AND PUMPS.
Buckeye Mower, combined, Self
Binder, wire or twine.
Pimps Repaired oi short lotice
ESOne door we-?t o Heintz's Dros Store. 11th
street. Cok'imbe. Neb. 17novS5-tf
ON SALE
PRINCIPAL POINTS
EAST, WEST,
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UNDERTAKER !
COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES
'WT Repairing of qII kinds of Upkol
Hcry Goods.
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A TOO HARROW SEA.
ENGLISH STEAMERS COIXIDE WITH
GKEAT EOSS OF EIFE,
Oaa Boat Shales Thlrteea Hissing Sioux
Commission Premises Chinese itestrlc
tioa Measure KUraln Mast Go to Jail
Other Mews of Kecent Date.
NOT WIDE ENOUGH TO PASS.
Steaauaips Fall to Fin.l Room to Avoid a
Collision.
A collision occurred south of the Isle of
Wight between the British steamers
I Cleady, from Odessa for Antwerp, and
Isle of Cypress, bound from Stockton for
European ports. The Cleddy was badly
damaged, sinking soon. Several of the
crew reached the shore, but thirteen aro
still missing. The Cleddy was an iron
ship, brig rigged, 1,3'J8 tons; the Isle of
Cypress was 722 tons register.
CHINESE KESTIUCTION.
A California Congressman Presents a
Pian.
Hepiesentative Morrow, of California,
has introduced i:i the house a bill propos
ing to require tho superintendent of the
census to enumerate tho Chinese popula
tion in the United States and to issucto
each of tha Chinese a certificate, which
shall be regarded as t e solo evidenco of
their right to remain in the United States,
but shall not be an evidence of their right
in any other country. Chinese without cer
tificates ninety days after enumeration may
be arrested, convicted of illegal residence,
and sent to their own country, the persons
bringing them to tho United Stutes to be
liable for tiio costs. Tho bill carries an
appropriation of ?100,0U3 to give effect to
its provisions.
wile he ju;gei.
Take Kilrain FimU No Favor iu the Eyes of
Gov. Eoivry.
Gov. Lowiy has refused flio" petition of
Jake Kilrain to lemit the imprisonment
portion of his sentence on payment of the
fine, but told him that after the case had
been decided by tho supremo court he
might present it to his (Lowry's) suc
cessor. TEIMUItLE ACCIDENT.
A Heavy Freight Train in Colorailo
Itreaks Into Tlireo Pieces With Fatal
Results.
A freight train on tho Denver and Itio
Grand railroad, mado up of two engines in
front, twenty-two cars of cattle, ten
freight cars, a caboose and engine in the
rear, broke in three parts whilo near AVal
senburg, Col., the other flay, the middle
Fcction beiug without a brakeman. Tho
engines ran about three miles at tho rate
of over a mile a minute down Rrade, when
the iuiddlo section of twenty-foui cars
oertook the first section. Tho first en
gine escaped, but the so;oud engine was
instantly overwhelmed in a great mass of
flying wreckage which buried the engineer
and fireman beneath it, killing them in
stantly. Seven cars of cattle and eight
cars of lumber were piled up in the wreck
and nearly nil tho cattle killed or horribly
mangled. Two brakemen were also se
verely injured.
THE GRANT FUND.
A Large Amount Added to the Sum Already
on Hand.
The New York Weekly Jfail and Express
announced an arrangement with the Ulys
ses Grant National Monument association
by which all bubscriptions for that paper
shall be turned over to the fund. It also
contains a letter from Mrs. Grant saying
that tho general's tomb is finally located
at ltiverside Park, and one from cx-Gov.
Cornell, chairman of the association,
acknowledging a gift of $10,000 for the
monument fuud by the Weekly Mail and
Express. 1 his is tho beginning of a new
effort to complete the fund and erect the
national Grant memorial befcre 1892, so
that the nations assisting at the world's
fair, wherever held, may see how America
appreciates the great soldier. This con
tribution is twice as large as any other ever
made to the fund, the next largest being
$5,000 by the Western Union Telegraph
company, and makes the fund now on hand
$140,000.
IT IS GENUINE.
Real Bassfaa laflusaza Is What Ails the
New Torkers.
The sanitary inspector who investigated
the report of Russian iufluenza in New
York has reported to tho board of health.
The matter was brought to the attention of
tho board by Dr. Sellman, who notified it
that seven members of the family of Al
bert Klamroth were suffering frm what he
believed to be Russian influenza. No
cause of the attack is apparent, nono
of the family having recently arrived
from Europe or associated or been
thrown in contact with recent arrivals,
or anyone suffering from the disease. Cer
tain ones recently received letters from
Europe. The first case occurred December
11th. The first symptoms were sudden
faintness; chills and marked prostration
then succeeded, and headache and a gen
eral feeling of malaise, followed by active
corzza, pharyngities, winding up with
bronchitis. The examination showed the
patients to be about as sick as persons
with a bad cold. The duration of the at
tack has been two days and upward.
Health Officer Edson said hie had no doubt
that this was real Russian influenza.
WILL CONSOLIDATE.
Two of the Largest Beef Firms to Pool
Their Issues.
It is a settled fact that two of the largest
beef and cattle firms in the country, the
Hunrose, of Boston, and the Hammond
company, of Hammond. Ind., have united.
For several j ears the Munrose has pur
chased live cattle at Chicago and slaugh
tered at Albany and Boston. Their Bos
ton dressed beef plant, it is understood, is
now being turned into a new company,
and Mnurose will bo one of the eastern
representatives of Hammond, which is a
member of the "big four."
A DANGEROUS TUMBLE.
A Caadactor Thrown from His Train by
a-Banana Peel.
Ceaductor Swasey, of the Chicago and
Alton dining car, slipped on the rear end
of the car on a banana peel while the car
was running forty miles an hour and fell
from the car down an embankment, be
tween Greenview and Mason City, HI.
Strange to 6ay he was not killeJ, but
though very badly hurt he was able to
walk to Mason City. It is thought he will
recover.
TWO TEARS FOR MURDER.
Gets a Short Time for a Dael
KilliHt-.
The Boulangist journalist, Villas, has
been sentenced to two yean imprison
ment for killing Pierrotti, a brother editor,
in a due'. The republic in papers express
themselves as amazed at the political ani
aams shown m the sentence.
MEANEST OF THIEVES.
Jeka B. cb Rented the Poorer
Class of Their Sari.?-.
John H. Ranch, jr.,has been eugagel in
the banking business Saturday nights
in East Baltimore fo3he last three or four
years. Tne other night he did not turn
up and a large number of the very poorest
cuss are out then: savings. The savings
bank was in a little room in the rear of a
church. -Here every Saturday night lie
reeemd nm o wtpoett frea i csatt .
wards. He imposed a fine of 3 cents upon
depositors who allowed a Saturday night
to pass without putting something in the
bank. Ranch left for parts unknown.
Yi'hen his weekly depositors came to the
little room behind the church and discov
ered that the banker had decamped, their
excitement and anger was "intense. The
efforts of several policemen were required
to preserve a semblance of Order. The
losses range from $1 to $159.
THE END Uf SIGHT.
Eastern Glass Blowers oa Strike SfcM to
Be About to Weaken.
There are signs that the glass blowers'
strike, which has been depriving most of
the blast furnaces in New York, New Jer
sey and Pennsylvania of their complement
of working men, is nearly at an end. The
eastern glass manufacturers have made a
good fight against the Knights of Labor,
and the probabilities are that the first of
the new year will see their victory com
plete and the power of the knights so far
as this industry is concerned, crushed.
There are some fourteen furnaces, more
than half the total, which have secured
non-union blowers, acd the others, despite
threats and boycots and all the weapons of
intimidation which the agitator at the head
of that particular district of the knights
has heretofore used to considerable advan
tage, are 6teadily -supplying themselves
with their regular quota of workmen, with
all the apprentices they desire to add as a
supplementary force. The manufacturers,
owing to stock on hand and other obliv
ions causes, have been by no means the
sufferers in this long strike. The knights,
however, many of them being without nec
essaries of life during the early patt of the
strike, have suffered severely.
WESTERN FORK PACKING.
The Past Week's Packing Only a Little
Morn tlian Last Tear.
The Cincinnati Price. Current say 6: Tho
week's packing at thirty eight western
points has been 425,000 hogs, about the
samo number as last year, and only 25.010
iu excess of the corresponding period last
year. The places represent a total of
'2,kJ5,0j0 hogs since November 1, against
2,215,000 a year ago, an increase of 420,000.
From all other packing points in tho .west
ern states there is a total for all the points
this season of 2,883.000, against 2,175,0C0
last year and 3,140,000 two years ago.
Tho undermentioned places compare- as
follows:
irasi.
G20.000
3. 00
161,000
1U1.O0O
135,030
1J0.CO3
12i.0OJ
11K,0
50,030
85,030
103,000
43,000
19,000
40,000
U5.000
170,000
OUR NATIONAL WEALTH.
An Enormous Increase Thereof in the Past
Nino Years.
The New York IVbrM has obtained from
tho treasurer of each state the value of
property assessed for taxation. The cen
sus office in 1883 made a report of inquiry
into the proportions existing between
taxed property and actual wealth, which
ranges between 25 per cent, in Illinois and
08 in "Wyoming. The WorsTa report
shows an increase in taxable property of
$u,-Jtf,uuv,iiuu, ana an increase in actual
wealth of $18,662,000,000 since 1883. Tho
total wealth is $61,509,000,000, exclusive
of public property and 3,093,000,i00 iu
property invested and owned abroad. The
wealth of tho United States now exceeds
the total wealth of the whole world at any
time previous to the middle of the
eighteenth century, and the amount invest
ed abroad is alone equal to the national
wealth of Portugal and Denmark. Tho
total wealth of only five nations is equal to
the mere increase in tho United States in
the past nine years.
THE SIOUX COMMISSION.
They Lay Before a Committee Some Propo
nitions Requiring Sanction.
The Sioux Indian commissioners, Warner,
Foster and Gen. Crook, have held a con
ference with the house committee on In
dian affairs and the congressmen from
South Dakota. They stated that they had
promised certain ponies and migratory
privileges which seemed reasonable to
them and satisfactory to the Indians, and
asked the congressmen to see that their
promises' were made good. The commit
tee and the South Dakotans considered
the promises reasonable and promised to
support any bill which might be prepared
under the direction of the secretary of the
interior to carry out the said promises.
AN AWFUL FALL.
Two Hundred Feet Down a Clin and Yet
Alive.
The 5-year-old daughter of T. H. Jones,
of the Quebec bank, and her aunt had a
most perilous fall the other day, and noth
ing short of a miracle saved their lives.
The aunt was pulling a sleigh in which sat
the little girl and thoughtlessly approached
the edge of the cliff which crowns the city.
The sleich ran down a slight incline and.
drew the aunt with it. She fell, and both
went over the precipice, which is 200 feet
high and almost perpendicular. The
woman and child landed in a yard in Sault-au-Matelot
street in the lower town little
the worse for their fall.
AN ALLEGED EXPOSE.
How the Missouri Live Stock Inspection
Mill Was Defeated.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch prints an
expose of the alleged legislative corruption
at Jefferson City, Mo. It claims that the
live stock inspection bill introduced by the
St. Louis butchers' union in the last legis
lature was defeated by the absolute pur
chase of state senators. The matter is
detailed at great length and a bold charge
made that the "dressed beef monopoly -secured
the defeat of the bill by spending
more money than the butchers had and
that they spent it on the senators who
voted against the measure."
WRECK NEAR CHICAGO.
An Open Switch Ditches a Passenger Train
Three Hurt.
A serious accident happened to a .train
on the line of the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois railroad, near Oakley, a suburb
south of Chicago. Inquiry at the office of
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois elicited
the fact that a switch was left open, caus
ing the train to run into a freight train on
the side track. The conductor, engineer
and one passenger were hurt seriously.
LAWRENCE BARRETT.
A Successful Surgical Operation
Upon His Throat.
A, successful surgical operation has been
performed upon Lawrence Barrett, the
actor, at Boston, consisting of the removal
of some of the lymphatic glands of the
throat. As soon as the patient recovers
he will betake himself to Germany or some
ether European watering place for rest and
recreation.
a ixper nr COURT.-
His Appearance Causes a 8
the Spectators.
A sensation was produced in Judge Val
iant's branch cf the circmit court at St.
Louis the other morning by the appearance
of James Brennan, a leper. Brennau's
case has been diagnosed by the ablest
physicians in the west, and he has been
pronounced a leper. Two years ago the
city authorities took charge of his, and
Mne fstat itTsr was peijsj s Ms4JvW wt
Tlace. 18S.
Chicago 9i0,0OJ
Kansas City 2b3,030
Cincinnati 15C,0JJ
Sioux City 115,003
Omaha. 11-2,000
St. Liouis. ............. ........ 135,000
Indiacapolis j:K,000
Milwaukco 120,000
Cedar Itarids 85.003
Cleveland 40.0 0
Louisville 70.000
Ottumwa 4S.OO0
Keokuk 39,003
NcbraBkaCIty Z.003
St. Joseph. 9,tXX)
All others 470,000
quarantine. Recently his sister petitioned
Judge Valiant for a writ of habeas corpus,
alleging that Brennan was not a leper.
Health Commissioner Dudley was ordered
to produce the body of Brennan in court.
When the leper was brought in there was
a 6tampede, only the judge and officers of
the court remaining. The victim of the
dreadful disease presented a horrible Ap
pearance. He was a mass of white seises,
anl reeked wiih corruption. Judge Valiant
took one good look at him an-1 cut the
arguments 6hort by deciding that Brennan
should remain in the custody of the city.
The leper was taken back to quarantine,
where he will remain for life.
EXILES MASSACRED.
A Party or Siberian Exiles Attacked by
Soldiers and Police.
Reports have been received at London
of the massacre of Siberian exiles. It is
alleged that a party of exiles, having
hesitated, contrary to orders, in regard to
the withdrawal of a petition, were at
tacked by police and soldiers. Six were
shot dead, including a young woman.
Nine were wounded. The pretext for the
attack was tnat.the petition was of a re
bellious character. A court martial con
demened those of the survivors to death
and the others to long terms of imprison
ment. One of the wounded was carried to
the gallows on a bed. When the noose
had been ndjusted the bed was removed
Friends of the victims declare this to be
the worst case in Siberian records.
BURNED TO DEATH.
Fatal Accident at a Christmas Cantata Re
hearsal. At a public school in Detroit the other
evening, while some sixteen children were
rehearsing a Christmas cantata, one of the
; performers accidentally struck a candle
w.tb her wand. J. he flames communicated
to the children's clothing and all were
burned inoro or less. Five who were en
veloped in the flames ran into the street,
where some workmen rolled them in the
mud and extinguished the flames. Jennie
Lancashire was burned to death, however,
and four others seriously but not fatally
injured. The fire, which in the meantime
communicated to tho floor of the school
house, was extinguished without difficulty.
KILLED AT A CUARIVARL
A Far Western Bridegroom Resents a
Boisterous Intrasion.
A few days ago Martin Phillips was
married at Port Townsend, Wash., aud
moved with his bride to Lopez island. A
lew nights later a large crowd surrounded
the house and harrassed the occupants
with a "charivari." After repeatedly
warning the crowd to desist, Phillips took
a double-barrelled 6hotgun and fired, fa
tally wounding two young men named
John Hall and John Graham.
FEARFUL EXPLOSION.
Ten Tons or Nitro-Glycerlne Shake the
Keystone State;
Three separate nitro-ghcerine magazines
exploded the otler morning at North
Clarendon, Pa., about seven miles above
Warren. The amount of nitro-giycerino
exploded was over ten tons. The
explosion set fire to two 25,000 bar
rel tanks full of oil belonging
to tho National Transit company, which
will be a total loss. Several oil derricks
and small wooden houses were also
burned. No one, so far as can be learned,
is injured. Nearly every window in Clar
endon was broken and much aamago was
done to the surrounding property. The
loss is estimated at ?1O0,QO.
A MOTLEY COLLECTION.
Briefly Tela News From All Farts of the
World.
David Biiakesiori:, a negro, and
Frank McLaughlin, an Irishman, quar
reled at Chicago over a trivial matter.
Each drew revolvers and fired two shots
All bullets took effect and both men are
mortally wounded.
Gov. Wilson has called a special ses
sion of the West Virginia legislature to
convene the third week in January.
Among matters to be settled is the Fleming-
Goff contest for the governorship.
It is stated that the sugar trust is to be
coverted into a stock company under a
Connecticut charter, with a capitalization
of $10,000,000.
Johnstown, Pa. was flooded again tho
other day, two temporary bridges being
washed away, but no lives were lost. The
water has now receded.
John H. Beatty, of Iowa, has been
appointed chief of division in the register's
office, treasury department.
A. L. Wabd. of Aberdeen, S. D., is in
Washington. Ho wants leave to establish
a trader's store at the Cheyenne Indian
agency.
The Western nail mills at Belleville,
HI., which have been closed nearly a year,
are to be started up again January 1st.
Ax ironclad prohibition measure has
Itassed both housss of the North Dakota
egislature.
Physicians report several cases of in
influenza in Boston.
THE LATE MARKETS.
Current Prices for Staple Prodaets.
SIOUX CITY.
Cattle Market steady. Quotations : Cannera
75c5$LiX); cows, $1.0032.15; stoekers, SL504
2.25; feeders, 82.2532.90; veal calves, A2.003
Hogs Market steady at same prices as last
week f3.2s3.55.
CHICAGO.
CattleMarkets quiet atprloesraafLugfrom
$1.50 to S5 40.
Hogs Market steady at 3.503.H.
Produce Flour steady; winter wheat, $i.00&
135; spring wheat, J3.C534.90; rye.3i50v32.85;
buckwheat. $1.00S$2.00 per cwt. Wheat, easy
at ?8Kc for December, 73Jic for May. Corn
steady at 32c. Oats steady at 20$o. Bye, 44i
Barley, nothing doing, Timothy, $1.20. Flax,
$135.
Provisions Pork, stead v; January, $9,403
S.42. Lard, steady; December, $5.92 Si
1.9$. Batter easier; oreamery, 16527c; dairy,
19-24c Cheese firm and active; fall cream
Cheddars and flats, 9Mi39?c; young Amerl
eas, 9 310c. EgCT firm; fresh 23331c.
NEW YORK.
Produce Wheat, easy; No. 2 red, 85,'$386fc
Lab. Corn firmer; No. 2, 43S43J4c Oats
qniet and firmer ; December, 29 J9Hc
Provisions Eggs weak; western, 28c. Butter
stronger; Elgin, 29c; western dairy, 0319c;
snamery, 14228c.
MINNEAPOUa -
Produce Wheat, No. 1 hard, December,
773$e; No. 1 northern, December, 75(e;2fa. 1
northern, December, 70c.
OMAHA.
lave Btoek-CatUa, slow at 9U09US;
Steady a $3.55 :3.6a.
The longest lawsuit in any country,
that is on record, was in England. It
appears to have arisen in a litigated
question respecting .certain possessions
near Wotten-under-Edge, in the county
of Gloucester, between the heirs of
Thomas Talbot, Viscount Lisle, otf the
one part, and the heirs of Lord Berke
ley on the other. The suit was insti
tuted toward the end of- the .reign of
Edward IV., and was still pending in
the reign of James L, at which time a
compromise took place between the
parties, thus embracing a period of 120
years.
You can get the throne of Hawaii
for a trifle of $800,000, perhaps less if
you pay cash down. The throne is in
good condition, having recently been
upholstered -with the best curled hair.
The crown and sceptre, both as good
as new, will be thrown in, as King
Kalakana would like to go out of bnsi
ness if somebody will make it worth
whUe far fejM 19 withdraw,
A SALOOtf MURDER.
COLD BLOODRD KlLUMG AT COV
1MGTOH, NEBRASKA.
James Toeaey, a Coak, taa Tinier K.
Erwla Aa Attack est a Yery Slight
Proveeatloa-Tao Daad Has Wall Coa
cected Story T Use Crteta Other Haps
and MUaaaa klOtm Wicked aad Uafer
tunatab
Elmer E. Erwin, oldjst son of A. W.
Erwin.he welt known wholesale merchant
of Siotx City, was stabbed 10 death by
James Woohey, in the saloon of Arens
dorf fc -Leader, in Stanton, Dakota county,
Neb., st-about 2 o'clock on Sunday morn
ing. Stanton is a place having no exist
ence in the postoffioe directory. It is tho
newer part of Covington, and should not
be confused with the town of Stanton, in
Stanton county.
The scene of the murder is one of the
murder is one of the best in the place, aud
is quietly conducted. In the rear portion
of tho room are a lunch counter, eating
stalls, and ia the rear of them, in another
room, istEe kitchen. Toohey, who killed
Erwin, has been at work as cook there for
a month or more. He was formerly em
ployed as cook in the' Choteau hotel at
Fort .Benton, Monh
The account of the crime, as given by
Sheriff ISrassfield and his deputy, Who
were on the scene almost immediately, and
as they collected it from somewhat contra
dictory reports of the witnesses, is as fol
lows: The bartender who was on night watch
in the saloon had just stepped out, leaving
a party unfamiliar with 'the business to
6tay until his return. Erwin came iu and
ordered a drink. The party on watrh said:
"Wait until tho bartender returns." Er
win answered this by saying: "I've got
money to pay for my drinks." Toohey
at this time got up from his chair and said:
"Give him a drink; he's all right; I know
him." Erwin, it seems, got- insulted at
this and said: "What is it to you, yon
G dd ns n of a b h?" Hot words
followed, resulting in a knock down,
Erwin coming out best. Toohey then
went back into the kitchen and secured a
butcher knife, and started for the front
of tho saloon. Parsons followed him,
took the knife from him and advised him
to go to bed and forget tho occurrence,
which ho said he would da, but instead
went back to the kitchen, secured another
knifo aud walked straight toward the door,
as if intending to go out.
When opposite Erwin, who was stand
ing leaning with his arm on tho bar, he
drew tho knife from his sleeve and plunged
it clear to the hilt in Erwin's breast, pass
ing it through part of the heart. Erwin
dropped lifeless, whilo at tho same time
Wm. Netb, abarkeepor at tho samehouse,
who was conversing with Erwin. grabbel
Toohey by the throat and threw him down.
In an instant a crowd gathered and each
and evsry one seemed to have a kick or
blow for Toohey, and when City Marshal
Cramer and Jlarshal Luther arrived the
murderer was more dead than alive. They,
through strenuous efforts, succeeded in
liberating him and brought him to this
place. The threats against Toohey were
loud, and various, and it is doubtful if he
had remained in Covington that he would
ever again see daylight. The jury brought
in a verdict of 'deliberate and premedi
tated murder.'
Toohev, after recovering consciousness,
was taken charge of by the officers and
placed in the t-taut on jail. There was loud
talk of lynching. Toohey was taken to
Dakota City, however, before the excite
ment grow to a serious extent and his
neck was probably saved by that action.
He is of Irish parentage, light complexion,
about S feet C inches tall. His conduct
about Stanton has been that of an in
offensive,, quiet man, determined and per
sistent. His part in .J his tragedy was en
acted with a deliberation almost fiendish,
and a stoical cruelty which tell of his ter
rible rage at being slapped in the face.
he men in the restaurant, when he went
after the knife, took one knito away from
him. Ho said not a word, but found an
other, and quietly stole out with it in his
sleeve. He was perfectly calm and tho
epithet he applied to his victim a3 he
raised the murderous weapon was
hissed from between his teeth. His ac
count of tho murder is this:
I went to work as cook for Mr. Parsons,
who owns tho restaurant in tho rear of
Tierney & Leader's saloon m Stanton,
the day before Thanksgiving. I was on
day duty. I came from Montana, where I
had resided for the past eight years. On
fcatuiilny night, the night of tho killing,
Erwin, without any just cause, hit me. I
asked nn explanation and received one in
the shapo of another blow, which knocked
me down. After this I remember nothing
until I fcund myself in jail. I had not
baen drinking and never had a word with
the man in my life.
The victim was well know in Sioux City
where in earlier days he held positions of
trust. Ho was of exemplary parentage,
the family being among tho most aristo
cratic and highly respecte J people in the
northwest. The story is not materially
different froth many others. Drink and
its accompanying evils had practically ex
iled Elmer Erwin from the friends and
associations of his earlier years, and he
pretended in later years to no vocation not
intimately associated with liquor selling
and liquor drinking. His remains were
taken to his father's home and buried from
the family residence.
OTHER DEEDS OF DAKKNESS.
Brutal and Fatal Mill.
John Gallagher died at Butte, Mont.,
from the effects of injuries received from
G. H. Ward in the most brutal fist fight on
record, which took place there on tho
Sunday before. Tho cause of the fight
was a dispute between the men over a
trifling account connected with a house
which Gallagher had built for Ward. Only
the principals and a dozen others were
present. One hundred and five rounds were
fought, all fiendish in brutality, tho men
fighting like tigers. Gallagher's left arm
was broken by a.blow in tho forty-eighth
round, but he fought on. In the ninety
eighth round Ward caught Gallagher off
guard and delivered a terrible right hander
under the chin,knocking him senseless. H e
partially recovered and fought seven more
rounds in a dazed condition, receiviucr
horrible punishment until knocked out in
the 105th.
Convicted of Manslaughter.
Judge Ladd was called up at 7 o'clock
Sunday morning to receive the verdict of
the jury in the Gainor murder case at
LeMars, Iowa. John Gainor, then a dis
solute young fellow, shot and killed Po
liceman Sam Hamilton in the streets of
that city on the night of November 23d,
18S8, in a drunken brawl while Hamilton
was trying to arrest Gainor. Self-defense
was churned. Tho case was tried last
spring and the jury disagreed. It was on
-trial for the whole week and' went to the
jury Saturday sight. The verdict was for
manslaughter.
Ha Teased Her.
Julius Hooper was shot and Jailed by
Louise Epperson, near Bakersville, Mo.
Hooper for some time past had been teas
ing Miss Epperson about her admirers,
and had nearly driven her frantic. At the'
dinner table he commenced joking again,
when the girl left the room, got a revolver,
came back, and without a word shot
Hooper in the head.
The coroner's jury returned a verdict of
justifiable homicide in the above case. It
developed at the inquest that Hoffer had
endeavored to criminally assault the girl,
and only desisted when the other hands
came to dinner. Then it was that Miss
Epperson got the revolver and killed him.
Killed His Father.
George Geuther, of St. Louis, aged 70
years, was fatally beaten by his jon Emil,
aged. 17. The boy bears a bad reputation.
J.1M iMHsvt waa vw me xeiussi 01 ins
Bttk$t t$) ianlak felai m?M9J,
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
MeattatT the State Graft
The state grange of Nebraska hekr ks
fourth aBhual meeting in Iaulanola frott
December 10 to 14. One hundred and f
teen delegates, representing fifty-eight
local granges; were present and a great
deal of interest was aianifested in the pro
ceedings; The seeretery's report shows
the following facts: There are now fifty
eight local granges in the a ate with a
membership of over 2,000; The cash re
ceipts for the year were $756; total ex
penses, f 525. Twenty-eight local granges
have been organized during the year with
a gain in membership of GOO. J. A. Cope,
of Pawnee, and S. J. Henahaw, of Jeffer
son county, were elected members of the
executive commmittec.
Aa Accldeat Canted by a H.
A peculiar and aggravating ac'cldonthap
pened to D. W. Evans, of Spring Banche.
He sold a fat hog to a neighbor. When
the hog was loaded into the wagon it be
came tmmasageable and to obviate the
trouble they thought be3t to stick the
p.rker, and in so doing the team became
frightened and ran away. In getting ont
of the wagon at the rear end Mr. Evans'
helper stabbed him With the butcher knife,
laying open the arm from the wrist to the
elbow. Mr. Evans suffers considerably
and is confined to his boJ;
Wants to Know, You Know.
A Nebraskan has writton to Sioux City,
Iowa, to inquire:
You will greatly oblige me by answering tho
following question : A gentleman and citizen
of Sioux City by the name of ilermond, M. 1)..
is a person who has boon through this county
rotro3cnting himself as an authorized purchas
ing agent for somo immigration society, and was
seeking improved farnisiorlocatintlitntnigrants
and contracting for them, making appointment a
to closo ttlo sales and pay the prices agroed
upon, bnt failed to connect. He would skip out
of town when he agreed to meet the parties.
1 ho mentally, physically and financially
sound, or is ho a crank on tho scheme? He
tatcs that ho has been a licensed physician of
Sioux City for nineteen years.
Tho man is not known in Sioux City.
Caught by a Revolving Shaft.
Whilo Isaac W. George, lessee of C'rabb's
mill, near Lincoln, was at work among the
machinery, bis pants leg caught on a rap
idly turning 6haft and twisted ono of his
leys, mashing it from the knee down into
a pulp. Surgeons wero called and it was
found necessary to amputate tho leg about
midway between tho knee and tho hip.
Tho man is lying in nn extremely critical
condition, with tho chances hardly even
for his recovery.
New Postmasters.
Murray, Cass county, J. W. Edmunds.
Beiby, Seward county, O. Gowery. Wil
son, Furnas county, J. B. McGraw. Ger
mactowu, Seward county, C. Fet'erman.
Tilden, Madison county, Mrs. L. E. Hon
ey sett."
Flotsam and Jetsam.
Dit. Kelly, of the Norfolk asylum, has
been acquitted in the prosecution resulting
from the death of Carolina Soulier.
The charter of the Women's Belief
Corps of Jnniata, which was t keji away
a year ago, has been restored.
Wm. Robinson, a centenarian, who had
been a resident of Custer county for seven
teen years, died near Calloway a few days
ago.
0. Nelson, a farmer from Dunbar, blew
out tho gas in the Morton house in Ne
braska City. He was discovered in time
to savo his life.
Tuere are threo veterans of the Mexican
war living in Nemaha county S. Clayton,
near Peru; W. Lorancc, near Brown ville,
aud Maj. J. W. Brush, of Auburn.
Mrs. B. F. Polley, of Kimball, while
making molasses candy, tripped over the
kettle, spilling the boiling liquid over both
hands aud burning them so severely that
they may be permanently disfigured.
Mrs. Larson, wife of tho man who was
murdered by tramps near Julesburg last
August, died last week at her home in Per
kins county. She had been in a demented
condition ever since the murder of her
husband.
1. G. Ruine, a well-to-do farmer living
a few miles north of Western, and a brother
of J. W. Bhine, judge of Saline county,
mado an attempt to horsewhip Rev. B. F.
Summers. Bhine was promptly arrested
and placed under $400 bonds to keep the
peace. The assault grew out of a sup
posed insult to one of Rhine's friends.
A fish hatchery is to be started in the
lakes near the industrial school at Kear
ney. Over 100 men and fifty teams are at
work on the beet sucrar factory at Grand
Island.
A paper pulp factory with a capacity of
ten tons daily is to bo established at Beat
rice. The pulp is to be made from corn
husks.
Twenty-five loads of Omaha Indians
passed through Fremont th-3 other day en
route to Indian territory to visit the Pon
cas. Their wagons were well loaded with
presents, and on their arrival a large
amount of stewed dog will be consumed.
There is a boy at the Kearney indus
trial school who i? a grandson of Gen.
Longstreet, of southern confederacy fame.
The fact has just become known, and Su
perintendent Malalieu has written the
Longstreets for information on tho sub
ject. The board of supervisors of York coun
ty has appropriated $100 to each township
for the improvement of roads.
The new academy of the Sisters of Visi
tation at Hastings has juA been completed
at a cost of 85,000.
At Merna the 5-year-old son of Charles
Blakeman was terribly scalded by falling
into a bucket of boiling water.
William Bell, who stole four horses
anl subsequently disposed of them at
Bloomington, escaped from the jail at Ox
ford. The horses were recovered.
A party of hunters in the woods near
Calhoun wero successful in killing threo
wildcats, two kittens and the mother.
The old ones weighed thirty-three pounds
and tho young ones ten pounds each.
While fighting a prairie fire near Ulysses
a young man named Byron Bcaner, while
holding down a bar! wire fence with his
foot so that a team could pass over it and
plow a fire guard, had his ankle caught be
tween the plow point and the wire, sever
ing his foot from bis body. Physicians
who were summoned think he will recover.
articles of incorporation hare been
filed by the Kearney Woolen Mill com
pany. Capital stock, $29,000.
A Berwyk young man recently put on a
new fehirt and came near dying. Poison
ous matter in the coloring of the garment
was the cause. He will recover.
John Jose, of Palmyra, while sitting
on his wagon when it was being dumped
fell into the elevator dump and was cov
ered up by a load of corn. His injuries
were not serious.
Walter Peck, a 13-year-old boy living
nine miles north of St. Paul, has an un
usual amount of grit. While driving .with
his younger sister he was thrown from the
buggy and had his arm broken above the
elbow. He managed, however, tdstop the
team, and getting back into his seat, drove
to Scotia, where his arm was set, after
which, with his little sister's assistance, he
drove home.
A Tint ee-story hotel is being built at
Wellfleet, Lincoln county, to cost 810,000.
T11E IRISH CAUSE'.
FAMNKU.; DKUTKKS AW
DBESS IN KOTTIKOUAM.
The frisk Leader Greet! fey (heat Craweb
of Fettpie-He KeUee to 1. easier Salla-
hwry aad Eisctfse the Iadesi T.mmm
aael the PameU Ceasaslsslasu
A Leaden dispatch says Mr. Panell
was met try a great crowd em bis arrival
at Nottingham, and was pr-eted with
mingled groins and cheef s. Be addressed
a large meeting in reply to the speech re
cently made by Lord Salisbury. Mr.
Parhell declared that there never had
been a movement ef rack, magnitude to
the country which w$ so comparatively
free from crime as the Lanl Leagne
movement. The object of the home ml
movement, he said, was to regenerate
Ireland, especially with regard to her in
dustrial condition. Manufactnres might
be developed to each an extent as to take
the Strain off tho land, and enable the
people to look to Other means than farm
ing for gaining a living; but Irishmen
themselves matt promote Irish ladno.
tries not at ike expense ef the Englisk
lut of the Irish exchequer; or, beet
of all, through the efforts of local and in
dividual enterprise and with private capi
tal. Mr. Balfour's plan of making rail
ways through impoverished districts was
a vain expenditure of money.
Home rule, the speaker said, aimed at
national regeneration, sod this implied
the regeneration of the industries and tho
industrial and commercial spirit of the
people. If home rule were granted it
would not discourage tho rich people of
England from promoting industrial de
velopments, bat the money would b
judic ously and advantageously employed
instead of being wasted, as now, to main
tain in power a government of fraud and
trickery. Expenditures of that sort would
enable Ireland to get and keep her head
above water, and so exercise and develop
the qualities of her people that she would
be no longer an exhibition for the wonder
and scorn of the nations of the world.
Briefly referring to the Parnell com
mission! the speaker said that he believed
the judges' report would not discredit the
national movement.
If the Government had nothing to be
ashamed of in its connection with the
Times, Mr. Parnell added, doubtless it
would gratify curiosity by making known
the truth about that matter. The coun
try wanted to know how far the Govern
ment had gone in a course so men and
so thoroughly contrary to the English
spirit ns to attack men from ambush and
by the use of such disreputable instru
ments. He knew the letters were forger
ies, but ho would rather have died than
have accepted the vindication the Gov-,
crnmont offered him. The Parnell Com
mission, instead of trying the personal
indictment, had tried the Irish nation
and the movements of the Irish party.
FKIGHTFULACCIDENT.
A Lineman Falls from a Pole aad Receives
Probably Fatal Injuries.
A New York dispatch says: The first rert
ous accident attending the raid of the city
authorities upon the electric wires oc urred
on Broadway, in front of the ctemical
bank. Daniel Montague, a lineman in the
employ of the United States Hluminating
com r any, fell from a pole and received
probably fatal injuries. Montague was
standing on a cross-bar, and this snapped
o.T close to the pole. The lineman fell
across some wires, bounded off to the stone
sidewalk, and rolled into the bawmeat of
a building. Montagae was eagaged la
taking down the wires of his company to
save them from destruction by the city's
gang of laborers who were at work behind
him. He was taken to Chambers street
hospital.
A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
A Heater in the United States Express
Office Blows Up.
A Chicago dispatch says: There was a
terrific explosion in. the United States
Express company's shipping office in the
Rock Island yards at Harrison and Sherman
streets. A beater in the basement blew
up, tearing away the door and a portion
of the roof. Several persons were in the
room above where the explosion occurred
at the time, but by a miracle no one was
killed. A roan named John Fredericks
was buried several feet by some of the
debris and was badly injured.
Wilt Clans SprecTcels Sell?
New York dispatch: The World states:
'It Ls claimed now that the sugar trust
people, who have from 12,WO,000 to
$15,000,000 in cash ia the treasury, are
instructing the bank and trust companies
with whom they do business not to lend
money on sugar trust certificates. If this
be true it is tie most serious blow yet
struck at the value of sugar trust certifi
cates, and demonstrates the truth of the
Wall street story that the sugar trust
magnates have been very Industriously de
pressing the price of the stock so that they
can luy in the certificates sold to the pub
lic at 125 at less than half price. The
story that they were locking up money so
as to mflaence the coarse of speculation oa
the bear sido has not been denied. The
most interesting sugar trust rumor bow ia
circulation is that Havemeyer and bis as
sociates are negotiating with Clans Sprock
ets with the view of purchasing the new
Philadelphia refinery. There seems to be
a general idea that Mr. Sprockets will
eventually sell, but he does not dare to do
so at present.'
Maine Democrat to Take the Offensive.
A Waterville (Blaine) dispatch says: At
a conference of the Democratic State com
mittee here steps were taken toward
strengthening the party organization
throughout the State. It was stroagly
urged that the leading feature of the
next campaign should be the resubmission
of the prohibitory amendment to the
people. One of the arguments used by
those who favored this was the example of
Rhode Island, Iowa, and other States
where tho Democrat have taken a bold
and aggressive attitnde oa this question.
Elections in Ohio.
A Columbus (Ohio) dispatch says: The
Supreme court has decided that the biennial
elections amendment to the constitution of
Ohio, which received a majority of votes
cast on that proposition at the last elec
tion, was not legally adopted. This estab
lishes the principle that to change the con
stitution a majority of all votes cast at a
general election must be in the affirma
tive. ChangeaKe Male?.
"The mails have changed, madam,"
said the clerk at the post-office window
in answer to a question about the time
for the arrival of the letter pouch.
"Yes, indeed," replied the old lady,
placing both hands on the window ledge
and looking straight into the clerk's
eyes, "the males have changed. When
I was a girl we didn't hear of half the
wickedness we do now, and all owing
to maies."
"But the mails. I mean "
"I know what males you mean. The
papers are full of their goin's on.
And it's a perfect shame. Seems
though men get married nowadays just
to be supported. When I was a girl a
man would be ashamed to live off hia
wife's money; but, law, they think
nothing of it now. They even hold
themselves in the market to be bought
np by Eome rich girl, like the Prince
"What-you-may-call-it over in Paris.
Broke off the engagement because she
didn't bid high enough, didn't he? A
man like that oughtn't to be worth
"more'n five cents. Anyhow, you're
quite right, young man, the males have
changed?"
Then the old lady went away, pleased
that she had been able to free her
rain& xexas Sifiinan.
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