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jJ-vfcTV " 5. t y. " -t-vi -- r 7 . lm.jp 'i.! jv ,r ?5ss?-- "v . - " V csS -(-. vc- VOLUME XX.-NU3EBER 44. WHOLE NUMBER 1032: COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1890. "t?-'-v' " (fotomte ImtrraL r h: ' 1I HECTOnSi A. ANDEXSON. PrrVt. i. H. GALLEY. Vice Prrs't. O.T.R0EN, Cashier. O. ANDERSON. P. ANDERSON. - JACOB GHEISEN. HENRY RAGAIZ, JOHN J. SULLIVAN. First National Bank COLUMBUS. HEB. Statement of Condition at the Close cf Business September CP, 1889. HZSOCBCES. Irfnnsanri Discount.. ........ ........$ lifi.511 75 D. S. BomN ' . I. lti.rVJ 0() Ol!ifMicKi and bond lKi 7 K&J Judaic. Furnitnre and Fixtarrs.. IVC 23 !- from other hank f 15,l3 " U. S.Treanury . tm.tW Case on Hand 17.107.12 33,lfi3 (u j $-J57,ffiH 07 LIABILITIES. Oipilnl nntl'Snrpta $ PO.000 00 I. mljvitM proSu 7.017 .5 .National lir.nk notiM outstanding I::jilX) 00 Rediscount ... 'Si,VM 11 Dur Drpot-itora . H4,f- U7 $ 2G7,tKS 07 AnrUS-'Wtf justness ards. 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MAKT-S Xach DiHcuimioa Caaoatl Thereby AFlnd-lCtbmtZ.eani9-iniwhat In Two Diree tinin The Chief Indictments Quashed. l'ba report of Judges Harmon, Day and Smith, the special commission appointed to investigate the charges made by the Times against the Pamellite members of the commons, occupied 162 pages. Each mem ber against whom charges are made is treated separately. The judges find ! that speeches made by many of the Par ! nellites were intended to bring about a separation of Ireland from England and that speeches of others, in view of the ' state of the country, were calculated to fo i ment crime. ( The greatest interest centers in the final conclusions, which follow;. 1. "We find that the respondents, mem bers of parliament, were not members of a conspiracy having for its object to estab lish absolute independence in Ireland, but find that somo of them, together with Cavitt, established and joined a land league with the intention by its means to bring about the absolute independenca of Ire land as a separate nation. 2. The respondents did enter into a con spiracy by a system of coercion and in timidation to promote agrarian agitation against the payment of agricultural rants for the purpose of impoverishing and ex pelling from the- country the Irish land lords. 3. The charge that after denouncing cer tain crimes in public they afterward led their supporters to believe such denuncia tion was noc sincere, is not established. "We entirely acquit Mr. P.irnell and the other respondents of the charge of insin cerity in their denunciation of the Phamix park murders, and we find the fac simile letter upon which this charge was chiefly based against Paraell is a forgery. Regarding the two special charges against Davitt, that he was a Fenian ami assisted in the formation of the land league with money contributed for the purpose of out rage and crime; that he was in close and intimate association with the party of vio lence in America, and was mainly instrn- i mental in brinjrinc about an alliance of ' .... . . j i. . t n.. -i i l rule party in America, we find it proved that Davitt was a Fenian acd received money from the skirmishing fnnd contrib uted for he purpose of outrage. This was not, however, for formation of the land league itself, but for the promotion of ag itation leading up to it. We find also that he, in such close and intimate association with the party of violence in America, was tho man mainly instrumental in bringing about the alliance referred to. In the opening of the report the judges refer to the unprecedented character of the inquiry. The history of the action of the leaders of the Irish party from 1S77 is re cited. The relations were traced that ex isted between the founders of the land I league and the Fenians and Irish- Ameri- cans. Befemng to boycotting it declares i that instances adduced before the commis sion proved that it consisted of a system ' of intimidation of a most severe and cruel character. A boycott combination is :l!e ! gal both in its objects and the means 1 adopted to carry it out. It was an elabor ate, all pervading tyranny, aiming to in jure the landlords as a class anil drive , them out of the country. This action of I the league far exceeds the limits of the I just force of public opinion acd created well grounded terror in those minds suf fering under it. The commission comes to the conclusion that this was the inten tion of those devising and carry out the . system. In our judgment the leaders of the league thus combining to carry out the i boycott were guilty of criminal conspiracy. 1 We consider this charge established against Pameli, Dillon. Biggar, Sexton, T. P. O'Connor, Matthew Harris, TV. O'Brien, T. D. Sullivan, T. il. Healy. T. Harring ton, E. Harrington. A. O'Connor. J. E. Kenny, W. Eedmond, J. E. Btdmond, Justin McCarthy, J. O'Connor. T. J. Con don, J. J. O'Kelly, Cummins, Cox, Pat rick Hea. J. D. Chehan. L. Lehy, E. Lemy, J. Barry, C. K. Tanner. Maurice Healy, T. Quinn, Daniel Crilly, Henry Campbell, P. J. Foley, J. J. Clancy, .7. F. K. O'Brien, R. Lalor. T. Manne, J. Deasy, J. C. Flynn, J. Jordan. "VY". B. Lane, D. Sheehy, D. Sullivan, G. X. Bum and Michael Davitt. Under the charge of disseminating news papers tending to incite crime the report lays stress upon the fact that Parnell did not produce the report of any speech wherein he denounced the use of dyna mite, also no denunciation by Parnell of the action of the physical force party in Ireland or America had been given in evi dence. Parnell admitted that he was un ableto say he had. by ppech or action, found any fault with the Fenian organiza tion. The statistics cf crime for 1SS0, 1881 and 1S82 strongly corroborated the statement that the outrages followed the establishment of the land league. Agrarian crime raged in Ireland when the league agitation was at its height. The coincident decrease of crime with the inactivity of the league was equally conspicuous. When the league was suppressed in 1SSI crime dropped from 4,459 cases in 1SS1 to S70 cases in 1SS3. It was contended before the commission that the causes of crime were not dne to the league but the chronic state of Ireland under distress agqpavated by eviction. Comparative statistics showed the domi nant cause was league agitation1. During the severe distress in the years from 1S49 to 1833. inclusive, when 53,123 families were evicted, the total record of agrarian crime was 1.245; whereas, for the four years from 1S7D to 1SS2, with 1I,S54 families evicted, the total record of crimes was 11.323. The commission rejects the suggestions that crime was caused by secret societies, by compensation for the disturbance bill, or that the aecrease in crime after July, 1882, ra dne to the arrears of rent act, and adds: "The question is not whether other causes can be cnggestedr the fact being Out the increase from lS7DtolSS2, though sot exclusively ascribed to agiti on,.wss mainly dna to the actios of the league and. its founders and leaders. In tne judgment of. the court the densneia ribns of the crimes quoted for the defense were of little avaiL because contemporane ously with then the leaders and organizers were carrying oa agitation by means of speeches sad conduct tending to sn- courage crime. The sentiment in Ireland against aiding the police in the discovery of sriminals was not confined to the ignorant, bat was spread by those from whose education juster views of duty could prevail. Proof has been given that the league systematically and indis criminately defrayed the expense? for the defense of persona charged with agrarian crime Knowledge that such assistance will in all cases be afforded must have ef fected to encourage persons so disposed to commit outrages. The same observation implies to the support of their families. Numerous books and documents, which. if produced, might have thrown light upon 1 the league's proceedings, vera not pro duced. Generally we have not received I from Pameli and the officers of the land league the assistwee we were entitled to ' expect in the investigation of the .league's accounts." The report proceeds to trace the course I of the league's movements in America and it3 connection with the Clan-na-Gael. Touching the contradictory evidence of Le Caron and Pameli oyer the interview in the corridor of the commons in 1SS1, the balance of probabilities was in favor of the accuracy of LeCaron. It was highly probable Pameli would say to any one whom he regarded as a member of the physical force party in America that an understanding ought to be brought about between that party and the Parnell sup porters in the league. It is also probable Parnell would mention Devoy as the person best able to arrange such an understanding, for Devoy had been among the principal agents through whom the support of the Fenians had been ob tained. The purpose of such an alliance may be disputed, but the dusire of Parnell and Davitt that the parties of physical force and open political movement should act in harmony has been proved by De voy's letter and corroborated by Le Caroa. It is not impossible that in conversing with a supposed revolutionist (Le Caron) Parnell expressed himself so as to leave the impresfcion that he agreed with those who favored revolution. Touching the tenth convention of the Clan-na-Gael, at hich Sullivan presided, the proceedings proved the dynamite policy was definitely adopted by the Chi cago convention of 1SS1, at which T. P. O'Connor was a delegate from Parnell. The Washington convention of 18S2, the Astor house meeting and the Philadelphia cenvention of 1883, are successfully quoted as proving the identity and sympathy of the Irisn leaders with the American physi cal force party. The Clan-na-Gael circu lar of October, 1882, clearly pointed to the use of dynamite. It was tnis Clan-na-Gact, whose leaders, closely associated witn the Irish lead ers, finally obtained in April, 1883, control of the entire movement in Amer ica, henceforward retaining it. The mass of evidence proved that the Irish league in America had been since directed by the Clan-na-Gael and had been actively en gaged in promoting the use of dynamite for the destruction of life and property in England. It further proved that while the Clan-na-Gael controlled the league in America these organizations concurrently ' collected sums .amounting to over $300,000 for a fend wherefrom payment should be made to Irish members of the commons. It has not, however, been proved that Parnell knew the position of the Cian-na-Gael. The circulars of Le Caron, show ing its operations, were kept secret. Prets Comment. The Pull Mill Gazette says that the re port of the special commission is a more complete vindication of the Pamellites and a more sweeping condemnation of the Times than the most sanguine of the home rulers ventured to hope for. The Star, T. H. O'Connor's paper, as serts that the report of the Parnell com mission is a triumphant acquittal of all the accused Pamellite members of commons. The Freeman's Journal say3 tne Par nellite members of commons are acquitted all along the line. The report is virtually a verdict against their accusers. The Exprexs says that the report indi cates that the work of the land league was connected with the increase of crime in Ireland. Costly Discrimination. Rev. Albert P. Miller, coloted. pastor of the Dixwell Avenue Congregational church in Xew Haven, while on a vacation in the summer of 1887, came to Xew York and engaged berths for himself, wife and two children and mother-in-law on the steam boat Drew, one of the Albany night boats. On examination he found the berths inadequate and endeavored to en gage state rooms. The purser referred him to the captain, who did not pay any attention to him. He again applied to the purser, who told him all the rooms were engaged. Mr. Miller demanded his money, which was returned to h"n. He claimed that there were state rooms vacant but that the officers had dis criminated against him on account of his color. On this basis he sued the New Jersey Steamboat company for S3.000 damages. The case was tried in the su preme court of New York and the defense was that the staterooms were all sold. The jury gave the plaintiff a verdict of 5500. Mr. Miller is a graduate of Yale and the Fiske university. Theodore Thomas to "Saxry. "Wedefing bells will soon be ringing for Theodore Tbcma. the great orchestra leader. His fiancee is a Chicago lady of ' high social position. Miss Rose Fav. the i bride that is to be, is the daughter of Rev. J Chares ray, an Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, Mass. He was the son of Judge Samuel P. Fay, also of Cambridge, a man of considerable note in his time. The old homestead, which is still called Fay Hall, is a fn-niliir spot in the college town- It is only aDout a year since tnnr Rev. Charles Fay died at an advanced age. Although he never made a permanent home in Chicago, he has many friends here, having temporarily filled the pulpit of St. John's Episcopal church a few years ago. The family are members of fh' pqrHi. Ten. vests ago several of the -cambers of the family moved to Chicago, a son acd three daughters having formed one house hold until tha rcarriage a few g'-TiTb.g ago of Miss lily Fay, who is sow 3rs. TvH serdicg. Tha others were Norman. Fay, formerly presidemt of the telephone com pany; and now holding the same position in the Chicago Gas Trust company, Miss Amy Fay, the accomplished piaaist; and Miss Rose Fay. THE! WERE ALL mm ZXECTRICAI. CURRBNTS GET HEADED WRONU ASD PLiI HAVOC Th Haavy Railway Flortd Too Xaeti for th Telephone Serrlce An Aati-AIIlaace Pro kaaciameato Other v A. case of great importance to the elec tric world was decided in the superior court ' of Cincinnati by Judge Taft. The Cin- cinnati and Suburban Telephone company baa won in its great contest against the Hottnt Auburn electric railway. This suit was brought by tne telephone company to enjoin the Alount Auburn Incline Plane Bail way company from using the Sprague single trolley system of electric railwjya. The principal electrical features of the system is the conducting of the electricity to operate the motors under the cars through a sing'o trolly wire suspended over the middle of the street, and con- nected with the moving car by a trolly wheel running under the wire attached to a single mast connected with the car, and the current running through the motor into 1 the wheels and thence into the earth. ' The discharge of the electricity into the I earth and the induction from the trolley wire of currents on parallel telephone wires produce loud, buzzing noises in the telephone instruments, preventing the use of the telephone. As many as 200 wires of the telephone company along the line the railway company were disturbed. The court found that the railway had the right to use electricity to propel its , cars, bat in the absence of express legis-1 lative authority it had no right to use a , system which wonld disturb and injure the i conduct of the business of the telephone ; company, unless it ccnld Le shown that ' there was no other system of electrical rail way which would not create such disturb- , acces. The evidence showed that there is a practicable system known as the. double trolley wire system, where the current was conveyed along the street by two wires, and was carried down into the car by one trolley wheel and mast and returned to the other wire by another trolley wheel; that upon a double track road, like the defend ant company's this was both mechanically t and electrically practicable. ' The court found that the telephone com pany might completely obviate the diffi culty by using a metalic circuit for each one of its lines, but that this would involve ' an enormous expense, and that any other ' Cuiab!e service to classes not now enjoying more economical device could only give q use 0f n telegraph to any large" de partial relief. The court, therefore, fonnd ,. jf e asked that he be directed to ne that the use of the single troUey system by got:ate for and secure a set of leased wires the defendant was a legal injury to the 8nch the great newspapers have from telephone company which a court of equity city to cjtv or brokers and bankers have must enjoin the further continuances of. ' connecting their offices in different cities, The railroad company, therefore, will be that tne public might communicate enjoined from using the single trolley wire through their ousiness offices (postoffice) system on its lines. -.GA1NT THE ALLIANCE. A Komtn Bishop Holds that No Catholic i Can Join It. In a Lenten pastoral letter, to be read in all the churches of the diocese of Lea en worth, Kas., Bishop Fink, of the Roman Catholic church, referring to the Farmers' alliance movement caused by the agricult ural depression, says: We may say that, surrounded by a bount fal crop as we are, many of our people are suffer ing and in misery, uncertain Iwhat they should do in the futare. The complaints como not only from the laboring classes in cities who ire with- ont work, but especially from the country dia triets, from the farming population, which feels that matters cannot bo as they are for an in definite number of years, or they would Io?e their house and home. Owing to the pscnliar , state of our country everyone suffers when the farming people aro in distress. It seems that a.most every industry in onr country is pro tected in order to amass riches in the hands of the few by which the many will have to suffer. Tha only classes not protected aro these who would seem to need it cost the laboring men and the farming population. The bishop reviews the constitution ot the Farmers' alliance and holds that no , Catholic can join the order, because it is secret and because it virtually has a re ligion and a chaplain of its own. This latter point he discussed at length and de- . clares that if the alliance will drop its re ligious aspect Catholics can join it and ; work for the good of the farming classes, An Heroic Olil Man. A remarkable exhibition of heroism oc curred at Glidden. A Wisconsin Central passenger train was pulling out of the sta tion. Across the rails, less than 100 yards ahead, lay the body of a drunken woods man. The engineer failed to notice the obstruction. An old man sprang from the depot platform and running in front of the train tossed the body from the track. The engine struck the old man as he sprang from the track, and threw him insensible into a pile of snow. He received slight in- , juries about the head and right ride. Gen. Foster Dead. cren. John A. Foster, a veteran of the civil war and once a lawyer of repute, was was found dead on the floor of an insur ance office in New York, where he wxi ac customed to sleep. He was at one time an intimate of prominent republican poli ticians, but his desire for drink lost him nearly all his friends. He abandoned his wife, the daughter of a southern planter, and two grown-up daughters about two years ago. Since then he has subsisted chiefly on charity. Gen. Foster assisted in the prosecution of Mrs. Surratt. TOI IN A MIVCTE. The American squadron of evolution has arrived at Villefrancke Eonest Aijcis, a wealthy Milwaukee man, was married at Louisville, Ky., to Miss Lady "Winston. ' Ail persons arrested during the disor der at Lisbon have been given their liberty acd order is restored. Cesabio Alvzsa, a journalist, has been appointed minister of the interior of Brazil to succeed Aristides Lobo. EnG MAwMiTGA has regained his au thority in Uganda, Africa, destroyed the slave dhows and is friendly with the Chris- na-s BZLXOI3; Ypsilanti. Bay City and Lake- r view, Michigan towns, had fires in which ( onelife at each place was lost. Three . were babies. Max. PA5IX2A. has confessed taat he tried to remove Prices Ferdinand, But he denies that the Russian govamment had any connection with the scheme. The contract for three andjne-half miles of elevated railway m Chicago was let to Carnegie, Phipps Co., of Pitts burg. The price will be between $800,000, acd $1,000,000. Drc obuass. Seateaeed to Two Tears imprlaonateai Hb Speech A Noiy Crowd. The due d' Orleans, son of the count and countess of Paris, arrested last week bn the charge Of violating the law exiling from France all pretenders to the FrencH throne, was adjudged guilty and sentenced to-two years' imprisonment. The court room was crowded with spec tators who had gathered to watch the pro ceedings. When the prisoner was arraigned the crowd bxoke out with loud cries of ''The army," "Due d' Orleans;" JRepublic:5 They became so demonstrative that tke gendarmes werp compelled to clear the room. Before judgment was announced the J duke addressed th court in his own be half. He said: "I came to France to serve as" a common soldier. I have nothing to do with poli- j tics, which only concerns my father, whose j obedient son and faithful servant I am. I , tuew that by entering Franca t rendered myself amenable to the law, but thit knowledge did not stop me. I love my country and wish to serve her. I am guilty of no crime." The republican journals of Paris ap prove the sentence imposed upon the Due d'Orleans, and say that the manifestations made by the Orleanists preclude the possi bility of a pardon for the duke or a rednc- ' tion of his sentence. Boyalist capera declare that in view of his patriotic mct.ves the sentence im posed on the duke is monstrous. GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPHY. Postmaster General TTanamakej Explain His Proposition. Postmaster General Wanamaker, before the house committee on postoffices and postroads, discussed fully the proposition in his annual report for the establishment by the government of a limited postal tele graph. He submitted a plau providing for a lease by the government for ten years of wires for carrying on the busintss and for the delivery of telegrams by canieis in the first delivery following the receipt of the teirgram. The scheme, he insisted, is practical and free from objections. .Mr. Wanamaker proposed a union of the post and telegraph on a basis that would net interfere to any appreciable extent with any existin" rishts, but would offer incal- from city to city, or by messages dropped in their mail boxes. The people had now, he continued, business offices, clerk who could soon learn the trick of the machines; carriers who traveled over the same streets traversed by the telegraph boy, and stamps for payment that dispense with bookkeeping, and all that was needed to build np the service was the authority and the wire. Ho declared most emphatically that such service was the legitimate work of tho postoffice, and people were right in stoutly demanding telegraph facilities at postal stations. Mr. Wanamaker then stated the provis ions of the bill. Nothing in the act shall Le constmed so as to prohibit any tele graph company from performing general bnsiness for the public as the same is now done. The postal telegraph charges in any one stale shall not exceed 10 cents for messages of twenty words or less, count ing the address and signatures; nor over 25 cents for any distance under 1,500 miles; nor over 50 cents for any greater distance, the rates and rules and regula tions to be prescribed by the postmaster general. The bill also provides for a sys tem of postal telegraph money orders at a rate not to exceed double the rate now charged, in addition to a double postal telegraph charge. TAX ANT FEATHERS. 1 Mormon Elders in Alabama Given a Coat ! and Set Aflrr. t Two country peddlers who arrived at Birmingham. Ala., from Marion county, bring news of the thrilling experience of two Mormon elders who were proselyting In that county. The elders, it stem. were getting together a party of converts pre paratory to starting for Utah. WhiTe at the house of one of the converts a crowd of masked men entered and dragged them from their beds. They were taken some distance into the woods, stripped of their clothing and covered with tar and dry leaves. After warn ing them that if they did not leave the sountry at once they would be killed, the :rowd went a?ay. They had gone only a short distance when two of them turned, and, going back, set Arc with a lighted match to the tar on the naked bodies of the alders. There happened to be a creek near by and the two elders ran and jumped in. extinguishing the flames. They were badly burned, but some of the converts succeeded in getting them safely out of the neighborhood next day. Mormon elders first made their appearance in that county about six months ago, and several had previously been driven away by force. Will Kill All Right, The New York commission to test the electrical execution apparatus in the state prisons has made its report to the superin dent of state prisons, Lothrop. The re port says that the questions to be solved were, in the main, whether the apparatus would kill, and also what number of volts "were necessary and what kind of wire should be used. It was found that Ger man silver wire proved to be the best and that about 900 ToltS Was the maTrmntn needed for horses and large a-r-fm'g and about 400 volts the -iTimn for small animals. At Auburn a horse acd a calf ware snccessfolly experimented upon, acd efforts m? by Dr. Fell, of BuiTalo, by the aid of improved machinery to resusci- tate tha animal failed entirelv. thus -arav- J ing conclusively that it was set a case of - sasDeaded animatlos- The committee, is. conclusion, found that in its opinion each one of the appar atus can be used successfully, and that death by electricity ran be accomplished within tour seconds. There is in its opin ion no cause for imagining that there will eTer be any failure of results. I A -OKART OF NEBRlSKA 3E1?& rotably d Harder. What was supposed to be d. baft ease" of assault at Nebraska. City hss developed into a probable murder. Earnest Sittler and James King, two yceng-men aged 18, boarding In th eastern part of the cityv have not been very friendly tit Iste aud the former made repeated efforts to cdxrimeace a quarrel. King repeatedly asked him to desist, but Siltler still continued his tan talizing and finally tore v a piir of iron tongs at King", striLing him on th? head nOove the left ear, making wh t was sup posed to be. a bad. scalp wound. Kin? started to town to have Sittler.irreiied, Lnt fainted on the way and aa taken bom", where he has been lying in a crit'Cal con dition since. 1 lie di tors ex.in.ined the wound and found aho'e in his sknll ta the depth of four iuch.es, from which the brain was ooainrf, and they say he e.umot possi ly recoTer. Mrs. rb.'a witness to tbe r.ssault. Says that the tongs pt-nttraled the rknli with such fonre that they ha I to be withdrawn by Sittler. who then struck his victim another blow oa the mouth with his Et. Sittler ia a stepso 1 of Iloa- Wm. McC'ellan. of Nebraska City; and from a respectable family. He escaped and has not been apprehended. A Fatal Cattle Iiea; J. S. Stewart, a prominent business man of Blair, has a Large f.uni just outside of the city limits. For several weeks he has been troubled with his cattle dying otf. He has lost twenty-one head. The disease seems of be confined to cows and heifers with calf, although steers running with the cows in the same yard and eating tht same kind of food are cot affected. Mr. Stewart has fai ed to find a veterinary yet who can tell what the cause cf the dii ease is, or what the disease is. He has not bren able to cure a case- For tha benefit of other farmers Mr. Stewart gives the symptoms of the disease as follows: The first indication in noticed by the animal's tiil twitching and jerking. After a while they will rub their hips and lick their leg. After a while, as they grow wors. they will bite their hind legs and tear the skfn otf. "ew.ty ugcets. Dorchester has voted to issue bonds to build a $10,000 school-house. The National bank of Ashland has in crease 1 its capital stock from 550,000 "to 5100.U00. A camp ot Sons of Veterans is to be or ganized at Hebron. Lewis Spelts, of David City, has madu arrangements to plant a patch of cotton as soon as the weather permits. A bots' branch of the Y. M. C. A. has been organized at Weeping Water. Mr. axd Mrs. David H. Goodrich, of Geneva, celebrated their golden wed ding anniversary receutlv with the aid of sixteen children and grandchildren. Grant's new fire bell has arrived and is ready for business. Farmers' alliances are springing up rapidly in Clay county. A number of gamblers have tied from Broken Bow to avoid arrest. The total enrollment of the city schools of Beatrice last month was l,fi22, with an average daily attendance of 1,1U3. . Calvin- L. Madison, who snot and hilled James Pridemore, at Scotia, last November, has been acquitted of the charge of murder, the deed having been commit ted in self-defense. The Beatrice Oat meal company recently shipped two carloads of it3 prodnct to S.attle, and will soon make n similar ship ment to Reno, Nev. The farmers residing near Champion are discussing the advisability of erecting a mil! at that place, as they claim the mill there is charging exorbitant tolls for grind ing their wheat. Bcst Mabtin, of York, had his ear nearly pulled off by his little sister, who in p'uy placed a- button he ok in his sound receiver and then forcibly yanked the weapon out. Accobdino to the McCook Tribune, Walton, the mm who robbed the express company at Dallas, Tex., of $35,000, was formerly an express messenger on the B. & M.. and is well known in local railroad circles. A THIEF who attempted to burglarize the depot at Strattou was somewhat sur prised when the telegraph operator, who was hidden from view, opened fire with a Winchester on the intruder, putting two big round holes through the ticket window. The burglar was not wounded, but he re treated in short order. THE citizens of Grant county have re ceived word from Congressman Dorsey stating that he had interviewed the com missioner" regariling a resurvey of that county and would recommend an appro priation for the purpose of having the mat ter investigated oy special agent. The dates of the Dawson county fair have been fiiel for Sept. 23, 21, 25 and 26. The Citizens' bank cf Geneva is to erect a three-story brick block the coming sea son. The Ananias club is the latest social or ganization at Oxford, and the society is growing rapidly. The members of the Nebraska congres sional delegation have recommended the names for at least three of the four land officers at Lincoln and McCook. Mr- Sis son is to be register and Gapt. Joseph Teeter receiver at Lincoln, and J. A. Lind say register or receiver at McCook. Another carload of machinery has ar rived at Weeping Water, and will be placed in the sewing machine factory. It consisted of machinery for working in steel and brass and machines used in the manufacture of safe locks. ALL that portion of the Sioux reserva tion south of the lull parallel of north lati tude which is west of the Missouri river is irrcinded in the O'Neill land district and becomes a part of the state of Nebraska as provided in the Saunders bill of 1872. Jack. Smith has served papers on the mayor of Weeping Water asking for dam ages in the sum of $5,000 from the city. Several weeks ago Jack tumbled over an embankment where a bridge had been washed out. and he thinks this amount wonld about square accounts for injuries received. A thief entered Jerry Donovan's room in the Piatt hotel at Geneva and departed with a Sue gold watch and 520 in money. Miss Hattts Woodbbidge, a cook in Scott's hotel at Arcadia, committed suicide by rairiwg morphine. No cause for the deed is known. Sam Lee, laundry mac from the Celes tial kingdom doing business at Fairfield, caught tha fever of enterprise, and is a trades carnival hild at that place made a creditable showing. His interests were represented by a young lady dressed in fall Chinese costnxoa caryingabancer bear ing this inscriptioa: W&shee, washee, Sam Lee; Melican mac al!e same co pav; too mocnea bymbyi" A MASKED burglar entered no less than five houses at Friend in one nijjht. He was caught while going through one resi dence, but got the best of his captor and escaped. 1 HIE ACTS OF CONGRESS. jSXCCEfCT SC3SMAKT OF A. LEGISLATIVE IWO BQI at Bemlwtiei iV IHsc ert by law Jbtkmra. - 2i Xeither house of confiftsewas tasMssoa oa the 9th. . . Tit tiM aanatn on tha 10th tha foUaWtnC bills were taken from tit calendar and paad! Appropriating JUM0Q lor a public buildiac at Suta Citv. Ia : SSXtOOO tor pwbli buildias; S Cedar Bap:a. Ia. ; to amend sJfd alter the act cf Julv 16, 18. a2toriztag the ccnatrnctioB of a railroaJ, wagon 2nd foot passenger bridge acros the Miss-'ssitPi river at Clinton. Is. (extending for two yean tn tinief'W the beginning sad nnishittf of the woril t ameOdlng the act authorizing th con struction of awsston sad foot passenger brids across tte Mississippi rivf at Lyons. Is- r pro viding a time acd place for noktisg United States district court in south Dakota : in rela tion to th arrest of offender auatnsC Use United States efcaotnp from one district or state to another: "appropviattnje W00.OS9 ft) a site and public building Sf New Orleaae. A petition was presented from the Indianap olis board of trade aaking for the repealled tb9 inter-ijtata cohimfce art, als'i petitions frees Mississippi and Georgia praying for the pass ina of a national law to SecBre the right ot Sof frsgean't tbrtne enforcement of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution. The vtee president laid before th9 senate.' message from the president on the subject Of tha recent ne gotiations with the Sioox Indians and recoru hiendinn an Immediate appropriation to carry out there-commendations of the commission. Bi:is were placed on the calendar making ap propriations for public buildings as follows -Stcriins. 11L, J3,uOO; Stillwater. Minn.. 10tlM?. Attitraraied. In tho Hans the conference report iwas pre sented on the bill to -move snags, etc.. from the Missouri river. The day was consumed in argument cf the proposed new rules. Ad journed. In the senate on the 11th Senator Hoar intro duced a bill to prescribe, in part, the manner of the election of congressmen, and it was referred to the committee on privileges and elections. It provides that in all states of union represent ati ea forecast ess shall be elected in and for the districts cow prescribed by law until an ap portionment at representatives shall be made brconaress accenting tthe census taken in laix), any law of such state hereafter to be pa3od to the contrary notwithstanding. After ccn'ideration of "the bill to pro vide a temporary Sovomment for Okla homa the bill went over. Bills passed: The senate bi'l appropriating 3Il"0,tU) for a public building' at Burlington. Ia.. and 10J.IXJ0 for a public buihling at Beatrice. Neb. The senate bill for the relief of certain settlers on public lands. It provides for legalizing land claims tiled dur ing a vacancy in the land otiices. Among the bills introduced and referred were the follow ing By Senator Edmunds Establishing a public school system in Utah. Also providinsfor the inspection of meats for exportation, pro hibitiag the importation of adulterated arti cles of food or drink, and authorizing the presi dent to make a proclamation in certain cases. By Senator Pierce To create an agricultural commission to investigate the present de pressed condition of the agricultural interests of the country. Adjourned. Tho day was spent in the house in the dis cussion of the proposed code of rn!en. In the senate on the 12th a resolution was adopted congratulating Brazil on the peaceful establishment of a republican government. A resolution inviting the king of the Hawaiian islands to send a delegate to the pan-American congress was also passed. In executive ses sion Gen. Morgan was confirmed to be commis sioner of Indian affairs by a vote of 'ii to 16. Adiourned. The house spent the day debating the new rales. In the senate on the 13th bills were reported from committees and placed on the calendar for the establishment and maintenance ot In dian industrial schools in Micmcan and South Dakota. The senate bill appropriating $50,110 for a public pnilding in Portland. Ire., passed. A bill providing for a temporary government for Oklahoma temtorr. putting No-Maa's-Land under it. passed. Adjourned. In the houe the senate joint resolution con gratulating Brazil on the establishment of a republican form of government was adopted. Consideration of the code of rales was pro ceeded with. In tne senate on the 14th sixty bills were row-ted. among them tne following Tho house bill for the relief of the sufferers by the wreck of the United States steamers at Sainoa; the bill appropriating SiT.fiOO for the relief of the Sioux Indiana at Devils Lake agency, North Dakota; p ovidins for an a-txistant secretaryof war at a salary of $4,500, for the re ief of poidiers or sailors who enlisted or serve 1 under assumed names , to prevent the obstruction of naviga ble waters and to protect wors against tres pass or injury to provide for the dispr.sal ot the Fort Sedgwick military reservation ic the states of Colorado and Nebraska to actual et tlcrj under the provision of the homestead laws , npprjpriiiiing 5109.0J0 fcr a public build ing at Eait Claire , to prev ent the introduction of contusions dienses from one state to an other; a. concurrent resolution for interna tional arbitration. The bill to declare unlaw ful trusts ami combinations in restraint of trade and production having been reached on the calendar, it was laid aside for the present. .If ter executive session the senate ad jonraed. In the house after protracted debate the new rnles were adopted by a vote of Nil to 115, with but slight amendment as reported from tho majority of the committee, a djourned. In the houie on the 17th the benate bill providinx for tho ascertainment of the mort gage iudebteimess of the conntry wan ' aken up in the houso and amended bo as to provide penalties for any person who refuses to answer auv question propounded. Alter considerable liebiua the bill aa amended was passed. En Iogies to the nienscry of thelat) Hon. Hicbard Townshcnd. of Illinois, were pronounced by Hooker. Comptou. Cutcheon. Henderson, of Iowa, and Messrs Mcllillan,. Williams. Hen derson. Cannon Lane and Springer of Illinois, and then as a mark of resprct for the deceased the houso adionrneti. The senate amendments were concurred in to th? house bill fixing a duty on ribbons. The senate was not in session. The high officials at Pekin are said to be divided en the railroad question. One half wants the roads to Le constructed with native capital, which would indefinitely postpone their realization, and the others favor the use of foreign coital. 'Gbeat Heavens! what a mac for a center rush!" was the exclamation of a Rugby football player on seeing Eev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, walk up the aisle in Westminster Abbey. WHE'JIlfirst,bejranpreaching my delivery was very rapid. My words fell over them selves, aud I often got ahead too rapidly. I cured mvself of this by putting up sign boards in my manuscript, such as "Slow Up Here," in large letters. Prof. Siring. The duke of Fife now realizes the im portance of his marriage for the first time. The new Almanack de Golha has Just ap peared in its 127th annual addition and contains a full history of the duke's family. Thet attach the prefix "Church of England' to all sorts of Societies in Great Britain, and the latest is a "Church of England Society" for the purchase of pianos and American organs by payments of a shilling a week. Lettebs published in the Peruvian pa pers declare that the juice of the "maguey" plant is a certain cure for hydrophobia and that it has always been used in the depart ment of Anachs to cure all sufferings from bites. Ax English woman who had written a history of Wales and dedicated it to the prince of Wales has sent him a presenta tion copy which is bound in solid gold ex tracted from the recently developed mines in that country. The date palm is successfully cultivated in Hillsborough count, Fla. The trees come into bearing in six years, and one cultivator has trees which bring him in from $5 to $13 each. They produce good crops every year without regard to the weather. The St. Louis Republic makes the state ment that Capt. Jack Haynes, the engineer in charge of the engine at the Fagan build ing, is 102 years old. He is a Tennesseean by birth and doesn't'Iook to be over 63. Mbs. Oltphast, the novelist, will shortly start for Jerusalem to make a tour of the'Hoiy Land. Jcxes TE35Z is not Jules "Verne's real name, but the French form of his Polish patronynaic, Olchewitz. The Art Union, of London, which for years Las upheld the .dicnity of line en gravings, has at last given way before the change of taste, and israe for 1830 to its members a portfolio containing a set of etchings, eight ia number mostly Tngffr lacdscapes. PSSSXDEST ASGTrr.Ti, Of VTentgrj xai- versify, thicks Chicago will become the literary center of the Usxtad States. GJBr. Nzgsizb, of the French army, has issued a severe order against any swearing or blasphemy in connection with military commands in his corps. A tvorketo philanthropist at Graaa Talley. CaL, saws wood for poor women of that place free of charge. COLUMBUS STATE BANK. 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