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.r.- s ,"' - -. '-f--,- Ww " - .. . - V-- V J ! Cutote "" ,"" & -"",-; 'gggggM'M $0ttnrcL m -. -. if. - m. -jy VOLUME XX.-NUMBER 45. DlltECTOn6i A. ANDERSON. PrcVt. J. D- GALLEY, Yico Pres't. O.T.ROEN, Cashier. G. ANDERSON. F. ANDERSON. JACOB UREISEX. HENRY RAGATZ, JOHN J. SULLIVAN. First National Bank COLUMBUS, REB. Statement of Condition at the Close of Business September 3 ), 1889. BESOCECE3. Jxnns and Discounts j o. I onii . . . . . . . Oih-ri-tocksnnd bonds Jto.il Lj-late, Furniture nnd Fixtures. Due from other banks... .$ 15,W.:ri " U. 8. Treasury . C75.03 Cas.li on Hand 17,107.4-- .$19.-.,81l 75 . ii5,:.w no . n,aa sa - 83.163 C7 $ 7,(ii3 07 LIABILITIES. Capital and Surplus: I'ndiviilM proil ..... Nai Juunl l'.uk notes outstanding ... Kc-iti-count.s Due Dyoaitors- .S PO.OOOO) 7,017 i . 13,MW W . 22. ISO 11 . Ill.tisS i)7 $ 07,023 0 Apr23-'cat Easiness (;irds. J. 1 I I.I AX, . m DEUTCHER ADVOKAT, Office over Columbus State Bank, Columbus, Nebraska. 2i OS'LLIVAX & KEEVi;, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, m Ollico over First National Bank, Columbus, Nebraska. 50-tf j . COUXTY SURVEYOR. C?7"IV.Hifh desiring ranqinR dono ran an tlrcM. m at Columbus, Nell., or all at my oliics iuourt HoUbe. 5maj!xJ-y t .s. cscAii:ie, CO. SUF'T PUBLIC SCHOOLS. . 1 will bo in myoilic" in tlio Court Hon "a, the 4 third Saturday or ".ich month fortheexauiinn t ion of aiiliiintH for tcacherA' certificAtc., and . for tl.o t ruusaction of other school bu.-inc8. lwinnM , T IC. COOHL'S DRAY and EXPRESSMAN. . Light and heavy haulinc Goods handled with ran-. llcni'eiiinners at J. 1'. lJrcLerv(.o. i:l:cc. Toloj loni.23aud SI. 22may Kit T pAUilLE .V BRADSHAW, .Successors to Fmiblc C Bushcll), orick: jVla:keks ! J.TyContnictors and builders will find our brick fin-S-cla'H and effered lit reasonable rate. Wo.-ro also preiwired to do all kind of h:ick .vw.ik. iCinaytini Jf K. 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Tits pate of Joofaz. is $2.00, and The Ameri waMagiri kg.00, We oer bota for $4.00. GEN. GARFIELD'S BODY. SOME SEWAXD REMARKABLE STATE MENTS ABOUT IT. To Aroid Desecration It Is Said to Ilave Ijun for Years in Obscurtly Soon to be Re-Entombed Other News. The Garfield monument nt Cleveland, O., is completed and preparations are now making for the dedication, which is to take place early in the spring. At that time tbe remains ot President Garfield will be placed in tho permanent sopulcb.ro beneath the monument. In view of the approaching transfer of tbeso remains from Lake View cemetery it is now possible to relato an astounding story rerpecting the disposition which has been made of the late president's body for the last four years. When Garfield's remains were deposited in an elab erate vault in Lake View eemetery it was announced that they would be kept there until tbe time came to make a permanent disposition of them. After the funeral the heavy casket was placed in tho sarcophagus within the vault, which could be viewed from the path outside through a massive iron grating. Tho suspicion which tho robbery of the grave of Mr. Stewart had occasioned respecting tho existence of an organized band of grave robb.-rs in duced the government to take special meas ures to prevent any such violation of this tomb. By direction of secretary Lincoln a special guard of United States troops was stationed at the tomb with instruc tions never to leave it unprotected. For five years this tomb was constantly under the eyes of soldiers, night and day. About a year after Secretary Endicott tucceeded Lincoln as secretary of war, ho decided that it was unnecessary longer to maintain the guard there. IIo therefore caused orders to bo issued returning tho soldiers to their regimental head quarters. This caused the personal friends of the Gatfield family in Cleveland serious apprehension, for some intimation had been received from detectives tbat tho possibility of despoil ing the temporary vault had been suggested to certain Chicago ghouls. Tho revelation of an attempt to steal tho body of Abraham Liucolu in Springfield added to the anxiety of these friends, and after oonsiderablo consultation they decided they would do themselves what the govern ment had declined longer to under take. Four prominent citizens selected an obscure vault in a remote'portion of tho cemetery grounds and one night proceeded there and themselvos removed the casket to its hiding place. Tho task was a severe one and one of thegentlemeustrained him self so badly that he has never since fully recovered The work of removal and obliterating all traces of what they had done, both at tho old and new vaults, occupied tho wholo night. From that time until this tho remains have lain in this remote nook of the cemetery a tomb utterly neglected and never glanced at by the casual observer who happens to pass by. On tho other hand, thousands of persons in tho past fourycars have visited tho temporary resting place of Garfield, and, as they supposed, paid silent homage to tho memory of tho president whose remains they believed to be reposing within the sarcophagus. MOM l'EDHO'S IMtOPEUTY. The Republican Authorities Disposing oflt Brazilian Affairs. The following is the latest news from Rio Janiero: Lieut. -Col. Lassance, a for mer member of tho imperial staff, who was asked by the provisional government to as sume charge of Dom 1'e.dro's property, having declined to act, the minister of jus tice appointed an administrator to do so. Jewelry and other valuables were listed by the chief of police as follows: Household plate, $000,000; jewels of the empress, Sl,500,000; jewels of the emperor, $200, 000; crown, ?500,000; total, $2,800,000. They were deposited in tho nam of Pedro do Secantara with the treasurer of tho republic. Tho carriage and horses arc valued at $150,000; furniture, $15,000; museum and library, $200,000. rivh notes editorially that a syndicate has been formed with the pur pose of buying up Petropolis, the real es tate belonging to Dom Pedro, at low fig ures, to turn it into a casino. Mr. Ionin, Russian minister to Brazil, who fled to Pern during the revolution, has returned to Rio Janierp. He will make no effort to resnmo relations witn the Brazilian author ities for the present, but expresses the opinion that as soon as a "legal" govern ment be placed in power through a popular election and a constitution adopted by the new republic he will receive instructions from the state department at St. Peters burg to do so. YANKED HENCE. Story of Two Hangings "With Their Victims Wm. Seely Hopkins was hanged at Bcllefonte, Pa., for tho murder of his wife and mother-in-law llast September. Tho rope broke the first timo the droa fell and the condemned man had to be again fast ened up. The second time it was success ful. Took a Drop Together. Jacob Schoop and 'Jhomas Cole were hanged together in Moyamensing prison, Philadelphia. Schoop was hung for the murder of Anton Schilling and Cole's exe cution was for the murder of Walter Mc Allister. A Fatal Thuuderbolt. Mrs. Ezell, wife ot Milt Ezell, a well known democratic politician, was killed at Tnmaleo, 111., by a stroke of lightn:ag. The Eastern Team Won. The eastern and western teams of world's champion trap shooters, captained respec tively by Hv McMurchy, of Syracuse, N. Y., and C. W. Budd, of Des Moiues, la., who are touring the country, shot off their thirteenth match for the world's champion ship at San Francisco. The eastern team won by a score of 171 to 157. A Cabman Shot Daniel Downey, a Chicago cabman, was probably fatally shot by Dan Murphy, a bookmaker, who is a well-known figure on southern tracks. The shooting was en tirely unprovoked. Murphy was half drunk. A Favorablo Report. The house committee on patents has presented a favorable report upon the bill providing for the appointment of represen tatives on the part of the United States to tbe international industrial conference at Madrid, Spain, next ApiiK HUMAJf ANTIQUITIES. Some Uttl Activity la the Trade la Them About to Begin. The Worcester, Mass., Telegram tells of a strange venture of American capitalists, which will shortly be incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts and be known as the New England -Land Company of Egypt. The incorporators number 6ome hundreds of eastern men, conspicuous among whom are Gen. Benjamin F. But ler, Frank Jones, president of tho BoEtoa Jc Maine railroad and millionaire brewer of New Hampshire; Got. Goodell, of New Hampshire; Senator Frye, of Maine; Hon. Joseph G. Palmer, -of New Jersey, etc. The paid up capital is 'to bo $2,000,000. Tho company will purchase large tracts of land in the vicinity of Alex andria, Port Said and Damascus,, connect ing the two latter cities by an air line broad gauge railroad on tbe American pat tern. The company will then go into a general oriental notion and produce busi ness, with a tourist annex. It is under stood that they will go into the cultivation and exportation in a wholesale way of the natural products of the region, such as cotton, flax, dates, figs, olives and building material, horses and cattle, with relics, ex cursionists and mummies as a possible ad junct. Tho incorporators arc, however, serioup, and believe the regions that were .once the gardens cf tho earth and sup ported nations, can, by judicious cultiva tion, be reclaimed to their ancient pro ductiveness. The Grip in Mexico. Private letters received from tho City of Mexico state that the grip lias Leen more widespread and persistent in its ravages there than anywhcic en the American con tinent. Tho writors are American resi dents of the Mexican capital and have no motive to conceal tho truth. A letter dated the 14th inst. says: " The progress of the influenza here and its results have been really terrific. The disease reached us in the middle of Janu ary and has grown steadily worse, until it is now at its height. The number of cases of acute pneumonia is absolutely wonder ful. It has been the rule rather than the exception, and no physicians seem to have been able to prevail against it. This has been especially tho case among the poorer classes, who live in houses which afford no protection against the elements, and they have died like sheep, sometimes 125 a day. Just now tho supply of coffins has been exhausted and many bodies have been buried without." Bayaril Taylor's Mother Dead. Mrs. Rebecca Way Taylor, mother f tho late author and traveler, Bayard Taylor died at her residence, in Kencett Square, Pa., Tuesday morning, after a brief illness, aged 90 years nd 4 months. For a long time Mrs. Taylor had been one of the most interesting residents of Kennett, and her home, in tho quaint Swiss cottage on. Union street, a sort of Mecca for tiavelers and visitors. Her birthdays were great affairs, there being callings and congratulations without number. Her husband, Joseph Taylor, lived to be four score, dying only a few years ngo. Mrs. Taylor had grown quite feeble, but her mind was remarkably clear and active, and bho greatly enjoyed tho society cf her manj friends. Gould Buys Some Coal. The Kansas City Times says that Jay Gould recently has acquired pretty nearly ell the coal fields in the southwest. 1 hese mines are all held in the namo of the Mis souri Pacific Coal company. Among them are the fields at Lexington and Rich Hill, Mo.; Meriden and Cherokee, Kan., and McAllister, I. T. The Times also says tbat authority but little lower than President Miller is respon sible for the assertion tbat the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul will buy tho Mis souri, Kansas & Texas as soon as tho reor ganization of the latter is effected. Mrs. Blaine a Terrible Suflercr. After a consultation of physicians it has been decided that the terrible operation of breaking the bones of one leg to prevent Mrs. James G. Blaine, jr., from being a cripple for life, as tho result of inflam matory rheumatism, will not be necessary, and there is thus a hope that she may re gain health and strength, but it.wi 1 not be for a long time and not without great further suffering. For months this fear that the operation referred to would be necessary ha3 beau the darkest shadow in all the trouble that has come over tbe un fortunate ycung woman within a year. Tho inflammatory rheumatism with which she has been confined to her bed for near'y seven months had drawn up the threatened limb fully three inches. A' Kentucky Murder. Thomas A. Brashears, owner of a to bacco warehouse at Brashears' station, four miles below Maysville, Ky , wa3 beaten to death with a club and a shovel in tho bands of Gus Sullivan andhisson Samuel. Tho Sullivans were neighbors and had a grudgo against Brashears because he had been instrumental in building a turnpike which took a portion of their property. A Hardship to Cattlemen. A dispatch fron Sam Angelo, Tcx.,which lies in the middle of the cattle producing region of Texas, says tho president's proclamation ousting the cattlemen from the Cherokee strip will entail a loss rang ing up to $100,000 to stockmen in Texas, who have leased large pastures in the na tion at great expence. A Fake. The story published about Gen. Gar field's remains having been se cietly rerrioved from the public vault to an obscure vault for safe keeping is a fake. The remains were removed from the Schcfield vault to the public vault in 1866, since wLi:h time they have not been disturbed. It U proposed, however, to remove them to a enpt in the monument in a fow day. " he Garfield monument will be dedicated on Decoiation day. . Against Local Option. The prohibitionists of Indiana nomi nated the following ticket: Secretary of state, B. M. Blont, of Marion county; au ditor. Abraham Huntsinger. of St. Joseph county; treasurer, John E. Branson, of Hendricks county; attorney-general, Sum ner Haines, of Jay county; superintendent of public instruction, L. M. Crist, of Boone county; clerk of the supreme court, C. L. Jessup, of Hendricks" county; su preme court judge. Fifth district, S. J. North, of Kosciusko county. The plat form declares against local option. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 2fi, SIBERIAN ATROCITIES. DETAILS OF WOMAN BEATING THAT ENDED IN DEATH. An Official Act for the Sake of Enforcing Authority and as an Example A Story That Makes the Blood Boil Other News or Good and 111. Sergius Stepniak, the well-known writer upon Russian political and social condi tions, when asked whether he could give any information in regard to the political outrage at Kara, in eastern Siberia, re plied that the reports already published gavo only a hint of the horrible tragedy enacted at Kara. Perfectly trustworthy in formation, he said, had been received in cipher letters that tell the story only in its main outlines. Thj full details of tho dreadful story cannot be long now in reach ing the western world. The facts so farrecoived are as fol lows: Madame Sagida did not com mit suicide, as tho earliest reports' stated. ' She died from the effects of the cruel flogging to which sho was subjected. The flogging took place Wednesday, Nov. C. It was continued till under the brutal blows the unhappy victim lost consciousness. The news of her shocking murder produced""widespread dis may and anguish among her femalo fellow prisoners, and three of them, unable longer to bear their wretched fate, committed suf eido by poison. Their names were Marie Kaluzbnaya, Marie Paoloona Karaleskaya andNedezhda Smirnitskaya. Marie Kal uzbnaya was arrested in 1884, then a girl of 18, on the charge of disloyalty. Every means tried to extort a confession impli cating her friends were futile until Col. Katanski brought her a forged statement purporting to be the confession of her fellow conspirators and promising immu nity. Marie fell into the trap and con fessed and her confession was used against her friends, who were sentenced to penal servitude. When she learned of the de ception 6he procured a revolver and tried to kill Katanski. For this she was sen tenced to twonty years of penal servitude. Marie Paoloona Karaleskaya was a young married lady about 35 years of ago aua of a good family. In 1871 she was sentenced to thirteen years' penal servi tude, with exile to Siberia for life, for be longing to the secret circle. Her husband was sent 1,100 miles from the mines to which 6he was sent. The separation drove her insane, and in 1881 she was allowed to join her husband in the hope of restoring her reason. She recovered, but a new gov ernor separated them again and bho was returned to the Kara mines. Ncdezhda Smirnitskaya was 33 years old and a stu dent in a woman's college She was sen fenced to the Kara mines for fifteen years of penal servitude. Shortly after the suicide of the three women a brother of Marie Kuluzhnaya, also a political prisoner, died suddenly. Another exile named Kakokor committed suicide rather than submit to the cruel hu miliation and suffering of flogging. The flogging of Madame Sagida occurred under orders issued by Lieut.-Gen. Banon Korff, governor general of tho province of Amour, in which Kara prison is situated. These orders directed that the secret edict of March, 1883, signed by Galkinev raski, director-general of prisons for the empire, should be unflinchingly enforced. This edict was to the effect that political convicts should be treated by prison offi cials in precisely the same manner as criminals condemned for common law offenses! In what particular way Madame Sagida transgressed the prison rules is not clearly explained, but flogging a sensitive and cultured woman to death for any lack of conformity to prison regulations, Step niak thought, would impress the western world with a profound horror. The political prisoners at Kara, Stepniak said, had in some way learned that politi cal exiles imprisoned at Seghalied had also been subjected to cruel floggings. They were constantly in dread of similar torture to that inflicted upon Madame Sagida. Stepniak thought it not unlikely that the publication of the facts would force the superior officials of Russia to take some notice of the affair, but flogging and all other brutalities were entirely due to the direct orders of the central government at St. Petersburg. CODY'S COMPLIMENTS. They are Wasted Upon tho French Presi dent. Col. Cody (Buffialo Bill) has received a bluff from President Carnot. Col. Cody presented 31. Carnot with a magnificent lamp to adorn the vestibule of the Elysee, but it was returned by the president with a note from General Brugere, his secretary, saying that the president thanked the colonel for his kind attention, but that he could not accept it, having made a rule to take gifts from no one and could not depart from it in this case. The lamp is nine feet high, made of carved brass and a table of Mexican onyx twenty-eight inches square on a alacque of onyx. Fastened to the lamp rod is attached a large buffalo head captured by Col. Cody on the frontiers. The shade of the lamp, thirty-eight inches in diameter, is of scarlet silk covered with moss green tulle,embroidered with poppies and cauliflowers. The cost of the lamp was 5,000 francs. It was made in America expressly for President Carnot. Col. Cody is at Nice. Ho is much aunoyed at the president's refusal of his handsome gift. CrvrLIZED BY INFL.UENZA. La Grippe Getting in Its Work on the Aborigines. Appalling reports have been received of the mortality among the Indians in the country east and south of Oklahoma from influenza, or la grippe. Indian Agent Kane, from the Shawnee nation, estimates that nearly a hundred of that tribe have died within a week from the disease, about two-thirds of them being children. The Kickapoos, Creeks, Iowas, Pottawatomies and Arapahoes are all afflicted and their condition is said to be pitiable. The Etricken tribes seem to have lost heart. When la grippe first appeared among them the medicine men administered their water and herb cures, but they seem only to have aggravated the disease. Since the deaths have become so numerous the Indians re fuse all offers of assistance and just lie down and die. According to reports there is hardly a tepee in which one or more of the inhabitants is not stricken. It is said that inmany of them lie dead bodies, the living being so unnerved by the visitation that tley have no energy to bury their dead. ACCIDENT IN CHURCH. A Gallery Falls and Buries Twenty Per sons. An accident of an alarming character, by which .several persons were seriously in jured, occurred Sunday evening during divino service at Bromley Independent church, Paris. Across the end of tho build ing over the entrance was fixed a balcony capable of holding sixty or seventy peo ple. Whilo the pastor was readiDg the lessons the gallery with scarcely any warn ing suddenly collapsed, precipitating its occupants into the body of the church. A cloud of dust obscured tho view of the re mainder of the congregation for a fow min utes, but when it cleared away it became ob vious that a number of persons were buried beneath the ruins of the gallery. The fallen debris caused an obstruction at tho en trance and prevented any assistance being rendered from tho outside, but willing hands were soon at work clearing away the falling timbers and extricating the unfor tunate occupants of the fallen gallery from their perilous position. Tho gallery was pretty well filled at the time and about twenty persons were burned. The work cf removing the debris occupied some time,and when accomplished it was found that while most of the victims of tho accident wero ! severely bruised and cut, five had received serious injuries, which in somo instances may prove fatal. One young lady was un conscious when extricated. Two medical gentlemen in tho congregation attended to tho injured, of whom several, had broken legs and arms, whilo others has internal injuries. TO KEEP RIVERS CLEAR. A Bill to l'rohibit the Deposit or Dcbri in Navigable Waters. An important bill introduced by Senator Dolpb, of Oregon, has passed tho senate. It is to prevent obstructing navigable streams, and provides that it will be un lawful "to cast, throw, empty or unload, or cause, suffer or procure to bo cast, thrown, empied or unloaded, either from or out of any ship, vessel, lighter, barge, boat or other craft or from the shore, pier, wharf, furnace, manufacturing establishments or mills of any kind whatever, any ballast, stone, slate, gravel, eatth, rubbish, wreck, filth, slabs, edgings, saw dust, slag, cinders, ashes, refuse, or other waste of any kind into any poit road, roadstead, harbor, haven, navigable waters of tho United States which shall tend to impede or obstruct navigation, or to deposit or place or cause, suffer or pro cure to bo deposited or placed any ballast, stone, 6lato, gravel, earth, rubbish, wreck, filth, slabs, edgings, sawdust or other wasto in any place on the bank of any nav igable waters, where the same shall bo lia ble to bo washed into such navigable waters cither by ordinary or high tides, or by storms, or floods, or otherwise, whereby navigation shall or may bo impeded or ob structed." A penalty of $250 for each of fense against tho provisions of the act is provided. The bill will surely pass tbe hoiiso. SOME SUNDAY CRIMES. The Deiil Was Abroad in the Land Yes terday Some of Jlis Work. Isaac Jicobs, a resident of Brooklyn, killed Herman R yozinsky at daybreak, in a stable at 47 Ridgo stiect, Brooklyn. From there ho went to the murdered man's residence, 54 Ridge street, to kill his wifo, Johannah. She was coming through tho doorway as ho approached and shot her with a revolver. Tho ball entered her neck. Tho woman's 18-year-old son Otto bounded ' from tho room aud leaped at the murderer. Jacob turned and fled. When near tho corner of Broome street Jacob turned on the young man aud aimed hid levolver at him. Otto dodged behind a wagon and Jacob seeing two policemen approaching placed the muzzle of tho revolver to bia own head and fired. Ho died in a few minutes. Mrs. Royozinsky was taken to the hospital in a very critical condition. Various causes led to the shooting. Tho trouble began three years ago. At that time Jacob is said to havo smuggled a lot of diamonds into the country, which ho place 1 in tbe murdered man's keeping. When the danger was over Jacob asked for the retnru cf the diamonds. Royozinski, it is said, refused to give them up. 'J his lei to a quarrel. Another cause is found in the fact that Jacob was enamored of Royozinsky 's niece. His 6uit prospered until it was learned that he had a wifo and children living with him in Brooklyn, when Royozinsky refused him the house. Fre quent aud bitter quarrels ensued. Jacob went to the house at 4:30, knocked on tie door and told Royozinsky that somebody was stealing his horses. Royozinsky dressed himself and went out and tbe trag edy followed Attempted Siouxicide. Big Head, a leading Sioux Indian chief tain, attempted suicide at Standing Rock, N. D. He was found hanging from a tres with a cracker box kicked from beneath him. After rubbing and the application of restoratives ho regained consciousness. IIo said tbat the recent loss of his grand children made him feel bad and ho wanted to join them iu the happy hunting grounds. He has been placed in charge of officers until his troubles are forgotten. This is an unparalleled case. No Sioux Indian was ever known to make an. at tempt to take his own life. Big Head was one of the Indian delegation tbat visited "VY ashington. several weeks ago. Plunged Through a Bridge. The engine and baggage car of the Gal vestion express plunged through a bridge six miles south of Wichita, Kau. Road maste r . Peters, of Newton, was killed. The engineer and fireman each had a leg broken and several passengers were in jured. Small-Pox Rasing in Texas. Late reports from the small-pox districts along the Rio Grande show an appalling mortality list. On a ranch m Duval county 147 out of 13 ) persons employed there were stricken with the disease and sixty-five of them died. There is a scarcity of nurses and physicians. A Plundered Bank Closed. The Lincoln National bank, of Lancas ter, Pa., whicjh wa3 plundered by Cashier Bard and T. W. Hall of about $40,000, has closed its doors, by order of the tank examiner. It is reportel that tbe defalca tion is much larger than wa at first esti mated. TOIJ) IN A MINUTE. THX steamers Bos'.onian and Brit tanic, from Liverpool, have arrived at New York. 1890. NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES. Postal Matters. The postoffice department has ordered tbat the mail service on the route between Calloway and Arnold be increased to six times a week. A postoffice has been established at Dovington, Scotts Bluff county, with John A. Fairchild as postmaster. Howard A. Rowe, of Oakdalc, has been appointed a railway postal clerk. Postmasters appointed: Robert Finson, Platte Centre; E. M. Talbott, Seneca: Joseph J. Johnson, Sutton. rithy Paragraphs. There are fifty-six newspapers in tho state. The Dunkards of Filley will build a place of worship. BBUNO is to have a state bank with a capital of f 10,000. The city council of Broken Bow has been petitioned to prohibit high-five. Mrs. Geokoe Mutleu, wife of a farmer living near Madison, ha3 become violently insane. Tun stars and stripos will be placed over tho Juniata schools with appropriate exer cises February 21. A ijrass baud composed of thirteen small boys makes life a burden to tho people of Kearney. Wm. Denny, a farmer uear Filley, was thrown from his waoa by a ruuiway loam and mortally injured. The era for sod houses is passing away in Blaine county, and Brewster U to havo a first-class lumber yard. The York ceeaa:cry last week made a sale to Denver partus or 3,000 pounds of butter at the highest market price. Ernest SirTLEi:, who killed youug King at Nebraska City, has returned aud given himself up to the authorities. Two HOUSES which wero tied in the Btreet at Miiford were stolen tho other night and no trace of them has been dis covered. x In the absence of her parents tho cloth ing of a little daughter of Henry Brandt, of Avoca, caught fire and she was so severely burned that she died a few hours later. A 1'BAiniE fire started at Minitare and burned eastward as far as Bayard, but with tho exception of destroying some hay and burning off the grass, it did no other damage. Lew BukneIiIj, an 18-year-old colored boy, has been banished from Nebraska City becauso he threatened to kill his father and burn the house down in order to de stroy his mother. Mbs. Hans Brcsch, of Fort Calhoun, gave birth last week to girl triplets, all of whom aro doing well. Mr. Brusch has been twice married and is the faiher of twenty-two children. Dr. HaIiIi, formerly of McCook, has been selected by tho Burlington and Mis souri railroad as examining surgeon of the Burlington relief dopartmeut, with head quarters at Holdrego. A Bohemian wedding was celebrated near Paguo by a dance tbat lasted until morning. The bride, a daughter of James Hromas, dropped dead upon reaching the home of her parents, a short distance from where the dance was held. Heart disease is assigned as tho cause. A strange case of insanity is reported at Peru by .a physician of that village. Tho unfortunate victim is tho wife of a farmer living south of town.v Sho labors 1 il I -...nrnH 1.nfr (tin iti .TadIIC nml I under mo iiuirensiuu mai pud i vo.-f ,i..x must save tho world. Religious excito . a ! i.ir.-Jl 4 1a 41. n AnncA nr tin ila. ' ment is believed to be the causo of her de raugement. At a farmers convention at Cozad it was resolved to build a hundred-barrel roller mill at that point, and more than half tho necessary funds were raised to push the projoct. The farmers of Gothenburg will follow suit. Chase county, without a railroad, is making good use of her corn and wheat by grinding them into meal and flour at ber roller mills on the Frenchman river at Champion, which are kept constantly ruu ning day and night. TnE commissioners of Otoe county aro taking a new step and will compel the justices of the peace to pay over the fines duo tho county, also to report the un claimed witness fees, something that has never befoie been done. Farmers in the south half of Clay county are organizing, not only in a rmliti cal but in a business way, and are prepar ing elevators at Fairfield and Edgar wherein they will store their own grain aud do their own shipping. C. W. Hyatt, the veteran editor of tho Fremont Flail, and his wife last week cele brated their silver wedding anniversary and wero given a very pleasant surprise by a numerous party of friends and neighbors who called to congratulate them. George Jenkins, living east of Strang, became intoxicated in Ottawa and started to drive home. His team ran away, throw ing him out, and ho was so badlv frozen that he will probably die. One of the horses was killed in the runaway. While digging a cellar on his farm near Anslev. George Kaelin resurrected a hu man skeleton in a very good state of i preservation. The body bad been buried m a sitting posture, auu laceu ino norm. A number of flint arrow heads wero found with tho skeleton. While at work in a quarry near Pleasant Hill August Friday and his brother Arthur were caught by a cave-in of frozen earth weiphing several tons. Arthur was under the mass excepting his head and one arm, while August was crushed between the falling mass and a bank of earth, and when found had apparently been dead sev eral hours. Arthur was taken out in a condition which gives hopeB of bis recov ery. He said that his brother spoke after the accident, and he heard the sonnds of suffocation for some ten minutes after wards, as the still settling earth smothered him to death. A company has been formed at Hubbell to prospect for coal. The drill is already on the ground and work will commence shortly. James Connelly, the city marshal of Crawford, who shot a soldier, has resigned his office on account of the feeling aroused. Mrs. Pierce, wife of the Presbyterian minister of Ord, is 60 gifted as to be able to fill her husband's pulpit at any time when he is absent. The Saints of God, a religious sect teaching absolute holiness and the sever ance of all family ties, have been holding services ntar Osceola. A branch of the Y. M. C. A, has been organized at Broken Bow. An Omaha firm is contemplating putting in a branch lumber yard at Aurora. The store of WillCole, joweler, at Be atrice, has been closed by creditors. A MAN named Hogg is plaintiff in a law suit at Broken Bow. Mr. Bacon is his attorney. The Wilson Springs distillery at Omaha shipped twenty-five barrels of alcohol to Honolulu. FaibbubyLas a mad dog scare, and a dog without a muzzle stands a poor show for his life. THE ACTS OF CONGRESS. SUCCINCT SUMMARY OF A WEEK'S LEGISLATIVE LWORK. Bills and Resolutions introduced ami Top ics Discu-iied by the National Body ot Law Makers. In tho senate on tho 17th Senator Dawes pre sented over 200 petitions from Massachusetts stating that over 30,000 gallons of Intoxicating liquors woro annually exported from tho United States to Africa- and asking that the business be stopped, senator Chandler presented several petitions from Mississiopi, complaining of tbe hupprea sion of the republican a oto of tha state, and representing tbat thi ss-callod legislature of Mississippi had recently enacted a law for es tablishing a now constitution for the state on tho llith of August, 1990, tuo saino not to bo submitted to the people for ratifica tion, and that i: was the avowed purpose o: tho democrats to emplov fraudu 'ent methods i odeprlvo many intelligent citi iemof their fnuichieo. Kef erred to tho com mittee on privileges nd elections. Senator Wa'r presented a pstitfon signed by 3tf,O0O members of the O. A. U. in favor of pensions to annv nurses, and petitions signed by over 4. 100,(00 persons in favor ot tho educational bill. Among other petitions presented werosavcrnl for a per db-m pension bill: for tho removal of ibo limitation on pension arrears, and for a bounty to soldiers cf the restflar army wno tcrvca in ino war or (no recvuion. ! ho nousa amendment to tho bill tohave-ta-tiatics of mortgage indebtedness obtained in the noxt con3;is wasjnon-concurredlin,nd a con ference v ns asked. Senator Chandler offered a ro olutioniwuich went over) calling on the nt-torney-goueral for information regarding tho recent nssaHsinntion of United States Deputy Marshul Saunders in Florida. The bill anWior i'.ing tho president to confer tho btevet rank on olSieera of tho United States army for gallant borvieea in Indian campaigns passed. Ad journed. In tho houso Mr. Carlisle referred to the pro tects that had been made by tho democratic sido to the approval of tho journal on tho ground that it contained the names of certain members present and not voting. Last Friday the house had adopttd tho cade of rules provid ing for Mich practice. Against this the uemo crots hnd protested, and would protest, as an iincunHtlttitional practice. But It wits a ques tion which eouid not bo decided in this house, ami whsiievcr a proper occasion arose it would go to i-omo other forum. It was tha purpose of his hide or tho bouse to eoo that this occasion Hhou'd bj mode in such shape as to permit it to bo finally and decisively passed upon. Therefore, ha now saw no reason why tho jour nal or the form which tho houso lmd tho right to preBcjjbo should not bo approved, 'lhis was done. Iv resolution Hetting Thursday and Fri day, Fob. 'JO and 21. fordeboto on tho world's fair bills, and Monday, the 2It h. for a vote, was adopted. Tho bill for tho relior of tho bioux Indians at Devil's Lake ugency. North Dakota, pa scd under a suspension of tho rules. Ad journed In tho senato on the 18th among tho bills re ported iu tho sonato from committees ttnd pl.iced on tho calendar were tho following: -Making an appropriation for a deep water har bor nt Galvehtoii ; cbtablishinga poitof delivery nt Sioux City. la. ; appropriating $100,000 for a public building at (Iruiid I orks. N. P., aud to provido for tho admission of tho slnto ot Idaho into the union. Senator Hale, from the conference committee on tho bill to require Uie superintendent of the census to uscertnin the number of people who own their farms and homes and tho amount; of mortgage indebtedness thereon, made a report recommending that tho house amendment be agreed to. Tho conft renco report was agreed to. Ihe houso bill for tho relief of tho irioux In dians .at Devils Lake agency, N. D.. exactly similar to the senato bill passed a few days since, passed, and tho senate bill was recalled from tlio houto. Adjourned. In tho bouse. Saturday afternoon. March 13, waa set apart for tho delivery of eulogies upon tho lato Representative Kelloy, of Pennsylva nia. The ap!ropriation committeo reported the pension appropriation bill, and it was re ferred to the committeo of tho whole. A con ference committeo was ordered upon the bill to direct tho superintendent ot tho census to collect statistics of farm mortgaqoi and indebt edness, 'lbe speaker laid before the houso a message prom the president. traumitted with out communication from tho nterior depart ment, proposing an amendment to the act pro viding for allotments of lauds in severalty to Indians. The senato bill providing for tho ap pointment of an asststnnt secretary of war waa laid before the houso and tlio houso went into committee of tho wholo on its consideration. Tho discussion continued until 1 :30, when the committeo rose without action and tho house resumed consideration of the bill to provido a temporary government for Oklahoma. 1 ending tho debate tho house adjourned. In tho senato on tho lUth tho presidents message transmitting tho agreement recently made with tho Sisstton and Wuhpeton bunds of Sioux Indians for the session of their lands was presented and referred to tho committeo on Indian affairs. Among the bills reported from committeo and placed on tho calendar woro fcr tho inspection of meats for ex portation and prohibiting the imiiort-ition of adulterated articles of fco.1 and drink ; for tho relief of women enrolled as army nurses. Senator Cullom, from tho inter-state commerce commit'eo, reported a preamble und resolution reciting tho allegation that by reason of ovces sivo frtight rates on certain lines of railroad n gnat section of country between the Rocky mountains and tho principul food distributing centers of tho east, is unublo to market its food products and to ob tain for them tho actual cost of production, ami directing tho committee to investigate such allegation, and report to tho senate wh ther such rates aroreusrnablo or unrea-onablo and whether a eduction of bueh rates i: prevented or hindered by reason of any proposition of tho intor-stato coaimerco act, nnd whether a moro stringent enforcement of tliat act is practicable and would remedy tho difficulty complained of. Agreed to. On motion of Senator Wilson of Iowa, tho n-n-at bill appropriating SISMXO for a pubiic building at t rt Dodo, la., was taken from tho calendar and pushed, t-cnator Call calling at tention to tlio (act time tins was tne lounn publ c butldidg pasted for Iowa thi3 season. Tlio tenato bill establishing a cuotoms collec tion district to consist of North und fc'oath Da kota passed. Adjourned. In the houso the committee on patents pre sented a favordblo report upon tho bill provid ing for tho appointment of rep esentattves on tho part of tho United Mates to tho interna tional industrial conference) at Madrid, Spniu, next April. Tho bill passed to divide tho judi cial district of Xorth Dakota into four divisions, sessions of court to bo held in Bismarck, Grand Forks, Fargo and Devil's I.ako; aUo tho bill providing for a division of South Dakota into three divisions, cessions of couit to bo held at rioux Falls, llerro and Deudwool. Tho houso went into committee of the 'A hole on tho bill to provide for tho appointment f an as sistant secretary of war. After somo debate tho bill was favorably reported from tho com mittee of tlio wholo to the house, and tho Okla homa bill was then taken up pending debate on which the house adjourned. In tbe senate on tbe 20th after some debate a resolution was agreed to calling upon tho attorney-general for information concerning the murder of Deputy United S-tate3 Marshal Saun ders at Quincy, Fin. Tho houso amendments to tho senate bill for tho time end place for bol.iing terms of tho United States district court in South Dakota woro concurred in. Ad journed. in tbe houso tho conferenco report on tho senato lull to increase tho pension of the he'p Icss soldiers was adoptcd.lMr. Candler from the world's fair committee prosented bills for tho world's fair site. Tho claims of New York, Chicago, St. I ouis and Washington were urged by various members until adjournment. In tho senato on tho 21st tl.o conferenco re port on the bill to increase tho pension- of to tally disabled pens oners was agree I to utter an oxp'anation to tho effect thut under the a:t ot li-fcO it had been provided that totally disabled pen-ion ra then drawing .VJ arnontb should re ceivo i'-i that tbe increase did not apply to those i ensioced thereafter; that tho I ill as it passed tho scnute was intended to correct that omisirn; that the house had amended it socs to allow arrears o pensions in such caits and that the result wa3 practically an adoption of the senate bill as originally passed- no arrears being allowed. Among tbe bids reported and placed on tbe calendar wero the following 1 or tbe establishment of a pure food division in the depaitiuentof ag iiulturo; to provide for the establishment cf a gun foundry for the finishing nnd assembling of heavy ordnance n tho Pacific coast, hen tator Edmunds introduced a bill to panisb crimes against oilicers of tbe United States while in tho discharge of their duties; nnd (by icquest) n bill to reorganize tho rank andp-iyof tbe personnel of tho navy, lie ferrod." Tho senato proceeded to consideration of liou-o bill to provide for townsite entries in Oklahoma. A number of public building bills were passed, including one for Kansas City of 82.500.CO). and ono increasing tbe limit of edst ot the Ornaliabuillingto 2,0CO,0jO. Adjourned. Tbe day in the houso was consumed in dis cussion of the world's fair site bill. A Social Sensation. A social volcanic eruption occurred at Providence, If. I., when it became known that the housekeeper of the late Amos . Beckwitb, president of the Dyerville manufacturing company, claimed to be the widow of the dead man. Tbe claim ant is Mrs. liana Sherman, 33 years old, who had been in the service of Mr. Be.'kwith for some years. Three hours after he died the housekeeper showed a marriage certificate to her friends and 6aid she had been tbe dead man's wife. When called upon by reporters, Mrs. Sherman said sho was indeed the wife of Beckwitb, and tbat she iateneded to assert her rights. Pexsident AkgeTjI,, of Michigan uni versity, thinks Chicago will become the literary center of the United States. The St. Louis Republic makes tbe state ment that Capt. Jack Haynes, the engineer in charge of the engine at the Fsgan build ing, is 102 years old. He is a Tennesseean by birth and doesn't look to be over 65. WHOLE NUMBER 1033. COLUMBUS STATE BAM, COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital - $100,000. DIRECTORS: LEANDER GERRARD, Pres't. GEO. W. HULST, Vice Prea't. JULIUS A. REED. R. H. HENRY. J. 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