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VOL Of E XX.-NUMBER 49.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, 3IAKCH 26, 1890.
WHOLE NUXBER 137.
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WHAT IVES WANTED.
NOT THE
EARTH ITSELF
CUKDLK.
BUT THE
He Hud a Towerfa; Ambition ttt Control
Many Mile or Railroad A Darin?
Scheme tor a Young Man Othnr "ew.
What Ives Aimml At.
Henry S. Ives, who for eighteen months
has spent his days playing chscksrs with
his partner Starner in the Ludlow street
I jail, is at last at liberty, having given a
, total bail of $30,000, only $.1,000 of which
' was on the original charge ou which he had
' been held in J e fan It of S2j0.0C0. Ives has
in all likelihood said good-by to tho jail
for all lime; that is, unless he again runs
counter to Russell Sage aad Sidney Dil
lon, lie has played his game with a
I shrewdness perfectly marvelous in a mens
I boy. It is not even yonng man of 25
years who can fail for $13,000,000, after
' backlog successfully against the heaviest
, operators of Wall street, and still fewer
arcs men of thai age who could keep the
reins in their bands, even hen in jail, and
1 force their worst enemies, men of millions
1 and of power, to capitulate. The beauty
, of it all is tint Ives, when arrested, laid
' his plana and by persistently following
them has succeeded against the greatest
odds perhaps that any man ever had
. against him. Ho foresaw the outcome
i from the beginning.
A few days since a correspondent called
i on Ives in jail and had a long talk with him
as to his plans and prospects. He was
looking well, without the slightest trace of
, caie on his face, and was cheerful in his
conversation, though at that time things
were looking hazy as to the outcome. Tha
i talk tnrned onto Ives' original plans and he
thea said what will be news to all who
know the man, that it had been his desire
from early boyhood to become a great
railroad manager. It had never been his
desire to be a stock operator merely. He
explained the false motivas whicn people
had regarded his deals in the Cincinnati,
Dayton & Ohio stock, by saying tbat it
was his purpose by making use of that
road to get a leverage on others and branch
out. He did not want to swamp that road,
nor would ha have done so if let alone, for
by it he expected to become the railroad
p0Wer which it had been his dream to be-
cony.
"How far did yon expect to reach?" asked
the correspondent.
"There was, of course, a limit to my am
bition," was the reply, "but first of all I
expected to get through a Jine from New
York to St. Louis and Chicago, and then
feel my way slowly westward."
"It waa your plan then to reach the Pa
cific coast?"
"Yes, it was, bnt it would have taken
years to have done it."
" What road did you have your eye on?"
"Oh, all my trouble has come because I
was in a very fair way. almost in daily ex
pectation, in fact, of getting control of the
Baltimore .fc Ohio. As soon as the great
railroad kings saw how I was branching
out they determined that it was necessary
to kill ma and not wait till I had too strong
a held."
" West of the Mississippi what could you
hope for?"
.There was a road when I was cut short
in my work which I could have made con
nections with that would have given me a
transcontinental system within five years,
beginning at New York and reaching to San
Francisco."
"You can see from these plans that I was
no railroad wrecker," continued Ives with a
smile. "I had to get a foothold and I was
getting it, just as scores of other men have
, before me. It is egotistical tor me to say
that they feared me and so decided to cut
i short my career, but what other explana
tion is there for their conduct-"
Ives told of several schemes which had
been put up to catch him when dealing on
the street, and how nearly he had been
swamped at various times, but how he
managed to see the little games and foil
them. He spoke of the likelihood of a
release, and the correspondent asked:
"What will yon do when once more free?"
"That is too much to tell. All that I
have said mast not be revealed till the set
tlement now nnder way is carried through
and I am out of jail, or I might not get out
so soon; but what I will do then I cannot
say. In fact, it will take a long time to
straighten out my own affairs, and plenty
of things may happen in the- meantime.
Only of one thing yon can be assured: I
am not dead, and I must do something,
Sage and Gould notwithstanding."
Liquor Uealers Who Want a Monopoly or
Busines.
A dispatch from Tacnma, Washington,
says: Four prominent liquor dealers here
are negotiating wjth the citv officials to
control the retail liquor traffic within the
corporate IpEfts of Tacoma. The scheme
contemplates that at the end of the present
year all saloon licenses shall be
reminded and no new ones issued
except to the syndicate, which
will agree to pay into the
city treasury a sum equal to that obtained
from all the saloons now licensed. The
projectors farther guarantee to run not
more thin twenty places for retail selling
and that these shall not be located near
churches, schools or in tne thickly settled
residence portion of the city. Aside from
these obligations the syndicate will assume
all responsibilities for violation of the law
traced to any of the places controlled by it,
agreeing to strictly observe all rules as to
closing hoars and selling to minors and
habitual drunkards.
Indiana Ready Car aa Outbreak.
A man named Carmichael. who has just
arrived at Silver Creek, X. M., reports that
seTen persons have been killed by the In
diana oa the Little Blue, which is about
twenty aailei from Alma. Thirty Indians
are reported out. The spot at which the
killing ia reported to have occurred is near
that where the frat depredation of Geroni
aao's band were committed in 1885. The
story of the killing has cot thus far been
confirmed. Capt. Hood, of Fort Bayard,
so fax as known, only thirteen renegades
are out, and at last accounts wen near the
Mexiran line going south. The Indian
oa the reservation are restless, but every
precaution is being taken by the military to
prevent a general outbreak.
Tfc Disastrous Mta Flra.
A special to the Milwaukee Evening
Wiscoivtm from Ashland, Wis., says the
loss by the Germania mine fire is greater
taaa at first estimated as the men bad just
strack a large body of rich ore. just below
tbe fiftk level in shaft two. Number two
is ruined by caving. It is feared the fire
will extend to the rooms and shafts and
make the work of destruction enormous.
It ie impossible to get down into the mine
at peasant and search far the bodiea is
grfem up until the mine can be cleared of
aad water.
TtenTsaeeli
Engineers surveying the line of the Xs
an Pacific railway in tha distri nr
Toaala, state of Chiapas, have foumitwo
solid taneesvef iron oca, carrying 60 to 64
I cent stfrajtallfc ires. TWesmate
ess. awsa BW weu ssufted t
l
ing steel, being quite &ve from sulphur and
phosphorus. The same c jmuany which is
builamg this line from Tunhi on tbe
Pacific to Irontna on the Gulf of 3If xico,
has also surveyed and is preparing to build
a line along tlie entire coast of tho state of
Chiapas. It is believed that this line will
develop, in the future, a railroad from the
City of llexica to the Isthmui of Panama.
A great amount cf material for construct
ing the Llexicau P.icific is being regularly
received from England.
A Jliiine-ita Man- Truuula.
Among the passengers ou tbe Scandio,
which arrived at Xew York, were Herdwig
Eugenbtuadc, aged 20. his sister, Marie,
aged "to. and Hermann Wnliis. Theycame
from Pemmern, Germany. 1 ha man and
the younger of the two women are lovers
and tliey came to this t-ountry to get mar
ried. During the voyage the eidr sister
interfered and tiio g'rl broke ofi! the en
gagement. I he man has a farm in Minne
sota and has jnit returned from a visit to
the tatherlaad, where he f-Il in love with
tbe girl. He consented to bringing along
the elder sister, and now hi is sorry for it.
The younger yiil has got possession of
Hermann' f. jewelry and clothing and will
not return them. Tha commissioners of
emigration will be called upon to settle the
difficulty. It is probable that the matter
will end in a marriage, and that the elder
sister will bo returned to Germany.
ttaiikfcr Spencer Retnrn Hoiue.
D. D. Spencer, to whosi bad manage
ment was attributed the ruin an! misery of
the Cook County National bank and the
State Saving institution in 1S77. has
arrived in Chicago after an absence of
over thirteen years. Just before tha crash
of the State Savings institution, Spencer
absconded and lo sated at Stuttgart, Ger
many, where he has lived since that time,
until recently, wnen ha returned to tbis
country. The indictments which weie
found against him at the time of the failure
have long been stricken from tho docket.
State's Attorney Longenecker does not
think he will be called upon to prosecute
Speccer. "The stockholders had him in
dicted for embezzlement," said the state's
attorney, "and it was charged that his
stealings amounted to nearly SoOO.OOO.
But the case was stricken olT by Mr. Mills
in bis last year; and though it might be re
instated, I don't imagine it will ever be for
lack of eidence. I understand that Spen
cer made some kind of set lement with the
stockholders before coming back."
Heirs to Several .Millions.
A large share of the b;g fortune of Judge
A. J. Davis, the richest man in Montana,
who died last Tuesday in Butte, will go to
New York heirs. Judge Davis left an es
tate of more than S7.000.000, and about a
third of this will go to his brother, Erwin
Davis, and his nephew. Henry A. Boot,
both lawyers of New York. About a year
ago Judge Davis' health began to fail. He
went to New York for treatment and then
returned home. He had planned to go to
Europe this spring, but ha went further
west instead. He was caught in a
snow blockade, and was finally taken
to a hotel in Tacom3, where he
was ill for some time. He died of
paralysis of the brain. Lawyear Erwin
Davis, of 119 Madison avenue, is about CO
years of age, ten years his brother's junior.
Lawyer Davis is already a wealthy man and
has retired from business. He wa3 form
erly president of the Bichmond fc Alle
gheney Railroad company. Henry A. Boot
is a practicing lawyer at 10 Wall street.
He is a son of Sumter Boot, of Connecti
cut, and is nearly middle age. Andrew J.
Davis, another nephew, who will also
probably come in for a share of the estate,
is cashier of tbe Butte bank, of which the
judge was president. This nephew form
erly resided in Chicago.
Both Lost Their tired.
Tbe bodies of two Yale students, Edwin
Bowe, jr., a member of the senior scientific
class, and Darius Bennan, a member of the
freshman scientific class, have been washed
ashore at "West Haven. They hired a
small sail boat and went to Milford, about
eight miles down the sound. They started
for home abont 5 o'clock in the afternoon
against a strong wind and a heavy se .
They managed to work up to tne entrance
to the harbor, where their boat was dashed
agiinst the breakwater and tne young men
were thrown into the water and both of
them were drowned. Bowe is a son of
Broker Edwin Bowe, of New Haven, and
Bennan, who resided with Superintendent
Shepherd, of the New York & New Haven
railroa'1, is the son of a western railroad
superintendent residing at Pine BInnT, Ark.
The Health or Popo Leu.
Last week's issue of Le Semaitte Itztifj
eiwe, the official organ of Aichbishop
Fabte, of Montreal, contains an article
denying that there is any truth in a pub
lished dispatch from Borne saying that
Pope Leo XIII. was nearing his end
rapidly, and that he had sent an intimation
to the conclave recommending Cardinal
Yantelli as his successor. "In the first
place," says the organ of the archbishop,
"there is no cardinal of that name. Then
the conclave is the assemblage of cardinals
re-united for the purpose of electing a new
pope. The reigning pontiff would there
fore find it difficult to intimate anything
whatever to the conclave. Lastly, we have
it from good anthoritv that Leo XILL
carries himself marveloasly, and we hope
that divine providence will preserve him
for a long time as the head of the church."
It also warns all good Catholics against
believing similar foreign dispatches.
The English Strike.
The cotton mills at Acrington, Black
burnbury and Bolton are stopping work
becanse the strike of the miners has caused
a great scarcity of coaL The London &
Southwestern Baiiway companies are suf
fering from scarcity of cal. It is the
general opinion that the striking miners
will succeed in forcing the masters to con
cede their demands for immediate advance
of 5 per cent., in their wages and a fur
ther advance of a per cent. July 1. Many
more mine owners in Nottinghamshire and
Lancashire have acceeded to the terms of
the men.
The strike of the dock laborers n Liver
pool is collapsing. New hands to fill the
places cf the strikers are arriving in Liver
pool at a rapid rate.
Almost Buried Alive.
A remarkable cace of suspended anima
tion is reported from the vilage of Mount
Blanchard, Ohio. Last Sunday, Arthur,
the 4-year-old son of Aaron Nans, after a
long illness apparently died. The under
taker prepared the reniains for burial, and
placed them in the coffin in the fall belief
that the boy was dead. The body remained
in this condition until about 3 o'clock
Monday afternoon, when those about the
coffin were amazed to see signs of life. A
nsiTeimsn srss enm-mvaA mA k 1
I resuscitated, and has continued to grow
fstroager until there is now no doubt of his
lull recovery.
Deesat Sake Geed SteeL
Mr. LfiBrhmaa, of Carnegie & Co., says
that the 20,600 toss of Bessemer pig iron
ordered by the firm from Thna proyes
to be unfit for tbe mating of staeL It
cow tains too much, paosporous and sul
phur. The firm will order no more south
ern ore and Mr. Leischmaa says the south.
era ores will never be shipped to this dis-
trie oa asj extensive seal.
STEPXL1K OX- SIBERIA.
The Famous Russian Liberal Denounce
the Cxar Atrocities.
1 he attention of Sergius SSepniak, the
Russian liberal, being called to the fact
tbat the press hid expressed doubt as to
tie trust worthiness of published accounts
cf outrages in Siberia, Mr. Stepniak said
that the main features of these reports
Were fully corroborated by such portions
cf tbe official report compiled by the Rus
sian government as had been given to the
public. It was admitted that male politi
cal prisoners were subjected to flogging,
and no denial was vouchsafed of the inci
dents reported to have taken place to the
Kara prisons. Mr. stepniak said: "It
is almost impossible to exaggerate the
snffer.ngs of political prisoners in Siberia
at thj bauds of tho prison officials.
Tho great merit of Mr. Ksnnan's ac
count is that they are based on facta
learned, not only from the prisoners, bat
also from the prison officials themselves;
added to this was his oivn personal obser
vation of the situations he was describing."
He instanced Mme. Eovalevsky, who be
cme ins me under the sufferings of con-.
v:ct life, but regained her sanity after she
was set at liberty, and then reported her
self to the government as restored to
health and expressed her willingness to
return to Siberia and share the life of the
political convicts with the hope of allevi
ating the trials of her fello.v sufferers. Mr.
Stepniak expresses his conviction that the
agitation in America on .behalf of reform
in the treatment of political prisoners in
Siberia c.mnot fail to have its influence
with the Russian officials, from the Czar
down. He feels confidant that it will re
sult in mitigating the severity of treatment
which is now enforced against political
exiles.
SPARKS PROM THE WIRES.
A gooDS train fell into the river at El
berfeld, Germany, and several of the train
hands were killed.
Tiie duke of Orleans writes that he is op
posed to the presentation to President Car
not of a petition for his release.
The grand jury at 'Washington has J
brought in an indictment against Charles
E. Kiccaid for the muruer of William P ;
Taulbee. j
br Charleston, S. C, the mercury was
dewn to 21 degrees Monday morning. It !
is feared that great damage has been done
tr, m. tr.-.', ..,.,
THE Itlmhermdn nf Rutrart. onrl fVn .
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P3r provinces of Austria have formed a
close combination with a view to-enhancing
the price of their product.
At Jacksonville, Fls., a fire destroved
two blocks of baildinos and a boarding
house, causing a lobs of nearly 5125,000",
largely covered by insurance.
Johx Sixcr-AiK has decided to resign
his seat in parliament for the Ayr district.
He is an advanced liberal and a strong
supporter of Mr. Gladstone's Irish policy.
The London Daily Telegraph's Berlin
correspondent says that Bishop Kipp, of
Breslau, was nominated as a delegate to
the labor conference primarily out of
courtesy to the Pope.
Fobty-two bodies have been recovered
from the ill-fated Morsa colliery in Wales.
It is doubtful if the hundred odd remain
ing will ever be recovered, as fire has
broken oat afresh in the xnins.
A MAD DOG
ran
through tne streets of
N6W York Monday and bit two boys and a
man. The dog was finally killed by a
policeman. The injured persons had their
wounds dressed at hospitals.
AT Gadsden, Tenn., Monday, Henry
Williams, colored, was taken fiom jail by
a mob and shot to death for an attempted
assanlt oa Miss Tidder, an aged lady, liv
ing near that place, on Feb. 28.
PaitltY Goff, ac.ed 16. was stabbed to
death by Morgan Bose, a school teacher,
in Clay county. West Virginia. A general
free fight ensued, in which the elder Goff,
Rose and several others were injured. i
Woekmes have succeeded in opening
the Denver & Rio Grande Southern route
over Cumbers mountain, after many weeks
of hard labor. The snow for miles alocg
the track is from tent to thirty feet deep, '
and at points fifty. j
At Manchester, N. H., Mrs. Cheney, the j
wife of ex-Gov. Cheney, while in a scm-1
nambultstic state, fell over the railing of ;
the stairs to a landing beneath, a distance
of twenty feet and, was very seriously in
jured. " '
F. M. CnAltLTOX, a stockholder in tha I
Chicago Gas trust, has asked for a receiver '
to wind up the affairs of the trust, and for I
an injunction restraining the trust from '
paying a dividend of I per cent,, amount- I
ing to $230,000.
1HE London Morning Pott says that
events have certainly justified Lord Ran
dolph Churchill's protest against the Par
cel! commission bill. "It's a pity," it
adds, "that he made the protest nrivatelv
instead of enforcing it publicly."
QThe farmers' alliance of Kansas, which
has become a decidedly disturbing factor
in local and state politics, propose to run
a farmer candidate for governor in the
person of A. W. Smith, better known as
"Farmer" Smith, of McPherson.
Edwabd Pebkiss, of Salem, Mass., a ' but once or twice djd the Senate suc
member of the common council, and teller ' ceed in finding out jitst how and
of the Beverly National bank, died Mon- through whom the secrets leaked out.
day of typhoid pneumonia. His wife died ! Nearly fifty years ago a Senator from
the night before of the same disease, and
their two children are quite sick with it.
At a meeting of Chicago stock yard
laborers and packing house
employes, j
r resident u-aeu. or tne packers union,
intimated that a formal demand would be
made within a fortnight for the establish
ment of the Eight-hour day for all classas
of labor in Packingtown, commencing
THE 3IARKETS.
Sioux City Live Stock.
E03S Estimated receipts, l.fiOO ; official yes
terday. lKO. Market stezuy ca light and
strcng en heavy grades. Quotations : LiRht,
SJ.9i"ja3.i7H;mixed,$3.a5fs.0O,heavv,33.37'..
"4.00.
Cattle Estimated I receipt. CCO; official
yesterday. 17?; shipments. 633. Market fairly
active wi-h a good demand for bes: offering',
Qvotaticns. Lhoice feeders, S'i'J0t3ji
cemmen. S;?.35iG0; inferior. 2.0Oii5
choice yearlings. SiaOgiTO; common, "32.33
criu; uuicners sxeers, 53.ij-3.7j; cows.
crju; uuicners sxeers, 3.ij.3.7j; c
choice. $i40'2,73: common to good, S2.03
eanaerj. TZe LS0; bulls, tLS) "3J;
ealve s, S J.75 - s.i.
cuoice. -4u ',i j; common to good, 5X03 03 ;
w-j..... i-c um; uoui, 11. jJ UJJj; Teal
ta.it:
Chicago Live Stock.
Hogs-Bectipf HL3C0. Market fairly active
acdhiher Light, 3l.00g4.20; rorgh racking.
SL3CL STr pa:kme " shipping, lS
Cattle-Beceinta. 2,000. Market stiadr
beeves ani sreers. t3Jft3.00; stockers and'
feedera, S2.JOx;i70; Texas coza-ted steer? A1
tf3-..
South Omaha LiTe Stock.
Hags Estimated receipts. is:c. w.j...
steady. Srlhng at 3.S5S3.'Ja ; bulk at $3.90.
Chicago Produce.
Wheat Lower; March, 80c; May. SOUc.
Cam-Highar; March. SBHcrMay. -JVe.
Oats-teadv; March, 2lj$c; Mar, -Ac.
Rve-March. 42Vc
Barley Nothing do'ug.
Prime Timo'hy SLia.
Flax seed Cash, 8L48.
Whisky L0i
Provisions Pork steay; March. $101".
s?7, fWT3- Jjui uaT- March, ie'ia';
Sew York Produce.
yheat-Sow a1 rreIar; May, S3?4J
Cant Strcpg and quiet ;mised western. 22U
33hc.
OatsSteady; westers Ssoai.
Provisions Pork liiu quiet; new, SlL2).g
12.00. Lard, ouietrimchacced. Batter un-
II 3Uc. Efsja, quiet ; usehanced.
THE END OF A PIONEER.
DEATH OF J. YOO'G SCAMMOX.
CHICAGO.
OF
In the Coane of His Eventful Life He
Founded Several Bank. Helped Estab
lish Three Newspapers, and Made His
Mark ia the Comiuerrial World.
Chicago dispatch: J. Young Scam
nion. lawyer, banker, railroad man. pub
lisher, politician, philanthropist, and
well-ifnowrn citizen who had been identi
fied with Chicago history, both early
and present, is dead.
.Mr. So amnion first came to Chicago in
Septemler. 1S.!.". when the eity hail
hardly reuclird the dignity of a village.
SCAMMOV.
Scainmon was quite a young man
but 2j years old. although he had
tice.l law in Maine, his native
some vears before.
being
prae-
State,
Here he associated himself with
D.
S. Mason, and the members of the firm
continued their professional relations
r for a year, when Mr. Scammon formed '
a partnership with Norman B. Judd. and
they were together for ten years.
Mr. Scaniinon was of a too progressiva
nature to confine his energies strictly to
the law and he assumed a prominent
part in developinz the citv.
With W. B. Ogden he was successful
in completing the Chieairo Jk Galena
I rnIr, .
. ' nion railroad
and these eentlemeu
made themselves pioneers of the present
- I railway system of the Northwest. During
, railway system ot tne ortii west, uuring
, this period Mr. Scammon also took an
active part in the political arena, and
( was one of the founders of the Kepubli-
can party. He then engaged in the
banking business, forming the Marine
bank, which was the first in Chicago
under the general banking law, was a
director of the State Bank of Illinois,
and a promoter of the Mechanics'
National bank. He founded the Chi
cago Fire and Marine Insurance com
pany. He helped to establish the Trib
une and Evening Journal, and founded
tli- Inter Ocean.
He was the founder of the Sweden
boririauehnrch in Chicago and donated
the ground on Congress street where
the present imposing edifice of that de
nomination now stands. He was one of
the first stockholders In the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincv railway. He
founded.
built, and presented to the citv
the Halnipmann nnsnltnl TTr hiiilf. tliA I
Dearborn street obscrvatorv. and for a
long time paid the salary of the super
intendent. In 13.T7 Mr. Scammon retired from ac
tive business, having acquired large
property possessions outside of his reg
ular commercial interests. He then vis
ited Europe and remained there three
years, and while abroad his wife died.
He returned to Chicago in ISfiO and
found his insurance company threat
ened with financial disaster and its af
fairs In very bad shape.
He opened a private bank and closed
up the affairs of the old institutions.
The fire in 1S71 destroyed all the build
ing property he had, and his loss at that
time was estimated at 5."00,000. By
1S7.1 he was iii fair condition to repair
his financial standing, but the panic of
that year involved him still further.
Mr. Scammon was born at Whitfield.
Maine. July 27, 1312. His first wife
was Miss Mary Ann Haven Dearborn of
Bath, Maine, and of their four children
but two daughters survive. Neither re
side in this city.
His eldest son. Charles, who died in
lTii. was formerly a law partner of
Robert T. Lincoln."
REVEALING SEXATE SECRETS. '
Instances Where Members Were Cen
sured for Dealing; With the Press.
A Washington dispatch says: The re- )
ported serious consideration by the
Senate of a proposition to imprison
newspaper men and abolish the press
gallerv. in retaliation for the refusal of i
correspondents to reveal the source of i
information upon which tb,ey based dis- ,
patches purporting tp detail proceeds j
ing? at secret sessions of the Senate, is
not surprising to same of the "old I
I staffers nerpaoouts who rememoer thai '
; at uinerent times m years gone by slmi
I lar talk was indulged in and for some
I uliit l.-inrol rnnsnn. "PmlioHlT,
wuar. icinurea reason.-., protiah v nvon
Ouio ?ave a newspaper man a copy of
certain very important documents, and
their publication excited the indignation I
nf tTi.. rin?l t tn snpfi nn arfunt rhnt i
rP?0itioa to expti tue Senator from I
the body was introduced, but as the
matter was debated the heat of the
senate srradiiallv trninil dnu-n and it.
vindicated its privilege and authority by J
censiirinir the guilty statesman. But
immediately afterward another resolu-
tion was adopted that, in consideration I
of the acknowledeement and aDoIozv
tendered by said Senator, no. further
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censure be inflicted upon him.
Another instance was afforded during '
the term of Senator Cragin from. New I
Hampshire. Hia copy of th.e carre? i
spoudence relating to the treaty of Washr
ington was. accidentally lot, and some i
newspaper foqnd it a,nd published the
important matters which the document
contained. An Investigation was order
ed, ami it was found, by the voluntary
statement of Mr. Cragin. that he had
lost his copy of the important secret
document in questipn. His perfect hon
esty and frankness disarmed criticism,
and he was Tet off with a mild though
serious admonition, not to dq so again.
aCast Foot Their Own Bills.
Washington dispatch: Inquiries have,
reached the Wax department from
various quarters asking whether there
is any appropriation available to pay the
expenses of veterans visiting the battle
Held of Chlckamaug for- the purpose of
aiding in Identifying the lines upon
which they fought. There is no fund
available for that purpose.
Upon the passage of the Chickamauga
park bill, which is expected ea;Jy jn tho
summer, officers wi be sen$ to the field
tq confer with all veterans who will
gather there to assist in establishing the
lines.
Until then the time and expense of
those visiting the field would be entirely
wasted, since no one can be there to
make an official record of the Informa
tion gathered or to officially mark" points
which might be designated br the visit
lag veterans.
'avina scarcely tl.Oot) population. Mr
J. YOITXG
I
HEBRASEA EVE5TS OF A WEEX.
Pranks of Mrs .Prall.
S. C. P.'all, of Elizabeth, went to Den
ver in search of bis runaway wife. He
had blood in his eye and soon had her lo
cated and also her paramour, a man named
James McMillen. whom the police early in
the day captured, and the charge of adul
tery was placed against him. Search was
then taken up for the woman, and
the police caught her. Prall says
he intends to prosecute the guilty
pair to the fullest extent of the law
and says he doesn't know any such thing
as let-up ou this case. He intends to
make it hot for a couple of other people,
one in Denver city and another in Pueblo.
Thd Denver party is named Woods, and
Prall says he owns a livery stable, and the
Pueblo man's name is J. B. Frank. He
recently caught his wife writing a letter to
Frank telling him that the old man was
going away for a few weeks and asking
him to come to Elizabeth and visit during
his absence. Prall found a letter from
Fiank saying he vfould be on hand, and
thi caused a row, and Mrs. Prall quietly
tt le away. She now languishes in the
Des-ver jad with her paramour.
New Notaries Public
The governor has commissioned the fol
lowing notaries public: Robert Craig, Al
bion, Boone county; John F. Kaufman,
Avoca, Cass county; T. S. Broderick,
Omana, Douglas county; S. G. Behrens,
Macon, Franklin county; Louis Berka,
Omaha, Douglas county; James Krisl, Mil
ligan, Fillmore county; James Kidston,
Beatrice, Gage county; J. T. Morearty,
Omaha, Douglas county; A. B. Houghton,
Hampton, Hamilton county; Harry A.
Walker, Creighton, Knox county; John J.
Gillilan, Lincoln, Lancaster county; John
W. Fread, Omaha, Douglas county; Edwin
Falloon, Falls City, Richardson county;
Lawrence Phillips, Columbus, Platte
county; Charles Lorce, Falls City, Rich-
ardson countv; J.N. Hilton, Dorchester,
. au.,,,
Aa Abbreviated Bus; Story.
A bug crawled into Pete Kerker's ear on
the night of June 5, 1889, and caused him
t9rrible agony for a few hours, but he
finally got the bug killed and it has not
given him any pain since. On Wednesday
night of this week he was picking his ear
wnen out came tne dead bug. It was over
jf
,
an inch in length, and had been in his
ear for nine months and seven days. He
feels relieved to think it is out now, al
though it has canned him no pain except a
slight feeling of fullness in that ear at
times. Xemaha City Advertiser.
Had Acted in Self Defense.
Ten weeks ago two Cass county farmers,
named Hoback and Beckner, became in
volved in a quarrel, resulting in a, pitched
battle, in which an old sword and a club
were the weapons used. Hoback got the
worst of it, and upon his rocovery had
.Beckner arrested. The trial was held at
Piattsmouth, and resulted in the discharge
of the prisoner, as be hail acted in self,
defense.
The News Condensed.
Faibbubt had three incendiary fires
the past week.
A bo&kd of trade has been organized at
West Point.
It is reported that 260 alliances were
chartered in Nebraska during February.
Feed Dickinso.x, of Ashland, ventured
too near the hind legs of a fractious mule
and is now nursing a broken leg.
Ten prominent horse owners of Jack
sou have organized a driving park associa
tion and will build a race track.
Workmen on an eighty-foot well near
Taylor let a backet of dirt fall on the man
who was digging at the bottom. He was
probably tatally injured.
The women of Wymore are protesting
against the barb wire fences which line the
streets of that city. Many of them have
had their dresses torn and they propose to
make war on the city council until the nui
sance is abated.
Peter Dolan, a wealthy farmer living
nine miles west of Brady Island, was run
over by a wagon heavily loaded with corn
and nearly killed. He had fallen from the
wagon and the wheels passed diagonally
across his breast and head, indicting terri
ble wounds.
Capt. Mohleb, of Alcove, was attacked
by a vicious bull, and it waa only by super,
human efforts that he escaped being gored
to death. As it was he was bruised and
cat in numerous places, and when he sue
ceeded in getting out of the savage creat
ure's reach he was carried half unconscious
to the house.
Albebt, the U-year-old son of C, G.
Smith, of David City, had hia foot cut off
by tbe cars in South Omaha. He was an
inmate of the reform school for a short
time, but owing to tbe supplications of his
mother he was released, after which he ran
away from home.
IhE
7-year-old son of Herman Trailer.
living at Fremont, lost part of bis hand by
getting it crushed under the car wheels.
It is not known whether a plavmate pushed
him under the cars or whether he was try
ing to board the train and slipped, losing
his hand in the scuffle.
The wife and friends of W. W. Wormer,
who (or the last year has lived near Fre
mont, are much worried oyer his disap
pearance a week ago. On Friday last be
donned his wedding suit, took out his ride
and said he. had noticed a rabbit several
times along tne road and wanted to shoot it,
Dade good-bye to his bride of one month,
oi disappeared. He is supposed to have
had nearly $300 with him.
The time of payment of the purchase
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ration in Thurston county baa been ex
tended. The first payment is extended
until December 1. 1891, the second one
year later, and tho third one year from the
second.
Bbokes Bow's business men are dis.
cussing tbe advisability of -the city putting
in an electric light plant of its own.
Two horse thieves named Erb and
Betcher pleaded guilty at Seward and
were sentenced to twa years in the peni
tentiary. The third annual encampment of the is-ter-state
reunion will be held at Bed Cloud
April 3 and many prominent speakers are
expected to.attend,
CcaTXB county now has tweaty.twa
subordinate alliances, with an average
membership of forty, and new ones are
being added to the list every week.
The farmers in the neighborhood of
Deshler will build an elevator.
Fraxcis Mcbpht is Viiq temptON
ance revival meetings at Grand Island.
The prohibitionists of Butler county
have raised a fund of $500 jot campaign
purposes.
Obzsslvh has a haunted house wales is
attracting the attention of courageous aas
timid saajdeaU alike.
Ths editor of the Newman Grove Xem
announced that he could not live on ozona
and threw up the sponge.
THE 4-year-old son of Frank Fugard, of
Columbus, was seriously buraad about the)
face with cemssmtTafra lye.
SOUGHT HER QUIETUS.
ANOMDtOl S LETTKBC DKXTK A YOTCtt
LADY TO HEK DBA1BL
alaader Has Its Eweet oa a Sensitive Na
ture and Reasea Gives Way News of
This aad That ea Other Tostirs.
Miss Jessie White, the l'J-year old
daughter of James. i. White, an old rem.
dent of Joliet, HI., committed snicide ia
a most sensational manner. She waa out
riding in a bugy and drove up .aad down
Chicago street several times, bowing aad
smiling to acquaintances. Finally, wham
nearly in front of a hotel she stopped tha
horse, took a box from the bottom of the
carriage, drew oat a revolver and shot her
self through the heart. Several gentlemen
rushed to the carriage just in time to catch
her body as it was falling into the street
It is believed that the young lady was
demented, as the result of a loag aeries of
persecutions at the hands of an anonymous
letter writer. About three years agaae
began his work. Every young saaa who
met the fair young Jessie at a party or
dance, or has made her acquaintance, has
been the recipient of anonymous letters
from some jealous person who bad fallea
in love with Jessie and whose attentions
she had evidently repulsed. All the local
newspapers received letters directed
against the young lady, by the same per
son and in the same handwriting. The
letters were all turned over to tne authori
ties, and the police and detectives were
put on the watch for the persecutor. Fi
nally a cousin of Miss Jessie, daughter of
lavid White, was arrested and tried in the
circuit court, but no positive evidence
could be obtained, and the trial resulted
merely in her being bound over to keep the
peace.
After tbe trial was over it was hoped by
ail tne mends of Miss White that she
would be left in peace, bat the persecuting
letters still kept coming to her, to her peo
ple, to all the society young gentlemen in
town, and to all who could possibly be in
duenced by the jealous writer. The young
lady and her family were constantly kept in
a state of terror; letters were dropped oa
their door steps; shoved under their doom,
sent in every way, till the young ladies
were afraid to go out of their homes.
Finally Miss Jessie was sent away for
awhile to the east. But this did not stop
the letter writer who was so artfully persu
ing the beautiful and distracted girl. All
the detectives brought into requisition
could not entrap the villian, so, after three
years of this kind of torture, the poor
hunted girl became so distracted that she
could bear it no, longer.
In the box in the carriage in which she
had the revolver was found a letter ad
dressed to her family, in which she says:
I am tired of this, to am going to ahoot my
self and Jeny the letter writi r the pleasure of
doing It. Three years is long enough to ba tor
tured by him and there are no prospects of any
peace for me as long as I lire, and. inasmuch aa
he has promised to take my life, I rea'ly think
he means to. but now he never ihall. If he
found uny pleasure in torturinn me I hope he
will be satisfied now, for be has driven aie to
destroy myself. AH I have to say now is for
you to forget und forgive me for the wicked act
I am about to commit. Now, dear folks. I love
you all so dearly I could not live if anv ot vou
were takea from me, so I want you all to think
it is all for the best that I should leave this
world.
She also gives directions as to how she
shall be buried, who shall officiate and the
names of the pall bearers she desires.
VICTIMS OF RAILROAD-.
An Impartial Observer's Explanation of the
Southern esrro Exodus.
Bishop Lyman, of North Carolina, an
authority on the race question of the
south, said in an interview concerning the
exodus of negroes from his state: 'It is
not the hostility of the southerners that
has driven the negro away; it is not that all
crops have been lost for the last three
years: not political disfranchisement, in
compatability, fear or any other ridiculous
causes attributed by the northern press.
But it is the action of the railroads and
their satellites or scalpers. This traffic
would be small to a large northern railroad,
bat it has been profitable to the lines of
North Carolina, and mors especially to the
agents. Let me cite you an instance, only
one case and I could give you many. One
railroad agent has sent 30,000 negroes out
of the state, and his commission was $1 a
head, a total of $30,000, and a very hand
some fortune, I think. In the city of
Baleigh and the town of Bocky Point the
people rose up in righteous anger and drove
these immigration agents out' of the state.
And I believe they were justified in doing
so, for it was a mere matter of traffic for
those people, and resulted in cruel hardship
to the poor negroes.
"The glowing promises of equality and
profitable employment is Knaaa and
other states held out to them by these
wretches would, of course, never be real,
ized, and the penniless negro had not the
means to return to the country which had
at least given him shelter and subsistence.
And I am sorry to say that in too many in.
stances the exodua has been assisted by
the statement made in northern papers
which have been not one whit less hightly
colored than the agents' arguments."
ROVAL RESCRIPTS,
Emperor WUllam TeUs How Sorry He Is
to Lose) the Services or Bismarck.
In the emperor's first rescript he says
that, acceding to tbe request made on the
18th inst., ha grants Prince Bismarck per
mission to retire, hoping confidently that
the Fatherland will profit in the future as
it has profited in the past, by his counsel,
energy and faithful devotion. The em
peror says he had hoped that the necessity
would not arise for Bismarck to think of
separation during bis lifetime. He regards
it as the most providential dispensation of
his life that on some occasions he has bad
Prince Bismarck by hm side. What the
prince has achieved for Prussia and Get
many and what he has been to him and tha
house of bis predecessors, he will ever pre
serve in grateful remambraace. Bismarck's
wise and energetic policy of peace, by
which his majesty u resolved to be guided
in future, being fully convinced of its cor.
rectnsss, will always be reswmbereelabroad
and well deserves recognition. It is not is
the emperor's power to reward Bismarck
for his services; but ss a sign of bis lasting
thanks ha confers upon him the dignity of
Duka af Laueaburg and presents him with
a life-size oil painting of frim If,
In a second rescript the estperor thanks
Bismarck: as military leader for hia isval
uable services is tha army durisg tha tima
of William L aad to tha mssiiiI day, asldV
ing that he knows ha will be sitsss wits
the army by retaining Bismarck is the
highest rank by appelating him a field
marshal general and a aolosel general of
cavalry.
The rescripts are easehed is '-fjisfs af
tha most tester, character, and as with
the words: "Gad Ueas yon, my dear
Prince, asd grant yes Sssy yean of ss
treubled ott age. rithtnasd by tha ass
srioutuese af emty truly fabtUaA.
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ssd grading of all gxais easusg into sslti-
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