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: ,.- V ' .'--? "-. -r 0Mttmta . 9 VOLUME XXL-NUMBER 9. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1890. WHOLE NUMBER 1049. limtm i im- Zi imECToite ANDEBfiQN.Pres't. J. H. JALLY, Vice Prea't. O. T. ROES. CmUk, V f-ANDERSON. P. ANDERSON. JACOB GBEISEN, BEN RAGAtZ. JOHN J. SULLIVAN. First National Bank COX.T7MBTJB. HEB. Report of Condition Maj 17, 1890. resources. Loans and Discounts $209,879 35 U. S. bonJa lO.iO to RoiI tut-, furniture and fixtures. . 11.9S5 J8 luu frcira other bunls. .. .23.772 22 - U. s. Treasury... . G7 5 00 Cashonband 15.179.45 39.945 67 27C.99J.40 LiAnn-iTiEs. Capital and 6nrplus Undivided profits Matronal bank n-itea outstanliiig .. Rediscounts Due depositors ftO.000 03 10.428 14 13,500 00 IG.&ll 21 150,1 SI 05 276,10 40 justness fTurds. J 31. K I I.I AN. " " DEUTCHER ADVOKAT, Office over ColumbnBtState Bank, Colombo. Nebraska. 29 OUULITAX Ml BEEDEi, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office oter First National Bank, Colombo. Nebraska. 30-tf i R I.. KO.SSITER. COUXTt SURVEYOR. VB Parties desiring nnrveyiEg dove Qall aa dress me st Columbus, Neb., or Call at my office in Court House. SmaysftVy t jr. cKinER, CO. SrP'T PUBLIC SCHOOLS. r. I will be in my ogco in the "Court Boase, fiss Ui;rd Satnrday of eiieh rfiontn for tfie'axajlfiaa tioa, of applicants for twkchers i lifli p. and for the transaction of other echooTbQaikaS. l"jan!W T s. COOKVK, DRAY and EgPRgSSJfAN. AUBLE BRADSHa'-C A Stuxestors to Fauble ,Bufh$lfl, brick: va,-rtjfrsi aTCootractara anil b: tick first-claM aad off or Wo are also prepared to do of brick wo! jyj K. TOTlJfElt fc CO., Proprietors and Publishers of to CSL7X373 .'OZSSAi aid lit SS3. TAVT jfolaUX Both, post-paid tg, any address, for $2.00 a year, strictly in advance. Family JocBSfat, $1.60 a year. m,1 W. M. CORNEjJOS k COttXsEs&US W. A. HcALLISTER. rcALLISTEl Columbus, Neb. Office up st airs over Ernst &. Scb wars' jjtpre o Eleronth street. lSmntyM JOHN G. HIGGIXS. a J. GARLOW. HIGGDIS & GAJLL0W, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty mado of Collections by C. J. Garlow. i-m E.C.BOYD, HAKDFAGTCBEa OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware! Job-Work, Eoofinj and Gutter ing' a Specialty. jySbop on 13th street, Krause Bro.'s old stand on Thirteeath street. XSf. Chas. F. Knaff. Flixi R. Knapp KNAPP BROS.. Contractors and Builders. Estimates furnished o 'brick and stone -work and plastering, free. Special attention giveji to-' oelUfLf boilers, BDantlea, ato. tjtuiniag and ack pointing eld or new brick work to repre sent pressed brick, a specialty. Correspondence solicited. Reftf-oncea eiven, 22mayly KNAPP BROS.. Columbus, Neb. A STEAf LEAF! DIARY. THE JOURNAL OFFICE Foa CARDS. ENVELOPES. NOTE HEADS, BILL HEADS, DODGERS, Era SUBSCRIBE NdW TIE GOLUIMIS JOURIIL. AM-" TIE AMERICAN MASAZDIE, IWe Offer Beth for a Yemr, HM. -MwsaW&UrMpsr In PJjto cpWSl TM America. Msgalfiis is the onlykigti rlaaaaomtn It aagaoa darotad entiraly to AsBarieaai Ljtark tm. Aasrleaa Tkooght and r.topen, . dto tfcacaly dscidad txponeat of nwdcan Iaatiti. Ooxa. Itia aa good aa any at th olawc gtosw. fnraiakUg iar a year orer Xfffig j aQtafbaaarifnlly ilKstrated, aaTii zjthca4&mingcoD&iSM and abort atari. ha n aapropng sraw gs i than enara souauipwam w raw It to caviaUrbrilliaBS darinartfct ficCX ITto m if rn SWEPT DOWN TO DEATH A DOZEN PEOPLE DROWNED IN A SMALL KENTUCKY TOWN. A Cloudburst Causes a Creek to Overflow aai Dwelling Houses and Their Occu pants Swept AwayMany Abiuulou" Tliolr Home or tbe Loss of Life Would Have Been Larger. At Ball creek, near Mavsville, Ky., a cloudburst caused the creek to overflow its banks and several dwelling houses and their occupants were swept away. About a dozen peop'e are reported drowned. Tue following bodies were found: John Rn gles, fisherman; Lacy P. Eater, widow, and her four children. A stone culvert on the Chesapeake Ac. Ohio railroad over the creek was washed away and about 12 o'clock, while the storm was at its height, a west bound freight train ran into the washout, causing a fearful wreck. Tho engine and nine cars were piled on top of one another, almost out of sight in the creek bottom. Eugineer Roadcap, of Green county. Fire man Honaker and Brakeman Eason are buried beneath the wreck, and their bodies have not yet been recovered. Tha con ductor and brakeman jumped from the rear car and escaped unhurt. A fast wrecking train on the way to the scene ran over Frank Scott, a colored em ploye, and killed him. A little later a mixed passenger train would have passed over the fatal culvert where the freight train went down, when the loss of life would have been appalling. The clouds Buddenly bursting caused a rapid rise in tbe creek. Farmers say the creek rose two feet per minute and tbe water looked like a wall twenty-fire feet high when it got to the railroad fill. Ir win's portable saw mill was lifted from its fastenings with over 100 logs and hurled violently against the railroad stone culvert. This is probably what caused it to give away. The creek is raised two f 2et higher than it has been in forty years. The force of the storm caused many per sons on Bull oreek to abandon their nomes and take to the bills, else the loss of life would have been greater. Tbe storm did much damage to buildings, fen:es and crops in that portion of the county. Some half dozen persons are yet missing, but it is believed they will turn ud all right. Too Young and Pretty for an Oltl Husband. Hempstead, Long Island, was greatly excited when the story leaked out that pretty Mrs. Marion Lamson had eloped with a stranger on Thursday night during hdr husband's absence in Europe. Mrs. Lamson is oue of the most beautiful women who ride to tbe hounds with coun try clubs who hunt the wily fox over tbe Long Island hills and dales. Mrs. Lam sou, who is from Baltimore, was a great favorite in fashionable Loug Inland society, although having taken up their residence near Hempstead only six months ago. The Lamson's have only been married three years, but their married life was not wholly honey and roses. Philip Lamson, the husband, is possessed of an indepen dent fortune and has an uncontrollable desire to travel. Six weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. Lamson had a quarrel. Mrs. Lamson said that her husband, who is many years her elder, took offence because she hunted with the swell set, and proposed to sell all her horses. A week ago a tall and distinguished looking foreigner got off the train at Hempstead and was driven to the Lam sons' cottage. Since then Mrs. Lamson and the new arrival were seen constantly together. Mrs. Lamson and ner unknown admirer, whom she persisteutly refused to present to her other friends, stayed at the Lamson cottage, where he is said to have sung the spiciest of French songs to the accompaniament of a mandolin, on which iustrument the fair Marion is a splendid performer. On Friday night Mrs. Lsmson, accom panied by her admirer and her French maid, went to New York. From the Grand Central hotel Mrs. Lamson sent a message to one of her friends eariy tbe next morn ing, informing her that she was off for California with her cher ami and Marie, her faithful maid. In this brief epistle Mrs. Lamson wrote that she no longer cared for her husband who, sha said, had deserted her. She wrote in con clusion: "I am younj and pretty, my husband was old and cranky. He deprived me of my horses and of love, but, thank heaven, I have found some one at last in whom I can place implicit confidence." Meanwhile, Mr. Lamson had been cabled to come home. It is hinted that the hand some stranger is attached to one of the foreign legations in Washington and that he was a suitor for the fair Marion's hand loug before she dreamed of becoming Mrs. Lamson. Cattle in New Mexico Starting. Stockmen in New Mexico have never be fore suffered anything like tho losses which are now being borne on acconnt of the extreme shortness of feed, which has been brought about partly on ac connt of overstocked ranges, but mainly on account of the lonjj-coutinued dry weather. There has been no rainfall for more than six months in the southern por tion of the territory, and the consequence is that the ranges are bare and brown and cattle are dying by the hundreds daily. Tbe Lyons iz Campbell cattle company, one of the large companies of this county, reports an average loss of about forty head per day. This company has shipped sev eral thousand head of cattle within the past two months, as other companies and individual owners have doue, but the ranges will not support the stock now on them unless there are heavy rains before many days to start the grass. Some of the oldest ranchmen in this country say that if the dry weather con tinues a month longer they will lose one fourth of their herds. Few cattle die out on the ranges. The grass has been eaten down close to the ground in the vicinity of all the water courses and watering places and the herds in some instances go miles into the foot hills or out on the mesas where there is better grass to feed. These remain out until thirst drives them in ami they drink their fill of water after which they invariably lie down. The weaker ones never get ud. Thousands of bloated carcasses of dead catele lie rotting in the scorching sun in New Mexico, but the stockmen are bearing their loses philosphicallv. During the past eight months mora stock has been lost in New Mexico than bad been lost in as many years previous to last October. Notwith standing the unusual losses of the past months, the average percentage of loss in New Mexico for ten years has been less than tnat of any other stock raising sec tion of this country. As a Last Resort. W. A. Crandall, chairman of the demo cratic state central committee, wrote a let ter to Stati Senator Foster. leader of the anti-lottery faction in the legislature, sug gesting as a mean of settling the lottery question and avoiding dissensions within the party ranks that the state central com mittee be convened within ten days, and that they order primary election through out the state, at which white people only will be allowed to participate. Tke said election to be held within thirty days, and if a majority voting at the primaries favor the submission of the lottery amendments to the people, tbe governor to call a special session of the legislature for that purpose within thirty daye after said election. "You will, of coarse, understand that in order to carry out the above suggestion, the co-operation of the government will be necessarv." Five Children Go Out in a Skiff, and Four Are Drowned, Rapid City, a coal mining town of 400 or oOil souls, located on the Illinois side of the Mississippi, a few miles above Davenport, witnessed a terrible drowning disaster. Five children, JoLn Yost, Maggie Baker and Albert, Charles and Lelia Shells, of ages between 3 and 11 years, went out in a skiff above the dam at that place, intending to reach an tsliud near by. They wre taken in by the current that ran to the mill race and before any one on the bank could help them they all went over tbe dam. John Yost was rescued nearly drowned Iwlow the fall, but the others perished. Tbe body of the Baker girl and one of the boys has been recovered, but the oth rs are still in the river. No one in the village knew of the intention of the childreu when they embarked. Another Maiuuioth ICaft. Two tugs have left New i'ork for St. Johns. N. B., to take in tow another mam moth raft consigned to James D. Leary, of New York. Leary waa the owner of the famous Joggins raft which broke away from the steamer Miranda during a storm in December, 1887. The new raft is in seventeen cisar-shaped sections, each 100 feet long, twenty-five feet deep, and thirty fiva feet wide. It will be bound together with chains, making a structure 1,700 feet long, and the sections will be detachable to lessen the danger of the loss of the whole raft in case of accident. It will take between fifteen and eighteen days to get the raft to the city. The raft coutams 400,000 feet more lumber than the Joggins raft carried. Hale Arraigned. G. C. Hale, of Clevelani, appeared in the superior court in Montreal under arrest on a charge of shooting with intent to kill his brother-in-law, Eugene H. Cowles, son of the late Edwin Cowles, of the Cleveland Leader. A. writ of habeas corpus was granted compelling the nuns to produce the child of Mrs Cowjos and ws snda re turnable at 3 o'clock, when the case will be argued on its merits. Eugoue H. Cowles, who is improving, iu an interview with a representative of the Associated Press, affirmed that what he had done was legal and under the advice of the best legal talent in the United States and Canada Sold Her Child. A woman named Mouez took her two little children, one a;ed 4 and the other an infant in arms, to tho circus at Fail River, Mass. While on the gionuds she was ap proached by a man w bo mtde a proposi tion to take the tides t cild, a boy, and train him for circus life. Aiter much parleying tbe woman gave the child up, receiving ?23 and the promise of $4 a week as long as the child stayed with his owner. The remarkable bargain was re ported to the police, who arrested the woman and will investigate tne matter. WilIC:tu- in. Trouble. Col. E. C. Foster, the special a gent of the department of justice, who has been investigating the filibustering movement to capture Lower California, says: "The filibustering schme is fully as extensive as reported. It m-.ty result iu an increased military force being placed along the Mexi can border, and especially on the Pacific coast, by the United "Slates government. The result of the investigations will not cause any trouble between tha United States and Mexico." Something of :i Liar. The paying teller of tho First National bank, of Denver, the only man who saw the robber plainly at the time, visited the jail at Clayton and failed to identify the man who said he robbed President Moffatt of $21,000. It is thought that the requisi tion papers will be returned unused. Tho opinion is freely expressed here that King is a consummate liar. It is Drobable th.it a commission will be appointed to inveti gate his sanity. Instructions to Alternates. Secretary Blaine has issued instructions to alternates to the Chicago world's fair commissioners that they will not be ex pected to attend the mettingto be held in Chicago on the 2Gth inst. unless they learn that commissioners whom they are to rep resent will not be able to attend, and alter nates will be expected to keep themselves informed of the intentions of commission ers. Will Demand Puuisluueut. A San Francisco Citron cle special from Ensenada, Lower California, gives an in terview with Torres, governor of tbe peninsula. He says the Mexican government has decided to demand that the United States punish those concerned in tha conspiracy o capture Lower California. Torres will soon send his government proofs that an English corporation is undoubtedly guilty of complicity. An Opera-House ISia-ued. Black's opera-house on Richelieu street. t -i ,u..", T-" -d i i. . i was feared that the large Balmoral hotel ;to ,i- , u .i 1 . upuuonu -ev aw md- UUA UsTMU. WUAJk. aUU a plentiful supply of water finally saved it. uortons .now uneans minstrels, wno gavo ' an entertainment in the opera-housa the ' previous evening, lost neajrly all of their effects. The total loss is placed, at $40,- 000. ' Duel to tile Death with Lassoes. Jose Carrasco and Manuel Basco, two Mexican cowboys, had a singular and fatal duel. They met in the road, quarrelled about a cow, and endeavored to lasso each other. Carasco lariated his opponent by the neck, dragged him from the saddle and set off at full speed. Basco was dragged nearly a mile. His neck was broken. SHORT BITS OF NEWS. Hos. J. H. Baxkhead has been re nominated by tha democratic convention of the Sixth Alabama dibtnet for congress. A Large amount of property has been destroyed by continuous stocks of earth quake in the French department of Jura. Judge Thomas A. Gautt has been nominated by the Missouri democratic convention on the seventeenth ballot for supreme court judge. The French have occupied the territory on the Lawa river, Dutch Guiana, the ownership of which is in dispute between Holland and France. The National Furniture Manufacturers' association, in session at Chicago, has ordered an advance in prices July 1. The next meeting will be held in Boston. The revenue cutter Corwin has sailed from San Francisco for Behnnz sea, where she will join the American fleet in pro tecting the American seal and salmon fish eries. The Corwin will stop at Seattle on her war P the coast. OX THE LAKE FR0XT. THE SITE SELECTED BY THE WORLD'S FAIR DIRECTORS. An Organized Effort to Clear the Lake Front or All It Objectionable Features special Session of the Legilature Called to Facilitate Arrangements Tor the Exposition. It is asserted that the world's fair direc tors have practically decided to locate the ' exposition on the lake front. An organ- ized effort has been made to clear the lake i front of all its objectionable features by coming to a definite understanding with ! the Illinois Central road, and that with , this ead in view all other projects, so far as the site is concerned, have been left m abevauce. A formal proposition has been made to that road. Should it be accepted j it is said that the railroad company win abandon its rjresent tracks along tbe lake ' front, and. leaving the Lake ihore nt Twenty-secoud street, it will run out into the lake as far as tbe government pier: thence north, just inside the breakwater to a point opposite the foot of Ran dolph street and thence west to th depots, warehouses and elevators. Inside of the nroiected new tracks a massive stone wall ntll Iva AarfrAjl VtJnli onnnori fi cflTir nilt lt? tracks from view "from the Lake Front' park. This wall is to be terraced to tho westward, and ornamented with p!aut3, trees and flowers so as to present an at tractive appearance. Should the proposed plan be carried out the world's fair site will extend from Randolph street south, to tbe present Illinois Central pier atthe foot of Fourteenth street. In consideration of the permanent right-of-way and the depot site at the foot of Randolph street acquired by the railror.d, it is proposed that tue company shall fill in the basin from Twenty-second street to Fourteenth street. The special merit claimed for this scheme is that it will afford the city one of the most beautiful parks in the world, and that, too, in the very heart of the city. It will fur ther forever settle all litigation as to the ground. Special Session Called. Gov. Fifer has called a special session of the Illinois legislature for July 23 to facilitate arrangements for the world's fair at Chicago. The matters which the gov- eruor directs the general assembly to con- sider are as follows 1. The suhpussion to the electors of tho state at tho November election, A. D. lSik), of a proposition to amend the state constitution so as to authorize the city of Chicago to increase its bonded indebednes to an extent not exceeding S-",O00,OO(l. the proceeds thereof to be used in aid of the j said world's Columbian exposition author ized oy said act of congress. 2. The passage of such legislation as mar be necessary to authorize the use or , occupancy of any public ground, park or ' area for the location of the world's Colum- I biau exposition as may now or hereafter j belong to or be under the control of the state of Illinois, the city of Chicago, or j tho South park commissioners, West Chi- cago park commissioners aud Lincoln park commissioners of the city of Chi- i cago, or either of the said park commis- sioners lespectively, and to authorize the issuance of park bonds for the extension j or improvement of such public grounds for tbe use or in the aid of the said world's Columbian exposition. 3. To vest the said city of Chicago with the right, power and authority of eminent domain to be exercised for purposes in be- , half of the said world's Columbian ex position, such power and authority to cease ', on and after May 1, A. D. 1894. j 4. To make appropriations to meet the special session of tbe general assembly consumed by this proclamation. ' THE FLOUR OUTPtJT. Opty Five Mills Kiiuiiing Last Week and a Large Decrease Is SIiom it. The past week has been an exceptionally dull one with the Minneapolis mills, but there is a promise of better times for the week to come. The aggregate output was 59,312 barrels, averaging 9,9(18 barrels daily, against 92,770 barrels tho week be fore. 100.100 barrels for the corresponding time in 1889 aad 123.400 barrels in lss-S. The dead condition of the dour market, together with the delay in letting the watr into the canal, caused the general dullness at the falls. At noon Wednesday there were but five mills running, grinding at tho rato of about 8,700 b.irrels per twenty four hours. The Anoka mill increased the figures to about 9.200 barrels. It is not likely that the output will be increased this week, but with the op"uing of the canal next Mon day nearly every mill is counting upon resuming work. The demand for tlour will hardly warrant such an activo condition cf affairs, but the millers propose to set the wheels in motion, nevertheless, in inlF fr fact Vin YiiiTtr txfrta nmrA? nti well as to show the visitors to the national millers' convention what Minneapolis is capable of doing. The export trade 13 very quiet, and quotations remain about the same as last week. Export shipments were 11,077 barrels, against 13,300 barrels the preceding week. London quotations for 280 pounds c. l. f. are: Patents, 30s 6d(s333 (asking); bakers', 23s 3d2is; low grades, 12s (Jd13s. The receipts of wheat during the past week were 303,130 bushels, and the shipments 90,675 bushels. The shinments of flour were 3G.340 barrels, ' .,-,, . - - . ! and of mill stuff 2,2j tons. SOCIETY PEOPLE ELOPE. A Wealthy Merchant's Wire antl a Popular Kaclielor Skip to New York. Toronto society is wildly excited about an elopement between Mrs. Smith, the wife of one of the biggest merchants in Toronto, and Eddy Rutherford, who be longs to one of the very first families. He is a bachelor of 30. For some time past their intimacy was freely spoken of, and when both were missing and no explana tion given tongues wagged freely. A pri vate dispatch from New York said they were both seen in that city. Mr. -rjmith hod paid no attention to the scandalous talk until the receipt of this message, when he at once started for New York. His friends say that he has not lost confidence in his wife and that his object is to trace her actions in Montreal and Boston, where he understood she was visiting. He is not a man to suffer wrong of this kind calmly and a tragedy may be tbe end of it if the story is true. Mrs Smith was one of tbe most beautiful women in Toronto society. Her maiden name was Devereanx, and she had gained fame as a concert singer. Mr. Rutherford's friends deny his guilt, also, but they offer no explanation of his absence. Good Year for Roblers. Three highwaymen rode into the town of Joshua, Tex., and robbed the po-toffice. They got three gold watches and .200 in money and then escaped. Contract Laborers. Five Italians who arrived from Rotter dam bound for Pittsburg and thirteen Slavs are detained on the ground of brin contract laborers. The Slavs were g ing to work in the mines in Pennsylvania NEBRASKA -NEWS XUTATIOXS. Points From All Points. Ay alli.mcs store is in successful opera tion near Earl, in Fiontier county. There will'be about 818 delegates in the next republican state convention. Shepherd, the condemned murderer of Dodge county, will secure a stay of execu tion until December. The Bea'rice Canning company Monday forwarded 1,000 pounds of canned goods to the Bradsbaw sufferers. The West Point Prugre. says there are thieves in that vicinity mean enough to steal tlowers off tho graves in the ceme- tary. Mrs. Anxie Grimisox, wife of Judge J, x. Grimison, ha3 Leen admitted to practice law in the district court at Schuvler. E. E. Dayton, living near Strang, has four pigs, each having eight well developed legs and feet, says thj Reporter. They will be on exhibition at tbe state fair this fall. Threk weeks ai?o a boy about 16 years old rode a horse mtu a livery barn at Ash laud and said he wanted to leavo it there while be went in search of wor. Since that time nothing has been heard of the lad. The sheriff of Custer countv is- bunting for Walter H. Henderson, a Middle Loup farmer. During a quarrel Henderson tried to trepan a neighbor named McGrath with a hammer. McGrath's condition is serious. MR. McCixre found a tortoise this week with the following inscription cut on the loaer shell: "J. P. G., 1V71." The initials were cut by James P. Gates nine teen years ago, says the Hebron Journal. This tortoise has been found twice before and is becoming quite historical. The body of an nukuown woman was found floatiug in the riv.r opposite Broan ville Monday. She had the appearance of having been a lady of refinement. Her clothing is of an elegaut texture and iu her ears are what appear to be duuiitud ear rings. An investigation is being con ducted by the coroner. Eddie Mchray and Johnnie Kirkpat rick, two Omaha boys, age i about 10 years e-ich, were rowing in a skiff on the Mis souri Monday when the boat cat sized and the bovs were left floundering in the water. Thev ouiti kave been drowned in a few moments but for the prompt action of a i man standing on a bluff near by. He piaiiged into the river and succeeded in landing both youngsters in a place of i safety. The man was Jim Hegerloa, an , ex-convict. At Columbus the Masonic temple com ' mittee reports a sufficient amount sub scribed to build a S25,' 00 structure. A Prestok correspondent says: "The Sac Indians were p lid their annuities last ! week. As a matter of course they came to , town and got drunk, and for two das it I was not fit for a lady to go on tho streets." W. II. Morrow, a young attorney of I Auburn, was thrown from his bugcy by a fractious horse the other day, his left leg being caught in the wheel and so badly ' broken that amputation was necessary. j The sheriff of Nemaha county has ar rested "Grandpa" Newman, living near , Peru, fvr selling liquor without a license. The old man claims that the stuff be sold , was manufactured by himself from grape, but as several students from the normal school had succeeded in becoming hilar j ious after imbibing the liquor it was be lieved that it was doctored with Missouri alcohol. A Plattsmocth policeman has arrested a man who attempted to dispose of a gold watch, upon the back of which was en graved thd name of Mrs. O. C. Stubbs, Bradsbaw, Neb. The uiun can gie no reasonable explanation of its possession, and he evidently committed an act of vandalism upon a victim of ths Brad.shaw disaster. The man gives bis name as James Casey and belongs to the tramp genius. The storm of last week damaged tho town of Humphrey to the extent of $3,000. A carved buffalo head six feet high will ornament the new court house at Kearney. The Nebraska City turnverein is already making preparations to ce'ebrato German day, and Hon. Carl Schurz has accepted an invitation to be present and deliver an ad dress. The dam in Hon. J. Sterling Morton's celebrated fish pond at Nebraska City broke last week for the secoud time this year. Tho pond had just 1 een stocked with fish, all of which were lost. WhiTjE on his way to Columbus with a load of hogs, Daniel Sheedy fell from the wagon, the rear wheels passing over hi3 body, crushing the ribs in his right side and injuring him internally. His recovery is doubtful. It is estimated that thirteen lives were lost in the Bradsbaw disaster. The loss to property will amount to $100,00.). The Burlington & Missouri company are erect ing a temporary depot to replace the one destroyed by the cyclone. A CoiiUMBC.s man offers to give the mining of oil privilege on forty acres of land to anyone who will bore for oil or mineral. A Dodge county gentleman goes him one better by offering to bet $23 that his own son, now under sentence of death for murder, will not be hanged at the appointed time. Both offers are yet open. Just as we go to press, says the Mead -lifrocafe, we learn of a very singular freak of nature which occurred at Wahoo on Saturday evening a female baby being born tho re with one face before and one face behind. At last accounts mother and child were doing well. LiGnraiXG struck and killed a fine colt Lelouging to Wm. Waite. of Lyons. A house belonging to Charles Carville waa struck, tho chimney demolished and the house slightly damaged in several places. No one in the house was injured, but per sons a block away received a heavy shock. A max named McCallister now lies in the Burt county jail charged with illegal fishing. His seine was captured aud de stroyed. Gov. Thaxee has issued a call to the people of Nebraska to contribute immedi ate aid to the victims of the Bradshaw cy clone. A great many families lost every thing in the disaster and ore not in a po sition to wait any length of time for relief. Ax all round crook was arrested at Beatrice with a big quantity of tobacco, evidently stolen, in his possession. He managed to make his escape by digging oat of jail later in the night. A Yocxg man named E. K. Kendall was drowned Tuesday at Grand Island while boating at Ott's ice pond in only two feet of water. He recently insured his life for $10,000. Maxob A. L. Claeke, of Hastings, received a telegram announcing the death of his brother in a runaway at Glen Mary, Tenn. The particulars of the accident were vague. The mayor and James N. Clarke, his brother, have left for tbe scene of the accident. The brother killed was an extensive owner of coal mines in Tennessee. The republican state convention has been called to meet July 23. No more proxies will be allowed in the conventioa. A FARMER 3I0VLJILNT. GEORGIA'S ALLIANCE NOW GO ING INTO POLITICS. Will Try to Elect a Governor, Capture the Legislature and Uuited Status Senator ship, and Elect at Least Three Congress men Claims to Having a Membership or 100,000. Col. J. W. Avery, private secretary to Senator Brown, of Georgia, has just re turned to Washington, after a loug visit to Atlanta. Speaking of the prrsent political situation in Georgia, he said: "The farm ers' alliance is a most powerful organiza tion in our state. The democratic party numbers about 130,000 voters in G orgia and the alliauce has 100,000 memleis. That means that two-thirds as many as there are in the democratic party are mem bers of the alliance. That they mean to take a hand in politics is settled. They will try to elect a governor, capture the. legislature and United States senatorship and fleet at least three congressmen. The state convention will be held early in Au gust aud the degree of their success in this convention will probably determine the action in the congressional conventions which will follow later in the month. Hon. J. W. Northern, a wealthy planter living near Sparta, '. at present the most promi nent alliance candidate for, the governor ship. He is a man of decided ability, but is conservative and has conducted himself with great dignity in this contest. He has been a member of the legislature and is well and favorably knowu throughout the state. HEME'S BKIBEUV. The "American Book Coinpauy" Caught in the Very Act A Trap Waa Set for the Trust. T. H. Leach, of Vancouver, a member of the Washington state boatd of educa tion, announced to the board that he had been offered $3,000 as a bribe to bring about a reconsideration of the boaid iu re gard to text books. He also laid lefoia the board a check for the money drawn in his favor by C. Eames on the First Na tional bank of Portland, Ore. Last Thursday the board adopted text books for the -tate, tie American Book company, representing the book trust, re ceiving only about 28 per cent, of the awards. Two members of the board voted constantly for all the trust books. The trust agv-nts, represented by Eames, who is connected with a detective agency in Portland, moved for a reconsideration so far as tbe readers and arithmetics w- re concerned, which would give the trust houses 80 per cent, of the awaids. Leach was promised $5,000 and certain other considerations. Leach moved to recon sider Monday. The motion was accepted and the matter left open. He then re ceived the check and exposed tha plot. The board promptly reaffirmed its action of last Thursday and passed resolutions condemning the American Book company. sTOLTStASE. He Stole Letter Addressed To tbe Louisi ana Lottery Company. The case of the United States vs. Her bert F. Stout for robbing the mails be tween St. Paul acd Minneapolis wa3 on trial before Judge Nelson at the United States distrtct court on Tuesday. Mr. Stoat was defended by Davis, Eellog .cc Severance, of St. Paul, Mr. Severance be ing present. The prosecution proved conclusively that Stout had taken letters from the mail addressed to tbe Louis a a Lottery company. This had been done, not on his own run between Omiha aud St. Paul, but while Ostini iy helping other clerks between St. Paul and Minneapolis. Tho defense did Lot attempt to deny this, but based their de fense on the ground of insanity. Stout, it will be remembered, wasadjudgtd insane by the Ramsey county board and sent to the Rochester asylum last July. Several weeks ago he was released. The expert testimony of Drs. C. E. Ripgs, J. H. Murphy, J L. Fulton, Miller and Chain berhn, of St. Paul; Jones of Minneapolis, and Dr. McDaviti, of this city, was taken to prove hia insanity. Mrs. Cole, a sister of Mrs. Stout, testified to Stout's Strang.,' actions and conduct immediately after the robbery, and that concluded the testimony for Tuesday. TRIED A XEW DODGE. Artful Manner iu Which a Montana Woman Tried to Smuggle Goods. Mr. and Mrs. M. Gleiu, with their young son and daughter, arrived at New York on the steamer Arizona on their way to Mon tana, where they possibly intend to set up in the clothing business, with a musical attraction for customers. Mrs. Glenn de clared that she had nothing dutiable, and that all the goods she brought with her were household articles, ready in use. A pier Inspector found that Mrs. Glenn had a valuable lot of piece goods, including silks, shawls, table covere und laces, worth perhaps $20, 000. Mrs. Glein had denied that sha had any piece goods, but somo of the silks were found to be sewe 1 into alleged skirts so as to give them an appearance of being skirts, which would deceive the inspectors. This mada the inspectors believe that Mrs. Gleiu was a dressmaker, who was trying a new "dodge" by which to smuggle her goods into port. The Gleins had also a large and costly music Lox as long as a small trunk, which might be worth $400 or $300. This was also seized. CAITUBED THEIIt CON'-TITL'TIOX A United States Marshal Gets Hold of the Filibusterer's State Paper. United States Marshal Gard has arrived from Ensenado, Lower California, where he has been making an investigation of the fiilibusteriug movement. A copy of the provisional constitution of the new re public, which the filibnsterers expected to form was secured and this document has been forwarded to Washington. The con stitution asserts political freedom from Mexico, declares that the people hereby delegate their authority to a council of ad ministration for tbe purpose of a war of independence, and that the authority of said council should be complete until peaca should be declared, when a constitutional convention of the people shall be called. All legislative, julicial and executive func tions are vested in said council and until a declaration of peace martial law should prevail on tbe peninsula. The writ of habeas corpus is declared suspended dur ing ths war for independence. Conference on the Columbus Strike. The fifty citizen? invited by the mayor of Columbus to meet him in conference with a view of suggesting some plan for settling the street railway strike met him this morning and are still in session at noon. The meeting is held with closed doors and no move by the strikers or the company will be made until it ends. The company claims it is im possible to operate tbe road with the pro tection afforded them, and tbe indications are that no cars will be started to-day. Plenty Want It. CoL Andrew D. Baird, of Brooklyn, has declined the postmastership of Brooklyn, which was tendered, him by President Harrison. TRAIN ROBBER CAJ-TURED. Charle E. Itailey Apprehended at tiokiu soo. . l.. and Makes a (m To -si .i. There is much excitement at Dickiuso N. D., over the capture l.r Sheriff Hayes, of that place, of Chat le; E. U ilo,oaeof the bandits who held nj the Nerthern Pacific train at new SjIoui last Suturday The prisoner was captured at Grand Rivtr after a desperate chae of sev ral m les. He has confesed, and savs t'leie woro five in the gang thnt did the j 1. He Here 1 the sheriff a thousand dollir tore'ei.s him. The sheriff has start, d out g-.u i in pursuit ot others of the gang who are headed for the Black Hills. CROP PROSPECTS. Condensation of Koports i: . in-. I Ieu. by th- Chicago Farmers i: The following report will appeir m this week's Farmer Rineir: Correspondents scattered throughout I'n-iois, ludi.tna and Ohio report that tha soil generally is haid and cloddy. Corn and oats are not thriv ing as thev should. In Ohio, tin condi tion of wheat has v.Fiblv unproved. No particular change- in Iud a .a. Illinois re ports show a decline of several points. This is in part due to injury by i iseots. The Hessian fly has damaged wheat in Christian oounty 73 per cent : iu Fulton county, 50 to 10 per cent.: Mason a d Pulaski oounties, 20 per cet.; fields iu Madison county are said to be "full of tho dy." In Jackson. Jersey and Washington counties, oats are said to be severely dam aged by tho grain plant louso. In Indiana, the grain plant louse has been working on wheat and oats iu Crawford and Knox counties and the latter crop is said to be greatly damaged. Rains continue in Michigan and Wisconsin. Corn is late and some farmers have been obliged to re plaut, owing to rotting of the see 1, but present conditions are favorable to growth. Oats are in fine condition. The condition of wheat has improved since last report. In some of thj counties of Missouri and Kansas lojal rains have fallen sufficient for the present need of the crops but in many parts of these states oats, wheat and corn are suffering for rain. Reports show a marked decline in the conditiou of wheat and the average condition of oats is very low. In Barry and St. Charles counties, Mo., oats have been seriously injured by the grain plant louse. In Nebraska corn conditions are much the same as in Kansas. 'W here local show ers have fallen, as has been the case in many parts of the state, corn is thriving. It is too latJ, however, to repair the dam age which the oat crop has sustained by the prolonged drouth. In Iowa crop conditions are promising, cut worms are doing considerable damage to corn. In Minnesota, also, crop conditions ore favorable. Cotton Crop Report. The statistical return for Jn c- to the department of agriculture show an in crease of acreage in cotton m nearly evf-ry state. The area us compared with acreage of 1889, is reported in this preliminary m vestigition as follows: Virginia, 9S; North Carolina, 102; South Carolina, 103; Geor gia, lui; Florida, ll3; Alabama, 102; Mis sissippi. 102: Louisiana. ')3; Texas, li5; Arkansas, 99: Tennessee, It.tl; average. 102; avtrie condit.on, 88.8. The percentage of Virginia is 90; North Carolina, 98; South Carolina, 97; Georgia, 94; Florida, 92; Ala bama, 93; Mississippi, S3; Louisi ma, S4; Texas, 84; Arkansas, 83; Tennessee, 87. The fair price Drevailing with low prices for other products stimulates the exten sion of planting. Tho overflows m Ar kansas and Louisiana delayed planting m those states and prevented th iccreaso which wonld otherwise have been made. There are locations where replanting to pf-rfect stands mjnroji by cold nights is stiil continued and will be in extreme cases till June 23. Stands are generally very good in the Carolinas, with exceptions in the low areas, where frosts or cool nights have destroyed plants. In the Mississippi vallev and in Texas heavy rains, local floods and inundations have caused an unusual amount of re planting and on tho Mississippi and other great rivers delay of planting until the waters recede. In such cases the seed has been dropped m the mud and the plants have appeared promptly, sometimes w.thm four diys from planting. Except on the Atlantic coast the excess of runs has retarded chopping out and cultivation, leaving the crop somewhat grassy, though recent fino weather has done much to secure clean cultivation. In more south ern latitudes tho plants are beginning to bloom, while in the entire breadth, as a rule, tho plants ore healthy and growing rapidly. Canadian Crop Outlook. Crop reports for every section of the country are most encouraging. Th out look in Ontario is recerally gocd. but much depends upon the weather during tbe next few weeks. Winter wheat has suf fered for wanx of snow and an excess ot rain and in some places will not average much over half a crop. Spring wheat looks very well, particularly on high land. Corn is backward and the acreage will b irely be a low average. Hay will be a m igniticent crop in quantity, though a 1 tt!e poor in I quality. In Quebec: everything is back ward. Manitoba takes a cheerful view of thicg3, and expects an immense wheat crop. SpreckeU "ot Won by the Trust. The report that Suar King Spreckels had been won over by the sugar trust by reason of the !o,ses he had suffered while carrying on his stubborn fi ht against it has been denied in toto by Clans A. Spieckels, jr. The report was pronounced a devLe to further the sa.e of certificates THE MARKETS. Sioux City Livw Stick. Hogg Estimated receipts. J.100. oCcial jatcniay. i.wvi llarkot tsi.- to s-ron; bulk sullinijat -l..J-ic5',.uJ yu..ta'-.ons Ligut. S3 roa3.u5, heavy, anti mixi-d, s3. . . ... Cattlo Estimated receipts. T-"'; otic al yes ttrduy. 9- bhipinents. 1 7 Market J H with lu-sc.-r toDdeucy. Quotations. Fit steers, prime, J3 JO 4 25 ; medium to gocd, 53.63 i 3 -i . feed er, choice 300 to I.uOJ pounds, $3.iji.w. me dium to good, Sj.15 JU, stock era, cnoice, 9 " 3 M , medium to good, S3.WJJLJ; .inferior, Ji-5iJifc5, cows, extra choice, 8.JD.3.J5; fair to good, ;7j 3ttX), .nienor to comxnen. S1.75 1.2Z; cannery. Tic JI.50; yearlings, extra choice. $1 I0ix3 Ji ; common. '.CS.tOO , tail ing. i00 - 2.75. bulls, choice, $iC5kJi.7J ; com mon. i.U)Sz.25; veal aalvea, poor to choice. SAlXXl.OU. South Omaha Live Stock. Hues Estimated receipts. 1.100; official ,yea certiay. 3J25. Market opened strong selling at 3.C0.':t.K Cattle Estimated receipts. 1.000; official yesterday ilJ); shipments, cars. Market steady and fairly active. ClUeago Live Stock. Hoca Receipts. 21.000. Market active. Arm and higher. Light, 3.Ci3.70, rough packing. i7o3."j. Cattlo Receipts. I;?,t00. Market weak aad bids Ko lower. Beeves, a'.COVJl.'JO, extra 55.00, Texas gTas.-rs Si 10 '3.30. Sheep Receipts. 10.000. Market dull ana lower. Matrons, $4.25 5.50. Chicago Produce. Wheat Steady; cash, sTSa&Tc: July. Cora Steady , cash. Z3'i 31o ; July. 31!-c. Oats Steady; cash and July, 2lac Rye Dull. 47'c. Barley DulL Prima Timothy Steady at SLSSUK. Flaxseed tasy atSl.tf. Walsky-L09. Provisiona Pork, dull; cash, 31150; July, $12.70; September, 312.75. Lard steady ; cash. t5.82H.; JuJt. 95MS3.KJA ; September, SfcUfi aeui, THE OLD RELIABLE Columbus State Bank uti va (Oldest State Bonk In tho State.) PAYS INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS, MAKES LOANS ON REAL ESTATE. ISSUES SIGHT DRAFTS ON Omaha. Chicago. Xew York, and all Foreign Countries. SELLS STEAMSHIP TICKETS. BUYS GOOD NOTES And Helps It3 Customers whan thoy Need Help. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS: LrLVrTDER GERUABD. rre-ident. G. W. HULST, Vlce-I'residont. JOHN" STAUFFEK, Cashier. JX3XIUS A. REED. B. H. HENKT. COMMERCIAl BAM -OT- COL4JMBUS, NEB., -HAS AJf- AntfcOT!z4 Capital of $500,000 Fat? 1ft Capital - 90,000 OFFICERS! C. II. SHELDON, Prea't it P. H. OpLRICn. Vice Prcs. CTA. 2EWMA2f. Cashier. DANIEL SCIUUM, Asa't Caek. V" y STOCKHOLDERS: .C. IL SheLloa,. J- P. iWkAr, EKrman P. H.Oehlrich. Carl Rinkc. Jonas Welefi; r W. A. MeAlllstrr, J. IIonr Wnrdafcan. H. M. Wjoslow. troorge w. tfauey, a. c Hrpy. Frank Roror. Arnold P. O. Oehlrich. "JaaXfl.f deposit; iatarqft allowed on tint deoQsitaiJbny and sell exchange on United Suite aad Ear op, and buy and nell aTutlahlaspcnritim. W shall b5 pirated te rccivo your busings. Wa solicit your patronage. 23dnca7 FORTHE miranAJi 6ixs. ox A.&M.TURNER ttr C W. I4IRI.EK, Trmweliaa Malmaaa. 'jBVThej'i anSM are first-clos in every par tStarTsad ssSSsstMO. J - ., . 3CH1FFR0TH & PL.TH, OKALxasza WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS, Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Hinder, wire or twine. Pi! s Repaired oi sitrt lotice west ot Heintz's Drag Storo, 11th, i. Sab. 17nov9J-tf .ri-T ON SALE PRINCIPAL POINTS EAST, WEST, NORTH and SOUTH Af "- - - A.T U. P. Depot, Columbus. hSnry g-ass. UNDERTAKER! OlfHIlS AND METALLIC CASES iringof all kind of Uphol- f Hpe jRTira sgf fmr TO AT.Ti i mim B.mm stt tit CKNBl.SlsUAaE4. - . -Jf 4 "4 J J