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VOLUME XXL-NUMBER 13.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1890.
WHOLE NUMBER 1053.
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DIRECTOIC8I
A.AMDEBSON.Prest.
J. B. GALLEY, Vice Frast.
O.T.tWKN. Cashier,
O. ANDERSON, P. ANDERSON.
JAiXJBURKlSEN. HENRT KAttAtZ,
jo&nj.bullivah.
First National Bank
Report of Condition May 17, 1890.
KKSOCBCES.
Lows and Discounts-: t30S,879.35
U. S..lionT 10.2 0(0
lltiil ctate. furnituro and fixturs.. 11,945.3d
Uiio frnm other banks aJ,7J2.Si
U. H. Trcatnrv 75.10
Cash on band 15,478.45
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National batik n.tes ojtsUmJing...
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Due depositors
276.900.40
gttsiness ards.
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DEUTCnEIt ADVOKAT,
..Office over Columbus State Bank, Columbus,
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ClILLITAN UEEDEB,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
OSes over First National Bank, Columbus,
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COUVTY SURVEYOR.
tM Parties desiring surveying doe can ao
dress an at Columbus, Neb., or call at my office
in Court House. SmajM-jr
J J. i'RAIIER,
CO. SUP'T PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
. Iwillbe in my office in the Court ilousn. the
third Saturday of each month for the examina
tion of apphranU for trackers' certificates, and
for the transaction of other school business.
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GRAIN TRADE LOSSES.
SWINDLED BY SHORTAGES AND
MIXING OF GRADES.
AIIIIIob a or Dollars Iot Annually to tfao
Grata Trada by the Elevator Shortage
The Shortage Ranges From Five to Fifty
Bushels Per Carload General News.
"Millions of dollars are lost annually to
the grain trade by thie elevator sbortaRe,"
said Edw&rd S. Richards, of Chicago, in
speaking of the controversy now goiug ou
betwten the board of trade and the elevator
men concerning elevator charges. "The
elevator bj st en," be contiuuod, "as it is
now conducted, is not only defective, bat,
in my opinion, it is to a large degree crim
inal in character. 1 1 is nsel in many cases
as a means of peculation aud fraud. Grain
of a high grade that is shipped from an
initali point to a consuming market is so
adulterated and changed nhile in txantit,
by reason of the present bbortage system,
as to destroy all e undence in the type
samples of propeity npou which sales are
predicated. In addition to this, the aver,
age shortage ingrain shipments may be
safely placed'at 3 J bushels per car load.
"Duringa certain period of two years
that I warv actively engaged in shipping
grain I handled nearly 30,000 car loads,
and on shipments to certain elevators I
fouud that t0 shortage range from live to
fifty bashe!s;'percar load."
What iafae expense of handling gram
sent elevator system r
depends largely npon the ele-
hat are coDsidend. The managers
levators find tha mixing of grades
e most profitable foatures of their
lor example, let an elevator
car loads of No. 2 wheat, or 1,200
at 90 cents, and three car loads of
eat, or 1,800 bpshels, at 75cents,
which together would cost 2.430. Bv
mixing these he gels file car loads' of No.
2 wheat, or 3,000 bushes at 90 ceaf'd, worth
$2,700, giving them anet gaii of f 270.
But to eliminate thiselement, which is
more of a lost advantage to theiowuernf
the property than an expense, there enters
the trarsaction affecting its purchase, sale
and transportation the otLer cpenses,
which, with shortages, make a total of
over $11 per car on oats and of over $9 on
wheat. All of the grain arriving in Chi
cago is subject to this charge, except which
is sold by sample; at present the greatest
part goes to the elevator. In selling by
sample the protection to the producer is
much more ample and the expenses less."
Uruguay, as Well as Brazil, In Desperate
Straits.
The London Timet prints a dispatch
dated Buenos Ayres July 7, with reference
to the financial crisis in Uruguay. This
states that the Uruguay legislature met in
special session Sunday to consider what
course it was expedient to pursue
in view of the suspension of special pay
ments by the National bsnk. A bill was
passed which will be promulgated nt once,
sanctioning the suspension of special pay
ments for six months, and poiuting out the
necessity for the adoption of this financial
policy. This action has alarmed the mer
chants and a deputation ot them wailed
upon the finance minister and sought in
formation in regard to tho measure.
The minister assured them that the gov
ernment had no intention of resorting to
forced currency. The government fears
that the people will not accept the paper
currency, but desires to save the National
bank if possible, by the present inter
mediate measure. If tho effort of the gov
ernment to assist the bank, or if foreign
assistance fails, the bank will probably be
forced to liquidate.
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Central American Affairs.
Thomas A. Sarsfield, until recently
resident of San Salvador, and a large
property holder in Guatemala, stopped for
short time in Chicago Sunday. " Trouble
is brewing in all the Central American re
publics," said he, "and I should not b?
surprised to hear of a general uprising at
any time. It all arises over the proposed
union of states between the governments
of Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Sun
Salvador and Guatemala. The head offi
cials want to see the union effected, but the
people are opposed to it for fear they may
unknowingly give away their rights. You
have already been informed of the
trouble in San Salvador, bow Gen. Menen
dez was poisoned by the opposition, with
Gen. Eczeta put in power. Just exactly
how all this will terminate no mortal man
can say. I understand that large ship
ments of arms and ammunition have been
made during the last two or three months.
If this be true, war is sure to be waged,
resulting in much bloodshed. Such a
calamity would prove very disastrous to
any plan of union, because as soon as tho
soldiery of one state begins to leave the
cities the rival political factions will surely
begin fighting among themselves. I shall
be away from the country for some time,
until the troubles have quieted down some
what anyway'
Low lTices for Michigan Wool.
The wool season is rapidly drawing to a
close and this week will probably see the
last marketed in Kalamazoo, Michigan's
wool center. Tho season has been a de
pressing one, owing to the low prices paid.
Those who have purchased heavily do not
feel at all easy or sure of a rise in the
market. At present the Boston market for
Michigan wool is falling below the thirties.
The unusually low prices offered at Boston
are not at all encouraging to the buyers in
that state. Said one of the bayers: "I do
not know what wool is going to do, but we
are going to hold on to it nevertheless.
The outlook is that it will be low, and if
the Boston market keeps on falling until it
reaches 28 cents then there will be more
sick wool men than you ever saw before."
The amount marketed at Kalamazoo has
been 550,000 pounds, and the price 2G cents
for washed and 17 for nnwashed fleeces.
Large Sale or Mexican Land and Cattle.
A real estate transaction of stupendous
proportions has just been consummated at
San Antonio, Tex., being closed by a cable
message from Europe. It was in the sale
of 6,000,000 acres of land in the state of
Tamanlipas, Mexico, together with 100,000
head of cattle belonging to the property,
which lies in one body between Matamoras
and Tampico, Mexico. There the Mexican
government is vigorously prosecuting the
work of deepening the harbor to accommo
date the largest vessels afloat. The pur
chasers are an English and Dutch syndi
cate lately formed in Europe by the Hon.
John Hancock, of Austin, who crossed the
Atlantic some months ago for that purpose.
The syndicate has posted a forfeit of
$25,000 through a New York bank. Mem
bers of the syndicate are now en route here
to perfect the preliminaries for taking
charge of the property. The English
Dutch syndicate proposes colonizing the
land and also to erect on it refrigerators
for beef-exporting purposes. The price
paid was 50 cents an acre for the land and
$10 a head for the cattle.
Crnelties aatd SaJEstiagB frosa Hanger.
Shanghai papers just received say in
credible cruelties have been practiced on
Chinese soldiers in Formosa. The men
were sBainly opium smokers, recruited
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war ended, most of the soldiers were given
passage back from Formosa, but were not
bupplied with food,- and the result was
starvation and disease. Many of the sick
were crowded into coffins and buried a'ive.
A European witnessed one case whero the
victim struggled to prevent the coffin lid
bjing nailed down.
A great fire at Kiren destroyed one -fifth
of the city and caused a loss of between
?2.0i)0,000 and S3.00 .000.
In Tokio there is great suffering for lack
of food. Thousands are living on bran
mash and food of
live on garbage.
oxen and hogs; others
Coal Rate Reduction.
Tlje reduction iu coal rates, which the
St. Paul road has announced from Mil
waukee on July 10, Bill end in the reduc
tion of every coal rate in the west whether
on through shipments or from the Illinois
and Indiana mines. The Northwestern
has announced the Milwaukee rate from
Spring Valley, but it will also make pro
portionate rates on through shipments via
Chicago.
The Northwestern has hereto!
6isted that Spring Valley coal sbonfu take
ihe Chicago rate, and now the demaud has
turned into a two-edged swortlr Tho Lake
Superior lines are thus compelled to take
the initiative. They will meet via Dulutb
the North western's reduction via Chicago
and the rates will drop 25 cents a ton at a
tiino by the reductions of the St. Paul via
Milwaukee in attempting to equalize rates.
In fighting this battle is tho only way
tho St. Paul road cau stay iu the coal
business. Its shipments from Milwaukee
last year amounted to only 3(1,000 tons,
but with equalized rates the St. Paul ex.
poets to go up to 100,000 tons.
Weteni Fork 1'acklng.
The Cincinnati Price Current says:
The week's packing in the west has been
255,000 hogs, or 20,000 loss than the pre
ceding week and 30,000 in excess of the
corresponding time lost year, when the
to.al was 225,000 from March 1. The ag
gregate is 4,750,000 against 4,125,000 last
year. The leading places compare bb follows:
Cities. 1893. lftQ
Chicago l.CCS.Ooa 1.300.000
Kansas City 710.000 C?7.i0d
Omaha 411.000 3s7.0M
Sioux City 220.000 1HJ.OJ0
St. Louis 207,000 2M).00J
Indiauaiiolls lh7.UU) 174.0OU
Cincinnati lfcl.OOJ 1.5.000
Milwaukee 1:7.000 l'H.UK)
Cedar Rapids 110,000 130.1KW
Wichita lll.'OI H.0J-
Nebraska City. ".tit.OOO 70.000
All others 7i5.UK) C13.000
A Pun" for Porter.
The selection of Robeit P. Porter as
superintendent of the national census has
proved to be a good one. He is a wonder
fully energetic man. Ho is now iu the
prip'.e of life, just passed tho 40 mark, and
at the height of his ability. Ho has already
demonstrated his ability to manage a huge
army of people. It is true that he is being
blamed for tho manner iu which the census
is beiug taken, but it does not seom to be
bis fault. Congress directed as to tbo
method of taking the census, and provide.!
for the niggardly compensation that is
being paid to supervisors and enumerators.
When the census of 1890 is complete iu
every detail, Superintendent Porter will no
doubt be given the proper credit for tho
successful manner in which it has been
done.
Faced Death for Tea Hours.
Aaron Tyas.a resident of Gloucester, N.J.
was found on Tuesday firmly imbedded in
mud on the bank of Little Timber Creek,
with the water within two inches of his
chin. It is supposed that ho had been in
the mud for ten honrs, although he is not
yet able to give an account of his mishap,
his fearful experience having rendered him
temporarily insane. It is believed that he
wandered to the banks of the creek on
Monday afternoon, and that after he got
into the marsh he was unable to extricate
Limself and gradually suuk in tho mud
during Monday night. His terrible strug
gles probably caused the dethronement of
his reason.
Miss IVlanlo Davis Beturns.
Attired in a dress of the deepest mourn
ing, which was unrelieved either at the
tbroat or wrists, Miss Winnie Davis, eld
est and favorite daughter of the late Ji ffer-
son Davis, president of the confederacy,
landed from the French steamer LnBre
tagne, Sunday. Miss Davis, who was
appropriately called "The daughter of tho
Confederacy" for she was born during that
memorable struggle, has been in Europe
since her father's death, recruiting her
shattered health, and she returns now to
become the brido of Alfred Wilkinson, of
Syracuse. N. Y.
He Was Patriotic.
A well known citizen of Halifax, N. S.
who hoisted the stars and stripes over, his
bouse in honor of the glorious Fourth, re
ceived a letter threatening that if he did
not remove the flag it would be torn down
and intimating that personal violence to
ward himself might follow. The noto was
headed "Salvation army," and purported
to be signed by a member of the army
with the words "brigadier general" after
his name. The letter has been handed to
the police
Chinese Millionaires Coming;.
The steamer Gaelic has arrived at San
Francisco from Hong Kong, bringing two
Chinese millionaires, who have come to
order machinery for their rich mines in
Shantung. They cannot get machinery
there because of the union molders' strike,
so they will probably go to Chicago. They
have thousands of tons in sight which
assay $20 in gold and silver, while it costs
only about $5 to work the ore.
Object to Being Docked.
Twelve hundred coal miners are out on a
strike at Springbill coliieries, the largest
in Nova Scotia. Everything is at a stand
still. The men object to the system of
"docking" for short measure or stone.
Americans Wis Prises.
In the Berlin rifle contests Sunday,
prizes were won by Zimmerman and
Klein, of New York, and Jacobi, of San
Francisco.
Yillard Elected President.
The directors of the Oregon Transpor
tation company have elected Henry Yillard
president.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
A figrt occurred between drunken ne
groes anct detectives near Charleston, W.
Va. Nine 'negroes were hnrt and two de
tectives terribly beaten.TA race war is
feared. .
Halifax and Bermuda; newspapers ex
changed messages congratulating each
other on the completion of the cable con
necting Bermuda with. Canada and the rest
of thejworld. f
The Globe tobacco" warehouse in Cin
cinnati, owned by the Brooks i'Waterfield
comphny, was destroyed by figs. One
thousand hogsheads cf tobacco were con
Bumecb Loss, 130,000; pajfially in
sured.'' r j
Alii, the $50,000,100 of Lock of the
American Gas Investment comnanv. one-
half of which 4s to have beejn placed in
England and thlremamderinbis country,
wui now oe cuoeea an the United
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A DISASTROUS FIRE.
DEPRANCE. ISLAND OF MAR
TINIQUE, BURNED.
Three-Qoartera ef the Fort Destroyed and
Nearly all the) Inhabitants Homeless
The Entire Population Suffering from
Cold, Hunger and Thirst The Loss Great.
Details concerning the destruction June
22 of the town of Fort De France, in the
French island of Martinique, have just
reached Port of Spain. Immediately after
the catastrophe Gov. Casse, of Martiuiqne,
sent an appeal for assistance to the gov
ernor of Trinidad, assuring him
that three-quarters of the town had
been burned and that more than
5,000 persons were without homes and
food. The legislative conncil immediately
appropriated $2,000 in aid of the sufferers.
On the morning of June 22, on receipt of
the news of the fire at Fort De France, two
steamers, with men and pumps on board,
were sent from Fort Pierre, and on their
arrival at Fort De France, at about 1:30 the
.Whole Seaboard Was la Flames.
The fire bad destroyed everything within
a space of over one hundred yards up to
the river Madarn. It was not until the
woodwork of the president's office had
caught fire that the pumps arrived and or
ganized measures ware adopted to save
the buildings which, after an hour'
hard struggle was acsomplished.
Meanwhile the cathedral was
in flames and was soon in ruins. A panic
now became general. Women and chil
dren were screaming and running hither
and thither, and furniture was being
thrown out of windows into the streets
until they became almost impassable at
the last moment.
When it Was Too Idrte,
dynamite waslemployed to arrest the prog
ress of the fire. Terrific explosions were
heard, and whole blocks of buildings were
seen to fall, killing some and wounding
many persons.
At night the fire had consumed every
thing between Rue De Fosse and the sea
and between the 8avan and River Madarn
at about 10 p. m. The houses at the bot
tom of Rue government were attacked,
and only by strenuous efforts were the
Presbyterian and Gendarmerie saved. Had
they fallen the
Whole Town Must Been Consumed.
It was right there that the progress of
the flames were stayed. The sight next
morning was pitiful and harrowing in the
extreme. Savanna was strewn with odds
and ends, in the midst of which were
camped the whole population suffering
from hunger, thirst and cold, for near
morning a rain had fallen chilling to the
bone those unfortunate people who had no
other shelter than that offered by the trees.
The loss is very considerable,
1.70O Houses Having Been Destroyed,
valued at 2,000,000 francs ($2,400,000) and
furniture valued at 3,000,000 francs, mak
ing a total loss of $3,000,000. It is im
possible at this moment to tell the num
ber of victims. Twelve bodies have, how
ever, been recovered, many charred beyond
recognition and others fearfully mu
tilated. Fifteen soldiers are receiving
at tertion at the hospital, many of them
seriously and one, it is said, fatally
wounded. The number of Curlans in
juied is considerable. Fully three-quarters
of the town is destroyed and seven
eighths of the inhabitants are homeless.
The various British West India islands
have aided with grants of money their
afflicted sister colony.
TSUI BACK ACAIN.
Ia CeasoBeBC There Ia a Change Aroaad
the Chinese Legation.
Minister Tsui is in the bosom of his
family and the Chinese legation has again
taken on its forbidding air. The minister's
wife and the other ladies of the legation
no longer exhibit themselves to the curious.
The minister came back from Spain re
cently, and the loungers about Dupont
circle noticed to-day that a change had
come over the spirit of the whole legation.
The queer looking little Chinese women
could not even be seen peering out of the
windows, while the attaches were not strut
ting around in their loose, flowing, silken
garments, which made their neighbors
envious this hot weather. Minister Tsui
rules his little colony with an iron hand.
His predecessor, Cbong Yen Hoon, al
lowed his attaches who liked European
dress to follow their inclination, but Mr.
Tsui would have none of such notions.
The interview credited to the minister in
regard to China retaliating for the exclu
sion of Chinese from the United States is
contrary to all diplomatic etiquette, and
will probably be disavowed or explained
away as the talk of unofficial persons.
Nevertheless, little reason exists to doubt
that tho reactionary forces in the Chinese
empire are at work, and the exclusion of
Americans is not beyond the range of pos
sibility. The British interests in the em
pire have become alarmed at the boldness
with which enterprising Americans were
invading their field, and they may be re
lied upon to encourage a policy of exclu
sion. IN FAVOR OF THE ROADS.
Georgi' Supreme Court Benders m De
daloB ia the Sleeping Car Tax Case,
The supreme court of Georgia has
rendered a decision which is of interest to
railroads and sleeping car companies. It
is in the famous sleeping car tax case, and
affirmed the decision of the superior court
in granting an injunction restraining the
comptroller general from collecting this
tax for this year. The late legislature, it
will be remembered, imposed a tax upon
every railroad company that pulled over its
road sleeping cars .upon which taxes
are not payed for pulling such cars in each
of the years of 1889 and 1890, and enacted
that if any railroad company should fail to
pay the license on or before the 1st of
October in each year, the comptroller gen
eral should issue an execution against said
defaulting company. This act, which im
posed the duty of paying the tax on or be
fore the 1st of October, did not become
law until Nov. 12, 1889. The supreme
court holds that the judge of the superior
court does right in restraining the collec
tion of the tax for 1889, holding that
whether the tax be valid or not it is not
collectable by execution before October 1
next after the passage of the act.
Bape, Arrest, Escape, Saldde.
Sheriff 8mitb, of Detroit, started out to
arrest August Kuhn for the rape of a 14-year-eld
girl. Kuhn was a single man, 28
or 30 years old, living on his homestead
claim alone, in the town of Holmesville,
where he was found and arrested. On
pretense of washing and changing his
clothes he was allowed to go into bis bed
room, where he extinguished the light and
escaped from the window. In the morn
ing he was found about a quarter of a mile
from the house, hanging to a tree.
A Successor for the Pope.
A Paris correspondent of the London
CkrtHtieU says the pope will convoke a
BJeatias; ef bishops and cardinals at Roma
in t&e sarin to consider the position of
iheahn
My enareh an the question of fcune-
iNEBKASKA WOKKED OVER.
Waylaid and Dangeroasly Shot.
The sheriff of Burt county celebrated the
Fourth in a way that he will not soon for
get. Iu the morning John Bascom, while
enroute to Tekaman, was waylaid in the
brush along the Missouri river and shot by
Edward Billick, several balls taking effect
ia the neck a-jd face. The victim was able
to proceed to Tekainab, where he had his
wounds dressed and then swore out a war
rant for the arrest of Bilbck. The sheriff
found the offender in a house, armed with
a musket and surrounded by several
friends, who were well provided with shot
guns. He made the arrest, however, but
while putting on the handcuffs the prisoner
broke away and ran. This seemed to be
the signal for his confederates to join in
the fray, and they at once covered the
sheriff with their guns and forced him to
give up the pursuit, and the inttnded pris
oner made good bis escape. Sheriff Mon
roe secured some additional help, followed
his man to Blair, made the arrest without
any further resistance, and returned with
his prisoner to Tekamah on the evening
train. The rest of tho gang will be ar
rested for resisting an officer.
Nebraska City Brewery Burned.
Fire broke out in Matte's large brewery,
at Nebraska City, and despite the efforts
of the fire department the establishment
burned to the ground. It is firmly be
lieved that the fire was the work of an in
cendiary, as the flames were started from
threo different places at once, although an
employe of the establishment thinks that
the tire originated from the engine room.
The loss will be $55,000 with an insurance
of $41, 00. It will not bo rebuilt until
the amendment question is settled, and
will be a big loss to Nebraska City's indus
tries. A Big Transfer.
The ontirj propeity and franchise of the
Hastings Iiuprot emeut company has been
sold for $50,000 to S. W. Hayden," a capi
talist of nolo from Hartford, Conn. Mr.
Haydou, it is stated, will take immediate
steps to changing tho most frequented
lines from horse cars to the most improved
electric motor system. Important exten
sions of lines will also be mnde, notably to
tho asylum aud academy of Visitation.
Items uuiuerated in Brief
Bennet is to have a high school.
The Superior Journal says a telephone
line between Superior and Nelson would
be a paying investment.
A bad dog put in an appearance at Mad
ison the other day. since which time the
town has been in a 6tato of terror.
Thomas Patching and Charley
Heaton quarreled at Long Pine July 4 and
the former stabbed the latter a few inches
above the heart, making a dangerous
wound.
The Republican river hp.s risen enough
in the past few days to allow fish to come
up and the fishing season is on in earnest.
It is proposed to raise funds enough
throughout the state by popular sub
scription to aid the people of Bradshaw in
rebuilding the school house which was re
cently destroyed by a tornado.
The Burlington company will convert
its bridge at Nebraska City into a railway
and highway bridge. It will be operated
by a local company and tolls will be col
lected sufficient to pay expenses.
Duhino the month of June the Fair
mount creamery purchased 130,000 gauges
of cream, for which it paid $13,000, and
paid for labor about $4,600, making a total
for cream and labor of $17,600.
Matt Basch, of Bellwood, concluded
to withdraw from the chnrch membership
the other day, much to the disgust of Jake
Demutb, a religious brother. The out
come was a scrap, in which Matt empha
sized his right to religious liberty by black
oning both of Jake's eyes.
At Omaha N. F. Adair, while returning
from a hunting trip, stopped to talk with
a boy on tho road, when his gun was acci
dently discharged, killing the boy in
stantly. At last accounts the body had
not been identified. Adair surrendered
himself to the police.
The residence of Mrs. Butler, an aged
widow living at Fremont, was entered by
tramps and on her refusal to supply their
wonts was knockod senseless by one of the
ruffians. The alarm was given by two
little children who were staying with her,
but during the excitement the tramps es
caped. Tho doctor pronounces her condi
tion critical.
J. D. McCord, who lives a few miles
south of Fairbury, reports hydrophobia
among his stock. Some two weeks since a
dog which exhibited symptoms of hydro
phobia went to bis farm and bit a number
of hogs before being killed. Thursday
hydrophobia developed in two of his bogs,
which caused much excitement in the com
munity, as it is thought that the cur bit
other stock, in which hydrophobia is liable
to develop at any time.
Charles Henry, aged about 16, and
whose parents live at Kearney, was not
long since discharged from the industrial
school for good behavior. Young Henry
is again tin inmate of the school, and the
crimo which caused his reincarceration is
one of the most beastly in the criminal
calendar.
The Beatrice Express tells about a Chris
tian scientist of that city whose horse fell
on bim and broke his ribs, and he cured
them by convincing himself that what he
supposed ribs were only belief in ribs, and
that there was no occasion for pain when
nothing more important than his imagina
tion had been broken.
The Sentinel says that if by voting
bonds to the amount of $100,000 the state
capital could bo brought to Columbus,
with the guarantee or a $2,000,000 state
building to be erected inside of a year, it
is doubtful if tbo proposition would re
ceive a vote until it was stttled on which
side of the track the building should be lo
cated. A lady of high standing, living at Ris
ing City, used a blacksuake whip to good
effect upon L. H. Rhodes, who called to
give her a piece of bis mind.
While shouting tho jubilee of freedom
at Auburn, Thos. Diton, a harnessmaker,
had both hands blown off by the premature
discharge of a cannon, and it is believed
ho will die.
Al Stewart, of the Seward Reporter,
had his left hand severely crushed in a
cylinder press (the other day. Albert
Mehan, of the Democrat, also had a
hand injured the same day in the press in
that office.
The editor of the Milford Nebraskan is
writing a book entitled "Seven Years as a
Tramp."
C. Phillips, a contractor and plumber
of Grand Island, while rallying 'round the
flag lost an eye by a torpedo thrown by a
small boy.
The town site of McPberson, the new
county seat of McPberson county, was
surveyed the other day by the county com
missioners. Tee body of Charles Strand, watchman
at the Omaha water-works, was found in
one of the reservoir tanks Sunday. The
coroner's jury returned a verdict of acci
dental drowning.
WHAT DOES SI1K .MEAN?
A QUESTION PROPOUNDED TO
GREAT BRITAIN
By the New Tork Tribune" la an Edi
torial oa the Behring Sea Matter Evi
dence that Lord Salisbury Is Advancing
Soaau Most Absurd Contentions.
The Tribune in an editorial on the Bear
ing sea matter, says:
Congress has acted wisely in calling for
the correspondence on the Behring sea
controversy. It is evident, says the
editorial, that Lord Salisbury is ad
vancing some most absurd contentions.
There is some reason to believe that
a certain quality of menace has been im
parted to his later tones. Some curious
military and naval operations have been
going on lately about our coast. Great
Britain has been strengthening her splendid
defense at Halifax, increasing her military
and naval forces there, adding to her flet
at the Bermudas and Bahamas and send
ing a considerable squadron to the Behring
sea. If she desires this display to
be interpreted by the United States
as a menace she is engaged in
a foolish and regretable business.
It is not agreeable to a spirited people to
feel that an effort is being male to awe
them into submission by a a display of the
engines of force. We can imagine no pro
ceeding on England's part more likely to
convince the American people that the
Bi-hring sea is a mare clausum than the
presence of British gunboats in the neigh
borhood of our Pribyloff islands. We can
fancy no demonstration more admirably cal
culated to unite this country in a resolute
determination to persist in its extreme de
mand than the sight of British cruisers
hovering around our Atlantic coasts. It is
desirable that Great Britain should appro-j
ciate this point. Americans cannot sup
pose this unusual congress of warships is
an expression cf genuine British senti
ment, but whatever it means it serves no
good purpose, and the British government
will do itself a favor by oidering its cruis
ers away.
IN THE HANDS OF A MOB.
Kloting Men and Women In London Re
porters Excluded from the Hearing of
the Cases.
The other night, when a riot in Bow
street was at its height, the countess of
Shrewsbury, with her escort and tn&t,
Sydney Webb, of New York, left the opira
house and entered her brougham to be
driven to her residence. Tho vehicle had
made but little progress when it was
stopped by the mob and quickly sur
rounded. Several ruffians wrenched off
one of the carriage doors and others seized
the countess and attempted to drag her to
the ground and strip her of tho diamonds
she wore, which were of great value. Mr.
Webb sprang to the defense of the count
ess and dealt her assailants telling blows,
but both he and his companion were rap
idly becoming overpowered when thy
were fortunately rescued. Just at the
moment when it seemed that the countess
would be dragged into the street, a troop
of the life guard came dashing against the
crowd, scattering the rioters in all direc
tions. The soldiers assisted the coach
man to replace the broken door of the ve
hicle and conducted the countess and her
escort beyond the reach of the mob.
Mrs. Field, of New York, had a similar
experience, except that her assailants were
women, who stopped her carriage and at
tacked her with even greater violence than
the male rioters visited upon the countess
of Shrewsbury. Mrs. Field was also res
cued by the soldiers before tbo theft of her
jewels, the object of the attack upon her,
could be accomplished.
A large number of police cases, the out
come of the disorders, were brought before
the Bow street magistrates. The reporters
of the various newspapers sought to be
present at the hearings in these cases, but
the magistrates decided that the press rep
resentatives had no right to attend and
were liable to arrest if they persisted in de
manding the right. The reporters were
therefore excluded and the charges against
moBt of the prisoners were dismissed. Tho
newspapers express great indignation at
the action of the magistrates.
THE COTTON CROP.
TheBeport of the Department of Agricul
ture Shows It to be In an Exceedingly
Fine Condition.
The statistical report for July of tho de
partment of agriculture shows improve
ment in the status of cotton, the average
condition having advanced from 88.8 to
91.4 since the previous returns. There
was generally an excess of moisture until
about tho 10th of June, with
fine weather since, giving oppor
tunity for the destruction c
grass and for thorough cultivation. On
the North Atlantio coast the crop is gen
erally well advanced, while it is late in tha
southwest, where planting was delayed by
overflows and by heavy rains. That which
was planted early began to bloom from the
15th to the 25tb, and in the southwest
some bolls are reported as early as the
20th.
While the plant is in various stages of
advancement from the wide range of seed
ing, it is now almost invariably in full
rigor of growth, of good color and high
promise, very free from rust and free from
worms, except the weak invasions of first
broods in the more southern belt.
The present average of July condition
has been exceeded only onc9 in the last
five years. It is stated as follows by
6tates: Virginia, 91; North Carolina. 95;
Georgia, 95; Florida, 91; Alabama, 95;
Mississippi, 89; Louisiana, 89; Texas, 89;
Arkansas, 89; Tennessee, 93. Throughout
the cotton area two or three weeks of dry
weather is reported, but scarcely any in
jury from drouth. Since the 1st of July
heavy rains have been reportej on the At
lantic coast.
TRAGEDY OF A DAY.
Father and Son Killed, and the Widow
Goes Crazy.
Christian Eckertwas killed by the explo
sion of a gas generator in New York, and
two of bis sons were seriously burned.
They ware making soda water at the time
of the explosion. The son Chester, aged
18, died in the hospital later, but the other
son will recover. The widow and mother
bad four ether children. She became in
sane and cannotbefound.
Will Make Very Fast Time.
The "Washington new line," consisting
of the Central railroad of New Jersey, the
Philadelphia k Beading and Baltimore &,
Ohio railroads, is to cut down the time be.
tween New York and Philadelphia. Alto
gether they will save from six to eight
minutes by the proposed changes. A sav
ing of six minutes will bring the time be
tween Jersey City and Philadelphia to 102
minutes for a distance of eighty-nine
miles. This is at the sustained rate of
fifty-two and one-third miles an hour. By
reason of the several grade crossings, where
the engineer is obliged to slow down, and
the bridge a mile long over Newark bay,
where he must come down to twenty mi'es
an hour, the speed for a part of the dis
tance is much greater. Between Plaiafield
aad Elizabeth over seventy miles an hoar
KALAKAUA'S KINGDOM.
There Seems to Be ll:ird Feelings Among
the Members of tin- Cabinet.
The steamship Mariposa has arrived at
San Francisco twenty-five days from Syd
ney and seven from Honolulu. Hawaiian
advices state that on Juno 17 King Kal
akaua appoiuted John Adams Cummins
minister of foreign affairs, vice Jonathan
Austin resigned; Godf iey Brown, miubter
of finance, vice S. Damon, r. signed; Charles
N. Spencer, minister of tho interior, vice
Lorin A. Thurston, resigned, and Arthur
P. Peterson, attorney-giueral, vice C. W.
Ashford.
On Friday, June 13, Noble Whitman in
troduced a resolution in tho legislature,
declaring that, wtereas. it was apparent,
that the constitutional adviseis of the king
were irreconcilably divided against them
selves, and being impossible to heal dis
sension in any manner except by a disso
lution of the cabinet, it was rosolvtd that
the assembly mark its dissatisfaction with
tha existing state of affairs by deolaring a
want of confidenco in the ministry.
Previous to tho introduction of the res
olution, Minister Austiu replied to the
charges mnd against him in the majority
report of the committee en foreign affairs,'
which have been heretofore referred to in
these dispatches, denying that he disobeyed
the instructions of tho house to lay before
it tho documeuts reganlin tho proposed
treaty with the United States, or that he
bad obstructed important documents in
relation to tha matter, on the pita that
they were personal communications.
Ou 'ho introduction of the resolution,
Repiesentative Brown, stating that I hero
was a greater principle nt s.uka than the
integrity of tho ministry, namely, that tho
minority should not rule, offered amend
atory resolutions, declaring that, whereas,
Minister Ashford advised the king to refuse
Lto follow the advice of a majority of the
cabinet; with the advico of the atturney
genoMl, tho supreme court passed
upon and declared illegal and
unconstitutional; tho attorney-general,
however, persisting in his advice to the
kiug, it was resolved that such assertion
of the principle of tho right of the mi
nority to rule and subversivo of constitu
tional, representative government, and
that tho action of the attorney-general
was deserving of tho severest ceusurd and
condemnation of tho house, which did
thereby declare its lack of confidence in
him.
A protracted and warm debate followed,
iu which the attorney-general aud som-i
members of the legislature took grounds
that that body could get rid of one mem
ber of the miuistry only by passing a vote
of wont of confidence in the whole cabinet.
Tho vote on Brown's amendment resulted
24 to 24, a tio olo of all of the elective
members of tho bouse, including tho presi
dent. Tho president promptly reoigucd.
AVAILABLE WHEAT.
Brsdttreet's Figurcit at the Close or the
Crop Year.
Atthia, the close of the crop year 1889
90, Bradstrect's reports poiut to 52,000,000
bushels of wheat carried over, against 37,
000 bushels a year aso. Furuiern' stocks
arc 7,000,000 bushels heavier th.ui on July
1, 1889, and so-c.il el availablo stocks,
8,000,000. These tot.tls poiut to the xvho.it
ctop of 1889, having been 470,000,000
bushels inbtead of 490,000,000 bushels,
which latter was the government report
estimate. Stocks of Imliun corn (available)
carried over are 19,'251,938 bushels against
12,361,565 bushels a year ayo; blocks of
oats are 7,287,421 bushels, ugaiust 7,47t,
989 bushels; of barley, 637,255 biishtls,
against 454,167 bushtls; and of rye 008,702
bushels, against 936,345 bushels. Stocks
of wheat flour at leading points of manu
facture and accumulation in first and sec
ond hands (exclusivo ot New York City)
equal 1,429,378 barrels, against 1,317,800
barrels one year ago.
While stocks of wheat accumulated at
principal storage points east of tho Rocky
Monntaius on June 28, were 6.261,549
bushels larger than on July 1. 18S9, tboy
were 5,925,491 bushels smaller than on
July 1, 1888; 21,634,096 bushels l.ss than
were held three yearB ago, on July 1, 1687;
8,818,382 bushels less than on July 1, 1886,
and 21,550,569 bushels smaller than were
held five years ago, on July 1, 1885, and
this, notwithstanding the wheat crop of
1890 (490,560,000 bushels as officially re
ported), is tho largest harvested iu the
United States sinco 1S81. The grand total
of stocks of available wheat, both coasts,
in tho United States, 29,011,493 Lu-hels,
while 8,038,683 bushels larger than the
total re2orted to Bradstrect's one year ago,
is 6,793,918 bushels smaller than on Julv 1,
1S88; 25,348,695 bushels smaller than on
July 1, 1887; 12,822,982 bushels less than
on the liko date in 1886, and 20,261,169
bushels less than on July 1, 1885.
A Mountain In the Atlantic.
Tho English steamer Clan Alpine re
ports that while making soundings in the
Atlantic ocean, about twenty-his miles
north of Cape Frio, on the southwest const
of Africa, it suddenly struck bottom at a
depth of only twenty-four fctt. The dis
tance is a remarkable one, as no shoal had
hitherto been suspected to exist in those
waters. On all sides of tho point where
their sounding was made the ocean bed
sinks rapidly to its normal depth in that
region. It is evident that a peak of a sub
merged mountain has been discovered, and
if it were elevated a little further it would
form an island. The place whero this dis
covery has been made is a little southwest
of the Portuguese West African posses
sions. Brazilian Financial Situation.
The president of the Argentine Republio
has authorized the issue of bank notes to
the amount of $100,000,000 for the purpose
of relieving the financial situation. The
reaction of tho proposed sterling loan has
caused great excitement on the bourse.
THE MARKETS.
Sioux C.ty Urn St ek.
Hogs Receipts, 1.800; official yestoday. 2.2JG;
shipments, 15. Market 5c lower, but closed
with the Iosb regained, selling nt 9i.-.0a'J.i7'-:
bulk, S3.37$.
Cattle Receipts. 400: official yesterday. IK;
shipments, none. Market dull, nothing doing.
Quotations: Fat steers, prime, SATi
1.00; fair to good, $3.600 3.70; feed
ers. Choice 900 to 1.000 pounds, S3.10.9
3.33; fair to good. .'.5 - 3.10 ; stackers, cboice,
3.0UU3.15; im'r to good, $i.T5'i3.0J; inferior,
x.a'j.u; cows, extra enoice, corn-fed,
2.7u3.; graaseis, fair to good, $1.75X25;
inferior to common. ai.V5"l.t5;c&nner9. 75c
1.25; yearlings, extra choice. S3.C033.15 ; co-n-iuoij,
e2.75tS3.00; bulls, choice, 2.i5Bi5p;
common, ai.75&2.25; veal oalvea, poor to
choice, r2.OO33.75.
South Omaha Live Stock.
Hogs Receipts, 5,500 ; official yesterday, 6,750 ;
Shipments. 17 cars. Ma ket opened 5c higher,
selllnc at 53.40.55.
Cattle Receipts, 2,000; official yesterday,
1,5 S; shipments. 12 cars. Market steady and
fairly active.
Chicago IJve Slock.
Hogs Receipts. 15.000. Market strong,
higher. Mixed S3 55(33.75 ; heavy packing and
Shipping. $J.5533.80; light. $3.J53.Bj.
Cattle Receipts, S5.t). Market steady.
Beeves and steers S3.5C.i34.S0; stockera and
feeders, 2.t5 3.50 ;Texans, S1.50&3.GJ.
Sheep Receipts, 3.WX). Market steady
Natives 33.5035.IO ;Texan3. t3.534.60; lamba
$5.0030.30.
Chicago Produce.
Wheat Easy ; ccsh, 7Vc ; September, SOc
Corn Steady ; cash, 3tJ'..c; heptsmher, 37 &a
Oats Steady ; cash, 29c ; September, 2Sc.
Bye Steady at 19c.
Barley Steady.
Prime Timothy Easy at $1.3251.31.
Flax-Kaay at 31.3-2.
Waleky-ai.O'J.
ProVlrioas Tork dull; cash ll.OT?i: Eop
tber. $1LOO. Lard, firm; cash 5.W;
Bsptember, 6.00.
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