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i" -"" - - tv 4- a - mmtat Ch t X- 4:. - -.. X ISW;- ' WHOLE NUMBER 1099. COLtJMStJS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAt, .flTE 3, 1891. VOLUME XXIL-NUMBER 7. CMttmte .3R. r " " 'ajiSMCi V--. a. .i j .- . . If ' A k a DinECTOMl '"TOaiaii- i: ; First National buir COX. tTJ ,.' report of Oendition Hay 17, lttt. . rati atate.fanritmaa !- 3JY.S vudnao.Diroun. nrp.ja - U. . tftaUaTV.... ant.lt rtikMkat .u.frt.et . Caattal !ul vprelu .-J7"?K -. Ualvl4ftBraSfi ..;.. U-ahotajti. :...77I:n.. IMuwIt ittttui gttstmeMM fariM. J XV.KILlAIt, DfUTCBEB AtVOAT, .ffltowr CoIaaMk fca. Ban); OaTaaAaa. ebraaka. . . M O VEXXTAIt atEEfrKat, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Otto oror FIrat National Bank, CoImA-av K-ka, leStl DRAT and EXPRESSMAN. ESEKfrHm it 1 III I a I - I . .X'AUBLE 4 BBADflHAW, --. X 9wxon to FavbU et Jhaakeir), . . BRICK MAMS! "'fCeatractora and boiloera wUL 1 bock SreCclaes and offered at reason Wear alto prepared to do ill ki&qfc of WTK. 55V MA - .. JyJ K. TURHER & CO., Froprierora and Publisher of tk C81WI73 JCW1TA1 uA tk Ml. fAULT VXtUX, Both, post-paid to any address, for $2.00 a year, strictly in adrance. Fa jolt Jocbnal, f LOO a ""i year. W. A. McALLIBTER. W. M. CORNnXICS Tl fcALUSTER V COKNK-LlfJa ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Colnmboa. Neb, RCBOYD, KAx?rAOTrxxB or Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware! Job-Work, Hoofing and Gutter, ing a Specialty. tar8hon on 13th street, Kranee Bro.'e old Union Thirteenth at reet. I2t Cbtas. F. Kxxtt. Fbanx R. Kkatt KBTAPP BROS.. Contractors and Builders. Estimates famished on I brick and clone work and plastering, fret. Special attention citen to attiss bailasd, mantlef, etc Stalling and tack pointing old or new briok work tortara ent preaaed brick, a apeciaUy. Correspondence. aolictteJ. References giren. 22mayly KKAPP BEOS.. Co!coaboa.Nab. LAND FOR SALE. A FINE IMPROVED FARM for sale in Shell Cn?k T&Ilty, .near Colnmbaa, containing ixw -acrea of Jsnd: about 12U acrea amirr caitivation; 10 acres heavily timbered, re. msittdor mostly in tlorrr ana Dine gras pasMre and hay land; ISO fruit treea, apples, peara. chorry, plnms, etc., some bearing: all kinda of ornamental trees and ehrnbe; XiO fnlKbearing grapn Tinea. The farm entire is fenced, and di. ided intosmall fielde by fence. Dwelling house ' of ecTcn rooms, granaiy. corn cribs, large horae J ' stable with hay-mow, cattle barn which nolda a tons tif hay; hog house; 2 wella; running water In paBture. For farther particulars inqaire at Jorns At. office, or address, H. B ear of Joca. :' sal. Colaatbaa. Near. . atoayU A; STRAY LEAF! Z DIARY. JOURNAL OFFICE OARPa ENVELOPES, NOTE HEADS, BILL HEADS, OIBCULABS, UOlMij EBB, Era SUBSCRIBE NOW TIE COLIIMS JOUIML. ASSVPZK Wyfrnt'iM "- THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE, WtQferSaa'faraTtar.mtttM. Tim JorasAt la ackBOwledge teba the tost ar. J family paper ia Platte eocntyvwl 'Hit Amerit-n Uacszine is the only liigh-c!aiitv..h-1 ma47tRe (hooted entirely to Aaierican L 11 tu:-. Au-TJran Thought and Pro;jr. r.u u tbern:. .scrii'ed ezponeat ef Amori.-aB latiK tion. -k i3cooa sa any of ttw oljsr n'vjn. aines. f- 'niiias in ayeer over 1,40 rc! ? "' hoicrf; .tcr3tura. written !yti:"-,' A-, j ca.1 r.a:-. r. It is beautiful!? iliat:3ti. aa ties w- -r charajini-uBtinu.-dend f.'.or: i r . K s;prpria?e prwftit. r.T U SDi'" - a-rsr'a sabacrlptinn to 7W ...:. : " Ji ' "T.-fsilly lr'.!iiaat uannj 5: ywt. 1 : ;-y...r J'iZASAL i 2.00, and Th Vianri ama3sc.-aiaitua, VaaCatawUfat AUa, JIIAEIZE1 V Brief Compendium of the Busy World's Events. PLENTY HORSES FREE. THE SLAYING OP LIEUT. CASEY NOT MURDER. The Theory Prevailed That a State of War Existed and the Indians Under stood the Dead OMeerCTas Reconnolter Ing for larormatlon to Be Used Against Them. Plenty Horses is again a free man from the charge of murdering Lieut. Casey. The theory prevailed that Lieut. Casey was killed by a hostile while a state of war ex isted. After the testimony was all in and the arguments made Judge Shlras produced a sensation by taking tho case out of the hands of the jury and deciding the defend ant not guilty of murder. The judge said in substance that the guilt or innocence of the accused turned upon the question as to whether or not a state of actual war existed at the time of Casey's death. In the opinion of the court. It had been shown beyond a doubt that Mich n state of war did exist. The mist important witness to prove this theory was Frank I). Baldwin, a member of General Miles' staff. He declared that Casoy was a .scout, whose sole duty was to rejMtrt the movements of the enemy, and that when he proposed to hold a council witli Red Cloud and other chiefs he exceeded his authority. The impression left by Baldwin's testimony was that a fierce war of magnificent proportions raged at Pine Ridge, and had it not been for the military display made by General Miles tho trouble would Iks Mill raging with all its fierceness. The object to Ikj gained was that If war raged and Casey was a spy, then Plenty Horses was justified in the killing of the lieutenant. TO CHECK IMMIGRATION. Proitpect of Repressive Legislation as a Itcsult or a Commission to Visit Europe. It is reported that some very advanced steps will le recommended to congress for the checking of immigration when the com mission, of which ex-Congressman Groscv nor is chairman, has made its tour of, Eu rope and reported upon the necessities in the way of remodeling our immigration laws. He said in an interview that the in flow of promiscuous foreigners mut le stopped; that it was working hardships upon our lalKrcrs, since the bulk of the immi grants were lalwrers. The second mcml)er of the commission Is a brother to Grand Master Workman Powdcrly of the Knights of Labor, who is in favor of very stringent laws against immigration, but the third and last memlier. Pr. Hcmpstcr, is a German American from Wisconsin, which has al most if not a. majority of foreign blood, and probably he will counsel caution In tho re port which is to embody the results of a thorough investigation as to the character and volume of our immigation. OHIO FARMERS. They Vote Down the Third Party Propo sition Platform Adopted. Great Interest has centered in the meeting of the Farmers union convention of Ohio at Columbus. It was the first state meeting of farmers held since the Cincinnati conven tion and the question of putting a third party ticket in the field for the approaching state election was to come up. The propo sition to name a third party ticket was de feated by the close vote of 63 to M. The committee on resolutions reported a plat form which declares for equal and fair dis tribution of the necessary burden of taxa tion on all forms of wealth listed at its actual value; school Imoks at actual cost; the Mippresslou of all traffic in intoxicating liquors as a beverage; the suppression of free railroad passes or other gifts to legis lators and other public officials; the issue of not less than S.".0 ier capita, full legal tender money, to consist of gold and silver wn a parity with each other and paper. Against Sam Small. A public meeting of the citizens of Ogden, Utah, lias passed resolutions denouncing as false Sam Small's charges against the man agement of the Ogden 1'iiiversity, and recommended that the Methodist confer ence to lie held 1 here June investigate the charges. To Succeed Macdonattl. There is a movement on foot to have Sir Charles Tupper brought oer at once to assume the practical leadership of the Tory parliamentary party of Canada. Sir John MacdonaldV friends admit that he has failed lamentably since lat session, and say that lie is unable to give much attention to public business. The party is by no means unanimous in seeking the return of Sir Charles, however. The Pacific Mall Prooperons. The annual meeting of the Pacific Mail company at New York resulted in the re election of the old boat d of directors with out opposition. The annual report showed surplus earnings of 802,019 after paying all charge, but no dividend will le declared, as the company has decided to use the money in improvements for the purpose of taking advantage of the subsidy law. Rhode Island Legislature Meets. The memliers of the Rhode Island legisla ture have been duly sworn in. The repub licans, who have a large majority, will elect their state candidates as follows: Governor, llerliert W. Ladd; lieutenant-governor, Henry A. Stearns; secretary of state, George II. Utter: attorney-general, Robert W. Burbank; general treasurer, Samuel Clark. Strike Leaders Blacklisted. Large numbers of the Pennsylvania strik ing coke men have been applying for work, but in every case where a leader or active committeeman applied ho was refused em ployment. The Indications are that fully 1.000 names of leaders have been placed on the blacklist, and with such a large number of idlers it is thought possible the strike might be again revived. The Grippe la Eaglaad. 9he grippe having killed several members of parliament now threatens to derange the election in North Bucks, where preparations are afoot to fill the place vacated by Capt. Versey. Many of the workers of both parties are prostrated with the disease, and 200 electors in' Wolverton are 111. New cases are reported every day. Killed His Neighbor. John Quist ahd Lars Berglund, two pros perous farmers over 50 years of age, near Glen wood. Minn., engaged in a heated quar rel. Quist, finding a hatchet, dealt Berg lund a terrible over the head, fracturing the skull. Berglund will die. Commoa Wins the Derby. The victor in the great annual event of the English turf, the Derby, was won this year by Sir John Stone's colt. Common. There were eleven starters. The race was mb In a drenching rain. Time, 2:58 4-5. Weekly Baak Statenaent. The weekly bank statement shows that the reserve increased 5305,000 during the week, and the banks now hold 5,S12,009 in excess of the legal requirements. Stock of Wheat la the Xarthwast. Figures compiled by the Xorthuxstern ifXHcr show the stock of wheat in private elevators in Minneapolis to be 8,956,000 oushels, against 4,017,000 bushels last Mon lay. This makes the total stock at Minne apolis And Dtiluth. 11,474,455 bushels, a de crease of 494,050 bushels for the week. The Market Record places the stock in country elevators of Minnesota and the two Dakotas at 2,307,000 bushels, a loss of 28,000 bushels. The aggregate northwestern stock thus figures 13,841,453 bushels, agalhst 15,304,100 a year ago. TO FIGHT IN TWO STATES. Third Party Power to Be Concentrated la Ohio aad Keatacky. The People's party has decided to concen trate all the power of the organization this year in the two states of Ohio and Kentucky The former state votes In August and All the best alliance and Knights of Labor speakers will be sent there. It is said that Brown, the democratic nominee for gov ernor, is unpopular with the farmers, and that the alliance, which has an organized voting strength in the state, will not support him. Some of the Kentucky third party people say with proper effort they can carry the state, and they will go into the cam paign at once. The fight in Ohio promises to be a most interesting one. The first real struggle will take place at the state conven tion of the Farmers' Union at Columbus, when an effort will be made to commit the union to the third party. It has heretofore been a strong republican organization, but many of its leaders are now training with the new party. The republicans are aware of the danger and some of the best poli ticians in the state will go there to try and prevent any indorsement of the People's party. NEWTON TALKS PLAINLY. His Position oa Episcopalian Doctrines Plainly Detiued. Rev. R. Hebcr Newton has thrown down the gauge of battle to those who are clamor ing to have him turned out of the Protes tant Episcopal church. In language that bad been carefully thought out he defined his position on the matters concerning which he has been accused of holding here tical views, ne took no back steps. He practically threw overboard the thirty-nine articles. He declared that they contained no statements of faith that were binding on him. He stood on the Niceno creed and under that creed he declared emphatically that it was possible to hold all the divergent views concerning future punishment, evolu tion, the atonement, and other doctrinal matters which are at present turning the religious world upside down. PENSION OFFICE INVESTIGATION. One Subordinate Exonerated and Another Found Guilty. Assistant Secretary Bussey and Commis sioner Raum instituted an investigation at the pension office into the charges preferred against Maj. Barker, chief of the record division, for appropriating money to his personal use which was raised for the widow of a clerk recently deceased; and also against J. M. Donahue, who indorsed notes and represented a money lender not em ployed in the office. Twenty witnesses were examined, but the bulk of the testimony shows conclusively that Barker never had the money belonging to the widow in his possession. The conclusion of the investi gation will, it is understood, exonerate Bar ker, but the charges against Donahue were fully substantiated by the testimony ad duced. AN EMBEZZLER ARRESTED. Philadelphia's City Treasurer Turns Out a Heavy Defaulter. The affairs of City Treasurer John Bard sley, who is charged with embezzlement, have been brought to a crisis by his arrest. It Is said that the discrepancy discovered is in the treasurer's account with the Third National bank, where the city's deposits amount to 350,000. Within a mouth Bard sley has drawn $39,000 from the bank and appropriated it to his own use. Other shortages may be brought to light in a further comparison of accounts with other banks in which the city funds arc deposited. The discovery was made that Bardsley's personal deposit with the suspended Key stone bank amounted to 000,000. As it is, the state can't lose more than 250,000 by reason of Bardsley's shortcomings. TO BE SCATTERED. The Pope's Labor Encyclical to be Widely Distributed. His Holiness the Pope has ordered popular translations of his recent encyclical letter to lie distributed to workingmen of all countries. The encyclical is considered as a definitive consecretion of the tendencies of Cardinal Manning and Cardinal Glblions as op'iosed to the French economic school under Bishop Freppel, and as a direct de velopment of Cardinal Gibbons' attitude in regard to the Knights of Lalwr. President Car not, Emperor William and Emperor Francis Joseph have sent messages to the Poc congratulating his Holiness upon the encyclical letter. MEXICO NOT NEUTRAL. Facts Discovered That indicate a Lean ing Towaril the Chilian Insurgents. A private letter received from the City of Mexico from a business man who has ample facilities for getting correct information, says that there is much reason to believe the Mexican authorities arc quietly giving aid to t lie Chilian insurgents. The Esmer alda has lecn able to get all the coal it wanted, and private advices from Mazat land reported that war materials brought from San Francisco had lieen transferred to ships belonging to the Chilian insurgents. The same letter mentions rumors of a secret treaty between Mexico and San Salvador against Guatemala. Indians Agree to Sell Their Lands. The commissioners appointed by an act of congress to negotiate with the various triiics of Indians now occupying the Great Colville reservation, in Washington state, have re turned to Spokane Falls after a month of negotiations. Their efforts have resulted in an agreement with the Indians whereby 1,500,000 acres of the reservation, or a little more than one-half, are to be sold to the government for SI an acre and thrown open to settlement. Held Two Haadred at Bay. Near Sutton, W. Va., Alex Dunlap, a negro railroad Jaborer, had a fight with Italians, and with a rifle kept fully 200 Italians at bay from early morning until the afternoon, when he was arrested. In the fray he shot two of the Italians, Inflict ing fatal wounds. Journalism Invading Africa. Mr. James Gordon Bennett is about to start a hand-written journal at Kafumbile, on the Congo, to be known as the Congo Mirror. Its purpose is to reform the gov ernment of the Congo Free State, which is described as now a mere despotism. One Million tor the Fair. The state senate of Illinois, by a vote of 30 to 11, passed the world's fair bill, appro propriating $1,000,000 for the IUinois exhibit at the world's fair, and vesting all authority in a commission composed of members of the state board of agriculture. Need Net Sabmit. The United States supreme court has de cided that persons injured on railroads and bringing suit for damages, are not required to submit to an examination by company surgeons. Railroad Maaagers tadtet L The dr:curs of the Maryland railroad were indicted by the grand jury for man slaughter In connection with the fatal freight wreck April 1C The Switchmen Withdraw. The switchmen's union has withdrawn from the superior council of the Federated Railway employes. DUN'S REVIEW OF THE WEEK. Ceatlaaed Outgo of Gold Has a Depres alag laflaeaee oa Baslaesa. B. G. Dun & Co.'s Wethlu Review of Trade says: The continued outgo of gold has a deprfl sing Influence. The fall in the prices-of aS commodities has been about 3.8 per cent, id two weeks. The local .money market is fairly supplied at moderate rates as are other eastern and western markets almost without exception, but at a few southern points money Is close or tight and much caution in extending credits prevails: . The treasury has paid out during the week but 8600,000 more than it has taken in of ordin ary currency, but has also put out f200,000 more fractional silver. At most places trade seems healthy and there is not more than the usual complaint about collections. The coal business is still threatened by production far beyond agreements and the price does not seem to warrant the advance proposed for June 1. The woolen industry Is waiting without any (Improvement in goods to justify the demand for higher prices on new Wool though there is cheering activity in flan ucls. At Chicago dry goods sales exceed last year considerably, as do sales of clothing) and there are very fair country orders for shoes; wool receipts gain over last year 50 per cent: dressed beef, cheese, butter and hides gain, but in cured meats there is a de cline of 50 per cent and in lard, flour and barley of 33 per cent. Corn gains 33 per cent. Corn reports at Chicago are very satis factory, and the same is true at St. Paul, Omaha and many other points where the recent rains have made wonderful Improve ments. Indeed tho rain of Saturday was probably worth some hundreds of millions to the country, for an extended drouth seemed near. Trade at western cities is quiet, but very hopeful. At tho south also crop reports arc highly satisfactory, and trade, although only fair, or even sluggish now, and at Memphis generally depressed, is expected to be excellent hereafter. No material In jury has -been sustained from drouth in the region tributary to New Orleans by cotton, sugar and rice, but the heavy rains have done great good. In general it may bo said that tho crop outlook has rarely been brighter than now, and this gives the strongest reason for hope that any present depression in trade will be temporary. The business failures that, occurred throughout the country during the last seven days numlicr 234 failures, as com pared with 237 last week. For tho corres ponding week of last year the figures were BOLD ROBBERY. Three Crooks at Carroll, la.. Get Over 93,000 from the Express Oflice. One of the boldest robberies in the history of Iowa was perpetrated at Carroll. Three men perpetrated a robliery of 3,000 upon the American Express company. As the first order qf the scheme one of the three entered a restaurant near the express office and after being there a few moments he picked a quarrel and became so boisterous that the attention of everyone in the neigh liorhood was attracted, and all rushed Into the eating house to sec and to ascertain the cause of the trouble. This was exactly what the three men wanted, for as soon as the way was clear the other two entered the express office. They covered the agent with revolvers and took from the office a number of packages containing upwards of 3,000. They then left the office, and at a given sig nal were joined by their quarrelsome com panion, and before those about realized what had happened all three made their escape. , A SUICIDE FREAK. A Mother Hangs Herself and Children, One as Largo as Herself. The bodies of Mrs. Chris Peterson and four children were found hanging in the cellar of their house, three miles northeast of Harlan, Ia. From appearances it seems that the liodics had been hanging about three days liefore they were cut down. The husband was taken to the asylum at Clariuda some months ago and is now a raving maniac there. The wife has sisters at Harlan and they give a strange explana tion of the suicide. They give some hints that the husband had taught the children from infancy that they must all commit suicide, and this idea gained such an as cendancy in the minds of the family that the children did not think of death in the ordinary sense, but believed as they had been taught; and so it seems the wife saw no other way out of the world than to hang herself and the four children, the largest of whom was almost as large as herself. Must Chauge or Quit. Tiic Indiana Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows took a decided position on temperance. Resolutions were adopted setting forth the need of such legislation and instructing the representatives to vote to forever exclude any one who Is engaged in any manner with the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors or sale of Intoxicating drinks and providing that any memlier of the order who is already so engaged shall lie notified that he shall cither change his business or leave the order. William Doesn't Like It. The main topic of Berlin society just now is the manner in which the emperor has re ceived the conversion of his sister, the princess, Sophie, wife of the crown prince of Greece, to the Greek orthodox church. He regards it as no less than apostasy and is said to be deeply offended. Idaho Cloud Burst. A cloudburst occurred near Boise City, Idaho, in the Colver gulch. A volume of water ten feet high gathered in the deep and narrow bed of tho old creek and swept down into the town, flooding a great por tion of it with several feet of water. The city loses heavily. Trade Dull ia England. Five thousand men employed in the steel works of Blackow, Vaughan & Co., London, yesterday received notice that their services were no longer required. Dullness of trade is the reason given by the firm for this wholesale discharge of their employes. Egyptian Eya Disease. Russian emigrants have infested Bremen with the Egyptain eye disease. It is es timated that 5,000 persons are suffering from the complaint. It has been necessary to close all the schools. Fire In a Penitentiary. A fire inside the penitentiary walls at Jefferson City, Mo., caused a loss of $170,000 and frightened the convicts. Keatacky Repabllcans. The Kentucky republicans nominated T. A. Wood, of 3It. Sterling, for governor. THE MARKETS.' CHICAGO Cattle common to prime.. Hogs Shipping grades ajlaaaitar YVHaAXxSIl Ota-JoaOll aVa0 v Rye A n H "uJi X aa"an, Bctceh Western dairy Eggs Western. SIOUX CITY. Cattle Fat steers 15.00 Cattle Feeders a00 UIJuBa 4-tft) aHeVaVr. ss fd W BAX A-ACj asv jO vWOIt lea aai .. 6MAHA LIVE STOCK. Cattle Common to prime. t3L3) Hogs Shippers 4.05 "NEW YORK PRODUCE. WWW wd QaXfrWaHAEO .43 S5. 4.40 .53 .I4.&0 & 0.00 . 4.35 4J5 3.00 5.00 1.01 Mi .00. 484 M .75 1.12 .10 a !is .14;E .154 to.oo 3.75 t4-S5 COO at .40 .50 1.01 FEAR A MONEY PANIC. GRAVE FINANCIAL SITUATION , IN LONDON. Op'nton Prevalent, thit a Crash is In ' ev tab: ia Case the" Por'tugatfse Loan Falls 'ollapse or lil- Barings ami the Uaakruptry oT Ardent ne Have & cared the Money-Lend r. All this week t!:o air has. been ftill tif gold, says a recent dispatch from Lon don. City men are all talking gold, ed itors ae all working go'd, English finan ciers overloaded with bad securities arc rledijing good ones in Paris for gold, Russia is swal'owing nil the go'd she can put, taking $750,001) from this market, Tuesday, as bonne bouclie for $12,500, 000 more, which site will swaMow next week. American steamers are bringing millions i i go'd weekly, and a' together on the great stae of European history international money has completely usurped the place of international mur der, and grim-visaged war has smoothed his wrinkled front in view of the painful and unsupportable void in his trousers pocket which must be filled forthwith. "The situat'on is peculiar; perhaps the most peculiar that European finance has ever seen. Its primary cause was the Argentine bankruptcy and the failure of i'aring liros. If the storm had blown itself out the weather would have cleared again and suspense passed away. The- intervention of tho Hank of En gland, while it averted the crash, insti tuted at fie same time a period of un certainty and depression, the glcom of which has steadily deepened. Argentine finances aro completely hojo'ess. Cap ital has lied the country. Tho now na tional bank bill scut by its Government to its Congress this week is sim ply a futile attempt to euro a chronic invalid. Tho people have very clearly proved their inability to govern themselves and tho country now owes SCOO,COO,COO, or ovcrSlso par capita of a population that would not themselves bring that average under tho hammer judging from their Iato idiosyncrasies of action Of this amount Sioo,000,ooo lias come out of the European market, mainly from London, and is destined to be for the present a dead loss. The great financial chrckcr-gamc of the last few months, has simply been a Christian en deavor on the part of some energetic and ingenious people to sic that the loss falls not on them, but on snmcbn-Jy else. The months of depression thus in augurated havn reached their climax in the partial failure of the Portuguese loan. All this week tho Paris bourse has been feverish and full of disquieting rumors. Pessimistic prophets foretell an inevita ble crash when the Portuguese account conic; to bo sott'ed at the beginning of June. French bankers have managed to scrape through and place a third of the loan, but there is a wonderful lack of confidence in Portugal's condition, as her people have been taxed boyond en durance, and her borrowing capacity is exhausted Trouble is expected among the Gcraian banks, which have failed to place Portuguese stock which they con tra -ted to take and for which they must pay. Humors even asserted that llarons Alphonse and Gustav de l'otliscliild of the Paris notice had quarreled over questions of policy and would dissolve, which report now takes the form of a statement that Paron Gustav has ci ascd actively to concern himself with the firm through ill health. Spain is in trouble and has proclaimed its pressing need of ?20,000,000 to pay for new railways and a new fleet. Italy is even worse off with a deficit of mill ions, which can only be supplied by bor rowing, as the last drop has been squeezed out of the popular orange by overtaxation: while tho worst sign of all is that each tax brings in lc?s than before. Customs receipts in April alone were 2,000,000 less than the Minister of Finance had calculated, and the poverty and misery of the people, thousands of whom are in Rome without work or bread, are portentous. All the Latin countries, in fact European and South American seem to be more or less in trouble, and Quito equal of themselves to bring about a great and phenomenal crisis in the money market. Strange to say, however, they are likely to be assisted in this work by the queer financiering of M. Vishnegradski, Russian Minister of Finance. M Vish negradski ever sine ho assumed office has had one ambition, vi.. to swell the value of the Russian ruble. This by the aid of French financiers and through Vuying up Russian paper, he has suc ceeded in in doing in spite of the bitter objections of all the exporters and man ufacturers of the country. Vishnegradski, having now by finan cial chicanery ruined tho status of tlu ruble and of R.issian securities to a de gree entirely unwarranted by any in crease of commercial rosperity or any certainty of peae, is struggling tooth and nail to mainta:n his position, and if he is forced to withdraw all the $f;.-,,ooo,-000 which Russia ha I until recently in Tvndon and which he has begun to draw upon, it will probably Lriiig about with a crash the overhanging panic. At any la'e all financial talk is gloomy, and the mon-y crisis has entire ly put in anoyance, any possibilities of war for some time to come. SETTLED WITH BLOOD. An A flair of Honor on the Sito of the World'. Fnlr. Baron Rudolph Kalnoky, ton of the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and another guest at the Richelieu, who for convenience sake may be ca'Icd Jones, fought a duel in Jackson Park, Chicago, at an early hour o:i Sunday. They jabbed each other with r.i piers, shed their blood on the gra s, and now Kalnoky is on a train witii a wound through his leg, and Junes lies at the Richelieu under a doctor's care. Tl.o meeting was as romantic as the third act of a modern melodrama, with the additional distinction of being the first duel fought in Chicago since Pottawattamie warriors hurled stones at each other in the days before John Wont worth and civilization landed on tho-c shores. A nobleman, a pretty woman, and an intruding rival, a bottle of wine, an insult, a blow; a challenge, a meeting in the gray mists of a May morn and the click of steel on steel. Tite-c are the in gredients of a romantic tale which must make every honest burgher of that town feel like a citizen of Verona stalking through the streets with a rapier bang ing against his heels. The girl who was the cause of the dispute is Mittie Ather ton, who wears tights and sings in the Daff Opera Company. She is reported as being pretty, shapely, vivacious, and engaged to marry another men from the duelists. THEY SWALLOW THE BAIT. Stories of Big Winnings Bringing Crowds to Monte Carlo. It was a lucky day for the managers of the Monte Carlo Casino when, in studying how to avoid being b!ed by Journalistic blackmailers, they hit upon the plan of devoting part of their ill gotten gains to the formation of what Prince Bismarck would have called the "reptile fund" for the purpose of sub sidizing the purchasable press in their interest. Since that time the world has been edified from time to time by circum stantial accounts of the most tremend ous runs of luck on the part of frequent ers of the Monte Carlo tables, and win ning have been reported as of common occurence sufficient to break the bank though It had teen backrd by ths Roths childs, That these inzeaious baits hava been swallowed is apparent from the in creased attendance at the salon-'. The latest story of the kind was to tho effect that tho Duchess of Montrose had left Monto Carlo richer by 250,000 francs than when she arrived there. Follow Ing upon this announcement came a rush to tho famous gambling placo, the crowds being larger than ever known there before. The receipts of the bank in the last iflonth have been something fabulous. As one result there have been no less than seven suicides of ruined players" since" My 1. The last self-murder to be recorded is that of a Bavarian banker, who is said to have lost a million francs of his own and his elicits' money. . BIG INSULT TO ENGLAND THE BRITISH COLORS HAULED DOWN IN AFRICA. War Id the Bark Continent Between Por tuguese aad British Coloalsts English Steamers Seized A Number Kl led ia an Attack oa Commissioner Johnston's Expedition. A dispafch received at London from Lourenzo Marqu?z, a Portuguese town of Africa, on tho north side of Delagoa Bay, says that tho British twin screw torpedo cruiser Brick, six guns, Com mander Alfred Winsloc, has arrived there and report? that a serious conflict lias taken place between tho Britisli and Portuguese colonists. Commander Wins loc says that the troops stati: ncd at the Portuguese military post on the river Pungvvc have attacked the British South Africa Company's expedition, com manded by Commissioner II. H. John ston. Seven Portuguese wen killed, but tho British loss is unknown. Tho British twin screw cruiser Magi cienue, six guns, Captain J. P. Ripon, and the British composite gunboat Pig eon, six guns, Commander Henry R. I'. Floyd, have arrived at Bcira, Mash onaland, a Portuguese settlement in South Africa. It was at Bcira that in April the 1'ortugucse authorities seized British mail sacks and refused to allow them to be carried to their destination. These mails were intended for the Brit ish colonists in Mashonaland. The Brit ish colonists were indignant at this high handed proceeding on the part of the Portuguese, and complained to the Brit'sli Government about it. Then Colonel Willoughby applied for psrmission to pro ceed to tlio Pungwe River in order to pay tho prescribed duties, but, receiving no answer after forty-eight hours, ho started without permission, and the Portuguese opened fire upon his expedition, and seized the two steamers which composed it. The Portuguese also seized the mails and provisions and imprisoned sixteen members of tho expedition. Co'oncl Willoughby endeavored to se cure the rclcaso of his vessel? by pay ment of the usual customs duties, but tho Portuguo-o officials who seized tho boats refused to accept this payment, and ordering the British flag hauled down, hoisted the Portuguese flag in its place. The Portugucso declare that tho British aro excluded from tho Pungwo River, which Colonel Willoughby's boats were navigating when seized. Lord Romi:i)' Allshap. Lord Romilly usct a paraffine lamp in tho drawing-room of his London resi dence at midnight. He was alone at tho time, and attempted to extinguish the firo unassisted. Shortly after the butler smclled the smoke, and on mak ing a hurried investigation found Lord Romilly lying senseless in tho burning drawing-room, tho nobleman having been overcome by smoke and tho fumes aris'ng from the burning contents of tho lamp. Lord Romilly was subsequent ly removed to St, George's Hos pital, where all attempts to revive him failed. Several firo engines, in respomo to alarms sent out, hastened to Lord Romiliy's house, about which an oxcitcd crowd gathered. The firemen, on entering, found Blanche Griffin, a housemaid, and Emma Lovell, the cook, in the same state of insensibility in which their employer was discovered. They wcro also removed to the hospital, where it was found that both wero al ready dead. Another female servant and the butler had succeeded in escaping from the house. Gcorgo Byrne, a fire man, received serious injuries while en gaged in rescuing tho unconscious in mates of the house. The fire, which was not oxtonsivt), was soon extinguished. Trouble Over tha Cz irowitz' Gifts. A scandal has developed as a sequel of the visit of tho Czarowitz to Colombo, says a London cablegram. It seems tho royal visitor, on departing from that city, left a number of valuable presents to be distributed among tho officials whose duty and pleasure it had been to entertain him. A difficulty aroso over the distribution of the gifts. Tiic news papers printed a statement, evi dently oilicial, describing the pres ents and giving the names of tho persons who were to receive them. Mr. Pcarce, manager of the Ceylon rail way, was, according to this schedule, to become the recipient of a scarf-pin set in rubies and diamonds. He was naturally somewhat disappointed when the British Consul, with whom the gifts had been left by the Czarowitz for disposal, hand ed him a not expensive sapphire ring as Iiis share of the windfall. This was re turned with a demand for the present left by the Czprowitz and a threat to sue the Consul unless the desired article was forthcoming. The matter has finally been referred to the Governor. From Cottage to Pa'ace. y The favorite wife of the Sultan was once a poor girl Jiving in the coal mines of France. She was a beautiful girl, and some charitable person found her occu pation in a famous dress-making estab lishment in France. She was sent to Constantinople with dresses ordered by the Sultan's mother. Nothing more was heard of her for many years, until a lit tle inheritance was left her by a relative, and notices were published asking for her whereabouts. In answer to these notices a wonderful equipage, escorted by mounted eunuchs stopped at the door of the embassy, and the Sultan's only legal w'fe stepped down to declare her self the once Flora Collin, and renounce the lesacy in favor of her kindred, who aro still poor. One of the Largest. Margaret Muliancy, who weighed 750 pounds, died from heart disease at New York. An undertaker found it im possible to put her huge body on ice, so it was embalmed. An ordinary coffin is sixteen inches wide and thirteen inches high. A plain cloth covered box thirty-seven inches wide and twenty inches high enclosed the corpse. It took twelve men to carry the coffin down-stairs. No hearse was big enough to accommodate the coffin, and an under taker's wagon carried the body to Cal vary Cemetery. A grave is ordinarily dug twenty-four inches wide. Ground had been bonght for two grave?, giving a width of forty-eight inches Sixteen of the cemetery employes lowered the coffin into the double grave. The finest furs come from those ani mals that inhabit the coldest climates, and the season of the year in which any of them are killed greatly influences the quality of the fur, a summer skin of' some 'of these animals being compara tively valueless, however excellent it might be in the winter season. Woodex-sfoox riakinj is an extensive Industry in Russia, about 30,000 being tfce annual cutpat. STORMS IN NEBRASKA. Ex-Got. Boyd thiUM Mm Will Be Rein stated and Premise U Stars Cyclone. Ex-Gov. James E. Boyd has becomo weather prophet and boldly prognosti cates as far ahead as next October. It will be very stormy in Nebraska about that time, if his predictions como true, and tho storm center trill be located at the state capital. "Mr. Garland has carefully canvassed the points involved, said Mr. Boyd, "and from what he says I am confident that I shall take the scat to Which I was chosen by tho people. Then," he added with humble grim humor in his eye, "there will bo a cyclone. I was treated with very seant courtesy when I was removed from office, and my successor has shown all possible haste in removing men I appointed and putting others in their places. When I get control again they cannot complain if I am equally prompt in putting them out and returning to their positions men who suffered by the injustice done to me." Tho friends of Gov. Thayer, who will be the first to feel tho keen edge of tiic official ax, the ex-governor says, aro: Dan Hopkins, warden of tho peniten tiary; Dr. Fred G. Test, superintendent of the asylum for the incurable insane at Hastings; Henry F. Downes. commis sioner of labor and industry statistics, and Dr. Geo. W. Wilkinson, superin tendent of the insane hospital at Nor folk. Mr. Boyd would not reply .directly to this question, but said lie felt certain he was a citken of the United States. "If I am not a citizen, then I have supposed for forty-seven years I was something that I am not," he said. "And if I am a subject of Queen Victoria, then it is the first time that such a subject was elected governor of one of the United States.' All Around Nebraska. Bauxkstox will have no saloons. Cn.vni.F.8 M. Thohntox has been con victed at Alliance of the killing of Fred Robinson on October i." lat. The jury's verdict was manslaughter. A Lixcoi.x boomer thinks there arc 500 cottages in course of construction in that city at tho present time. Work on the first gallows ever built in Fremont commenccdMonday. They arc for Furst and Shephard. Dki'UTV United States marshals tin earthed a moonshiner's stilling outfit on a farm near Bcnkclmau. Mrs. Millie G. Reel has sued Ne braska City for 10,000 damages. On the 14th day of March she fell on a de fective sidewalk and sustained injuries which she alleges will permanently cripple her. The suit of G. W. Wolsey against tho Burlington road for 5,000 damages for the killing of his son was dismissed at the last term of court in Nuckolls county, but an appeal to the supreme court will be allowed. Ari'RAiSEJts have been appointed to award damages to property holders along the line of the Loup City canal, and work is expected to begin inside of two weeks. The projectors claim they will have the water running by Octo ber 1. Negotiations have been completed whereby Phillips & Gillett's fou-.dry and machine shops will be removed from Fairfield to Kearney. It will be combined witli the Great Western hinge works and several articles will be manu factured. TnE Falls City Canning company Is giving away seeds to encourage tho planting of vegetables. Samuel E. Browx, a farmer, while returning home Tuesday night from a Iodgo meeting in Exeter, was thrown from his roadcart. One foot caught in the bottom of the vehicle and he was dragged to death. His family found him fast to the cart when they arose in the morning, and there was evidence that he had been dragged nearly a mile. The 11-year-old son of Mike Brennan appeared before Judge Stewart, of Lind say, tho other day and requested to be sent to the reform school. The boy was neatly dressed, and an investigation proved that ho had committed no overt acts, but simply wanted to go to the re form school to learn a trade. The father and sisters of the boy objected to the scheme, and the judge declined to comply with the strange request. The relatives of Shepherd and Furst. the two men who are condemned to b hung at Fremont June 5, are pleading with the governor to commute their sentences to imprisonment for life. The scaffold has been built and the ropes, manufactured expressly for the hang ing, have been received by the sheriff. A Baptist college is to bo located by that denomination somewhere in the west, and Fremont may get it. Con siderable valuable real estate lias been offered by that city for a site. A com mittee representing the states of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska in the matter of location visited Fremont Tues day and wcro favorably impressed with Fremont's advantages and her proposi tion. Several western cities arc com petitors, and the location will be decided upon at a meeting of the general con ference in September. The Dodge county board of super visors at their last meeting let tho con tract for the construction of a drainage ditch about four miles in length diagon ally across the Platte valley near North Bend. The contractors have been en joined by the Union Pacific railway com pany and work has been suspended. Tho company claims that the proposed ditch will endanger its roadbed from wash outs. Durixg a heavy rainstorm the resi dence of Amos Stiff, near Eimwood, was struck by lightning. The bolt struck the chimney, splitting it from top to bottom. It also spread over the roof, passing down the four corners of the house and tore off the corner strips and siding. The family was severely shocked, but not seriously injured. Geo. MrLLARD, of Springdalc, Valley county, claims to have killed over 200 rats in one day recently. While little Nellie, the 5-ycar-old daughter of C. S. Wells, a farmer living six miles south of Waterloo was playing in an old chicken coop the roof fell in on her, breaking her neck, which caused instantaneous death. J. F. Devault, a farmer living eight miles southwest of Syracuse, went out to feed his horses the other morning. When called by his wife to breakfast she was horrified to find him under the horses' feet trampled to death. Mr. Devault was 74 years old and an old resident of Otoe-county. Fbiesd has decided to put in water works to cost 820,000. A syndicate has been formed at Nel son to raise 100 acres of sugar beets for the Grand Island factory. Wheeler county has been visited daring the past week by large prairie fires, doing considerable damage. Mrs. L. D. Mages, wife of a Stock vllle stage driver, was taken with a fit and fell on her infant child, smothering it to death. CmzEJts of Bartlett are working zealously for the organization of an electric railway company. 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