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COLtJMStJS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAt, .flTE 3, 1891.
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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.'
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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. It is the in
tention 'to construct a motor line from
Cedar Rapids, Boone county, to Bart
lett, Wheeler county, a distance of
thirty-nine miles.
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