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MAY MISS TIIE CROWN.
RISING TIDE OF OPPOSITION TO
ENGLISH MONARCHY.
Tbe Connection or the Prince or Wale
frith tho Baccarat Scandal Ilan Brought
the Engliah Crown Into VUcredit The
Middle Class Stirred Dccttjr.
A fifARU Is rising around the Prince
f Wales fast and gaining in intensity,
endangering bis chances of succession
to the throne, if not the existence of the
English monarchy. No class appears
to be stirred so deeply as the great mid
dle class, the real strength of tbe mon
archy. Wherever its voice becomes
elidible, its earnest denunciations of
tMc prince arc accompanied by regrets
at his nearhess to the throne. Repre
sentative gatherings of religious bodies,
Congregational, Methodist, Raptist,
Unitarian and Presbyterian, have al
ready recorded their condemnation. The
boards of guardians arc going out of
their accustomed paths to discuss mo
tions branding the gambling propensi
ties of tho Prince of Wales as a disgrace
to the country. Several liberal societies
have adopted protests against his con
tinuance in the army. Ere long tho
glowing fierceness of the popular heat
must penetrate to tho core of p61itics,
causing party auction within andwithoiit
parliament. No event of recent times
has done so much to discredit monar$)y
in England as the connection of the
Prince of Wales with tho baccarat
scandal.
Ohio Frohibltionlftts.
The thirty party prohibitionists have
put out a full state ticket in Ohio, the
first to take the field. The platform de
nounces the liquor traffic in the usual
terms; demands revision of the immi
gration and naturalization laws; declares
for woman suffrage; denounces specula
tion in margins: recommends pensions
to soldiers and sailors and their
widow and orphans, graded accord
ing to time of service: recognizes
gold, silver and currency as tho proper
circulating medium, issued in sufficient
quantity to nlect demands; demands tho
reclamation of unearned lands and that
no more of the national domain bo
granted; declares for a tariff to bo as
sessed on goods from such countrios as
tax American products, and that the ex
penses of the government should be paid
by the income tax.
Illinois Legislature Adjourns.
The Illinois legislature has adjourned,
after one of the most cieiting sessions
in its history. The contest which re
Suited in the election of Geu. Pulmer to
tjie United States senate will be memor
able. Although one of the chief issues
of tho last campaign was the amend
ment of the present compulsory educa
tion law it goes over without change.
Tho republicans insisted on a clause
requiring the teaching of English his
tory in the English language in all
schools in tho state, public or private,
but the democrats refused to accept any
cqmpromie not covering tho elimination
of every requirement for the teaching of
English. Tho world's fair appropriation
was compromised at SSOO.OOO.
Never Itoached There.
At Birmingham, Ala., a negro named
lliil Matthews entered the room of two
young ladies and attempted an assault.
Their screams frightened him off. lie
was pursued with dogs and captured,
and was reported jailed at Vernon.
Word from Vernon says he never
reached there at all.
Fountl Burled Treasures.
Great excitement prevails among the
poople of Kershaw, South Carolina, over
the finding of $103,000 in gold and other
valuable treasure, which were buried in
that neighborhood twenty-four years
ago, when Sherman's army was passing
through that state.
Iouilon Buitnieh at Work.
The men employed in all the London
omnibus' yards resolved to accept the
employers' offer of twelvo hours a dv
and a slight increase in wages. The
omnibus traffic will be resumed.
Massacred and Roasted.
The natives of Matonga have massa
cred, roasted and devoured a French
expedition from Loango under M.
Cram pel.
Standing of the Baring.
The balance sheet of tho liquidators
of the Raring Rros., show liabilities of
35,000,000, assets of 13.000,000.
IN THE EAST.
The total gross exchanges of tho last
week for tho principal cities of the
United States and Canada were S1,14.V
993,G93, a decrease of 23.3 per cent, as
compared with tho corresponding week
a year ago.
The application of Mr. O'Xeil to en
join Eugene Kelly, the treasurer of the
fund raised at the Dillon and O'Rricn
meeting in New York from sending the
money to Justin McCarthy, was denied
by Judge Rartlctt in the Kings county
slipreme court.
Col. Rcssev of the pension office has
issued a ruling that a soldier on a fur
lough may still be in the line of duty.
In the case ut issue lie holds that a sol
dier who left the command on a furlough
to vait the death bed of his father was
in the line of duty for pensionable pur
poses. A cak famine of unusual proportions
is expected when the big grain crop
begins to move. Agents of railroads
centering in New York say they do not
see how it can be avoided, since the
crops are unusually heavy and the de
mand for export will be exceptionally
large owing to the shortage abroad. '
The International Typographical
union at Roston decided against the ad
mission of non-union testimony in
charges against local unions, and also
opposed a proportion for an exhibit at
the world's fair. Resolutions favoring
government control of railroads were
adopted, and aho one providing for an
annua! scale of wages between subordi
nate unions and employers, bindiug for
one year.
The arguments in the famous contest
over the will of Samuel J. Tilden have
been argued at treat length before tho
New York court of appeals. The judge i
win lane ii unaer auvisement and give
his decision sometime in July it is ex
pected. The opinion is expressed that
if Tildeu. with all his shrewdness and
wilyness, could not draw a will which
can withstand the efforts of lawyers to
treak it no one else need try.
Commissioner Raum. of tho pension
bureau, is making arrangements to still
further increase the issue of pension
certificates and hopes to be able to reach
a dally issue of from 1,600 to 1,900, which
would.be an increase of about 400. Dur-
ing Gen. Baum's incumbency the num- j
ber of cases awaiting investigation by I
Special examiners In the held has been
reduced from 14,225 to 2,200, and in con
sequence about forty special examiners
bow in the field will be called in.
Johx Bardslevi ex-city treasurer of
Philadelphia, was arraigned on seven
tech separate indictments; charging him
with loaning money as a public officer;
deriving gain from the 'deposit of public
money tnd converting public money to
his own use. Me pleaded guilty to every
count. Rearing evidenco was delayed
two weeks, when the court will pro
nounce sentence according to its weight.
While arguing for two weeks' 'delay, the
counsel for RarUsley said he was pre
paring a statement for Rardsley and it
would tako most of that time to get it
ready. This caused a rumor that Bard
sley intends to make a confession of
everything.
IN THE WEST.
Ax expedition organized by the Chicago
llcrald sailed for the Bahama Islands on
the Ward lino steamer Santiago from
New York. Tho object of this expedi
tion, which is composed of Walter Well
man, Washington correspondent of the
Herald, Charles Lcddrcr, thb well known
artist of the Bcmld as chief artist, a
photographer, a servant and a mechanic,
is to search out the spot where Christo
pher Columbus first set foot upon the
soil of the new world. If successful in
finding this spot, the location of which
has hitherto been a matter of great
doubt and endless dispute between his
torians and geographers, the expedition
will there erect a monument from tho
Herald to the . great discoverer of
America.
TiJe recent charges of bribery against
members of the Michigan legis
lature arc evidently only the be
ginning of a scries of sensations
in tho same line. The charge has
been made by Mayor Solomon, of Au
Sable, that he had paid Senator Fried
lander of his district $300 to secure the
passage of a local bill. Fricdland after
wards played Solomon false aud while
voting for the bill himself induced others
to vote, against it. and the bill was lost.
This action led the Au Sable mayor to
open his batteries on Friedlander.
The president made public his ap
pointment of the new private land
claims court provided for by the last
congress. The members are Joseph R.
Reed, of Iowa, chief justice of the court;
Wilbcr F. Stone, of Colorado; Henry G.
Sluss, of Kansas; Thomas C. Fuller, of
North Carolina, and William Murray, of
Tennessee, justices of tho court; M. G.
Reynolds, of Missouri, United States
attorney on private land claims. Tho
president alio appointed Leonard W.
Colby, St Nebraska, assistant attorney
general.
Director. General Davis of the
world's exposition says that the follow
ing named persons will go abroad as
members of the commission in the in
terest of foreign exhibits at the exposi
tion: Hon. Thomas W. Waller, who
will bo president, Mr. M. P. Handy,
Hon. Carl Schurz, ex-Senator Eustis and
probably Hon. Ren Rutterworth. A
sixth person a Chicago man will also
be on the committee.
The financial statement of the Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad for tho
fiscal year ending May 31 shows a period
of profitable business. In addition to
paying high interest charges on bonded
indebtedness the road paid dividends of
7 per cent, on preferred stock and 6 per
cent, on common stock, leaving, more
over, a comfortable balance.
The United States revenue cutter,
Corwin, has been instructed to overhaul
the steamer Hattic Gage, which sailed
from San Francisco, ostensibly for Unga
island, Alaska. It is stated that the
real destination of the Gage is Retiring
sea, where it will engage in seal poach
ing. The Minneapolis grand jury just dis
charged made a report severely scoring
the ministers of tho city for inveighing
against the large number of immoral
places said to be running in Minneapolis
on the ground that the ministers based
their remarks on hearsay and rumor.
The police department of Chicago has
received a dispatch from Los Angclos
withdrawing the reward for H. J. Hau
chctt, the missing manager of the Cali
fornia orange fair. Tiie police assume
that the withdrawal means that he has
turned up all right.
TH E SOUTHERN SUMMARY.
The bribery cases of O'Mally and
McCrystal were called at New Orleans
and McCrystal was placed on trial first.
A jury was obtained and the tales juror,
McCabe. told how McCrystal called on
him and told him he could make some
money in the case. He told McCabe he
could make S."00 by going on the jury
aud working for a mistrial or acquittal
of the defendants. McCabe refused
the offer. The district attorney wanted
to introduce evidence of a confession
made by McCrystal while in jail, but
Judge Raker refused. The casu was
given to the jury and a verdict of guilty
was soon returned. The ruling of J udge
Raker, refusing to admit the confession
of McCrystal, saves O'Mally in this case,
the only one connecting him directly
with the bribery cases. The court will
now be forced to try him upon one of
the other charges, if at all, and they arc
all cases of several years ago. Charles
Granger, another of tho Hcnnessy jury
bribers, was tried for attempting to
bribe Alphonso Lebarc. The latter
said the morning after he received the
summons Granger came to his house
and offered him SJ00 to go on the -jury
and "work it." Granger's defense was
a general denial. After being out sev
eral hours the jury failed to agree and
a mistrial was entered.
Dispatches from several points along
the Red river in Texas indicate that'the
stream is on the rampage. At Gaines
ville it is above high water mark and in
formation comes from above there that
many people barely escaped with their
lives. All communication with the In
dian territory is cut off" and it will be
some time before the damage can be re
paircti. Messengers from Hurling state
that the rivor is running wild in that
section and there is great destruction to
ptopcrty and toine lives were lost.
Terrific rains prevailed for two days
about Austin, Tex., and the Colorado
river, within three hours, rose seventeen
feet. In a mountain gorge the river
was twenty-five feet above high water
mark. A big excavation for tie founda
tion of a dam being constructed across
the river was flooded aud the coffer dam
swept away. Many cotton fields were
submerged and the loss will be heavy.
W. E. Mischex, for several years
bookkeeper of the American National
bank, Nashville, went away on a short
vacation two weeks ago. He has not
returned and his accounts have been
found $18,000 short.
Judge Phillips, of the United States
circuit court at Kansas city, has decided
in a suit on ah accident insurance policy
that sunstroke is not an accident, but a
disease of the brain, arising fro natural
and, known causes.
The representatives of Kentucky
jeans manufactories, which operate
3,200 looms, have determined to run
only two-thirds time for the next fifteen
weeks. This will reduce the output
50,000 pieces.'
WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN.
The Government Report ra the Matter All
Oyer the Country.
The weekly weather crop bulletin
says copious rains in the wheat regions,
of the northwest have greatly benefited
tho crops during the past week. Corn
is still quite backward in tho Missouri
valley. Slight damage by hail is re
ported in southern Wisconsin and
by the cutworms in Michigan.
In Indiana and Illinois the con:
dition t is favorable for all
crops except oats in Indiana. In Mis
souri excessive rain has checked the
crop cultivation, but the general outlook
is favorable. In Kansas and Colorado
the condition is favorable, though sun
shine is needed in some localities. In
Oregon general showers havo been very
beneficial and the wheat prospects are
especially favorable. Id norihern Cali
fornia tho crops are good, but back
ward; In southern California fruits and
grain have excellent prospects, but aro
somewhat injured by the cool rainy
weather.
FOREIGN JOTTINGS.
9he announcement that the Ameri
can minister to Italy, cx-Gov. Porter,
has been given an indefinite leave of
absence is interpreted at Washington to
be in retaliation for the leave given
Baron Fava, minister at Washington
from Italy, by Marquis Rudini. It is
believed Minister Porter has been di
rected to enjoy himself away from Rome
until Italy sends some one to tho United
States to rcplaco Raron Fava. Unlike
the latter Mr. Porter has not been re
called officially. This country does not
know that tho Italian minister has been
recalled, but merely that he has been
f ranted an uhlimitcd leave of absence,
ome time boforc tho New Orleans epi
sode Minister Porter obtained leavo of
absence from the departificntbut de
layed his departure from Rome on ac
count of the negotiations resulting from
that affair. Of course the officials of
the state department arc Unwilling lo
admit that any such signification is to
be given Minister Porter's absence from
Rome, but there arc diplomatic reasons
why this state of affairs should exist
without an official statement f tho re
sons, which must be left to implication.
Advices from St. Petersburg say tho
schoolmaster of the Tcrsk district has,
by his religious ideas and teachings, ex
cited the religious frenzy of the peasant
inhabitants of the district, as they saw
in him a power which they considered
inimical to the conservative Views they
had been taught and the interests thej
deemed their duty to protect. They
accordingly held a meeting and as a re
sult th'cy'dus a mihb under the school
house, and during tho morning session,
when the room was filled with children,
they proceeded to fire it. A tremendous
explosion ensued aud the building was
completely wrecked. Ten childfcn were
killed outright and twelve others seri
ously injured.
Evidences multiply that the foreign
situation is casing up. The formation
of a syndicate in Paris the other day to
take care of the maturing coupons on
Portuguese bonds was an encouraging
Incident. Then the reduction of the
Rank of England's rate to 4 per cent
and tho abolition of its pre
mium on American gold were highly
significant. Now we arc told that the
liquidation of the Raring's assets has
proceeded so far as to justify the state
ment that the guarantors will not bo
called upon for a penny, aud the Lou
don banicersfn meeting havevflecide'd
that it'fs no lonan iuifrcratvc to jriain-
tain a mihimunrratir of RcountrT
From Jndia '
Jot jpnother
uprising, 11
juhra, Ti'
Iveon-
,vept
everythfnsr bcfTr
the
treasury of -umaAaiahajm prepared
rofttc.
to defend tmnsofvpri agajtfst British in
terference. The causAwof tjfe outbreak
appears to have beQrthcytoiidu of tho
maharajab, wjio kaso4atchcn oppres
sing his subjects with cessivcrtxa
tion, partly in order to,pavrifiribntc
to the Rritish and partly for his own
enrichment.
Lombardv, Vcnetia and Tuscany were
visited by repeated earthquake shocks.
The center of disturbance was at Verona.
A subterranean noise was heard like the
roar of artillery, which was followed by
three strong shocks. At Marcenigo
thrco persons were killed and at Radia,
Calavena, seventeen ladies were injured
by falling houses and chimneys. The
movements were undulating in charac
ter and were more or less over the whole
of tho north of itaiv.
The Latin-American department of
the world's Columbian exposition, has
received a cablegram from Lieut. Har
low, special commissioner, in which he
announces that tho government of Chili
has accepted an invitation to participate
in the exposition at Chicago, and com
missioners will be appointed at once.
Chili will erect her own building at Chi
cago and lias asked one aero of space.
There is great excitement at Iquiquc,
Chili, over the decision of the American
admiral to take the Etata without allow
ing the discharge of its guns and ammu
nition. The press is very bitttr and
considers that the United States docs
not recognize the cradle of republican
ideas and commits a grave error in thus
indirectly assisting the dictator.
While Emperor William of Germany
wasdrilling the grenadiers on tho parade
ground at Templehof a captain and
fthree privates were struck by lightning.
Two died immediately, while the cap
tain and the other private were danger
ously injured. It is supposed that the
rifle barrels and bayonets of tho soldiers
attracted the lightning.
An immense granite block which was
being hoisted to its place in the walls of
the new parliament building in Ruda
Pesth fell and - carried down with it a
scaffold containing ten workmen, all of
whom were killed.
A water spout burst near San Luis
Paz, Mexico, devasting the country for
three miles. It is not known how many
lives were lost. Hundreds of people are
homeless and in a destitute condition.
It is discovered that dynamite can be
used to good advantage in engraving,
doing work in a second that has nithertb
required hours.
THE MARKETS.
CHICAGO.
Cattle Common to prime. S 4 00
Hogs Shipping grades 4.35
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Wheat Cash l.oo
Corn Cash r.
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Bctteb Western dairy. . . . .13
Eggs Western 14
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Cattle Common to prime. 8 3.60 9
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Wheat 31.09 a
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THE DOMINION BEREFT.
PASSING AWAY OF SIR JOHN
MACDONALD.
At the Zenith ol Hla Fame When the Sum.
meal Came Erler Retrospect of His
Iimr"' Public Lira-Champion of .Mon
archy aud Federation and Chief Fj-uro
ia Canadian, Politic.
. it is very iong since .any other man
held a placo so peculiar In tho affairs of
any country as Sir John A. Macdonald
has won for himself In tho affairs of tho
Dominion of Canada. There is not, nor
has thero been in modern times, a man
in the United States whoso demise could
seriously disarrango the settled policy of
the country. No such man now lives in
England. Tho political obscuration of
Bismarck did hot disarrange tho policy
of Germauy. Thdre is no man now liv
ing iu France whose death would causo
a jar or a pause in the motion of tho
political machinery of the country Rut
tho death, of Sir John will lea.-o tho
Tories of the Dominion" without a leader.
Whito his lifo was devoted to the servico
of Canada, ho was for many years ono
of tho foremost men in tho Rritisli Em
pire, distinguished above his fellows in
thoso vast colonics of Britain that girdle
the earth.
To Ibok back over the great retrosport
of Sir John A. Macdonald's ldug public
life is to reviev the wholo history of
greater Canada. Ho was a nativo
Scotchman, but he becatno identified
with tho affairs of Uritish North Amer
ica boforo the patriot war, corameni nij
tho practico of Jaw in Kingston in 18?0,
in his 21st -year. Ho was active iu
political lifo from this tinfo. Ho was
first elected to the Parliament of Upper
Canada more than forty-seven years ago.
He was chosen for Kingston, for which
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD.
city ho sat in Parliament at tho close of
his brilliant caroer.
Sir John became a member of tho
Cabinet of Canada (then comprising On
tario and Quebec) early in 1847, as Com
missioner of Crown Lauds. lie served
nntil 1850. He was again a Cabinet
officer from 1854 to 1858, as Attorney
General. Ho first became Premier in
185S, and laid firmly tho foundation of
his subsequent great fame. In ISO-' ho
was Minister of Militia, and his Govern
ment suffered defeat on the militia bill
of that yoar. For two years ho was tho
leader of tho Opposition, but did not en
deavor to embarrass tho Ministry, which
was trying to administer the affairs of
Canada on tho policy of the double ma
jority, or governing both Ontario and
Queboc by its own preponderance of rcji
rcsentativos In tho iiouso. This effort
was a complete failure. In May, 1803. John
A. Macdonald moved in the House a
vote of want of confidence in a powerful
and logical spcoch, ever since remem
bered in Canadian history, and regarded
as ono of the greatest of his lifo. Tho
vote carried, and from this day Macdon
ald's conspicuous leadership in Canadian
politics was recognized everywhere. It
was not until tho following year that ho
again took a Cabinet office and became
tho acknowledged leader of tho effort
for tho consolidation of all British North
America into tho Dominion. Wo was a
delegate to the convention on Princo
Edward's Island in 1804, where tho
union was first projected, and the leader
In the second conference, at Quebec,
later in tho year. He was chairman of
tho London colonial conference of lSOi'i
7, and remained in Europe until the
passage of the imperial a"t for the con
solidation of tho North American prov
inces. He returned to tho new world and was
at onco intrusted with tho work of form
ing tho. first government of tho great
northern Anglo-Savon nationality of
which ho had dreamed from his first
entry into public life, and to which ho
bad do voted many years. He became
Premier of tho new confederation, and
was knighted by tho Queen. From 1S!7
to tho present timo ho has been tho
grandest bguro of the Canadian nation.
With tho exception of a few years in the
early seventies ho has continued tho
Premier of the greatest dependency of
the Rritish Crown, which he did so much
to .make great and so nearly independent.
Canada has grown in domain, iu popu
lation, in wealth and in influence during
all tho years of Sir John's preponderance
in her affairs. She extends from ocean
to ocean and from tho lakes to the froeu
sea. The great railroad enterpriso which
was the occasion of his only retirement
from public life has become a marked
success and one of tho chief glories of
his long administration He had but
just triumphed in his last appeal to tho
people of tho Dominion aud been again
trusted with tho government. Tho
glamour of his name and his achieve
ments wero the great bulwarks of the
Conservative party in all its appeals to tho
Dominion plebiscite He was deemed tho
founder of tho party and the father of
Canadian union, and to many electors it
seemed littto short of treason to vote
against Sir John's retention in power.
The majority of the people of the Do
minion seemed to bo Liberals, but while
they voted with their party in the lo"al
elections, they willingly voted for tho
continuance 111 power at Ottawa of the
man who has been gratefully called the
creator of Canada.
He was at tho very zenith of h's great
fame when the summons cam He had
not found tho semi-sovereign republic
which he created ungrateful, for the in
cense of the approval of the people came
still fresh upon his senses from their
last opportunity to express it
The greatest Canadian has fought his
last fight; his rcmarab'e career is at an
end. Ail Canada situ en ly mourns. Par
tisanship is forgotten. At this visitation
of death, a nation is in tears. As tha
sweet singer who wears the laurel of
tbe empire has said of another one gone
before:
Fallen at length.
That tower of strength;
That stood four square
To all tbe winds that blew.
Wales Not or Good character.
In court at Pittsburg, Pa., on applica
tion ol Johnnie Ma ley, well knowi
in every sporting centor, for a tram
of liquor and hotel license, the co
lected because he was given somewhat
to gambling. Staley's attorney remarked:
"I desire to call your Honor's attention
to the fact that tho Prince of Wales
gambles a little." -Well, I don't con
sider him of good character. He could
not get a license in this court." ronlied
the Judge.
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want Lessening in Nebraska.
Number of Person Reee Mn AM Frtaa
ihe Keller Commission Being KeeltttWb
The numbpr of persons who have been
receiving aid from the siate relief com
mission is being gradually reduced fintil
now there is now only one-half as Biany
as there were during the winter. The
supplies received by the present depend
ents have also been gradually redtictfd
until each individual is now receiving
about half as much as he did during the
winter. So. that now thero is about onf
fourth of tho ambunt of snpplies given
out that thero was formerly. The main
demand now is for Hour -and cofnmeal.
The gradual lessening of calls for aid Is
attributed to tho growth of garden pro
duce and raising of fowls on tho farms.
As scon as harvest is over it is expected
thai there will be no more calls for aid
and then the work of tho relief commis
sion will be ended.
Xebraska Crop Bulletin;
The weekly weather and crop" bulletin
for Nebraska, issued oy the uosweu
observatory of Doano college, says the
week past has been favorable for the
growth of small grain which now prom
ises an unusually large yield, but too
cold for the best growth of corn, which
is still quite backward for this season of
the year: a poor stand and replanting is
reported by a few observer?. Through
out the state generally, more thrtn th
average amount of rain has fallen, ex
cepting in the southwestern part of the
state, where, there has beeit about half
the normal amount, and in a few other
isolated localities. The drouth in the
northern part of the state has been re
lieved during the week by a good
amount of rain, so that the ground
everywhere throughout the state is well
saturated Temperature and sunshine
have been generally about normal. Cut
worms arc still reported in a few locali
ties as doing considerable dahiage
Short Shots.
Guy Rarr, a 16-year-old boy of Benk
elmail, was attacked by a vicious stal
lion in a pasture and badly Injured. Tho
young man was on a pony when tho
stallion made for hid, setting his power
ful teeth in the thigh of the yoting man's
right leg, dragging him outof the saddle
and off the pony, and breaking and
crushing the leg at the thigh in a horri
ble manner.
The people in tho vicinity of RIancho
enjoyed a genuine buffalo hunt. A buf
falo, supposed to have escaped from
Buffalo Bill's ranch at North Platte,
strayed into that neighborhood and an
exciting chase began. After running a
number of horses down the animal was
captured and held for a reward.
The Kearney bar held exercises in
memory of Gen. A. II. Connor, recently
deceased. Resolutions were adopted
and placed on the court record, and
Judge Hamer read a sketch of the gen
eral's life, in which he paid a fittingjand
beautiful tribute to the dead statesman.
Jack Mrrcnusi and Thomas Grinnell
wero arrested at Hubbcll after robbing
the same store eight times. One of them
lost a necktie in the store, which led to
their arrest.
John Michie unearthed a petrified rib
near Ravenna. It measures 4 feet in
length, y. inches in widtli and weighs
9 pounds. The bone will be sent to
the state university.
Charles Wooster. a farmer living
near Silver Creek, Werrick county, is
also a successful fruit grower. Ho
picked G30 quarts of strawberries from
his experimental patch in one week.
Buffalo Jones' herd of eighty bison
Is now grazing on land about two miles
from McCook and is attracting hundreds
of sightseers.
For arresting a woman on a tele
graphic order the marshal of Ulysses
has been bound ovcrfortrialonachargo
of false imprisonment,
r W. L. Foster, a "horse dentist" of
Anselmo, has been ordered to leave
town by indignant citizens for beating
his wife.
The little son of J. W. McMullcn,
living south of Crady, got a piece of
pencil lead in his car, and a surgeon
had to cut it out.
Mrs. Harriet A. Lee, of Phcbe,
Perkins county, is being tried before
the United States court at Omaha for
fraudulently obtaining a pension in the
name of her first husband, Joseph L.
Gctold, who has been dead many years.
Elsev Wilcox, the 17-year-old-son of
a Dawson county farmer, who was in
tho Kearney reform school, was given
a furlough to go home and help his
father put in his crops. The boy was
caught at his old tricks of stealing and
was- returned to the reform school,
where ho will spend four years.
Elmer Stixer and Rinda Rarnes, of
Tekamah, made two unsuccessful at
tempts to get married. Roth times the
father of the bride interfered. Stiner
was granted a divorce at the last term
of court, and he wanted to get married
again because, as he says, the more you
marry the more you want to.
J. L. Camiuox, who for several
had years been cashier of tho
consolidated Tanl Line company at
Omaha, has been arrested for embezzle
ment. He has been a prominent church
worker. Campion was on the point of
suiciding when taken.
Fifty-five years ago Mrs. Rridges,
(now of Fairfield) then a girl of 8, in
tho excitement due to fright, swallowed
a pin. No inconvenienco was felt from
it till a short time ago. Last week a
Fairfield physician removed the pin
from the right armpit. It was an old
fashioned steel pin and is all right save
some corroding.
There are 2,000 acres of broom corn
planted in the vicinity of Holdredge.
Several young fellows of Reenter
were jealous of the attentions of Chicago
traveling man named Inman was pay
ing to a young lady of that village, aud
they banded together and egged him out
of town.
Ax old man named Charles George,
while working on the railroad track
about five miles from Superior, was run
over and killed by a train.
John Farris went to Osceola and de
clared his intention of killing about half
a dozen prominent citizens who he said
had been too familiar with his wife.
He was found to be insane and was sent
to the asylum at Lincoln.
S. R. Clark has been arrested at Elm
Creek charged with the murder of W.
H. Watson, the barber, who, it was
thought, had committed suicide. Clark
roomed with Watson, they both courted
the same girl, but it is thought he killed
Watson for his money.
Frank Holingsworth, a prominent
citizen of Hastings, is in a critical con
dition from being kicked by a stallion.
A young girl 12 years of age arrived
at Fremont the other day from Den
mark, having made the journey alone
across the Atlantic.
A man near Endicoti was fined S100
and costs, the fun" penalty, for procur
ing whisky for a man who is on the list
of people to whom the saloons are for
bidden to sell.
Mike Halet, of Neligh, slapped his
hired girl and was fined S1.30 and costs.
The girl has now sued him "for 3199.99
damages, and Haley has had her arrested
for threatening to burn down his house.
Four Lincoln druggists were ar
rested and fined Va. selling liquor on
Sunday.
HIS H0N0K IS GONE,
AND WITH IT WENT SOME OF
- THE PRINCE Of WALES.
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aaPrlace Albert Kdward-ateat anda-
lens Diaeleeares.
The higest social circles Of London
have been III a stato of feverish excite
ment over tho famous trial for slander
of the" Wilsons,- who charged Sir Wra.
Gordon Camming with cheating at bac
carat The Prise of Wales and several
others ladies and gentlemen partici
pated in the game, and at the trial it was
shown that Welcs owned- tho gambling
outfit, and that he hft; been an habitual
gambler. The trial is over, the Wilsons
havo been acquitted of the charge of
Blander, and, in consequence. Sir William
has been found guilty of cheatinj.
Notwithstanding, the higher circles
unite in voicing the most intense
indignation over the Jnrys v.na
lag, and the press, f 11 part, unites ic the
cry. Before the trial was finished, tho
Princo induced dimming to sign a piper
exonerating him (Wale?) from all blamo
in the matter. But the evidence 'bowed
that Wa! was cogni-ant of tho cheat
ing. The comments of the leading pa
pors make interesting reading.
The CTirwifafchas a scathing art'cle In
which it condemns the jury's finding and
Lord Coleridge's partiality. It declares
no evidenco was adduced inconsistent
with tho hypothesis that dimming
merely played tho well-known coup do
trois.
It says the verdict means according to
the jury that dimming deliberately
cheated an Illustrious but impecunious
friend by a trick requiring Iong and toil
somo years of practico to acquire, that
though twenty years an habitual card
player, without provoking the slightest
suspicion, he had suddenly plunged into
a wild orgio, cheating tho only man in
the world on whose patronage his social
and professional lifo depended. Thero
Is nothing incrediblo in Cummlng's sign
ing the damning document on the
strengtli of a statement of tho Prince of
Wales" cringing minions, dcoming him to
a fate wor e than death, in order to save
what the Prince of Wales is pleased 10
call his honor ( nmmlng is not the
first ga'lant Scottish gentleman who has
sacrificed both i.onor and life to tho
ferv'd pas!o 5 of loyalty to the Princo,
or who:o de'.oMon has been rewarded by
cruel and cynical ingratitude. He has
this satlsfact'on. that no other man
without the soul of a flunky has ever
run tho smallest risk for tho sake of tho
heir apparent's honor.
Tho article, proceeding, flatly accuses
tho Prince of Wales of violating a
plcdgo of socrery, and calls upon tho
authorities to indict Sir W.Hiam Gordon
Cumming for the criminal offense of
cheating. It declares that if they do
not, the public will know what to think,
and says that if the Duko of Cambridge
shrinks from his duty in regard to tho
military offense, it is to bo hoped that
Parliament will not prove so pusillani
mous. Tho Chronicle finally asks what
steps will bo taken to vindicate justico
In a crime which tho Princo of Wales
compounded by signing tho compact of
Sir William Gordon Cumming; or whether
the infamous scandal will be hushed up
forever.
Tho Standard says: "Even if the
plaintiff comes out the worst in the af
fair, it must bo admitted that the de
fondants and their friends havo a some
what tarnished reputation. The whole
businc-sis ignoble from the teginning
to the end. There is an air of vulgarity
and shabbiness about it, and it must, in
common fairness, be acknowledged that
the Princo of Wales can't bo wholly ex-
. empted from the censure passed on his
associates, and we are sure ho himself
Is acutely conscious of this. It will not
be lightly forgotten that the Prince in
stigated the game and carried the ap
paratus with him. Eoubtless the pain
ful experiences will prove a lesson that
a close and constant circumspection is
required over every member of a family
the lightest stain on whose dignity and
delicacy is felt by us as something of a
national disgrace."
The Timet says the case ended In the
only way In which Impartial observers
believed possible. It advises tho Wilson
family, which ic accuses of being in
directly responsible for the tragic ruin
of a fine career, to remain in social re
tirement. In regard to the important
aspect of the case tho Tfme says: "We
express tho universal feeling of millions
of English men and women when we say,
that we profoundly regret the Prince oB
Wales' connection with the affair. Mak-.
Ing every allowance for tho monotony of
royal existence, and admitting the tacq
with which he performs his duties, if ha
is known to pursue questionable pleas
ures tho serious public, who aro the,
backbone of England, will regret and
resent it We almost wish, for the sake"
of English society, that as the result of
this unhappy case tho iTince of Wales
had also signed a declaration that he
would never touch a card again."
Referring to the result of the baccarat
case. 'the Fair says: "We do not desire
to add to the anguish over the sad end
ing of a brilliant career, but the fact re
mains that the signing of tho document
rendered it impossible for eminent and
dexterous counsel to rehabilitate tho
honor which dimming himself treated
so lightly. Lord Coleridge took a just
aspect of tho Prince of Wales' connection
and of tho morality of baccarat " Sir
William has stood at the head of the
very highest social circles, but is now
irretrievably ruined. His expulsion
from the army will follow.
In the Presence or the Emperor.
Military and other circles at Berlin
and elsewhere are discussing a strange
and fatal accident which occurred at the
Temolehof in the presence of the Em
peror. A party of grenadiers were be
ing exercised by the Emperor t morn
ing drill on tho parade ground. While the
men were being put through their exer
cises a vivid flash of lightning, followed
by a deafening thunder clap, startled
and half blinded the men on parade and
hurled a number of them to the ground.
When tho men who had not been struck
by tho electric fluid had sufficiently re
covered their presenco of mind they went
to tho assistance of their stricken com
rades, and it was found that tho officer
in command, Capt Von Quast, and three
soldiers were Insensible. Two of tho
latter died almost immediately after
ward, and Capt Von Quast and the
other soldier who was struck were dan
gerously Injured. A horse was also
killed.
The Paper Wa Misinformed.
Surprise and indignation are expressed
in social circle' at Keokuk, Iowa, the
home of Miss Kilbourne, ovr the Wash
ington dispatches containing the state
ment of the Army and A'nry Journal
that it had authority for saying the ru
mors of General Seho field's marriage)
are absolutely false. Mrs. and Miss
Kilbourne aud their friends are natu
rally annoyed by tbe matter. Arrange
ments for the coming marriao arc going
on quietly, and the nuptials will be sol
emnized June 18, as announced, the
Armi and A'anj; Journal to the contrary
notwithstanding. .
A Surpri'd rollesmnn Shoots a Man.
August Kemmer was shot by Police
Officer Kukowski, at Winona, Minn.
Kemmer caught the ro!ic.einan in a com
promising position, and the officer fired
at him as he .retreated. The wound will
prove fatal and Kukowski will be hold
for trial.
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