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o " & V. .--: "9 .' - V II VOLUME XXIL-NL'MBER 14. WHOLE NUMBER 1106. COLtJMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1891. .vrecs.-1--.----' Imral Cht XV -V ts- B . 4 -r -3 $ A THEOLDREUABLE Columbus State Bank (Oldest Bank in the State.) Pays Interest onTime Deposits AND Mes Loans on Real Estate. . ISSUES SIGHT DRAFTS ON Oamaka, CAicage, New York mad all Ferciga Cenatriee. SELLS STEAMSHIP TICKETS. BUYS GOOD NOTES And Helps lta Customers when they Sard Help. OFFICERS AND DI1ECTOIS : LEINDKIt GEURARD, President. 1L H. HENHY. Vice -I-resident. JOHN STAUFFEU. Cashier. M. BKUGGEU, G. W. HULST. COMMERCIAL BANK, OF COLUMBUS, NEB. HAS AN AathorizeA Capital of $500,000 Fail in Capita 90,000 OFFICERS : C. H. SHELDON. Prps't. -II. 1'. II. OKniJtlCII. Vioe-T-r.-s't. C. A. NEW -IAN. Cnsh'or. DANIEL SCHltAM. Aas't Cash. STOCKHOLDERS : Cll KlieMon. J. P Recker, Herman P. H.OeUliicu, Curl lllenko. Jmu Welsh. W. A Mc lliatcr. J. Henrv Wurileman. II. M. Winston. oeorrfo W Ualloy, S. C. Grey, Frank Itoror, Arnold F. II. Oelilrlch, llonry Loseke, Gcrhird Losike. asBnnk of deposit ; interest allov.ed on timo deposits; buy ana S"ll exchange u Unite 1 States and l'.uro'x". and luy and soil araila!ln ctiritfos. We shall le l In iced to r celve your business. We solicit your patronage. i8lec:t7 J. J3TJSSELL; -N1U1 SB PUMPS BE PAIRED ON SHORT "" - TfflTTflaa - Olive tt, early aapeslte Post-afJoe. laasaS-y 4 SkHBBBBBBBBBsiaBV - k Judicious Advertising Creates many a new business, Enlarges many an old business, " v Revives many a dull business, Rescues many a lost business, Saves many a failing business. Preserves many a large business, Secures success in any business. a says a aaaa of business, and wa add that taaidoas aavartlsiug, for tids section of country. THE JOURNAL Aseaeef ttonediaaas.becaoeeit 1 wed fey the Best people, those who know what they want anc fay for what they get. We challenge comparison with any ronntry paper in the world in this re apart twenty years publishing by the same asasacement. and Barer one dan to anbaenbere ' aebliabed in To Joubnal. This, better that anything else, shows the elasa o! people who lead The Jocbsal aTery weak. tf to sm A PUT A ZiJaT AfltsU Waatwil T v- CnesLaaa; last ana-star Safcry aaan aatay ta :otwacs2 r.i.i bni frost I aa ----- . . sSsSB t V PATENTS aaAallFa. AT a pa' Wekareao eaba!ias.aUfeaataaas i eaa traaaaet eitaas Baaaaaaa ia LKSt COST taaa ta a? nhnta. arita tsb er aea, naa ear till patoat la as-oared. ill. - jt. t roar state, eeeatyci ' '- . - iirnVr - T nn mux in tir aaaaeaaaaesa jvtamaaea saass,jsea ppawsBa. .,. araus amasstesaasssl asTsaaate .. a.r,r, fir SOIIiRIZED HAPPENINGS. A Brief Compendium of the Busy World's Events. THE PUBLIC CIIARGES. THE CENSUS BULLETIN ON THE COUNTRY'S PAUPERS. The Number ar Impendent Poor Does Not Keep rare With the f.rowtb or the Couatry In Population The Number Outside or AlinshoiiHen. The census office has issued a bulletin on the subject of paupers In aImhoucs in 1890, showing a total of 73,045, as against 66,203 in IfcSO. These are divided according to sex and color as follows; Number of males, white. 3?,:fe?; number of males, col ored, 3,354; number of females, white. 26,191; number of females, colored, 3,113. In the number of colored persons given above are included 1C male and SO female Indians and 12 male and 1 female Chinese. The ratio of almshouse paupers to the total population was one to ?."S. The present ratio is one to 857. This Is a very marked relative decrease. The almshouse system is not keeping pace witli the growth of the population at large. The decline in the ratio is duo to the very much smaller num ber of paupers cared for in almshouses in the North Atlantic division, where there has been not only a relative but dispropor tionate decrease in number. In respect to nativity, not including the colored paupers, who may all be supposed to be natives, ex cept the thirteen Chinese, of the C6.5TS white paupers 16,656 are native born, 27,648 foreign born, and the place of birth of 2,274 is unknown. The number of out-door poor, meaning by that phrase the poor who are permanently supported at public expense at their own homes or with private families, is stated to be approximately 21,000. PARLIAMENTARY OUTLOOK. Much Interest la the Premier's Women Suffrage Avowal. Nothing has recently excited inner con servative circles in England so much as Lord Salisbury's declaration that female suffrage is to form a part of the coming electoral reforms. The council of the con servative association at an informal meet ing decided to intimate to Lord Salisbury that the party was so divided on the ques tion that it would be unwise to recognize it as a conservative principle. In spite of Salisbury's allusion that the life of parlia ment will not empire until August ,1893, the electorial agents are preparing for dissolu tion in the spring. Apart from the Irish local government bill the conservative plat form will include a reform bill amending the distribution of seats by reducing the Welsh and Irish representation, slightly in creasing the Scotch and giving large ad vantages to the English representation. The ministers have indorsed the leading features of Chamberlain's scheme, thus committing the part 7 to the further devel opments on the lines of state socialism. The redistribution of seats will be a strong card in the game. A Leper Washing- New York Linen. A Chinese leper has lcen discovered In an east side laundry in New York. He is Chin Hop Sing, and when a representative of the health authorities paid him a professional visit he was industriously Ironing a shirt. He had been a leper eight mouths, and seven months of that time he has spent in washing the linen of east stdcrs. The health office after an examination decided that it was a genuine case of leprosy. His head had begun to swell, the ears were assuming enormous proportions, the uoe had reached a remarkable size and Uiehair was dropping out. The Apple Crop. A prominent apple packer who travels over the western states in the early summer and Is well ported on the apple crop, says that "the southern crop Is not good at all, in Illinois and the central states it is very poor, Missouri very light, but Iowa is best of all. Kansas is next to Iowa. Although there is only forty per cent of a crop of summer apples, there will be at least sixty per cent, of a fall crop." Killed Nine Laborer. There was a bad wreck on the Chicago & Erie railroad at Hepburn. Ohio. A Swift refrigerator meat train run Into a New York train pulling into the siding, killing nine 4aiorcri andJnJiiring-malijroiliers. IN THE EAST. The Christian Endeavor people de cided to hold their next convention in New York. Freschy, the New York "Jack the Ripper," lias been sentenced to life im prisonment. During the first half of the present year 1.72S miles of railroad were built in the United States. The Union Theological seminary may lose its 5800,000 cash endowment on ac count of the trouble over Prof, llriggs. President Harrison expressed him self very emphatically in opposition to the spirit of the Cahensly memorial in a friendly conversation with Cardinal Gibbons at Capo May. Tiir business failures throughout the country last week number 247, as com pared with a total of 237 the previous week. For the corresponding week of last year the figur.es were 107. Ax explosion on the steamer ltooth, from Hamburg, while lying at a dock in New York, killed two men, bruised three others, and damaged the vessel 550,000. Interest now centers in the corn crop. The government reports indicate that the crop will equal that of 1S79, rea.hing 2,100,000,000 or 2.200,000,000 bushels. The increased acreage will probably far more than compensate for any possible decrease of average yield per acre. At a meeting of tabic glassware man ufacturers of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia in Pittsburg, the plants were consolidated and an association formed under the name of the United States Glass company. The company comprises thirteen firms, with a capital of 51,000,000. The experts appointed to investigate the accounts of John Uardsley. late city treasurer, have made a detailed report to the mayor of Philadelphia. The net delicieucy to Bardslcy's account is 554,83r,"in addition to which S223.o:)0 interest he received from various banks, making a grand total of money misap propriated of 577S.S35. Uis speculations show that he spent SI. 116,693 dealing in stocks. The reports which come from the re cent executions by electricity at Sing Sing indicate beyond all question that this new method of inflicting capital punishment is painless and therefore a success. The medical men who made the autopsy state that the victims were seared but not burned, and slightly dis figured, but not tortur. d. So far as the disfiguration is conce. are 1. hanging has bo advantages over ih: new method. for strangulation by the halter produces most repulsive evidences of its work. The physicians further testify that al though the electricity entered the eyes and caused the albuminous fluid to co-aa-alata and him each iris ovtr, it did not even injure the delicate bplic nerves-, while as for the brain and other organs, they were left in perfectly nor mal condition. The effects of the elec tricity, so far as the visible marks were concerned, did not show themselves be neath the cuticle. Ax extended canvass by the Acitrt( land Homastcad shows the new people's party is not indorsed by the farmers of New England and New York. While some favor more independent political action than heretofore nearly all oppose the idea of a special farmers' party. One or two go so far as to say that this party, if conservative and the right platform is put forward, will draw 10 per cent, of the farmers' votes In Maine and New York, but the majority place this number far lower, from i to 2 per cent, being the average. The sub treasury bill and the loaning of new issues of paper by the government on land values are looked upon as wild schemes, and the free coinage of silver has but a small following. IN THE WEST. The arrival of the much-dreaded grasshoppers in the far southwest has already been called to the attention of the department of agriculture, together with the information that they have al ready spread from Arizona and Utah as far north as South Dakota. As yet it is not known whether these migratory nuisances, whose advent was mentioned a few days ago, arc the old reliable seventeen-year locusts or simply the ordi nary grasshopper of the present in un usual numbers. The return of the for mer unwelcome visitor has been prophe sied for about this time, and there is considerable apprehension felt that per haps he really has materialized. A spe cialist from the agricultural depart ment, an entomologist, will be sent directly to examine into the situation and decide as to how serious the pest is likely to prove this year. The depart ment issued a bulletin to farmers 6ome time ago, telling them how to distin guish between the two classes, the grasshopper and the seventeen-year locust, and also giving directions as to how best to fight them. .The weather crop bulletin of the Da kotas for last week shows a great im provement in aH crops. Where the moisture was ample the wheat, oats, rye, b'-'jy and potatoes have made marked advances. Considerable barley and rye has been cut. Some early wheat is nearly ripe and all is heading out satisfactorily. busiderable haying has been done. Corn has made line pro gress. Altogether the outlook con tinues to improve, and the prospect for a large harvest is flattering. In the Montana supreme court at Butte the appeal of Henry Root and other contestants in the Davis will case was overruled. The contestants ap plied to the Silver Bow court for a change of venue on the ground that a fair trial could, not be had in that county. Judge M. C. Hatton refused to grant the change and an appeal to the supreme court was taken. The latter court sustains M. C. Hatton. The case is now set for trial at Butte July 27. The Mason City, la., turf club, re cently incorporated, has laid out a mile track which, it is believed, will be one of the fastest in the country. It is laid on a natural bog of unknown depth, which gives it the elasticity or "life'' so much desired in race tracks. The club gives its opening meeting August 4, 5 and 6, with 59,000 in guaranteed purses. Prof. MExnr.xiiAi.i., of the coast and geodetic survey, and Prof. Merriam, the ornithologist of the department of agri culture, have been appointed agents of the United States government to go to Behring sea and gather information re garding the actual state of the fish eries. The Sunflower club, the Kansas in surance men's organization, has been held by the supreme court of Kansas to be organized in violation of the anti trust laws of the state. The organiza tion was formed to maintain suitable in surance rates in Kansas and Missouri. Gex. Mii.es has sent Capt. Huggins, one of his aides, to the Indian agencies along the upper Missouri river with the object, it is said, of inquiring into the abuses alleged to exist in the treatment by Indian agents of their charges. The directors of the Illinois Central have declared from the net earnings of the year ended June 20, 1891, a further dividend of 2 per cent, in cash, which makes the dividend for the year 5 per cent. - v Fulton Gardiner, of Chicago, -has invented an electric drill. He wants to show it in operation at the world's fair, and proposes to drill a hole to the cen ter of the earth. The Omaha base ball club has dropped out of the Western association. The players have scattered, the bulk going to different clubs in the American asso ciation. The 'longshoremen's strike in Chicago has collapsed and the docks are crowded with men seeking employment. The strike had continued about three weeks. Thirteen thousand dollars were found in a piano stool in a Winona hotel, left there by a woman who com mitted suicide two years ago. Forty Indians and a white woman were killed by a landslide on the Skccna river, at the North Pacific cannery British Columbia. OKansas democratic editors will issue an address warning the democrats of the nation against the Farmers' Alli ance. One of the Hanlon brothers, the cele brated athletes, was killed at Lyons, la., by the breaking of a trapeze. A railroad accident occurred at Aspen, Col., wherein thirteen passen gers were scalded, eleven dying. It is published that the notoriou Bender family of Kansas were discov ered and lynched entire. THE SOUTHERN SUMMARY. Professor John Lloyd, of Murfrees boro, Tenn.. was shot six times and in stantly killed, it is thought, by Tom Morton, his nephew. There had been trouble between them. Lloyd having re buked Morton on account of his treat ment of his wife, who was Lloyd's niece. James Barley, the negro who crim inally assaulted Mrs. Falsom. of JJeebe. Ark., was taken from jail at that place by an infuriated mob and hanged to a railroad sign. The coroner's jury re turned a verdict of death at the hands unknown persons. In a suit by the state of Kentucky against the bondsmen of defaulting Treasurer Tate a decision adverse to the state was rendered. An appeal will be taken. The amount involved is 560,000. Mrs. Holloway Newbekbt has been .arrested at Joshua, Tex., charged with the murder of her three grandchildren. Facts were discovered which leave no doubt as to her guilt. The jnry in the case of ex-State Treasurer Noland of Missouri returned a verdict of guilty of embezzlement and fixed the penalty at two years in the penitentiary. The great northwest THE LATEST NEWS OP GENERAL INTEREST. Small Items of Crime and Casaalty la Sauttt Dakota IrttprovemeHi Nates -rhreushdut the Cttmraeawealth-Ya-rlaaa Kvents r Mara Thaa Usual Im pertaaee. Within several days a number of eastern papers have contained lengthy articles to the effect that there was no tin in the Black Hills and that the whole tin business was a gigantic fraud. The fact that these letters, which closely re semble each other, appeared almost simultaneously in a number of daily papers of both political parties pub lished in different cities, is rather sus picious. There is a feeling among some of the people that they were sent out by some one connected with the Harney Peak company as an aid to a stock jobbing scheme, but this is only con jecture. The letters grossly misrepre sent the condition of affairs, and the )eoplc, especially the miners, at Rapid City, S D., say they know that there is tin in the Hills, notwithstanding the fact that the Harney Peak company has spent thousands of dollars in buying claims and prospecting and has not yet produced a ton of marketable tin. A local company has been organized which will go into the mining, milling and manufacturing business in a business like manner, and will have no connec tion with any other company. This will mean a good deal for the material advancement of the Hills country. Want to Farm Lake Beds. A number of settlers in the Mitchell land district have applied to enter dif ferent lake beds under the homestead laws at the Mitchell land office. The register and receiver have invariably rejected the same, and the commissioner has reaffirmed the rejection and advises that settlers in order to secure filings on lake beds which have been returned as lakes by the surveyors, must apply to the surveyor general at Huron to have the land resurvcyed. There is as much as three or four thousand acres of such land in this district which arc suitable for settlement and which will make some of the most productive farms in this section. South Dakota's State Fair. The display of agriculture at the state fair will be large, the premiums offered being double that of any preceding year. The State Beekeepers' association will hold its annual meeting on the grounds during the fair. Ilia; Crop or Chit-ken. Like everything else the prairie chicken crop is immense in South .Da kota this year. Hunters report that the young chickens arc strong enough to lly and are very numerous. Indian Unite Hallit. The Pine Ridge base ball club, com posed entirely of Indians, is preparing to make an extended tour through the eastern states. Ileailwood Has a Circus. Deadwood has entertained her first circus of the season. The admission was 51, children and all, but they didn't mind that. CoKt of the Trial. It cost 51,400 to try the Few Tails murder case. THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA. Events Great and Small of Interest AH Around the State. The Omaha lice printed an exhaustive review of the commercial and financial condition of Nebraska by counties, show ing a remarkable development. The most important phase of the exhibit is the showing of the deposits in the state and national banks which reach the ag gregate of $50,507,043, or 547 per capita, showing that in spite of the failure of crops in the western part of the state last year, and low prices for a series of years, the people are in exceptionally good financial condition. They have al most enough cash on deposit to liquidate the entire farm mortgages of the state. The population of the state in 1867 was 122,000, and in 1890 over 1,000,000. In 1868 the property valuation was S2,000, 000; the actual valuation in 1891 is SI, 585, 160,300. The grain product of 1874 was 10,000,000 bushels. In 1889 wheat alone reached 16,848,000 bushels, and the yield of corn was nearly 100,000, 000 bushels, and oats 30,000,000 bushels. The estimated yield for this year in all crops is greater than ever before. Seven years ago no cattle or hogs were slaugh tered. To-day Omaha is the third pack ing center in the union. The creamery capacity of the state is 50,000 pounds of ' butter per day. The two sugar beet factories have a capacity of 40,000 pounds per day, and the twenty fruit and vegetable canneries put up yearly 15,000,000 cases. The state has 110,000 acres of cultivated timber, 2,000,000 apple trees, 1,800,000 peach trees, 237. 000 cherry trees and 215,000 grape vines. The educational system of the univer sity and normal schools comprises 5,740 school houses, valued with sites and fix tures and appliances at 56,127,340.31, costing annually to maintain over 54,000,000. The railroads operate 5,340 miles of track. There are yet over 13,000,000 acres of unimproved land, only 10,000,000 acres being under plow. The Harvest In Nebraska. Gathering one of the largest crops of small grain ever grovfn in Nebraska has commenced. Harvesters are at work in a number of early-ripened fields of rye and barley. This is but the pre liminary skitmish to the actual harvest in the whc-i., and oat fields, which will be inaugurated next week. Nothing short of some unforscen and improbable disaster will prevent the most prolific and phenomenal yield ever known in the annals of Nebraska harvests. Wheat fields stand thick and heavy, with large, long heads and well-developed berry, while the oat fields give a promise of enormous yields. There will be no loss from inadequate facilities, as flattering prospects have induced com plete plans for harvesting this very heavy crop. An Illegal Grand .Tury. A big sensation was created in the district court at Kearney when an attor ney moved to quash the indictment i found in the case by the grand jury on the ground that the grand jury was selected irregularly and that therefore its work.was illegal. The judge sus tained the motion, but said the ruling would not effect the persons who had been tried and found guilty. Nebraska Democrats. The democratic state central commit tee has called the convention for Grand Island September 17. The vote for sec retary of state in 1890 is the basis of an- i portionment, with one delegate for each ! county and one for each 150 votes or ! mafnr fraction. The nnmhur rt fo1n- ' gates will be 516. Nebraska G. A. R. Active preparations are now being made for the annual G. A. R. Nebraska state reunion, to be held in Grand Island Aug. 31 to Sept. 5, inclusive. ' FOREIGN JOTTINGS. The effect of the proposed European customs league upon the contracting nations cannot be fully determined, be cause even the basis of the arrangement is hot yet known, but if 11 mean a breaking down bf enstoids barriers,-iri whole br part, between the' four nations, as seems certain, it must Stimulate tradfc between the contracting nations just d$ the German zollverein has done in Ger many and as free trade between the states of our own union has very greatly facilitated commercial intercourse. The whole volume of trade that would Ik thu affected would be !rameDse. More than half the exports and 40 per cent, of the imports of Austro-Huugary are with the other three nations of the proMsed league. Fifty-five per cent, of Swiss exports and 40 per cent, of her imports: 45 per cent, of the Italian exports and 30 per cent, of the imports; and 30 per cent, of the German imports and 25 per cent, of the exports are between the contracting nations. It will be seen that if such a zollverein is formed it will affect flillr oiid-tllird of the foreign trade of the four nations and have an immense influence upon Kuropt'.in com merce and European politics. If, as i.' unofficially reported, the formation of this customs league is to be followed by the abrogation of the treaty of Frank fort between Germany and France, the result call hardly fail to be war. Cer tainly the strong likelihood of the suc cess of the plan shows in a most impres sive way the tremendous drift of Euro pean opinion against France and is a menace to her peace and even to her ex istence that cannot be lightly passed over by the student of current events. The English people have had their heads quite full of the German emperor all the week. They have taken a fancy to him and he returns the compliment. It would be a great mistake to look upon this visit as one of ceremony only. It possesses high oIitical importance and may materially shape the course of European politics for some years tc come. It is true England has no army worth considering, but it has plenty of money. The emperor probably dfQ not forget when he went to London that tlir sinews of war are found there in profu sion, and men and arms are easily picked up anywhere. Some French papers are trying to make out the visit has been a failure, but they know noth ing about it. It is a far greater success than any one ventured to anticipate. The opinion of tiie best informed per sons in positions of power and resionsi bility is that tflie alliance between En gland and Germany, though informal, is infinitely stronger than ever it has been before, and that it is a potent influence which other great European powers cannot henceforth afford to leave out of sight. Latk mail advices from London indi cate an excessively weak money mar ket in that city, with corresponding conditions in other parts of the united kingdom. They say short timo bills had recently been negotiated at the low rate of 1 per cent, per annum, and for longer times the rate wero very low, with an unusually small volume of de mand by borrowers. The abundance of money is explained to be in great part due to the prevailing distrust, which makes capitalists "unwilling to fix funds." Many men prefer to let their money lie in the bank a annum rather than any of the offered f Hence business in insignificant proportion Mr. Parnell says tha marriage will shortly be celebrated with all due form and ceremony in a London church, although the vicar of Steyningso harsh ly refused to permit the wedding to take place in his Church. No priest in holy orders can be .compelled to perform the marriage ceremony for a divorced woman, nor is there any penalty at tached for his refusal. But any other clergyman of the diocese has a perfect rigiit to perform the marriage service in any church of that diocese; therefore the vicar of Stcyning was not strictly within his right when he wired to Mr. Parnell, "No wedding in my church." Reciprocity with the United State is considered necessary in Costa Rica, and all the concessions asked for will be granted. Costa Rica will send a g.dod exhibit to the Chicago fair, as siie ex pects that the United States will be the consumer of her products. A sensation has been caused in Col ogne by the discovery of a number of child murders at a baby farm kept by a woman named Scholz. The death of six babies has been traced to inanition. Switzerland has ado;tc 1 by populai vote a new law which empowers 50,030 citizens to submit the text of bills to thr cltambers, and to compel the chambers to discuss such bills. v Resolutions in favor of unrestii ted reciprocity between the United States and Canada have been adopted by thi provincial legislature of Prince Edward s Islands. The census of England and Wales shows a total population of 29.001.018, an increase of 3,026,572, or 11.65 pel cent., since the laU ccnsu was taken. It is declared that United States Min ister Egau will be ejected from Chil: when the government is overthrown, foi playing into the hands of Balmaceda. Amazing revelations of corruption among the Canadian govern in -Mil offi cials are made, and the spnejy downfall of the government seems certain. Canadian sealing vessels have heeded the warning given by officers of United States cruisers and returned home, with out seals. lThk Prince of Wales narrowly escaped a hostile popular reception in London during the German emperor's visit. Parnell ha3 paid the costs in tlie O'Shea divorce case, which amounted tc S5,000. All Europe will depend upon tiie United States wheat crop this year and next. A li'natic shot at President Carnot of France, but did not injure him. It is learned positively that Russi? will have no grain for export this year. ktwjajyMSnJicr rJajfaTsHMill in cfsLinvestmcnt. sffiiiTBBBBBws sunk to srasaaf THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cattle Common to prime.? :; 65 6M1 HO03 Shipping grades 4.4J & ".45 &HEEP 10 9 wo Wheat Cash .fCi Corn Cash .60 XJAao i j Xaa Ju ati Barlct 6? & .70 B7 lift i !() Butter Western dairy l) ft .15 Eoos Western 15 .16 SIOUX CITY. Cattle Fat steers 5.09 2fc 6.00 Cattle Feeders 3.00 St 3.75 Sheep 4.00 5.C0 U A7o 0 U com o sVXsaaX- a 1.04 OMATIA LIVE STOCK. Cattle Commoa to prime. $ 3. (it) & 5.50 Hoos Shippers 4.SJ 5.10 NEW VOUK FKODtiCE. Whkat ( A3 .O'.Jj Corn .Cti c& ) Oats Westers 41 ft .4; he had six victims, DREADFUL WORK OF A ORIF CRAZED FARMER. A BTotftftr an 1 Faur Children Killed la dlcsUdHs thai th4 Httsbattd aad Father Was the PrHwtralo'r W tnV Awfat Dead irobably in from tiile Grip. Mrs. Dr.- Allen, of Beatrice", went id Ellis, Neb., on a v:8it io her brother, John H. Pnterbaugh, who HVed .a mMle and a half south of town. She ttris driven to the farm by I ou!s Perling and knocked at tho door, but receiving no rcsponsfl ntcred the house, the door not being loektid. As lie entered she saw her brother on the llocf i.6ar the door, and supposed ho was asleep the Spokd to h'm. but there being no response, she looked more closely, and saw blcod on her brother's ghastly face. Mrs. Allen tailed Per ing in, who made an investi-gati- H. 'and found a horrible state of aTairs On a bed in tho room in which the husband and father lay was the mother with a bullet through her head In bed with hdr was a 2-yesr-oId babe, also shot thr.)ii!:h tha head." Oil ft lOnligc In tho rom lay a lad of 10 years dead, shot through the head. In the room above was another bed occupied by two young girls, one 13 and one 15, both dead with bullet-holes In their hoads ThH dcid -tre John Pllterbattgh, his wife, and four clridrcu libw tlidy met t'icir te.rible fate is a's yet not known, only by sir raise. TJlc general bollef is that the terriblo need was the work of the husband and lather. The motive is not known, as Pnterlaugh was a peace able man in comfortable clrcu-r.stances, and ir is bclhvcd no troublo existed in tho family. It seemscertain that the terrible crime was committed by Puterbaugh- By his side, under his arm, lay a 32 ra'lber slx- chanibarcd revolver with all tho chara ptv. ice:ic in the house was a horrible nia'le the strongest hearted y. The faces of the dead. ered with blood, wcro calm as epmg. 2o signs 01 iear were on any of them, and no evl- a struggle were seen any- All seemed to Lava been killed ccpiii'x, ami a I w tc shot uirectij the skull In every ease the ; pla-'cd close to the head, as :a"ns were visible upon tho pil- clothing. iigh was not a drinking man reputation of being an hon- eable citizen. He suffered from grip last spring and since then lias not been in the best of health, frequently complaining ofa pain in his head. He was a-niat- about-38 or 40 years of age, and.hislwlfe was a year or two younger. The mJPtlcred children were as follows: CarrMPl5 years: Mabel, 13 years; Chaws, 10 years; Ralph, 2 years. One sqf Allen. 17 years of age, survives, lib was away from home at work. Pnterbaugh was in Beatrlco a few days ago and is said to have then pur chased the tevolver with which the ter rible deed wr- committed. In the barn near tho house were the two mules and three horses. Hitched to a wagon in front of tho barn were two moro horses. aaattfl Sat 4ltn fin lft aa r.nfnhiiiP ff AVfi a ilia an but; uciu ca uuwiit v ,ir-c- The house was farly well furnish for a farm house, and in the cupboa: was an abundance of good food. Putei laugh owned 24) acres of land, whici ho purchased in March last from Wisncll. of Beatrice. He was liked fl all who knew him there and at his forme home in Diller. ; The ETeetre Chair. I Many States will follow New York's example within tho next few years.y MlitncajxjU Tribune. f So far as preventing publicity Iryfhe press is onccrned, the law seemsrotbe a failure. Perhaps it would be more exact to say that those who are, charged with the execution of the lawMalk too much. Iwllantiiwll Journal. Those electrocutions In Tew York ap pear to have been entirely successful in removing from this life the four con demned murderers. - Electrocution is probably more merciful than hanging. DaiiUm Time. If we must have capital punishment it is possible the new method is prefera ble to the old, but the people are en titled to know whether that Is so or not, and they never could know if the press gag clause of the law were respected and observed. RorUeur Herald. It will undoubtedly be many years be fore the electric death is adopted In the other capital punishment States of the Union, and perhaps before it is gen era'ly au'opted there may be simpler, although probabiy no less painful, meth ods of oxecution.Dfroif Free Prrtn. On tho whole, there is t very reason for the opinion that electrica'. execution of eri.i ina's is a distinct advance of civili zation. The only respect in which tho new law is a failure is in its atte-fTpt to prevint the press of the United States from giving the news with regard to that imiortant change. Pittsburg Evidently tho electrical process of killing is moro humane than hanging, although it is barbatous enough, heaven knows. Capital punishment is a hideous and an awful thing, and it seems a safe prediction that twenty-five years hence it will not be' 1 racticcd in any form by any peoplaretending to civilization. lndlanupnliMrttnel. It does BBTsssssRaa careful reading of the officia mvlnce any one that the at te by law the sensationalism executions is a farce, and ion can- not be repealed sntly executions by electri nth all the requirements o but the official re led aw&y with other ments. Troy Tim rf- va There are d iff ere opinion as to the deterrent Intiul of the death penalty on evil-doe kut there is no room at all for do; that while this penalty lemains in 3e the electrical system of inflictin ias many and con- spicuous advantai rover all other meth- ods yet devised. Loul Globe-Dtmo- crat. & It does not; 'Make much difference whether murderers are hanged by the neck until they are dead or whether they are pot to. death by electricity. The thing is to kill them, and that swiftly. t'incin imti Commercial'GazeKe. "Electrocution" draws the just con demnation of the New York Time. "Electrothany,," which the Pre was first to propoje a year ago, is the best form yet suamested. It is philologically accurate; IJEis analogies in other words, such as eoafianasia, and its meaning is perfectly , and the erb "elec- trothani n be derived from it in ac- cordance sound usage. PA Model- phlaPri The on merits coi tore of the affair which atico is that provision of the :aw w rohib.ts u. newspapers from publishingany of the details of the execution, and which excludes represent atives of the press from witnessing the official killing. Whn the New York Legislature again assembles it-wil! strike that silly provision from the Jaw. Cin cinnati Ensmtrcr. The success of the execvflc-ns by elec tricity at Sing Sing wiyprobably have the effect of silencingthe objections to the law providing "'for this method of taking off crimiaala. That it is -more humane than .hanging is practically cer tain, and it is' probable that for a timo at least it wiil have a more terrorizing nffof-t tinAn tliA ffn-lirinilmnt tt lni. inals. Ht. Louia RctiuiAir. bers en Thai one k I'-rnaBBjaa thouWv th'-of-a-aBM portsTassssa ('eiiaSoF wh-'sBBr- w-OjsaV inroijlft. pistol la powders lows or bed Putcrb and had tile fwt ft mi tiefir Air mth UcnT) GOOD YEARS ANP tAP YEARS. Casaaarlaf ttaa DfflTereas Graia Yield far Saterdl Year In the year 1890 the United States taisad onlv about seven-tenths ae saaeh coraas it tIB m 1881, and less than five sixths as muoh lirhsaL Were the farm ers who raised and sold tWe erop the poorer for the decrease ia tne amount produced? Assurdly not, notice thai -ire Ao not say all farmers, but only those who raised this grain, for it is esti mated by the' Department of Agricnl fore that the smaller crop of corn and wheat of the year 1890 will tHrn ont to have been worth on httcdred and fifty thousand dollars more thaa the large crop of 1889. This is an interesting; example of the -K-orking of the law of supply and de mand. It lias been repeatedly and truly said that the increase In tb amount of money which the fanners received for their grain was not merely in spite of the reduction in the amount raised, but on acconut of it. The crop of corn in 1889 had been tha largest in nine years. It amounted to more than two thousand one hundred millions of bushels, and for this crop the farmers received an average of 28 cents a bushel tha lowest average price in nine Years. The corn crop of last year, on tha other hand, less than fifteen hundred minion bushels. was actually the smallest for nine years, notwithstand ing the many thousands of new farms that have been opeued; and it is not surprising that the average price o( corn should have risen to its highest figure in nine years a little more than CO cents a bushel. It may appear from this that a great drought, or some other condition which makes farmers' crops small, is a bless ing rather than a calamity; but it should be remembered that the picture has an other side. The "blessing in disguise" was, as we have already hinted, only a blessing to those agriculturists who succeeded in growing a crop, and had more than enough corn for sale to compensate them for the decrease iu ther products. Many thousands had none to sell, and many thousands had to purchase corn or sell their stock, losing the profit which they hoped to gain from feeding the stock. Moreover, on account of the scarcity and high price of corn, millions of half fattened swine, which the farmers could not afford to feed, were sent to market, causing a low price of pork, and a loss in that direction even to many farmers who succeeded in raising a surplus of corn. The consumers of beer have also obtained a poorer quality than usual. Nor, though a smaller aggregate crop may be worth more than a larger one, is it to be supposed that it is of advant age to a farmer to raise less corn or wheat than the acres he devotes to either of those crops can be made to produce. If there is abundance, and tha farmer raises a thousand bushels of wheat for which he can get only GO cents a bushel, it is more to his advantage to have a thousand bushels to sell than it is to have only 500. On the other band, if crops are very poor, it is perfectly evident that the more wheat the farmer can raise the better off be is. It is not scarcity on his own farm that help? the farmer, but sacarcity on other people's farms. Of course in a year of light crops the number of those who suffer is vastly larger than those who gain. For scar city means high prices to all consum ers, diminished railroad receipts, a smaller qnantity for export and ex change with foreign commodities, and a generally reduced surplus of savings. It is, therefore, a disaster to all except the particular persons who raise a sur plus which they can sell at a high price. It is a practice of producers of grain, sometimes not fully taken into account, to keep back as much of their crop as possible for the period when prices are best. In March, 1891. more than one third of even the small corn crop of the year before was still on hand, and more than one-fourth of the wheat crop was stiff in the farmers' granaries. These proportions are considerably larger in years of abundant crops. Meantime, whether crops are large or small,the quantity used for food steadily rises. Of the small wheat crop of 1890, more was actually consumed in the country than of the large crop of 1889; and for it the consumers paid an average price to the farmer at his farm of about 84 cents a bushel, as against about 70 cents for the crop of 1889. The average inhabitant of the United States consumes four and two-thirds bushels of wheat per year; and in most of the Northern States the consumption is about five bushels per head. lie Could Not KeaaL An old man stepped into a down-town restaurant last evening and, seating himself in the lunch department, took up a bill of fare and began looking it over carefully, says the Kansas City Times. 1 sat next to him, munching a frugal newspaper man's meal that cost 15 cents. The-old man's studious persual of tha menu excited suspicion, which was turned to a ludicrous situation a mo ment later. The old man looked over the bill a moment longer and then ha called a waiter. "Here, boy," he said, "I want yon." The black youth responded promptly and stood with the obsequious air of a man who had not had a tip that (Jay. "Wall, sir," he suggested respect fully. 'You may bring me," said the old man, resting his finger on the last line of the bill of fare "you may bring me," he wenton with deliberation, "some of that" The black bov razed at the nlace'sn- dicated by the elderly gentleman's rfia ger and could scarcely believe his eyeeA He looked again -and a second later a bit of native humor began to show itself in tha sparkling of bis eyes and tha widening of his mouth. "Some of that, sir," the eld gentle man broke out, impatiently; "d'ye hear?" The waiter slipped back and laughed the story to his chief. At the place in dicated this line appeared: "Unless otherwise ordered, cream will be put in coffee before drawn, as it im proves the flavor." The old man could not read. Doa't Barker Tale Coaeett. Don't imagine that some ona yon hap pen to dislike is hating you, or'vorking against yon. It Uxccre probable that he is not even thinking of yon, and scarcely knowa of your existence. It is just as muck tha part of conceit to im agine that every ona ia the world hates yon, as to imagine that every one is in love with you, and far mora disagree able. She Will yon believe me if I say that I am only 29 years old? He Why uft? Young ladies are seldom moic than 30 years olduFliegetvU Elaetter. DIRECTORS: A. ANDERSON, Prest. J. H. GALLEY. VI Praa't. CvT. KOEN, Cashier. O. ANDERSON. T. ANDEltJO. JACOB OBEI8EN.. HENRY RAGATZ, JOHN J. SULLIVAN. First National Bank, Columbus, Neb. Reiort of Coiiitin lay 17, 1IH. RESOURCES. Loans and Dlsconats U. 8. 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