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VOLUME XXIL-NL'MBER 14.
WHOLE NUMBER 1106.
COLtJMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1891.
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Columbus State Bank
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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. Bonds
Kaal estate, fnri.fi.ure and
31X1.879.35
15.220.00
flxtnrea 17,985.38
Dne from other banks f23.772.33
Dee from U. 8 Treasury . 675.00
Cash on hand 15,3.45 39.92S.S7
$279,990.40
LIABILITIES.
Capital and imrrlus 80,090.00
Un lividd profits 10.428.14
National l-aak notes outstanding 13,500.00
Red Bcounts lt!.881.21
Duo depositors 156,181.05
$276,990.40
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ttery Good.
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