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mmmammmmasmmm -taT j?-V . ,. . "hjt-t-- A .--:3 5? 3 '.'" 5'' ." ? v - -r- WHOLE NUMBER 1113- VOLUME XXII.-NUMBER 21. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1891. ft ft fly r i W lomm uLffmmte ! J7 A A. T a U : !V THE OLD RELIABLE Columbus State Bank (OtaawtBaattawananaJ 4i Pajx Wcrcst oi Tine AMD labs Loais n Seal Estate. XBBUE3 BIGHT DRAFTS ON Omaha, Chieg. Hw Tea ausd all SELLS STEAMSHIP TICKETS. .. ' BUYS GOOD NOTES c left HelfflfU Ciwtoaur. when they Need Help. OmCEBS AMD DIIXCTOBJ : LEAXDER GERHARD, President R. H. HENRY. Vice-President. JOHN BTAUFFER, Cashier. If. BBUGGEB, G. W. HCLST. COMMERCIAL BANK, OF i COLUMBUS. NEB. HAS AN Aiiioriied Capital of $500,000 Paid ii Capital - OFFICERS: a H. SHELDON. Pret't. " . U- V. H. OEHLBICH. Vlce-Pree't. C. A. NEWMAN. Cashier. DANIEL 8CHKAM. Ant Cash. STOCKHOLDERS : C. H. Sheldon. J.P.Becker, Herman P. H.Oehlrich, Carl Blank.. Jonaa Welch. W. A. Mo lUiater. J. Henry Wnrdeman, H. M. Winslow, Gor W. Galley, a C. Grey, Frank Borer. Arnold F. H. Oehlrlcb, Henry Loaeke, Gerhard Jjoscke. eVBank of deposit ; interact allowed on time d.poitu; bny ana eell exchange m United Statee aid Europe, and buy and aell available aeeuritlea. We shall be pleased to rjoelv roar twain. We solicit your patronage. 8dec37 jl. dussell; FYMF8 BBPAIBED ON 8H0B3 " i. KOTIGB, Offva.SL MfTPMK Post-atloa. Judicious Advertising awl ARsBWaw bSbBbEsb) Creates Ban j a new business, ... Enlarges many an old business, i; -L- Revivea many a dull busineat, rtescues many a iosi uutuneaB, " Saves many a fiuling busmen, - - Preserves many a large business, Becures sucoass in any budneas. C baalawaa, inaina Xdrtsis THE JOURNAL Atteiaia,ecaettla kaataaepM. thee vao know aaajanri,tieeewaokoww;iaatBaywBWa pay (ervbat they et. We ctiallaf. ooMfariaa Sk aaycoaatryvaper ia tavwarJd iatUaia vita amy coaatry pabUaaiac If ta I ta Tax Joobxal. Taia, better tkaa alaa. aaoit the el C seoal who fa, Jootjcai. Try walk. tf JLSillMI PATENTS saSl Aaa Waakt.! aatBMiiftaBMajaaaaBa9aBW la ataatafl ta aaw aajaaae aaar ipfiw St aNaawaaaavawaaaPk SOllillZEB UPPEHIfiS. A Brief Compendium of tbi Busy World's Erents. PBACTICING FOR WAR. IMPORTANT MANEUVERS OP EUROPEAN ARMIES. Garaaaa aael Aaatrtaa IaSmatry rtckt a Bl.oaU.aa BatU.-Fr.aea Trawa Shaw Oraat Aalamatlea-Sm.a.laaa Mmplmf WlUt CcBf)l.t aw TheOppfriU maacureta ot taeOermam tA Auatriaa armies the Srat day doVeioped Into aa Infantry battle on frfct scale, the lafaatry belma; supported by ta artillery on both sMe. The conflict was hotly aua talaed tor many hours, the Eighth corps sally falling back on Schwartzenow, around which they have been blrouacklng tonight. The Gorman and Austrian em perors watched the engagement with keen Interest, being on the field several hours. Archduke Albrecht sicted as umpire. A few sunstrokes occurred, but the troops wets generally hardy and lilt!-. effected by heat. Emperor William's dcalrv to closely watcb the movements lod him several times to hastily mount and dismount, th result be ing fatigue felt In his recently injured knee. All the newest f.gpilauccs of smokeless powder were Used to an enormous extent. The plans laid down for the army maneu vers In France have been somewhat modi fled to avoid the destruction of the crops. The evolution of the second day of the ma neuvers, showed both men and horses In splendid condition. The animation of the troops was remarkablo when the excessive hat Is considered. There were many cases of sunstroke. Chiefly Infantry and artil lery were engaged. It was found that the reserves endured the fatigues of tho day better than the young soldiers. Tho em ployment of captive balloons proved a great success. The use of smokeless powder made It possible for 1I the evolutions to be clearly observed. Farm.ra are Well Pleased. Secretary Busk has been in receipt of tel egrams from different portions of the Unit ed States congratulating him on liU success In securing tho admission of American pork Into Germany. The nature of thrso tele grams, tho secretary says, demonstrates the wide and deep Interest taken by the people In the matter and faith that the markets of the country will ultimately be benefited thereby. Tho first inspection under the new act began about the 20th of June. Since then frequent correspondence has been had between tho German and American governments, which finally cul minated In tho agreement. Tho agricultu ral department at this time is inspecting about 1,600 hogs por day for export. Havrtr.BdiBK Tales of Cruelty. Fourteen more Jewish rcfugscs from Rus sia arrived at Chicago and tell heartrending tales of cruelty. Among them is Lieut. Skom, an officer in the Russian army and the possessor of medals given him for bravery. Even ho could not escape the edict of expulsion. Ivan -Banltzkoff, the father of six children, was compelled to dis pose of an estate worth 05,000 roubles for 2,000 roubles, was forcibly ejected from Moscow and compelled to waudor about all sight with bis wife, who was raving ia a delirium of fever. Salclde Before Hanging. The history of the gallows tells no more heinous story than that of tho execution of Louis Bulling, tho St. Joseph wlfo mur derer, at Savannah, Mo. Just before the time for the execution the doomed maa shot himself, in a vain effort to commit suicide, and finally died on the gallows, shrieking for mercy and cursing bis execu tioners. Iaterstato Soldiers' and Sailors' Jtouatoa. The interstate soldiers and sailors' re union, to bo held in McCook, Neb., Septem ber 29 to October S, will surpass all previous efforts ia the state. Gen. Alexander Mc Cook, after whom the town la named, and Ex-Gov. Oglesby, of Illinois, and Gov. Fifer ot the same state will be present. forest If Ires la T.xas. Great damage Is being done in Texas by Ires which are raging in the forests. Al ready many thousands of ties have beea burned, as well as lumber, timber and fences. A drenching rain is badly needed. Cotton is dying on the stalk from drouth. IN THE EAST. A joint political discussion has been arranged to take place at Ada, O., in September between Gov. Campbell and Maj. McKinley. Q At Oswego, N. Y., a balloon which was being inflated suddenly rose. Geo. Wood was caught in the ropes and car ried up about seventy feet, when he fell, bead downward, and was killed. The steamer Dun Murry of Belfast, which sailed from New York for Ant werp with a cargo of grain, sank about 800 miles east of New York. She had a crew of twenty-eight men commanded by CapL McMoran. Eight of the crew are lost. Mayob Grant, of New York City, made a personal visit to the scene of the Park Place disaster. He found, while looking through the debris, the bodies of two victims badly charred and muti lated. He then issued directions that all the debris be cleared away at once. Dkivbx Insane by a fortune teller, Mrs. Catherine McCabe occupies a cell In the Pennsylvania hospital at Phila delphia. A neighbor told Mrs. McCabe some time ago that a Mrs. Jackson, a fortune teller, could tell her the future. The woman had a talk with the sooth sayer and paid her a hard earned dollar. The fortune teller pictured a dreadful future and demanded another dollar, at the same time declaring that if It was not paid she would put a spell on the deluded woman. Mrs. McCabe tried to pay the money, but was so poor she could not get it together. The fortune teller pursued her, and Mrs. McCabe went raving crazy, and believes she is haunted. Nellie Jackson, the colored soothsayer, has been locked up charged with fortune telling. Ges. R. G. Dtbenfukth, who was sent to Texas early in August in charge of the rainmaking expedition, has re turned to Washington full of enthusiasm over the success of the experiments. He gave an interesting account of the heavy rains which the balloon firing produced time and again in a section of th. country best suited for the trial. None of the firing failed to produce rain within a short time. The apparatus, including the balloons used, batteries, and extras, was transported from Wash ington to Midland the latter part of July, and on arriving at the Texas town the machine was taken caravan style to a large ranch, twenty-three miles outside of the place, where the owner, Mr. Nelson Morris of Chicago, had put everything at Gen. Dyrenfurth's dis posal to facilitate the test A great many difficulties were encountered, however, and delays caused by the high winds, which almost amounted toa gale at times. On one occasion the oxygen furnace got out of repair, .and the in tense heat of that section did not make alters the easiest in the world. Be sides, two large water tanks had to be made for use in Midland, and these ea Ulled the loss of another tea days. The Baal ring occurred Aug. 24, and Oen. Dyreaf urth says this was the mast In terestlng- of the aaatber. Up to that time the ranchmea hadbeen soMethlng or the doubttag Thoatsi order-, but were beginning, to warn la their, ideas, al though still unconvinced. All thought that dry weather would again be the rule after fecttat rain anil appeared anxious to hav the expedition prove a success, so they almost begged Gen. Dyrenf urth to postpone the explosions until the stora changes were better. A large crowd of sightseers, attracted by the affair, had come uo f real 1 Paso and also took their turn laughing at the experiments, as there was not a cloud visible anywhere. Gen. Dyrenfurth, however, decided it .the best itmb to prove conclusively whether the expedi tion WaS going to be a pronounced fail ure or a big success, and the firing commenced. Explosions were made from 8 to 11 p. m. without intermission, when the party retired for the night. At 4 a. m. the longed-for storm came up from the northwest and rain fell copi ously, accompanied by frequent thunder crashes. This left no doubt of the mat ter, and the head of the expedition re turned to Midland en route to Washing' toa. The apparatus and the nine as sistants remained at the ranch, and Gen. Dyrenfurth expects ta go to El Paso within the next few Weeks to held Other tests ot the rain-making plan. Authobittks at Washington have re ceived a telegram from the United States marshal of the southern district of Alabama stating that a mob of fifty persons has driven a number of families out of their homes in Choctaw county, Ala. Most of them have fled into Miss issippi and left their homes, crops and cattle unguarded. IN THE WEST. Thb census office has Issued a bulletin on irrigation In Wyoming. There are 1,917 farms irrigated out of a total of 3,240. the total area of land in these 1,917 farms is 1,506,850 acres, upon 229, 676 acres of which crops were raised by Irrigation in the year 1889. In addition there were 240,000 acres irrigated for grazing purposes. The average first cost of water right is $3.62 per acre, hnd the average cost of preparing the soil for cultivation. Including purchase price of land, f9.48 per acre. The aver age present value of the irrigated land of the state. Including buildings, etc, is 31.40'per acre, showing an apparent profit, less cost of buildings, of 9 18.30 per acre. The average annual cost of water Is 44 cents per acre, which de ducted from the average annual value of the products per acre, leaves an average annual return of $7.81 per acre. Thb first hundred pounds of sugar made under the sugar bounty clause of the McKinley bill, has been shipped fromChlno, Cat, to Commissioner of Internal Bevenue Mason. The sugar Inspector for California estimates that the various companies engaged in the production of beet sugar in that state will this season produce upward of 15, 000.000 pounds. The sugar factories of Kansas are also in full operation, and reports received at the bureau of agri culture, Washington, indicate that the production of sugar from beets, sorghum, maple syrup and can will.be up to the original estimates of productions under which the bounty was estimated at $10, aoo.ooo per year. , Thk whole wheat crop Just harvested In North Dakota exceeds 50,000,000 .bushels. Commissioner of Agriculture Helgeser's official estimate places the iwheat acreage at 3,000,000 acres, with an average yield of seventeen bushels to the acre, making the aggregate yield 1,000,000 bushels, and this estimate will fall short of the actual crop. Wheat threshed in Grand Forks county last week yielded thirty-eight bushels to the jeer. In Nelson county two and one half acres yielded 235 bushels of oats. i Moxtava cattlemen have been troubled recently by cattle thieves. News - has been received .from Custer county that Jerry Thompson, a notor ious rustler, and his companions, were caught in the act of changing brands and that the cattlemen had taken the law into their own hands and promptly lynched the entire party. ! Jackson Fletcher, a full-blooded Chbctaw, was sentenced to be shot at Caddo, I. T., on Sept. 30. He killed another Choctaw last winter, for which he is to pay the death penalty. It is the law of the territory that when an Indian la convicted of murder ha is to be shot. ' Focb Canadians arrested at Pembina, !N. D., for violating the alien labor con tract law were ordered sent back by the United States superintendent of Immi gration. Extensive stock yards are to be es tablished on the Stlckney tract at Chi cago, with Elmer Washburn as superin tendent. ' Aw aeronaut was killed at Detroit, taich. He fell a thousand feet while performing on a trapeze. The Sioux Indians of South Dakota claim $10,000,000 from the government lor the destruction of game. THE SOUTHERN SUMMARY. Thk extra session of the forty-seventh general assembly of Tennessee has con vened. The chief business to come be fore the body is the settling of questions that have grown out of the recent trouble between the miners and con victs at Briceville, referring to the abo lition of the lease system, and to the re moval, rebuilding and enlarging of the state prison. The lease system as now 'operated yields the state $100,000 per annum, and if it Is abolished the tax rate of the state must be increased. The military laws are to be changed, so as to give the executive more power in emer gencies like that at Briceville. The criminal laws are to be revised, so as to send fewer offenders to the penitentiary, probably establishing the whipping post for misdemeanors or establishing houses of correction for youthful offenders. The body will be in session twenty days, but it is not thought that the work b- fore it can be attended to in that time. If it cannot an extraordinary session will be called. Reports from all parts of the cotton belt show that cold weather and worms in Texas and the Mississippi valley states and excessive rains in the .southeastern states have been dis astrous to the cotton crop the last week. Not a single encouraging report comes from Mississippi, the cold dry weather having caused shedding all over the state and the appeoranee of worms, which seems to be general. The loss is placed all the way from 15 to 50 per cent. In Louisiana the situation is not much better. Noacctdkbt which has ever hap pened in North Carolina approaches in horror or fatality the one which befell the westbound fast mail on tho Western North Carolina railroad near Statesviile. More than twenty passengers were killed outright, nine seriously injured, and about twenty badly bruised and shaken up. Lank quantities' of dynamite hare .been exploded from the highest peak of the Sorocco mountains in New Mexico. As a recalt, the heaviest rata of the Tear fall, breakiag the drouth. THE GREAT NORTHWEST j4Oh. THE LATEST NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST: Icssas f Criaa aad Casualty In SMth Dakata iBsprev.aa.at Kta - Thrswghewt th Comewaltk-V-ris Kvats or Mer. Thaa Vasal Iaaw Bwrtsjt. Thk annual convocation ot the Indian churches of the Episcopal denomination assembled at Rosebud reservation this year. The meeting gathers delegates from ail the .Sioux reservations. The Indians travel by'team from Standing Bock and Sisseton. The Bosebud church entertains all visiting members, furnishing abundant rations among the meetings. The meetings are held under a large booth made from boughs and branches, with a seating capacity of 500. This is built on Antelope creek, just east of St. Mary's school. The Indian churches take great interest In these meetings. Bishop Hare is very warmly welcomed by his Indian churches after his return from Japan;. h Dakota Crops; Thk weather bureau it Huron gives crop reports from fifteen North and thirty-one. South Dakota counties. In almost every locality tho injury by. the frost Is shown to be less than at first re ported. Corn, flax, and in a few locali ties wheat and oats are considerably damaged. The cool weather prevented rapid ripening of grain, and the harvest is considerably retarded. In South Da kota the frost injury Is chiefly to late corn, flax and vines, the aggregate being very small. Threshing is in full blast. The yield of wheat and oats Is from 10 to 20 per cent, greater than estimated. AH Impertaat Lead CAs Battled. Thk land office at Pierre rendered an Important decision In a contest case for a valuable quarter section of land oppo site Pierre. The decision was in favor of a homesteader named Jennings and against the Allison Town Site company. The town site company had platted the land and sold lots to numerous parties all over the country at from $10 to $100 per lot, and guaranteed the title. The land in controversy is quite valuable, as it is the only point in this vicinity for a railroad bridge to be built across the Missouri river. Black HlUs sad th. World's Fair. A CAix has been Issued in the Black Hills for a convention to be held at Deadwood Sept. 9 for the purpose of taking steps towards having the Black Hills represented at the world's fair. The matter under consideration will be whether the Black Hills shall join with eastern Dakota in raising necessary funds to make a proper display for the state, or whether the hills shall make a separate Black Hills exhibit. Reopened for Baalaeaa. Ten stations on the Chicago & North western in the vicinity of Huron, which were closed last fall because of lack of business, have been reopened. They are Esmond, Cavour, Holablrd.Appleby, Dempster, Broadland, Zell, Seneca, Manchester and Bockham. Several other stations will be reopened In a few days. Iaviua to th. Irrljratlea Cragreaa. Chairman Rice, of the South Dakota state board of railway commissioners, has received an invitation to attend an irrigation congress to be held in Salt Lake City on Sept 15, as representative at large from South Dakota. He will endeavor to be present. After Bloax Falls Saloons. Thk committee of one hundred hss again commenced war on the Sioux Falls saloons. THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA. EvsatS Great as Saaall f Interest All Araaad th Stet. C. A. Schultz shot and mortally wounded J. P. Farr, near Doniphan, Neb. Both men were prominent farm ers, with lands adjoining. The men had trouble for some time, and Schultz, who had been drinking heavily the past few days, told his family he would never again, eat sleep or drink until he killed Farr. He cleaned his shotgun, loaded it with shot, bullets and chunks of lead. Then going to Farr's place he walked up to within fifty feet of the latter, who was working in the field, and shot him. Farr will die. Schultz surrendered to the authorities. Norfolk CiUseas Complain. Thb business men of Norfolk have filed a complaint with the. state board of transportation through Charles H. Johnson, alleging that Norfolk is dis criminated against in every direction north, south, east and west. The com plaint quotes rates local between Sioux City and South Sioux City as in force .by the Chicago & Northwestern to prove this. The complaint goes on to say that when the board of transportation held a meeting at Norfolk a petition was handed in purporting to represent the business interests of the city, claiming that the merchants were satisfied, but as many of the said merchants handled a class of goods which do not come un der the high classification they had no complaints to make. Being satisfied that those who do handle the higher class of goods are most unjustly dis criminated against, the merchants who sign this complaint request the board to take up the matter of interstate rates and prosecute the case for them before the interstate commerce commission of the United States. They also ask that the local rates between Sioux City and Nor folk be put on an equality with the Grand Island rates and that Norfolk be put on an equality with other towns in Nebraska on the Chicago vfc Northwest ern system equally distant from Chicago. A Nebraska City Scandal. Mrs. Mabt A. Saboent, of Nebraska City, has asked for a divorce from her husband on the ground of extreme cruelty. Sargent charges E. C. Bick ford, a prominent merchant who has boarded with the family, with being re sponsible for the trouble. Bickford de nies, and all the parties, who are promi nent church people, are trying to argue their case in the newspapers. Sensa tional developments are expected when the case comes to trial. T Ceteals. Beheaslaas. A move is said to be on foot by an Omaha syr.d:cate-who own nine sections of land in Lincoln county to purchase tve;iiy additional sections aod colonize the whole with Bohemians, limiting each family to 100 acres. " " - i . c - A Big Crowd gap.il d. It is thought the western Nebraska G. A. R. reunion,' which takes place at North Plarte,' SepVlS ol8, will tie the largest gathering of old soldiers ever held ia that part of the state. Caaap aswraaaa Straws: fcy KJgfctalag. Camp 8hkbxan, at Grand Island, was struck by lightning and nine old vet erans were injured, but not so seriously bat that they will recover. Wheat 1st Waatora K.hrasks. Wkkat will average tweaty-lva bush els par aara ail over western Neteaaka. FOREIGN JOTTINQS. " BftATJ8TBKKts London correspondent has made another survey df the) Euro pean crop situation with the result df increasing His estimate of the wheat de ficlency of that continent (and British Islands) to 320,000,000 bushels. The situation will not be changed' materially if the United States be credited with having raised 40,000,000 more than waa recently supposed, yet the latter may be offset by the fajct. that Russia has practically no wheat to spare for export, instead of the 40000,000 Which Dora busch has estimated is likely to be sup plied to thai country from dther parti of Europe. And this idea Is supported by the Russian Finance Menengefi which says that no surplus of wheat ia expected from the new crop. He notes also that' the potato crops are turning out badly, which will necessitate an In creased use of grain. The Hungarian estimate of shortage on both wheat and rye In Europe, amount to about 400,000,000 bushels, a quantity greater than the most liberal allowances can figure out as possible to I be spared from other parts of the world. xne Hungarian est ibuh gives auaua at surplus br a little less that! 50,000,000 bdshelsdf wheat, but makes out the rye deficit to be three times that sur plus. The Vienna congress figures show a European shortage of 330,000,000 bushels rye and 91,000,000 of wheat, ac cording reasonably well ' with those from other sources mentioned. Thk hopes for the permanency of European peace have already been dis placed by fears which are based on a number of significant i adts pointing to an early war. The German govern ment is watching with nervous anxiety the -massing of Russian troops along its frontier, and has fouad it necessary to add 18,000,000 florins to the war budget in order to increase the effective strength of the artillery and infantry. Laturi from acute military observers at Odessa concur in statements of the unprece dented activity in the military depots of Bessarabia, the amount of cavalry there being especially astonishing. The camps along the Russo-Roumanian frontier constantly refill with troops passing toward points unknown. Austria Is on guard against a sudden declaration of war, followed by the dash of myriads of enemy across the frontier. The same feeling of distrust and uncertainty ex ists in Bulgaria, and the government is keeping a close watch on Servia, where, under tho cover of the yearly maneu vers, the reserves are rising around Pirat, and two brigades are massed be tween PIrat and Nisschl. All this is re sponded to by the sudden calling out of the Bulgarian reserves for practice with the Mannlicher. rifles Add to this the colossal character of the French ma neuvers and the similar demonstrations in Italy, Austria and Germany, and it Is only natural to find a recurrence of the war scare. A Valparaiso special says that the Chilian insurgents owe their success in a great measnre to the skill and experi ence of Col. Korner, who was brought from Germany by the Chlliaa govern ment as Instructor in modern warfare, but who quarreled with Balmaceda aad gave his services to t'.tn opposition. The fighting was not only fi rce bat fiendish. The bodies of the Balm-icedan generals, Barbosa and Alcerreca, who fell In the hottest part of the engagement, were frightfully mutilated. At sundown riotous mob laborers united with the rabble of deserters from the govern ment, set fire and looted many buildings on the outer edge of the city belonging to Balmaceda's partisans. Fourteen fires raged all night. Two million dol lars' worth of property was destroyed. The city rang all night with rifle report and in the morning the bodies of 200 rioters and pillagers littered the streets. Dr. C. L. Steich, of Berlin, while ex perimenting with cocaine, to determine its efficacy as a local anesthetic, made the discovery that a weak salution of the drug injected under the skin with a syringe renders the flesh at that point insensible to pain. Tho effect of the water causes a slight swelling only. The space marked by the swelling remains insensible to pain for some minutes, so that an incision may be made without causing the slightest pain. A parti of officials sent out from St. Petersburg to kill animals infected with disease in order to prevent disease from spreading was attacked at Maikon by a crowd of inhabitants. A detachment of Cossacks ordered to quell the disturb ance was received with a shower of stones. The Cossacks then fired a vol ley, killing seventeen persons and wounding many others. The Victorian legislature has passed the federation bill, at the same time I srlnntlncr an amendment excluding New Zealand from the federation. The New South Wales legislature Gl to 47 has rejected a motion in favor of protective duties. The Vosaiche Zeltung of Berlin, says if its Dardanelles report Is true, an English fleet may be expected in the Dardanelles to perform sentry duty, which, by a treaty of stipulation, is the business of Turkey. In many parts of Germany the twen tieth anniversary of the battle of Sedan (fought Sept. 2, 1870) was celebrated with prayer and thanksgiving, with festivity and general rejoicing. A bloody revolution is threatened in Mexico. THE NATIONAL GAME. Gas Wra aad Lest-How th Clabs . Now Staad. Following Is a showing of the standing of each of th teams of the different associa tions: VATIORAt. LSAOUa L. c W. L. flc Cleveland9..Sl 00 .438 Brooklvns...47 53 .44 ChleagOS....a 41 J&7 BostO&S S3 46 .574 New Yorks.se 45 JTA Cincinnati. 41 6t .1 9 PhUadelp's.JSS 40 J5Plttsburgi..43 C4 3t AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. Pel W. L, fc Bostons 78 33 .703Corainbn...53 63 .457 St. Louis.. ..78 43 jBSMllwaukeeft.47 63 .47 Baltimores..09 49 OjLouisvUles.Ji 78 .3M Phlladelp'aJie 53 JSCTlWashUigt's 3a 69 .349 ASSOCIATION. W. L. prfl W. L. f e. Sioux Cltvs.W. 59 JCT.Omaha 49 49 i KansasCry57 53 JUslDenvera.... 47 Ot .433 THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cattus Common to prime.f 3 Hoos Shipping grades 4. Oaaskaatar .. V Whbat Cash UOsssaWVBSsie) .... "An.. ..... .. 0ssUasBX. ... fPXssaX ... .. . . Bunas Westers dairy ... . Soon Westera.. SIOUX CITY. 85 5 15 m 6.25 5.35 4.50 65J$ .Wa .8 .66 1.01 .18 16Ji 5.0S 3.59 5.10 4.50 .8 .35 65 16 16 Cattlb Fat stesra . Cattm Feeders . . . ...4.00 ... 2.75 -;.1 4.70 .a 35 vJaSB ...a . Oasssw. . -9 BBBBWB ...... OMAHA LIVE STOCK. Catxlb Coauaoa to prime.f 3.6S Hoes Shippers 4.85 NEW YOBK PKOJXJCE. 5.10 5.15 Whxax. Corn... 1-04 5i 1.04; .74 .75 m e m ABOUT RAIN-MAKING. GEN. DYRENFORTH'S OPERA TIONS EXPLAINED. Th Pact That aoaadlag a i- Patent f aa Araay alv.RalaaUl meat. First rl- CwipTHaar ah Scientists, farmers, and ranchmen, and In fact the entire reading public, have recently had their attention cen tered on Texas and the Successful oper ations of the Government -rainmakers. The cowboys oT the) "Staked Plains" of that State have been treated to a free exhibition of fireworks inch aa has sel dom If ever been equaled In the Lone Star State. Tho coyotes and antelopes have been scattered In terror by this terrific cannonading of the experimenters, aad to the joy of the ranchman copious ralas have fallen on the parched prairies of the Llano Estacado, breaking a drought OB. DTRSWrORTa. of long duration and averting the dis tress and suffering which would have fol lowed a few more weeks of dry weather. Before the dose of the late war, It bo came so conspicuous a fact that heavy rain would almost inevitably follow a hot engagement that tho storm was fully anticipated, and was regarded as one of thi factor in tho case to be con sidered by a leader wheu forming bis plan- upon th) eve of a battle. In most of these case t'.e st. rras began atout twelve hours after tho hoavy firing, gen erally arising in the night following the battle, and in caset of continual light- nixiira thb jug for several days, as In the battles of hie Wilderness, they occurred nightly J luring ine continuance oi me engage faents. History a!s shows that during the Mexican war many battles on the trid plains of Mexico were followed by topious rainfalls, a condition previously llmost.unknown In some of those locali ties. Gen. Danfel Buggies, of Fredericks burg, Va., was among the number of hose who observed the regularity of Ibis phenomenon or rainfall after bat tles, and soon after tho closo of the war se applied for a patent on the Idea of pioduclng rainfall artlficla'ly by means f explosions in the upper air." Gen. Ruggles' Ideas wcro crude, but ha ob tained his patent and thereby the exclu sive rlcht to the wholesale and retail trade In the artificial rain-storms In this country. However, when Congress took up the matter and began to talk of in vestigating the subject Gen. Ruggles freely surrendered all his rights in favor of the government After Gen. Ruggles had taken out his papers the subject of artificial rainfall received little attention for twenty years or moie, but as the grain and cattle in terests extended Into the semi arid re gions of the West and Southwest, the possibilities of the subject began to be discussed, and many of the prominent farm and ranch owners of the West were soon convinced that the scheme was well worth a trial. C B. Farwell and Nelson Morris, of Chicago, both of whom are largely -Interested In stock lands, took the matter before Congress and by dint of earnest agitation ob tained last year an appropriation of 2,000 for uso by the Department of Agriculture In prosecuting Inves tigations in this line, and the last Congress added 87.000 to this sum for a series of practical experiments. At the urgent request of the friends of the scheme Gen. Robert G. Dyenforth con sented to superintend the investigations and exper metits A series of tentative experiments were first prosecuted near Washington at which a number of prominent officials and scientists were present. At the time of the operations in the District of Co lumbia the explosions produced great alarm throughout the suburbs, and a petition was immediately presented to Undo Jerry Rusk praying that he re move "his dynamiters" to a region more remote and secluded, and an arid spot in Texas was selected. The mode of operation which General Dyrenfbrth adopts is to form a "line of battle" covering a position about three miles long and two deep Along the front of the line giant powder is fired from mortars, and bombs of "rackarock" mixture are exploded. Behind this a second liae is formed, consisting of fifty cloth kites held by electric wire and bearing loads of dynamite. The dyna mite is exploded when the kites are high in the air by means of a cap and an electric current which Is passed through the wires The dynamite is suspended from the kites by wires of a length sufficient to prevent the kites from be ing injured by the explosions. A third Hue is formed behind the kites consisting of exp'osive balloons of 10, 12, and 20 foot diameter charged with oxhy drogen gas, which is one of the most violent explosives known to science Ten to twenty of these balloons are in the air at once, each containing from 500 to 5,000 cubic feet of tbe explosive gasea The" concussions from the explo sion of one of these balloons is so great that it must be allowed tore to a great height in order to prevent injury to the operatives and s-urrounding objects The explcs'on is produced by means of electric wires o - by a time iuse so regul ated that the explosioii will take place when the balloon hss had tirw: to rea-.-h the proper ult.tndc, wti cb varies accord ing tO CODllJtOUj, ifvliJ !,va lo V,ow) feet !-' .1 V.A. "wss'lk 9 1 ' aOB L ji1 ' Isw '-r t JktamfgTTTmMlTtnMl - "It IITI . -wR5 fW II, rli.'UKSSmTij&Sr ' ' aaWU "g ajBifljpv llii I mlA AS I rSwsrr"' -aawEnsjaantjriTinJca " !rHrjTL . . ' v fIj EjjBsgpgpu Jy2 1. JPwK Jj SssMMaasSfc' " In caarglsg the balleoaa with the gaasa the empty eavelope b first pread a the ground aad filled oae-thlrd f aO with oxygen. This is do by atUcUnf taw balloon by a hose to retorts filled with chlorate of potassium aad manga nese. The retorts are then subjected to iatease heat ia oxygen furnaces con structed for the purpose, when oxygen gas is geaeratad and passea through a lime-water wash Into the ballooa. Whea the ballooa Is oae-thlrd full it is detached from the oxygen apparatus and connected by a pipe with one of the large hydrogen generators, which com pletes the Inflation.- The hydrogen gen erator consists of a large tank half-lull of water and iron borings turned from cast-iron projectiles in the navy yard at Washington. Into this sulphuric acid, er vitriol. Is slowly decanted. The acid ! separates the water icto its gases, by- idfogen and oxygea, and the iron takes J up the oxygen, allowing the free hydro gen to escape through a pipe and wash . barrel into the baHooa, which is held captive by a netting attached to saad The observation ascents are made In balloons of twenty feet diameter. The balloon Is held captive at a height of 1,000 feet by a strong cable while the meteorologist in the basket communi cates the readings of his Instrument through a telephone to those on the ground below. The cable Is then let go, and the balloon rises to the height of over two miles, and then descending lands the occupant at a distance of sev eral miles from the starting point A carriage has alroady started from the headquarters, however, and tho aero nautical observer is seen riding quietly back on terra firma. with his balloon, folding basket, and instruments safo'y packed away. - Three closely related principles of theories are recognised and .acted anon by General-Dyrenf orth and -his party fn their experiments, which, stated briefly and bereft of tecbalcal terms, are as follows: First, most rain- 1 storms have their origin In the . mingling of different currents of the upper air Btrats, some of which are warm and moisture-laden (in any locali ty) while others are much cooler. As soon as these currents begin to mingle, the warm, moist current Is cooled and its moisturo Is thus squeezed out of it as from a sponge. This moisture first be comes visible as vapor or "cloud," and finally condenses Into rain. The process Is a progressive one and will generally mu tlply upon Itself from a very small baloons. beginning. The Immense air waves produced by the explosion of the bal loons at high altitudes start this mine lie? of currents which, progressing by the force of the latent heat released in the condensation of moisture, grows Into a storm center. The second theory Is that a contlaaona series of explosions jars together or ag glomerates the particles of moisture in the air Into rata drops, which are pre cipitated to the ground. The effect la evident after a heavy clap of thunder and has been repeatedly produced by General Dyenforth's party, heavy show ers having been shaken from light cloada from which no rain had been falling. To produce this effect the kites are used with dynamite cartridges attached. Gen. Dyrea forth does not claim that he has fully demonstrated the practica bility of producing rainfall artificially at all times and under all conditions, but it seems certain.- from observations made, that his operations have exerted marked Inflneace upon the condition af the weather and produced definite prac tical results in the midst of the arid "Staked Plains" of Texas. In the third place it Is believed that the frictional electricity which is gener ated in the Jarring of the earth and air at the point of the operations and so creates a magnetic field Into which the particles of moisture are drawn aad gathered. The explosions on and near the ground are especially calculated to secure this result. Paaalaa Eveata. Tailors now use the band sawforent .ting cloth. Ix six years Brazil has multiplied It debt four times. Molasses can be brought from Cuba In a tank vessel for two cents a gallon. The estimated wheat crop this year ia 563,000,000 bushels la the United States. Cbkrra Poxoek, in the Assam hills, British India, has a rainfall of over 500 inches per annum. It takes over oae-thlrd of the income of the Russian Government to pay the interest on its debt The total amount of life iasuraaee la Great Britain is nearly Ideatkal with the total national debt Norway is wealthier in nlekle orea than any other European country; ant .only two mines are now working. Ax electric drill In an Idaho mlae re cently performed the feat of boring a two inch hole through twenty feet of solid rock la four hours. Coxtotued experiments have still further reduced the cost of alumiaam. It can now be bought for one-fifth of what it cost three years ago A womax 71 years old and maay times a grandmother haa begun a breach of promise suit in New York. The defend ant is just one year her jnnior. Tire Czar of I ussla is reported to have uresent d th Stanford L'niversitv. in j California, with a complete ollectioa of I hussiau and Siberian minerals. MOKTAB rOB nBIHO rOWDBB. a. 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