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All commnnicatioas. to secure attention, renf to accompanied by the full name of the writ, r We reserve tho right to reject any maensenj.. and cannot agree to return the eame. o w a corespondent in every school-district Platte county, one of good judgment, awl r. liable iu every way. Write plainb. each i eiurately. Give ca facta. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBEK S. 1891. Republican State Ticket. Governor. , THOMAS J. MAJORS. Lieutenant Governor, R. E. MOORE. Secretary of State. J. A. PIPER. State Auditor, EUGENE MOORE. State Trefutunr, J. S. BARTLEV. Sup'tof I'ablic Inntniction. H. IL CORBETT. Attorney General, A. S. CHURCHILL. Superintendent 1 -nnrtri nnd liniliiingd, H. C. RUSSELL. Congressional Ticket. For Kepreeentative in Congress from Third District, OEO. D. MEIKLEJOIIN of Fullerton. County Ticket. county in blat Leiritdnture. GUS G. RECHER. For County Attorney, R. P. DRAKE. The state principals and superinten dents have a convention Oct. H and fi; among the subjects for discussion are: State Institute, Training High School Teachers. It should bo the aim of all political parties to secure honest men who lalnir for the country's good instead of their own measly pocket books. Central City Nonpareil. The main thing in this country is to develop our own natural resources, give employment to our own people, encour age home manufactures, diversify our industries, and thus supply work for all our people sit good wages. A New Jeiisev man recently lost by accident tho ends of two of his fingers. In experimenting for a remedy he suc cessfully grafted chicken claws on his disabled fingers, and now can do pretty good execution with them. The democratic stato convention at Omaha swallowed the head of tho pop ulist ticket, Holcomb and Gaffin, and tilled out tho remainder from their own number. Tho old-liners met in sepa rate convention and nominated an out-and-out party ticket. Such is politics this year in Nebraska. Senator Allen Overworked. Madiso.v, Neb., Oct. 2. Senator Allen's usually strong and distinct voice has become so hoarse and impaired from exposure by speaking out of doors that it will be necessary for him to rest a few days before resuming his engagements. However, he will resume his engagement at Hastings on Friday. Governor Waits Confident. Denver, Oct. 2. Governor Waito has returned after a three weeks' campaign ing tour through 1'3 counties in south western Colorado. He has been speak ing daily to largo audiences. He says that the state will go Populist again by a larger majority than that of two years ago. Holcomb and Van Wyck. Nebraska City, Neb., Oct. 2. Judge Holcomb and General C. H. Van Wyck will address the people of Nebraska City and Otoe county Wednesday evening, Oct. S, at the opera house. Knickerbocker Lost Two Men. New Orleans. Oct. 2. Tho Crom well lino steamship Knickerbocker ar rived from New York badh- battered and reporting the loss of two men. The Knickerbocker was in command of Cap tain Halsey and carried about 60 pas sengers. She got into the very teeth of the big storm and for 'M hours, was tossed about like a cork by wind and wave. In the midst of the big blow the mainmast was carried away at the hounds and the crew was set to work at once and while the meu were bravely battling to clear away tho wreckage a mountainous wave washed over the deck and when the ship righted herself again, Second Mate O'Neill and Seaman Han den were gone. They had been washed overboard and no effort could be made to rescue them. Much of the bulwarks of the vessel was battered in. Ran Into an Open Switch. Delano, Cal., Oct. 2. Passeuger train No. 20 ran into an open switch at a point five mile3 south of here and was wrecked. Two of the sleepers rolled into the ditch. All of the passengers were badly shaken np and some painfully, though not dan gerously, injured. The most painfully injured are: Robert Widney, collar bone broken and breast badly bruised; S. Hein man, foot crushed; unknown woman, back badly iujured; Pullman Conductor Caldwell, injured in the back. Marriage That Created a Stir. Orange, Mass., Oct. 2. The announce ment of the marriage of William L. Grout, one of the millionaire owners of a sewing machine works, to Miss Eliza Reynolds of Brockton, Mass., has created a big stir. A few months ago his first wife filed a libel suit for divorce and at tached her husband's property for $100, 000. This was almost immediately fol lowed by the statement that Mr. Grout had become a lejal resident of Arizona and had been granted a divorce there. Japanese Troops Landed. London, Oct. 2. The Times pub lished a dispatch from Shanghai stating that it is reported that &,OoO Japanese troops have been landed on the Sbang Tung coast between the Yellow river and TienTsin. Also a dispatch from Tien Tsin confirming the Shanghai dispatch, saying that Li Hung Chang is vigorously supported by the dowager empress. .American Consular Agent Dead. Colon, Oct. 2. Work on a limited scale has been resumed on the Panama fnvial. The resumption of work was marked by evidences of enthusiasm. Phillip G. Reilly, consular agent of the United States at Bocas del Torro, Colom bia, is dead. The government of Guate mala has declared a quarantine against all arrivals from Salvadorean ports. ppeaent posucnice, uie iim "" . w . .-- , find the name on our mailing list, J roin L.tc:, kA.v.;MVna, -aMAf.V nrint. OiUier on tlo ! nr MISSOURI OPENED WIDE Senator Vest and McKinley Do the Job. POPULISTS ABE AFTER iCAETTN. ferve Notice on the Senator That He Mast Support Ifrelling- GoTernor Waite Confident of a Populist Victory Repub lican Landslide In Connecticut Clark on Political Opinion. Kansas City, Oct. 2. Senator George 6. Vest opened the Democratic state campaign at the Auditorium in this city Monday night. Over 2,000 enthu siastic people crowded the large theater and accorded the speaker perhaps a; rousing a reception as any orator evei received in Kansas City. Upon entering the hall Senator Vest was greeted with uproarious applause, and when he arose to speak the cheering became an ova- j tion. He was introduced by John L. Peak and made what many people re gard as one of the strongest speeches of his career. He said in part: "If any one is here with the expecta tion that I will attack the president ol the United States or any other Democrat, that expectation will not be realized. Whatever differences of opinion as to public questions may exist between the president and myself, they shall not in terfere, so far as I am concerned with my duty in the hour of conflict and danger. My contest is now with the enemy, not with, Democrats. No word from me fehall furnish an excuse for lukewarmness or hesitation by Demo crats nor give encouragement to our foe. "Governor McKinley, in his recent speech at Bangor, Me., made the state- r ment that not a single pledge of the Democratic party had been redeemed, when the Democratic party has, in fact, repealed both the federal election law and the Sherman act, while the oppres sive provisions of the McKinley tariff have either been entirely eliminated or greatly modified and governmental ex penses largel decreased. The repeal of the Sherman act, which authorized the purchase of silver by the government, was accompanied by serious and irritat ing diversity of opinion in both the Re publican and Democratic parties. We believed then, and believe now, no coun try can be prosperous with an increasing population and decreasing money. Wo were told the repeal of the Sherman act would bring immediate relief, but the clouds have been darker and the business depression far greater since the retieal. The New York banks were still glutted with money, while the continued fall in prices of all commodities caused capital to avoid investment for fear of further shrinkage. Will Not Flood the Country. "Free coinage m the United States will not flood the country with silver as is so often predicted. The European na tions will not send the billions of silver which they use at a ratio of 15 to 1 as standard money to be coined here at the ratio of 10 to 1, which would involve an enormous loss in the ratio, besides cost of transportation. I protest against the United States continuing a policy which increases the burdens of the laboring and debtor class in order to increase the incomes of the rich." Taking up the tariff the speaker re peated the history of the passage of the new tariff bill as told by him in the senate, and declared thero was never a moment when the Wilson bill could have passed the senate. He said: "If any differences of opin ion on the subject exists between the president and myself it is that I am more extremo in my views and have long since discarded the fallacy of a tariff lor even incidental protection. The statement there was any issue between the president and myself as to tho tariff reform is false. If the president had contented himself with denouncing those who forced amendments upon us, I would have said nothing, but when he attacked tho whole senate indiscrimin ately for an action to which he had given his approval as absolutely necessary, I could not remain silent." HE MUST SUPPORT LEWELLING. Kansas Populists Serve Such a Notice on Senator Martin. Topeka, Kan., Oct. '-'. The Populist managers have served notice on Senator Martin that ho cannot expect Populist support for re-election unless he comes out squarely for tho re-electiou of Gov ernor Lewelling. The Journal says: "Martin bases his hopes ou a continuance of a Democratic balance of power in the legislative bodies and the reciprocal animosities of tho Republicans and Populists to be sufficient to elect him. We want to tell him now that he is a woefully mistaken man. Xo debased bushwhacker who goes down into the infamy on which this Overmyer ticket is based and conducted will ever be allowed to capture the plum. We are not attempting to issue a threat, but simply giving a straight tip. The next United States senator will either be a man friendly to the re-election of Governor Lewelling or he will be an out and ont Republican, as far as tho Popu lists are concerned. All aspirants fcr the job had better paste this in their hats." Clarkson's Political Opinion. Dns Moines, Oct. J. J. S. Clarkson, Iowa member of the national Republi can committee was in Des Moiues Mon day ou his way to New York. In a lengthy interview he said in regard to politics in western states that tho Repub lican partv with hard fighting would carry all of them. Governor Petitioner Declines. Portland, Or.. Oct. 2. Governor Penuoyer, in a letter declining the invi tation to fill engagements this week for the Populists iu Montaui, ud: "If the present ruinous degression in business and values, resulting directly from the demonetization or silver and not from any tariff taxation or change iu such taxation will not xersuade tho teople of Montana to vote against the political parties dominated by Wall street, and equally responsible for such demonetiza tion, then no persuasion of mine would be availing. Neither will they be per suaded though one arose from the dead, GOVERNOR M'KINLEY AT ST. LOUIS. He Made the Opening Address of the Mis souri Kepublican Campaign. St. Louis, Oct. 2. While Senator Vest was opening the Democratic campaign in Missouri at Kansas Cit Monday night, Governor McKinley was making the opening address of the Republican campaign here. It wa3 the third state which he has opened within a week. The immense crowd in Suburban hall overflowed the large building. Ex-Secretary of the Interior Noble was one of those on the stage. Hon. Chauncey I. Filley called the meeting to order and presented as chairman Hon. Charles Parsons, who, amid uproarious cheering, mentioned Governor McKinley as hi3 choice for the presidential candidate in lb9C. The cheering of thegreat audience be came almost cyclonic when Governor McKinley arose and continued for sev eral minutes. With an expression of amazement on his face 'the speaker be gan with: -Yonr chairman said that this was the opening of the Republican campaign in Missouri. I wonder in my heart what its close will be. Tho truth is," continued the governor, "that no hall is large enough for Republican meetings this year." A contrast was made between the in dustrial conditions that existed under the Republican tariff law and those ex isting at present, the result, it was charged, of Democratic legislation, and Governor McKinley inquired whether the audience thought it the business of congress to legislate for the benefit of the United States or of foreign nations. While Governor McKinley spoke in side the hall, Hon. Charles F. Joy and Congressman Bartholdt addressed an overflow meeting of 2,500 or 3,000 people outside. CORBETT MUST DO SOMETHING. Olympic Club Says He Must Fight Bob or t.., .: n:ra rtf ws j.r.T xiuin., vswk. .iuo uvcuujk World says: This telegram was sent to James J. Corbett by President William A. Scholl of the Olympic club. New Orleans: To J. J. CorbettviYasuun, N. H-: Th ,,.h.r'.m.rn,. un . 5 ..- Ing O'Donnell to challenge Fltzsimmona b7 manufacturers. Is not worthy of consideration. It was in The more workingmen out of employ thc Olympic'clnb the heavyweight cham-! ment the hank r the times, and the pionship was lost and won. It was in the harder the times tho less money is cir- Olympic club that both you and ritzsim mous won your greatest honors, and it is now within the province and the duty of the Olympic club to declare Bob Fitzsim mons the champion heavyweight of the world, should you persist in refusing his challenge, which is backed up with a side bet of 10,000. As far as the Olympic club is concerned, it is immaterial to me with whom the side bet is placed. We don't want to hold it. We offer a $25,000 purse, the winner to take all. Fitzsimmons has complied with every requirement. If you will not defend the title Fitzsimmonswill challenge and meet the best man that can be found in the world in February, 1895. In event you do not accept the challenge of Fitzsimnions by Thursday, Oct. 4, we will declare Robert Fitzsimmons the champion heavyweight of the world. W. A. Scholl. President. Egyptian Question Still Unsettled. Pakis, Oct. 2. The Figaro says that M. De Crais, the French ambassador at Loudon, has returned from that city much discouraged and that tho belief gains ground that he lias been entirely unsuccessful. The Figaro adds: "Our relations with Great Britain for some time past have been of a difficult nature. The truth is, discussion of the Egyptian ques tion is no long ventured upon between Paris and Loudon." The Paris Teuips, as already cabled, announce that De Crais has resigned and that he will be succeeded by Baron Do Conrcel, who was president of the Bering sea tribunal of arbitratiou. Change In Texas Kates. Chicago, Oct. 2. The Alton, Wabash and Missouri Pacific roads have issued a circular through Chairman Caldwell of the Western Passenger association an nouncing the discontinuance of all short line rates between points in Texas and points south of the Ohio river and west and south of Parkeraburg, W. Va. The application is only to tickets sold at St. Louis and Kansas City. An exceptiou is made of business to and from El Paso, Tex. Emperor William Not Welcome. London. Oct. 2. A Standard dispatch dated Paris says La Patrie has a flaming article on the report that Emperor Will iam proposes to visit Paris during the next exposition. The paper declares the German emperor will never be suffered to enter Paris until he shall have re turned Metz and Strasburg to France. Express Ilobery at Atchison. Atchison, Kan., Oct. 2. The Wells Fargo office at this place was robbed of a package containing $) ,350. The in dications are some expert thief got away with the money while C. M. Parker, the agent, and his assistants were tem porarily ont of the office or busily en gaged. Chicago Tribune Not Sold. Chicago, Oct. 2. The proprietors of the Chicago Tribune emphatically deny the statement made by the Philadelphia paper of the sale of The Tribuno to H. H. Kohlsaat or to any person or syndi cate. The property is not for sale. Safe Blower Make a 1,000 Haul. St. Josr.pH, Mo., Oct. 2. The post office at Gallatin was burglarized. The safe was blowu open and robbed of $2,000 iu stamps and money. There is no clew to the robbers. Mack's Itecord towered. Buffalo, Oct. 2. The 200-mile road record on the course from Buffalo to Erie. Pa., and return was cut by W. L. Steimal to lo hours, 21 minutes, 30 seconds. Trying to l'atch Vp Kates. San FitANCisco, Oct. 2. J. C. Stubbs, third vice president of the Southern Pa cific Railroad company, is enroute to Chicago, where he will join General Traffic Manager Gedso and Assistant Passenger Agent Horstburg, who have been in Chicago for several weeks, and assist them in patching up the trouble in the Transcontinental association. Died From Ileart Disease. Chicago, Oct. 2. The verdict of tho coroner's jury in the inquest on the bod of Miss Belle White, who died in Dr. Sophia Santia's facial massage in stitution, was that the deceased came to her death through functional heart dis ease, not by the sponge or the cocaine uved iu the wrinkle cure. Clad In Perfidy and Dishonor. Down With the Trusts! The Gorman tariff bill is the law of the land. Let it be enforced. It will be remembered that immediately prior to its passage in the senate Senator Mor gan introduced a series of resolutions determining the illegality of every com bination, conspiracy, trust, agreement or contract between two or more per sons that would restrain lawful trade or free competition or increase the price of any marketable commodity. The penal ty is fixed at a fine ranging from $100 to $5,000 and imprisonment for a term varying from three to twelve months. The attorney general is directed to in stitute proceedings through the several district attorneys of the United States. Let him begin. Let him begin with the Sugar trust Let him follow this up with the Whisky trust Dan Ijunont's Economy. Notwithstanding all we have heard about the economy in the war depart ment, Secretary Lamont managed to spend $5,000,000 more money in 1894 than his predecessor did during the pre vious fiscl year. NEW YORK'S OPINION. HER CONGRESSMEN REVIEW THE SPLENDID NOTHING" TARIFF. Payne, Bay and Sherman Score the Dem ocratic Legislation A Surplus of labor Must Result In Lower Wages The Prices of Farm Products Must Be Lower. The advocates of tho new tariff bill have made two claims in its behalf. They have asserted that it would great ly facilitate importations, and that this would result in reducing the cost of goods to the consumer. It does not re quire a prophetic eye to discern that their claims are the strongest indict ments that can be brought against the "splendid nothing. " Here is the logic in the case: The greater the imnorta- ' tion, the lesstho demand for home prod i . m..i .t- j i x TJZ , Tu'TT;.,,1 proI uuuuu a liumo, wio Buiaiier mo amouub manufactured. Tho smaller the amount manufactured, tho fewer workingmen rWlUliCU W IUO iCBO UN UgKrVKUlO P1U culated. Therefore what will it profit tho man out of work in this country if England and Franco and Germany are tho moro prosperous by reason of in creased exportations, evcu if as tho re sult there is a decrease in the cost of goods at home? James S. Sherman, M. C, Twenty-fifth District, New York. It is difficult to forecast the farreaoh ing effects of tho new tariff law. It is certainly to bo hoped that somo of its disastrous results have been discounted in the past 18 months. Ever since Dem ocratic control of the senate as well as of the house and tho executive became apparent tho universal prosperity then existing has given place to universal disaster and distress such as no pen can describe. This was largely due to the threatened assault upon American in dustries. Now that we can see tho ex tent of thrae attacks under the new law we may at least hopo that for the next 18 months distress and disaster will not bo so universal. Under the now law it is painfully evident that wages in many branches of industry must be cut down from 10 to 50 per cent, whilo in other branches tho framers of tho bill havo blundered into fair protection. That this cutting down process will bo attended with wide spread strikes is a matter of the most serious apprehension. Strikes are disas trous though tho striking workmen are in the right. They aro doubly disastrous when, as somotimes happens, tho work iugmau is in tho wrong. Thero is abundant reason for tho fear that tho strikes in the cotton and pottery indus tries will be followed by still others. The mischief of tho reduction in a few industries is that wages will gc down iu sympathy in other branches of labor. For example, if wages are higher in one industry, thoso following a less re munerative calling will offer their serv ices at a lower rate, and so the rates reach a common level. Under tho census of 1890 tho total wage earnings of our people reach about $10,000,000,000 a year. An average reduction of 20 per cent means a loss of $2,000,000,000 an nually. Taking into account tho reductions niado in the last 18 months and tho fur ther reductions manufacturers will be compelled to make under the new bill, 20 per cent is a low estimate of the re duction of wage earnings sure to follow. Such a reduction would take away one fifth of the consuming power of our people, would destroy one-fifth of our own markets and one-fifteenth of the markets of the world. Wo cannot esti mate the loss of our own markets under this bill. It has opened tho door to for eign importations. Foreign goods will crowd out tho American from our own markets. Wo cannot see the end, but of ouo thing we may rest assured pros perity will return again only through Republican success and Republican leg islation. Serf.no E. Payne. Washington. Tho effect of the Gorman-Wilson bill cannot be otherwise than injurious to all industries iu the United States un less it bo that of sugar refining and most harmful to all workingmen and women and their families. Tho McKin ley bill aimed to protect all our indus tries, including tho agricultural inter ests, and all our laboring people. It so oporatod and gave a new impetus to manufacturing, increased tho profits of agriculture and gave employment to all who desired it at good wages. Tho en tire country was prosperous, and the people generally wcro contented. Tho Gorman-Wilson bill puts at de fiance all principles of tariff for revenue only as well as tho truo principles 65 protection. It throws wido open the doors for foreign competition in most directions, while it gives protection to a few favored industries, and will in crease and intensify all tho evils of class and monopolistic legislation. It is a shameful surrender to trusts and a most shameful abandonment of the rights and interests of tho country as a whole. When this bill comes into operation, our markets will be flooded with for eign made articles, and our mills and factories will be compelled to close or reduce their output. The effect will be disaster to many of our producers and great and lasting injury to the others. The purchasing power of the people will be largely diminished and in thousands of instances destroyed. We shall find not two but three men seeking every job of work instead of two jobs seeking a workman, as was the case under the McKinley bill prior to the incoming of the present industry prostrating Demo cratic administration. The rural districts are now overran with men tramping from place to place seeking employment. This evil will in crease, for how can we employ men to do work formerly done here, but here after to bo done iu Europe? If there shall bo a greater agricultural product by reason of men flocking to tho farms, the market price will fall and the farm er be injured, while tho merchants and workmen in the large towns will reap no benefit, for the purchasing power of the farmers will bo destroyed. Sales of foods and of all manufactur ed articles will fall off, prices musk go down, and the workingman out of em ployment will be unable to purchase at all. It will be a cold day for this coun try when the president permits this bill to become a law, while trade in Europe will pick up. Her mills and factories will increase their production; her ships will find active employment, bringing her products to our shores. Foreign prospects are bright indeed, while the clouds of despondency are gradually but surely settling about the American hearthstone. Geobge W. Ray, M. C, Twenty-sixth District, New York. It is believed the four imprisoned min-1 era, supposed to have been crushed by a fall of rock in the northwest colliery near Carbondale, Pa., will be delivered alive. It is now asserted that the Duke of Or leans is an Italian jailer's son, substituted for a daughter to whom the Countess f Paris gave birth. cffii UNION LABOR VICTORY. Judge Jenkins' Famous Strike Injunction Overruled. RESTBAimO ORDER STRUCK OUT. Exceeded Bis Powers When He Enjoined the Employes From Quitting the Serv ices of the Company, With or Without Notice Judge Harlan Bead the Opinion. Status of Labor Organisations. CHICAGO, Oct. 2. Judge Jenkins' fa mous injunction was overruled Monday by the United States circuit court of ap peals, and the case was remanded with directions to strike out the restraining order of the court, the clause which aroused the country when the order was issued, and which resulted in the Boat ner investigating committee of congress. The interventors, representing the lead ing labor organizations of the country, asked that two sections of the injunc tion be eliminated. The court of appeals decided that no court could compel a man or a body of men from quitting individually or in a body the service of an employer. The court said that Judge Jenkins had exceeded his powers when he enjoined the employes of tho receivers of the Northern Pacific Railroad com pany from quitting the service of said company, witn or without notice, so as to cripple the property or prevent or hinder the operation of said railroad. It held, however, that the section should stand in which the men were pro hibited from "combining and conspiring to quit, with or without notice, the ser vice of said receivers, with the object and intent of crippling tho property in their custody or embarrassing the opera tion of said railroad." Defines Status of Labor Organizations. The decision was considered by the lawyers who packed the courtroom as one of the most important opinions de livered in the United States in a decade. It defines tho status before tho law of labor organizations in their conduct of strikes and affirms the powers of courts of equity to interfere by injunction where there is reason to believe the law will be violated. It holds that the meu may withdraw in a body from tho ser vice of an employer, using, however, neither force, threats nor intimidation towanl employes who do not join them; nor must they use auy "device" to molest, hinder, alarm or interfere with others who desire to take their place. Justice Harlan of the supreme court delivered the opinion. Sitting with him were Judges Woods. Bunn, Grosscnp and Jenkins. Judge Jenkins appeared undisturbed by the opinion. The audi ence which listened to the reading of the opinion was a most distinguished one. Ex-President Harrison and his partner sat fcide by side well np toward the bench. Lost Their Paraphernalia. Marceline, Mo., Oct. 2. Fire that started here for a time threatened the partial destruction of tho city. The fire started in the Palace hotel and before it could be extinguished completely de stroyed that structure, together with Jones Bros.' fruit store, the Santa Fo Exchange bank and two or three small stores. The aggregate loss is $.r0,0u). The insurance is slight. Local lodges of the Masons, Odd Fellows and Good Templars, whose halls were in the build ings burned, lost all their furniture and paraphernalia. Sugar Refineries Closed. Philadelphia, Oct. 2. The sugar trust has closed the Spreckels sugar refin ery in this city. The trust's Franklin refinery is now running on half time, but is only turning out soft grades, the supply of which is not at present exces sive. McCahen's refinery, which is in dependent of tho trust, will probably shut down by Wednesday. Operations will not be resumed until the sugar on hand is disposed of. It is reported hero the Havemeyer and Eider refineries in New York and the plant operated by the trust in Boston are about to shut down. Boycotted by Labor Unions. San Francisco, Oct. 2. Business was generally suspended throughout the city Monday, it being Labor Day by virtue of an act of the last state legislature. The so-called laboring classes ignored the day. Their organizations continue to boycott tho legislature's holiday. Ad mission Day coming in September, the state legislature refused to declare a sec ond holiday in that month. Greatly Excited Over a Murder. Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 2. The country about Puyallup is greatly excited over the cold blooded murder of Constable John Fry. Two hundred citizens fully armed surrounded the two tramp mur derers in the thick woods near McMillan. The fugitives opened fire and Deputy Sheriff Moore wa3 shot through tho side and is not expected to live. Every avenue of escape is guarded. World's Food Fair. Boston, Oct. 2. The World's Food fair was formally opened by Governor Greenbalge. All tho available space at Mechanics' building is crowded with all kinds of food products and the exhibit is far superior to the first one, three years ago, whnn was so successful. Many or the exhibits are those seen at the World's fair and the California Midwinter fair. Tariff Iteforrn. THE CIRCULATION OF WAGES. Labor Is Punished to Reward Importers Who Paraded For Crover. The burden of free trade is already upon us. How can wo lighten it? The rush of importers to secure their foreign goods from tho custom house at the low er rates of duty has told the story. Near ly fl 0,000, 000 worth of foreign goods withdrawn for consumption in less than a week means the sale of nearly $10, 000,000 worth less of American goods manufactured in American mills by American wage earners. It means that the distribution of moro than fo, 000, 000 in American wages has been checked within five days. If this curse continues, there can be but one result. The foreigners are de termined to have and to hold our mar kets. Shall we surrender them? We do not desire no true American desires that American wage earners should be compelled to sell their labor in open competition with the cheaper labor of other countries. The workers in the cot- ton milla.ef, New Bedford, in the flag mills of New York, in tho potteries of Trenton, in tho glass factories of the west, havo entered their protest against a reduction of wages that has been forc ed upon them by Democracy. What can be done to lighten the bur den? The manufacturers should not be expected to pay higher wages than their foreign competitors and to sell their goods at the same prices. It has been the decree of Democracy that American manufacturers and American wage earn ers must bo punished in order to re ward the New York city importers of foreign goods, who turned out with such dignified grandeur in their parade of 1892 to tho honor and glory of Gro ver. It is the duty of all true and pa triotic Americans to overthrow this for eign domination. Check the sale of these foreign goods, check the stoppage of our mills, check the cheapening of our labor by buying American goods whenever and wherever it is possible to do so. Let tho people ask only for American products and insist upon get ting them. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. Heavy rains in California damaged the raisin crop $100,000. A new fire tug for the city of Cleveland was launched at Buffalo. Congressman Tom L. Johnson of Ohio is carrying on his campaign in a big tent which he has leased. Recent utterances of French in Canada lead British subjects to believe they favor annexation with the United States. Miss Nora Welton, assistant postmis tress at Argenta, Ills., has confessed to opening letters written to her former lover. Willis Hizer, a fireman who was fatally hurt at Cleveland, was prevented from marrying on his deathbed by his mother. Mill owners aud operatives at Fall River, Mass., held a conference, but failed to settle the strike involvimc 40,000 persons. Snow fell in 30 counties of northern Minnesota, amounting iu some places to a depth of three inches. Masked men bound aud gagged Levi Keller aud family neur Tiffin, O., and robbed the house of all its valuables. D. C. Euolow of McVey, Ills., died at a hospital in St. Louis. He was one of the legislator.-, who elected Senator Palmer. German Methodists iu session at Du buque, la., have made appointments for the Galena district. Charles D. Parker, past deputy com mander of the G. A. K. of Minnesota, is dead at Minneapolis. For years he has been aieut of the Traders' Dispatch there. The wholesale grocery firm of E. H. Larson and Co. of Portland, Or., assigned. Asset's 19,000; liabilities, SU.OOO. The Atlanta Trust company has ap plied for a receiver for the Atlanta and Florida Railroad company on a debt of S03.-IS1. The Nashville, Teun., grand jury re turned a big batch of indictments against persons who have been selling liquor with out license for years. Vice President Stevenson aud family arrived at Portsmouth, X. H. from Sor rento, Me., and are the guests of Frank Jones. Assessors Want Their Fees. Dcs Moines, Oct. a. The assessors and the board of supervisors have made up an agreed caso for submission to the district court to have judicially deter mined the question whether or no the assessors are legally entitled to compen sation for work performed in investigat ing places to determine if whisky and other liquors were sold. Wo notice that Btackers aro coming to 1)3 an important part of tho grain thresher's outfit and it probably will not bo moro than another year when the farmers of Nebraska will demand their use, because more work can bo done in a day; fewer settings of tho machine nro required; straw is stacked more evenly than by hand and turns water better; fewer hands are required and the labor not only diminished for tho farmer, but his wife as well; and dust are entirely removed by the blower; wo may add to all these that it will save all thoso generous rivalries so usual among helpers as to who will volunteer to im molate themselves in the dust of the straw pile. TiikJofknatj is supplied with ti lino variety of tho latest new faces of job type, as well as a full line of the old standards, nnd is turning out for its nu merous customers the finest work done in tho county. Seo for yourself when ordering. Wo make our prices to suit the times. Wo do not slight our work in any particular, and completo it as promised. tf Rheumatism Cured in a Day. "Mys tic Cure" for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action upon tho system is remarkable and mys terious. It removes at once the causo and tho disease immediately disappears. Tho first dose gresitly benefits, 7; conts. Sold by A. Ileintz, druggist, Colum bus, Nt-b. 11-y When I5jly was sick, we jao her Castoria. When she v.w a Child, she cried for Castoria. When sin h.-canie Miss, :Jie clit3 to Castoria. When she had Children, fche gn ve them Castoria. A NOTICE OF KKlilSTK. vrio.v. TMpOTICE it hereby Riven that tho place of Jl registration in tlio election precinct of the Firet ward of the city of ColumbuH, Platte county, Nebraska, will leat the court hous in f-ni! ward, and that said election precinct ia bounded by Lvin street on the west, and by the coriKrat limits of said city on the north, t-nuth ami east. That the place of registration in the election precinct of thu Second wani of said city, will lie at the Encint Iioum in said ward, and that said election precinct is bounded by Lewis street on the east, on the went by P street and Nebraska avenue, and on the north and south by the cor. Itorate limits of raid city. That the place of registration in the election precinct of the Third ward of said city shall lie at John IIuLer' hotel building on the south ll of lot 8, block '', in (-aid ward, and that said election pn-cinct is bounded on the east by I Mreet nnd Nebraska avenue, and on the north, south and west by thu corporate limits of said city. Thftdnys of registration are, October 9th, Octo ber 17th. October i"th, November 2d, and No wmberSd. IM'1. By order of the major and council of said 'octolr2, WM. WM. HECKEH. Soctit City Clerk. C. Jt. NEWMAN. REAL - ESTATE .AND nsrsuRJsrcE. W HEN you want FIRE, LIGHT. NING or TORNADO insurance on city and farm property; if you want an ACCIDENT POLICY; if you want to bny or sell farm or city property; if you want bargains in real estate, call at the Real Estate and Insurance Agency, I Door East of First National Bank, COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. isiol-r What is Llf:kl W ; . Fil Cartoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays . feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates tho footl, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy aud natural sleep. Cas toria is the Children's Panacea tho Mother's Friend. Castoria. Castoria to an excellent medicine fo- .Ml dren. Mothers havo repeatedly told n:o of iu good effect upon their children." Da. O. C. Ossood, Lowell, Mass. M Castoria Is tho best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope tho day U ot far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and use Castoria in stead of the various quack oestrums which aro destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending them to prematura graves." Da. j. p. Km cnsxoE, Conway, Ark Th Ceatmr Company, TT GU8.0.BKG1IKU. LEOPOLD J.SOOI. Kdtahlished la7l. BECHER, JJEGGI & CO., REAL - ESTATE - LOANS - INSURANCE, .n.d I3ea,l Sstate. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. MONEY TO LOAN ON KAKM3 at lowest 10 suit applicants. BONDED ABSTRACTERS OF TITLE toall realtatein lMutteconnty KepresontTJIELEADINo INSURANCE COMI'ANIESof tho World. Our 1 the niost liberal in use. Loasett adjusted. and irouu.tlv ihiM at thinntK.... Notary Public always in office. Farm and city property for sale. Make collections of foreign inheritance.! and or curope. NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION. Notice Is hereby lven to the legal voters of the town of CtViimbut. In the county ot I'latte and State of Nebraska, that a special election will be held in knd for said t .wn of Columbus at the town halriusald town on the 8th day of October, A. D. lMMjtfor the purpo.se of voting ou the following fhropotit on. to wit: Mian ine board oiKupervlsors of the county or i'latte. In the stafkof Nebnitka. Issue the coupon bonds of said Twkii of Columbus in said couuty of Platte to th amount of sixteen thousand dollars to th (Vilunilms Power and Irrigation company, of Columbus. Nebraska, a corporation duly organizeuWid existing under and by virtue of the laws ortle stato or Ne braska, to aid in the construi tln or a ca al for irrigation and water power dunioses. Said coiitm bonds to be Issued In suiiU of live huu dredllollars each, to be made pNyablo to the CoIuiVmis power and Irrpiiiou colipanv, of Co.utiirJws-Nehraska, or order, tolhe dated the second jnxofJummry, A. I).. ls!uid to become due aid payable twenty veaV from thecnte thereof but redeemable at any time after ten eanf from the date ttiereof at the option and upon the call of the proper olllcers of sal. I county l( l'iatte. and to bear interest from date then fat the rate of six percent per annum payHbleVeiiii-antiually on the second day or July and tlw-cond day or January or each j ear upon interest coupons then m at tached, both principallind interest payable at the fiscal agency or tllo state or Nebra-ka In the city or New York, kate or New York. Snide nal to cotnmeilke and receive Its sup ply of water from the Emiuriver at or near section seventeen iu townkhip seventeen, north of range three west of lie sixth pilnel pal nierld an, and to run thelice iu a north easterly direction to a polnj at or near the southeast corner of the soutlwest quarter of section twenty-seven In tmtnship eighteen north or range two west of tlieXslxth principal meridian, thence in an easterlydirectlon ami teniinating at or near the southed corner or secttttn one in township seventeef north or ranuelNi4i.st oi the sixth principal meridian in said tovfci or Columbus. Said fanal to be not less thatitUteen feet in width ni the bot tom and tiibe built and completed by said Calumlnis rJwerand Irrigation coipany and reauy inr opwatiuti oy me nrst iiayf Govern oer, a. u . i; All or said cV:n bonds to be cxecrBed and registered us byxavv provide land immemiately alter the same hrilLhavu been registereokthey shall he delivered the couuty treasurer of said county of 1'latle to bo held In tru for delivery to the saldKohimbus Power and Irri gation company. itsuceessora and assigns, in installments as folluks and under the follow ing conditions. to-w: On the presentation to said trustee of a cVtitlcntc signed by the engineer In charge of tWa construction ot huhl canal aud signed also by Ike supervisor or said town of Columbus sett if rnrtn that one or more miles of ald canal f is been completed strictly according to the liana mid specifications- adopted for the conslructlon or the same then shall the s. Id triisteii be authorized and required to deliver to tlf? proper ofllcers of said Columbus Power and VrKation company the said coupon bonds to t amount aud ex tent orone thousand doII.i'S Kr each and every mile of the said canal so coinHled and certi fied to au uforeiiaid, providedbowever. that said coiiM)ii bonds to the iiiiifnt or three thousand dollars shall be related by said trustee ititll a certificate be presented signed as aforeslHsliowlug the entire caupletiou or said canal, thereupon said coupln bonds so withheld shal be delivered by sai trustee to said Columbtn Power and IrrigatiotVompanv. And shall the said board or supervisors or said county of Platte cause to be levieTViu the taxable propeKyor said town of Colunihus an annual tax sunnhuit for the payment or the interest on said coifcon bonds as it becomes due and shall the s;ld hoard of supervisors an nually cause to be lelled ou the taxable prop erty of said town of .oliimbu an annual tax sufficient to pay five fc-r cent or the princicipal orsald coupon bonds ihMLat the tax levy pre ceding the maturity o?BuId coupon bonds shall the said board or supervisors cause to be levien upon tne taxable property or said town ofCoIiimbus an amount of tifx suttlcient to pay iiic inim-n'. n :! oiicieil ui;u on sain coupon The form In which this dioposltlou shall be submitted shall be by oftlciM ballot prepared for .sld election by the cottiiv clerk or said countor Platte upon which sWnBlllots shall be prltrtMLthe words, "Shad coupoil bonds be issued to Hit in the construction or af canal for Irrigation aid water power nurposJ and shall taxes be levied on the taxable crojtrty or the town of Collmbus, iti the county c Platte, and state ol Netkaska, sufficient to pal the princi uouus pal and Intefnrsaid coupon oatM?" -Yes." No." at said And all ballot! of legal voteis cas election contain g the above proof on in an X the form of said mark following tli oiuciai uiuiois ui word "ves" upon ofri- cial ballots shall n ted in Civi f ttie Issuance ot said coUTllDkhonds aud the Ivy or said taxes iu pu ment ol the principal ;id In terest ihereot; and all Billots or legalf voteis ca t at said election ntain!ng ttiii above proposition In the form f r said oincuil fcjallots with an X mark following the word "noon said official ballots shall e counted and Con sidered as against the issurRfce or said cofpoii bonds and the levy or said tales In paymelt or the principal and Interest thdreor. Aud if two-thirds or the ballots cast atVald election shall be in favor of the issuance or said coupon bonds and the lVHpf said taes In payment or the prlncluaTpnd Interest thereof then the said proposition It-hall be de clared adopted, otherwise It shal be declared I0SI, At said election Lite polls shall re opened at eight o'clock in the rorenoon an close at six o ciock in me aiieruoon oi me s. day or October. A. D.. IK, and said elec' ue other- wise duly conducted m manner uro Ided by law. , form as By order of the board of supervisors of the comity of I'latte, In the state of Nebraska, this 4th day or September, A. I..iMM. Niklh Olson-, Attest Chalnna (I. W. Phillips. County Clerk. 2-ut E.voLisn Spavin Liniment removes all bard, soft or calloused lumnaand blem ishes from horses, Blood Spavin, Curbs Splints, Ring Bone, Sweeney, Stifles, Sprains, Sore and Swollen Throat, Coughs, etc. Save 850 bv use of one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever known. Sold by C. B. Stillman. druggist. 26novlyr Bring your orders for job-work to this office. Satisfaction guaranteed, and work promptly done, agreed upon, Castoria. " Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend U 3 superior to any prescription leuowu to me." IT. A. AncBH, M. D., ill So. Oxford St.. Brooklyn, N. T. " Our physicians iu tho children's depart mont have spoken hii;h!y of their experi ence in their outsido practice with Castoria, end although wo ouly havo among our uud cal supplies what U known as regular products, yet we aro free to confess that the merits of Castoria has won us to look with fuvur upon it." UXITED Hl)HirJ. AND DlSPtMURY, Iloston. Mass. Allen C Surra. I"res., Mnrrar Street, New Tork Citv. II. b J. HOOKKNUKKOKU 1.8IHI1KKNSEN. rates of iuterect, on short or lorn: time, in aiuim n -farm policies sell steamship ticket to nod from all par laug'Ul-tf J. Will illustrate To you the advantage of buying your GROCERIES B From him. If a splendid stock and low prices cut any figure, you will bo satisfied. THE FINEST FLOUR Always on hand. D E S roi- His stock of Dry Goods Ts largo, well solected and everything you want will bo found in stock at low figures. M A N -:o:- EjT" Country produce a spe cialty, and always taken at cash prices. All goods deliv ered froo. Telephone No. 22. HUGH HUGHES Can furnish you with the BEST WINDOWS, BLINDS, LIME, Etc., aud everything kept in the LUMBER LINE. South of U. Nebraska. R. R. Depot, Columbus, lOmaj-lyr UNDERTAKING ! CAKUY. AM, KINDS OF Burial liootfs. Do Embalming, Conduct Funerals. Cfr-IIave the finest Hearse in tho county. FRED. W. HERRICK, "SSMlli Columbus. Neb. 17jan3m W.UPOUCLAS 93 .SHOE IS the aurr. NOSQUCAKINO. And other peehuUes fur GenUeaea. Ladle, Boys and Mines are tba Best in the WorfrL See descriptive adTertUe nient which appears la thU paper. Takt sa StMttttt. Inabt on baring W. L. DOUGLAS? SIIOE8. with name and ndc tamped on bottom. Bold bj GrRIFFEN & Gtray Lomta.LaUi.SifeDoops, !EKi?J&' A -1 f X "