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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 0. UN.
American apples are in gnat daatsafl
ia Europe, and aalea are on the increase.
Last year 35,000 barrslswera xporUd,
'while this year they amount to. stors
". than 600,000 barrels.
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Shoktxt after midnight Saturday,
Ottawa, Ontario, was visitsfl by aa
earthquake. No aenoas damage, bnt
the shock was distinctly felt all over the
city and caused considerable excitement.
The board of county commsoners of
Lane county, Kansas, have repudiated
their funded debt which amoanto to
'$125,000.- They have instructed the
. county treasurer to refrain from further
payment of interest.
'The last addition to the grand army
of tax-eaters is to be a state inspector of
dairies, not so much to improve the
quality of the butter and cheese as to
provide butter and cheese for somebody
who is out of a job. Omaha Bee.
The supreme court of New York has
handed down a decision to the general
effect that a husband, although living
apart from his wife, is responsible for
' debts contracted by her for necessary
articles in the absence of any agreement
to the contrary.
The rainstorm which prevailed over
.northern Illinois uninterruptedly last
Friday Saturday and Sand y was the
-severest experienced in that locality for
two years. In many parts of Chicago
basements were flooded with several feet
of water and furnace fires extinguished.
These is some talk against the free,
high school law enacted by the last leg
islature. The Omaha Bee suggests that
"if there are any doubts as to its consti
tutionality, a case ought to be made np
so that an authoritative ruling might be
had in time to have the defects, if any,
. remedied by the coming legislature.
Germany stands second only to Eng
land in the value of her exports and
imports. For 1895 these aggregated for
England $3,125,802,650; for Germany,
$1,962,729,000; United States, $1,624,
770,000. With a vigorous foreign policy
the United States, in the next half cen
tury, at least, ought to be able to make
' a change in rank.
C. W. Beal, senator Fifteenth Ne
braska district, has written to Governor
Mclntyre of Colorado, suggesting that
Coloradoans erect a safe depository for
silver bullion, and issue certificates upon
such bullion. Theee certificates, operat
ing as checks, he thinks would increase
the worth of silver, and also add to the
circulating medium.
Miss Mat Winters of Orangeville,
Pa, has slept for two weeks. She is
lying on a couch as though dead, bat her
breathing is regular, and the physicians
are puzzled. Six weeks ago she dreamed
she saw the Lord and he beckoned her
to follow him and told her ahe must
prepare for death. For three weeks ahe
did not take any nourishment.
Charles H. Elliott, the murderer of
Gay Hutsonpiller, received Thursday
morning the sentence of life imprison
ment in the penitentiary with the addi
tional clause that he suffer solitary
confinement the entire day of November
17 in each year during hie confinement.
Jadge Baker remarked that he believed
if any case warranted the infliction of
the greatest penalty, that of the prisoner
i each an one.
A vert important item for the legisla
ture to consider would be an amendment
to the depository laws of the state.
They should be so amended as to pre
vent the deposit of public funds in any
one bank of- more than twenty per cent
of the institution's capital stock. If
aaeh an amendment is made it will take
banks out of politics so far aa the nomi
nation and election of county treasurer
goes, and will place a stronger safeguard
around the funds. David City Banner.
The series of articles on The Problem
of Elementary Education, by Dr. J. M.
Rice, which have been in process of
preparation for nearly two years, began
in the December numberof The Forum.
These articles are based on special testa
undertaken with more than one hundred
thousand children, and represent an
entirely new departure in the field of
pedagogical study. It is confidently be
lieved that these articles will prove to be
of the very highest value. They cannot
fail to be of vital importance to parenta
and teachers.
Hxsxr C Zehetoo, one of the best
known of Lincoln's basin ess men, com
mitted suicide Wednesday night by
hanging himself to a rafter in the loft of
the barn at his family residence. He
'had laid his hat, cane and overcoat on
one aide, neatly folding the latter. It is
apposed that the new rope with which
he hang himself was bought for the
la the evening he left hie
early,- saying he was going to
attend a meeting, bmt whan he did not
at bed time his family
and asked the polios to
The body was found about S
Thursday morning. His de-
over onatness matters and
giaomy outlook for the future is sup
posed to be the cause of his insanity.
He want front Blair to Lincoln about
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and others who
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Nebraaka would be benefited by raadinn
the nfMffdufaof the SUte Teachers'
aaaoeiation as published ia the Daily
State Journal, Lincoln, of December 31
and January 1.
A study of these reports k the next
bast thing to do after bearing the ad-
draaaas and flhrnenka- of topios.
- Dr. Krohav addrass, especially, waa
ont of the usual, and note-worthy to the
n. He started out by
that the principal points in -a
of education were the aim or
object, methods, and the raw material
or child.
The aim of the achool system is to
mahs the beat type of citizen possible.
Many do not know that the child is a
child. It does not grow by mass or by
bulk, but by periods and epochs. The
whom body does not grow at one time.
Growth always centers in one set of
at a time. One set of muscles
at a time. Bound, sweeping
te are first natural to the child.
A child will naturally make large letters
on n blackboard, yet the methods of
teaching penmanship are just the reverse.
The child grows by periods and epochs,
not only physically but mentally. Sense
perception comas first and develops into
reasoning, The first power of the men
tal faculties to unfold is observation.
Memory unfolds next and grows. The
power of imagination follows, coupled
with imitation.
The proper time' to exercise a faculty
is whan it grows most rapidly.
'GhUdram are not little men and women.
Children differ intellectually and mor
ally from men' and women. Thus it is
plain that children's lies are not evidence
of immorality. Lies may be a piece of
incipient research. The lie may be tried
to ase if it works. If it does not work
the child may give it up.
Comparison, imagination and curiosity
are faculties which soon assert them
selves, and if curiosity ia in any way res
trained, the child cannot become a good
Courses of study are framed by grown
men, not tofit the child, but for what
the child ought to be. The child is thus
thrust into n oast iron mould.
Good results have been obtained by
placing a certain study, not in every
year of the course, but in that year when
the child ia ready to study that particu
lar branch.
Seven years or four years are not re
quired to teach a child the elements of
arithmetic. Two years and a half is
suficient when the child is between
seven and n half and eleven years.
The mental waste is enormous under
most courses of study.
Six young men teachers took twenty
five pupils each through a seven-year
course in four years by merely taking up
the regularly prescribed studies in, the
order of the pupils' development.
He made an eloquent defense for pupils
who have defective sight or defective
hearing. He declared defective sight
waa not so serious in itself but that it
wss generally accompanied or followed
by serious nervous complaints. Defect
ive hearing often results in stupidness.
He told of a boy who remained four
years in one grade and was considered
stupid. By a simple process a growth
common in the throat of children was
removed, the boy's hearing was restored
and in two years he made four grades.
The practioe of requiring children to
copy from a blackboard at a long dis
tance waa given aa one cause of defective
eight and many mistakes which hinder
advancement.
There ought not to be a single dollar
of the state's general fund in state de
positories, or any other place, when
there are outstanding warrants against
this fund, amounting to $1,400,000 in
excess of the money in such fund. How
comes it that Treasurer Bartley has
placed $530,000 of general fund money in
these depositories? What kind of busi
njfas policy is it to place the money in
such shaky institutions, where it draws
only 9 per cent interest, when the war
rants outstanding against it are drawing
5 per cent? While this money has been
deposited in banks of questionable solid
ity, warrant holders have hawked their
securities about the state until the state's
credit has suffered and the warrants
would bring only 95 cents on the dollar
in the market. These are pertinent
questions the people are asking, and
they have not been answered by Treas
urer Bartley. The Tribune confesses to
having a touch of "that tired feeling"
after continually working for its party
year in and year out and having the
effects of that work kicked over by such
indefensible official action as this appears
to be. It ia a party betrayal it doesn't
like. Fremont Tribune.
Nebraska, probably during Septem
ber or October next, is to have the Sixth
National Irrigation Congress. These
congressmen will meet at Lincoln, but
the time has not yet been fixed. The
Fifth Congress, which held its last ses
sion in Phoenix, Arizona, among its offi
cers, continued L A. Fort of North Platte
aa assistant lecturer. .They adopted
resolutions calling for n national irriga
tion commission; reiterated the demand
of former years for a thorough hydro
graphic and irrigation survey; suggested
amendments and restrictions touching
the situation with reference to the
Wright law in California; adopted reso
lutions embodying specific amendments
to the Carey law removing several of the
objectionable features of that law; sug
gested the construction of government
storage reservoirs and their utilization
on behalf of the people; advocated by
resolution the cession of arid lands of
thepublic domain to the states under
such strict conditions and restrictions
as would result in the reclamation of
such lsnds and their occupation and use
by the people in email holdings for
There are no fewer than 1,167 sub
marine telegraph cables, with a total
length of 14200 nautical miles, and rep-
ting n capital of nearly $200,000,000.
Wytaf PIm Is to Ettwlntii
Gbeexsrcro, Pa., Jan. 6. Congress-
i-eleot Edward E. Bobbins, who has
just returned front Cuba, says: "In
theenaks island there iaaotaCnbnn
er foreigner, except Spanish, who is not
in sympathy with the revolutionary
Movement. The cities are under the
control of the Snaniah. bat the whole
under control of the incur-
The plan of General Weytoris
to sabdne the Cabana, but to ester-
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Likcoln, Jan. 5. The 25th annual
session of the Nebraska legislature con
vened at noon today, and on Thurs
day the state government will be form
ally transferred to the Populist party.
For the first time in the history- of Ne
braska the Republican party has relin
quished control of the executive depart
aaents. The following, were selected to fill the
various offices in the house: Speaker.
J. N. Gaffin; chaplain, James Mailley of
David City; chief clerk, Frank D. Eager
of Lincoln; first assistant clerk, U. E.
Foster of Pierce; sergeant-at-amu, L. A.
Beltser of Osceola; door keeper, John O.
Ham mange of Arlington; postmaster,
Ralph D. Parsons of Holt county. J.
W. Bernhardt is second assistant to the
chief clerk.
The following persons were elected
officers of the senate: President, Frank
T. Ransom of Douglas; secretary, W. F.
Schwind of Lancaster; first assistant
secretary, H. A. Edwards of Hall; sec
ond assistant secretary, H. 6. Stewart
of Dawes; sergeant-at-arms, J. S. Con
Ion of Bancroft; bookkeeper, Greenfield
of Lancaster; postmaster. Miss Laura
Forbes of Butte; assistant postmaster,
T. J. Butler of Pawnee; clerk commit
tee of whole, M. D. Clary of Otoe;
proofreader, C. W. Sherman of Cass;
Chaplain, Frank Chatburn of Saline;
doorkeeper, Charles Nownesof Sarpy.
J. N. Gaffin, who was elected speaker,
of the house, is a familiar figure in Popu
list politics in Nebraska. He was speaker
in the trying days of the session of 1603,
and proved his capacity for executive
work. He is affable to bis friends and
equally courteous to his political oppon
ents. As a parliamentarian he ranks
with the best in his party. Two years
ago, when the Populist state convention
met at Grand Island Mr. Gaffin was one
of the leaders in the contest for the
gubernatorial nomination.
BUrkhaaser Fills Vaaderveertls Shees.
Ltkcolx, Jan. 5. P. W. Birkhauser
has been named as the successor to Paul
Vandervoort upon the board of fire and
police commissioners of Omaha.
MeCalUch Left Ne Will.
ffr. Louis, Jan. 5. Joseph B. Mo
Cullagh, late editor of The Globe-Democrat,
left no will. His estate, now in
the hands of Dr. William C. Richard
son, the public administrator, will be
divided between seven sets of heirs,
part of whom live in Dublin, Ireland,
These heirs consist of Mrs. Rachael
Seuter, a sister, living in Brooklyn; an
other sister in Dublin, and the children
of five brothers and sisters who are
dead. John G. Young and little Gladys
McCullagh, the adopted daughter of
John W. McCullagh, the editor's favor
ite brother, are the only heirs living in
this city. A conservative essimate of
the value of the estate is $210,000.
Among the dead editor's papers were
found stock in several mining companies
with a face value of $10,000,000. The
teal value, however, is comparatively
little.
M oaejr Retaras te htavaaa.
Havana, Jan. 5. Representative
Money of Mississippi, on his return to
Havana, said that he had been in the
interior on business of a wholly private
character. He saw certain estates, he
said, with a view to investment. He
was not molested by the government
outposts nor did he see any insurgents.
He dined last night with Consul Gen
eral Lee and Mr. Walter B. Baker,'
United States consul at Sagua hi Grande,
who is here for consultation with Gen
eralLte.. Lee Yisits Delgade.
Havana, Jan. 5. Mr. Olney, secre
tary of state, has sent an order to United
States Consul General Lee to visit Henry
Delgado, the correspondent of the New
York Mail and Express, who was cap
tured as a political prisoner, and being
sick, is confined to the hospital of San'
Ambrosio. Dr. Burgess, physician to the
United States consulate general having
obtained permission from the govern
ment, visited Mr. Delgado and found
the condition of the patient slightly im
proved. Wreck at Khiii City.
Kansas Cut, Jan. 5. In Kansas
City Kan., today two elevated electric
cars collided, each being badly wrecked.
Five passengers were badly shaken up
and more or less seriously but not fa
fatally hurt. Dr. Adolph Dietrich, the
most serious, was bruised on his head
and rendered unconscious.
Kather Ezpeaslve Fas,
Boston, Jan. 5. The five young men
who broke up a spiritualist seance on
Nov. 2V were convicted of disturbing a
religious meeting for the worship of
God, and with interrupting; a lawful
assembly and were fined $50, the maxi
mum. Oereat Fer Free Silver.
Dover, Del., Jan. 5. The Democratic
members of the legislature mustered 19
votes for their house caucus and selected
Elmer B. Riggin for speaker and a list
of officers. The result is a pronounced
defeat for the advocates of free silver.
Feet to Ceaeh Celaathta.
New York. Jan. 5. Walter B. Peet
has been selected to coach the Columbia
varsity crew for the big inter-collegiate
regatta at Poughkeepsie next June.
ik Cashier SalcMes.
Baltimore, Jan. 5. Richard Corne
lius, cashier of the Farmers' and Mer
chants' bank, haa committed suicide by
drowning.
Bryaa Ceaflaeaee.
Axesbcry. Mass., Jan. 5. W. J.
Bryan has written this letter to L. J.
Tibbetts of Amesbury, a prominent
Democrat: "I am confident that 'the
gold standard will disappoint those who
expect it to restore permanent and gen
eral prosperity. The consciousness of
duty done must restrain us until we see
the triumph of our cause. I have bo
doubt of ultimate victory."
Child Feaad Fresea to Death.
Atchison,-Kan., Jan. 5. E. L Irwin,
colored, living on Mound street, founds
lO-year-old child dead inn snow drift
near Seventh and Pacallel streets this
morning. It proved to be one of the
neighbor's children, who had wandered
on the way to school, and falling into
the snow drift could not get out and
froze to death.
Hew Yacht Fer the Qaeea.
London, Jan. 5. A new ocean gsing
yacht is to be built for Quean Victoria
i place of the Victoria and Albert, she
present royal yacht.
Havana, Jan. 6.
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TOtACCO MEN ARE AT VAWANCC.
Lay Their Cease Btofere the Ways aa
CeauaUtoa.
Washtnoton, Jan. 5. The tobacco
schedule of the tariff was threshed over
by the representatives of various to
bacco interests yesterday before As
ways and means committee with gun I
minuteness. Several branches of tits
business was represented. thatnaMvs,
growers, importers, manufacturers us-
ing native goods, using Havana and
those handling the Sumatra producC
Between these classes there was much
discord, no two of them being agreed on
any schedule of rates and contradicting
one another on questionsand statements
ss to the effect of the present law, rates
of labor and costs of production and
manufacture. The National Associa
tion ox. Tobacco Manufacturers was
represented by a large delegation, with
its president, Moses Krahn of Cincin
nati, for spokesman. The association
asked for duties of 52 cents a pound
on all imported leaf tobacco, ornot mors
than 55 cents on all unstemmed tobacco
and $5 a pound, with 25 per cent ad
valorem, on imported cigars. Under
any higher rates they declared their
business would be ruiucil.
The principal representations of the
growers were Michael Tobin of Bald
winsville, N. Y., and J. H.Van Dussan
der of Horseheads, N. Y. They asserted
that the native growers had made no
, money under the Wilson bill and asked
for rates higher than those of the Me
Kinleyact. George J. Smith of Kings
ton, N. Y., spoke for the users of Suma
tra tobacco and F. P. Gnnby, formerly
collector of the port of Tampa, for the
manufacturers of the Cuban products.
It was represented only 5 per cent of the
Havana tobacco used as wrappers hail
paid duty as such under the Wilson bill..
The others who spoke were ex-Mayof
Fred K. Schroeder of BrooklynH. S.
Frye af Windsor, Conn., L. H. Neu
decker of Baltimore, J. I. Ellison of
New York and George Mitchelsonof St?
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Kleckhefer Iadlcted.
Washington, Jan. '5. The grand'
jury has filed three indictments for em
bezzlement against Francis J. Kieck
hof er, formerly chief of the bureau of
accounts in the state department;
Kieckhofer was dismissed Oct. 26, 1895,
when irregularities in his accounts were'
discovered. The shortage will aggro-
gate $180,000. J
Hereas; Ordered to Mare Islaad. '
Washington, Jan. 5. Commander J.
C. Morong has been ordered to the Mare,
Island navy yard as the senior member
Of the board.
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Salt Fer Damages. .
New York, Jan. 5. The first of a
series of suits brought by Joao Fran
cisco de-Frietas, growing out of articles
published in newspapers connected with
the United Press news service is being
tried before Judge Shipman and a jury,
in the United States circuit court of this
district. De Frietas claimed damages
of $15,000 against the Daily News for
the publication in its columns on Dec. 2,
1892, that the plaintiff and one Tyndale
Palmer had embezzled $440,000 from the
South American Welsbach Incandescent
Light company. According to there-
port De Frietas and Palmer had sold the
franchise for the exclusive right of the
patented electrical apparatus in Brazil
for $510,000, and that they had turned
over $70,000 to the Welsbach company
from which $10,000 expenses were paid
them.
WaaaBiaker-Fearose Fight.
Harrisbci a, Pa., Jan. 5. The fight
for United States senator between Sen
ator Boyse Penrose and John Wana
makerwill practically close this even
ing, when the joint Republican caucus
will be held. The first sltirmish between
the rival candidates took placelast nigi
in the house Republican caucus. Terry
M. Lyttle of Huntington was elected
chairman over Ward R. Bliss of Dela
ware, by a vote of 93 to 71. Neither
side is willing to admit that this was a
fair test of strength. The Penrose peo
ple generally, though voted for Lyttle,
while Bliss received the support of many
active Wanamaker members.
Ye-K Xebraskaa Ia Treacle.
Kansas City, Jan. 5. Frank Butts,
a youth who came here from Nebraska
and secured employment as a coachman
in the family of HUls Adair, a prosper
ous business man, is in jail, charged
with abduction. The coachman's incar
ceration results from his elopement with
Florence Adair.the 16-year-old daughter
of his employer. Butts was arrested in
Kansas City, Kan., at the home of an
acquaintance, where he had taken the
girl after failing in his efforts to secure
a marriage license. Miss Adair, tearful
and penitent, was taken home.
Western Assoelmtloa Xeetlag.
Burlington, Jan. 5. The Western
Baseball association will hold a meeting
here Wednesday. The association will
incorporate under the laws of Iowa, and
at this meeting each of the eight clubs
must put up the required $300 guarantee
to play ont the season. For some time
the St. Joseph club has been on the
ragged edge, but President T. J. Hickey
of Kansas City has bought the club and
will carry it through the season. This
prevents Ottumwa or, Sioux City from
getting into the association.
lewa State Oalcers Swora la.
Des Moines, Jan. 5. The new state
officers were sworn in yesterday.'
George L. Dobson succeeds William Mc
Farlandas secretary of state. Archie
Smith of Storm Lake will succeed O. S.
Birkitt as his deputy and A. E. Shipley
of Marsha-town will be' the new clerk
of the executive council, succeeding
Frank Landers.
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New Yobk, Jan. 5. Michael K. Mc:
Grath, manager of the Wall street bu
reau of the Associated Press, died at his
home in Brooklyn of Bright' disease,
aged 48. For 25 years he had been in
the service of the Associated Press and
was one of the oldest newspaper work
ers in Wall street.
Altgeld Vlcterloas
SFUNonsLD, Bis.,. Jan. 5. At the
meeting of he Democratic state central
committee kst night Governor Altgeld
was victeriens in the first test of strength
in the fight between the Democratic fac
tions headed by himself and Secretary
of State Heinrichsen respectively. The
governor's candidate for state chairman,.
Dwight W. .Andrews of Chicago, was
elected without opposition, Heinrichsen
and others refusing to vote. Hesolutions
were adopted giving the state demo
cracy's support of the principles and
declarations of the last Democratic na
tional convention. The resolutions were
highly laudatory of Mr. Bryan.
E-KeerderSbert$5S:es.
Chicago, Jan. 6. A shortage of over
$fi3,000 has been found in the accounts
of Samuel B. Chase, ex-recorder, and
County Attorney lies has recommended
that criminal proceedings and a suit to
recover the shortage be instituted.
Sherasaa Expected Ia fllavaaa.
Havana, Jan. 5. There is n report
current that Senator John Sherman,
chairman of the senate, committee on
foreign relations, is expected in Havana, j
STORM WIS GENERAL
Rag. Throughout the West
and Northwest.
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Chicago, Jan. 5. The storm which
has been raging for the last 24 hours in
the northwest has not increased in
severity, save perhaps in Iowa, and the
signal service office in this city, which
runs affairs generally in the northern
Mississippi valley is upon record as de
claring that within a short tune the
storm will "probably abate."
The wind has been high throughout
the storm and In some instances has
shown remarkable pertinacity in cling
ing to the high figures, it having for 86
hours kept -a 52-mile per hour gait at
Huron, S.D.
Throughout western and northern
Minnesota the storm has been severe.
Glynden reports trains snowed up in
drifts 10 feet deep..
The falling temperature is general in
the lake region and upper Mississippi
valley, but there has been no heavy fall
of snow east of Iowa. In Iowa the fall
of sleet and snow has been very heavy,
and the reports indicate lower tempera
ture and nsore snow..
In western Kansas there has been
much trouble because of the snow pack
ing across the tracks and trains have
been held at eating stations until the
tracks can be cleared.
The storm- u practically over in this
locality, and the sky is clearing.
Nebraska has had about the same ex
perience and is under drifts anywhere
from 2 to 10 feet high.
PASSENGERS' TRYING EXPERIENCE.
F eager Trala Stack la a Deep Cat
Rear DeSfe City.
Topeka, Jan. 5. Passengers on the
Colorado express, westbound on the
Santa Fe road, had a trying experience
in Sunday's blizzard. At 1:80 o'clock
.in the morning at a point 10 miles east
of Dodge City, Kan., the train stuck fast
a deep cut that had filled with snow,
and until the noon following not a wheel
was turned. The passengers were
'warm and comfortable in the cars and
when, after nearly 10 hours imprison
ment, they began clamoring for some
thing to eat, the trainmen proved equal
to the emergency. In the express car
the conductor found several crates of
eggs and several pails of fresh oysters.
The expressman had some corn meal and
salt and pepper, which he had been
carrying for an emergency. The train
men then turned in and from ther
articles prepared a Sunday dinner that
was served to the hungry passengers
on pieces of pasteboard shortly before
noon. Six tramps who had been riding
on the brakebeams were called in and
partook of the express messenger's
bornty.
Railroad traffic throughout Kansas
was considerably delayed on Sunday,
but trains are running again with more
regularity. Reports received from
throughout the state indicating that the
storm has subsided.
Star i Pestaoaes es;lslatare.
Yankton, S. D., Jan. 5. The blizzard,
which began Saturday night raged with
unabated frry last night. Only one
railroad is reported to have moved a
train in South Dakota, and this was the
local on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul between Yankton and Sioux
City. All other trains were abandoned.
The storm is the worst that has ever
been known for drifting snow, hut i
not so blinding or cold as the great
storm of 1888, when more than 100
people were frozen to death. No casus!
ties of this nature have yet been re
ported, although a great deal of stock is
known to have perished. The state
legislature, which was to convene at
Pierre today and the banquet to Gov
ernor Lee which was to have followed
were of necessity postponed, as about 80
of the 126 members are snowbound and
some of them will not reach the capital
for several days.
Aa Vaarecedeatecl Rise.
St. Louis, Jan. 5. As a result of late
heavy rains north and west of here, the
tributaries of the Mississippi and Mis
souri rivers have swollen to such a de
gree that an unprecedented rise of about
15 feet has taken place in this harbor
since yesterday morning. The water is
still rising. The hard freeze, however,
will check the rise so that but little
damage is likely to occur in this vicinity.
Aa Address ts Prohlbttlealsts.
Albion, Mich., Jan. 4. Chairman
Samuel Dickie has issued an address to
Prohibitionists, signed by the members
of the Prohibition national executive
committee. The address opposes fusion
with other parties and urges pushing
the prohibition cause without proposing
or accepting any plans for compromise.
ST. PAULJMNKS FAIL.
Distrust Among the Depositor
Forces Three to the Wall.
FOUGHT FOR A PLACE HT LIVE.
.OfleUli ef the Germaala Realised What
Bach a Kbb Meaat and Promptly Called
Oa .Baak Exaailaer Keajroa te Take
3 Charge Alleasaala aad West Side Baaks
' Make Asslawaeats.
-"St. Paul, Jan. 5. As a direct result
-of the closing of the Bank of Minnesota,
two weeks ago, which created new dis
trust among depositors and started runs
on a number of city banks that were re
puted not to be as strong as the deposit
ors wished, three St. Paul banks, the
Germania, the Allemania and the West
Side, none of them national institutions,
all closely associated have closed their
doors, one being in the hands of the
state bank examiner and the others
making assignments. During the time
that had intervened since the closing of
the Bank of Minnesota, the Germania
bank paid out $335,000 to frightened de
positors, and early yesterday the direc
tors concluded they would stop the
drain and make an assignment to the
cashier, Peter M. Keerst.
The Allemania hank, which, like the
Germania, had a large clientage among
the Germans, and whose vice president
had formerly been president of the Ger
mania, then became the target for as
lively a run as could be seen during
panic times any where. People crowded
about the doors and fairly fought for a
place in the line before the paying tell
er's window. The bank officials real
ised fully what such a run meant, and
promptly called on Bank Examiner J.
Kenyon to take possession of the bank
and that o-Usal te new in charge.
The West Side bank, a small, but pos
stbry stronger bank, cleared through the
Allemania and yesterday its ckaringi
wets returned by the latter institution.
FoUewing this, than waa a decided run
the bank, and at a
a-rr Fas-
the
lit mlTTr
milsrilssii the doors and catted n
ig of the directors to decide what ac
tion to take. The discussion was ap
parentkteinthe afternoon, wham they
tied a dead of assignment toOaahS.
Staples, te president of the bank.
Ponderable public atoney is tied np
in the three Institutions. The state had
$10,690.0. in the Germania, $$5,901.54
te the haania' and $Mf .6$ in the
West Side bank. The county
had deposited $,t$5.$i in the
nja, $M,315.9S ia the AUemanJ
$7,54Min the West Side. City
urerHorst had on deposit dty funds in
the German, $49,793.83; in the -He-mania,
$lf l,4M,58,and in the West Ude
bank, $31,894.50.
The assignment of the Germania and
West Side banks has brought up a some
what new question in the banking laws
of this state and the courts will be
called on to settle it. The state hank
examiner doubts their right to assign,
holding that they should have under ths
law turned over their 'assets to bias.
The attorney general intimates that he
will bring action to test the matter as
soon as the papers can be prepared.
During: the day numerous reports of
trouble among other banks were currant
and a few banks suffered runs of great
or lesser intensity, but the savings banks
were protected by the law that permits
them to insist on 60 days notice before
paying out deposits and the national
hanks are in strong condition and hava
no fear of anything of the sort.
Alllsea Gees te Washiagtea.
Dubuque, la., Jan. 5. Senator Alli
son left for Washington this nuNruing.
Whether he will stop at Canton enroute
has not been learned.
Sir Joseph Hlcksea Dead.
Montreal, Jan. 5. Sir Joseph Hick
son, late general manager of the Grand
Trunk railway, is dead.
EASY GOING CONVICTS.
They Kaioy Use Ia a
-baaaceas.
Tbat "the French are a good natured
people and make easy masters' was
Robert Louis Stevenson's conclusion
when he had studied the various pro
tectorates that serve for governments In
the south sea islands. The Marquesas
group, for instance, is under French
control. Mr. Stevenson tells in "In the
South Seas" how he visited the cala
boose at Tai-o-hae the port of entry
and found it empty.
From this noontide quietude it must
not be supposed the prison was unten
anted. The calaboose at Tai-o-hae doss
n good business. But some of its ooou
panta were gardening at the residency,
and the rest were probably at work up
on the streets, as freo as our scavengers
at home, although not so industrious.
On the approach of evening they
would be called in like children from
play, and the harbor master, who ia al
so the jailer, would go through the
form of locking them up until $ the
next morning.
Should a prisoner have any call ia
town, whether of pleasure or affairs, he
has but to unhook the window shutter,
and if he is back again and the shutter
decently replaced by the hour of call on
the morrow he may have met the har
bor master in the avenue there will be
no complaint, far less any punishment.
But this ia not all. The oharming
French resident, M. Delarnelle, carried
me one day to toe calaboose on an offi
cial visit. In the green court a very rag
ged gentleman, his legs deformed with
the island elephantiasis, saluted us,
smiling.
"One of our political prisonersan
insurgent from Baiatea," said the resi
dent, and then to the jailer, "I thought
I had ordered him a new pair of trou
sers?" Meanwhile no other convict was to
be seen.
"Well." said the resident, "where
are our prisoners?"
"Monsieur the Resident," replied
the jailer, saluting with soldierly for
mality, "as this is a feast day I let
them go to the chase." They were all
upon the mountains hunting goats.
Presently we came to the quarters of
the women, likewise deserted.
"Where are our good ladies?" asked
the resident, and the jailer cheerfully
responded, "I think, monsieur, that
they have gone somewhere to make a
visit"
It had been the design of M. Delar
nelle, who was much in love with the
whimsicalities of his small realm, to
elicit something comical, but not even
he expected anything so perfect as the
last
To complete the picture of convict
life in Tai-o-hae, it remains to be add
ed that these criminals draw a salary
as regularly as the president of the re
public. Ten sous a day ia their hire.
Thus they have money, food, shelter,
clothing, and, I waa about to write,
their liberty.
H i reahoela Taeelaatlea.
It is now proposed that instead of
vaccinating persons bitten, as in the
Pasteur method, dogs should be inocu
lated with the virus of rabies, in the
hope that they may thereby be made
proof against the usual effects of the
bite of a mad dog, just as human sub
jects are vaccinated to make them proof
against the ravages of smallpox. The
result of researches on this matter un
dertaken by an eminent Frenchman will
be awaited with interest
The white lily in the south of Europe,
particularly in Italy, is an emblem of
sweetness, light and life. In some of
the country districts of the Italian pe
ninsula lilies are always placed on the
coffins of young girls.
Te Chicago Vad the East.
Passengers going east for business, will
naturally gravitate to Chicago as the
great commercial center. Passengers
re-visiting friends or relatives in the
eastern states always desire to "take in"
Chicago en route. All classes of passen
gers will find that the "Short Line" of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Rail
way, via Omaha and Council Bluffs,
affords excellent facilities to reach their
destinations in a manner that will be
sure to' give the utmost satisfaction.
A reference to the time tables will in
dicate the route to be chosen, and, by
asking any principal agent west of the
Missouri river for a ticket over the
Chicago, Council Bluffs & Omaha Short
Line of the Chicago, Milwaukee k St
Paul Railway, you will be cheerfully
furnished with the proper passport via
Omaha and Chicago. Please note that
all of the "Short Line" trains arrive in
Chicago in ample time to connect with
the express trains of all the great through
car lines to the principal eastern cities.
For additional particulars, time tables,
maps, etc please call on or address F.
A. KaBb, General Agent Omaha, Neb.
Fer Sate.
860 acres of good rice or sugar land,
with timber levees. House with six
rooms. Granary, stables and good wa
ter. Stock on the place, wfll sell with
or without the same. Only 5 miles from
Eunice, and 2 miles Tribley; both towns
on tne brancn railroad, ror runner
particulars, address Jab Ittb,
iMsetp wowley, -ouisusa, isoac on,
$J ciTS.
Monroe Lookr Glass: Wss. Hoi
shipped a car toad of corn to
Tanas, kst week. Freight is
forty osnts a ho dred, udng 22 cte.
per Ims-sL the earn coats 10 eta. or about
that here, total 9k cte; add to that ex
penseof leena; unloading; commission
and stealage, otherwise eailedjriiriakaga,
or rattega, and ha could coses ont even
or a little batter at 85 cte. sold by car
Tribune: All the national
banks of the city held their semi-annual
meeting; test evening aad declared divi
dends. The nasi year has .been a hard
on for the banks and it ia encouraging
to note that all of them made money.
By those who know the banking bast
nam thoroughly, it iasaid that there are
but few banka in thia part of the state
that will be able to declare their usual
dividend- The Fmmont National aad
the Farmers and Merchants National
declared a 4 per cent dividend and the
Fust National and the Commercial Na
tional pay S per cent The Home Sav
ings bank declared a dividend of 5 per
cent
Norfolk Journal: One trouble with
the tamers of Nebraaka ia that the par
ity between the corn crop and live stock
has not been maintained. During the
abort crop years farmers sold their cattle
and hogs down to n scant supply, and
with the fair corn crop of 1895 aad the
mammoth one of 1898, there are not
enough of those saimala to consume the
farmer's surplus at home. When corn
is fed it is marketed ia con
densed form. When it ia sold for ship
ment it ia marketed in-themost expen
sive form. The thing for every farmer
to do is to get in shape aa soon as possi
ble to market hia corn in the shape of
fat cattle and hogs. Then farming will
py.
Seward Blade: Carpenters are at
work on the old cob pipe factory, making
the necessary changes and additions for
the new Co-operative Creamery com
pany, and as soon as it can be made
ready business will open up. The engine
and boiler have been purchased, and the
other necessary machinery will be
bought aad placed in position aa soon as
the building is ready to receive it The
first regular meeting of the association
will be held January 5th for the election
of permanent officers for the ensuing
year. Thia is an enterprise the Blade is
pleased to see established ia Seward, aa
it will be a good thing for the town and
all those who have stock in it A farmer
or anyone having a few good cows will
have a regular income every month in
the year. The one at Germantown has
proved to be a great success, and the
ones at Bee and Malcolm are gradually
working np to a fine basin
Ceaifert to Callferaia.
Every Thursday afternoon, a tourist
sleeping car for Salt Lake City, San
Francisco and Los Angeles leaves Omaha
and Lincoln via the Burlington Route.
It is carpeted; upholstered in rattan;
has spring seats and backs and is pro
vided with curtains, bedding, towels,
soap, etc. An experienced excursion
conductor and a uniformed Pullman
porter accompany it through to the
Pacific Coast.
While neither as expensively finished
nor as fine to look at as a palace sleeper,
it is just as good to ride in. Second
class tickets are honored and the price
of a berth, wide enough and big enough
for two, is only $5.
For a folder giving full particulars,
call at the nearest Ik & M. R. R. ticket
office. Or, write to J. Francis, Gen'l
Pass'r Agent, Burlington Route, Omaha,
Nebr. 3Qsepto25apr
NOTICE.
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS of PUtte
coaaty, Nebraska, raspectfallr ask for
bids for the cash reals! for one year of tbe farm
kaowa as the Batkr place aad coasutiair of MS
seres, described as follows, to wit: The sw 54
and w H aad ss section 29. towa 18. range 1
est.
We also ask bids for the board, wsahins; and
proper accommodation of each pan pen as may
be there from tim to time.
Possesaioa of the farm to be given Janoar y 1st,
18S7, or as sooa thereafter as is possible.
'me mas sboai De ny tne acre ror tbe ase or
the lead and by the week for the care of tbe
peapers, aad sboald be fled with the coaaty
clork oa or before Jsanary the 15th. 18W.
The saecessf al bidder will be reqaired to fnr
aishagood bond in the snat of $1,088.00 (one
thoasaad dollars) for the faithful perforace
of tbe contract. The renter will be entitled to
each service as can reasonably be performed by
the peppers.
The board reserves the right to reject say or
all bids. K.POHL,
tf Coaaty Clerk.
PROBATE NOTICE.
Tax Stats or N-Uaska. 1 ,
Coanty of Platte, (
In tbe coaaty eoart, ia aad for said coaaty. In
the matter of the estate of Eparaim O. Wells,
deceased, late of said coaaty.
At a session of tbe coanty eoart for said
coaaty. bolden at the coanty jadge's oSice ia
Colnmbas, ia said coaaty oa the 1st day of
December, A. 0. 18H, present, J. N. KiUae. coaa
ty jadge. Oa reeding and SUag the dalyTeriSed
petition of Sarah E. Moore, prayiag that let
ters of administration be iseaed oa the estate
of said decedent.
Thereupon, it is ordered that the 8th day of
January. A. D. 1897. at 9 o'clock, a. m be
aarigaed for the hearing of said petition at the
r jadge s oawe in said cooati.
it is farther ordered. t dae lend aotlea
Andil
be given of the pendency aad " of said
petition by pablication ia TbColukcs Jocb
9 At, for three coaseeative weeks.
(A trae copy of tbe order.)
J. N. Kiliax,
Coaaty Jadge.
Dated Colambas, Neb., Dec. 18,1808. adscat
NOTICE.
Weir, 8haaart Co. and Home Insarance Co.
of New Tori, defendants, will take notice that
Ira Davenport. pkiatiBT, has fled a petition in
the district court of Platte coanty, Nebraska,
aaainst said defeadsats, impleaded with Sarah
Hogaa, Stephen Hogaa, Commercial Bank,
James H. Galley. Ernst Schwartz. F. H.
Rasche, Oreisea Bi, Patrick Powers, Colam
bas State Baak, First National Baak. Albert
Bteaaer. Taotr C. Hol tfctftmiarsis the
object and prayer of which are to foreclose a
mortgage dated Jaiy 1st, IBS. tor SMW.W and
aad interest and tax payments, oa the north
west qaaner or section, tairry-roar. towasaip
eighteen, north, range one, west of Sth P.BL,
in said coaaty, aad to have the same decreed to
be a frst lien, and said lands sold to satisfy
tbe smH6
Yoa are reqaired to aaswer said petition on or
before tbe 25th day of JaaBary, 1807.
Dated Dec. 11. 1898
IRA DAVENPORT.
PlaiatiBT.
By Mcaoza Coubtbiobt,
Attorneys. Mdec
LEGAL NOTICE.
Wiixiak Pnxrsi and Hsubt Jccbtkb,
vs.
PSTKB K
TETER KELSwill take notice that oa the
XT ntadayof December. 1888, J.N.KiUaa,
coaatr jadge of Platte coanty. Nebraska, issaed
aa ordWmKanwat for the earn of S14S.SB ia
an sctioa asHag before hia wherein William
PUlen and Henry Jaehter are plaintiffs aad
Peter Kels defeadaat; that property ef the de
fendant ron-snng of one thoasaad bBshetaof
corn has been attacked aader said order.
Said eaase has been eontiaaad to the W day of
Febraary, 1807, at 1 o'clock p. m.
WnxiA- Pr aad
H KBT JCCBTZX.
Colambas. Near., Dec at, 1888. S9doc3t
ji mt s-nt,
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