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WEDNESDAY. MAY 5. 1807. Postmastke Dupix at Seward was robbed of S7.r and his pants Friday night. PmsBCBo had a $2,000,000 fire early Monday morning, well covered by in surance. lEBBnXST"McKlNEErs speech at the Grant monument last week was a model in every respect Ax earthquake in Peru, Friday, the most intense felt in some years. No lives reported lost. John Fobepacoh, the circus man, was killed with two other men in a railroad accident at Tampa, Florida, Tuesday of last week. W. J. Deboe, of Crittenden county, Kentucky, has been elocted U. S. sena tor to succeed Blackburn, whose term expired March 4. The Greeks were victorious over the Turks at Velestino, ten miles west of Volo. The attacking force consisted of 300 infantry, C00 cavalry and 13 guns. It is reported that the island of Mit ylene, off the coast of Asia Minor-and belonging to Turkey, has revolted in favor of Greece and that the Greek fleet will be sent there forthwith. Billy Mason, of Illinois, gave the United States senate a bad quarter of an hour, but the old girl appears to have gone to sleep again. Lincoln Call. Secretary Long and Postmaster General Gary have recommended to the senate committee the continuance of civil service laws, but give it as their -opinion that they should be modified. There is now a cash balance in the U. S. treasury of $228,090,517. During April there was a surplus of receipts over expenditures of $5,740, 038. In April, 18GG, there was a deficit $4,704,488. James Watts, in a quarrel with Louis Dnnbier, struck him on the head with a hammer, making some ugly wounds. Watts was arraigned before Judge Getts of Osceola and gave bond in the sum of S300. - Edward Bellamy is about to issue a new book, the first published since "Looking Backward," and a sort of sequel to that noted work of his. It is said that the new book will command universal attention. The Powers, including Germany and Austria, have agreed that the moment is opportune to intervene between Greece and Turkey. They are now discussing conditions of intervention and appear about to reach an understanding. At the City hospital in Cincinnati re cently James Barlow, a man of GO years, had his skull opened and a tumor of the brain successfully removed. There are a host of people who are beginning to doubt the efficacy of drugs, but the multiplying evidences of improvement in surgery are winning praises for the surgeons. A Texas man named Baylor, near An tonio says that he has seen the air ship and talked with the three men riding in it They tarried in his backyard for a supply of water. One gave his name as Wilson, of Goshen, N. Y, and said the problem of navigating the air had been solved. After getting water they board ed their vessel and sailed off northward. Every editor in Washington county has signed an agreement that they will not do a line of f reo advertising for the State fair if the association adopts the . bulletin method of advertising its fair, says the Arlington News, but will de- . mand full rates in cash. The Bulletin is directly in the interest of the pub lishers, and not of the fair. If the -weeklies in Nebraska would all take the same decided stand they could squeeze the wind out of many fakes which sap the profit out of the newspaper business. Saturday at 1:13, in compliance with the request of the executive committee of the Tennessee centennial, President McKinley opened the exposition by wire from the White house at Washington. The circuit was a little over 700 miles in length. At 1:11 the following message was handed Mr. McKinley: "The people of Tennessee send greetings and request that you put in motion the machinery of the. Tennessee Centennial exposition." He pressed the instrument, and before 'leaving the key received this message: "People wild. The gun went off all right. Bands playing and whistles go ing. Everybody shaking hands." English publicists may well think a bit when, as is stated by United States Consul Parker at Birmingham, "we can pay to one man the wages which two men command in England in the same time and for doing the like amount of work and then send the product ot that man's labor abroad into competition with the two, backed as they are by un limited capital." The supremacy of England in the iron trade is threatened by two conditions: First, the exhaus tion of Urn own ores and ot the cheap foreign ores it has been so largely using, and, second, the rapid growth ot Ameri cas competition. American ores are takes 600 to 800 Bailee to the blast jFju mces, thee the finished product gOeVto tidewater, transported 300 mites by sea asd compete sasily with British' CAMPAIGN FOR FREE CUBA. By all odds the best article we have yet seen on the Cuban situation is one with the above caption in the Review of Reviews for May, written by Stephen Bonsai, a newspaper correspondent, who telk what he has seen and what he evi dently knows. The reader can readily see how it is that the CubanB have been able to resist their enemy. "In the country which the insurgents command that is, in at least four-fifths of the island into which the Spanish columns do not ven ture except in large force, food grows on every bush and every root is edible for the Cubans who know how-to prepare it There are hill-locked valleys which the Cuban forces hold, and where their cattle graze in safety. Here they have van planted quick crops, like sweet potatoes, which ripen five or six times a year. Gomez and his leaders have, one and all, availed themselves of the ad vantages presented by the nature of the ground to the fullest extent Indeed, the campaign has shown Gomez to be not only a man born to command, but one who is abreast of the military science ot the day, so far as it can be ap plied to the peculiar warfare upon which he 'is engaged. His masterly circular movements never fail to puzzle those who would bring his .army to bay, and worn out by the chase, the Spanish col umns never succeed in cornering him. The half grown and immature boys, the raw recruits which Spain has sent to the island, serve but as fodder for fevers and other diseases to feed upon. With half rations, scant clothing, and little or no pay, and that in a depreciated currency, the soldiers are only capable of doing one day's work in seven, but the wonder to me is that they are able or willing to shoulder a musket at all." The theory of the Cubans is to harass the Spaniards as much as possible with the least expenditure of men and am munition. Even Spanish officers declare that it is a struggle between two antagonists, neither strong enough to conquer. One cannot read of the atrocities com mitted by the Spanish without the fiercest indignation for the murderers that is what they are. Hoke Smith, under Cleveland, turned out old Union soldiors to make room for some of his Georgia constituents. One of these, lately dismissed by Commis sioner of Pensions Evans, complained, and was told that "a Union soldier with a gallant record on the field was turned out of office and he, too, had a family dependent upon his one arm. This man I am about to reinstate. Because of his crippled condition, he has been unable to return to the trade in which he was doing well before he enlisted in the army. He was put out to make a place for yon. Now, as between man and man, do you not think it simply a matter of justice that I should reinstate him? He was a good and efficient clerk. The only point against him was that he was a re publican. Yon made the point yourself. Turn about is fair play. He is in sym pathy with the present administration and you are not Besides this, whatever his politics, he has the additional claim of having been a union soldier, and you have not" Commissioner Evans further informed the clerk that he proposed to reinstate every man having a similar rec ord -who -was dismissed by the Cleveland administration for political reasons only. Brought face to face with the facts in the case, the man admitted that he agreed fully in the sentiments of the commis sioner and thanked him for his frankness in discussing the matter. He is now looking for another position, but has no liarsh words to say for the administra tion which deposed him. His only re gret is that he came to Washington at all to receive a higher salary tlian he had ever before obtained, but to pay twice as much for living expenses as he paid in his southern home, so says W. E. Annin, the Lincoln Journal's Washington cor respondent To Pray or Not to Pray? Rev. James M. Whiton, in the May Forum, says: Extravagant assertions of the power of prayer for healing have brought it into some discredit. But it is as wide of the mark to say that prayer has no power of that sort, as to say that it has all power. Unqualified, indeed, are St James's words: "The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up." But of course he did not forget that all must die. That prayer will have a curative effect to a certain extent, is the only meaning fairly imputable to him. Every physician will say the same, because he knows that auto-suggestion and expectant attention have a certain curative effect When a bread pill produces the soporific effect of a morphine pill upon the patient who takes it as morphine, what we recognize is a psychological cause of sleep substi tuted for a physiological cause. The bread pill is necessary to bring the psy chological cause into action. The cashier of a savings bank at At lanta, Georgia, Geo. A. Casson, is a de faulter to the extent of ;$45,000, and the bank is wrecked with scarcely any assets. There is a growing sentiment in favor of allowing only such banks to receive de posits as can indemnify depositors against loss. The government postal savings bank idea ia pretty generally coming into favor with the public. CIIt Failure. Kaxsas City, May 4. The Joseph Cahn Clothing company, one of the old est wholesale clothing houses in the city, has failed, giving a mortgage to secure an indebtedness of $30,000. Swof ford Bros. Dry Goods company also ap plied for the appointment of a receiver and one was appointed. The liabilities are placed at 160,000; assets not stated. Cahn owns considerable real estate. Seethera Pacific Report. New York, May 4. The annual re port of the Southern Pacific for 1896 shows gross earnings for the year to have been $44,666,466, decrease, $1,790, S57; operating expenses, $31,962,206, de crease, $1,280,288; net earnings, $16,704. 480, decrease, $510,128. Steel rails were laid over 153 miles, and these, together with the ties renewed and tie plates, ware charged to operating expenses. Milwaukee Fine) CeJlaaeea, Milwaukee, May 4. BJchter & Sons, foundry and machine shop, have mads voluntary assignment toF. H. Madge burg. They were the original promot ers of the beet sugar enterprise at Men aaaisee Falls, which failed Saturday. They ant money into the sugar plant and alao sapphsd jQjneof the machinery frpaaUsir HOUSE SUSTAINS REED. Policy of Postponing Appointing- Committees Attacked. 8PEAKEB CHALLENGES 0PP0SITI0H ' fl.M.H.1 Y1.a. W?a 1 ff .!. Vaw ftdimA cratle Member From Vt'ashlagtoa Re. abllcan stand Together. While the Vote Sbowr a Split In the Ranks or the Democrats PopuliMs: Support Lewis. Washington', May 4. "The issue was made." as Speaker Reed put it in the house Monday, on the speaker's policy of postponing the appointment of committee. Jerry Simpson of Kansas brought it on by an attack upon the speaker which moved Mr. Reed to challenge him to propose a resolution instructing the speaker to appoint the committees. The Kansan evaded this challenge, but Mr. Lewis, a new Dem ocratic member from Washington, took op the gauntlet which the speaker had thrown down and- moved the adoption of a resolution of the tenor suggested by Mr. Reed. Then Fleming (Dem., Ga.) offered a substitute embodying the in structions in different terms, and Mr. Dingley, the Republican leader, to make the issue plain,, as he said, submitted another substitute permitting the speaker to "report the committees im mediately." When the vote was taken on the proposition the speaker was sustained by practically the solid vote of his party, assisted by S3 Democrats under the leadership of Mr. Bailey. The resolu tion was defeated, yeas 52, nays 124; present and not voting, 13. For the first time this session the fac tions in the Democratic ranks were forced to put themselves on record and 32 Democrats, with all of the Populists, supported Mr. Lewis. Mr. Low (N. Y.) was the only Re publican to put himself on record in support of the resolution, while eight Democrats and five Republicans ans wered present. Mr. Bailey denounced in strong terms the spectacle which the Democrats were presenting by their dis sensions. Cochran (Mo.) and Wheeler (Ala.) of the Democrats spoke for the resolutions, while Mr. Dingley voiced the Republican policy. The senate resolution appropriating $50,000 for the congress of the universal postal union was adopted and Mr. Sho waiter, the Republican chosen at a spe cial election to represent the Twenty fifth Pennsylvania district, was then sworn in. SENATOR TILLMAN HEARD FROM. After a Silence of .ereral Weeks He Arouses a Lively Controversy. Washington, May 4. Senator Till man of South Carolina was heard from briefly and pointedly in the senate after a silence of many weeks and, as usual, his remarks served to arouse a lively controversy. It occurred during the consideration of the "free homestead bilL" Mr. Morgan proposed an amend ment giving all public lands unoccupied by 1900 to the several states and terri tories. Mr. Hawley declared this to be a startling proposition, and Mr. Till man sought to oppose it by a series of questions addressed to Mr. Morgan. Some of the questions referred to the amendment asa proposition to "gobble" and "steal" the interest of states in public lands. Mr. Morgan in turn made sharp and sarcastic rejoinders and for a time senators and spectators were in terested in the animated cross fire. After Mr. Morgan had protested against the interruption as a breach of the privileges of the senate, the incident was closed by a statement from Mr. Tillman disclaiming any purpose of being discourteous to the Alabama sen ator. The Morgan amendment was withdrawn and an agreement reached for a final vote on the free homestead bilLat 3 p. m. today. Early in the day Mr. Morgan endeavored to secure a vote on the Cuban resolution. It went over, however, at the request of Hale (Me.),' in order that speeches in opposition may be made. The executive session of the senate was devoted largely to the consideration of the Anglo-American arbitration treaty, which is to be voted upon Wednesday. The question was brought up by Seuator Morgan, who spoke at length in opposition to the agreement. Named by the President. Washington, May 4. The president today sent the following nominations to the senate: State Robert N. Patterson of Tennessee, to be consul general at Calcutta, India; Stanton Sickles of New York, to be secretary of legation at Mad rid. Postmasters, Iowa Elmer E. Johns ton, Rockwell City; O. A. Merrill.North Springs; John Knapp, Parkersburg. Kansas J. E. Vincent, Hutchinson; William H. Halsinger, Cottonwood Falls. Missouri B. J. Prentiss, Beth any. Nebraska William T. Ager, Beav er City; James N. Brooks, Rushville. Special Messaee on Lynching-. Washington, May 4. President Mc Kinley sent to Congress a message con cerning the lynching of three Italians at Hahnville, La,, on the night of Aug. 8. 1896. He recommends an appropriation of 10,000 for the heirs of the persons without admitting the liability of the United States in the premises. Agree On Indian Appropriation. Washington, May 4. The conferees on the Indian appropriation bill agreed upon a number of unimportant items, but no agreement was reached on the Uncompahgre reservation matter, the Seneca oil lands or the Indian courts. Aiken Asked to Resign. Washington, May 4. The resigna tion of William M. Aiken, supervising architect of the treasury, has been asked. Harrison Removes Ofllclals. Chicago, May 4. Civil Service Com missioners Clark and Holtz have been removed by Mayor Harrison. WILL SIGN MANUFACTURING LAW. Governor Drake Answer Petitions by Kx plalalac His Position. Pes Moines, May 4. It has just leaked out at the governor's office that strong effort has been made during the last week to induce Governor Drake to veto the manufacturing law recently passed by the legislature. A delegation from the ministerial association of this city visited him and stated that they represented all the pastors of the city who were connected with the associa tion and asked that he should return the law to the legislature with his disap proval. In addition letters have been received from many of the prohibition ists of the state making the same re quest and indicatingconcerted action on the subject. In speaking of the matter, Governor Drake said : "1 hare made the universal answer to all sach requests that even if I had not taken the position when I was a candi date for the governorship, that the whole question had been relegated to the representative and senatorial dis trietaandl propose to do what the peo ple of the state wanted me to d& as ex pressed by the action of th representa tivas of these various districts. I could ot veto tha bill forth waaonthatin - p? .saaa ; -g- ;MT SbbbbI - JrBaaaaaa order to veto the manufacturing law I would be compelled to veto all tho liquor laws we have on our statute books. Many of the pcople'of the state do not appear to realize that there was no independent manufacturing bill passed, but tho law which was passed by the legislature permitting the manufacture of liquors in the state was an amendment to the present liquor laws, and in order to veto it I would have to veto the prohibition law as well. All the liquor laws' are in one bill, and if I should veto it it is hardly possible at this time in the ses sion that theiegislature could pass an other law on the subject or pass the bill over my veto and then, too, it is possi ble that the legislature might no.t pass another as stringent a prohibitory law as we have at the present time. So.you can see that those people who are 'ask ing me to veto the bill do not realize what they are doing." The amended mulct law containing the provision for legalizing manufactur ing in Iowa will be signed by the gov ernor and become a law Oct. 1. General Doe Denle Charges. Milwaukee, May 4 General Joseph B. Doe denies the ciui bros telegraphed from Washington to the effect that he took advantage of his position as assist ant secretary of war to supply himself with many useful and ornamental ar ticles at the expense of the government. He declined to make specific denial of the different charges, but declared that the accusations constituted a rediculous mass of falsehoods. He also defended Mr. Whitton of Zanesville, who was his secretary. CHAMPION CRUM DEAD, Famous Iowa Sprinter Passes f Away at Des Moines HE SUC0UMB3 TO APPENDICITIS. Born and Raised at Bedford. Where He Has Practiced Law Since He Retired From the Cinder Path Three Years Ago. Wafers the Only Slan Who Ever Showed Him His Rack at the Flahh. Des Moines, la., May 4. John W. Crum, the famous sprinter, died here in the hospital as the result of an operation for appendicitis. Crum was 24 years of age. He was born and raised at Bedford, la., where he had practiced law since retiring from the cinder path three years ago. In the spring of 1895 he captured everything on the cinder path in, Iowa, making the 100 yards in 10 seconds flat. He then went to Chicago where he won the 100 yard dash in the record time of 9 4-5 seconds. This was iu the western intercollegiate games. Ho won all the sprints at this meeting. He represented the west in the national intercollegiate games at Mott Haven the same season, and won the 100-yards in 9 4-5, and the 220-yard dash in 2- seconds. Two watches caught him, 21 2-5 and 22 3-5 respectively, in this event, but the third watch was not caught at the shot, and the time was put at 22 flat. Crum was protested as a professional by Yale, but a searching investigation gave him a clear bill as an amateur. In the games of the American Athletic union that year he was beaten by Ber nard J. Wefers, he being the only man who ever showed Crum his back at the finish. Crum suffered from a sprained tendon in this race, an injury from which he never recovered. At an exhibition race in Chicago ne made a new world's record of 21 2-5 for 220 yards on a circular track. He graduated from the State University of Iowa col legiate department in 1894, law depart ment in 1895 and six months ago'settled in Des Moines in the manufacture of a liniment for athletes. He was a young man of ideal character and habits. The funeral will be held at Bedford on Thursday afternoon and delegations from all the Iowa colleges will be present. LIVELY CONTEST FOR PRESIDENCY. State Federation of Women's Clnbs Meets at Dnbnque This Week. Dubuque, la., May 4. The second biennial meeting of the State Federation of Women's clubs will be held in this city Wednesday and Thursday. Nearly 300 delegates names have been registered and there will probably be 50 more, representing about 150 clubs, having a total membership of more than 4,000. The present officers of tho state federa tion are: President, Mrs. Anna M. Howe, Marshalltown; vice president, Mrs. Mary W. Coggswell, Cedar Rapids; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Jessie M. Thayer, Clinton; recording secretary, Mrs. Alice Bailey, Des Moines; treas urer, Miss Mabel Dickson, Ottumwa; auditor, Mrs. Ada L. Collier, Dubuque. A spirited contest for the presidency is in progress between Mrs. Ralph 'Von Vechten of Cedar Rapids and Miss May Rogers of Dubuque. During the convention addresses will be delivered by ladies well known in literary circles of state and nation, among them Mrs. Henrotin. president of the national federation. For the third biennial session, to be held in May, 1899, Des Moines, Marshalltown and Ottumwa are candidates. Captain Thomas Injured. Cedar Rapids, la., May 4. Captain Thomas of the Iowa State University baseball team was seriously injured at Mount Vernon in a game with Cornell college. Thomas, who was on first base, stooped to pick up the ball, when Smith of Cornell collided with him. Smith's knee struck the captain on the temple Thomas was unconscious for several hours and it is feared he has sustained fatal injuries. Keokak-St. Lonls Trade Reopened. Keokuk, la., May 4. Traffic between Keokuk and St. Louis has been resumed on the St. Louis, Keokuk and North western. Several miles of track which was washed out by the flood has been rebuilt. The Keokuk and Western and the Rock Island roads also have through tracks to Des Moines. Kckerlebe Sentenced. Clinton, la., May 4. Christian Eck erlebe, for tfie murder of Mina Kiel, near Bellvue, on July 4, 1896, was sen tenced by Judge Waterman to life im prisonment and was taken to Anamosa penitentiary. Baptist Young- People of Iowa. Des Moines, May it. The annual as sembly of the Baptist Young People's Union of Iowa will be held at Des Moines on Thursday and Friday of this week. Iowa State Bankers. Ottumwa. Ia., May 4. Ths State Bankers' association will meet in Ot tumwa May 26 and 27. Cplorado Banks Fail. Colorado Springs. Colo., May 4. The banking houses of J. B. Wheeler & Co., both in Manitoa and Aspen, have gone into the hands of assignees. It is believed depositors will bo paid in full The Third J negro Chosen. Lincoln, May 4. Governor Holcomb completed the list of judges of the Omaha municipal court by the appoint mant of Harry . Burnim to fca the thfedjndft, IN FAVOR OF MORE WAR. Decision of the Ministers Who Went to Greek Frontier. VA8S0S 18 RECALLED PROM 0BETE. TarkUh Army Is Advancing la Three Colnmns On Pharsalos. While an Addi tional Colnma Is Operating In the Direc tion of Volo Everything Points to a Retreat of the Greeks to Domokos. London, May 4. The chief points of interest in the situation are. I First That the decision of the min ; isters who have returned from the j Greek frontier seems to be in favor of a continuance of the war, and. becond That fighting continued al most incessantly at Valestiuo from last Thursday until'Sunday, with the result .that General Smolensk! has been pre vented from actually assuming his duties as chief of staff. As a further result the Greeks at Valestino have managed to retain their positions, but they are too much fatigued to follow up their successes. Altogether 14 officers have been recalled from Crete to be sent ou to Thessaly, and this also is a proof of the intention of the new cabinet to continue the war. The movement is actuated by necessity. All the best officers are being sent to the front, nor is there any intention yet dis played to evacuate Crete. The Turkish army is advancing in three eolumns on Pharsalos while an additional column is operating in the direction of Volo. -As the Volo column could easily take -Valestino in the rear, the Greek posi tion is very precarious. This probably explains the retention of General Smo lensk! there, as it was natural to expect him to go to Pharsalos to assume the supreme command. Everything points to an inevitable retreat by the Greeks on Domokos. . The diplomatic situation continues obscure with a constant interchange of dispatches between European cabinets and incessant interviewing of ministers. Athens, May 3. The diplomatic sit uation may be summed up as follows: No request for mediation has been or will be addressed by Greece to the powers until the ministers of war and marine report upon the state of the Greek forces at Pbarsala and elsewhere. The powers have not offered media tion, although they do not conceal the fact that a request for intervention will be highly acceptable to them. The min ister of foreign affairs, M. Skolouidis, says the ministry situation has greatly improved in both Epirus and Thessaly, and that the victory of the Greeks over the Turks at Velestino was brilliant. The ministers of war and marine have leftPharsala for Athens after along conference with Prince Constantino and the headquarters' staff. THE SITUATION AT PHARSALOS. Greek Ministers Favorably Impressed With Troops and Plan of Defease. Athens, May 4. Colonel Eosamedos, minister of war. and M. Theolokis, minister of the interior, are said to be favorably impressed with the situation at Pharsalos, both as respects the posi tisn of the troops and the plan of de fense. Rumors conflict materially as to the diplomatic attitude of Turkey Ac cording to one report, Edhem Pasha, the Turkish commander in Thessaly. has asked an armistace already exists by the tacit acquiescence of both command ers; while a third story describes Edhom Pasha as only awaiting reinforcements for an attack on Pharsalos. to be fol lowed by an attack upon Volo. It is also said to be probable that Ad miral Lamatello is preparing to prevent a possible attempt of the Turks to seize Volo by the coast roads. Panic Still Prevails at Arta. Athens, May 4. Advices from Arta say that the chief local authorities and about 100 inhabitants of that place have returned there. Panic, however, still prevails at Arta. All the stores are closed and the military authorities are said to be contemplating further with drawal of the Greek troops in that vi cinity. In the direction of Filliapada, flames are visible. An armed Greek priest has been attempting to restore the morale of the troops at Arta by preaching in the public square a crusado against the Turks. Cretans Reject All Overtures. Candia, Crete, May 4. The admirals commanding the fleets of the foreign powers in Cretan waters had a confer ence yesterday with the insurgent lead ers at Paleokastro. The Cretans were promised complete autonomy, including the condition that the nomination of their ruler should be subject to the rati fication of the Cretan assembly. The insurgent leaders, however, cut the dis cussion short and reiterated that their motto remained, "Annexation to Greece or death." Hay Leaches With the Qaeen. London, May 4. Colonel John Hay, the newly appointed United States am bassador to the court of St. James, ac companied by Mrs. Hay, left London at 1:30 p. m. today to present his creden tials to Queen Victoria at Windsor Cas tle. On arriving at Windsor Colonel and Mrs. Hay found a royal carriage in waiting to convey them to the castle. After having been received in audience by her majesty Colonel and Mrs. Hay had lunch with the queen. Renewed Trouble on Gold Coast. Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast, Af rica, May 4. Grave news has been re ceived here as to the mission of Lieu tenant Henderson at Wa. It is reported that Chief Samory has attacked the mis sion. A serious disaster is feared. CeJoae! Vassoa Recalled. Athens, May 4. The Greek govern ment has recalled Colonel Vassos from Crete. He will be replaced in command of the Greek forces in the island by Colonel Staikos. Spalding Unable to Give Bonds. Chicago, May 4. All the indicted officials of the defunct Globe savings bank, with the exception of ex-President Spalding, gave bonds today and were released from custody. Spalding's bond3 foot up nearly $320,000 and he has not been able to furnish that amount of security. Romeyn Case Ended. Atlanta, Ga., May 4. The Romeyn court martial was concluded yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The finding of the court was forwarded to the war de partment. Captain Romeyn, the ac cused officer, spoke for 45 minutes and reviewed the case. Atlantic and Pacific Sftld. Albuquebque, N. M., May 4. The Atlantic and Pacific railway was sold at Gallup, this county, at noon today for 912,000,000. The only bidder was Al dace F. Walker, chairman of the board of directors of the Atcnison, Topekaand Santa Fe railway: Forest Fires In Wisconsin. Ashland. May 4. Forest fires are starting up again around Ashland. A big fire is raging across the bay and an other is threatening Brule, on the Northern Pacific, Greeafleld Wine. BnuDXdHAX. Eng., May 4. At the Olympic club, in the match between Larry Burns, of Cohoes. N. Y., and Harry Greenfield, the Englishman, for the 126-pound championship. Greenfield won in the eighth round. Davidson Will Challenge Michael Toronto. May 4. Harley Davidson, the well known Canadian bicyclist, will challenge Michael, the little Welshman, for a series of races of one and five miles, the third distance to be decided by the toss of a coin. Natlaaal League Games. Washington, 0: New York. t Mercer. Swaim and Farrell: Seymour and Warner Pittsbnrg. 7: Louisville. 4 Klllec asd Sag den: Fraier and Wilson. Clet eland, 6 : Cincinnati, 2 Yoang aad Zlas nier: Breitenstein and Peitz WESTERN LXAGCS- St. Paul, 10: Milwaukee. 5. Detroit. 4; Indianapolis. 5. Minneapolis, ; Kansas City, 10 Aboat BaitrMcaa. Among the habits of the partridge one is that when a covey is roosting on the ground, with their tails bunched to gether in circle, the bunch is sur mounted by a line of watchful heads, like sentinels on duty. Another is that they run the instant the ground ia touched after a "flush," the doga often trailing them in rabbit hunting fashion. Their sense of smell evidently very acute, for during tho nesting season, if the eggs, which number from 10 to 20, are disturbed in any way or a hand even inserted in the nest, it will be immedi ately deserted and m new one built A short time previous to the nesting the males are often involved in desperate combats for the choico of mates, who stand by and quietly watch the encoun ter, seeming not to care which one be comes the victor. The incubation -ia performed entirely by the female, the male, when not feeding, often being, perched on some slight elevation, en couraging her by his mellow toned call of "bobwhite." Two and sometimes three broods of young are reared during a season, the nesting beginning as early as May 1. Later in the fall the broods of young occasionally join forces, but whether from a want of company or for protection is not known. When feeding, the birds are some times scattered several yards apart, but at the first iign of danger an alarm is given, and they immediately "bunch," with their heads placed close together, as if in consultation. The first shot into a covey will often cause them to break and fly in all directions, and if not dis turbed again for several minutes "scat ter calls" will be heard on every side. These are made to collect the remaining birds, who again bunch. Many of the market gunners seem to have no qualms of conscience and very often kill with out hesitation an entire covey, when at least one or two pairs of birds should be left for breeders. Baltimore Sun. Vemlnlae Saicldea. Statistical tables yield curious in formation to the careful student. For instance, they show that over one-third of tho women who kill themselves are not yet 25 years of age. They show that women take poison, where men shoot themselves, and they show that the poor, sick and the infirm are not by any kind of reckoning in the majority. A physician who makes a study of at tempted suicide said this: "Get a girl past 25, and she'll go through poverty, sickness and desertion and misery enough to kill ten men. The more peoplo suffer the more they cling to life. I've seen it in hospitals. It is not the patients with the incurable diseases or the hopeless cripples who beg to die, but the young, strong, vital woman, who hates pain and doesn't want to suffer it, even for the chance of getting well. It is a strange thing, this getting of a girl past 25, but not uncommon. Any physician with a large family practice will tell you of a down cases in his own circle of knowledge. Sometimes it is called pyromania, some times kleptomania, sometimes catalep sy, sometimes hysteria, sometimes feign ing and sometimes tantrums it's all the samo thing nothing else to da" Another physician told of a girl who committed suicide and who left a note stating that her reason was that she was tired of doing the same things over and over every day. The monotony of life had become unbearable to her. Philadelphia Times. Dropping a Ball Throogh the Earth. "G. H." of East St. Louis asks the following curious question, "If it were possible to bore a hole a foot or more in diameter entirely through the earth, and to then start a 100 pound ball to falling through this 8,000 miles of hole, at what point would it stop?" In an swer to this we will say that weight, in the sense to which our correspondent alludes, is the measure of attraction of gravitation, or, in other words, it is the measure of force with which a body 1b attracted to tho earth. This attractive force decreases both ways from the earth's surface. Thereforo if a ball should be started on the tour outlined in your query its weight would decrease to a certain extent with every yard of its flight (or fall), until finally, upon reaching tbe center of the earth it would have no weight whatever. This curious state of affairs would be brought about by the gradual lessening by the force of attraction, or gravitation, until the center of the globe would have been reached, at which point the ball would bo held in suspension, as though fixed by numerous magnetic points. In other words, at the center of the earth the phenomenon of weight is entirely want ing. St. Louis Republic. MahJaa; Allowance. "Confound the boy," he exclaimed as he opened one of the letters the post man had brought and spilled half bis coffee. "What is the matter, dear? Look out! Yon will spoil tbe tablecloth," remark ed tho wife of his besom. "Tablecloth be hanged. It'athat boy Tom." "What has he been doing? I am sure he's getting along finely. He writes me that he is on the eleven." "That's all very well, but here I have a bill from his tailor, and I only paid one last week. " "But look at the nice set he is in." "Yes, but why the mischief doesn't he economize? Doesn't the young rascal know the value of money?" "But Tom is so young, dear. Yon ought to make allowances for him. " "Allowances! For heaven's sake! I have been making allowances enough for him, and I'll stop his allowance this montb," he cried as he left the break fast room to go to the office. Chicago Times-Herald. The blue violet is symbolic of love and the white of modesty. In Germany either is considered as symbolic of reti cence. A Silesian lover can make his sweetheart no more acceptable present than a bunch of violets. In most of the states 56 pounds make n bushel of shelled corn. From this the range is downward to 52 pounds in California and Vermont. Thirty-eight days are required for ft letter to go from New York to the faUc BEGM, JMiCft, ! I&bbbbI N -aBBaV Farm Loans, And Insurance.. COLUMBUS, VTORD OS THE SID. Weary ob de ice. Tired ob de aaow,. Want to get oat Whar de battereapa grow. Please Mister Bobolink. Siagdataoag; Coate erloag, spriag. Honey gal, coeae erloag. Want to sain! de blossom Oa de hoaef aackar viae; Wast torgot a chance Wid a aawahia' line; Please. Mister Mawkiahird. Start tint chaae; Come erloag, spriag. Honey gal, come soon. New Orleans Time-Democrat. WOMAN'S WAYS. Ob. how aaajr hearta are breakiag! Oh, bow many hearta are aching. For a loving touch or token. For the word yoa might bare spoken; Say not ia the time of sorrow, I will soothe their grief to-morrow. -Prove yoar friendship, lest they doabt it. Go at oace, be qaick aboat it. The American. Removal Notice . Dr. Miesaler has removed his oSce from Thirteenth to Eleventh street, in Mrs. Cushing's building, where he can be consulted at the hours from 8 to 10 a. m., 1 to 4, and 7 to 8 p. m. 4t Within the last week we have made arrangements so that we can furnish to our readers the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean and Columbus Journal, when paid in advance, at $ 1.75. tf Ta Chicago aad the East. Passengers going east for business, will naturally gravitate to Chicago as the great commercial center. Passengers re-visiting friends or relatives in tbe eastern states alwayB desire to "take in" Chicago en route. All classes of passen gers will find that the "Short Line" of the Chicago, Milwaukee St 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. bv asking any principal agent west of the Missouri river for a ticket over the Chicago, Council Bluffs & Omaha Short Line of the Chicago, Milwaukee it St. Paul Railway, you will be cheerfully furnished with the proper passport via tnnana and Unicago. Please note that all of the "Short Line" trains arrive in Chicago in ample time to connect with theexpresstrainsof all the great through car lines to the principal eastern cities. For additional particulars, time tables, maps, etc., plesse call on or address F. A. Nash, General Agent, Omaha, Nob. Now is the time to subscribe for The Journal. For less t han three cents a week, you get all the local news in neat, trim shape, tf To California, CeaifoHably. Every Thursday afternoon, a tourist sleeping car for Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Los Angeles leaves Oma ha and Lincoln via the Burlington Route. It is carpeted; upholstered in rattan; has spring seats and backs and ia pro vided with curtains, bedding, towels, soap, etc. An experienced excursion conductor and a uniformed Pullman porter accompany it through to the Pa cific Coast. While neither so expensively finished nor so fine to look at as a palace sleeper. it is just as good to ride in. Second- ciass ucxeis are accepted for passage anil tne price or a berth, wide enough and big enough for two, is only $5. For folder giving full particulars, call at nearest Burlington ticket office, or write to J. Francis, G. P. A., Burlington Route, Omaha, Neb. 22dec PROBATE NOTICE. The State of Nebraska. County of Platte. f"6' In the county court, in and for said county. Ia the niatter of the estate of A. F. SaSraa. de ceased, late of said count y. At a aessioa of the county court for aaid county, holdea at the county judae'e oatce ia Columbus, in aaid county oa the 19th day of April. A. D. 1897. present. J. N. Kiliaa. eoaa ty judge. OnreadinsandfiliasthedalyTeriied petition of Amanda Saffran. praying that let ters of administration be issued toheroa the estate of said decedent. Thereupon, it ia orderedthat the 7th day of May. A. D. 1897, at 10 o'clock, a. m.t be assign ed for the hearing of said petition at the county juage a omce in said county. And it is further ordered, that due legal notice be given of the pendency and hearing of aaid petition by publication in The Coma sua Joca- nai. iot inree consecutive weeks. (A true copy of the order.) J. N. Kiliax, County Judce. listed olurabue. Neb., April 10, 1887. 21apr3t PROBATE NOTICE. In the countr court of Platte conntv. Nahn.v. In the matter of the estate of Goaiaf E. John son, oeceaaea. notice lo crecutora to preseat their claims. Notice is hereby given that the creditors of said deceased will meet the administrator of aaid estate, before me. count judge of Platte county Nebraska, at my office in Columbus, oa the 7th' day of May, 1807, oa the 7th day of August. 18S7. and on the 7th day of November. 1697, at 9 o'clock a. m. each day, for the purpose of pre senting their claims for examination, adjust ment and allowance. Six months are allowed for the creditors to Jiresent their claims from the 7th day of May 897, and this notice ia ordered published la The CoLUXBES Jobbnal, for four consecutive weeks prior to the 7th day of May. 1897. and ia ia lien of any other notice prescribed by the statutes. J N. KlLIAX. Mpr County Judge. LEGAL NOTICE, To all whom it may concern: The Board of Supervisors in regular ion Apni iui. io, aeciareu ine lollo' wing section line ODened aa a nnblic road iir- Commencing at the Southwest comer of Sec tion 12. Town 18, Hange 1 West, and running thence due East on section line two Bailee aad terminating at Southeast corner of Section 7 SpwA.18' 1 East, of the Sixth Principal Meridian. Aow all objections thereto or claims damages caused thereby must be filed in for the county ueras omce Baturtlav Mav V2A nwr or such road may be established without fur ther reference thereto. Dated, Columbus, Kebr., April 21st. 1897. .. E.POHL. 2SApnMt County Clerk. NOTICE. ACCORDING to a resolution adopted by the Supervisors of Platte county, Nebraska. April 16th. 1897. sealed bide will hi received M the county clerk's office on or before May 15th 1907, at 12 o'clock m.. for material to repair the Loup river bridge, viz: 48.000 feet of S inch No. 2 white oak planks. 21,000 feet of 3x14-22 feet long No. 1 white pine (rough). 1,000 feet of SxS-lnfeet long white pine (rough) 1.500 pounds of 50 penny wire nails or more if rennired. Also sealed bids received same date for work repairing aaid Loup river bridge. Material fur nished by the county. Material and work to be paid out of the road and bridge fund of Columbus city aad Colum bus township. Specifications can be seen in county clerk's office. , The board reserves the right to reiect any or all bids. " E.POf?L 2prt CoaatyCIerk. I BRIDGE NOTICE. SEALED. BIDS will be received at the office of the county clerk of Platte county until li o'clock boob. May Bth. 1897, for the eoastrae tion of a wagon bridge across Prairie Creek oa tbe county line between Merrick aad Platte SP??1 dlBa- to specifications oa file. Said bids will he onmri mi HiW r--u . Merrick county, on May 11th. IsOT.at I o'clock p. m. Bonds are to accompany each bid for the double amount of bid. The hoard reserves the t to reject aay ana all bula. coiaaiMe, Hear., April 8,17 E.POHL, Itoprlt CeaatTl WJ Clark, Real Estate . C. CASSIN, raonirroa or tss Oidia Mfi-l MwTwd Fresh, and Salt Game and 1 in twtasoii, saTnihuwt market prices paid for Hides and Tallow. 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