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Clisrnj Goiuitu Independent

VALENTINE - NEBRASKA

BODIES IN A BARREL

CHICAGO POLICE MAKE A GREWSOME DISCOVERY

One Body that of an Old Man andtho Other that of a Baby OnlyOne Slight Clew to the MysteriousCrime Other Items

Two Bodies In a BarrelCarefully concealed in a barrel and

covered with a mass of old rags and cot-

ton¬

the dead bodies of a gray haired manand a new born babe were found in analley in Hyde Park Chicago Only oneclew is in their possession and on the dis-

covery¬

of the identity of a woman as yetunknown to the police depends the pos-

sible¬

solution of the mysteryThe office in Rollstons Hyde Parle

morgue was rung up by telephone and awoman asked if the body of a man hadbeen found in Ilyde Park The office at-

tendant¬

replied in the negative and thenquestioned tho woman but his best ef¬

fort failed to get any information of a de-

cided¬

character although she told theclerk she was looking for a man who wasmissing

Four hours later the barrel with itsghastly contents was discovered Thebody of the man tallied in almost everyrespect with the description furnishedby the mysterious woman over the tele-

phone¬

wire and the police unhesitatinglyconnected her with the case

In the barrel also was tho body of a boynot over 10 days old

J A Nurse residing in Prairie Avenuein the alley at the rear of his house dis-

covered¬

a barrel which aroused his curi-osity

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Breaking open the head of ihebarrel he was horrified on finding thehacked body of an old man It was en-

tirely¬

nude and frightfully mutilatedThe head and trunk gave every evi-

dence¬

of foul play the sknll showingseveral deep wounds On the left forehead were tattooed five spots close to-

gether¬

After the several pieces of thebody had been lifted from the barrel thebody of the baby was found It was nudesave for a thin flannel shirt and therewere two marks on the side of the headapparently made with a blunt instru-ment

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The body of the elder male was thatof a man between G5 and 70 years ofage

GROVEE MAKES APOLOGY

Didnt Know Olney Gave Out theCuban Policy Statement

The Washington correspondent of theChicago Times Herald says The Nation-al

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Capital has had a good laugh at theexpense of President Cleveland in whichthe President is said to have joined Thejoke on the chief magistrate is that hecommitted the blunder of rushing impul-sively

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into print in such a way that heafterward found it necessary to apologizefor bis utterances

Fears have been expressed in well in ¬

formed circles that on account of the cardwhich the President had given lo Ihenewspapers stating that he knew nothingof the semi official deliverance on theCuban question recently published andthat he was quite able to define his ownposition on public questions might leadto trouble between the President and hisSecretary of State

Secretary Olney was at the White Housefor an hour Saturday and after his returnto the State Department was in the bestspirits While he declined to discuss theaffair at all he did not deny there wasany friction between himself and thePresident

It is said on good authority that thePresident laughingly expressed his regietfor the publication and assured MrOlney that there was not the slightest in-

tention¬

to put an affront upon him Thisapology was accepted by the Secietary ofState and peace reigns and the adminis ¬

tration goes on as before

KILIiS FOUR REGULATORS

Florida Farmer Gives a Mob a HotReception

In a desperate battle with regulatorsBowen Sykes near Plant City Fla shotfour men fatally and wounded six othersmore or less seriously

Sykes lives in the Peru neighborhoodand for some cause incurred the enmityof his neighbors Within the past tendays he has received notice to leave underthreats of death Sykes determined notto leave and prepared to defend himselfagainst the expected attack The attackcame next morning when a mob of fifteenmasked men broke down the door andentered Sykes home Sykes was readyand as the regulators entered he openedfire with a Winchester Sykes fiied asrapidly as possible and soon four of theregulators were down and the others fledin terror Sykes continued to fire at thefugitives as long as they were in rangeand six others were wounded

Admiral Walker Dangerously 111

Hear Admiral Henry Walker TJ S NM

retired is very low with grip at his home1n Brooklyn and owing to his advancedage 88 years his death is believed to be

Mmt a matter of a short time

Imitate Spanish StudentsThe undergraduates of Princeton Uni

rersity burned in effigy the King of Spainn a demonstration in which several hun ¬

dred took part The flag of Spain wasdragged through the main street and laterwas torn to pieces in the center of thecampus

Jealous Husbands CrimeAndrew Wharton a horse trader at St

Louis 3Io murdered his wife by cuttingher throat with a razor Wharton accusedhis wife of infidelity and in a fit of jealbusy killed her while she was asleep

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TVEYLEK IS OUTGENERALED

Plan to Corner the Cuban Armies Isa Big Failure

Nobody in Cuba has paid much attentiontojtlie reports from the field of operationslately Washington and Madrid havebeen the sole centers of interest Yetwithin a few days Gomez and Maceo haveachieved another of their successes in theface of strong opposing columns whichmade the world wonder how it could bedone

Gen Weyler apparently believing hehad driven them to their stronghold inthe everglades of Clenaga de Sepala hasbeen hurrying thousands of troops intoSanta Clara by land and sea withthe one purpose of hemming the enemyin at that point Gen Pando in commandin Santa Clara only waited the arrival ofthese troops to strike hard blows ButGomez and Maceo having left in theeverglade hospitals all their woundedstrengthened forces with new troopsfresh from Puerto Principe and SanDiego and then while tne Spanish bat-talions

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were enroute to catch them theyunexpectedly turned west again slippingpast all obstructions with only a fewskirmishes Now Gomez is in the heartof Matanzas and Maceo is once more al-

most¬

at the gates or the capital Trainshave been fired on just beyond the cityon the Matanzas road and on Mondaynight there was a sharp skirmish onlythree miles beyond the suburbs of Jesusdel Monte a little settlement lo whichHavana horse cars and om in i buses makeregular trips There has been no officialreport of the affair given out

LAUNCHING OF THE IOWA

Big Battleship Will Be Set AfloatThis Month

On Saturday March 28 it is probablethat all the Iowa delegation in Washing ¬

ton Senators and Representatives willvisit Philadelphia The magnet to at-

tract¬

them will be the launch of the great-est

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addition yet made to the Americannavy the battleship Iowa the best of herclass ever put upon the stocks jn anyshipyard in the world

When the last inquiry was made of theCramps it was stated that the launch wouldnot occur until some time in May butowing to the possibility of trouble grow ¬

ing out of the Cuban situation work hasbeen ordered pushed and now it has pro-

gressed¬

so far that the blocks will be cutfrom under her keel on the last Saturdayin the present month Gov Drake andhis staff will in all probability be presentand the chances are that the Governorsdaughter will christen the ship

BURN STARS AND STRIPES

Madrid Students Publicly Insult theStars and Stripes

There have been renewed disturbancesin Madrid and demonstrations of popularanger against the United States Govern-ment

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The students of the universityseem to have been the offenders or theleaders in the demonstration

In spite of the special prohibition di-

rected¬

against them by the Governmenttho students and other inhabitants in ¬

dulged in renewed manifestations of theirunfriendly sentiments against the UnitedStates They assembled before the Mad¬

rid university and there publicly burnedan American flag The police dispersedthe meeting after making sever il arrests

As a result the cabinet council has de-

cided¬

to temporarily close the universitiesIt was also decided to create a specialbudget for naval armaments

VENEZUELAS TIME UP

4he Ninety Days Given by Englandto Yield Are Over

The ninety days allowed Venezuela toanswer the demand for indemnity for thearrest of the English officials Barnes andBaker on the Uruan River in December1894 have expired

The Government will not speak of-

ficially¬

but the highest authority is givenfor the statement that Venezuela has re-

fused¬

to pay the indemnity declaring thequestion of the arrest and the boundarydispute cannot be separated To pay theindemnity would be to recognize Britishsovereignty over Venezuelan territory

It is believed that unless Pauncefote andMinister Andrade can arrange matterssatisfactorily in Washington England willuse force to collect the money treatingthe arrests as distinct from the boundary

Fitz Avoids CorbettIt is officially announced that Bob Fitz

simmons has cancelled his date at thePittsburg Academy of Music next weekJim Corbett was to be in that town at thesame time and a report from New Yorksays that Corbett was to have met Fitzsimmons and punched his face if possibleHhile there

This stoiy was told Fitz before he wenton with Maher at Madison Square Gardenlast Saturday night and he at once pushedahead his Pittsburg date until April

Counterfeiters TrappedThree green goods men and a satchel

filled with new money amounting to 25000 were captured by postal inspectors atChicago There were four men in theparty one of whom escaped in the meleewhen the raid was made The namesgiven by the captured men are CharlesHerd Albert Gray and Frank Smith

Holmes Must HangTho Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

has overruled all the assignments of errorin the case of II H Holmes sentencedto death for the murder of B F Peitzeland confirmed the judgement of the courtbelow It is believed Gov Hastings willfix an early day for the execution

Coal Miners Settle on a RatePresident Ratchford of the Ohio mine

workers flas issued a circular to theminers telling them to consider them-selves

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working for 01 cents per ton Thereis every promise that the rate will remainat this for one year

Mrs Parnell Will Go to IrelandMrs Delia T Parnell is at present

atBordentown N J the guest of thefamily of J M Steele where she will re-

main¬

for a few days to settte some busi-ness

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and then sail for Ireland

Famous Double CarnationA New York florist for the sole right to

the famous double carnation known asIhe Murella has paid its discoverer

10000 The flower has been raised andowned entirely by a firm having a largegreenhouse near Grand Kapids MichiThe Murella is one of the most beauti-ful

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carnations ever seen being large andof a deep red color The senior memberof the firm has been working on it formany years and brought it out only lastyear After taking several prizes atfloral shows he began to receive offersfrom prominent florists

THE SITUATION IN TRADE

Little Change Noticeable During thoPast Week

R G Dun Cos Weekly Review otTrade says The Cuban resolutions andthe appointment of receivers for the Bal ¬

timore and Ohio were events of sufficientimportance to affect almost any genuinemarket especially for securieties Ittherefore argues either remarkablestrength of conditions or ah entire wantof life and genuineness in the market thatthe prices of the sixty most active railroadstocks which averaged 4974 per shareFebruary 1 have never fallen since thatdate to lower than 4930 nor risen aboveS50S5 per share The industries all re ¬

port a slightly lower range of pricesPrices of wool have declined accordingto the quotations printed by Coates Brosof Philadelphia an average of 24 peicent within the month of February pre-sumably

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because of the failure of the proposed tariff bill which included duties onwool There is also a retarding effectfrom the further reductions which havebeen made in prices of cotton goods al ¬

though it does not appear that the concessions have thus far been successful incalling out new business Reports arefrequent that many of the largest millsare about to stop production for a time inorder to give the market opportunity toclear itself

Failures for the week have been 285 inthe United States against 234 last yearand 08 in Canada against 58 last year

THAT JOINT PARADE

United Confederates Commander iiuChief on Walkers Action

The decision published by Gen Walkercommander of the G A R in referenceto the proposed joint parade in New YorkJuly4 was called to the attention of Sen-

ator¬

Gordon of Georgia who has beenrcommander-in-chi- ef of the United Con-

federates¬

ever since its organization newas asked if he proposed to take any acction looking to a change in the date ofthe next annual meeting of the confeder-ates

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at Richmond June 30 July 1 and 2

Gen Gordon repliedThis date was finally decided upon in

order to permit the confederates who camefrom farther south to go to New York im-

mediately¬

after the adjournment to takepart in a joint parade but I see no reasonfor changing the date of our reunionwhich was called to meet at Richmond bythe last annual meeting at Houston Texand although the date could legally bechanged by me yet 1 shall not do so un-

less¬

I find it the wish of a majority of theUnited Confederate Veterans camp andbest suited to the convention

I do not wish however to discuss theaction of Gen Walker It has been myeffort since the war to cultivate most cor-

dial¬

relations between the soldiers of thetwo armies and between the people ofboth sections I am glad to know I havehad the cordial sympathy and approvalof my old comrades in this effort and 1

wish also to add in this connection that Ihave had the most cordjal manifestationsof a like sentiment on the part of the greatbody of the Union soldiers

FAMILY OF SEVEN KILLED

Wisconsin Fire Results in the Deathof Seven Persons

The house of G H Oldhouse at Haroldfive mile from Alma Wis was destroyedby fire causing the death of the family ofseven persons father and mother and fivechildren There was some talk that thefire was caused by a robber who mighthave set fire to the house to cover histracks after murdering the family formoney amounting to 500 which Mr Oldhouse is known to have had in the houseAs the money has already been fonnd inthe ruins this theory does not appear prob-able

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From the position in which thebodies were found all except Mr Oldhousedied in their beds from suffocation Thefathers body was found near a window ina room adjoining the bedroom

Prairie Fires in Oklahomar Damaging prairie fires have been ragingfor six days in the Ponca Otoo andOsage Indian countries in the easternpert of the Cherokee strip In the Osagecountry a white woman was burned todeath and half a dozen houses and muchstock destroyed

Prussian Mine DisasterSeventy -- one bodies of victims of the

Cleophas mine disaster at CattowitzPrussia have been Urought to the surfaceIt is believed fifty are still unaccountedfor

Committeeman Campbell DeadW J Campbell of Illinois a member of

the Republican National Committee diedat Chicago of pneumonia

MARKET QUOTATIONS

Sioux City Cattle Stockers and feed-ers

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300 to 350 Hogs Prices rangingfrom 375 to 382 Grain Wheat 49cto 52c corn 17c to 19c oats 13c to 15c

rye 20c to 25c flax 80c hay 450 to500 butter 13c to 14c eggs 7c fChicago Cattle Beef steers 330 to

475 stockers and feeders 280 to 380IIogsPrices ranging from 825 to 422Grain Wheat No 2 spring 65c to66cNo 2 red 69c to 69c corn No 2 28coats No 2 20c rye No 2 39c flaxNo 1 89Kc timothy 350 to 300

Kansas City Cattle Beef steers 315to 435 stockers and feeders 300 to390 Hogs Prices ranging from 360

to 375 Sheep 350 to 400South Omaha Cattle Beef steers 320

to 420 stockers and feeders 275 to370 Hogs Prices ranging from 385

to 395 JSt Paul Cattle Beef steers 325 to

335 stockers and feeders 200 to 5300Hogs Prices ranging from 150 to 1382

Minneapolis Grain Wheat May y2cJuly 63c No 1 hard on track G2jcNo 1 Northern 61c

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SENATE AND HOUSE4

vWORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW

MAKERS

Proceedings of the Senate and HouseofRepresentatives Measures of Im-

portance¬

Discussed and Acted Upon

Gist of the Business

Daily Report of the WorkThe House spent the entire day on the 4th fix ¬

ing the salaries of the United States district at-torney

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in the amendment to the legislative ap ¬

propriation 1111 to abolish the fee system Thesalaries for the district attorneys were fixed Inpart as follows Illinois northern districtP5000 southern district 1000 Indiana 5000Iowa northern district and southern districti000 Michigan eastern district 4000 west-

ern¬

district 3000 Minnesota 4000 Missourieastern and western districts 4000 each Ne ¬

braska 3500 Ohio northern and southerndistricts 4000 South Dakota 3500 Wiscon ¬

sin eastern district 4000 western district3000 The request of the Senate for a confer-

ence¬

on the Cuban resolutions was received butnot acted upon

The Senate on the 4th began the considerationof the Dnpont election case from DelawareSenator Mitchell spoke in favor of seating MrDupontbut no action was taken The Cubanresolution went to conference as a result of a re-

port¬

from the Committee on Foreign delationsand Messrs Sherman Morgan Lodge werenamed as Senate eonferes A number of billswere passed and at 3 oclock tho Senate ad-journed

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Interest in the debate over the legislative appropriation bill in the House on the 5th was com ¬

pletely overshadowed by a sensational attackmade upon President Cleveland by Mr Hartinanof Montana who felt himself personally ag¬

grieved by Mr Clevelands utterances at thePresbyterian Home Mission meeting in 2TewYork and who seized the opportunity allowedby the latitude of the debate on appropriationbills to repel the idea that the western stateswere tho home of evil influences The Housethen resumed the consideration of the amend¬

ment to the legislative appropriation bill Debatewas interrupted to allow the Speaker to appointas conferees on the Cuban resolutions MessrsHitt of Illinois Adams of Pennsylvania and McCreary of Kentucky After the committee rosewithout finishing consideration of the bill a billwas passed appropriating 90000 for the recon-struction

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of the Eock Island 111 bridge andthen at 520 p m the House adjourned

Far a time on the 5th it looked as though theCuban question would be finally disposed of inthe Senate by agreeing to the conference reportaccepting the House resolutions At the conclu-sion

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of Senator Mitchells elaborate argumenton the Dupont case Senator Sherman presentedthe report of tho conferees and asked for imme-diate

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action It was then 3 oclock not morethan a dozen senators were in the hall SenatorHale suggested that it was undesirable to crowdthrough a resolution of this magnitude at a latehour and with an empty Senate This broughtconsiderable sharp debate Senator Chandlerwho had not before been heard on Cuba de-

clared¬

himself in favor of not only recognizingbut of maintaining the independence of Cubaeven if it resulted in war wtth Spain SenatorHawley expressed sympathy with the public feoling against Spain yet he feared the earnestnessand eagerness of the United States would involveus in war not only with Spain but other Euro-pean

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countries Senator Sherman concluded tolet the subject go over until Monday the Senatehaving agreed to adjourn until then and he gavenotice that ho would call up the report duringtho morning hour

The House on the Gth passed the legislative ap-propriation

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bill which has been under consider-ation

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for a week Most of the time howeverwas consumed in tho consideration of theamendment to abolish tho fee system Thisamendment was perfected and adopted TheHouse then entered on the consideration of thopostoflice appropriation bill Mr Loud of Cali ¬

fornia chairma i of the committee who was incharge of the foul explained its provisions Thebill is tho largest of the annual supply Dills Itsarries 19943757 2874142 less than the esti-mates

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fout 2377700 more than the cur-rent

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law carries Mr Quigg of NewJTork asked whether it would foe possifolotinder the provisions of the present hill forihe Postoflice Department to continue what isdenominated the spy system for suveillanceover carriers etc Mr Loud in reply explainedthat the committee did not desire any official ofthe Government to embark in new enterprisesand therefore the appropriation used by the firstassistant postmaster general to employ inspect-ors

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lias been segregated so that money couldnot foe used foy him for the purpose But MrLoud said he agreed with the first assistant post-master

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general fully as to the principle of ade- -

miato supervision of tho postal service Hethought it would foenefit the whole service fontthe committee had decided that it was not desir-able

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to divide tho inspecting force and hadtherefore cut off tho force under the first assist ¬

ant postmaster general and Increased the regularforce under the fourth assistant postmaster gen-eral

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foy making provision for thirty additionalInspectors Without completing the general de-

bate¬

the committee rose and recess was taken un-

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8 oclock tho evening session to foe devotedto the consideration of the private pension bills

Prayer in War TimeEditor F W Woolard of the Carmi

111 Times was one of a group whowere swapping stories at the AlhambraThe drift of the conversation was uponincidents which had impressed the nar-rators

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while here during and after thewar I once heard a remarkableprayer from an old negro said EditorWoolard It was at the time Sher¬

man had pushed through Georgia andeverybody was cussing him constant-ly

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The old man had unconsciously ab-

sorbed¬

the language of his master al¬

though his sympathies were all theother way He was In the midst ofwhat the irreverent sometimes style atrash mover a most earnest prayer at

a big mcetln when he lifted his eyesto heaven and exclaimed as a grandfinale And now Lawd bless demwhat dun freed de po nigger bless dedomn Yankees He was In dead earn-est

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and saw nothing ludicrous in hiswords It was what he always heardthem called Atlanta Journal

It has been estimated says W HLamaster that a cannon ball movingwith a velocity of 500 miles an hourand leaving our earth at a certain timeand traveling in the direction of thehearest fixed star would not reach it iuless than 4500000 years and yet thereare stars in the heavens and visiblethrough telescopes that would requirea cannon ball moving with the samevelocity at least 500000000 years toreach them

The farms of Arkansas produced in1889 53128155 worth of cotton andgrains

In 1889 there were 28320677 acreof oats sown and a yield of S0925066Ubushels

All grand th6ughtVTcomerfrbm theheart Vauvenargues

There can be no high civilitywithouta deep morality Emerson t

Nature Is but a name for jaxLt effectwhose cause Is God CowperC4

Poetry is Itself af thing of God 1 Hjmade His prophets poets Bailey

j All power everithe most despoticrests ulJtanlyonphnumei

GROVER IS FOR MISSIONS

President Trcsidea Over the Presby ¬

terian Ulceting in New YorkPresident Cleveland appeared at Carne ¬

gie Hall New York in the unique roll ofchairman of a meeting held by Presby

terians in the inter-est

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of home missionsIn assuming thechair Mr Clevelandmade an earnest ad ¬

dress in favor of themovement and gavea sympathetic leferenee to the distress ¬

ing situation in Ar-

menia¬

Every avail- -

dij TOrxirATX able spot in tne iranwas thronged and an overflow meetingwas held in the lower hall The platformwas crowded with prominent ministersMild laymen of the Presbyterian ChurchWhen President Cleveland appeared at Svclock accompanied by Rev Dr JohnTIall of the Fifth Avenue PresbyterianChurch he was received with tumultuousapplause the whole audience rising andwaving handkerchiefs When the ap ¬

plause had subsided Dr ITall ivi reducedPresident Cleveland as chairman of thomeeting whereupon the applause was re ¬

newed again and againIt is nut only as your fellow citizen but

as the chief executive officer of your gov ¬

ernment that I desire to speak saidPresident Cleveland for I am entirelycertain that I serve well our entire peo ¬

ple whose servant I am when I here tes ¬

tify to tlit benefit our country has receiv¬

ed through home missionary effort andwhen I join you in an attempt to extendand strengthen that effort

At the headquarters of the Presbyte ¬

rian Board of Home Missions it was an ¬

nounced the following day that tho meet-ing

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at Carnegie Hall netted about 5S00Recording Secretary Oscar E Boyd statedthat many persons present at the meetingbut who made no contributions at that

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time have signified their intention otsending in contributions within the nextfew days Altogether it is expected thatfully 25000 will be realized as a result ofthe meeting

This meeting was the opening gun of abig home mission campaign throughoutthe United States It was the precursorof meetings which are to be held to stim-ulate

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interest in mission work by thePresbyteries of Philadelphia the firstformed in the United States of Wash¬

ington Pittsburg Chicago Kansas CitySan Francisco St Louis and other citiesIt was the Presbytery of New York therichest and in some respects the most im ¬

portant of them all though not the oldestit dates back only to 1S3S which under-

took¬

to set the ball rolling and it has cer-tainly

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succeeded

GOVERNOR GREENHALGE DEAD

Massachusetts Executive Snccnmbsto Illness at Iowell

Gov Frederic T Greenhalge of Massa-chusetts

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died at Lowell after two weeksillness of paralysis and acute kidney

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2T T GREENHALGE

troubles Through-out

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the common-wealth

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bells weretolled and the wholepeople are ia mourn ¬

ingGov Greenhalge

was of English birthbut came with hisparents to this coun-try

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in his childhoodlie was graduatedfrom Harvard Uni--versity in 1S03 Twoyears later he wasadmitted to the bar

at which he took high rank as a counselorand advocate He was elected to Con-gress

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from the eighth district in 1S8Shaving previous to that time occupied theoffices of City Solicitor of Lowell Mayorof the city and member of the LegislatureHe was elected Governor three successivetimes For the first time in over twentyyears the gubernatorial chair is vacantThe Lieutenant Governor will act as Governor during the unexpired term

W J CampbellWilliam J Campbell the Republican

national committeeman from Illinois andfor years prominent in the councils of theRepublican party died at his home in aChicago suburb of pneumonia after ashort illness The circumstances sur-rounding

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his death are peculiarly sad asMs wife and father are also at the point ofdeath and it was neglect of himself inwatching them that brought about hisfatal attack He became a member ofthe Republican committee in 1891 and inJune 1S92 was unanimously electedchairman but resigned soon after on ac-

count¬

of private business He served asState Senator from 1S7S to 1S86 and wasone of the most successful lawyers in theWest He was 44 years old

Archbishop KcnrickPeter Richard Kenrick who for over

half a century prior to three years agowas Catholic archbishop of the St Louisdiocese died Wednesday in the 90th yearof his age The old gentleman had beenin very feeble health for several yearsand about two and a half years agoBishop Kain of Wheeling was elected toan archbishopric and sent to relieve him

The demonstration at Queens HallLondon in favor of permanent arbitra ¬

tion between the United States and GreatBritain was disappointing from the pointof view of numbers the audience whichwas not large being mostly made up ofwomen Resolutions were adopted favor ¬

ing an international treaty

At Braggs I T Jack Ohewil a des-

perado¬

wanted for the murder of MichaelCusning a peddler slew Gano Adair andHiram Stevens Cherokee deputies whowere attempting to arrest him and es-

caped¬

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Menelik II Emperor of Shoa and Abysfcinia King of Kings in all Africa andmonarch of Ethiopia is the man who iscausing all the trouble to Italy by notallowing that country to protect himMenelik has an idea that he is thoroughlycapable of protecting himself and pro¬

poses to do it on his own ground ratherthan trade off all liis real estate for pro¬

tection of the European kind This irreatruler is perhaps the mot interestingmonarcih in all the world He claims to bea line descendant of the famous Queen ofSheba and that his realms are the famousOphir of t3ie Scriptures Whatever valuemay be in that claim it is true that Mene¬

lik has the old time idea of how to be aking He has been able to teach a greatEuropean power a lesson which it willnever forget He Jns caused all the hgministers of state and potentates in Eu ¬

rope to open their eyes very rwide and torealize that in him they have a real kingto play with Menelik is certainly a sur¬

prise to the King of Italy and it is saidthat he will be the most important manin the game of chess wthich the Europeanpowers are ever playing ne was born in1SJ8 in his fathers kingdom of Shoa Hismother was a beggar whom the king tooka fancy to and married He ruled in Shoaafter having spent his youth in all sortsof wild adventures and wfoen King Jofanof Abyssinia died in 1SS9 Menelik march ¬

ed to Abyssinia had himself crowned Em-peror

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of Abyssinia and Shoa and proclaim ¬

ed fliimself King of Kings He was en ¬

abled to do this with Italian interfer¬

ence but flie later flung aside this alliancebecause as he said Italy desired to ab ¬

sorb his kingdom The country he iralesis very rich in gold luxuriant in vegeta ¬

tion and in every way a desirable placeIts population is 3000000

MRS LELAND STANFORD

Woman Who Won a Great Case AfterYears of Litigation

The Supreme Court decision in the Stan ¬

ford University case was a splendid vic ¬

tory for education and the noble ladywho has practically sacrificed her life and

iven away a queenly fortune for thehigher good of humanity is well worthyof the congratulations which no doubtwill be showered upon her from all partsof the country The case was a singularone Had it been decided against her shewould have lost more than 13000000and the very life props of the splendid

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university at Palo Alto would have beenswept away and the money turned over tjthe United States Government

The case was started in California Toforce the Stanford estate represented byStanfords widow lo pay to the UnitedStates some 15000000 as the share oiStanford of the debt due the United Stateiby the Central Pacific Railway on theprinciple of stockholders liability MrsStanford won in the lower courts and nowthe Supreme Court has affirmed their de¬

cisions which are briefly that the stockholders of the Central Pacific are not individually liable for their shares of thdebt

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Li Hung Chang has left Pekin to attendthe coronation of the czar at Moscow

Dr Buhl who was vice president cIthe reidhstag in 1SS9 is dead at DeidesIheim

Several churches the postoffice and fiftybuildings were left in aslhes by a fire atAsperen South Holland

There was no truth in the report HoaxPrince von Hohenlohe the German chan- -cellor had arrived in London

Losses aggregating 1500000 insurefor only 100000 were caused by the firein Guayaquil Ecuador Great distressexists among the poor in consequence

Seventy one bodies of victims of tihfjCleophas coal mine disaster in PrussianSilesia have been found and it is believedfifty persons are still unaccounted for

A J Balfour first ilord of the treasurystated in the House of Commons that hedid not believe anything would be gainedby Great Britain taking tflie initiatSve inproposing a monetary conference

It is reported in Pekin that the FrencitGovernment is supporting the offer of asyndicate of French financiers to loanChina 100000000 taels France to guar¬

antee ithe interest on the security of cus- -tjns and other concessions J

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