Cherry County Independent. (Valentine, Nebraska) 1896-03 ...a Big Failure Nobody in Cuba has paid...
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n Clisrnj Goiuitu Independent VALENTINE - NEBRASKA BODIES IN A BARREL CHICAGO POLICE MAKE A GREW SOME DISCOVERY One Body that of an Old Man and tho Other that of a Baby Only One Slight Clew to the Mysterious Crime Other Items Two Bodies In a Barrel Carefully concealed in a barrel and covered with a mass of old rags and cot- ton ¬ the dead bodies of a gray haired man and a new born babe were found in an alley in Hyde Park Chicago Only one clew is in their possession and on the dis- covery ¬ of the identity of a woman as yet unknown to the police depends the pos- sible ¬ solution of the mystery The office in Rollstons Hyde Parle morgue was rung up by telephone and a woman asked if the body of a man had been found in Ilyde Park The office at- tendant ¬ replied in the negative and then questioned tho woman but his best ef ¬ fort failed to get any information of a de- cided ¬ character although she told the clerk she was looking for a man who was missing Four hours later the barrel with its ghastly contents was discovered The body of the man tallied in almost every respect with the description furnished by the mysterious woman over the tele- phone ¬ wire and the police unhesitatingly connected her with the case In the barrel also was tho body of a boy not over 10 days old J A Nurse residing in Prairie Avenue in the alley at the rear of his house dis- covered ¬ a barrel which aroused his curi- osity ¬ Breaking open the head of ihe barrel he was horrified on finding the hacked body of an old man It was en- tirely ¬ nude and frightfully mutilated The head and trunk gave every evi- dence ¬ of foul play the sknll showing several deep wounds On the left fore head were tattooed five spots close to- gether ¬ After the several pieces of the body had been lifted from the barrel the body of the baby was found It was nude save for a thin flannel shirt and there were two marks on the side of the head apparently made with a blunt instru- ment ¬ The body of the elder male was that of a man between G5 and 70 years of age GROVEE MAKES APOLOGY Didnt Know Olney Gave Out the Cuban Policy Statement The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times Herald says The Nation- al ¬ Capital has had a good laugh at the expense of President Cleveland in which the President is said to have joined The joke on the chief magistrate is that he committed the blunder of rushing impul- sively ¬ into print in such a way that he afterward found it necessary to apologize for bis utterances Fears have been expressed in well in ¬ formed circles that on account of the card which the President had given lo Ihe newspapers stating that he knew nothing of the semi official deliverance on the Cuban question recently published and that he was quite able to define his own position on public questions might lead to trouble between the President and his Secretary of State Secretary Olney was at the White House for an hour Saturday and after his return to the State Department was in the best spirits While he declined to discuss the affair at all he did not deny there was any friction between himself and the President It is said on good authority that the President laughingly expressed his regiet for the publication and assured Mr Olney that there was not the slightest in- tention ¬ to put an affront upon him This apology was accepted by the Secietary of State and peace reigns and the adminis ¬ tration goes on as before KILIiS FOUR REGULATORS Florida Farmer Gives a Mob a Hot Reception In a desperate battle with regulators Bowen Sykes near Plant City Fla shot four men fatally and wounded six others more or less seriously Sykes lives in the Peru neighborhood and for some cause incurred the enmity of his neighbors Within the past ten days he has received notice to leave under threats of death Sykes determined not to leave and prepared to defend himself against the expected attack The attack came next morning when a mob of fifteen masked men broke down the door and entered Sykes home Sykes was ready and as the regulators entered he opened fire with a Winchester Sykes fiied as rapidly as possible and soon four of the regulators were down and the others fled in terror Sykes continued to fire at the fugitives as long as they were in range and six others were wounded Admiral Walker Dangerously 111 Hear Admiral Henry Walker TJ S NM retired is very low with grip at his home 1n Brooklyn and owing to his advanced age 88 years his death is believed to be Mmt a matter of a short time Imitate Spanish Students The undergraduates of Princeton Uni rersity burned in effigy the King of Spain n a demonstration in which several hun ¬ dred took part The flag of Spain was dragged through the main street and later was torn to pieces in the center of the campus Jealous Husbands Crime Andrew Wharton a horse trader at St Louis 3Io murdered his wife by cutting her throat with a razor Wharton accused his wife of infidelity and in a fit of jeal busy killed her while she was asleep M tnWSaBSSMMW l t7 - - v TVEYLEK IS OUTGENERALED Plan to Corner the Cuban Armies Is a Big Failure Nobody in Cuba has paid much attention tojtlie reports from the field of operations lately Washington and Madrid have been the sole centers of interest Yet within a few days Gomez and Maceo have achieved another of their successes in the face of strong opposing columns which made the world wonder how it could be done Gen Weyler apparently believing he had driven them to their stronghold in the everglades of Clenaga de Sepala has been hurrying thousands of troops into Santa Clara by land and sea with the one purpose of hemming the enemy in at that point Gen Pando in command in Santa Clara only waited the arrival of these troops to strike hard blows But Gomez and Maceo having left in the everglade hospitals all their wounded strengthened forces with new troops fresh from Puerto Principe and San Diego and then while tne Spanish bat- talions ¬ were enroute to catch them they unexpectedly turned west again slipping past all obstructions with only a few skirmishes Now Gomez is in the heart of Matanzas and Maceo is once more al- most ¬ at the gates or the capital Trains have been fired on just beyond the city on the Matanzas road and on Monday night there was a sharp skirmish only three miles beyond the suburbs of Jesus del Monte a little settlement lo which Havana horse cars and om in i buses make regular trips There has been no official report of the affair given out LAUNCHING OF THE IOWA Big Battleship Will Be Set Afloat This Month On Saturday March 28 it is probable that all the Iowa delegation in Washing ¬ ton Senators and Representatives will visit Philadelphia The magnet to at- tract ¬ them will be the launch of the great- est ¬ addition yet made to the American navy the battleship Iowa the best of her class ever put upon the stocks jn any shipyard in the world When the last inquiry was made of the Cramps it was stated that the launch would not occur until some time in May but owing to the possibility of trouble grow ¬ ing out of the Cuban situation work has been ordered pushed and now it has pro- gressed ¬ so far that the blocks will be cut from under her keel on the last Saturday in the present month Gov Drake and his staff will in all probability be present and the chances are that the Governors daughter will christen the ship BURN STARS AND STRIPES Madrid Students Publicly Insult the Stars and Stripes There have been renewed disturbances in Madrid and demonstrations of popular anger against the United States Govern- ment ¬ The students of the university seem to have been the offenders or the leaders in the demonstration In spite of the special prohibition di- rected ¬ against them by the Government tho students and other inhabitants in ¬ dulged in renewed manifestations of their unfriendly sentiments against the United States They assembled before the Mad ¬ rid university and there publicly burned an American flag The police dispersed the meeting after making sever il arrests As a result the cabinet council has de- cided ¬ to temporarily close the universities It was also decided to create a special budget for naval armaments VENEZUELAS TIME UP 4he Ninety Days Given by England to Yield Are Over The ninety days allowed Venezuela to answer the demand for indemnity for the arrest of the English officials Barnes and Baker on the Uruan River in December 1894 have expired The Government will not speak of- ficially ¬ but the highest authority is given for the statement that Venezuela has re- fused ¬ to pay the indemnity declaring the question of the arrest and the boundary dispute cannot be separated To pay the indemnity would be to recognize British sovereignty over Venezuelan territory It is believed that unless Pauncefote and Minister Andrade can arrange matters satisfactorily in Washington England will use force to collect the money treating the arrests as distinct from the boundary Fitz Avoids Corbett It is officially announced that Bob Fitz simmons has cancelled his date at the Pittsburg Academy of Music next week Jim Corbett was to be in that town at the same time and a report from New York says that Corbett was to have met Fitz simmons and punched his face if possible Hhile there This stoiy was told Fitz before he went on with Maher at Madison Square Garden last Saturday night and he at once pushed ahead his Pittsburg date until April Counterfeiters Trapped Three green goods men and a satchel filled with new money amounting to 25 000 were captured by postal inspectors at Chicago There were four men in the party one of whom escaped in the melee when the raid was made The names given by the captured men are Charles Herd Albert Gray and Frank Smith Holmes Must Hang Tho Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has overruled all the assignments of error in the case of II H Holmes sentenced to death for the murder of B F Peitzel and confirmed the judgement of the court below It is believed Gov Hastings will fix an early day for the execution Coal Miners Settle on a Rate President Ratchford of the Ohio mine workers flas issued a circular to the miners telling them to consider them- selves ¬ working for 01 cents per ton There is every promise that the rate will remain at this for one year Mrs Parnell Will Go to Ireland Mrs Delia T Parnell is at present atBordentown N J the guest of the family of J M Steele where she will re- main ¬ for a few days to settte some busi- ness ¬ and then sail for Ireland Famous Double Carnation A New York florist for the sole right to the famous double carnation known as Ihe Murella has paid its discoverer 10000 The flower has been raised and owned entirely by a firm having a large greenhouse near Grand Kapids Michi The Murella is one of the most beauti- ful ¬ carnations ever seen being large and of a deep red color The senior member of the firm has been working on it for many years and brought it out only last year After taking several prizes at floral shows he began to receive offers from prominent florists THE SITUATION IN TRADE Little Change Noticeable During tho Past Week R G Dun Cos Weekly Review ot Trade says The Cuban resolutions and the appointment of receivers for the Bal ¬ timore and Ohio were events of sufficient importance to affect almost any genuine market especially for securieties It therefore argues either remarkable strength of conditions or ah entire want of life and genuineness in the market that the prices of the sixty most active railroad stocks which averaged 4974 per share February 1 have never fallen since that date to lower than 4930 nor risen above S50S5 per share The industries all re ¬ port a slightly lower range of prices Prices of wool have declined according to the quotations printed by Coates Bros of Philadelphia an average of 24 pei cent within the month of February pre- sumably ¬ because of the failure of the pro posed tariff bill which included duties on wool There is also a retarding effect from the further reductions which have been made in prices of cotton goods al ¬ though it does not appear that the con cessions have thus far been successful in calling out new business Reports are frequent that many of the largest mills are about to stop production for a time in order to give the market opportunity to clear itself Failures for the week have been 285 in the United States against 234 last year and 08 in Canada against 58 last year THAT JOINT PARADE United Confederates Commander iiu Chief on Walkers Action The decision published by Gen Walker commander of the G A R in reference to the proposed joint parade in New York July4 was called to the attention of Sen- ator ¬ Gordon of Georgia who has been rcommander-in-chi- ef of the United Con- federates ¬ ever since its organization ne was asked if he proposed to take any ac ction looking to a change in the date of the next annual meeting of the confeder- ates ¬ at Richmond June 30 July 1 and 2 Gen Gordon replied This date was finally decided upon in order to permit the confederates who came from farther south to go to New York im- mediately ¬ after the adjournment to take part in a joint parade but I see no reason for changing the date of our reunion which was called to meet at Richmond by the last annual meeting at Houston Tex and although the date could legally be changed by me yet 1 shall not do so un- less ¬ I find it the wish of a majority of the United Confederate Veterans camp and best suited to the convention I do not wish however to discuss the action of Gen Walker It has been my effort since the war to cultivate most cor- dial ¬ relations between the soldiers of the two armies and between the people of both sections I am glad to know I have had the cordial sympathy and approval of my old comrades in this effort and 1 wish also to add in this connection that I have had the most cordjal manifestations of a like sentiment on the part of the great body of the Union soldiers FAMILY OF SEVEN KILLED Wisconsin Fire Results in the Death of Seven Persons The house of G H Oldhouse at Harold five mile from Alma Wis was destroyed by fire causing the death of the family of seven persons father and mother and five children There was some talk that the fire was caused by a robber who might have set fire to the house to cover his tracks after murdering the family for money amounting to 500 which Mr Old house is known to have had in the house As the money has already been fonnd in the ruins this theory does not appear prob- able ¬ From the position in which the bodies were found all except Mr Oldhouse died in their beds from suffocation The fathers body was found near a window in a room adjoining the bedroom Prairie Fires in Oklahoma r Damaging prairie fires have been raging for six days in the Ponca Otoo and Osage Indian countries in the eastern pert of the Cherokee strip In the Osage country a white woman was burned to death and half a dozen houses and much stock destroyed Prussian Mine Disaster Seventy -- one bodies of victims of the Cleophas mine disaster at Cattowitz Prussia have been Urought to the surface It is believed fifty are still unaccounted for Committeeman Campbell Dead W J Campbell of Illinois a member of the Republican National Committee died at Chicago of pneumonia MARKET QUOTATIONS Sioux City Cattle Stockers and feed- ers ¬ 300 to 350 Hogs Prices ranging from 375 to 382 Grain Wheat 49c to 52c corn 17c to 19c oats 13c to 15c rye 20c to 25c flax 80c hay 450 to 500 butter 13c to 14c eggs 7c f Chicago Cattle Beef steers 330 to 475 stockers and feeders 280 to 380 IIogsPrices ranging from 825 to 422 Grain Wheat No 2 spring 65c to66c No 2 red 69c to 69c corn No 2 28c oats No 2 20c rye No 2 39c flax No 1 89Kc timothy 350 to 300 Kansas City Cattle Beef steers 315 to 435 stockers and feeders 300 to 390 Hogs Prices ranging from 360 to 375 Sheep 350 to 400 South Omaha Cattle Beef steers 320 to 420 stockers and feeders 275 to 370 Hogs Prices ranging from 385 to 395 J St Paul Cattle Beef steers 325 to 335 stockers and feeders 200 to 5300 Hogs Prices ranging from 150 to 1382 Minneapolis Grain Wheat May y2c July 63c No 1 hard on track G2jc No 1 Northern 61c 7T SENATE AND HOUSE 4 v WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW MAKERS Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives Measures of Im- portance ¬ Discussed and Acted Upon Gist of the Business Daily Report of the Work The House spent the entire day on the 4th fix ¬ ing the salaries of the United States district at- torney ¬ in the amendment to the legislative ap ¬ propriation 1111 to abolish the fee system The salaries for the district attorneys were fixed In part as follows Illinois northern district P5000 southern district 1000 Indiana 5000 Iowa northern district and southern district i000 Michigan eastern district 4000 west- ern ¬ district 3000 Minnesota 4000 Missouri eastern and western districts 4000 each Ne ¬ braska 3500 Ohio northern and southern districts 4000 South Dakota 3500 Wiscon ¬ sin eastern district 4000 western district 3000 The request of the Senate for a confer- ence ¬ on the Cuban resolutions was received but not acted upon The Senate on the 4th began the consideration of the Dnpont election case from Delaware Senator Mitchell spoke in favor of seating Mr Dupontbut no action was taken The Cuban resolution went to conference as a result of a re- port ¬ from the Committee on Foreign delations and Messrs Sherman Morgan Lodge were named as Senate eonferes A number of bills were passed and at 3 oclock tho Senate ad- journed ¬ Interest in the debate over the legislative ap propriation bill in the House on the 5th was com ¬ pletely overshadowed by a sensational attack made upon President Cleveland by Mr Hartinan of Montana who felt himself personally ag ¬ grieved by Mr Clevelands utterances at the Presbyterian Home Mission meeting in 2Tew York and who seized the opportunity allowed by the latitude of the debate on appropriation bills to repel the idea that the western states were tho home of evil influences The House then resumed the consideration of the amend ¬ ment to the legislative appropriation bill Debate was interrupted to allow the Speaker to appoint as conferees on the Cuban resolutions Messrs Hitt of Illinois Adams of Pennsylvania and Mc Creary of Kentucky After the committee rose without finishing consideration of the bill a bill was passed appropriating 90000 for the recon- struction ¬ of the Eock Island 111 bridge and then at 520 pm the House adjourned Far a time on the 5th it looked as though the Cuban question would be finally disposed of in the Senate by agreeing to the conference report accepting the House resolutions At the conclu- sion ¬ of Senator Mitchells elaborate argument on the Dupont case Senator Sherman presented the report of tho conferees and asked for imme- diate ¬ action It was then 3 oclock not more than a dozen senators were in the hall Senator Hale suggested that it was undesirable to crowd through a resolution of this magnitude at a late hour and with an empty Senate This brought considerable sharp debate Senator Chandler who had not before been heard on Cuba de- clared ¬ himself in favor of not only recognizing but of maintaining the independence of Cuba even if it resulted in war wtth Spain Senator Hawley expressed sympathy with the public feol ing against Spain yet he feared the earnestness and eagerness of the United States would involve us in war not only with Spain but other Euro- pean ¬ countries Senator Sherman concluded to let the subject go over until Monday the Senate having agreed to adjourn until then and he gave notice that ho would call up the report during tho morning hour The House on the Gth passed the legislative ap- propriation ¬ bill which has been under consider- ation ¬ for a week Most of the time however was consumed in tho consideration of the amendment to abolish tho fee system This amendment was perfected and adopted The House then entered on the consideration of tho postoflice appropriation bill Mr Loud of Cali ¬ fornia chairma i of the committee who was in charge of the foul explained its provisions The bill is tho largest of the annual supply Dills It sarries 19943757 2874142 less than the esti- mates ¬ fout 2377700 more than the cur- rent ¬ law carries Mr Quigg of New JTork asked whether it would foe possifolo tinder the provisions of the present hill for ihe Postoflice Department to continue what is denominated the spy system for suveillance over carriers etc Mr Loud in reply explained that the committee did not desire any official of the Government to embark in new enterprises and therefore the appropriation used by the first assistant postmaster general to employ inspect- ors ¬ lias been segregated so that money could not foe used foy him for the purpose But Mr Loud said he agreed with the first assistant post- master ¬ general fully as to the principle of ade- - miato supervision of tho postal service He thought it would foenefit the whole service font the committee had decided that it was not desir- able ¬ to divide tho inspecting force and had therefore cut off tho force under the first assist ¬ ant postmaster general and Increased the regular force under the fourth assistant postmaster gen- eral ¬ foy making provision for thirty additional Inspectors Without completing the general de- bate ¬ the committee rose and recess was taken un- til ¬ 8 oclock tho evening session to foe devoted to the consideration of the private pension bills Prayer in War Time Editor F W Woolard of the Carmi 111 Times was one of a group who were swapping stories at the Alhambra The drift of the conversation was upon incidents which had impressed the nar- rators ¬ while here during and after the war I once heard a remarkable prayer from an old negro said Editor Woolard It was at the time Sher ¬ man had pushed through Georgia and everybody was cussing him constant- ly ¬ The old man had unconsciously ab- sorbed ¬ the language of his master al ¬ though his sympathies were all the other way He was In the midst of what the irreverent sometimes style a trash mover a most earnest prayer at a big mcetln when he lifted his eyes to heaven and exclaimed as a grand finale And now Lawd bless dem what dun freed de po nigger bless de domn Yankees He was In dead earn- est ¬ and saw nothing ludicrous in his words It was what he always heard them called Atlanta Journal It has been estimated says W H Lamaster that a cannon ball moving with a velocity of 500 miles an hour and leaving our earth at a certain time and traveling in the direction of the hearest fixed star would not reach it iu less than 4500000 years and yet there are stars in the heavens and visible through telescopes that would require a cannon ball moving with the same velocity at least 500000000 years to reach them The farms of Arkansas produced in 1889 53128155 worth of cotton and grains In 1889 there were 28320677 acre of oats sown and a yield of S0925066U bushels All grand th6ughtVTcomerfrbm the heart Vauvenargues There can be no high civilitywithout a deep morality Emerson t Nature Is but a name for jaxLt effect whose cause Is God CowperC4 Poetry is Itself af thing of God 1 Hj made His prophets poets Bailey j All power everithe most despotic rests ulJtanlyonphnumei GROVER IS FOR MISSIONS President Trcsidea Over the Presby ¬ terian Ulceting in New York President Cleveland appeared at Carne ¬ gie Hall New York in the unique roll of chairman of a meeting held by Presby terians in the inter- est ¬ of home missions In assuming the chair Mr Cleveland made an earnest ad ¬ dress in favor of the movement and gave a sympathetic lefer enee to the distress ¬ ing situation in Ar- menia ¬ Every avail- - dij TOrxirATX able spot in tne iran was thronged and an overflow meeting was held in the lower hall The platform was crowded with prominent ministers Mild laymen of the Presbyterian Church When President Cleveland appeared at S vclock accompanied by Rev Dr John TIall of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church he was received with tumultuous applause the whole audience rising and waving handkerchiefs When the ap ¬ plause had subsided Dr ITall ivi reduced President Cleveland as chairman of tho meeting whereupon the applause was re ¬ newed again and again It is nut only as your fellow citizen but as the chief executive officer of your gov ¬ ernment that I desire to speak said President Cleveland for I am entirely certain 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 and when I join you in an attempt to extend and 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 ¬ at Carnegie Hall netted about 5S00 Recording Secretary Oscar E Boyd stated that many persons present at the meeting but who made no contributions at that p-- -- - J T llfflilMiffli 1 11111 1 Iliilll lr vc ltfi 14 iiii wfiflillllu ivItt mn ESitS lllHiW wSBiywttt i1 iffilBfi WWIM fill1 m mjnmmm TnE PPESRYTEIJTAN BUILDIXG time have signified their intention ot sending in contributions within the next few days Altogether it is expected that fully 25000 will be realized as a result of the meeting This meeting was the opening gun of a big home mission campaign throughout the United States It was the precursor of meetings which are to be held to stim- ulate ¬ interest in mission work by the Presbyteries of Philadelphia the first formed in the United States of Wash ¬ ington Pittsburg Chicago Kansas City San Francisco St Louis and other cities It was the Presbytery of New York the richest and in some respects the most im ¬ portant of them all though not the oldest it dates back only to 1S3S which under- took ¬ to set the ball rolling and it has cer- tainly ¬ succeeded GOVERNOR GREENHALGE DEAD Massachusetts Executive Snccnmbs to Illness at Iowell Gov Frederic T Greenhalge of Massa- chusetts ¬ died at Lowell after two weeks illness of paralysis and acute kidney ff 2T T GREENHALGE troubles Through- out ¬ the common- wealth ¬ bells were tolled and the whole people are ia mourn ¬ ing Gov Greenhalge was of English birth but came with his parents to this coun- try ¬ in his childhood lie was graduated from Harvard Uni- - versity in 1S03 Two years later he was admitted to the bar at which he took high rank as a counselor and advocate He was elected to Con- gress ¬ from the eighth district in 1S8S having previous to that time occupied the offices of City Solicitor of Lowell Mayor of the city and member of the Legislature He was elected Governor three successive times For the first time in over twenty years the gubernatorial chair is vacant The Lieutenant Governor will act as Gov ernor during the unexpired term W J Campbell William J Campbell the Republican national committeeman from Illinois and for years prominent in the councils of the Republican party died at his home in a Chicago suburb of pneumonia after a short illness The circumstances sur- rounding ¬ his death are peculiarly sad as Ms wife and father are also at the point of death and it was neglect of himself in watching them that brought about his fatal attack He became a member of the Republican committee in 1891 and in June 1S92 was unanimously elected chairman but resigned soon after on ac- count ¬ of private business He served as State Senator from 1S7S to 1S86 and was one of the most successful lawyers in the West He was 44 years old Archbishop Kcnrick Peter Richard Kenrick who for over half a century prior to three years ago was Catholic archbishop of the St Louis diocese died Wednesday in the 90th year of his age The old gentleman had been in very feeble health for several years and about two and a half years ago Bishop Kain of Wheeling was elected to an archbishopric and sent to relieve him The demonstration at Queens Hall London in favor of permanent arbitra ¬ tion between the United States and Great Britain was disappointing from the point of view of numbers the audience which was not large being mostly made up of women Resolutions were adopted favor ¬ ing an international treaty At Braggs I T Jack Ohewil a des- perado ¬ wanted for the murder of Michael Cusning a peddler slew Gano Adair and Hiram Stevens Cherokee deputies who were attempting to arrest him and es- caped ¬ x Menelik II Emperor of Shoa and Abys fcinia King of Kings in all Africa and monarch of Ethiopia is the man who is causing all the trouble to Italy by not allowing that country to protect him Menelik has an idea that he is thoroughly capable of protecting himself and pro ¬ poses to do it on his own ground rather than trade off all liis real estate for pro ¬ tection of the European kind This irreat ruler is perhaps the mot interesting monarcih in all the world He claims to be a line descendant of the famous Queen of Sheba and that his realms are the famous Ophir of t3ie Scriptures Whatever value may be in that claim it is true that Mene ¬ lik has the old time idea of how to be a king He has been able to teach a great European power a lesson which it will never forget He Jns caused all the hg ministers of state and potentates in Eu ¬ rope to open their eyes very rwide and to realize that in him they have a real king to play with Menelik is certainly a sur ¬ prise to the King of Italy and it is said that he will be the most important man in the game of chess wthich the European powers are ever playing ne was born in 1SJ8 in his fathers kingdom of Shoa His mother was a beggar whom the king took a fancy to and married He ruled in Shoa after having spent his youth in all sorts of wild adventures and wfoen King Jofan of Abyssinia died in 1SS9 Menelik march ¬ ed to Abyssinia had himself crowned Em- peror ¬ 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 alliance because as he said Italy desired to ab ¬ sorb his kingdom The country he irales is very rich in gold luxuriant in vegeta ¬ tion and in every way a desirable place Its population is 3000000 MRS LELAND STANFORD Woman Who Won a Great Case After Years of Litigation The Supreme Court decision in the Stan ¬ ford University case was a splendid vic ¬ tory for education and the noble lady who has practically sacrificed her life and iven away a queenly fortune for the higher good of humanity is well worthy of the congratulations which no doubt will be showered upon her from all parts of the country The case was a singular one Had it been decided against her she would have lost more than 13000000 and the very life props of the splendid 1 4 3ffiS IEXAXD STAXDFORD university at Palo Alto would have been swept away and the money turned over tj the United States Government The case was started in California To force the Stanford estate represented by Stanfords widow lo pay to the United States some 15000000 as the share oi Stanford of the debt due the United Statei by the Central Pacific Railway on the principle of stockholders liability Mrs Stanford won in the lower courts and now the Supreme Court has affirmed their de ¬ cisions which are briefly that the stock holders of the Central Pacific are not in dividually liable for their shares of th debt i I Li Hung Chang has left Pekin to attend the coronation of the czar at Moscow Dr Buhl who was vice president c Ithe reidhstag in 1SS9 is dead at Deides Iheim Several churches the postoffice and fifty buildings were left in aslhes by a fire at Asperen South Holland There was no truth in the report Hoax Prince von Hohenlohe the German chan- - cellor had arrived in London Losses aggregating 1500000 insure for only 100000 were caused by the fire in Guayaquil Ecuador Great distress exists among the poor in consequence Seventy one bodies of victims of tihfj Cleophas coal mine disaster in Prussian Silesia have been found and it is believed fifty persons are still unaccounted for A J Balfour first ilord of the treasury stated in the House of Commons that he did not believe anything would be gained by Great Britain taking tflie initiatSve in proposing a monetary conference It is reported in Pekin that the Frencit Government is supporting the offer of a syndicate of French financiers to loan China 100000000 taels France to guar ¬ antee ithe interest on the security of cus- - tjns and other concessions J J fl t r - rd r i
Transcript of Cherry County Independent. (Valentine, Nebraska) 1896-03 ...a Big Failure Nobody in Cuba has paid...
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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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
of Senator Mitchells elaborate argumenton the Dupont case Senator Sherman presentedthe report of tho conferees and asked for imme-diate
¬
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
¬
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
¬
bill which has been under consider-ation
¬
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
¬
fout 2377700 more than the cur-rent
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
foy making provision for thirty additionalInspectors Without completing the general de-
bate¬
the committee rose and recess was taken un-
til¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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
¬
the common-wealth
¬
bells weretolled and the wholepeople are ia mourn ¬
ingGov Greenhalge
was of English birthbut came with hisparents to this coun-try
¬
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
¬
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
¬
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¬
x
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
¬
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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3ffiS IEXAXD STAXDFORD
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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