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yairs ATfJ) XOTES.-FREMONT'S

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Y.M. C. A. .has .a mem-bership

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of 188.CASES of scarlet fever- are 'reported

atPlattsmouth.CASES of diphtheria continue to de-

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in South Omaha.THE Good Templars of Verdon have

reorganized their lodge.SIXTEEN Pawnee county farmers have

organized a swine breeders' associat-ion.

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The Schuyler sons of veterans havecompleted their organization by 'elect-ing

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officers.-

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GOOD deal of poultry has recentlybeen shipped to San Francisco .fromDavid City.

THE Methodists of Havelook swillbuild a tabernacle in the spring on.lot21 , block 43.

One firm at Fremont shipped 4 , 000pounds of dressed chickens to Denverdurind the' fall.

THE Nebraska City distillery hae in-creased

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its capacity from .600 to 1 200bushels of corn per day.-

OMAHA.

.. and South Omaha are making

extensive preparations to treat thepoor children on Christmas day.

THE Butler county court house isunder roof, and it will be pushed to-completion. . It will cost $50 , 000.-

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unsuccessful attempt was madeby the city council of Nebraska Cityto reduce the police force of that city.

Governor Thayer is receiving nu-merous

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calls from all parts of the stateto deliver his lecture on GeneralGrant.-

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a little fistic encounter betweentwo Ashland young men , one had hisnose broken and the other is in deadlyfear of arrest.

ONE thousand tons of hay belongingto J. J. Myers , near North Plattewere destroyed by fire started by aspark from an engine.

THE farmers' alliance of Hayes coun-ty

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has organized a co-operative loanassociation. It has the assurance ofeastern money at C per cent.-

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VALUABLE trotting horse belong-ing

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to Joseph Lockhart of Hildreth ,was cremated in his barn the othernight. An incendiary did it.

THE Union Pacific railroad notifiesclergymen that they will be issued halffare permits for the coming year byBending in their applications.-

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a meeting in Nebraska City inthe interest of Western Nebraska suf-ferers

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a neat sum was raised and com-mittees

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appointed to continue the goodwork.-

REV.

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. FRANK S. FORBES , pastor ofthe Congregational church , NebraskaCity , preached his farewell sermonlast Sunday. He will locate in Ogden ,Utah.-

ADJUTANTGENERAL

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COLE visitedChadron and finds only twenty-five ofthe militia Springfield rifles belongingto the- state.Some one has borrowedthem. *

A BOY named Charles Burns , whileplaying around a Missouri Pacificfreight train in Nebraska City , wasthrown off and badly hurt. It is fearedne is injured internally.-

Mits..

. MARY E. MURPHY, residingnear Wisner. has been declared insaneand has been sent to the Norfolk asy ¬lum. She is twenty-six years or ageand the mother of four children.-

Dr.

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. F. S. Billings , late state veter-inarian

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, disposed of his interest in hisremedy for hcg cholera to George A-.Beaverns

.of Chicago , who will con-

tinue¬

to manufacture the remedy.Walter Beddoe of Orleans killed a

jack rabbit weighing eleven pounds-.It

.was two feet , seven inches long,

stood eighteen inches high and meas-ored

-fourteen inches around the body.

THE Young Men's Christian associa-tion

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of Omaha is making a strong ef-fort

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to secure enough to cancel ther flebt on their building in that city. Atthis writing about $4,000 has beenp secured.THE Business Men's association of

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Broken Bow has appointed a commit-tee

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to confer with Mr. Oxnard and theofficials of the B. & M. road relativeio establishing a beet sugar factory atthat point.

SAMUEL NEWSOME , residing nearSering, Scotts Bluffs county, was foundlead in the timber near his home theaiher day. He .had been hauling logsand it is supposed that he overexertedfcimself and died of heart failure.

COLUMBUS sent 20.000 pounds of flournd $600 worth of boots , shoes and

clothing to the people of Keith county-.Hie

.goods were divided -between the

towns of Paxton. Ogalalla and Bruleand the farmers are supplied from-these points.-

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COMPANY has been formed in Duelcounty , at Ramsey , to construct a canalfrom a point five miles up Blue creekand then ditch twelve miles. This isindependent of the great canal schemewhich several counties in that localityare interested in.

THE Nebraska City Press publishes& story to the effect that the farmers'alliance had a scheme looking for the

- removal of the state capital from Lin-coln

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to a pointfurther west and that abill to that effect would be passed thiswinter by the alliance.

WHILE Mabel Astley , a nine-year-old girl, was sitting in the doorway ofher home at Lincoln she was struck in

i the head with a bullet that made anugly but not fatal scalp wound. Noreport of a gun or revolver was heardand where -thp bullet came from is a-mystery.. It is supposed that the mis-sile

-vras a spent ball from a rifle.

ARTICLES of incorporations ! theOrdstock breeders' association of Ord. Val-ley

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county , were filed in tlie office ofthe secretary of state. The aim of theorganization is to import and deal inhorses and cattle and other live stock.The capital stock is $20,000.-

MR.

.. C N. MAYBERRY and other citi-

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of the town of Mayberry , Pawneecounty , were before the board of trans-portation

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in the rehearing of the May-berry station case. After the formerheai'ing of the case the board orderedthat , the railroad put a flag station at-Mayberry. .

THE B. & M. railway 'has extendedits time of free transportation of sup-plies

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to western sufferers to January 1.There is still a demand for relief fromthe counties of the west and althoughthe state committee has done goodwork and sent great shipments , muchmore is needed. .

A MAJORITY of the stock of the Yorkelectric light company has been pur-chased

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by G. G. Bayne of Fremont andho will remove to that city with hisfamily, January 1 , and assume themanagement of the plant. Mr. Baynehas been manager of the Fremont com-pany

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for two years past.THE annual reunion of the old set-

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of Adams county was held in-Juniata last week and was one of themost interesting sessions ever held.General Dilworth , of Hastings , deliv-ered

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the oration of the day. This wasfollowed by a most elaborate banquetprepared by Juniata ladies.

THE next division encampment ofthe Sons of Veterans will be held at-Plattsraouth in Juno next. This willbe the first field encampment of theSons of Veterans ever held in the stateand will be composed of 400 delegateschosen from the 112 camps whichmake up the state membership.

THE case of the Milwaukee & Wy-oming

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investment company vs AddisonB. Johnston and R. Rush , error fromMerrick county, was taken to the su-preme

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court last week. The plaintiffis endeavoring to get judgment for?1OUO for the unlawful detention of250 headot cattle for thirty-seven days.

STATE LIBRARIAN CAMPBELL has fin-ished

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his report that is to be presentedto the governor. Among the statis-tics are the following : Books in thelibrary on July 14 , 22,893 ; pamphletsin the library on July 14. 1,225 ; booksreceived since that date , 214 ; pamphletsreceived since that date , G44 ; total ,24396.

FRED BESWICK and John Rhykert ,the two boys who went on the -war-path

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and were arrested at Princeton ,charged with numerous peculations ,were brought to Lincoln by DeputySheriff McFarland. Beswick is four-teen

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and Rhykert sixteen. They willstay in the county jail until sent to thereform school.

THE attorneys for Stuart Richards ,the youth who was found guilty by thejury two weeks ago on the ccargo ofrape , spent a day last week arguing on-a motion for a new trial. Judge Smithover-ruled the motion and sentencedRichards to three years in the peniten-tiary.

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. The case will he appealed tothe supreme court.

THE contract to build the Kearneycotton mill has been let to M. C. Cum-mings

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of Holyoke , Mass. , and the bondholding him to faithfully perform thework has been accepted. Considerableprogress has already been made in theexcavations and the force of men willcontinue to throw dirt in preparationfor the real construction.-

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DESTRUCTIVE fire in Ponca burnedfour buildings Pletches' grocery store ,Mrs. Addise's store , Dr. Porter's officeand a small shop adjoining Mrs. Addi-son's

-store on the west. The fire orig-

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in the back part of Pletches'grocery store , and when discoveredwas so far advanced that nothing couldbe saved from the building.

THE dairymen's association in ses-sion

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at Pawnee City elected officers asfollows : J. H. Rushton of Fremont ,president ; Samuel Lichty of Falls City ,vice president ; S. C. Bassett of Gibbon ,secretary and treasurer ; Dr. Ashburn-of Gibbon , William Sutton of TableRock , Charles Harding and Allen Houl-of Omaha and C. W. Stevenson , direc-tors.

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The old Central house , the first hotelbuilt in Edgar , caught fire last weekand was not discovered till - sometime-afterward. . The building is a totalloss. There was no insurance , andStout &Voorhees , the owners , say theywill not repair it. The furniture wasnearly all saved with but little dam-age

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and all the guests escaped withoutinjury.-

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. W. LITTLE , at the head of the newLincoln street railway , arrived lastweek from New York clothed in au-thority

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from his business associates toclose a contract for the purchase of theBethany Heights street railway , theconsideration of which is the perpetualoperation of that line by electric pow-er

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and the cars of the_ same shall be in-complete running order on or beforeJunel. 1891.

THE kng pending "mandamus" case-in the supreme court of this state , wasdecided by that tribunal in favor of-Whitman. . This case involved thecounty seat of Grant county and wasthe result of the old county commis-sioners

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throwing out one entire pre-cinct

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in order to give the county seatto Hyannis. The vote of the county,if canvassed and counted , would havegiven the county seat to Whitman.

FOR several years Governor Furnasand others have been endeavoring toinduce the legislature to render someassistance to farmers' institutes , withthe hope that these useful organizationswould thereby be established all overthe state. Recently these gentlemennave induced the siato board of agri-culture

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, the regents of the state univer-sity

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Horticultural society , the Dairymen'sandLive Stock associations to agreeupon a bill that will probably be putthrough by the coming legislature. ,

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A FULL DISCUSSION ;

.MB. CORE PURPOSES HATIXO IT OATHEELECTIONBILZ.I-

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. Sherman Reports a Bill Provid-ing

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Against Contraction of tlie Cur-rency

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Passage of the Apportion-ment

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III11 lit the House by a Vote of187 to 82 Dolph's Kcsolntlon forInvestigation Into the Rights ofVoters Other Matter * In the TwoHouses ofCongress.

CONG KESSION" A L-.In

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the senate on the 15th the billen-larging

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the rights of homesteaders on-public'lands was passed. The housebill was passed for the erection of apublic building at Fargo , N. D. , at acost of §100000. The bill subjectingoleomargarine to the operation of statelaws , the Paddock pure food bill , andthe Conger pure lard bill , having comeup in their order , were laid aside with-out

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prejudice , and the senate proceededto the consideration of the election bill.-Mr.

.. Colquitt spoke upon it. Senator

Saunders to-day introduced a bill toamend the silver coinage law so as toauthorize the secretary of the treasuryto purchase all the silver bullion offeredat a price not exceeding $1 for 871.25grains of-fine silver and issue treasurynotes in payment therefor. In thehouse Mr. McKinley , from the waysand means committee , reported and thehouse adopted a resolution , calling onthe secretary of the treasury for thenames of the banks in which publicmoney is deposited , the reasons formaking the deposits and the rate of in-terest

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, if any, which is returned for theuse of public funds. Also for informa-tion

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as to the authority by which andthe law under which such depositsare made. The bij. for theadjustment and payment of claimsarising from Indian depredations waspassed. Mr. Spinola of [NewYork moved to suspend the rules andpass the bill appropriating $100,000for the erection of a monument to thevictims of the prison ship at FortGreen , Brooklyn. Mr. Allen of Michi-gan

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, while adding his meed of praiseto the patriotism of the men whom it-is designed 'to honor , opposed the bill.These men had suffered untold horrors ,but there were men all over this coun-try

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, men who had suffered horrorsequally as atrocious at Libby, Ander-sonville

-and every prison south of the

Potomac. These men had come timeand again asking congress to givethem a pittance , but so fat- their prayershad been refused and the leading pa-pers

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of .New York had been engagedin bringing their powerful batteries tobear upon public sentimnnt in orderto turn it against granting pensions ofany kind whatever. At the same timerepresentatives of New York city camehere and asked the government tobuild a monument to commemoratemen who needed no monument to tellthe story of their patriotism. Themotion was lost-

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the senate on the 16th pendingbusiness was the consideration of Sen-ator

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Dolph's resolution providing foran investigation whether the right tovote was' denied or abridged in anystate with Senator Vest's amendmentextending the investigation to an in-quiry

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as to whether by state legisla-tion

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any man was denied the right towork on public works by reason o hiscolor. Senator Morgan in opposingthe resolution called attention to thefifteenth amendment to the constitu-tion

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and criticised it, contending thatthe foundation of the country would bemuch better had the government beencontent with the fourteenth amend ¬ment. Pending further debate thesenate proceeded to the considerationof the election bill , Senator Morganconcluding his speech against it. Inthe house Mr. Mills of Texas offered aconcurrent resolution providing for aholiday recess from December 22, 1890 ,to Januaryo , 1891. Refered to the waysand means committee. Mr. Dunnell ofMinnesota then called up the appor-tionment

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bill and briefly explainedits provisions. There was a diversityof opinion among the members of thehouse as to whether the present repre-sentation

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should stand or whether itshould be increased. It was finally de-termined

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by the committee to accept3o6 as the proper number. After anineffectual effort to secure an agree-ment

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as to the limitation of debate,Mr. Dunnell gave notice that he wouldcall the previous question at 5 o'clockthis afternoon. Mr. Flower of NewYork protested against the passage ofthe bill and severely criticised the cen-sus

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returns of New York citv. Mr-Mills of Texas said he believed NewYork had lost the enumeration to whichshe was entitled , but her loss was notas great as that of his own state , whichamounted to 500000. The hour of 5-o'clock having arrived , Mr. Dunnelldemanded the previous question. Mr-.Blount

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of Georgia interjected , a motionto adjourn , and during the progress ofthe vote the democratic members tooktheir hats and overcoats and left thehall showing a disposition to break a*quorum on the next vote. The motionto adjourn was lost yeas. 118 : nays ,145. At the suggestion of Mr. Blount-of Georgia it was agreed that after twohours debate to-morrow the previousquestion should be considered as or-dered

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, and the house adjourned.-In

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the senate on No. 17th consider-ation

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of its election bill was considered ,and Mr. Dolph continued his speech ofyesterday upon the subject. Mr-.Doiph

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held it to bo the duty of congresswith malfee towards none and with

charity for all" to exercise to the ,fullest extent- the powers under theconstitution to secure to every citizenof the United States native or foreignborn , white or black , rich or poorthe free exercise of all his rights underthe constitution. .Mr. Eustice said hewould put a question , to the senatorfrom Oregon and would ask a frank

answer. The question was if the im-migration

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of Chinese had not beenprohibited , if there were 1,500,000-Chinamen in Oregon who hud theright of suffrage and who establishedin Oregon a Chinese state department ,and if the people of Oregon had over-thrown

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that Chinese government andre-established white political supre-macy

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, would ho ( Dolph ) in such a caseadvocate the passage of a law by con-gress

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, the intent and effect of whichwould be to encourage , stimulate andsustain those Chinamen in their effortto recover political power on race lines.-Mr.

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. Dolph refused a definite answer tothe question. In the house , after debate ,the apportionment bill was passedwithout amendment yeas , 187 ; nays.82. The negative vote was as follows :Alderson , Allen of Mississippi , An-drews

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, Barnes , Blanchard , Breckin-ridge of Arkansas , Briekner , Brook-shire , J. B. Brown. Bruniier , Bucka-lew

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, Bunn , Campbell , Caruth , Catch-ings

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, Clancy , Clements , Coob. Covert ,Crisp , Cummings , Dunphy, Ellis , En-lee , Fithiun , Flower, Foreman , Fowler ,Geissenhainer , Goodnight , Hare , Hen¬derson of North Carolina , Herbert ,Holm'an , Lane, Lawler , Lester of Geor-gia

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, Manger , Maish , Martin of Indiana ,Martin of Texas , McAdoo , McCarthy,McClellan , McCreary McMillen. Mc-Rae, Montgomery, Mutchler , Gates ,O'Neill of Indiana , Outhwaite , Parrett ,Paynter , Peel , Pennington , Perry. Pin ¬dar , Price , Quinn , Richardson , Robert-son

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, Rogers , Sayers , Seney. Shively ,Spinola. Springer , Stahlnecker , Stock-dale, Tracy , Tucker , Turner of Geor-gia.

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. Turner of New York, Vaux. Wad-dill , Wheeler of Alabama, Whitthorn ,Wike , Wiley. Williams of Illinois ,Yoder. The house then adjourned.-

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the senate on the 18th Mr. Sher-man

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reported a bill providing againstthe contraction of the currency. Or-dered

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printed and recommitted. Theelections bill was then taken up andMr. Coke addressed the senate in op-position

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to it. Mr. Coke said ho pro-posed

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to have a full and free discussionof the bill to the end that the Ameri-can

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people shall be informed of thestartling' and radical departure pro-posed

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to be inaugurated in the charac-ter

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of the government. If the dictatesof the political faction that happenedto hold possession of all the depart-ments

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of the government were to beregistered in the statute books withoutdebate, without discussion , without ex-amination

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; if the rules and usages andmethods of procedure that had for ahundred years obtained in the senatewere to be overthrown and neitherhouse of congress to be any longer adeliberative body , it was at leastproper that the fact be proclaimedso that the people might pass judg-ment

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on the political party re-sponsible

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for it. In the housethe senate bill amending the interstatecommerce act by providing ior thetaking of depositions by netaries pub-lic

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was passed. After action on a fewminor bills Mr. Farquhar , chairman ofthe committee on merchant marineand fisheries , moved that the house gointo committee of the whole for con-sideration

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of the senate bill with thehouse substitute therefor. Messrs.Springer and Fithian positively deniedthat the committee ha'd authorized themotion and decided that Mr. Farquharhad not sufficient' authority for it. Thespeaker recognized Mr. Farquhar how-ever

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, to make a motion that the housego into committee of the whole on thestate of the union. Mr. Farquhar ad-vocated

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the bill at lengtfh , but no def-inite

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action was taken.-In

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the senate on the 19th SenatorStanford addressed the senate on hisbill to provide the government withmeans sufficient to supply the wants of-a sound circulating medium. In thecourse of his remarks he said thescheme of the bill is to supply an am-ple

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amount of money for all businesspurposes. He mentioned lands as se-curity

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, because they appear the bestnnd most certain of all security and aresufficient to furnish all the moneyneeded. The printing deficiency billwas amended and passed. A resolu-tion

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by Senator Manderson was refer-red

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to the committee on Indian affairs ,instructing that committee to inquireinto the condition of the Indian tribesof North and South Dakota , ' Montanaand elsewhere , as to what steps arenecessary to disarm them , etc. Theelections bill was taken up , and Sena-tors

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Bates and Gibson argued against it.The house today, after passing a Dis-trict

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of Columbia bill , took up the con-ference

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report on the bill amending theact for a division of the Sioux Indiansin Dakota into smaller reservations.The only change made is the authori-zation

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for the expenditure of an ap¬propriation of §100,000 made for thepurchase of beef and other rations. Inspeaking of the measure Mr. Allen ofMississippi took occasion to criticisecongress for doing nothing to relievethe financial stringency of the country ,and expressed his belief that the pres-ident

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had done wrong and shown hislittleness in attempting to bulldoze thesenate. He quoted a remark of a ladyfond of decorating her parlor withsculpture , to the effect that she wasgoing to secure a life size statuette ofPresident Harrison. The report wasagreed to and the house adjourned.

Caused Great Apprehension.BISMARCK , N. D. , Dec. 17. The

country round about is greatly wroughtup over the killing of Sitting Bull.Instead of creating an easy feeling ithas aroused much apprehension. It-is feared that many families of sfettlerswill fall by the vengeance of SittingBull's followers. Sittting Bull's sonwho was killed was a bright youngman of only twelve years. The set-tlers

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will flock to Bismarck in hundredsas soon as the news of Sitting Bull'sdeath is known. An enterprising Bis-marck

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mercnant this morning offered$1,000 for Sitting Bull's hide.

John Mallory of Argonia , Kas. , islooking for his wife and James Rutan ,who have eloped together. .

NOTICE OFCONTEST. .

A DECISIONSASSISTANT SECRETARYI

OborvatIonB Regarding the Rights ofAttorney * Tlio matter ofFiling Con-test

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* A Bill Inflicting Heavy Penal *tics for Certain Dealings With In-dians

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Investigation or the Indian ,Question A Sensation In Yankton-A Resolution In Reference to thePersecution of Jiivs.-

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Important Lund Decision.-WASHINGTON'

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Secretary Chandler of the interior de-partment

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yesterday decided a very in-teresting

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land case , in which he ren-ders

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a decision relative to the serviceof notice of' contest , and also makessome interesting observations regard ¬ing1 the right of attorneys. The caseis that of Edward Driscoll vs EdmundP. Johnson , deceased. It appears thatDriscoll filed a contest against the en-try

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of one Johnson , December 31 , 1887,and notice of contest was served by thelocal officers by a registered letter , inwhich the hearing was set for February15 , 1888 , the testimony to bo takenFebruary 10. On that date , however ,Johnson was killed by the accidentaldischarge of a gun. The contestantproceeded with the testimony before a-notary. . On February 15 the attorneyof Johnson appeared before theregister and receiver and moved todismiss the case because of defec-tive

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service of notice. The motionwas overruled and the contestant wasallowed to file a supplemental affidavitand proceed against the heirs. Anappeal was taken by the attorney , butthe commissioner'of the general landoffice sustained the decision of the lo-cal

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officers. Johnson's attorney againappealed , and regarding this the sec-retary

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says : "Johnson having diedprior to the hearing ; his attornev haddo authority to appear for him. Therelation of attorney and client ceasec-on the death of client. Nor can a deadman appeal by attorney. Johnson ,however, was never properly servedwith notice , as the rules of practice donot provide for service by registeredletter. " The secretary says this is thefirst time an attempt has been made toserve notice by registered letter, to hispersonal knowledge , although it hasbeen complained of on several occa-sions.

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. After reviewing the decisionsin a number of cases the secretarysays : "While notice of interlocutorymotions , orders and nearly all pro-ceedings

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occurring after jurisdictionis once obtained may be made throughthe mail , there is no* provision in therules of practice for acquiring juris-diction

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over resident defendants by-uch§ service. The notice of contest

takes the place of a writ of summonsin common law courts , which is a dueprocess of law , without which no per-son

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may be deprived of his property.This writ of summons" in all the statesto which my research has extended isrequired to be served by a sworn offi-cer

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of the law. This department hasso far departed from this general ruleof practice as to allow notice of con-test

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to be served by persons other thanofficers of the law , but it has not au-thorized

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service by mail of a writAv'hich confers jurisdiction to deprive adefendant of all his property.

Indians ITIu.st Not Have Fire Arm * .WASHINGTON , Dec. 20 , Senator Pet-

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of South Dakota will introducea bill which will inflict a heavy pen-alty

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fine or imprisonment upon allwho give, trade or barter, or in any-way supply Indians on reservations ,under the control of an agent , firearmsof any character or ammunition exceptby special permission of the secretaryof the interior , and authorizing thepresident to immediately disarm allIndians on the reservations who arewards of the government. SenatorPettigrew says the Indians will nevergo to war without guns and powderand that this would put a stop to alltrouble and do it quickly.

Senator Manderson introduced a res-olution

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proposing a full investigationof the entire Indian question witha view to discovering and turningthem over to the war department.-He

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said to-day : "Such an investigationis absolutely necessary. Even here inthe senate opinion is sharply dividedas to the cause which brought aboutthe present disturbance in South Da-kota.

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. Especially does it seem neces ¬sary that something be done to preventthe sale of arms and ammunition to theIndians. These bucks have the bestquality of Winchester rifles and an ap-parently

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unlimited supply of ammunit-ion.

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. The only uses they can put thesethings to is the killing of white men orwhite men's cattle. There is no game-te shoot that calls for a long rangerifle , and the government should im-mediately

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take steps for a general dis-armament

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of the Indians. " '

Sensation In Yankton.MINNEAPOLIS , Minn. , Dec. 20. The

Tribune has a special from Yankton ,S. D. , which says a sensation was cre-ated

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there today by the arrest of a wellknown citizen for pension fraud. Earlyin 1861 George Weisle enlisted in theFifth United States cavalry , served histerm , re-enlisted and received a veter-an

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bounty. After another year he se-cured

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the discharge papers of one ofhis comrades , Charles Loffier. Subse-quently

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he came to Yankton and hasgone by the name of Loffier all theseyears. The real Charles Loffler hasbeen doorkeeper of the white house inWashington many years. Some timeago he concluded to apply for a pen-sion

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, when it was found that one wasalready issued in his name. The se-cret

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service was put on the case and

todayWeislc was arrested hero , HQhas confessed the whole matter.

Protest Against Jewish Persecution.W-ASHINGTON.

.. Deo. 20. In the house

to-day Cummings of Now York offeredfor reference a, resolution setting forththat the members of the house of repre-sentatives

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of the United States have-heard with great sorrow and feelings ,akin to horror the reports of the per-secution

-of Jews In Russia , reflecting 1 .

the barbarism of past ages , disgracing-humanity nnd impeding the progress ,of civilization ; that the sorrow is in-tensified

-* ,by the fact that such occurfjr-

ences should happen in a country ,which has been a firm friend of tho.United States , and that clothed itselfwith glory not long since by the eman-cipation

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of the serfs and by its defcnse-of Christians from the oppressions ofthe Turks. The resolution directs the-secretary of state to forward it'to theAmerican minister at St. Petersburgfor presentation to the czar.

When it was noised abroad that therewas suffering in the western part ofthe state on account of crop failure ,and that unless relief was prompt andsubstantial , many of the western set-tlers

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would bo obliged to abandon theirhomes during the winter , and whenthe question of relief was discussed ,everyone naturally turned to the rail-roads

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, expecting from them the-largest contribution not in money,but in the free transportationof supplies. It was ascertainedby those who computed the-amount of coal required to keep thesefamilies through the winter , that thefreight bill would be. the largest pro-portion

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of the cost , owing to the factthat all coal used in this state is broughthundreds of miles before it reaches theconsumer. It is computed that theBurlington & Missouri River railroadalone will donate §40,000 to $50,000-in

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freights on the one item of fuel , pro-vided

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the road continues free rates allwinter. Up to the present time, nearly j,five hundred tons of coal have'b'eentransported free by the B. SrM. to-these sufferers , besides many carloadsof corn and other supplies.

Whatever is said against railroadsin general , it must be admitted thatthe B. & M. has always been promptto answer every call for help fromthose of our settlers who have sufferedfrom drouth , grasshoppers and othernatural causes. It is not known howlong this free transportation will con-tinue

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, but it should continue all win-ter

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, and if it does the people of thestate ought to appreciate it. LincolnState Journal.-

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ITIIziiiCHpta-.SHAKOPEE , Minn. , Dec. 18. A dark

deed involving three deaths and wrap-ped

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in deep mystery was discoveredthis afternoon. John Spearman , sixty-seven years old , was found sitting bythe kitchen stove, dead. The oW man'swife was found dead in a corner of thesitting room with her skull crushedand the scalp torn from her head. Up-stairs in bed lay their grandson , a ladof twelve years , with his head crushed.-No

.clue to the murderer.-

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Few Pacts lor jL-rueai .farmers.The farmer has a thouphtful and puzzled lool-

n'ovsradaye. . He is estimating tlie value of hlihogs and trying to understand why the packer tvhcintroduced the Conger Lard Bill in Congress , whict fproposes to tax Lard Com-nound is maaqueradlnr-as his friend and benefactor. He knows well thaithis pretension la absurd because the packer sere wihim down in price when purchasing , makes allsorts of claims , and in a word , lives by the sweatof the farmer's brow instead of that of hia own.

The farmer should understand that the passagi-of this bill will practically close up reBueries thaimake over 300000.000 Ibs. of Lurd Compound pelannum, of which hog lard is the principal ingredient. These refiners are the largest customers th> lthe farmer ha* for his ho H. If they stop tha & -demand from them will cease. The farmer muthen go to the packers as his only customers , andOiey will dictate terms and prices.

To illustrate : Ifa farmer han two caatoraerafoi-oaohog.he can fli his own price for it. but lei*him have one cimoicer for .ro hoRa , and the customer will fix the price. Naturally , a larger de-taandfor

-hogs makes prices firmer ; so that thipacker , havingdwtroved his competitors , will havi

the farmer in his power-.It

.waa the packers who introduced this Bill

Reference to the records of the Agricnltural Com-mittee

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of the Jciflieth Congress will show this.Congress would do a foolish thing to pass it. for I )isc iuivaleutto lating sides in iia.Ho matters anda Government thtt is established on the basis olequality and equal rights for all. violates the firslprinciples of itsexistenco when it considers legis¬lation of this invidiouft charactar.

There is 110 doubt but that a general pure foodbill should be passed , whereby tlie public wouldbe protected against unprincipled manufacturersand dealers , but it fa unjust and iniquitous todiscriminate against a special industry , parti-cularly

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whore that will benefit a rival industry.392 out of 1079 farmers recently addressed , fa-

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tlie ps 33ga of s. Keaeral pure food bill andthe Alliances throughout the country are passingresolutions in favor of thi-j and condemning theConger Bill. The fanner will therefore contributeto hi * own vrelfar Miv wort ne through his Senatorsto cffdct tli- '

The St. Petersburg journals resentthe interference of England with Rus-sia's

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treatment of Jews.-

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