Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 7, 1892, Page 15

THE OMAHA DAILY BE 1i: SUNDAY, AUGU! 7 1892 IXTEEN PAGE DOWYN IN THE OCEAN DEEPS > A Diver's Strange and Perilous Experience in a Wreok, BY SILVER W HEMMED IN BULLION ‘\ - Beeking for Treasure Trove in the Southern Soas — Thrilling t In the Life of a O the Florida Const. Inet Diver The danger of those who go down to e sed Tn ships has always been cited 0§, bhe risky profession par exzellence, Buy to the thoughtful mind it really does . not hold a candle to the danger of those who go down in the sea to ships, How- ever, the phrase quoted was made away bigk in the days of Solomon, and it is ing his_memorable bonst about there being nothing now under the sun. The { { modern profession of dress div | of the most romantic and best-paying thut men now follow, but the risks are Buch that it is one of the few trafles that is not overcrowded. There ave at pres- ent about twenty or thirty divers in the United States, the most of them for- eigners who have drifted here from all quarters of the globe. Of the native Americans in the business, says the Washington Post.thereare few who have bad a wider experience than Has - wards, who is now in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, with the prospect of nearly a yenr’s work be- fore him under the abutments of the Long Bridge. Lidwards is a bronzed and hearty look- ing fellow, with no suspicion of the ro- muntic or uncommon about him, but he has, to use his own words, seen sights, and can tell about them most entertain- ingly when, after working hours, he gots strotched out on the locker in his barge, with his favorite pipe ablast as a source of inspiration. One of his best stories is of an experi- ence he had off the Florida coast while reclaiming the wreck of the Morgan line steamer Capuello, sunk in a norther off the Vacus Koys some years nge. *It wasmy first trip down in the clear Southern ocean water id he, *‘and it came neur being my last. Tho vessel we were after had sivuck on a regular bayonet veef of coral and had sunk struight, going down the perpendicular wall, catehing the s and rigging in the spreading branches of the reef and breaking it off in great masses as she went, finally coming to rest on the white sand of the ‘ocenn floor about ninety feet below. She had been down only wbont three months, but the warm, prolific water had worked such a transforma- tion in her that I hardly knew her at firet for o ship. She wns covered with a rank growth of marine streamers and grasses ina trailing drapery that was simply magnificent. cen wasthe pre- vailing color—such a vivid, transparent green as even the youngest spring grass never takes on, and mixed with it we pawches and streaks of brighter colo: red and purple that waved through the mass of green with the movement of the ourrent. “The hull of the wreck lay on its sido with the deck close against a wall of glistening white coral, thus cutting off access to the hold through the hatches, for although the reef was not a solid wall," T did not dare to try crawling round to the hatches through any of the corkserew entrances between the twisted muss of coral trunks and branches for feur of getting hung up by the air hose or life line, 1t wasalmost as risky an undertaking to approach her through any of the shattered openings in the bottom, for the musts and what was left of the rigging had gone over on that side, forming a perfect abattis with the interwoven junele of gra I cut my way in through this mess, frightening shoals of lively fishes from their retreats in the seaweed and wreckuge, and steering as wide as 1 could of the nasty looking eelsand water snnkes that slowly writhed their way through the waving plumes of seagrass. As I neared the opening a soa lizard a yard long, with erooked claws and a regular crown of spines uround his head, crept out of the hold slunk away into the shadows, apparently awed by the sight of a more uncanny looking monster than himself. I don’t much blame him, for, 01 tearing up a piece of sponge from the bottom and rubbing the velvety green from the hull before me, [ got u full length view of myself in the bright copper sheathing, and I don’t sard was disgusted. The ! '\J wonder the | great gogglo eyes of the helmet, and the exaggerated broadth of chest and shoulder given by the breast plate and the inflateu dress, with the two long tails formed by tho air hose and life line trailing awny behind, made one of the grotosque visions I aver saw. ke black,yawning hole in the side of the dead ship did not look inviting, and still loss 80 08 I atepped inside and turned my lamp around, when a great skate rose from the floor, and, shaking the sand from his back, flapped slowly away into the gloom beyond. But the open- ing was mercly into one of the lower compartments and did not give me ac- cess to the part of the hold where was stored the cargo of silver bullion that I was after, Cutting at the massive tim- bers under water was an eudless task, s0 I sot » dynamite cartridge to biast u way into the hold above, aud then, re- trenting to the outside, waited for the .explosion behind an angle of the reefl withoul going to the surface. The blast came, and, though soundless, was like a slaw <upon, the abdomen with heavy gloves; while from the hole inthe wreck there rushed a blast of turbid water and sand and splinters, dimming the clear séa for miles around. “Inside the hold the blust had awrought o transformation, The floor dng of the middle deck had been torn away, bursting the bags of specie and ‘seriding u silver avalanche of coins and inguts’ streaming down, almost filling ‘the compartment, and overflowing 2 through the opening in the bottom to the ocean floor outside, while through hatehes of the upper roud hud been olmn :d, there streamed single shaft of I'ght thar toushed the mass of metal into life and brilliancy. “Upan this mass of wealth I trampled the leck, to which with u Juxurious feeling of sole proprie- "torshiip, yinking at every step over my big. weighted shoes in the coin of the realm. With w plebinn iron shovel I Joaded the big hoisting bucket with its preeious weight as though it had been ‘ota} and-sont it swinging uv toward the ‘rurfuce. ‘Gradually T cleared the first mpartment, which was filled chiefly ith coin thut had run down from the | hroken. bags abovo, and, coming to the . hole o the deck before me, I voached *" ‘through, fishing out the heavier ingots by the armful, , ““Although the timbers had been shat- tered by the blast, the bole in the floors m wasnot very large, but I reached in with wy head wnd half my body through the opering was just pulling down & pile of silver bars when Y must have toughed the keystone of the m for there was a sliding of the pile, an: the loosened oak stanchions about me » ' settled down and then stopped just short of pinning me to the sill of the opening. With a great gasp at the suddenness of the accident and the narrownoss of my escape, I started to withdraw myself from the dangerous position. But the helmet and the broad metal collar to which it was attached were too large to ba hdrawn from the narrowed slit, and I mysolf caught like a rat in a trap, he utter horror and helplessness of the position was simply Teyond descrip- tion. For a few seconds I lay there, seem- ingly pavalyzed, and creeping over me came a feeling of terror againsy which my will seemed powerless, 1 could feel my oyes starting and a numb, drawn feeling about my brain, A moment’s giving way to this feeling I knew would mean blind panic and certain death, so with an almost physical effort I mastered myself and could feel the first shock of fear sub- siding, leaving me weak and shaking, but clear-headed, so that there was some chunce of thinking collectively of ameans of escape. “Icould think of but one way, and that was desperate. Working my arms back through the slit that heid my head I found that ! could reach my feet, and, drawing them up to my body, I loosened first one and then the other of the iron weights on my shoes so that [ could kick them off atan instant’s no- tice. Then with my sheath knife I cut 1oose the belt of | en weights about my waist. Next [ severed the life lines atmy back, and then I cut the air hose, The safety valve in the helmet closed with o click as the weight of wator rushed ngainst it, and there I was shut up in the dress with a few minutes’ supply of air and entirely cut off from ~ connection with the outer world, Then came the last desperate step. Taking what I think was the' decpest breath of air that [ ever drew, I plunged the knife into my dress just at the edge of the metal breast plate and cut the canvas loose from it all the way round, just us you would rip the tin foil loose round the neck of a bottle. At the first slit of the knife the water rushed into the suit like an avalanche. 1 was tolerably well hardened to the pressure of condensed air, but the water pressure ot that depth was something terrible. The suffocating weight on my limbs and body was like un immersion in quick- silver, while at my hend the pain was like knives through my eyes and ears. The cutting away of that canvas suit conld not have taken more than a fow seconds, but it seem like a life-time. “The ripping of the threads sounded like the rattle of musketry in my ears. But at last iv was done and, withdrawing my noad from the helmet, T groped my way to the hole in the side of the hull, shuf- fling my feet to keep the weights on them. **Once outside the wreck I them loose and shot 1 through the tangle of cord. weed toward tho surface. How long that trip took I don’t know. My eyes v i and all I could feel was the ge and sea- * past me almost like nsation of falling in a dream. My brain must have stopped working, or else gone to running backward, for I lost ail notion of time and space. 'Some- times I scemed to be llying like an arrow, and again I thought I must haye stopped and be sinking once more. My chest was fairly bursting with the effort holding in_my breath, and even ainst the cold water my head seemed Just when I 10 be burning up inside. lost consciousness I when [ came to I was om of my boat with the over me to bring me to. “My boatmen said afterwards they knew something was wrong the minute the hose was cut by the way the pres- sure went down on the pumps. For al- most a minute and a half they waited wondering, when of a sudden I came up close to the boat, shooting my full length out of the water. My fuce they said was as black as india rubber, and as I fell back I started to sink straight away, but one of thefellows jumped and caught me. When they got me on board my lips were bitten clear through.” o EDUCATIONAL. snder working Kentucky hasa colorad State Teachers association, Two hundred and four of tho 365 colleges in the United States are cooducational. Oregon this year has 11 0 schoal chil- ; Washington, 100,196. Excess in Orogon, Cornell university has ductive funds, 81,171,924 ings, 1,538 students, and 123 nstructors, or an instructor to every twelve students, Witliam M. Rice went from Massachusetts o Texas 1 1838, He has given the city of Houston $200,000 in cash, $40,000 in securities and 9,000 acres of good ''Texus farm land to found a college. The Untversity of Virginia has taken a new departure. Hercafter women 18 years of age or over will bo permitted to register with the chairman of the faculty for the pursuit of studies in the academical department of the institution, Prof. Ruggero Bonghi has lately succeeded in establishing a successful girls’ collego near Rome, under the active patronage of Margherita, whose nameit bears. One of its most recent innovations is & special section of instruction in practical agriculture and dairy work. Japan bas now a school system somewhat similar to our own. Controlled by local au- are more than 25,000 schools, of ,000 are elementary. I'ho teachers 2,000, aud the seholars 3,410,- 000, or nearly half the total population of school age. The total annual expense of the system 13 about §7,000,000. I'he imwense fund in possession of the stato of Texas for educationsl purposes is mostly loaned to counties who use the mouey for public works. ‘I'he state comptroller has wnvosted over ¥5,000,000 of the permanent school funds in the hunds of the various counties, and us yet no defanlt in the Eay- ment of Interest has been made, ‘Che third annusl catalogue of Highland Paric Normal college, Dos Moines, shows the institution to be in & wrosperous condition. Its aim is 10 give @ thorough Christian, but nousecturian education in the shortest possi- bio time. That its plan is popular 1s shown by the fact that 1,202 students were enrolied Jastyear. [Every county in lows and seven- teen states and territories were reprosented. Some five or six vears ago, Mr. J. R. Par sons, & practical jeweler of La Porte, Ind., beeame convinced that it would be both philanthropic aud prolitable to establish a college where young men and women could lesrn the joweler's and watchmaker's trade undor a competont cher. He beganin a small way, but each vear the attendance in- creased, until now Parsons’ Horological school is a great sucoess, aud so well known that jowelers needing help send for the graduates from that institution, A valuable and lnteresting addition to the public schoul system of New York city is the schoolship St. Mary's, which, when in port, 18 1 Bast river at Vhirty-irst street, Avy boy botween the ages of 15 and 20, of geod moral character and the required phy- Siaue, whose futher is & citizon of New York city, inuy. bo admitted. The boys are taught the usual common school brauches in the morning #nd bhave nautical drills w afternoon. The anuual uise in fore waters 1s wade io the summer, at which time they frequently meet their rivals on board the Suruatoga, the Philudelphia school. ship. The arrival of theso ships excites groat interest abroad, sad many courtesies are ten- dered them. During the sixteen years that the St. Mary's has oeen in operation 1,557 boys have attended tho school, and 469 have been graduated from it, over three-fourths of whom bave goue Lo sea. —————— Very True. ‘The demand for Chambverlain’s Colio, Cbol- ers and Diarrhaea Romedy is steadily grow- o, from the fact tbat sl who aln ita rial ware pleased with the resuits and recommend it to their nsighbors, We feol sure that the romedy eanaot be recommended Lo bighly. Wogley & Smead, druggists, Newton, la. THE STORY OF A TRAGEDY A Bloody Massacro Stains the Early Settle- ment of Nebraska. FIVE CHILDREN SLAUGHTERED BY INDIANS Terrible Revengo Visited by the Bereaved Father Upon the Kace Which Had Made Him Desolate—A Vow w on in Blood, Upon the Missouri river,in the north- eastern part of Cedar county, close to the Dixon county line and nearly opno- site. Vermillion, S. D.,is what is known as “Brock’s bottom.” This isa basis of land lying in the Missouri valley, shut in upon all sides by high bluffs. A considerable portion of the “bottom” is covered with a heavy growth of timber. It runs nearly due east and west, is about six miles long, its width varying from one to three miles. In conformation and extent it resombles the description given by travelers and historians of the far- famed plain of Marathon. Near the upper end of this basis or '*bottom” is a svot, which for being the scene of a bloody deed may yet be memorable in poetry and song. In the year 1830, according to a writer in the Blair Record, a young man and his newly married wife setout from Par- kersburg, in what is now called West Virginia, to try their fortunes in the great west. The young man had scarcely attained his majority and his bride was a few yours his junior. They belonged to the middle class, coming from the mountain regions of the old dominion, They were no novices in frontier life. Poor in worldly goods, they wera yet rich in love and hope. The young man, having ideas of his own, had a decided antipathy to the **peculiar_institution,” and realiy left his native hoath that he might rear his children upon free soil. They settled first at Burlington, Ia., then a frontier town. But living ina wilderness bocomes a_passion with some men. A Boone or a Bowie, a Carson or a Crockett could mever have thriven in vilization, Riding upon the crest of the advar ing wave they settled vow at Fort Des Moines, and afterwards at Sioux City, where the young 1 (now in his 40th year) shingled the first houso in the city of the corn palace. But advancing civ- ilization drove them still onward, und in 1857 they settled in ‘“‘Brock’s bot- tom.” They had been blest with eight children; two of whom they hud buried in lo By dint of toil and thrift they had accumulated & large property. They built n comfortable home upon this “squdtter’s claim.” Here another son died (the first nutural death in the county), and another was born to them. Theirsorrow was merged in this new joy, and father, mother and children bent their united energies Lo the sub- duing of the forest. A happy futuro appeared to be before them. But, alas! sorrow was in storo. In September of 1862 Abraham Lin- coln issued the emancipation proclama- tion, and when in_the month following the president called for more troops with which to suppress the rehellion the heart of the Virginian abolitionist burned within him. His second son, now 17, was deemed a suffioient protector for mother and children, and 8o the eldest enlisted as a soldier. The father joined company I, commanded by Captaln John Taffe (afterwards a membor of congress), and the company was ordered 1o join Sully’s regiment, which was sent to Crow Creek, Dak. On the 23d day of June, 1863, the mother had gone to Yankton, Dak., by pony express to purchase some of the little luxuries that serve to mellow the rough side of a frontiersraan’s life. Leaving the carrier at old St James, near the mouth of Petit Arc (as the French voyageurs called i), she walked three miles through a ravine to her home. Arriving there with a mother’s joyful expectation, she was alarmed at seeing no signs of life; no outstretched arms met her waiting embrace; no lips were upturned to receive a mother's cherished kiss. Looking through the window she saw an Indian lying upon the floor. Tell-tale marks of gore were upon tha door. But they had not the significant assurance which the blood of the Pas- chal lamb gave to the breast of a He- brew. As the terrible truth flashed upon her bewildered brain she was seized with the frenzy of despair. She rushed to the other eide of the house. There lay one of her children, a boy of 8 years, stark and stifi—shot to death. ild with grief, fear and frenzy, the poor woman fled back through the ra- vine to old St. James and told the dreadful story. It was now nightfall, and no one dared to move till daybreak. What a night that must have been to that fond mother. On the morrow the small band of set- tlers at old St. James took a circuitous route on the open prairie to the scene of the massacre. Three of the five chil- dren were dead. The two others were vot alive. “The eldest, a boy of 17 years, fny ugion the floor, his skull crusned and both arms broken. His hands still clutched his vifle, with barrels empty. ‘The brave boy had perished in a hand- to-hand struggle to protect the honor of his sister from savage infamy. The sis- ter, yet living, had been mutilated in a manner which forb.ds detail. The poor girl livea for_five days, but never spoke. The second boy, a lad of 13, had been stabbed todeath. Another boy of 8 years, lying outside the door, had been seen by his mother, But the saddest of all was the sight of “‘mamma’s darling,” a little fellow of five summers, mortally wounded. “Indians scared me, mamma;” wus all ho could say, He died in three days. cruel slaughter were buried in a single grave near the mouth of Petit Are, In less than two weeks (news traveled slowly then) the gad news reached the father, 200 miles awa, Mounting his horse without refreshments, he set out upon his dismal journey. On he rode, night and day, with the energy of mad- ness and despair. Arriving ai**Brock’s bottom,” Hansom Wiseman entered the house—his home no more. On March 28, following, Mrs. Wise- man wig again a mothe: This child, now a young man of 26 years, is & help- less crfppn-, the result ‘of his mother’s terrible aftliction. Mrs, lives a heart-broken old Wiseman now woman. Her husband vainly sought, by overy means | in his power, to comfort her, He took her to the east, at a large expense,seek- ing to rejuvenate the aflicted mother in_the scones of her childnood. But *‘the heart of Rachel, for her children ussing the scene of the Wiseman mur- or. Some mystarigug petson shot them from the “‘heavy I.irx " ulong the rivor. But a short time sffide the sottlers in that neighborhood were shocked by the discovery of several‘skeletons buried near the “Wiseman oaim.” They woro the bones of aborigfuds. Hanson Wjseman sought to obtain in- demnity frofi_the 'Worernment for the destruction of his property by the In- dians. The Hon. Phineas W, Hitch- sock (in und out of congress) championed his cause. But with the senator died every effort in the old man’s behalf. One strange thing there was con- nected with the massacre. As the Ine dians left the scene of their bloody work ed in sight of a cabin in which s 0 young woman and three lit- tle children, tho eldest less than 4 yorrs, Yet they never disturbed them. Nor did the woman hear of the murder for several days. Hunson Wisoman and wife are now living near-the scene of the massacre. The old man was 73 Novembat 6. He is vigorous in mind -and body, and bids fair to live fwenty years yet. His ap- hearance reminds one of the picture of David Crockett. He was & delegate from Nebraska to the National Union Laboe convention, and for fear some skeptic may think [ have been writing a romance I wilt add that his postoftice address is Hanson Wiseman, St. James, Cedar county, Neb. We have several of the principal ac- tors in that small band in Clay town- ship und other parts of Harrison county in the persons of Samuel Villitoe and wife. Mr. V. was shoriff of the county at that time, and there were only six in that small band and two of them were crvippled. Mr, Villitoe and Warnec Marks carried the children out of the house and Mrs. Villitoe holped to get them ready for burial. John McConbrey was one of the rescue par Ho was treasurer of the county at that time, and has lived ut Calhoun and Missouri Val- loy most of the time since. I'rank Wads- worth of Calhoun had moved from St James to Yankton, Dak., a short time before. Mr. Villitoe, after company I was raised, drilled the company (he being the only man that had ever been The victims of this | crying, will not be comforted.” Above the grave of his slaughtered children Hanson Wiseman swore a ter- rible oath of vengeance. How well the oath has been kept is a secret between him and his God. But this is certain; for over twenty years nove of the vaga- bond bands of Indinus conld be induced to eater “'Brock’ bottom.” To the red man it is the valley of the shadow of death. Atthetimethe Winnebagoes were moved down the river, several canoes were emptied of their livieg freight in in the army; he was a Mexican soldier), until they moved to the front. S pngalg: - e RELIGIOUS, There aro 20,000,000 church members in the country. The French episcopate has apolied to the pope to introduce during his jubiles the question of the canonization of Joan of Arc, and ic is understood that the pope favors the suggestion. In oneof the Protostant Episcopal dioceses of Michigan a_recont convention struck out the word “‘male’’ from the constitutional pro- vision reluting to the election of parish war- dens and vestrymen. The corner stone of tho new Episcopal catbedral at Laramie, Wyo. will bu lald Tuesday, Septomber 21.° The completed building will cost about ¥40,000 and will be tho finest in the state. ** The Young Meu’s Chustian association of Middletown, Conn,, oy, fad o gonerous gift of §20,000 from Seth H:"Butler of that city. It hias been proposed toiincrensoe the building furd from £50,000 to $60,000. A negro liviag near Uherokee, Ga., owns a dog which attends all the religious meetings in the neighborhood, stands up and tries to follow in the singing and goos up to the altar Wit Uho rest of the mouners ‘to_be prayed or. . No clergyman can preach well, we aro told, in whom there is a ‘‘lack of vital con- tact, all the way from_‘tie cerebrum to the grand ganglion or solar mlexus.”” A careful 1mspection of the grand: ganglia of divinity students would seem t6/b in order. The most costly book in the world is de- clared to be a Habrew bibje now in the vati- can.. In the yeap 1518 itis swid that ope Jules 1L refuséil to sefi this Hoorew bible tor its wereht i’ gold, whith. wolld amount to $103,000. This is it price ever of- fered for & book. > The comimittee appointed toselect a site for the proposed Catholic Chautauqua has been making o tour of the St. Lawrence river seeking & suitable lpcation, and it 1s stated has aacided upon a spot on the river, but the exact logation :will be maae known during the meeting, which began last Sunday at New London, Conn., and will continue until August 20, The seventy-sixth annual report of the American Bible society shows that the cash receipts of the society for general purnoses , and the total cash disburse- ments for general purposes, . From legacies the aggregate amount received was $127,033. The issues for the vear at home and ' foreign lands are 1,203, the scriptures. A gospel barge, the gift of & wealthy New Yorker to Bishop Walker of the Episcopal church of North Dakota, 1s to bé Iaunched at Bismarck soon. It isto be called tho Mis- sour1 Missioner and used for Christian work aloug the Missouri for a distance of more than 500 milos, - 1t is ninety-three feet in length and twenty-five in breadih. There is undonbtedly lots of money in being an evangelist, as witnoss the luxury enjoyed by Moody, General Booth, Sam Joues and others of the ilk. The subject is rather an interesting one just now, 1n view of tho little troubles that have cropped out in the churches regardiag the raising of money for B. Fuy Mills, who is now crusad- ing in clover in Oakland, says the San Fran- cisco Nows Letter. A good sample of the way things go is lllustrated in the visit of Mills across the bay, for just before he came up from Los Angeles ho wrote to the Athen- ian clergy and told them that as living was 20 high 10 California he would have to raise bis tees for personal expenses from $300 to $1,200. They squirmed a little at this, but they were in it too far to pull out, so they raised the extra $400. Francis Murphy, tha temperance orator, furnishes auother case in point. He is always for the poor man in his addresses, but he is mighty good at driving a bargain, and he wears fine diamonds, the best of clothes and lives liko a king. He has boen resting at Dol Monte after his labors at OQakland, ond, 1 full evening dress, he has been a familiar figure on the promenades during the eveniugs. * Of course he does not, drink, but he 1s very well disposed toward choice two-Dit eigars. 106 copies of ) sy Lo Y MODES FOR MEN, Clathier and Furnisher. There can be no doubt of the continuance of the conservative feeling among the swagger men in the matter of Lheir dross for the coming fall and winter. In all scarfings the séhtipin must be placed so that whensen Wighign the walstcont opening 1t will appear in the conter of that space, To be placed too bigh in the scarf, 100 1ow or on one sid4, would. destroy the couformivy. 0 0 ‘L'he made-up neckwedr of the forthcoming fall will be seen in its' étfperlative mood. ln unstintedness of material, quality of fabrig and propriely in shupoithe offerings are in the foremost vein of mattfacture. y ‘The scarfpin :nnulzf‘,wun be worn with the fat, made-up scarl,;'I'here is a place for its insertion, aud byuweoming to hold it together, 1t attains & ppihitarian phase, in that it is ao aid in glawsing over the per- centage of made-up sugaestiveness that is 8lways more or less a ted with the imi- tative article. Sorit At Brighton and othér summer resorts, heliotropes, gray greens, olues, and deep myrile, have beew ganerously exvloited. soason’s sutnmer regime will bring forth, if wisely administered there should be no cause ‘There are in these instences certain tions of the searfing to be held together absence of the scarfpin under these circum- stances would lodicate that such an article the neck dressing. It was therefors bad judgment to witempt 10 wear a fine neck- pecuniosity at the same time. ‘The rise of the sun umbrella is manifest would be more striotly accurate 1f it were designated the rise of the summer umbrella, and at semi-formal towiv ! Shounld this be the forceunner of what next for regret. et n o cortaln place and in & certain way. The was ot {u the reperjory of ihe wearer of scarf incompletely and & publisnment of 1m- these ln-umonbl{'hhnl days. Poerhaps 1L for the most practical lclo of that de- soription is one equally adaptable to sun or i 1t b hght ck handle and is 10 8 hen 1t Talpe ob Gnevpoody s mer wi o a8 unex| 1y us un shines tiercely. . ” The most decided bargains that are offered in men’s and boys’ clothing are those at the CLOSING OUT of Hellman’s sack, cutaway and Prince Albert suits, in all colors and sizes, cut down for thissale to 15 PRICE. 12 Special bargains in men’s furnish- ing goods, including hot weather shirts and neckties. We don't want them;yo u do, OTHING| MPANY - AELLMAN % GO, Cor, 13th and Farnam Cor. 13th and Farnam Streets, ATRONZE By Purchasing Goods Made at the Following Nebraska Factories. CHoyE - X . BEARNG g INDUSTRIES If you cannot find what you want, communicate with the mannfacturers as _to what dealers handle their goods, AWNINGS. PASKETS OMAHA TENT AND [ CMAFA FBASKET AwNING Co. FACTORY, Capacity 8,00 per day | Packing boxes to_order | Oftico 801 Cap. Av. 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Tolophono 73, nowels, baly s Mice and bank work s 1203 Farnam, work, ete. To 9] " soveialty. 21 N, 9th at. — - ~ IRON WORKS, PAXTON & VIER- |INDUSTRIAL IRON LING IRON WORKS. ‘Works. SOAP. PAGE Soap C Manufacturers of Union Wronght and oast tron |Mfg. and ropairing: all utter, Soap. — T bullding,work, engines, kinds machiney, 714 8. 2107 115 Hickory street. BOILERS, CARRIAGES, brass work, oto. 14th 8t Tel. 14i0. — s B S - WILSON & DRAKE. | THE OSTERHOUDT, | OMAHA SAFE AND REPAIRS. TRUNKS. Tubular fu ooy N poraa’ " | InoN WoRKS. Allkingaofaiove H. H. MARHOFF. ark. ete. 0 n short no- Jall work on hand, M'f's trunks, travellng 19th ana Ploroo. ArFAES paigting, AbYHam and ris O et Liames | Dhgand samplo casos, e Hormer e et | I onelan 3 CIGARS. = p— e | Ly WHITE LEAD. - OVERALLS. PRINTERS. - - SMOKFE BLUE SEAL CIGAR. H. BESELIN, Spectal brands mad o der. ¥ ctory 240 Patricks 3 Btore 820 North 1ot SOME MEN OF NOTE. Colonel Robert H. Crockett, democratio candidate for congress in the Sixth Arkan- sus district, is a grandson of the famous Davy Crockett. Mr, Shi the new member of the su- reme bench, is a cousin of James G. Blaine, 1s mother having been a Blawne. This fact has just leaked out, Mr. Cleveland is back at Gray Gables again, and-the nhsh will proceed to nibble onco more. 'I'he campalgn has not yet fairly opened for business, Mr. Astor's income equals a regular flow of $7.35 & minute. This is probably the reason why ne never learned to recite “Over the Hill to the Poorhouse.” Goneral Bidwell, the probibition presiden- tial candidate, had a bar'l once, but he deetns it the crowning glory of his life that he pulled the bung out long ago. The descendants of Governor Thomas Dud- ley of Massachusetts are to hold a family ro- union in Boston on October 18 next, Those of the descendants who probose golng may signify the same to Dean Dudley of Wake- fleld, Mass,, who has spent forty years in tracing the lineage of the family, Marshall MucMabon will produce his long- oxpected memoirs in tho course of the next sixteen months. They will comprise five volumes, divided into four parts. [ach part will deal with oue of the four Important periods from the African and Crimean cam- paigus to the presidency of the republic. Wnen Mr. Gladstone went out of his office in 1886 he left behind bim, in the official vesi- dence of the prime minister in Downing streat, # large quantity of documents and other articles, to which he has seat his private secretiry occasionally to hunt some- thing. Among this stuff isa clock which bas never been allowed to run down, and will probably tick out a welcome to him ere long, as he occuples the mausion for the fourth time. Cyrus W, Field was the oldest honorary member of the Now York ohamber of eom- merce. He was elected fo 1858, after be had succeeded in laylug the first cable. There have beeu only nineteen honorary members since the chamver was organized in 1708, that the disimotion is s I Presidont ox Cloveland, ex-Secretary Hamilton Fish, ex- Secretary’ William M. Evarts, John Sher- tary Carl Schurz, Jobn Bige- low, George Willi Curtis, Thomas A. Edl- son, Judge Enooh Fancher and Whitelaw Reud. CARTER WHIT) LEAD Co. Corroders and Gutters. Strietly puro white lead Kast Omal DN B ) | Reep Jon PriNt KaT1z-NEVINS Co. ING CO., 202-4 Douglas Street. Bee Bullding. NIAMOND BRAND \ CHICHESTER'S ENOLICH, RED CROSS . stantpn for particalar, 16,000 Tovttmanlaln, Jiame Paper. Bald by all Local Drugaiste. Scone. ording to recently” ob- tained leave to address the house and was granted an hour by the speaker pro tem. This officer’s attention was di- verted from the Texan at the outset, however, and at first the usual hum of conversation and the bustle of pr'vate business that one nears during most speoches were distinctly audible. But the presiding officer was soon impressed by a remarkablo silence, and, on_glanc- ing sharply at the gentlemun who had the floor, discovered the latter “‘sawing the air with his arms and performing all the gestures in the most complote oratorical text book, while the house |, looked on with -amusement. His lips opened and shut as if yards of *'Congres- sional Record” copy were issuing from ] Kilgore Makos Congressman Kilgore, Kate Field’s Wnshlnsl.nn, QHICAGO STATIONERY —Nothing'’ Better. Our Writing-paper and Envelopes; Wedding Invitations; Reception Cards are sent, at reasonable prices, anywhere in the United States. Send for samples. METCALF STATIONERY COMPANY, (Late Cobb's Library C0.) 136 Wabash Ave., Chicego, five y post. His claim involves the title to the New Idria quicksilver mines in California, and he has been prosecut- ing it before congress for a full genera- tion. MeGarrahan was but a single in- dividual, says the Indianapolis Journul, and his opponents were a powerfuland wealtay cor poration, yet he never fal- tered In asserting the justice of his claim. His private resources were exe hausted long ago,and for many yeus past it has been hard to tell how he ived and kept up appearances, He managed somehow, and 00 one ever saw him out of temper or out of form, He is a wan of fine intelligence, excellent address, and, as might be supposed, of indomitable perseverance. Fis cluim has been favorably ga‘mrwd on time " and again by able committeec of both houses, and, at different times, has passed one house or the other, but never both houses before. Its passage repres sents to him the triumph of a lifelong struggle. between them. Mr. Kilgove was ex- tremely animated, but it didn’t amount to much, for not a sound was heard. “What is the matter, Mr. Kllfiuru?" de- manded the speaker. “'I told the gentl man from Texas he could have an hour to address the house on this measure.” “[ know it, Mr. Speaker,” smiled Kil gore, “but I thought the house would prefer a pantomime speech and it wouldn’t disturb their conversation.” The speaker had to lmpair his dignity with o smile; but evidently Kilgore knew best what the house appreciated, for when the vote was taken there was not a single dissent. e MoUarrahan and Mis Clab The celebrated McGarrahan claim has at last passed both houses of congress. The olaimans is known in Washington as “'Billy MoGarrahan,” and has been » familiar figure there for atleast twenty: