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Another Murder in iowa.

At Bellevue, a station about twenty five
miles south of Dubuque, David Seeley, q stage
driver between Bellevue and Maquoketa, en-
tored a saloon and tavern k9ptby a Mrs. Anua
Schneider. While hitching the horses before
entering, some hare words were exchanged be-
tween HIM and q fellow named Billy HORN,
winch was the outcome Of an old teud. The
two entered the tavern, continuing their
threatening langaage. While they were eating
supper the conversation grew too hot for the
iandlady, and she ordered them ont.
seeley was the first 10 90 and was
closely followed by HORN who evil
IDENTITY wanted to force tho lighting Scarcely
had they stepped fror. tlie door when they be-
came engaged in a roGgh and tumble fight, dur
ing the course of which Seeloy crew revolver
and fired, the bullet going completely through
ms opponents heart and lodging in his cloth
ing. He fell TO the ground and died instantly.
AS soon MS Saeley realized what he had done nc
He'd. Horjn was known as It man about town.
de was bold, careless and. fr4luontly drank to
excess: He was thirty five years old and SIN
gle The murderer was generally regarded as
a peaceful man. He has a wife and children
living il Bellevue.
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Advices from China state that the Shanghai
Mercury Of March 81 last, announces that the
Chinese viceroy of the provinces of Yunnan and
Kivechong had just issued q decree ordering
the destruction Of all Catholic converts, and the
klhing OF AL Catholic converts and foreigners.
Le Temps, of Paris, which has hitherto
championed Russia, as against England, now
accuses Russia of deliberate and inexcusable
aggression in the Penjdeh affair; and, TO make
the somersault complete, 1t now espresso. q
fever1sh longing for peace between the great
antagonists.
Primo Krapotkine, the Nihilist, was released
from prison at Clairvaux, France. He wss SEN
fenced in November, 1882, to five years I'M
%prisonment for conspiracy against public or
der At Lyons, and has been confined ever
since alternately at Clairvaux and in Q crimi-
nal infirmary at Paris.
The pope will demonstrate with tho Irish
bishops now assembled at the Holy see in re-
gard to the conduct of the Catholic clergy to-
ward the prince and princess Of Wales at Dub
lin. 1t is stated chat his holiness, contem.
plates the issue of . pastoral letter upon the
duties Of Catholic clergymen everywhere to
the government under which they live.
In the late fight with Riel it is said that the
sacrifice Of Canadian troops was far greater
than had been expected, but it is not known to
what extent the rebels suffered. That Gen.
Middleton did not gain q signal victory is pref
y. generally admitted, while at Ottawa aud
Winnipeg there seems to be o disposition to
regard the affair as q practical defeat.
Through the influence Of the Manitoba
members an order in council has been passed
by the dominion government settling all sup
Elementary claims Of half breeds in Manitoba.
These have been outstanding and as%siduouslv
pushed for twoor three years, but the rebellion
has caused q settlement All claims in con-
nection with the half in the Prince
Albert district were presented to parliament
They were 800 IN all. The whole were examin-
cd, adludicated on and settled in the early part
OF 1884, and the settlers notified April Is. ONLY
twelve were rejected.
N. De Giers, the Russian primo minister in q
conversation with a foreign diplomatist said:
II feel now confident that there will be no war
with England this year. Itmay be impossible
to prevent more fighting taking place between
our regular troops and stray bands of Afghans,
but ss the British cabinet now recognizes the
accomplished facts and yields to all points
which Russis. deems for the moment indispen-
sable, all danger of war is for this season at
least removed. But until we havea radical
solution of the Alglo- Russian question, war is
merely a question Of time.
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CRIMES AND CRIMINALS

At Bozeman, Neil Lane was killed by Fred
Johnston, his wife's paramour.
Jack Clark shot and killed his father, Joe
Clark, at Manchester, Ky, IN consequence of a
dif1culty about hogs. The murderer is at
large.
The remains of Barclay johnson, the double
murderer and suicide, together with those of
ms mother and sister, were buriedin one grave
at Greenwich, Conn.
At Green Bay, Wis, Mrs. Kate Osborne has
been granted q divorce from her husband.
frank U. Osborne, an Episcopal clergyman,
because Of adultery.
William Stevens, aged sixty-one, of the firm
Of Stevens and Plat, farmers, about five miles
northeast OF Lisbon, Oak. suicided recently by
swallowing an ounce of aconlte. No reason ia
given for the act.
Burglars went through the houses of Mayor
Seeley, G. H. Barwise and S. B. French, in Me-
nomonie, Wis, taking $500 worth of goods from
the former. Two men, giving their names as
Smith and WEIGH, were captured with the prop
erty in their possession.
Orlando ]. Bean, the absconding BANKER of
Fulton, H., was taken to Lewiston, Ill, under
arrest, He was captured at Toronto, Canada.
Of $4,000, are pending in the circuit court Of
Fulton county against him. He ID now in Jail
at Lewiston.
Conductor l. 7. smith of the west bound
train on the Cameron branch of the Rock Is
lind road elected a stockman named Yocum
from the train, at Winthrop, Kansas, and when
the train stopped there on its return, Yocum,
with two brothers, attacked the conductor. He
was armed, and defended himself, and IN the
melee, shot all three OF his assailants, killing
Pierce Yocum and fatally wounding Henry
Yocum.
William G. Carr, son OF Secretary of State
Carr, was shot recently while in an alteration
with Col. Joseph Egolf in the Troy house
restaurant at Troy, N. Y. Egolf was dis
armed by two men before he could fire again.
Gen. Carr is n leading candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for governor next fall.
and his son says that Egolf has been writing
articles derogatory to his father in the Brook
Ign Eagle, and that the row came from that
cause. Esolf is a Republican politician.
William Lehman, a farmer near Elk Point,
Dak., has been murdered. Some of his cattle
strayed, and were taken possession of by Geo.
Sidney, a neighbor, who refused to give them
up. Sidney attacked Lehman with a pitch
fork, and while the men were struggling for
the possession of the fork a young man named
Stephen, who lived with Sidney, knocked Leh-
man down with a club, and Sidney choked
the PROSTATE man. Lehman died soon after
ward.
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Gov. Curtin Thinks War Inevitable.

EX-Gov. Curtin, who was at one time minis.
ter to Russia, expressed the opinion that war
between that country and England is newt
able, because it is necessary for the perpetua-
ton OF the Russian dynasty. As to the effect of
such a war upon American interests, Gov. Cur
TN believes that it would be beneficial.
IF the war should continue for
some time,n said he, "and there is every
reason to believe it will be n pro-
lonSed one, it will create a demand
for many OF our products. or course, after
war shall have been declared we can't sell arms
and munitions legitimatcly, but it will be done,
clandestinely, no doubt to n very great extent:
but We cap sell the raw materials which 20 to
make up the material of war, and that Will in
craase trade. Then, IN the event of q protract-
ed war, our breadstufs and kindred products
VIII be IN demand. 1t will be a war which will
shake all of Europe.
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RUSSIA o WAR.
What an American Army oMcer Says Of
Russian Preparations.

~
New York paper prints interviews on the
Russian preparations for war, with several
people who have just arrived from st. Peters
burg. Capt. Charles S. Hartwell, U. s. A, who
spent his youth in Russia and has just returned
from a lcng visit there, SAID:
When l left st. Petersburg a month ago,
three of my relatives were ordered to pre-
pare for active service and to join their
regiments on the banks of the Vol
gu, near Moscow. For some time the
authorities of that city have been retaining
all the heavy scows which have been sent up
the Volga to Moscow with grain, and now both
shores OF the river are lined with them. These
vessels are very heavily built, and with proper
sheds would mako excellent. Transports. They
are capable of accommodating fifty men, and
rs there are now nearly 5000 of them at the
rendezvous the transportation facilities OF the
imperial guard can be understood. l have
imperial guard has been ordered to
the north. This, / am confident,
is untrue. If Sir Peter Lumsden should
send scouts as far north as Merry, l imagine
they would tell him a somewhat starting story
If allowed to return. All army correspondence
is subject to government supervision, and not
n 1.-THE of the military movements liz published
IN the RUSSIAN newspapers. 1t Is generally I'M
derstood in the army barracks at st. Peters
burg that the car has decided upon war, and
that he Is only waiting to make a formal dec-
laration until his foaces have invested Herat.
The Russian troops are in a splendid state Of
discipline. Preparations have been making for
TINS movement. to my own knowledge, for
three years, Thu occupation of Merry was
the first great stride toward the Arabian sea,
although England w~illiully shut her eyes to it
l think that you will find tnat this last fight
with the Afghals will be used by the Russians
as a plea for more delay, or else a Unsuitable
cause FOR advancing at once upon Herat and
Selling it. There are no indications of peace
in this matter. Hostilities have begun. The
war party in Russia would not allow the car
to Withdraw his forces. even though he wished
the investment of the key to India.
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Rotkin,s Head off at Last

Washington srecial.-Attornev General Gar
land has decidodto bring Aleck Botkin's ten
nre OF the Montana marshalslip to an end.
He has notified him that his resignation Will be
accepted, and that if he does not resign he viii
be dismissed. Mr.. Garland also told Mr.. Bot
I'm that lie had examine d TIC charges for which
President Arthur had removed him, ard they
would he held sufficient to canso his dismissal.
AS n member of the senate judiciary
committee he had been able 10 become thor
o'iShiy advised of his administration of The
masrhal, aud he was satisfied tina, the charges
made 10y Soy. Crosby We're true. WHO VIII
succeed 1otiin cannot be told. Kelly Of Deer
Lodge ~ supposed to be in tho lead.
ms IS tile elimination OF n controversv
winch has been pending nearly n wear. IN
charges against Marshal Botkin alleged, among
oshef lungs, drunkenness and mismanage>'
ment OF the territorial psnitentiary at Deer
Lodge. Inc marshal has all along been stout
~ defended by his friends i'll Washington.
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NEWS or THB MEEK SUMMARIZED.
winter wheat In : 8aa way.

The first monthly crcp report under Hon.
Norman l. Colman, the new commissioner Of
agriculture, was issued The statistician, j. r
Dodge, says there has been . reduction in the
area Of winter wheat according to tho returns
OF April, Of over 10 per cent A partial inves-
tgation in December made the shortage 8 per
cent This il equivalent to q reduction Of 4O,-
OD4.WO bushels upon tho basis of the yield Of
1854. A decrease in area is reported in every
state except Oregon. The decrease in Illinois
is u per cent; thatof Minnesota slightly less,
but the figures are not given b present
condition of winter wheat as re-
ported, is worse than in 1855. It Is n per
cent, against 90 per cent last year, and 80 per
cent in 1885. In 1881, the year Of recent ratio
OF yield, tho condition APRIL was 81, snd
serious loss Was sustained afterward. The
:a;oal status Of the crop will be better shown .
month hence. when the vitality Of the roots
has boon demonstrated Ind the character of
the spring determined. On the present show
ing the reduction Of yield on this years pro-
dnction promises to be more than D,OOJ, 900
bushels from winter killing and low vitality.
in addition 10 the loss from diminished acre.
age. Whether the crop will exceed 400, OOO, 600
bushels or falls short Of it depends upon the
reliability OF present appearances and on fr-
ture conditions affecting growth and ripening.
fHNa LHE .aE
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PERSONAL

Capt James A. Watten, father of Mrs. Lieut..
De Long, and an old-time skipper, died in New
ls' nc ". England, the publisher OF the New
york Sun, died AZ Ridgewood, N. J., of dropsy
OF be heart, at the age OF tifty-three years.
Frank Hatton, vino was in Chicago recently,
said he had made no business engage
nents, as reported, since he was ont of Office.
James Talbot. a cousin of the earl OF Shrews-
bury, died on Blackwelrs Island, whittier he
to the level of a tramp.
Hon. Sam Randall las received about two
tons Of letters during his recent sickness. 1t
- really dllhcult to determine whether this
means friendly soiicitude or n deliberate at
tempt to hasten Mr.. Randall's dissolution,
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

J. 81. Pinney was appointed receiver of the
Erie hallway company.
Encouraging reports of the condition of tn.
log drivers comes from Eau Claire.
Prof. r. 3. Anderson, newly appointed min
lister to Denmark, WAS b%anquetted at Madison
Wis.
A Virginia congressman says an organized
assault is to be made on the oficeholders il
the state.
The county board in McCook county, DaS.,
arc preparing to build n $4,000 court house,
with jail.
The bankers of Southern Dakota will meet
at Aberdeen, June 5, Cor the purpose of or
sanizing an association.
Kelley, the perpetual motion man announces
that his new engine, worked exclusively by air,
is q perfect success, and that n company with
Sl2,DO,ooO capital will push it
The tax assessors of Newport, r. L, report
the real valuation at that fashionable resor. at
81 ,5So, 700; personal, $1,000, 500. Oue-third
the property is owned by New Workers..
L j. Curtis, of Kingston, Pa, found Sc. 600
in gold and silver in an old house he was tear
ing down. The building had been sold TO a
Kingston man for $40 only a few days before.
Dan Mcdonald. a telephone line man, of
Patterson, N. j., walked across a fifty.wlre ca
BILE fifty feet high and $50 feet long, over the
heads of several hundred spectators below.
whose hearts werein their throats.
Governor Albeit of New Jersey says that tho
whole naval and military force of the state will
be used to protect Jersey fishermen in their
right to fish IN any part of Delaware bay, even
up TO the Delaware shore. Delaware Is arm
ing.
There were 1853 failures in the United States
reported TO Bradstreet's during the week,
against 16 in the preceding week, and 1854, 1856
and lO5 in the corresponding weeks of 1854,
1888 and 1SS2, respectively. AboutS5 per cent
were those of small traders, whose capital was
less than $1,000.
An Allegan county (Mich.) man has in his
possession the first legal tender greenback note
struck Off and issued by tho United States. It
is dated Aug ]. 1862, and marked Series A,
No. l." Mr.. Slocum, the possessor, was a SOL
der in the army. and the bill in question was
paid to him by the paymaster as a part of his
wages as q boy in blue.
APukwana, Oak, buiseness man in a letter
to q Sioux City house, complains as follows:
money is almost out of the question in this
locality. There are Gre shanties on tho reser-
vation which the poor squatters are owing me
for, and row since President Cleyeland's p roc
lamation will frankly say I don't expect one
cent from any OF Them; and ] am Of the opin-
ION we are on the board gauge and down grade
railroad TO the poorhOusGa And yet the sum.
mer days sr6 coming on
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Awards of Government Contracts.

Inc following awards of contracts have
been recommended by Col. Charles Il. pcnrose
cilef commissary of the department of Dako-
ia, under his advertisement of March %. 1885,
Tor furnishing fresh beef and mutton at rorts il,
the department; Fort Abraham Lincoln. North
ern Pacific Refrigerator Car company AT So
cents perpound; Fort pembina. REM q. Desen-
te's AT !" 1a cents per pound; Fort Keogh, William
Van Gasken at f.a9 cests per pound: l'ort Wiai
souIa, harding & Co, at cents per pound:
fort LANDAU, Grstaye Rieder at q ce.,fs perr
pound; Fort sully, S. R. Thompkins At = cents
per pound; Fort Iotten, S, Nj. Dodd at $40
cent per pound; Fort Poplar River. Walter b.
Yotaan AZ ~" cents per pound; Fort Shaw,
iiehohl Steel at $50 cents per pound: I',rt
Yates, Henry S. Parkin at Is cents per nouna
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The New Postal Rates.

The postmaster general has issued q circu-
lar order to postmasters explanatory of the
changes made by congress at the last session
in the rates of postage. The postmasters are
informed that on and after July ] the rate on
all domestic first class matter, Including drop
cents per ounce or fraction thereof. instead
OF two cents per half ounce. This change
VIII apply to mail addressed to Canada, hut not
to other foreign mails. To provide for wants
that NAV arise from the change in the rate on
~seGoud-ciass matter or newspapers mailed by
pound, the department had decided to issue a
newspaper and periodical stamp of the denomi-
hatlon OF one cent, the design and color of which
Will be same as those of the present series,
They viii be ready for issue on June /.
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SOCIETY
The Iowa Supreme Court lenders a De.
cision in Favor Of the Secedsrs from the
Supreme Lodge OF Unitel workmou.

Supreme Lodge OF Unttel workmon.
WATERLOO, Iowa, Special Telegram, April
3-The Supreme court this morning, filed an
opinion at Dubuque, in the celebrated United
Norimeil case, reversing the Judgment OF tho
preme lodge A. o. Z. w, passed what is
called the relief law, by which it claimed
The right TO assess separate state Jurisdictions
to assist IN payment of losses under
the jurisdiction of the supreme lodge, the
state grand lodge Of Iowa refused to pay the
relief assessments, and was suspended. 4 fac
hon OF the order III the state still retained its
tealty TO the supreme lodge, and organized
another grand lodge. The matter was then
taken into the courts and tried before Judge
UT in this city about a year ago. He retldarel
Judgment IN favor of the adherents
of the supreme lodge, and from this de-
clsioh The case was appealed TO the supreme
court. j. u. Nichols, of Vinton, past grand
master, presented the case Of the state lodge to
ule supreme court, and argued that they were
b NE insurance company, Incorporated and
acting IN accordance with the laws of Iowa.
and he claimed that the supreme lodge faction
were IN erect hutaSents of a foreign nsurancs
company. He was Interviewed upon the
and said that he believed they had
adopted this idea, and that Injunction proceah-
lngs could be begun to close upthe adlcrerts of
me a supreme lodge ormake thom DEPOSIT $780,
Nv +. dfaham, OF Cedar Falls, grand
master OF the supreme lodge 2dhercnts, was in
terviewed and said that he could not tell the
etect OF the decision until he saw the full text
OF 1t, but he thought thatif the decision was as
II appeared to be it would affect not only this
order, hrt the Masonic and all other corpora
tons which are Incorporated in the state and
yer aohere to a supreme lodge, for it virtually
declared that they were under no Obligation to
sue. 'uPerlcr organization. s'WTe have been
lshting this thing from principle, y said lie. '.All
"o&sked ior "asthe corporate existence OF The
order and thename. lie stated thar tho n,srae
hership OF the sapreme lodge branch IN Iowa
was about three thousand, and since their sep
af2to existence fron the state faction they had
paidabout s3t,t 0j death losses. The state lodge
Claims . membership of aboet niro thousand.
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FOREIGN NEWS GOSSIP.

cecasal Taylor of Winnipeg reports that
Middleton's loss was u killed and AZ wound
Commander Mccall has issued a proclama-
ton taking possession Of Panama, and the
french consul makes a violent protest
Emperor William conferred with Gen. Won
Werder, German military eayoy to St Peters,
burg, previous to the latter's departure for the
Russian capital.
The dominion minister Of militia read q tele-
gram to the house from Princess Louise con-
graduating HIM o the bravery Of the
troops In the Northwest
Brisson, the French premier, has oMcially
declared that the new government will lcud no
secret eOuntenance to dynamiters seeking ri
nge In Franco from Great Britain
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a Curious Story OF clover Tea and Cancer

Omaha Special: United States Senator Stan
ford of California spent q day in Omaha and
left for San Francisco. In regard to Gen.
Grant, whom he has been endeavoring to in.
duee TO accept an invitationto 90 10 California.
he SAID when he left, the generals condition
was tlen more hopeful than any time during
his illness. He was more vigorous in body and
mlnd and seemed in a fair way to
get well with proper treatment. Sena-
tor Stanford was unable to say wletb.
er Gen. Grant would come to California.
as there was a great deal of opposition to his
taking SO long q trip, as it was thought no
could not stand il, but if he could make the
journey everything would be done to induce
him to come. The cure of Gen. Grant is at
tribnted by Senator Stanford to the use of clo-
yer tea. Mrs: Grant insisted in giving the rem
edy a trial. The doctors said they had no OBJ
%jections, although they had no faith in it what.
ever. However, they gsreit a trial of one week
or ten days, and then dropped it Mrs.
Grant and the family, however, continued to
give to the general without the knowledge of
the dItcrs, and have kept it up ever since.
His improvement was noticeable from the day
began taking it Senator stanford says
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Il Il appears that At Aboo Klea and
The subsequent engagements score OF
BritishsM ar.ini-H enrys were rendered
aselesss to the unfortunate men armed
With theR BY the cartridges jamming
lftcr the second or third.shok
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Iowa aupr.me Court on Options.

IN the supreme court, in session at
III Tho case OF the First National Bank of Ivong,
appcileat, vs., The oskaloosa Packing Com
patly, the decision of the lower court was af-
iirtned, the court holding that an option deal
is a gambling contract, and hence cannot be
enforced. The collrt also defined a gar,b.
lihg option deal as one in which the deal
was not actually made in the grain on cider
article bought and sold, but in the price there.
OF. The defendant swore that wien he told
q commission merchant to bny a certain nun
Der of barrels of pork for him he did not
mean that the puts should be bought, but only
that the privilege should be purchased of tax
ing the pork from Il third party at q certain
price. Letters were also produced to sbow
una the commission merchant did not intend
to deliver the pork to the packing company.
but simply wanted tho margin placed In his
hands ny the ~packing company that pork
wonld nor reach a certain price in the Chicago
market. Tho commission merchant assigned
his claim to the bank, which, therefore, be-
came the plaintiff. The court held that where
no intention exists to deliver the commolity
speculated in, the contract is a gambling one.