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Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
REIGN OF TERROR.
Situation in Turkey Growing Worse
Every Day.

Every Day.
London special: The Constantinople
correspondent of the Standard says: s'It
is rumored that decisive European action
is-.imminent. The report is gaining
ground, even in diplomatic circles, that
the Sultan has ordered the determination
of the Armenian race. The excitement is
spreading to Syria, Bagdad and Mosul."
ssThe Chronicles correspondent at Con-
stantinople in dispatch makes similar
statements and adds: 'One of the oldest
English residents, who has business agents
throughout the empire, informs me that
the situation is worse than anything he
has known for the last forty years. The
umber of the killed must nc be reckoned
by tho iunuloae 1svI by .nuts llds, bnt by
tens of thousands, and reports from Syria
declare that the Armenians have been
massacred under direct orders. from the
Government"
The Berlin correspondent of the Times
says of Tewfik Pasha, the new Turkish
minister of foreign affairs: "While here
Tewfik displayed no qualities fitting him
to be good foreign minister. He has
won the Sultan's confidence by the timely
detection of Palace plots and is likely to
be docile Palace instrument. 1t looks.
therefore, as if the Sultan were thinking
more of his own safety than of the gravity
of the political situation"
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
P. @. ANNUAL REPORT
THE FIRST ASSISTANT TELLS OF
THE WORK DONE.
The Remains Of the Men Hanged
for the Haymarket Riot to Be
Exhumed and Burned-The EN-.
press of Russia Dying.
Report ON Postomces.

Washington special: First Assistant
Postmaster General Frank III. Jones has
made his annual report for the year end
ing June 80, 1895. Mr.. Jones says that the
divisions under his supervision have saved
during the year sl.395,577, the principal
items being in the saving in carrier ser
vice by stopping overtime and reduction
of the force, amounting to 81, 100000. The
salaries of all presidential postmasters
amounted to 81, ,S97, 200, and the gross re-
\ ceipts of postoffices to $50, ,53S, ,097. The
number of presidential postmasters is
S,491, of which 159 are first class, 700 Sec
ond class and 2,632 third class. An esti-
mate of S17 1000, 900 for all postmasters is
made for the year 1897, an increase over
the present year of $1,OOO,0OO. The total
number of positions brought within the
classified service during the year were
1896.
Mr.. Jones recommends the abolition OF
the experimental free delivery unless $1O,-
100000 is appropriated for the purpose,
also free rural delivery unless $4,000, 600
is appropriated.
An estimate of Sl2, 800, 800 is made for
the free delivery service next year. The
money order report shows that there are
1881 domestic money order offices and
orders to the amount of $156, 7G9, ,0S9 issued
and S156, l59, $50 paid. Mr.. Jones recon-
mends legislation requiring clerks hand
ling money order business to give bonds.
Concerning the dead letter matter, the
report says:
"The number of pieces Of original dead
mail matter received during the year for
treatment was 6,3l9.S73, decrease of 7Sl,-
I'LL"
Mr.. Jones renews several recommenda--
tiOns made in his last report, such as pen
atty for using p0stmarks for unlawful
purposes; to prevent boycotting of post
offices; to amend the franking laws; more
stringent legislation against obscene mail
matter; the power to suspend employees;
the employment of temporary and substi-
tute clerks; care for disabled employees;
the better cla<Sifcation of salaries oi
clerks in s%,ger Offices and the employ.
r,aS.saf subcarriers,
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to-
the'needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
It's excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
ative effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and feyers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
evUry Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you viii no5
accept any substitute if offered.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
Street Car Statistics

Here are some figures relative to the
street car mileage Of this country:
Nine hundred and seventy-six roads,
1,914 miles Of track for horse traction,
10,363 for electric, 632 for cable, and 679
for miscellaneous, making a total of
13,5SS miles; A, 745 cars, averaging 3.29
per mile Of track; $74S, S,014, ,206 total cap
ital stock, averaging $4,000 per mile Of
track; S552, ,129,950 total funded debt,
or $40, 800 per mile of track; 81 1,3OO,711,-
600 total capital liabilities, or 500, 800
iner mile of track
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
WRITING HIS MESSAGE.
Cleveland Will Give a Good Deal of
Space to Finance.

opdCS W flnanCe.
Washington special: The President is
at work on his message to Congress. The
chief matter of interest will be the recon-
mendations regarding the country's
finances. Mr.. Cleyeland's policy on the
money question will cut a prominent
figure in the message, and the Senate and
House will be asked to enact such legis-
lation as will tend to place the country
on more substantial financial basis. He
will probably strongly advocate the re-
tirement of all outstanding green
backs and treasury notes by the is
suance of S5O0,0OO,OOO of interest
bearing gold bonds, and that the ma
tional banks be allowed to increase their
circulation. Mr.. Cleveland has strong
hopes of securing such legislation during
the next Congress, and despite the fact
that the Republicans will predominant in
the House and will have equal weight
with the Democrats in the Senate. he is
encouraged to believe that the much
needed legislation will be forthcoming.
This proposition will be strongly opposed,
however, by not only the silver men, but
by such eminent leaders as Sherman and
Mills, and by leaders of the house of equal
prominence, and it will not be without
hot fight that Mr.. Cleveland's wishes in
the matter of financial legislation will be
acceded TO
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA DYING
The Young Czarina's Life Hangs
on q Very Slender Thread

The Young Czarina's Life Hangs
on n Very Slender Thread.
New York special: A dispatch TO a local
paper from London says:
The news that comes from st. Peters.
burg through channels that entitle it tc
full belief gives sad and startling turn
TO the recent pleasant gossip about the
coming birth of an heir to the imperial
crewn of Russia. The physicians of
the palace, who have been in consulta-
ton with genealogical specialists.
advised the Gar that in the natural
course of events neither the mother nor
the child could survive. The frightfully
grave operation of Caesarian section was
therefore performed. Now the men Of
science are no longer able to conceal from
the imperial husband the imminent dam
ger OF the Czarina. 1t is understood in
official circles that her recovery is consid-
cred impossible and that there is no hone
whatever.
A letter from st. Petersburg, dated Oc-
tober 16, announced that the czarina was
I'D secluSion at Tarskoe-Selo and would
remain there until the birth of her child.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
DUN & CO.'S REVIEW.
Man. Woolen Mills Are Closing for
Want Of Orders,


Want Of Orders.
New York special: r. G. Dun g. Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says: It has
been broken week, and just before and
alter elections in the most important
states operations rarely have much signi-
ficance. Business may be largely affected
IN time, but as yet there is scarcely an in
dlcation of what the effect will be. The
controlling power at present is the effort
to readjust prices after the remarkable
rise OF last summer in important materials
and products, with the struggle of great
combinations to prevent decline.
The purchase of competing interests
how gives the 81. G. Frick Company own
ership of II, ,6S6 out of II 1884 coke ovens in
the Connellsville region and practical con-
troll of more than three-Quarters, and an
advance in the price of coke to 81 is eX.
pected, as the Carnegie Company has been
buying up supplies at low prices for
months in advance. The anthracite COM
bination seems ready to make higher
prices.
Many woolen mills are closing to walt
for orders, though the demand is fairly
satisfactory for some dress goods and
worsteds, and the Washington mills open
clay worsteds at 10-cent advance. But
prices for these and most qualities Of
woolens are still uncertain, for manufac-
turers do not know yet what they have to
meet.
Wheat falls back with great reluctance
from its summer rise of 20 cents, but has
declined II cents for the week.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Sioux City-Cattle, s2.25 to $50; hogs
80 to So. As; sheep, $500 to $2.45; wheat,
4Sc TO 44c; corn, 15c to !ee; oats, 12c to 1Sc;
rye, zoe to 25c; fax, 74c; hay, ST. 90 to ST. 80;
butter, l5c to 17c; eggs, 151se to Is.
Chicago-Cattle, common to prime, So &C
to $4.S5; hogs, shipping grades, $3.50 to
$50; sheep, fair to choice, s1.oo to $3.50;
wheat, No. red, 5s1sc to 615sc: corn, No.
2, 29c to 1880; oats, No. 2, 1870; rye, No.
2, SIC.
Kansas City-Cattle, s2.S5 to $500; hogs,
$40 to 1856; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50.
South Omaha = Cattle, $3.50 to s345;
hogs, $S.25 to $40; sheep, dull
ST. PAUL-Cattle, 500 to $245; hogs,
S.. 10 to 1886; sheep, s.. to S3. 80,
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
CAMPos URGES HOME RULE.
Declares Spain Will Lose Cuba Un-
less Autonomy is Granted.

Declares Spain Will Lose Cuba Un-
less Autonomy is Granted.
New York special: The Paris cores
pondent of the World cables the follow
ing: "Ia am able to send you the following
authentic translations of copies of official
cable dispatches now ON file at Madrid:
''To Minister Ultramar, Madrid: Re-
ferring to your cablegram of October 30,
expressing dissatisfaction at the news
paper interview in which expressed the
opinion that the United States would rec
ognize Cuban beiiigerency, [ reit-
crate my statement and say further
that if this war is not
brought to speedy termination by grant
ing home rule to Cuba the Uni ted States
will surely give aid to the insurgents and
espouse their cause sooner or later l
arge that autonomy be granted to the
!sland, believing THIS TO De Nti,es vuiy means
of ending the struggle without the loss of
many lives and the waste of the immense
wealth of the island.
Martinez de Campos.
Madrid, Nov. 2, 1S95.-To Martinez de
Campos, Captain General, Havana, Cuba:
The question of autonomy is being con-
sidered, but we fear the Cubans will not
accept II. Ultramar, Minister"
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
JOINED TO A CORPSE.
An Incident in the Life of Queen Vic'
toria's Mother-in-Law.

An Incident in the Life of Queen Vic'
toria's Mother-in-Law.
Queen Victoria, who is one Of the
most uncompromising Of reigning mon
lrchs in her intolerance toward those
who are divorced, is herself the daugh-
ter-in-law Of princess who was d.
Torced by her husband under singu-
larly sensational circumstances. The
| mother Of the prince consort was a
| lovely woman-iS was from her that he
| inherited his good looks-and was the
| last descendant Of the dukes Of Gotha,
whose dominions may be said to have
constituted her marriage portion, since
they were incorporated with those Of
Saxe-Coburg at the time Of her union
to the duke Of that petty sovereignty.
A drunkard and a profigate Of the
most coarse character, the duke treated
his young and beautiful wife with dis
graceful brutality; SO much SO, indeed,
that the imperial diet felt constrained
to interfere in her behalf, while the
good people of Coburg showed their
sympathy with their blonde and blue.
eyed duchess by smashing every win
dow Of the husbands palace and by
almost lynching his Polish favorite,
Count Schimbowski.
At length the duchess could no longer
bear her treatment and elOped from
Coburg with a young cavalry lieuten-
ant of the name Of Baron Won HanStein.
The duke at once sued for divorce,
which was granted. aud the young
mother was never permitted to see her
children again until just before the
Prince consort's marriage, they being
brought up altogether by their grand
mother Soon after recovering her lib
erty. the duchess married the eompan-
ion of her flight, and spent the remain
der OF her days partly in Switzerland
and partly in Paris, where she died.
She bequeathed to her husband, for
whom she had previously obtained the
title of Count of Poelzig, considerable
yearly income from the revenues of the
duchy of Gotha on the one condition
that he would never part with hel
corpse. not even for single night, and
stipulated that If he spent twenty-four
hours under any roof than that where
her embalmed remains happened to be,
the pension should cease at once. Sc
the unfortunate count carried the mum
my Of Queen Victoria's mother-in-law
around with him for years, long even
after his marriage to another lady, I'm.
til one morning at Paris he was horri.
fed by the discovery that the casket had
disappeared After much investigation
he found that it had been stolen by
emissaries from the court of Saxe-Co-
burg -Gotha, with view Of having ii
decently laid to rest, and as the pen
sion was continued he had no reason
whatsoever to regret the theft
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14

course of construction. Funeral trains in
ordinary cars have been in use on this
line during the summer, but now arrange
ments have been made for the manufac-
ture of funeral car. The car above the
trucks will be black. Even the trolley pole
will be wound with crepe. When the de-
ceased is child the crepe will be white
and the sides of the car will be festooned
with white. Inside the car, just back of
the motorman, the bier will occupy one
side. Opposite this are to be seats for the
minister and the pail bearers. The
mourners will sit along the sides of the car.
Friends will sit in cars, also black, which
will take the place of trailers.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
THE AMBULANCE CALL.
A Pathetic Scene that Touches the
Chords of Human Sympathy.

A Pathetic Scene that Touches the
/ Chords of Human Sympathy.
OF the many and shifting scenes Of
New York's swarming thorsughfares
I know of none more full Of human
pathos, none that meets with quicker
response Of human sympathy than the
ambulance call, says a metropolitan
| writer. There is the dramatic element
In the reckless speed and the loud gong
Of warning and the scattering wagons
and pedestrians as the ambulance
comes tearing down Broadway that
draws undivided attention. But 1t Is
Ia the character of the mission Itself
that universal sympathy and specula-
| ton center. In a city where human
life is cheap-where hundred human
souls daily take their aight int the
unknown, and where murder and sui
eide and fatal accident are present at
every breakfast table-death itself ex-
cites but momentary attention. But
there is something that appeals more
powerfully to the sympathies of men
than mere death-and that Is human
suffering, and there is something that
more readily rouses the slumbering i'm
agination than actual sight-and this
is the uncertainty.
When the ambulance rolls by like q
laundering whirlwind sea ttering every
thing before it, there is at once brought
| up in every mind the question of hu-
man suffering and the piQue of uncer-
| tainty. There instinctively rises in
| every brain the mental picture OF some
Ambulance case" witnessed at some
time or another. If you never hap
pened to be present on the scene of ac-
| cident itself perhaps some newspaper
horror Of the day repeats itself in the
wayward Imagination in all it's sicken-
count of man crushed under an ele-
vated engine; yesterday it was an in
nocent young girl murdered by her
maniac lover; the day before it was
boy taken MANNED and bleeding from
beneath a cable car-and so on from
day to day, from week to week, and
from year to year, in the neyerending
circle of human suffering and violent
death. And to me it Is a sweet re-
minder Of the common bond which
binds all human hearts together be-
meath the cloak of sordid life to feel
that within every gentle breast the
blood ebbs and flows with unbidden ir-
regularity at the clang and roar Of the
WhirlinS ambulance.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
"A Deplorable Cabinet.

London special: A Constantinople cor
respondent says: ''It would be as diff
cult to conceive the condition of mind
which brought the Sultan to appoint such
deplorable cabinet as to describe the
CONSERVATION ithas produced everywhere
The Grand Vizier is, perhaps, the least
Objectionable. His intentions are honest,
out his capacity is small. Tufk Pasha is
nonentity. Abdur Rahman and Nom
aukh are a couple of fanatics. AIuair's
aptitude for unclean work has raised him
high in the esteem of the Sultan and
places him facile princeps at the head of
the political SnieS -
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
To Rest the Ewes.

A medical journal says that in the
continued use of the eyes, in such work
as sewing, type-setting, bookkeeping,
reading and studying, the saving point
is in breaking off work at short inter
walls and looking around the room. This
may be practiced every ten or fifteen
minutes. By doing this the muscular
tension is relieved, the eyes are rested,
and the blood supply becomes better
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14

Ship Encounters a Severe Storm.
Lima, Peru, special: The British ship
Indian Empire, Captain Thomson, from
New Castle, New South Wales, for Calao
July Is, via Valparaiso, Chilli, and Moilen-
10, Peru, with cargo Of coal, has arrived
At Callao and reports having experienced
severe storm, during which 100 tons of
coal were jettisoned and the ship dis
laJ
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
Weekly Bank Statement

New York special: The weekly bank
Ttatement shows reserve increase of ST.
666,oO0; loans decrease, $4,000; special
increase S210,000; legal tenders increase.
$4,000; deposits decrease. S927, 900. The
banks now hold Sl9, 260, 900 in excess of the
legal requirements
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
Cargo Damaged by Fire,

Liverpool special: The British steamer
Cuban, Captain BERTHE, from New Or
leans, October II, which arrived here with
cargo of 5000 bales of cotton and $4,000
bushels of corn, reports that fire broke out
in her cargo lastWednesday. The amount
of damage done is not yet known.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
American Actors in Tronhle

London special: W. III. Sherwood, who
is said to be an American doctor of divin-
lty and j. A. Wilson, who is described as
being an American lawyer, both actors in
the "Old Kentucky" Company, were re-
manded at Blackburn on the charge of
having stabbed laborer there in a braWI.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
Five Leaders Executed.

Foo Chow, China, special: Five lead
ers in the massacre of missionaries at
Hwasand were publicly beheaded. The
American and British consular commits
sion and many Americans and Europeans
were present. The arrest of persons i'm
plicated in the massacre continues at Ku
Cheng.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
Canal Proposition Carries.

New York special: The proposition
that the state shall spend 5000 coo in i'm
proving canals has been adopted. Returns.
are coming slowly, but accurate figures
received from twenty three counties give
majority of 1881 votes in its favor.
The work done in this city on behalf of,
the proposition met with great success,
for out of 1l7,711 cast on the question there
were only 1868 against it.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
When Wrinkles Seam the Brow,

And the locks grow scant and siIvery, in
hrmities Of age come on apace. To retard and
ameliorate these Is one of the benign effects
OF Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, a medicine
to which the aged and infirm can resort as
a safe sOlace and invigorant. 1t counteracts
tendency to rheumatism and neuralgia.
improves digestion, rectifies bliousness and
oVercomes malaria. wipeglass before re-
tfring promotes slumber.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
Leadville Bank VIII Pay,

Leadyille, Colo, special: The deposits
In the Leadville Savings and Deposits
Bank, which failed, amount to 5000, of
which $4,000 is county funds. 1t is be-
lieved the bank will pay in full
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
Struck by an ENGINE.

Chicago special: A man whose name is
said to be Becker was instantly killed
Wednesday night by Chicago. Milwau-
kee and st. Paul train at Grand Avenue.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
Funerals on Street Cars,

Chlcago special: The managers of the
sieetric street railways are preparing to
cater to funeral parties. The Calumet
railway Company has a funeral car in
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14

Mahlon A. Sellers, postmaster at Wind
sor Castle, Pa, has held his appointment
fifty years
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14
Why Nothing Happened.

Once a careless man went to the
cellar and suck the candle in what he
thought was keg of black sand. He
sat near it drinking wine, until the
candle burned low. Nearer 1t got to
the black sand-pearer and nearer, un-
til the blaze reached the black sand;
and as it was nothing but black sand
nothing happened.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14

fIIS.AlI Fits stopped free by DIR. KIine's Great
Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first davis use Ma
yeous cures Treatise and 900 trial bottle free to
elt cases. Send to DE: Mime. 81 Arch St Phila Pa
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-11-14

An old wonan's idea Of proper
young man is one who finds his great
on inurnont IN,