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ONLY A SMALL AFFAIR
Such is Sherman's Idea of the Samoan
Seizure and Diplomatio Muddlt.
BUT WILL COST HALF A MILLION
It Will Cost American Tax Payere
at Loast Half a Million Dollars
to Settle It Up.
An Official Statement.
VrA...iNiiroN, I). C, Jan. 29. The
senate today continued the consideration
of tin; consulor mil diplomatic appropria
tion lill. The Sumoan question was in-
cidfiititlly discussed. The consideration
of the diplomatic bill was resumed at
the close of the morning hour, the ques
tion Ix in on Senator Gibson's amend
ment to make the titles of ministers to
France, Germany, Great Britain and
Ku.snia "ambassadors."
In answer to a question of .Senator
Stewart, Senator Hall said the amend
incut did not involve an increase in the
salaries of these ministers.
Senator Spooner said he was inclined
to vote against the amendment He
thought, however, that the compensation
of our representatives abroad was too
small. No man could afford to accept
the position of ambassador who did not
possess a private fortune sufficient to en
uble him to maintain himself decently.
T 1 1 V. SAMOAN O.CKSTION'.
When the doors were reopened Senator
Sherman said the question involved was
exciting attention not only in this country
hut in other countries, and it was due to
the senate and to the people of the
I'ni ted States that as he had reported
the amendment from the committee on
fori i nn relations that he should state his
position on this question. lie would do
so in rather a skeleton manner, the facts
in regard to the matter. He would do
o without any feeling whatever, because
he hoped that the senate would bo unani
mous in the adoption of the amendment.
The Samoan islands (formerly called the
Navigator's islands) were, he said, almost
ini.lwuy between San Francisco and Aus
tralia, and were in the direct line of
coinmcriial intercourse.
TUK ISLANDS AND TIIK PKOFLE.
The i.-land composed in extent some
thousand of square miles, and contained
a population of some 324,000 innocent,
harmless, tactable, Rood humored people
of tlie Polynesian race, and about 200
foreign. Germans, English and Ameri
can, v. i h various commercial establish"
inents. These islands had been first ex
plored and surveyed by Admiral Wilkes
in his f unoiH expediton, and the best
maps of them were those made by that
fxpedition.
TIIK r.NITKD STATES TREATY.
The attention of the United States had
been early called to these islands, and a
special agent was sent there, who after
wards became minister to the king of
Samoa, and who made a treaty between
the L'nited States and Samoa. That
treaty was made in 1878, and was signed
by Mr. Kvurts and the King. Its second
article gave to ths L'nited States the pri
vilege of entering and using the harbor
of I 'ago-1 'ago and a? so establishing there
a coal and uayal supply station, and its
fifth section provided that In case of
differences with other nations, the gov
ernment of the United States would 'em
ploy its good offices in adjusting such
diiTi reticis. This was the basis of the
right ot the United states to occupy and
hold, and to establish in the harbor' of
Pago-Fago, a station for coal and other
naval supplies.
ENrtl. AXI GERMANY TREATY.
Within a year or two afterwards some
what similar treaties had been made with
Germany and with Great Britain by
which those governments obtained likt
privil.iges in other portions of the island
so that each ot these three great commer
cial nations secured by treaties privileges
somewhat similar in character, but in
different localities, each securing a coal
ing station and harbor.
Senator Sherman went on to speak of a
further arrangement made afterwards
an I which was, he said, very im
portant. It had leen entered into be
tween Great Iiritian and the Governmect
of Samoa, (but the German and Ameri
can governments were also included in it)
by which the town and the district Apia
were constituted into a municipality and
were declared to le neutral territory,
where each of the three nations might
establish their storehouses, their work
shops and all other buildings necessary
for carrying on their traffic in the islands.
This territory of Apia was now known as
the capital of the Samoan islands, and
was set aside for commercial purposes,
the government of Samoa being piacti
tically excluded from it.
A TKIUMVIRATK GOVERNMENT.
The municipal board consisted of the
German, ; English and American consols.
This treaty or Agreement had not been
submitted to the senate, but . had ! been
signed by the English ' consul and the
captain fof the American ship of war,
Lackawanna. It bad been acted upon
by all throe nations. Senator Sherman
aext referred to the treaty of the 6th of
April, 1888, between Germany and Great
Britain, by which a sort of delegation
was established for the jurisdiction ot
each government in the Polynesian group,
with a disclaimer that this partition
should apply to the Samoan instances,
That was the legal status today for no
other arrangement or agreement had ever
been made in a formal way that affected
in any degree, the rights of the seyeral
parties. Fie did not intend to go into a
detailed history of events in Samoa
MALIETOA AND GERMANY.
Senator Sherman said that there was
not the slightest doubt in regard to the
right of the United States to the harber
of Pago-Pago. " Ha spoke of ' the treaty
made with Malietba by the German con
sul Nov. 10, 1884, shortly after the king's
pitiable proposal to Queen yictoria, and
said that this treaty was first approved by
the German government, but afterwards
repudiated on the refusal of the American
and English governments to acquiesce In
it as it practically made Germany supreme
over the island and establish a German
council or board of control to rule and
govern them.
OBRHAXY'S PLOTTING,
Finally he brought the history of
events to the conference in Washington
between Mr. Bayard and the British and
German ministers and the sending by
each of them to an aeent in the islands
to obtain further infomation. He said
that it was manifest that the rebellion of
Tammaaese had been organized by the
German consul named Weber, who was
at the head of a large commercial house.
He mentioned the arrival of a German
fleet at the islands some time in May.
1886, and of an insulting letter from the
vice admiral to Malietoa, in which he
tddressed him not as king, but as head
chief. ' .': '"' '
TTNDaa TB AMERICAN.
It was after these insults to the king,
that the United States Consal Greenbaum
finally raised the United States flag at the
request of Malietoa. over the public
building in Apia. . For a time, he said,
the practical effect of that act, unauthor
ized as it was, had been to check ths acts
of the local Gerratn authorities. After
the German fleet had. sailed away, the
German and American consuls had again
joined in a declaration that Tamasese
never had been recognized by either of
them -as king, and that Malietoa was king.
This act had been wholly without auth
ority and Mr. Greenbaum's part in it
had, very properly, been disavowed by
United States. He had no more right to
assert a protectorate there than the Ger
man or English consul had.
Murder at Auburn-
AUBURN, Neb., Jan. 30. James M.
Williams was shot and killed by Ben
Skillman at 6:30 last night Skiliman is
the youngest brother of Rebecca Skillman,
who, it will be . remembered, charged
Williams and Dr. Fernland, in the Oma
ha courts, with abortion, the trial of the
former to be called in February. Wil-
iams was awaited in the shadow of the
Commercial hotel and received the first
bullet from a 33-calibre revolver, in the
eft hip. The victim clinched with his
assailant, but was overpowered and re
ceived a second shot in the base of -the
brain. Skillman is still at large, but the
father, mother and two sisters are in care
of the sheriff. Considerable excitement
prevails, and a reward of $250 is offered
for the apprehension Of the criminal. By
request of friends of deceased the coroner
has deferred holding an Inquest until to
morrow. The sister of the dead man is
almost crazy with grief.
Frenen Affairs.
Pari?, Jan. 59. It is stated that Flo-
quet, prime minister," will introduce in
the chamber of deputies' today a bill to
reestablish the scutin d'arrondissement
system of voting. The Boulanguist press
has decided to remain passive and profit
by any mistake that may be made by the
government. The downfall of Floquet
government is expected when it demands
urgency for the scrutin d'arrndissment
bill, as the Boulangista and probably the
opportunists and radicals will refuse to
agree to it , ' The Boulangists declare
that should the government blunder,
Boulanger will be possessor of the exe
cutive power within a month.
4000 MEN QUIT WORK
Yesterday Morning Opened With Another
Big Eastern Labor Agitation.
STREET-CAR DRIVERS' STRIKE
New York City and Brooklyn Have
a Tle-Up-Mo Cars run But
Little Disturbance.
Only Two Lines Operate
New Yore, Jan. 29. With two excep
tions, every line of street cars in the city
is tied up. When the last night trip was
made each car was run into the stables
and at 4. a. m. the great strike commenced.
The only lines running are the Third ave,
Bleeker st, Twenty-third st, Four
teenth st, and Christopher st. The total
number of men affected by the strike
abont 4,000.
is
Peter M. Toniery, an Italian, who
applied for work last night, was probably
fatally beaten and stabbed by the strikers,
and this morning in a row at the Grand
st stables the strikers overturned a car.
The Grand st cross town Hue was tied
up when the last car came in. The com
pany started a car out shortly after 6
o'clock surrounded by police and a mob
of strikers. For a few blocks the car
moved as fast as police could clear the
track of obstructions placed there by
the strikers. At Grand and Attorney sts
a heavy furniture wagon was encountered
and when the car stopped the crowd sur
rounded it, unhitched the horses, and
drove them off. Despite the police the
mob lifted the car bodily and threw it
across the tracks. The police, after some
hard fighting dispersed the crowd and
captured a ring leader, who was taken
to court and fined. The car was righted
and returned to the barns.
Another effort was made to run cars
during the day. The scenes at the other
stables were somewat similar.
About 10 o'clock a car sent out on the
Sixth aye road with eight officers
board. When the car got as far as Forty-
second st it was attacked by about 200
strikers. A platoon of seventy police
charged the strikers, arresting one.
At 1 :30 this afternoon the ticket office
or transfer house at Forty-second st and
Seventh ave was carried bodily across the
street and set fire to. The police charged
the crowd and made one arrest.
At 2 p. m. no cars were running
on
lower broad way.
The Brooklyn tftrlxe.
Brooklyn, N. Y Jan 29. No disturb
ance occurred today in connection with
the street car strike. No attempt was
made to run cars on the Richardson
lines. The obstructions were voluntarily
removed by the strikers. The police are
on duty guarding the company's property,
but were not needed.
' ALL QUIKT TONIGHT.
Up to midnight there had been no dis
turbances of any kind in connection with
street car tie up in either olty. A wagon
containing non-union Brookly men was
stoned, but no serious damage done. The
death of Adams, the Broeklyn stableman,
was found by the coronor's jury to have
been accidental.
War Eminent.
Londok, Jan. 30. Edward Stanhope,
secretary of war, addressed a meeting of
his constituents in Horn Castle division
of Lincolnshire last evening. In the
course of his remarks Stanhope said
thunder cloud was hanging over Europe,
and that sooner or later, probably sooner,
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it would burst, bringing the fiercest and
most horrible war ever known. ' The Pall
Mall Gazette, commenting upon the
speech, denounces the folly of such ut-
terances, and says tbey aro calculated to
do mucn miscaier. me paper expresses
a m ma
the hope that Lord Salisbury will take
prompt measures to correct the damage
done by the blunder of the minister of
war.
WHAT ON EARTH
Is the reason people will not, can not, or
do not see any difference in cheap nos
trums put up by Cheap John houses or
irresponsible parties at enormous profits,
rather than take a medicine of world
wide reputation ana one mat u giving
universal satisfaction at equal price? No
medicine in the world is giving such un
paralleled satisfaction for purifying the
blood as BEGO'S BLOOD PURIFIER &
BLOOD MAKER, and every bottle that
does not do its work will cost you noth
ing, ror sale by u. r. Smith & (Jo.,
druggists.
Plenty of feed, flour.
graham and
meal at Heisel's mill, tf
Mat I fia to witir canaumAra.
Ali bills aside from the lawn service
were due Jan. 1st These bills must be
paid by Feb. lstat our office in Henry
Boeck's store.
Thb PiAttsmotjth Water Co.
Belated t Um WkU Craw.
bne was a large, muscular woman
with strong features that indicated
plainly her prominence in the domestic
circle, and he as a Little, thin, weak
eyed, meek raced man who only came
V her shoulders. They sat side by side
In a street car, totally oblivious of each
other, as long married folks often are.
They attracted the attention of two
sinait young men directly opposite
them.
"How funny they must have looked
as they stood up to be married, said
one. "lie must have looked like a
lamb led to the slaughter." "Oh." said
the other, "he was probably as large
she was in those days. Don t you know
a henpecked man actually grown smaller
under continued hectoring?'" Just then
the little man took his market basket
from under the seat and left the car
alone. She had overheard them, and in
anything but dulcet tones she hissed:
"Do you thinjc I own any more of these
people 'cause I happen to be on tho same
seat You thought he was my husband
'cause he aat next me; d'ye think the
rest of 'em are my relations too? Mebbe
you re my second cousins cause you le
in the same car?" She was wound up
for several blocks further, but the loqua
cious Individuals leu the car without
waiting to investigate any relationship.
Chicago Journal.
Wbu Owns the Photograph?
Justice North's decision in a London
court that private photographs are pri
vate property u a reassertion, or rather
a natural application, oi a principle
which should be familiar. Unscrupulous
photographers have claimed the right to
sell and exhibit photographs of their
customers against their will, and there
have been legal opinions continuing this
extraordinary view, ihus it has been
held that the employment and payment
of a photographer to reproduce the feat
ures of a private person, for the latter s
private
a ri
lication
Justice North, however, declares the
photographer wholly in the wrong, and
aptly says that while the negative be
longs to the photographer the copyright
is vested in the iierson photographed.
This eminently sensible decision should
check a practice common abroad, r or
tunately, this evil has been less prevalent
here, although it exists, and American
courts, we believe, liave decided that the
photographer has no rurht to make mer
chandise of the likenesses of private cus
tomers. rrank Leslie s Newspaper.
HU Ftrst Seruiou.
A bright young friend of mine who is
working his wav through tho Bates
Theological school, and who will some
day be a worthy, and, as I believe, a
successful worker in the Christian
ministry, relates his first experience in
"supplying": "I was pretty hard up.
and that means considerable to me, for
l have never had any troublesome 'sur
plus uuring my course, it looked as H
I would have to drop out a while and
earn something before 1 could KO Oil.
and I had about concluded to canvass
for a book when I got my first chance to
supply. You may be sure I accepted it
thankfully, lor to my mind it promised
needed financial aid. lhe church was
some miles out of the city, but I didn't
mind that. The next Sunday I hired a
livery team and drove out there and de
livered my best sermon, and after taking
dinner with one qi he good deaoona.
started for home with the contents of
the contribution box, which amounted
to $1.50. My bill at the livery stable
amounted to $2.25, so that I was just 75
cents out of pocket by my first appear
ance in the pulpit. Augusta (Me.)
Journal.
Tho Slaughter f )k,yhr Pui.
One of the most terrible, as It is also
one of the most thrilling, tales that his
tory has to tell is recalled by the an
nouncement in the Scottish papers of
Miss Edith Brydon'a marriage In Inver
ness cathedral. This lady's father was
the famous Dr. Brydon, of the Afghan
massacre of January, 1842 the one
survivor who, wounded and faint and
weary, after a most perilous ride, reached
Jellalabod to tell Gen. Sole the piteous
story of what had taken place in the
Khyber Pass. They were 16,000 or,
counting women and children, 26,000
who set out from Cabal on that ill
starred journey, and he was the only
one who had escaped. Between the
dark crags of Jugduliak the murqerouj
Afglians had their fill pf blood. The
death trap ran with the gore of soldiers.
camp followers, women and . children
alike. Dr. Brydon alone escaped. New
York Telegram.
Itoaton's Principal Street
Au Omaha man recently arrived in
Boston at the Boston and Albany station.
The streets pf his native city aroiaid out
with regularity, it is well to state, and
are of a width commensurate with west
ern lavishness. The man from Omaha
entered a hack and asked to be driven to
one of tho leading down town hotels.
The driver proceeded, as had been Ids
wont for years, and had nearly reached
his destination when these words from
he carriage window greeted him with
considerable force and abruptness: "Look
here, driver; l m tired or being driven
through all these alleys. You've done
nothing but go through them ever .since
we started. Now, get right on to one of
the boulevards so we can get ahead."
The driver had enough self possession to
Ctammer in reply: "Why, sir, this is
Washington street, our principal street.
Boston Times.
sir James Scarlett, when practicing ai
the bar. one day had to examine a wit
ness whose evidence promined to be dam
aging unless be could be previously con
fused. The only vulnerable point of the
man waa said to be hia self esteem. The
witness, a portly, overdressed person,
went into tho box and Scarlett took him
in hand. "Mr. Jolin Tompkins, I be
liever "xes. "You are a stock bro
ker? "I ham. Scarlett regarded him
attentively for a few moments, and then
Eaid. "And a verv fine, well dressed ham
a Jbw . a 1 1 4.
you are, air. luo .snout or iaugm?r
which fouowea compieieiy aisconceixeq
Mr. Tompkins, and the lawyers point
purposes, gave the photographer
'tit to use the negative for the pub-
of photographs for public sale.
ri: M(u)0L xi r taXiclco AreonaHit;'.
TheiDe-?ricBlothier
THE ORIGINATOR OF LOW PRICES,
POSITIVELY GUARANTEES
That every Garment 6old by him is lower in Prieo than the
Same quality and make can be bought elsewhere in the city.
with your purchase Jon will take
will cheerfully refund the money
reputation he has earned and
It Makes Rio Difference
how Iowa price other clothidrs may
tuey may offer for your patronage,
will always be lower and his inducement more liberal.
No Dot, No Dash. No Short Hand
Crytogramic, Private Cypher Business with JOE, but
Plain Figures and
On
Prices are
Lowest
Best
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OO TO HENRY BOECK'S
FURNITURE
Parlor, Dining Room and Kitchen
FUE&EriTUI&IS
HE OWNS HIS
PAYS TsTO RENT
And therefore can sell
Money than any other
HE ALSO HAS A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF
U&ST'AKtve 00033$,
HEARSE FURNISHED
HENRY
C0R. MAIN AND
Lumber Yard.
THE OLD RELIABLE.
H. 1 WATERMAN & SON
Wholesale and Ketall Dealer 1b
PINE LUMBER !
Shingles, Lath, Sash,
Doors, Blinds.
Can supply every demand of the trade
Call and get terms. Fourth street
In Rear of Opera House.
K. DRESSLER,
The 5tht.M3rclniitTiibr
Keeps a Full Line of
Foreign & Domestic Goods.
Ooumlt YUf Interest by Giving' Biin a C'al
SHERWOOD BLOCK!
FIED
it back again within thirty days and
you paid for it. Joe is proud of hia
ask, r what extra Inducements
Price Only I
always the
EMPORIUM!
OWN BUILDINO,
you goods for lcfs
dealer in the city.
FOR ALL FUNERALS.
BOECK.
SIXTH STREETS.
C. F.SMiTH,
The Boss Tailor
Malii St.. Over Merges' Shoe Store.
Has the best and most complete stock
of samples, both foreign and domestic
woolens that ever came west of Missouri
river. Note these prices: Business suits
from fltf to $35, dress suits, $25 to $45,
pants $4, $5, $6, $6.50 and upwards
Will guaranteed a fit.
Prices Defy Comoetilion.
J. H. EMMONS, M. D.
HOMfKOPATHIC
Physician I Surgeon
Office over Wecott. store. Maia tree.
Residence In Dr. Hchlldknechi property.
'hronic Dineas and P'senea ot Wtnen m
Children a specialty. O Hce hoar, 9 to 11 a. n.
2 to and 7 to 9 p. in.
tayTeleplioae at both O.Uce and Residence
B.A M.
QfriXO win.
No. . 5 :lo a. m.
Nn,3-, -6 :40 p, m.
No. 5. :47 a. ra.
No 7.-7 :3 p.m.
Time (Table.
UOINU It AST.
No.l. I p. n.
No. 4. 10 mt.
N. a 1 :13 p. m.
No. 10. a. tm.
NO.S --6 :J7 p. HI.
No. U ;27 a. at.
VI train. rui daily by war of 'Hnaba. except
No 7 and 8 whioh run to aud from Schuyler
daily except Sunday.
No. a is aatubtoPaeiSe J a net km at 30a. in
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