NEW : ADVERTISEMENTS DAOKCU'S Hair w "Tl-i..:, filinc , J JUST AS OF OLD We are selling the best footwear on earth for the least profit. We said THE BEST... t w. H. RHOADES, CONT R ACTO R and BUILDER... Twenty-two years' experience as a Carpenter and RnilHer in Omaha and other cities has prepared him to do all kinds oi carpenter work in the neatest and most substantial manner, satisfac tion guaranteed. Call on or address at I'latts mouth. Neb. Telephone 11. IT PAYS To Look Around ' Before you make purchases. After you have looked elsewhere, come to us and we guarantee you will be pleased. Our new spring stock has arrived, including Dry Goods, Staple and Fancy Gro ceries, Crockery, Glassware, Flour and Feed. A square deal to all. F. S. WHITE, Main Street. Plattsmouth first- NATIONAL BANK OF PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. PAID UP CAPITAL, - $50,000 Offers the very best facilities tor the prompt transaction of Legitimate Banking Business. TOOKS, bond9, gold, irovernment and local securities oought and sold. Deposits re ceived and Interest allowed on the certfl- cates. Drafts drawn, avauaoie in any part of the D. S. and all the principle towns of Europe. Collections made and promptly remitted. Highest market prioe paid for county warrants, state and county bonds. DIRECTORS: H. N. Dovey, . D. Hawksworth. S. Waush. F. E. White. G. E. Dovey. Geo. E. Dovey. Pres., S. Waugh. Cashier. H. N. Dovev. Asst. Cashier ALWAYS USE COCOA PURE! HEALTHFUL!! i 4 WHTEBREAST s COAL YARD i 4 t 4 LINCOLN AYE. AND MARBLE 8TS., H. M. S0ENN1CHSEN, Manager. 0 i t A ? 4 t Large Supply of all the BEST GRADES HARD COAL SOFT including the Famous Missouri, Illinois, Jackson Hill -and Canon City Lump, Always on hand Also a quantity of cheaper Grades of NUT COAL. We also keep on hand all kinds of Wood. -All or ders promptly delivered. Leave orders at grocery store of A. H. Weckbach & Co. 4 f 4 4 4 THE' PERKINS HOUSE. F. R. GUTHMANN, Prop. tales SI and $1.50 tier Dau . " Centrally Located and Com f ortably Furnished." . - PLATTSMOUTH, NEB f THE J I BEST... '- r ? ) J & J A LEADER. j J Joseph Fetzcr, i North Side Main Street. 4 The Semi-Weekly News-Herald PUBLISHED ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS BY THE NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY, I. E. MARSHALL. Business Manager. DAILY EDITION. One Year, iu advance, t5 on Six Months : 'l f0 One Week, 10 Single Copies, 5 SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION. One Year, in advance, .... tl 00 Six Months 50 T.?.E LARGEST CIRCULATION Of any Cass County Paper. FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1S99. D. O. Dwyeii is said to be a candi date for county judge on the demo cratic ticket. Isn't this proof that the office 6eeks the man? Anything Colonel Frttl Funston wants upon bis return frcua the army will be "his'n" for the asking. It may be the United States senalorship. A HATHEit invidious comparison the two Nebraska colonels. One, by the way, hna been promoted to be a Origadier-general. The other is also very busy. Mike Harrington of O'Neill is one of the leading populists of the state and his opinion ought to bo worth some thing. He says that fusionisra will come to an end in 1900. The Nebraska Telephone company must have been joking when it asked permission of the city council to set Hew poles on Main street. The com pany was denied the privilege. but the noes were set iust tne same EVEN the New York World has ceased harping at the republican pel- icy for the moment, to call attention to the remarkable achievements in the export of manufactures which are be ing made under the Dingley tariff law. Whether the issues next year will be silver or trusts, the one overtower- ing fact remains that the republican party has redeemed its pledges to the people, made in the last campaign. Confidence was restored and prosperity to the country has returned. Congressman Mossback Dockery of Missouri, declares that the controll ing declaration of the liMH) democratic convention will be free silver at 1G to 1 and that "the democratic pai ty will take no step backward on this ques tion." Has anyone suggested going back to 10 to 1? AT Til e time 01 tne Louisiana "ex pansion" $lo,000,lH)0 was raised to buy from Napoleon a number of future states each as large as Missouri. Now the residents of one city in Missouri contribute $3,5000,000 to celebrate that purchase and the city itself will vote another $5,000,000. The members of the Third regiment have been mustered out o the service of Uncle Sara and will again take up the work of every day life. Although they have not had occa sion to do any iightuicr they have proved that they are soldiers in every sense that the word imp'ies. When Mr. Bryan passed aboard the Ualeigb, Captain Coghlan failed to recognize him. The ex-candidate, however, held out his hand and intro duced himself "I am William Jen nings Bryan." Captain (Joghlan shook his hand warmly and responded gra ciously. "Oh, yes; I have heard of you." The democratic party is now pro- paring to make an issue oi trusts. Trusts, they are about to proclaim, are the direct result of republican protection and thej' are strangling the country with an iron clutch fully as savagely as we were told, during tho last campaign, the gold devil was doing. The customs receipts of the country for April were $17,645,945, an increase of $5,450,003 over April, 18!)S. The total receipts of the government for the government for the past ten months were $24;056.014, as compared with $340,920,950 for the same period of the year previous, an increase of $S4,000,000. TnERE is a great scramble on now between the east and the west to de termine which way Admiral Dewey will return to the United States. This will probably not cut much figure with the admiral as he will return which ever way he bees fit. However, I as long as the people do not Hobsonize him he should not kick. Farmers will be Interested to know that during the operation of the Wil son tariff law the wool imports plus the American wool productions were 55 per cent greater than the domestic consumption, while since the passage of the Dingley tariff act the wool consumption has been 43 per cent greater than the imports and the do mestic production. Main street in this city presents the appearance of a pine forest that has been ravished by fire, 60 thick are the telephone poles. They not only look badly, but the dozens of wires which are strung on them would be a great menace iu case of a fire. The city council should pass an ordinance compelling the telephone company to remove them to the alley and it should be done quickly. With thi9 improve ment and the establishment of the 1 haymarket proposed at Monday l6City wuld The more moderate of the anti-anex-ationist9 are denouncing Atkinson for his seditious pamphlets and utterances. Moreover, hi9 documents will not be permitted into the Philippine?, says the Globe-Democ-at. Atkinson has rolled up a record in the past few weeks which will troutVe him as long as he lives. The copperhead leaders of the old days suffered for their disloy alty to the end of their lives. None of them could ever be elected to any office afterward. Vallandigham, an abler and more infiuntial man than any of the present Knights of -the Gol den Circle, was killed politically by his course in I8GI-60. His defeat bv Brough by a majority of over 100,000 in the governorship canvass of 1SG3 in Ohio would have been repeated half a dozen years later if he had been a candidate, though he had done some thing in the intorval to partially atone for some of his politic il iniquities in the war days. The Bryans, Laughlins, Atkinsons, and the rest of the Filipino doughfaces will have Vallandigham's fate. In Mexico when a man is condemned to death he is executed by being shot by a file of soldiers, and the body is left where it falls, to be taken away by the man's friends if he has any Not long ago a worthless fellow was thus execu ted and left in the open country out side a small village. But after the offi cer in charge had inspected him, pro nounced him dead and the soldiers had left, the man got up.walued to the City of Mexico,3o miles distant, and entered a hospital. He had a wound in his shoulder and two more in his skull, but soon recovered. The authorities now wanted to shoot him again. but the gov ernor of the province decided that the roan was legally dead, '.he lieutenant having said so, and the Mexican was released. The people who were r.oislerouslr proclaiminu, two years ago, that the adoption of protective duties would ruin our foreign trade, and were par ading the nsrertion of Editor Klett of Argentina that n duty on hides snd wool would lead that country to reject our products, are silent on that subject, since Argentina has purchased per cent more of our goods in the past nine months than in the nine months preceding the enactment of tho Ding ley law, while our sales to tho other twelve countries which protested against the enactment of that measure have ali-o enormously increased and are etill growing, notwithstanding the fact th;it our purchases from them are decreasing. D L'N.S Commercial lie vie w con ti n ucs to show a, remarkable state of busi ness activity and pro.-perity, with business clearings 70.5 per cent larger for last week than in the cor responding period of lS'JS and 72 per oent larger than in tho corresponding week of 1S5I2. The general average of gin for four weeks has been 7S.4 per cent larger than in tho banner year of 18l2. Failures for tho week were only 1S4 Rgainst 2G2 last year. INFORMATION AND OPINION. It has been demonstrate! that mar riage is euch a serious m titer that the Wisconsin legislature has provided a margin of five days aftr ihe license has been issued in which the contract ing parties c in think it over. . The d:um major in Servian regi ments never crriesthe drum. It is placed on a two wheeled cart, which is drawn by a big dotr just in advance of the d; un mor. r .. Many, even poor, Chinese, says the Celestial Empire, spend from 20 to 25 per cent of their income in idol wor ship, which practically eats away their capital. It is considered a heinous offense to ride a bicycle anywhere near the city of Constantinople. A German doctor finds that only in one case out of fifteen are both eyes in eood condition. The piy of a Ilussian army officer is said to bo very sm:ill. A general erets from $1,500 to $2,000 a year in English money, according to the length of the service. The people of the United States con sume about 4,000,000 bottles of pickles every week. A literary etatistican declares that for the year 1S9S eight novels a day were published, Sundays and holidays n it excluded. Persona suffering from carbolic acid poisoning may be revived with proper treatment. A case is cited of a sixteen-year-old boy, who swallowed nearly two ounces of carbolic acid. He was in a limp and comatose state, unable to move a muscle; in fact, the pulse was imperceptible. A pint of cream was poured into the stomach, which was kneaded so as to mix thoroughly the cream aud the carbolic acid. Dry heat was applied to the leers and arms. which were rubbed so as to stimulate J blood circulation. Consciousness re turned after three hours. Cream and unskimmed milk were administered between short intervals for several hours. Inside of two days the patient had fully recovered. The anuual lo:S by tire in the United States is about $1,500,000,000 on insured properly. It is estimated that at the present rate of growth London, which now has a pupulation of 5,057,000, will, in 1941, havo over 13,000,000 TELEPHONE POLES 0(1 Ml STREET. Nebraska Telephone Company Sus tained By an Old Ordinance. City Attorney IteeHOii Finds An Ordi nance 1'aHsed Ity the Council Some Time Ago Which Orauts the brk t'umpitny the Privilege of Using the KiiHiueHft Streets. From Wednesday's Dally. There was much excitement on up per Main street this morning caused by the Nebraska Telephone company's workmen proceeding with the work of setting new poles for their lines after the action of tho council at Monday evening's meeting, a motion having carried to the effect that such proce dure would not be allowed. However, it appears that Manager CJroves of the local office and a repre sentative of the company from Omaha on yesterday secured the names of seven of the councilmen and the mayor to a petition granting them the privi lege to set the poles. This morning, when the men went to work. Manager T. H. PoIIock of the Plattsmouth Telephone company and Messrs. James Herold and John Salt ier of the city council 9et out to stop them Marshal Slater was instructed to serve notice on them to cease work, which they did for a short lime, but the foreman of the work demanded to know the authority upon which he m:.d: tho request. Slater referred them to City Attorney Beeson, who. in the meantime had gone to look up the m itler. lie appeared shortly af terward and toM the marshal that he had f und an ordinance, which was passed 1 i.-t September, granting tha company the privilege of setting posts on the streets and that under the cir cumstances they were rowerles3. The work has been going on all day and a number of new poles havo been set. THE WATSON DISBARMENT CASE I'rnrepilini: to lie Heard In District Court at Once. There was a decidedly interesting session of district court this morning. the c ise on trial beinjr the disbarment proceedings against John C. Watson When the court dontieJ tho "judicial ermine" and took his Stiat, E. F. War ron, as attorney for the men who pre- firred the charges, asked permission to tile amended charges which were signed by .J. Sterling Morton and S ill. Morrison. The first charges, which vere signed by a d zen or more men. onsis'.ed of seven in number, and the ew charges added one more, making ight. This charge was that Watson's stimony in the case of Billings'ey vs lav-ke had been impeached at Lin In, several testifying that they ould not believe him under oath. attGeiicg responded to Mr. War n's speech and denied the right of e plaintiffs to bring iu a new charge the eleventh hour. He said Mr atson hid waived all summons, etc.. d demanded an immediate hearing r. Sloan also took occasion to make a few remarks, as did also Mr. Morgan and in fact for more than two hours an oratorical battle raered. The amended charges were sworn to March 21, 1899 Judge iirasey finally decided that the issues had been joined on the orig inal ciiarges, and that it was too late to now amend them. Warren then raised the question of jurisdiction which was so thoroughly discussed at the first meeting of tho committee, and again Watson's attornej-s said they waived every icchnicality and Garing pleaded for an immediate hearing. Hon. I). T. Ilayden, who is chair man of the committee, asked to be ex cused from serving, as he would be out of the city during the summer. The court refused to grant his request and he will ba compelled to serve, The question of hiring a stonosrrapher was also discu-sed and the court em powered them to hire one. As to the time of beginning to take tostimony that was left to the attor neys to agree upon, they to report to the court this afternoon, and if they fail the court will issue an order fixiDg the time. The battle is now on. The committee who will hear the charges is composed of Hon. D. T. Hayden, Paul Jessen, S. J. Stevenson, D. O. Dyer and J. L. Root. Nebraska City News. Ballard's Snow Liniment cures rheu matism, neuralgia, headache, sick headache, sore throat, cuts, sprains, bruises, old sores, corns, and all pain and inflammation. The most penetrat ing liniment in the world. Price 25 and 50 cts. F. G. Fricko & Co. Helen's Grief. "What was Helen crying about, Pol ly?" asked Tolly's mamma, ac the little one came In from the playground. "She dug a great big hole In the garden and her mamma wouldn't let her take it into the house with her," said Polly. The Rival. If you have piles, cure them. No use l I undergoing horrible operations that ' chants gather, Is very unique. It is simply remove the resultr of the dis- j composed of Inlaid woods, arranged in ease without disturbing the disease it- the form of a mariner's compass, with self. Place vour confidence in De- n a border of Greek fret. Upward of A AAA ?AsiAd r9 arssY o a aiMnlAtrarl a ! Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. It has never failed to cure others; it will not ! fail to cure you. F. G. Fricke & Co ROBT ..KeiKiii'ifig... THE WEEKLY CROP BULLfc in The Heavy Rains Have Retarded farm Work Bat Little. University ok Nebraska, Lin coln, May 9 The past week has been warm and wet, with an abundance oi sunshine in most of the eastern coun ties conditions exceedingly favorable for the growth of vegetation. In the western counties the conditions were less favorable; the first days of the week were cold, with high wind, and the rainfall for the -reek was consider able less than the normal. The average daily temperature ex cess has varied from about 7 degrees in the eastern part of the state to less than a degree in the western. The rainfall has been above norm d in most of the eastern and a portion of the southwestern counties and de cidedly below normal in the western nnrl north wester u counties. The rain fall exceeded three inches in several small areas in the northeastern part of the state. Rapid progress has been mae with farm work during the past week; even in the localities of heaviest rainfall work has been retarded but little. About one haif the corn is planted in southern counties, and planting is just commencing in the northern. Small grain has improved in condition in all parts of the state, although more rain would be beteficial in some localities where the showers of the past week were light. Cherry, plum and apple trees are in bloom, and the present indications are for a good crop. Southeastern Section. Butler. Rain has put spring grain in good condition; corn planting com menced; winter wheat practically a failure; pastures good. Cass. Wheat, oats and grass grow ing nicely; corn planting general; ground moist, in good condition for planting, but rather cold. Clay. Oats coming up; a good rain is need for all crops; corn planting under way; fruit trees in bloom Filmore. Windy, but work pro gressed rapidl'; much corn planted. G tge. Small grain growing nicely; corn almost half planted; soil in splen did condition; fruit trees in full bloom; grass very backward. Hamilton. Showers benefitted fall wheat and spring grain; some corn planted; grass very backward; heavy rain needed for all crops. Jefferson. Winter wheat being plowed up for corn; corn planting well advanced; early corn coming up; oats growing slowly. Johnson. Almost all winter wheat being plowed up and put in corn and oats; corn nearly half planted; oats do ing well. Lancaster. Oats and grass doing well; corn planting well advanced. Nemaha. Fine week for farm worn; majority of fall wheat ground being put into corn; apple trees in bloom. Nuckolls. Oats doing well; no im provement in winter wheat; corn balf planted; very windy week; apple, plum and cberry trees in bloom. Otoe. Corn planting b"gun; very ittle winter wheat is being left an that is a poor stand; spring wheat look ing well. Pawnee. Oats up; corn planting well along; wheat not doing weli; good week for small grain, but rather poor for corn. 1 oik Oats improving; some corn planted; apple, cherry and plum troes in bloom, prospects good for a full crop. R chardson. Good week for farm work; corn planting well along; good prospjets for all kinds of fruit, except peaches. Saline. Iluti needed for pastures; spring grain doing fairly well; ground in good condition to work. Saunders. Farmers busy planting corn; some corn planted; spring wheat and oats doing well; fruit trees in lull bloom. 6rlp's Ravages Doomed. So much misery and so many deaths have been caused by th Grip, that every one should know what a wonder ful remedy for this malady is found in Dr. King's New Discovery. That dis- tre sins stubborn cough, that in flames your throat, rots you of sleep. weakens your system and paves the way for Consumption is quickly stopped by this matchless cure. If you have chills and fever, pain in the back of the head, soreness in bones and muscles, sore throat and that cough that grips your throat like a vice, you need Dr. King's New Dis covery to cure your Grip, and prevent Pneumonia or Consumption. Price 50 cents and $1.00. Money back if not cured. A trial bottle free at Fricke & Co's. drug store. 3 Unique Floor. The floor of the rotunda In the Lon- don Coal Exchange, where the mer- - . u.r,. - most every British variety Is included In this scheme of decoration. When a Man's Single.. .. ..He thinks most about the s(yc'ot his shoes, ami in this respect we can please ; but when he has been mar ried a ear, he begins to ask about their durability. The advantage in buj'inp; SHERWOODS' selections is that you get both stj'le and durability combined, and they will fit your feet, head and pocket book. See Our Spring Leaders at $3 and $3.25. They are beauts We have others cheaper. See Our Hand-Pegged Working Shoes at $1.25 and $1.BO. SHERWOOD Brave Men Fall victim to stomach, liver and kidney troubles as well as women, and all feel the results in loss of appetite, poisons in the blood, backache, nervousness. headHche, and tired, listless, run-down feeling. But there's no need to feel like that. Listen to J. W. Gardner Idaville, Ind. He says: "Electric Bitters are just the thing for a man when he is all run down, and don't care whether he lives or dies. It did more to give me new strength and good appetite than anything I could take. I can now eat anything and have a new lease on life." Only 50 cents at F. G. Fricke & Co's. drug store. Every bottle guaranteed. 3 A Six-root Princes. The crown princess of Denmark is the tallest royal lady if not the tallest woman in Europe, her height being six feet two Inches. Her grandmother was Mile. Desiree Clary, the daughter of a stockbroker of Marseilles. This young woman Jilted Napoleon Bona parte, afterward emperor, in order to marry Bernadotte, who finally became king of Sweden and Norway. The crown prince of Denmark is the rich est as well as the tallest European princess, having Inherited $25,000,000 from her maternal grandfather. Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, in ad dition to the fortune left her by her father. tiive the Children a Orink called Gr-tin-O. It is a delicious, ap petizing, nourishing food drink to take the place of coffee. When properly prepared it tastes like the finest cof ree but is free from all its injurious properties. Grain-O aids digestion and strengthens the nerves. It is not a stimulant Lut. a health builder, nnd children, as well as aaults. can drink it with great benefit. Costs about one fourth as much as coffee. 15 nd 25c. at grocers. The Rate of Writing:. A rapid writer can write thirty words in one minute. To do this he must draw his pen through the space of a rod, 16 feet. In forty minutes his pen travels a furlong, and in five and a half hours a full mile. He makes on an average sixteen curves or turns of the pen for each word written. Writ ing at the rate of thirty words per minute he must make eight curves to each second; in an hour. 28,800; in five hours, 144,000, and in 300 days, work ing only five hours each day, he makes not less than 43,200,000 curves and turns of the pen. Nothing has ever been produced to equal or compare with Tabler's Buck eye Pile Ointment a a curative and healing application for piles, fissures. blind and bleeding, external or inter nal, and itching and bleeding of the rectum. The relief is immediate and cure infallible. Price 50 cts. in bottle. tubes 75 ct9. F. G. Fricke & Co. Don't Lose Any Time About It. If you expect to go west-this 6pring ask the nearest Burlington route agent about the specially reduced rates now in effect to Montana, Utah, California, Washington and Oregon points. Ask about them right away today. They may be withdrawn at any moment. Through tourist sleeping car service to San Francisco and Los Angeles every Thursday to Butte, Spokane and Seattle every Tuesday and Thurs day. ' J. Francis, G. T A. Omaha, Neb. If you suffer from tenderness or full ness on the right side, pains under shoulder-blade, constipation, bilious ness, sick-headache, and feel dull heavy and 6leepy your liver is torpid and congested. De Witt's Little Early Risers - will cure you promptly, pleas antly and permanently, by removing the congestion and causiog the bile ducts to open and flow naturally. Tnoy are good pills. F. G. Fricke & Co. A Chinese teacher in a private school receives about one cent a day 'o- every pupil in his class. A French chemist has invented a blue soap which renders unnecessary the use of bluing in laundry work. Work Night and Day. The busiest and mightiest little thing that ever was mhde is Dr. Kiug'6 New Life Pills. Every pill is a sugar-coated globule of health, that changes weakness into strength, list lessness into energy, brain-fag into mental power. They're wonderful in building up the health. Only 2-5 cents per box. Sold by F. G. Fricke & Co. 20 cts GIVEN AWAY Cut this out and take it to the druggist named below and you will receive a regular 25c size bottle of Dr. Sawyer's Ukatine for 5c. Uka tine positively cures all forms of Kidney difficulties. Dyspepsia, Con stipation, Head- BY a.cne Rheu matism, Puffing of the Eyes. Uka tine cures Pimples and Blotches, and makes sallow and yellow skin white. Do not delay, but lake ad vnntace of this ereat offer, as thou-.! sands bear evidence to the wonder-J ful curative powers of Ukatine. A. W. ATWOOD, ( Successor to Smith & Parmele. Drag-gist. & SON, Established 1876 School Supplies. 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Our stock la complete in all IIdhi and we Invite our friend to look It over We will endeavor to please you. Call nd ea us. STRE1GHT 0 STREIGHT, (Successors to Ub&ry Hoeok. ) PLATTSMOfTTH NKP JAMES W. SAGE. THE Leading Liveryman. The best of r gs furnished at all hour (and Ms prices are always reasonable. ThtmoM convenient boarding stable fur far mers In the cttr. PLATTSMOUTH NFB Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine. . z. e m s I t Rotary Motion and Ball Bearings. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Reading Woo ma and Dispensary, rew Building, riattsmonlli, NH, i ' y Open from 101a. m. to 5 p. m. and 7 to W p. 7 & cf- simplest!' SgidssA ) i 0