The Frontier.
PUDI.ISIIEU EVERY TltirnsilAT IIY
TUB KHONTIf.H PmWTISO CO. ■
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Trapper* in the etates of Washington
•nd Oregon report tnat the fur-bearing
animals are vory. numerous this win
ter, the bearer especially. Last week
• trapper near lllaine caught a bearer
that weighed nearly 100 pounds
The Chinese make what is called
"Chi-wa-hi," or grass oloth, from the
common nettle. It is said to make a
eplendid cloth for tents, awnings, etc.
When made into belting for machinery
it is said to have twice the strength of
leather.
The daily water supply of London
is 175,148,180 gallons, of which about
00,000,000 gallons are drawn from the
river Thames, and a little over 85,•
000,000 from the river Lea and from
various artesian wella The average
supply per capita is 80.03 gallons
Thomas Connolly, a woodsman of
Bell's Mills, Forest county, Pennsyl
vania, while splitting a chostnut tree
Into rails, found an ox shoe in the
trunk of the troe a foot from the sur
face. The shoe had evidently been
pounded into the tree when it was a
sapling.
The Pennsylvania railroad has de
cided to give all Christian ministers
half fare passes over its lines, and the
Philadelphia office of the company is
crowded with clergymen of all sorts,
from bishops to Salvation army cap
tains, and from orthodox pastors to
Utter day saints.
The Centralb'att der Bauwaltung
states that pipes of cement, in which
wire netting is imbedded, are now
being manufactured in Berlin. The
wire netting is said to greatly increase
the strength of the pipes against
bursting, so that they are well adapted
for water condulta
Turkish and Persian pipos, it is said,
•re difficult to manage. They require
the fragrant yellow tambake, that
must be soaked in water, wrung out
and put in the bowl with a live coal
on top. The pipe is now relegated to
Abe elders, for the younger generation
la western Asia smoke cigarettes.
The snake season haa opened up
promisingly in Georgia. A few days
•go a colored man there was chased
three miles by a coach whip snake, and
only escaped finally, so it is reported,
by doubling in his tracks so suddenly
that the snake, "in turning around to
fallow, did it so violently as to snap
Itself in two.”
The Salvation army is being boy
ootted in Finland. No mention of it
of any kind may appear in public
print So strictly is this law being
carried out that any montlon of the
•rmy, any advertisement bearing on
the movement is sufficient to cause an
entire issue of a newspaper to be can
celed.
Large families are very common
among the fdclory population of Lewis
town, Me. Henry MeCraw has raised
nineteen children, of whom thirteen
sue now living. The mother is a
healthy woman of 43. Noel Gaudette
has raised nineteen children, of whom
fourteen are living, the youngest 11
years of age and the eldest 33.
St Johns, New Foundland; Montreal
•nd Ottawa, Canada; Portland, Ore.;
Temeswar, Hungary; Trieste, Austria,
•nd Venice, Padua; Verona, Mantua,
Milan and Turin, Italy, are all situ
ated between 45 and 40 degrees of
north latitude. Who would think of
putting Montreal and Ottawa in the
same latitude as Ventce and Verona.
A Montana man has Invented a ranch
snow plow, to bo used in soraplng the
•now off the ranges so that the cattle
can get the grass. It is reported that
the machine works very satisfactorily.
Thousands of cattle perish every year,
rad the number this year has been
more than usually large from starva
tion, on account of the deep snows cut
ting off the food supply.
The remarkable instinct which
causes the mudfish to roll himself in a
ball of mud when the dry season ap
proaches is a wonderful provision of
nature, intended solely, it would seem,
to prevent the extinction of the species
The most interesting fact about the
fish is that it breathes by means of gills
when in its native element and by
means of lungs during its voluntary
imprisonment in the mud cocoon.
No fewer than 13,000,000 acres of
barren land have been made fruitful in
the Sahara desert, an enterprise rep
resenting perhaps the most remarkable
example of irrigation by means of
artesian wells which can be found
anywhere. Algeria owes to this
method of cultivation that it is becom
ing a most important wine producing
country, as may be guaged from the
(act that it sent to France in 1886
10,500,000 gallons.
A sewing machine has been invented
which stitches easily and rapidly
through layers of leather five-eighths
of an inch in thickness, this having
been accomplished on a first exhibitory
trial*, in a second trial, stitches were
made, evenly and rapidly through a
piece of bird’s eye maple three-eighths
of an inch thick, and, in a third test,
the still more remarkable feat was
achieved, viz.! that of sewing through a
layer of brass one-eighth of an inch
tfedek, placed between pieces of leather
IS IT NOT FREE TRADE?
David A. Willi' Letter to Mr* Hprlngrr
Allows the Heel Inwerdnesa or Terlfl
“Heform."
It any one has honestly had any
jloubts as to the true meaning of the
present tariff “reform" movement they
should he dispelled by Free Trader
David A. Wells' recent letter to Chair*
man Springer indorsing the piecemeal
plan of tariff destruction. No one
doubts that Mr. Wells is an out and out
free trader. The fact that he approves
Mr. Springer's method ought in itself to
arouse the suspicion of those who be
lieve that the proposed policy of the
jpresent ways and means committee is
one of free trade, liut the language in
whioh the approval is given reveals
more explicitly the desire of the demo
cratic majority for free tsade.
Mr. Wells points out that Sir fiobert
Peel, who was mainly instrumental in
getting Richard Cobden's idea enacted
into liritish law, thus foisting their
present free trade policy upon the En
glish people, began exactly as Chair
man Springer proposes to begin—name
ly, by introducing individual bills at
tacking separate items in the existing
tariff. That is the way the great En
glish statesman led the free trade forces
to viotory.* Mr. Springer is following
ills example. Peel’s watchword, “Di
vide and Conquer, ” has been adopted by
the dominant wing of the free trade
party in congress.
Many honestly deluded voters have
found fault with us for insisting all
along that the policy commonly called
tariff "reform” is a free trade policy
pure and simple. liecause the leaders
of the movement did not demand the
abolition of all tariffs they were not de
manding free trade, was the argument
used in refutation of our chargea We
pointed out that if Cobden himself were
alive and guiding the enemies of pro
tection in this country he would not
advise any other course than that which
the tariff "reformers" have been fol
lowing for the last five or six years.
Yet no one would doubt that Cobden
was a free-trader or that his aim was
free trade. So when wo saw the mod
ern tariff “reformers” taking the only
practicable road to free trade we called
them free traders and exposed their
hypocrisy. It was difficult to convince
many of the soundness of our position
in face of reiterated denials from an
army of partisan demagogues. But
when so radical a free-trader as David
A. Wells approves of the tariff “re
form” method on the ground that it is
exactly the method through which pro
tection was supplanted by free trade in
England, it must be a dull democrat
who does not distinguish the free
trader’s savage teeth and claws beneath
his “reform” lamb skin.
OUR BOOT AND SHOE INDUSTRY.
n by W* Sand Boots and Shoos to England
and Why W* Pay Batter Wages—Ma
chinery a Belp, Not a Blndrance.
The following special dispatch to the
free-trade Providence Journal from
London speaks for itself, and is a most
emphatlo refutation of the cry that ma
chinery injures labor:
The members -of the Royal Labor commission
expressed great surprise to-day at the evidence
given by Mr. Single, a boot and shoe manu
facturer of Leeds, on the subject of Imported
and domestic boots and shoes. Mr. Single
testified that the art of boot and shoe making In
America Is fifty years ahead of that In England,
oaring to the use of Improved machinery, which
cannot be taken advantage of by English manu
facturers on account of the determined opposi
tion of the trades unions to any innovations In
the line of labor-saving devices. American
mado boots and shoes, the witness declared, are
fully equal In quality, while being much cheaper,
as compared with those of English pro
duction. The Imports from America, al
ready large, are rapidly growing. The
prices are such ns to leave the American manu
fuclurer n good profit. Mr. Singlo naturally
thought that If the commission could do some
thing to convince the unions that It was to theli
Interest to admit improved machinery in the
factories, and thus prevent the trade going tc
America, It would be a good thing for every
body conoernod. The Duke of Devonshire, Rt.
Hon. A. J. Mundella, Rt. Hon. Leonard Court
ney and other eminent members of the commls
slon stared at the witness as If they considered
him out of his mind. Their questions clearly
indicated that what they had heard was a revel
atlon, and not a pleasant one, to them, and they
thought by a severe examination to shake the
testimony, but Mr. Single proved himself an ex
pert In his line of business, and came out of the
contest with flying colors.
Mulltall says the American boot-mak
ing machine enables one man to turn
out 800 pairs of boots daily, that one
factory near Boston makes as many
boots as 33,000 bootmakers in Paris,
and that in 1880 there were 3,100 of
these machines at work producing 150
million pair of boots yearly. The fig
ures for 1390 would, of course, largely
exeeed those above, yet we hear no
complaints from the Massachusetts
shoemaker. Why should he complain
when he earns from 315 to 830 per week,
while the English shoemaker who has
no machinery to work against earns
but 18.50 on the average? How it would
make the Englishman's mouth water
to visit such towns as Lynn, Brockton,
Haverhill, Abington and others and see
the way the American shoemaker lives.
If told to him he would hardly believe it
Ha Worked Voder Free Trade and Pro
tection.
R. G. Hood, an English-born mechan
ic living In Philadelphia, says: “In
England I worked as a mechanic in a
Shop of about twenty men. My wages
ranged as high as the highest, and being
of a frugal turn of mind I commenced
to save, and at the end of four years
hod accumulated the sum of eighty
pounds, or $400, which is considered
very good saving for a mechanic, even
one who has no one to keep or look af
ter but himself. For the benefit of
those of our citizens who say there is
nothing in protection for a working
man, and who offer him as a balm for
every sore a reduction of the tariff, or
what would ultimately lead to free
trade, I will make a confession which
will not in the least harm me, while it
may do some of our free trade friends a
great deal of good. To wit: that when
I came to this country and commenced
work as a mechanic, living in a similar
way to what 1 did in England, I found
that instead of saving at the rate cl
one hundred dollars per year, I could
save at the rate of $500 per year and
live just as well in every particular.
After I had paid my board and laid q
reasonable amount away to procure
clothing and sundry articles which
every young man requires, with a little
to spend, 1 had more Oft than lrtceivedj'gt
vay*j in England.''
NEW ENGLAND IRON WORKS.
llnre They Jleen Cloelnar ‘Op on Account
of the •■Destructive Kfleet" of Our Tar.
nr.
One of the latest bulletins issued by
the census bureau gives the results of
an exhaustive investigation into the
status of the New England iron indus
try by Dr. William M. Sweet of Phila
delphia. This report, while it does not
present a uniformly gratifying array
of facts, will effectually set at rest the
wails of the “reformers," who have
been claiming that the partial decad
ence of this New England industry is
due to the destructive influence of the
tariff. It seems that while the number
of establishments has decreased, both
invested capital and value. of products
have increased, as the following table
(which includes blast furnace, iron and
steel rolling mills, Bessemer, open
hearth and crucible steel works, and
forges and bloomarles) shows:
Iron and Steel Worke. 1880. 1890,
No. of establishments. 01 80
Total capital Invested.111,000,408 013,410,480
Av. No. hands employed... 8,654 0,015
Total wages paid. 13.357,911 (3,334,318
Total cost of materials.... 9,518,570 9,386,050
Total value of products_ 14,558,037 15,105,441
That such an increase in invested
capital should be accompanied by a de
crease in the number of establishments
would be quite unexplainable were it not
a fact that this decrease was only appar
ent and not real, the discrepancy being
due to the different inodes of collecting
the statistics for the two periods. “In
1880,” says Dr. Sweet, “where a rolling
mill was operated in connection with a
steel plant the works were tabulated as
two establishments. In 1890, owing to
the growth of the manufacture of steel
and the consequent impossibilily of
making any accurate division between
the iron and steel establishments, works
consisting of a rolling mill and a steel
plant have been considered as one es
tablshment.” The statistics relating to
the number of workingmen employed
also require a few words in explana
tion. The figures for 1880 include not
only the labor directly employed at the
New England furnaces (which should
be the real basis of comparison}, but
also the labor engaged in mining and
other operations conducted in connec
tion with these works. In the statistics
for 1890, on the other hand, ail data re
lating to labor engaged in ore mining,
charcoal burning and other indus
tries * dependent on the manufac
ture of pig iron, but not directly con
nected with it, have been omitted.
The figures for these two periods, so
far as they relate to the number of
workingmen employed, can not, there
fore, be compared. On the other hand,
when we consider the averagotwages
paid to the individual, we find a gratify
ing increase. In 1880 the average wages
were 8388 per year; in 1890 they were
8485 per year, an increase of 35 per cent
The cost of the product, too, has been
steadily declining, while the quality
has not been lowered. In 1880 the num
ber of tons of pig iron produced by the
blast furnaces of New England was
30,957, valued at 81,043,896; in 1890 it
was 34,335, valued at $880,438. In other
words, the price has fallen over 33 per
cent since 1880.
There is nothing in these statistics
that will give the calamityite any reason
for rejoicing. While it is true that
there has been some decline, this has
been not nearly so great as was be
lieved, and it has been due not to the
tariff, but to peculiar circumstances,
chief of which was the enormous growth
of the industry in other and more fa
vored parts of the country, which, says
Dr. Sweet, “has gradually narrowed
the market of most of the New England
iron mills to the limits of local demand. ”
Reciprocity Not IncomUtent With Fro.
tectlon.
Protection levies duties on articles
which we produce at home, in order to
preserve American industries and the
higher wages of American workingmen.
It also removes duties from all articles
which we do not ourselves produce, be
cause the duty on them is an unneces
sary and burdensome tax to the con
sumer.
Reciprocity removes the duties from
articles which we do not produce, and.
at the same time, gets concessions from
foreign countries by which they remove
pr lower their import duties on our
products exported to them.
There is nothing inconsistent between
the two. It is already a part of the
protective system to remove duties from
things which we do not produce. And
if in addition to doing this we also
open markets for ourselves in other
countries, do we not reap a two-fold
benefit?
From this it is evident that we can
only have reciprocity with those coun
tries that produce some article which
we do do not or eannot produce. For
example, a reciprocity treaty between
Great Britain (supposing she were not
a free trade country) and the United
titates would probably not be possible,
for these two countries are too much
alike in climatic and other condi
tions Hence the necessary restriction
of reciprocity to comparatively few
countries r,fr
Is there anything inconsistent be
tween the two systems? Far from it.
Protection guards the products of our
labor at home.
Reciprocity opens to the products of
oar labor a market abroad.
One is the handmaiden of the other.
Thk calamity party is still wailing
over the poor farmer, but this does not
sound so calamitous During the month
of October, 1891, the farm mortgages
filed in Nebraska amounted to $35,233;
mortgages canceled. $199,157; difference,
$103,934. During the month of Novem
ber, 1891, mortgages filed, $41,700; mort
gages canceled, $105,835; difference; $64,
095. During the month of December,
1891, mortgages filed, $30,719; mort
gages canceled, $138,237; difference.
$107,518, Total paid out during three
months to liquidate mortgage indebted
nesss, $335,547. The farmers are not
quite bankrupt yet .
Those who decry a duty on tin plate
for the purpose of establishing its man
ufacture in this country lose sight of
the fact that Great Britain’s industry
was established by the same means
From 1787 down to quite recent times a
high protective tariff was maintained
on tin plate entering a British port.
NEBRASKA,
The new Fremont brewery has begun
operations.
Papllllon will have a new aebool build
ing. It will coat $10,000.
William Hegglund dug up part of a hu
man skeleton near Oakland.
The Madison public library haa been
opeued with about S00 volumes.
About 800 new farms will be settled on
this spring In the vicinity of Hartington.
Fremont citizens will vote to bond the
city for $100,000 for a complete system of
sewerage.
O Rushville will have a $10,000 race track.
Several thousand dollars have already
been subscribed.
The corn cob pipe factory at Greenwood
may be moved to another place and York
is considering t
Frank Ejast accidentally shot Ed Har
ter at Norfolk with a 32-caliber revolver.
The patient will recover.
Michael C. Maloney has sold the Hart
icgton Herald to W. F. Sinclair, late of
tbe Bancroft Independent.
Some sixty or seventy farmers near
Columbus have expressed their intention
of raising tobacco this season.
Members of secret societies at May
wood met March 1 to consider the matter
of building a hall for their use.
Sheridan county has 114 school districts
and there are not over ten which have a
bond the debdanging over them.
The Otoe County Alliance, official organ
of the farmers’ and citizens’ alliance at
Dunbar, has removed to Nebraska City.
The big Niobrara artesian well flows
2,500 barrels per minute, and supplies
power sufficient to run a 100-barrel flour
mill.
It is likely that the electric power for
Beatrice street cars will be generated a*
Hoag and carried some six miles by cable.
The Columbus wind mill factory has
been sold to the Columbus State bank
which will secure a manager and put it in
operation.
The Central City high school building
eaught fire while school was in session
The janitor rang the bell, and a panic of
the pupils was narrowly averted.
The farmers of Holt county not having
taken bold of tbe matter the new chicory
company at O’Neill has rented 200 acres
of ground and will raise its own raw ma
terial.
Nebraska City people complain of the
poor telegraph service given by the West
ern Union company, and will endeavor tc
induce the Postal company to put in an
office.
Nine years ago James Griffin stole a
buffalo robe from a soldier at Fort Ran
dall. Last week he was arrested by a gov
ernment detective, produced the robe and
will be prosecuted.
A mass meeting of Omaha people was
held at Boyd’s opera house Sunday after
noon to arouse interest in the general con
ference of the Methodist church which
meets there in June.
me weeping Willow Republican an
nounces that a new company, consisting
partly of Lincoln men, has bought the
sewing machine factory, and it will be put
in operation in a few weeks.
Negotiations were consummated
whereby the city of Holdredge becomes
owner of the city water works, purchasing
the same of W. A. Paxton, of Omaha, com
sideration 940,030.
The annual shooting tournament of ths
Nebraska Sportsmen's association will be
held at Grand Island early in May and
will continue four days. This shoot is
open to the world. Over $1,000 will be
added to the purses and 10,000 pigeons
have been advertised for.
Holt county wants a change in its su
pervisor system. At present the board in
cludes thirty-one members, which is likely
to be increased if no change in the system
Is made. As the state senate has only
thirty-three members, the Sun thinks Holt
county could stand a reduction.
The postollice at David City has been
robbed the past month of several valuable
letters. Burt Andrews, a young lad, was
caught in the act. While waiting for the
United States marshal to arrive the lad
escaped. There is no cine to his where
abouts. a
John Blair, of Beatrice, while returning
home through the railway yards was run
over by a Burlington and Missouri pas
senger train and his body frightfully man
gled. Foul play Is suspected.
The final settlement of the affairs of the
Gretna State bank has been made. Pres
ident Key and the other stockholders whe
guaranteed the payment of all debts to get
possession from the receivers paid all de
posits in full with interest, amounting tc
about $14,000.
Engine No. 717, pulling train No. S3 on
the main line of the Union Pacific at Co
lumbus, collided with some cars being
switched in the yards. Engineer J. D.
Taylor and Fireman Doc Taylor had a
narrow escape from serious injury.
While a daughter of L. A. Davis, at
Strang was in an outbuilding one of her
brothers, not knowing of her presence,
fired a rifle ball into the building. The
ball took effect in her shoulder.
Charles Redfield, whose trial and con
viction for assault was secured at the dis
trict court at O'Neill last week, was sen
tenced by Judge Klnkaldto three years at
hard labor.
The sixth annual session of the North
Nebraska Teachers' association will be
held at Norfolk March 80 and 81, and
April 1. An interesting program has
been prepared.
A. B. Wood, of the Gering Courier, who
has been spending the winter in southern
California, returned to bis home last week.
He has furnished interesting letters to his
paper during his absence.
James Harrison, a brakeman on the B.
4 M , was seriously injured at Edgai
while trying to make a coupling. He was
knocked down and dragged under the car,
the break beam striking his back, bruis
ing him severely, breaking several ribs
and a bolt cutting a gash in the back o!
the right thigh six inches long and three
inches deep.
Mrs. Sbadrach Cole, of Plattsmouth
died Friday as the result of a fall, which
caused the rupture of a blood vessel.
The following is the mortgage indebted
ness record of Fillmore county for Febrn
ary; Real estate mortgages filed, seventy*
one, $34,295; released, 118, $72,783.66; city
mortgages filed, 116, $10,518; released,
eighteen, $5,953; chattel mortgages filed,
917, $<7,781.65; released, $36,805.35. Of the
above'real estate and city mortgages,
$30,'440 was for part purchase part of land.
As a rule not one-quarter of the chattel
mortgages are released.
GLADSTONE FULL OF LIFE
Returns to the House Refreshed by
Travel.
Balfour Will Need to Be a Little
More Alert Mow — The Minister
ial Ship Being Steered
Bather Wildly.
Loudon, March 7.—Gladstone’s re
tnrn to the house of commons has in
fused new life into the proceedings and
compelled Balfour to pull himself to
gether and be a little more alert In
the midst of the murderous east winds
the Grand Old Man came back as fresh
as a lark, delivered two speeches in
one day and went gaily to bed at mid
night The ancient gladiator could
not even go home at night after his re
turn from the continent until he had
first looked in upon parliament The
house is practically his home. Al
though wrapped up in it the Chertsey
election must have thrown a cloud
over his spirits, for it shows that in
middle-class life conservatism holds its
own. If maDy seats cannot be won at
the next election in London and the
home counties, Gladstone's return to
power is out of the question; hence the
Chertsey election was a damper.
How London will vote on the na
tional issue can partly be judged when
the elections for the new county coun
cil are over. The Gladstoneans (called
progressives) are making desperate at
tempts to retain the hold they won by
stratagem three years ago, but the
conservatives are on the war path, end
their candidates (known as moderates)
will be strongly supported. The de
feat of the progressives would indicate
the ascendancy of the conservatives in
the metropolis, seeing that it returns
over fifty members to parliament. This
is a matter of no stight Importance.
The ministerial ship is not in any
immediate danger, but it is being
steered rather wildly by a crew a little
out of hand. So many of them are
going to retire altogether at the close
of the present parliament that it is
most difficult to keep the requisite ma
jority night after night. Having no
further interest in public life they do
not see why they should be chained to
the galleys any longer. This is Bal
four's main difficulty.
The Gladstoneans, on the other
hand, full of hope always, are laying
Bleepers across the track to upset the
train. They rather hope Churchill
will help them win when the Irish
local government bill comes on; but
eccentric as he may be, he is unlikely
to run the risk of once more outraging
the opinions of the whole of his party.
Six years of wandering in the desert,
while his old colleagues were enjoying
high official salaries, must have taught
him something. In the coming camp
aign he will probably get right back
into the traces, and thus qualify him
‘ self to return to office should the Con
, servatives gain the day. If Gladstone
wins there will be two leaders oppos
ing Balfour aud Churchill. There can
be but little doubt which will score the
heaviest.
Army adminstration is to be brought
prominently forward during the week.
England has the costliest army in the
; world. Considering its size, practical
soldiers declare the most incfficent.
| The total estimated cost this year is
close to £18,000,000. of which at least
one-fourtli is wasted. There will be a
great attack upon the war minister
opening tonight. He will throw all the
blame upon the system. John Bull
will continue to pay heavy taxes for
, the army on paper, and should the day
of real necessity arrive no portion of
the expensive machinery would be
I found ready and effective for use.
Auction at Parnell's Home.
London, March 7.—There will be an
auction in a few days of Avondale,
County Wicklow, Parnell's late home.
The household effects, books and stock
will be put under the hammer and the
house offered for sale. The timber on
, the estate is already disposed ot Par
I nell’s brother John, who has been in
' Ireland since the late leader's death,
is preparing1 to return to America.
HETHERINGTON’S CASE.
The Lieutenant Wilt Be Tried Under
American Jurisdiction.
London, March 7.—A dispatch from
Yokohama says that a serious division
of feeling has arisen between the Eng
lish and American colonies relative to
the shooting of George Gower Robin
son, the English banker, by Lieuten
ant J. H. Hetherington, of the United
States navy. Under the existing trea
ties with Japan European countries and
the United States have extra territorial
jurisdiction over criminals belonging
to their respective nationalities. This
jurisdiction J apan has for some time
labored to abolish,but without success,
as foreigners claim that they are not
yet sufficiently convinced that Japan
ese justico is fitted for dealing with
civilized people. The case of Lieuten
ant Hetherington of course comes un
der American jurisdiction as he is
the person accused and he
will be tried by the American
consular court, but the English are
watching the case very jealously and
should Hetherington be acquitted or
let off with a light penalty there will
probably, judging from existing feel
ing, be reprisals in some form. Robin
son was very popular among the Eng
lish colony and his friends claim that
there was no good cause’ or excuse for
Hetherington taking the law in his
own hands Hetherington’s friends
are making efforts to secure evidence
that will place him right in the eyes of
the foreign element and give reason
for his acquittal that both tho Ameri
cans and English will regard as satis
factory.
Eulogized Junties Brad eg.
Washington, D. C., March 7.—In the
supreme court today Attorney-General
Miller presented for record the me
morial adopted by the bar February
6 upon the death of the late Justice
Bradley. The resolutions were re
ceived by Chief Justice Fuller, who,
speaking for tbo court, highly eulo
glzal the life and work of the de
parted justice. The resolutions and re
marks were entered upon the records
MERCY FOR MSIToSS^
The Purlolner of Pearl. Ukri. . V
Free. 'r »• 0, '
New York, March 7_» ji
from London says: There
enacted today before Sir John
in the Bow atreet police court "w
will, in all probability, prove to W
last act in the great pearl case »hu
has been so prolific in sensational d
relopments. Mrs Osborne, the *
tral figure in the case, will appeal
court and plead guilty of perjury ,„d
larceny, and although the case hasZ
yet been reached the court room i,
already crowded with curious spects!
tors. An effort will be made to brine
the case under “The First Offender
Act,” which provides that a judge U
satisfied that a first offender is p^Bi_
tent and not likely to offend again,
may admonish and discharge the
prisoner without punishment. H»
claimed by some that it would bo bad
policy to* dispose of the case in this
manner, that it would bring the law
into contempt and furnish fresh evi
dence of the saying that there is one
law for the poor and another for the
rich. On the other hand Mrs. Osborne
has won much sympathy from a cer
tain sentimental set by her apparent
penitence in voluntarily giving herself
up to the authorities, and others de
mand her acquittal for the sake of her
unborn child.
The case owes its origin to the dis
appearance of certain jewels belong,
ing to Mrs. Hargreave, a cousin of the
defendant, in February, 1891, and a
perusal of its details reveals little to
warrant the cry for mercy that has
been raised by Mrs. Osborne's friends
Immediately after the theft Miss Ethel
Elliot, since become Mrs. Osborne, was
suspected of the crime, and it was the
expression of these suspicions that led
to the slander suit of Osborne vs Har
greave, which was tried last December.
At first the plaintiff seemed in a fair
way to win her suit, and her final de
tection was due to accident more than
anything else. It seems that in dis
posing of the jewelry she had received
£550 in gold, and finding this too bulky,
had obtained an order from a Mr. ben
jamin on his bankers requesting them
to give her notes in place of the gold.
Mr. Benjamin’s attention was drawn
to the case by the printed accounts in
the papers, and his testimony, together
with that of the bank cashier who had
a record of the numbers of the notes,
placed Mrs. Osborne's guilt beyond a
doubt, whereupon she fled to France,
remaining there until her recent sur
render to the police. Whatever may
be the popular estimate of Mrs Os
borne, her husband has won the sym
pathy and admiration of the people by
his unswerving loyalty and constant
attendance upon her, sitting with her
in the prisoners' dock in court, and
helping her to bear her grief in her
confinement in the jail infirmary, where
she is surrounded with the lowest types
of female criminals.
THE WORLD IS FOR BOIES*
Gotham's Great Dally Practically Declares
for Horace.
Washington, March 7.—The New
York World devotes two pages to a
sketch of Horace E. Boies, of Iowa
Editorially the World practically comes
out on the Boies side. Referring to
the life of Governor Boies the World
says:
“It is similar in its main features to
the story of the lives of other Ameri
cans who have risen through their own
talents and exertions from a boyhood
of poverty and deprivations to
a manhood of renown and of
power. It recalls in its strug
gles and its successes the career of
these other typical Americans, Lin
coln, Wilson, Johnson, Grant and Gar
held, and while Boies has not yet
achieved the national fame of those
men, who can tell what may be. He
has led his party to success in three
hotly contested campaigns in a great
state, republican for more than thirty
years. This fact, in connection with
his character and principles, makes
Governor Boies a possible nominee of
the democratic party for president—
and that nominee is to be elected.
"A silent point in Governor Boies'
favor, so far as this state is concerned,
is that he is essentially a New Yorker.
He did not removo to the west to live
until he was 40 years of ago. He
practiced law in Buffalo, was elected
to the assembly from Erie county in
1858, and in 1806 came within two votes
of being nominated as a candidate
for district attorney against Grover
Cleveland. He became a democrat in
a strongly republican state nine year*
ago upon conviction, and he is proba
bly no less the New Yorker and more
popular democrat than he would have
been if he had remained a citizen oi
this state. .
“Certain it is, as his repeated and
increased successes in Iowa show, that
he is now closely in touch with the
people, and an able and ardent cham
pion of democratic ideas He is soun
on the tariff, as the extracts f?iv.®
from his speeches show, and occupi®
a conservative and rational attitu
towards silver. If it should aPP®®_
that no New York candidate can
bo
nominated at Chicago, what would be
more natural than that this s
of New York should receive the
support of the delegation from ins
tive state? Other combinations a
considerations may interfere to Pr*J®.
this, in case the convention shorn
cide that a candidate outside the s
would be more certain to carry -
York than anyone within it. 1™ *
ernor Boies, the transplanted -
Yorker with western enthusiasm. P
and possible electorate votes ,
side, is certain to be an i®P°„
figure in the national convention
NOT IMPROVING.
he Grand Dufca I.oulu, of He.se, in Gres*
Hangar. .
Bkhlix, March 7.— Grand Duke °
f Hesse shows no signs of t®!* .
ent today. His breathing
ent today, ms oreauuuS - -- .
ad the attending physicians hav
reatest feara The grand duke s
eu have been notified of bis^a'
»n. The greatest sorrou at
nong the people, and the eariy
arms tad t waa surrounded at an J
>ur by a multitude anxiomto* of
ib latest regarding the con * >t.
ie ruler to whom they are de P
ched.