Nebraska Newspapers

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OVER THE STATE.
Mrs. Babnaabt, of Pierce county,
Who attempted suicide, will recover.
No additional gold finds are re
ported on the Wagner farm near Fort
Calhoun.
A heavy wind in the vicinity of
Ogalalla did considerable damage to
buildings
A number of people in Omaha lost
quite heavily in the recent fire at Crip
ple Creek, Cola
The fire in the Commercial block at
York is supposed to have been started
by incendiaries
lhari.es ikipei, of Plattsmouth, has
been declared insane and sent to the
asylum at Lincoln.
Mrs. Barnhart of Pierce county en
deavored to drown herself. She and
her husband had quarreled.
The editor of the Fairbury Times is
out his Sunday-go-to-meeting suit at
the hands of a sneak thief.
“Chock” Mooster, of Nebraska City,
found guilty of rape, was given two
years in the state penitentiary.
A heavt gale from the northwest
did considerable damage near Phillips
to corn cribs and other buildings.
Frank Frink of Adams county was
knocked down by lightning and lay in
the road half an hour unconscious
The republican state convention for
the nomination of state officers will be
held in Lincoln, Wednesday, July 1st.
Tub state banking board has issued
a charter to the German bank of Mur
dock. Tne capital stock authorized is
•5,00.
Robert McConnell, of Omaha, for
many years master mechanic of the
Union Pacific railroad, died last week,
aged three score and ten.
Huffmae & Rawlins, near Neligh,
are sowing 300 acres of alfalfa Ex
v perience convinces them that its culti
vation is a great success
' At no time since the settlement of
Chase county have there been such
flattering crop prospects at at this time.
There will be an increased aereaga
• ■ The Methodist church at Sohuyler,
which has been rebuilt during the last
three months, was dedicated last Sun
day, It is a splendid building, with
ample room for every need.
Jon Werner, of Grand Island, who
had been on a drunken debauch, made
an effort at suicide by hanging while
la jail. He was discovered and cut
down before life was extinct.
The southwestern veterans' reunion
association has decided to hold its next
reunion at North Platte at the same
time as the western Nebraska irriga
tion fair, October, 13, 14 and 15.
Joan Htnck, a well-to-do farmer re
aid ing north west of Pierce, accidentally
shot his little girl in the abdomen with
his shotgun, while taking the gun
from the house to kill a hawk. The
child will die.
The general merchandise store of
Edward Bros, of Louisville was enter
ed by last wepk and about 950 worth of
goods, consisting of silk handkerchiefs,
shoes, pants, jewelry, tobacco and
some groceries taken.
The drug store of Dr. Charles Band
at Crete was dosed under chattel
mortgage for 81,200. McPike & Fox,
Peregoy & Moore, and L. A. Ireland
are the main creditors, to whom the
chattel mortgage reads
Tine jury at Pawnee City in the case
of H. G. Brown against the city for
•1,000 damages on account of a defec
tive sidewalk from which he sustained
an injury about a year ago, brought in
a verdict awarding Brown 9500 dam
/;■■ ages
Prospects for fruit and crops of all
• kinds in the section about Hastings
„ have not been more promising for
years than at the present time, and
T,/• unless causes uuforseen arise the hus
;• bandmen will have no reason for com
plaint at the time of harveat,
John W. Bookwaltrr of New York
*city, is now on his way to Nebraska to
snake arrangements for the establish
< ment of a number of farming villagea
He owns about 60,000 acres in this
Mate and proposes to gather agricul
■v jurists into towns of about 500, provide
; »good library, theater and give them
f many advantages of city life.
\ George Drake of Red Cloud, who
mas arrested several months ago on a
charge of rape and who was bound
over in the aum of 82,000 for his ap
pearance at the last term of the district
court, but who jumped his bail and left
for parte unknown before court con
vened, returned several days ago and
was turned over to the sheriff by fais
i bondsmen. ,
C- J. Aswawos,» prominent stook
tnnn of Neligh, stale* that never at any
time in the paat four year* haa the ' soil
been to thoroughly soaked a* at pres
ent, and all of the ponds which have
been dry for a couple of seasons now
eonuiu water and those which have
«' been nearly dry have assumed their
farmer dimensiona Not only is the
surface thoroughly wet, but the subsoil
is saturated affording a reserve supply
of moisture for the ho* weather of sum
oer. Farmers are feeiing happy and
■ j -are putting in a large acreage.
’■* Dos’t loaf around the corner grocery
c arguing with your neighbors about the
beat tool to use in surface cultivation,
<• ; but buy a new Pivotal Frame Captain
* Kidd'Dtae Cultivator, which will render
* it easy to dodge the erookedest corn
and unnecessary to dodge the Sheriff
neat Fall. If you use the Captain Kidd,
yam will have money to pay your bills,
and won’t have to dodge. Write us for
.descriptive circulars and “What Others
day." Nkbhaska Molixk Plow Co..
Omaha, Neb
?■*" Drmso a thunder storm the barn of
Charles Maronville, about five miles
* south weat of Aurora, waa destroyed by
. fire, whiuh is supposed to have been
? ’ntarted by a stroke of lightning. Five
bOMca belonging to William Camobell,
/ a young man who lives with Alsron
. villa, were burned in the barn.
Dvanto a horse race near Plainview
% Robert E. Bradshaw, a Jockey, waa
thrown from hie horse and sustained
Injuries from which he died. Brad
shaw has been in the employ of differ
ent turf man in that vietnitv for years
ood to well known. His home to in
. Liverpool. England, and his relatives
there have been notified.
Hknbt Boi.i.n, ex-city treasurer of
Omaha, was on trial last week for
embezzlement of somethin; over $100,
000. The jury disagreed, nine being
for conviction and three for acquittal.
The case will be at once taken up by
the present term of court
Jons Trausch, a young man of
Hastings, living upon a farm near
Hoseland, started to go out hunting,
and as he was leaving the house with
his gun over his shoulder it was dis
charged by some unknown means and
the contents struck and killed Edward
Trausch, a younger brother, who was
standing at the table assisting his
mother to wash the breakfast dishca
Thamas Wymond, a character who
has been known in -Nebraska City and
vicinity for many years, died in a small
room with scarcely a friend to care for
him. At one time he was quite influen
tial in the politics of that section and
had a fair portion of this world’s goods,
but lost it all, and for a time was in
the county infirmary. He was three
times married.
Oenerat, Maxderson returned last
week from Washington, where ho
argued the sugar bounty case before
the supreme court, and a decision from
that tribunal will settle that question.
Associated with him as attorneys for
the plaintiffs were Judge Synames of
New Orleans, and Joseph H. Choate of
New York, while the attorney general’s
department appeared for the govern
ment
«#. vj. i ai k, granu master workman
of the A. O. U. W., through his attor
ney, has filed his answer to the peti
tion of Mrs Alice Scott, widow of the
late Harrctt Scott, The answer denies
aill the allegations set forth in the pe
tition, except that at one time liar re tt
Scott was a member of the organiza
tion. The case will probably come up
for trial in the district court of Holt
county in September.
Owing to a mistake in printing the re
funding bonds of Oreely county, re
cently purchased by the state board of
educational lands and funds, on ac
count of the permanent school fund,
the whole issue will have to be reprint
ed. The county commissioners tried
to correct the mistake by an interline
ation, but the board declined to accept
the bonds in that shape. The amount
of tho issue was 830,000.
Thu secretary of the interior has re
commended to the attorney general to
dismiss the suit against the purchasers
of land from the Burlington road, but
to continue it as against the road, and
it is thought the attorney general will
act on the recommendation of the sec
retary. If this is done it will elimin
ate the 1,700 individual defendants
from the case, and leave the road to
settle its misunderstandings with the
government alone.
Judge W. H. Westover appointed
A. A. Record of Chadron receiver of
the Chadron Banking company. The
report of Bank Examiner Cowdery
shows that a number of persons Owe
the bank from 97,000 to 96,000 each on
their unsecured notea Mr. Cowdery
figures a large loss on these, and on
the total assets of 950,000 he estimates
a loss of 835,000, leaving 915,000 net as
sets, The deposits amount to 820,000,
of Which there is due the county 84,000.
E. W. Hyman, who recently escaped
from the county jail and fled to. Iowa,
desires the county attorney to allow
him to enter a plea of guilty and take
three years in the penitentiary. That
official refuses to do this, as, he says,
he has a sure case of robbery against
Hyman and can secure a sentence of
five years, if not longer. Hymen held
up C. V. Fisher, a St. Louis traveling
man, a short time ago and relieved him
of 815, at the point of a wicked-looking
knife.
- At a meeting of tho board of man
agers of the Nebraska Irrigation fair
in North Platte it was decided to give
the first annual fair at North Platte
October 9 to 15, Inclusive. Every mem
ber of the board was present, includ
ing E. McLemon of Cheyenne county,
Matthew Daugherty and Ed Searle of
Keith county and Q. G. Smith of Buf
falo county and the local members.
Twenty thousand copies of the premium
list were ordered gotten out, and com
mittees will be sent through the east
to work up interest in the fair.
Chari.es K. Grarlk of Crawford, re
presenting the Crawford Irrigation
company, filed in the clerk's office a
petition, covering seventy pages of
typewritten matter, asking a perman
ent Injunction restraining about fifty
defendants from using the water of
White river. A temporary writ was
granted by County Judge Ricker. The
plaintiffs claim a prior right to use the
water and allege that they have ex
pended some 830,000 in cash in the con
struction of the ditch. It promises to
be the biggest law suit ever tried in
the county.
Police Jit dor Thomas Johnson of
Ashland committed snieide by hang
ing. Squire Hardin happened into the
offloe about 3:15 o'clock in the after
noon, and just back oi the room under
the fire tower sat Mr. Johnson, a rope
about his neek and his hand up to his
face. The body was yet warm. John
son was a Dane, about 50 years of aye.
He received notice some ten days ago
that a mortgage on his home for Si,400,
with interest for several years, would
be foreclosed to satisfy the note. This
is supposed to have superinduced the
suicide.
On the application of Thomas V.
Jaques, a citizen of Keya Paha county,
supported by the petition of a large
number of other citizens of that sec
tion, Governor Holcomb paroled from
the penitentiary W. A. Chapin, who
was undergoing a sentence of two
years on conviction of horse stealing.
The papers in the case, which consist
of the petition and a' letter from the
county attorney of Keya Paha, reveal
the fact that Chapin’s case is another
in which the requirements of the law
have not been complied with in the
trial and the sentencing of criminals in
that county.
Thr annual report of the State
Banking board has been completed by
Secretary Townley for 1805. During
that year there were 44? commercial
and savings banks doing business in
the state, with an aggregate author
ized capital of £0,310,535, giving an
average of capital stock of 830.843.
During the past year eleven new banks
were organized, and forty-six discon
tinued business from various causes
The latter had an aggregate capital of
81.069,700. and total deposits of 81.305,
334.82. The sixteen v insolvent banks
which were placed in the bands of re
ceivers had an aggregate capital stock
of 8434,000 and deposits in tue sum of !
8584,061. j
MEIHQDIST CONFERENCE.
THE WOMAN QUESTION REFERRED
TO A FRIENDLY COMMITTEE.
WILL UNDOUBTEDLY WIN.
Seven District Conferences Declare Un
conditionally for the Fair Delegates
-—Three Others Divided—liishop
Foster Declares the Gather
ing on Order—Benevo
lence to Be Reduced.
Cleveland, Ohio, May 4.—Yester
day afternoon conferences were held
by the delegates representing the
various districts at the Methodist
general conference and members of
the credentials committee were se
lected. Of the fourteen district con
ferences, seven declared uncondition
ally for seating the women delegates
and three others gave one delegate
each to tne same cause. This makes a
vote of 17 to 11 in the committee in
favor of seating the women.
Bishop Foster presided this morning
and Dr. El W. Parker of India opened
the session with scriptural reading.
The presiding officer then alluded to
the confusion and disorder which
characterized yesterday’s proceed
ings, suggested that the business be
transacted in an orderly manner and
added that quiet could not be sus
tained without the co-operation of the
delegates. Qe said that delegates
should givo their name to the confer
ence before being recognized. He
then gave a lecture on order. Follow
ing this it was voted to hire a ser
geant-at-arms to preserve order in the
rear.
A committee of seven on rules was
appointed and then Dr. Neely moved
an appointment of a committee of
eighteen on constitution, fifteen to be
by districts and three at large. This
is one of the greatest questions which
will come before the conference and
caused a decided flurry. Amendments
were offered, the first for tbe com
mittee to consist of two members from
each district conference of the general
conference and another by Mr. Dent
ley of Missouri that the committee
consist of nine, to be appointed by the
bishops. This was violently opposed
by L. M. Shaw of Des Moines. A great
deal of confusion prevailed until
finally Dr. Pajrne of New York moved
to lay the motion for a committee of
nine on the table and it was promptly
done. Dr. Teter shut off debate by
moving the previous question and the
motion was carried.
Chaplain C. C. McCabe read a tele
gram stating that Dr. John M. Reed
was at the point of death. The con
ference ordered a telegram of sympa
thy sent to Mrs. Reed.
Dr. Leroy M. Deltof Ohio moved the
appointment of a committee of laymen
and clergymen from each district and
three at lurge, to consider the feasi
bility of simplifying tbe benevolences,
there being nine collections per year
at present. Dr. Smith moved that all
papers and resolutions on this subject
be referred to the regular committee
on temporal economy. Dr. Delt would
not permit this, and Dr. Smith’s mo
tion was laid on the table. Mr. Hynett
wanted to add one clergyman and one
layman from each society to the com
mittee. Dr. Buckley opposed this and
made a humorous address. Dr. Hy
nett’s amendment was laid on the
table and Dr. Belt’s motion was car
ried. All information on this subject
was ordered referred to this commit
tee.
Dr. C. H. Payne of New York offered
a resolution authorizing the appoint
ment of a committee of five on frater
nal delegates. It was adopted.
At half past ten o’clock Bishop
Warren of Denver commenced the
reading of the episcopal address. It
was very long and was in the nature
cf a report on behalf of the board of
bishops to the conference. It em
bodied an exhaustive review of the
work of the conference during the
past four years with reports concern
ing the missionary work, Sunday
school, church extension, Freedmen’s
Aid bureau work and discipline.
At the conclusion of the address the
convention adjourned.
To Investigate Bead Purchases.
Washington, May t.— Bepresesenta
tive Baker of New Hampshire intro
duced in the House yesterday a con
current resolution providing1 for an in
vestigation of the recent purchase of
seeds by Secretary Morton. A pream
ble recites the charges made by the
Noi thrup, Braslau, Goodwiu Company
of Chicago, and says the Secretary has
not acknowledged the receipt of the
charges or directed an investigation.
The KennfJyi Not Guilty.
Macon, Mo., May 4.—After being
out one and one-half hours, the jury
returned a verdict of not guilty
against Simon and James Kennedy,
charged with the murder of Dick Col
lins of Sedalia, at New Cambria, De
cember "3, 1808.
A Costly Stump gold.
St. Louis, Mo., May 4.—A postage
stamp called the “lo-cent Baltimore
provisional,” the only one of the kind
known to exist, was sold yesterday by
a St. Louis 8rm to W. A Castle of
New York for 84,t00, the largest price
ever paid for a stamp.
The Hungarian Millenium Celebration.
Buda Pssth, May 4. — Emperor
Francis Joseph opened the miilenium
exhibition here to-day. He wore the
uniform of a Hungarian general and
was accompanied by the empress.
Speeches were made by the emperor
tnd by the minister of commerce,
Ernest de Daniel.
Jadga Mood of Kingston, Ho,, Hand.
Hamilton, Mo., May 4.—Judge \V.
K. Wood, a prominent attorney and
»x-secretary of the State Bar associ
ition, died at Kingston this morning.
SECOND SON MADE SHAH.
Trouble May Coma in Tenia Over the
Succession—Cause* of the Murder.
Tiflis, May s.—Immediately after
the death of the Shah ihe heir appar
ent (Valihad), Muzza fer-cd- I)in, was
proclaimed Shah. Russia and Great
Britain recognized Muzzafer-ed-Din
as heir to the Persian throne in 1858.
The grand vizier will govern until the
arrival of the new Shah at Teheran
from Tahrlif.
London, May 3.—A dispatch from
Teheran to the Times regarding the
situation in Persia incident upon the
assassination ot the Shall says: “Much
discontent has existed for some time
through the dearness of provisions,
partly caused by the excessive issue
of copper coins. Considerable alarm
prevails here and Prince Naib-es-Sul
taneh, third son of the late Shall, has
retired to his palace at the request of
the government. The assassin’s name
is Mollali Rezi, and he is supposed to
be from P.abec.”
An article in the Times on the late
shah calls to mind that at the begin
ning of his reign he put to deatli by
thousands the members of the lin bee
sect, whose crusade against public
and privade corruption in Persia was
so popular as to become a menace to
the government
“The chief apprehensions that now
arise,’’ sa.vs the Times, “are lest the
new shah’s eldest brother, Zil-es-Sul
tan, should attempt to dispute the ac
cession (the late shah is succeeded by
his second son and not the eldest son).
Zil-es-Sultan is governor of Ispahan
and was for a long time the virtual
ruler of Southern Persia till the late
shah, in i$90, greatly reduced his
power and disbanded liis regiments.”
George N. Curzon, under secretary
of state for foreign affairs, who is an
acknowledged authority on Persia,
considers Muzzaf >r-ed-Din Mirza Vali
had, the new shah, a man of great
intelligence, but he has been secluded
all his life as to have no knowledge of
the duties incumbent upon him as
ruler of Persia.
SMITH AND LELANP.
The Farmer Bays the Latter Lies and
Knows It—Famous Kansans at Oats.
Topeka, ICan., May l. — Replying
to Cyrus Leland’s statement that
“Farmer” A. W. Smith had, in Feb
ruary, 1894, offered to get ont of
E. N. Morrill’s way for governor-if
the latter would pay him $3,500 cash
for the expense of his campaign for
governor in 1892, Smith telegraphs the
following denial:
8 “McPhebson, May 2.—Mr. Leland’s
statement is a willful and malicious
alsehood. I never, at any time, or
under any circumstances, offered to
stay out of the campaign against Mor
rill for a money consideration, neither
did I authorize anyone to make such a
proposition for me. In conclusion, I
want to reiterate and emphasize that
Mr. .Leland lies and knows he lies.
A. W. Smith.”
Governor Morrill, when asked about
Leland’s statement, said: “I cannot
now recall tbat Mr. Leland came to
me with such a proposition from Mr.
Smith either during the Newton en
campment, or afterward. 1 have no
doubt, however, that Mr. Leland
submitted the proposition to me
as he says, lie is a truthful
man and not given to extravagant
talk, and what he says may be
depended upon. I may have gotten
his statement to me confused with a
proposition submitted to me directly
by one of Mr. Smith’s friends. It is
not necessary to disclose the name of
this friend. It is enough to say that
he came to my room in the Depot hotel
at Newton saying that he was author
ized to make the proposition that if I
would pay Smith’s campaign expenses1
of 1892, amounting to $3,500, Smith
would get out of my way and support
me for the nomination for Governor.
The proposition 6truck me as absurd.
At that time 1 did not think Smith
was in it. I believed my nomination
was assured. Therefore I gave the
proposition no thought, and it passed
ont of my mind. ”
Reed Men sore at Proctor*
Washington, May 4.—The Reed men
here claim that Senator Proctor was
intrusted with their campaign in Ver
mont and assured them that McKinley
sentiments would be kept well to the
rear. Then he took to Vermont one
of McKinley’s most ardent champions
—Senator Thurston of Nebraska—and
aeems to have been in constant com
munication with Mark Hanna. Be
fore even the bulletin of the action of
the convention had been sent broad
cast over tile country, Mark Hanna
bad been informed by Senator Proctor
of the condition of things in Vermont.
Capitalists to Aid Cripple Creek.
Denver, Colo., May 4. — Arran ge
ments are being1 made for a big mass
meeting of business men in Cripple
Creek next Tuesday. It is expected
that D. B. Moffat, Gben Smith, VV. S.
Strattou, N. J. Jackson, Irving How
bert and other capitalists will be pres
ent and will aid liberally in rebuilding.
W. S. Stratton is reported to have said
that he will furnish $1,000,000 to the
responsible business men of Cripple
Creek who wish to rebuild in the
burned district.
American Horses In Germany.
Washington, May 4.—United States
Consul Keenan at Bremen has report
ed to the state department that the
importation of American horses into
Germany is considerable, but that it is
hampered by the underhand methods
of local horse dealers. Last year 10,
300 American horses were shipped to
Germany, but all were rigidly inspect
ed on account of charges of unhealth
fulness.
College Students Strike.
Delaware, Ohio, May 4.—Last night
at chapel time, 1,000 students of Ohio
Wesleyan university went on a strike.
The strike is attributed to the action
of the faculty in imposing such strin
gent conditions upon the contem
plated Western tour of the glee club
as to make the trip almost impossible.
Girls to Walt on British Statesmen.
London, May 4.—Among the reforms
of the new kitchen committee of the
house of commons will be the substi
tution of waitresses for waiters.
THE STRAIGHT GOODS.
ANOTHER SET OF DELEGATES
TO CHICACO.
Cleveland and Sound Money Democrats
ot Nebraska Bold Tbelr State Conven
tion Sixteen Delegatee to Represent
the Administration Followers, Part of
Them Being Selected by Acclamation—
SUverltes Boasted to a Brown.
Cleveland and Sonnd Money.
Delegates-at-Large—
TOBIA- CASTOR, Lancaster,
WILLIAM A. PAXTON, Douglas.
DAN W. COlK, Gage,
CHARLES G. RYAN, Hall.
Alternates-at- urge—
MILTON M. DOOLITTLE, Lincoln,
GEORGE W. WEST, Holt.
JAMES M’SHANE, Douglas,
JAMES U. CRAWFORD, Cuming.
iAXCOLK, April 3ft—Euclid Martin,
chairman of the state committee, called
the administration democratic state
convention together at noon yesterday.
Secretary J. B. Sheean read the call.
Six hundred delegates were in their
seats when the chairman rapped the
convention to order.
Following the reading of the call
Chairman Martin named W. D. Mc
Hugh of Douglas county as temporary
chairman and C. M. Hubner of Otoe
county, temporary secretary. Later
on this was made permanent.
Chairman McHugh named as a com
mittee on credentials R. S. Bibb. Jerry
Farrell, H. E. Phelps, Samuel Wallace
and J. P. Rea.
As committee on resolutions he nam
ed T. J. Mahoney, N. S. Harwood,
George P. Marvin, J. C. Crawford, Lee
M. Spratlin, J. I. Leese and D. P. Rolf.
Committee on permanent organiza
tion: Milton Doolittle, Robert Patrick
and Albert Watkins.
The committee on credentials report
ed that every county in the state, with
the exception of Stanton, was repre
sented by a full delegation on the floor
of this house.
The convention then proceeded to
the election of candidates for
delegates-at-large to the Chicago
convention, the result being as given
above, the first four by acclamation.
Following is the list of district
delegates elected, together with their
alternates:
First District—N. S. Harwood, Lan
caster county; alternate, D. S. Gould,
Cass county; D. P. Rolf, Otoe; altern
ate, A. W. Buflin, Johnson county.
Second District—T. J. Mahoney,
Douglas county; alternate, George
Parks, Douglas; Euclid Martin, Doug
las; alternate, George W. Shields, Doug
las.
Third District—Fred Vaughan, Dodge
county; alternate, Frank Jouvenat,
Boone county; Frank A. Deaborn,
Wayne; alternate, E. B. Wilbur, Dako
ta county.
Fourth District—O. H. Scott, Thayer
county; alternate, J. CL Hartigan; R.
E. Dumphey, Seward county; altern
ate, A. L). Ritchie, Butler county.
Fifth District—George P. Kingsley,
Kearney; alternate, J. G. Glasser, Clay
county; H. G. Keeler, Webster county:
alternate, M. L. Meade, Perkins county.
Sixth District—J. I. Leese, Dawes
county; alternate, O. F. Biglin, Holt
county; J. J. McIntosh, Cheyenne coun
ty; alternate, A. ,G. Holt, Brown coun
ty
The democrats of Nebraska, in con
vention assembled, pledge anew our
fealty to the principles of the demo
cratic party. We repel alike the im
pudent assumptions of republican
plutocratic paternalism and the vagar
ies of populist and socialistic paternal
ism. We denounce as dishonest the
claims of the republican party to be re
turned to power on account of financial
disturbance, produced by republican
legislation, and as equally dangerous
the clamor of populists and their allies
for a more extensive application for
the same pernicious legislation. We
adhere to the time-honored principles
of the party, as enunciated by Jeffer
son and expounded by Jackson, Tilden
and Cleveland.
It e believe with Thomas Jefferson
that the market value of bullion regu
lates the value of the coin, and not its
coin value, we accept the teaching of
economic science, that under free coin
age the cheaper money will always
drive out the better money, leaving
nothing but the poorer in circulation,
and that under the unvarying law the
adoption of free coinage of silver at 16
to 1 would expel from circulation all
the gold and paper money redeemable
in gold, and leave the country on a
silver basis, with a poorer currency
and much less of it.
We believe that common honesty and
a just regard for the rights of our cred
itors, as well as the rights of the wage
earners, require us to use all honorable
means to prevent the insertion of a free
coinage plana in the national plat
form.
auucre iu our previous aeciara
tions on this subject, and declare our
selves unequivocally and unreservedly
for the metalic money, as the staudard
unit, the bullion and mint value of
which are approximately the same, and
the purchasing power of which, regard
less of government mintage, is the least
fluctuating in all the markets of the
world. We insist on this policy us .es
pecially necessary for the protection of
the farmers, laborers and property
owning debtors, the most defenseless :
victims of unstable and fluctuating cur
rency.
We deny the right of congress to j
levy taxes for any other purpose
than the maintenance of the govern
ment, and demand a fair trial for the
Wilson tariff law, under which busi
ness and industry have been recovering
from the paralytic stroke of McKinley
ism.
We are in favor of the retirement of
the forced loans of the United States
government made in the exigencies of
war. and of the government going out 1
of the banking business at the earliest i
practicable moment, and the establish- ]
ment of our currency and banking upon (
some basis that will give stability to '
our paper money and security to de- ] 1
positors. | ,
The theory of noninterference on the
part of European governments on this 1
continent, announced by President ]
Monroe, more than half a century ago, j
has taken a firm hold of the American i
people, and we heartily endorse and ap- 1
prove the course of President Cleveland 1
snd Secretary Olney in their firm and 1
unfaltering adherence to this great 1
principle. : j
We deny the claim of a small faction 1
who recently assembled to hold a con
vention in the name of the democracy
of this state, and pretended to select
delegates to the democratic national
convention, because they have for \
years repudiated the national dem
ocratic party and its platforms; they
have insisted on the withdrawal of
democratic tickets in the interest of the
populist party; they have refused to
join in the nomination of democrats
for office, but instead have endorsed
and supported populist candidates, who
accept one of the teachings of democ
racy; they have sought and held office
by appointment from a populist gov
ernor as a reward for treachery to the
democrats; they have been repudiated
by a two-thirds vote of the democrats
of the state; they have, by public ut
terance, in their recent convention, de
clared that if the national democratio
convention refused to adopt their pe
culiar notions, they will not abide by
its judgment, and have sought to pave
the way for their entrance to the popu
list national convention in St. Louis
by the adoption of the most extreme of
the many hair-brained theories of that
party.
we believe in the government found
ed by the fathers of this republic, and
in the constitution, which, for more
than a century has been the admira
tion of the civilized world; and we re
pudiate the theories of populists and
so-called democrats, allied with popu
lists, who would destroy that constitu
tion for the socialistic experiment of
the initiative and referendum.
We deprecate and denounce the in
flammatory language used by a certain
class of politicians and public speakers _
in recent days in their efforts to stir \
up strife and array one section of the '
country against another, and one clpss
of people against the other. We live
under one constitution and one flag,
and we are, and of right should be, one
people.
The democracy of Nebraska declares
that it recognizes in governmental,
commercial and financial affairs no
east, no west, no north, no south; that
the interdependence of the states or
dains the closest identity of interests
without regard to section or locality,
and that all teachings to the contrary,
by whomsoever disseminated, are false
and pernicious.
We believe that every American citi
zen, duly qualified, has the right to
vote and hold office regardless of his
religious belief or affiliations, and we
condemn social organizations based up
on a different theory as inimical to our
free institutions
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Scales are now made of such a nice
adjustment that they will weigh any
thing, to the smallest hair plucked from
the eyebrow. In fact, they will weigh a
pencil mark.
Sir John Lubbock describes an ant,
which can support a weight three thou
sand times heavier than itself, or equal
in proportion to a man holding 210 tons
by his teeth.
Thunder is sometimes one great
crash, because the lightning cloud is
near the earth and as all the vibrations
of the air (on which the sound depends)
reach the car at the same time.
The air is clear at Arequlpa, Peru. ^
From the observatory at that place, &050j
feet above the sea, a black spot,one irnrf,
in diameter, placed on a white disc, h»
been seen on Mount Charchani, a dis
tance of eleven miles, through a thir
teen inch telescope.
Geological specimens brought horns
recently from the Antarctic region by a
Norwegian explorer has been analyzed
and found to contain microlene granite,
with garnets and tourmaline and mica
schists. As these have never been seen
in an ocean island, the conclusion is
that a continent exists around the south
pole.
A few drops of benzoin placed on cot
ton and put in or around a tooth that is
aching will almost Invariably, stop the
pain.
Raisins can be easily seeded if put in
hot water and allowed to stand fifteen
minutes before beginning to seed.
Clear, black coffee, diluted with water ^
and containing a little ammonia, will '
clean and restore black clothes. I
A treatment that may be relied on
for removing spots of iron rust from
white fabrics is the following; Pour
boiling water into a bowl, stretch the
cloth that is spotted over it, and drop
on the spot of rust a drop of hydro
chloric or muriatic acid. Leave it there
half a minute, then dip the place in hot J
water. Wash out thoroughly after- f
wards in water softened with ammonia. '
Soap must not be used, as the acid will
decompose it and leave a grease spot
on the cloth.
USEFUL ITEMS.
Books with clasps ,qr raised sides
lam age those near them on the
shelves.
To Remove Iron Mould.—Apply first
i solution of sulphuret potash, and
afterward one of oxalic acid. The sul
ihuret acts on the iron. .
To Polish Old Book Bindings.—Thor
>ughly clean the leather by rubbing
with a piece of flannel; if the leather
s broken fill up the holes with a little
jastc, beat up the yolk of an egg, and
•ub it well over the covers with a
ilece of sponge; polish it by passing a
lot iron over.
To Looses Glass Stoppers.—Apply
talad oil to the mouth of the decanter
>y means of a feather; the bottle
ihould then be placed about one-half
rard from the fire. When warm the
itopper should be gently struck on all
lides, and attempts should be made to
nove it If it still remains fast, ap
tly more oil. A few sharp taps on the
itopper, all the way round, with a key.
s also very effectual.
Senator Smith of New Jersey says
he Democrats of that state will in
truct for a third term for Cleveland.^
A big consignment of bicycles haaT
teen shipped to Cuba *for use by theV
nsurgents in the war. 1
The Cuban junta has chartered Av
even vessels in American ports to run
tetween New York and Cuba.
Quan Yick Nam, a Chinaman ^orn
n this country, has made aDpllcation
or appointment on the New York
iolice force. Bis prospects are good,
le is‘hated by the highbinders.