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HOW THE FREE TRADE MACHINE WORKS,
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JOHN BULL IS MAD.
HE BITTERLY COMPLAINS OP
DECREASING TRADE.
tacreMlng Low of Trad* Grow. Out of
American AggrcMHrnn ns* — la tba
■>'. Meantime Oar Shop. and Factories
dhow Sign* of Prosperity.
This week we reproduce several ar
ticles from British trade papers which
relate to our own industrial affairs.
One of these refers to the “murder” of
the Welsh tin plate trade, “the first
blow having been administered by the
McKinley tariff and the mortal stroke
by the Dingiey bill.” The use of these
strong terms,while acknowledging that
"the loss of the American trade is a
great disaster” under our policy «.f
protection, is hardly calculated to per
, suade the Welsh workers that their
'f*:- sufferings "must be accepted patient*
ly." • ■ •
Another paper refers to the deter*
minatlon of the ‘'Yankees” “to secure
ttielr share of the world's trade in Iron
and steel.” The English iron trade
views the effects of the policy of pro
tection far differently from our tree
traders, who assert that we can not
capture “the world’s trade" when our
wall of protection Is erected. This
“Iron Trade Circular” asserts that six
manufacturers of Pittsburg have
.formed an "Export Iron and Steel
Company,” that a London agent has
been appointed, and that an effort will
be made to do business In India, South
America and Japan. It is acknowl
edged that “Americans are an enter
prising body of men,” and that the ex
port company will doubtless succeed
in Its enterprise. This will be no new
trade to us, because we exported up
ward of 957,000,000 worth of Iron and
stoel and their manufactures last year,
not including ore. We sent this to
every part of the world, and this val
uable export trade was rendered pos
sible by the policy of protection which
enabled us to establish and build up
our great iron and steel Industries.
A third complaint comes from the
British hardware and cutlery trade,
which deplores “the loss of our United
States trade,” which has become “one
of the most Insignificant” to the Brit
ish manufacturers. The figures of their
exports of hardware and cutlery dur
ing the month of August for several
yetrs past show why they are queru
lous:
Value.
£14,249
17,798
14,142
8,104
3r
m
$
EXPORTS OP BRITISH HARDWARE
AND CUTLERY IN THE UNITED
STATE8.
August. f
1894 .
1895..............j..
1896...v,.,;...
1897...,-v
There was certainly a big “drop” last
August, but that . can be partly ac
counted for by the heavier exports of
the preceding months. Still what Is
England’s loss Is our gain, and our
tariff that was enacted In 1894 for the
benefit of British Industries has been
repealed in favor of a tariff that pro
tects American enterprise.
The “Textile Mercury ,*• of Manches
ter, points out that the protection
afforded to American carpet manufac
turers. under the Dingley bill, will en
able the manufacture “of whole-piece
Axmlnster and other pile carpets in the
States;” in fact, the work Is already in
progress. This, of course, win result
in a loss to the English trade that has
been supplying our markets with these
high-priced carpets, but they franklj
acknowledge that It Is only the extern
of the protection afforded by the Ding
ley bill that will enable us to make
these higher grades of carpets, giving
employment to more American* anc
circulating more wages here. Hereto
fore these advantages accrued' to Eng
land because this branch of our carpel
industry had not received ample pro
tection.
Another strong point, and one whlct
we commend to free traders in thl:
country. Is also made by the “Textlh
Mercury,** as follows:
"The commercial condition of th<
United States may always be gauge<
by an Investigation of the exports o
Its cotton manufactures. When ..
' Country la prosperous it sends very f«
when it is Impoverished t
•tmdi
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.■k.vV’r.
supply Is greater than the demand, and
to get rid of the same it begins to ex
port them.”
This has been very true In the past,
not only of our manufactures of cotton,
but of other goods. With Impoverish
ment here, under free trade, our people
have not been able to buy and consume
all the goods we could make. This has
been an invariable rule, and then “the
dumping periods” began, when our
goods were shipped to any foreign mar
ket that would take them, even though
sold at a loss to our manufacturers.
Lately we seem to have "dumped” our
surplus cotton goods largely upon the
markets of Canada, China and South
America. This “dumping” process has
no doubt affected the export trade of
the cotton manufacturers of Manches
ter. Whether It will continue remains
to be seen.
A Problem to Solve.
It the United States can push its
wares into Europe, South America, the
Far East, and into our various posses
sions, while pushing out the products
of those countries by a prohibitive
scale of duties, it would be an achieve
ment the like of which we are unable
to point to in the whole history of
commerce. We are inclined to be
lieve that the feat is impossible.—Fi
nancial Post, London, Eng.
We hope to prove that it is possible,
and thereby upset another of the Cob
den apple carta. Before pushing our
wares in Europe, South America and
the Far East, however, we intend to
push them in our own market, and
push out from the United States the
products of those foreign countries
which have been supplanting our own
during our experiment with the British
free trade idea. Our market is more
valuable than all the foreign markets
combined, and our first object is to se
cure the best business. Subsequently
we will turn our attention to Europe,
South America and the Far East, sup
plying them with our surplus products
through advantageous reciprocal trea
ties where possible.
The KctlpiV of 18B4.
Th* Poising of the Shadow.
American Sllka to tile Front.
Our imports ot silk manufactures last
month were much below the value of
similar imports in the month of Sep
tember in the three previous years un
der the free trade Wilson bill, showing
that the Dingley protective tariff is
operating to the benefit of the Ameri
can manufacturers of silk goods. The
import values were as follows:
September.
1894 ..*.r...............$4,251,890
189.1...-....,. ,1. 2.245.554
1896. 1,491.846
18»T. 1,156,534
Cion •( Tin Plate Trade.
A contemporary In a very plaintive
tone wants to know what South
Wales will do with Its plates when the
the American trade has gone. “We
have been asking this question, or va
riations of It, for any number of years
past, but have never yet had a prac
tical response," It writes, “and we
scarcely hope for one at this late stagQ
of the melancholy history—we might
almost say suicide—of the Welsh tin
plate trade.” The term suicide 1b rath
er uncalled for. If the trade is ended
by American action we should rather
call It murder—the first blow having
been administered by the McKinley
tariff and the mortal stroke by the
Dingley bill. The Welsh makers
could not help this, and it is net their
fault if the American works, brand
new in all their appointments, turn
out plates a little cheaper than the
Welsh mills. Besides, the Americans
get their tin bars cheaper. With all
this it is surprising that the Welsh
men can make any struggle at all. Yet
they are doing so, and dispatched 21.
021 tons abroad last month against
20,726 tons in the same month last
year, which does not look like throw
ing up the sponge. Of course, the loss
of the American trade is a great dis
aster, but it came in the natural order
of things, and must be accepted pa
tiently.—“Hardware, Metals and Ma
chinery,” London, September 16, 1897.
Canada's Fiscal Policy.
Before Premier Laurier returned
from Great Britain to Canada he was
the guest of the Cobden Club, which
presented him with the club’s gold
medal as a token of its appreciation of
his successful efforts to advance free
trade between Great Britain and Cana
da, and to point out the course that all
other colonial governments of the Im
perial Confederation might adopt. In
a very complimentary speech Lord
Farrer presented the medal, and re
ferring to the Cobden Club’s attitude
toward events following upon Cana
da’s action, he said:
You do not ask us to abate one Jot
of our free-trade principles; you ask
for no preferential treatment; you
make yourself as large a step in the
direction of free-trade as your present
circumstances will permit, and you de
sire to treat the rest of the world as
you are now treating us. We, on our
part, hail your offer, and meet It by
removing, not by imposing a restric
tion. We desire not less trade with
Germany and Belgium, but more trade
with you; and while we shall oppose
with all our power any attempt to
close our markets against these or any
other foreign countries, we shall view
with delight our increased freedom of
trade,whether it be a trade between the
nations who compose the British Em
pire or a trade between those nations
and foreign countries.
Tha Wont MUtake.
The Review of Reviews has leanings
toward free trade, but even its free
trade leanings were not sufficient to
make It defend that piece of patchwork
—that tool of trusts—the Wllson-Gor
man law. In its August number it
says:
"One of the worst mistakes the coun
try had made In many years was the
permission it gave to the Democratic
party to tear up the McKinley tariff
and substitute for it a haphazard meas
ure which, in the nature of the case,
oould not be expected to remain in
force for more than from two to four
years."
The American people showed con
clusively last November that they had
no sympathy with the free trade lean
ings, but they all agree with the Re
view of Reviews in saying that “one of
the worst mistakes the country had
made in many years was the permis
sion it gave to the Democratic party to
tear up the McKinley tariff.” In fact,
they are quite agreed that it was not
only “one of the worst mistakes" but
quite the worst mistake we ever made.
Jiputn Lead Pencils.
The Japan Weekly Times says that
there Is a constantly increasing demand
for lead pencils in Japan, the supply
being mostly drawn from Europe or
America. These manufactured in Ja
pan are inferior in quality. Lead pen
cil making in that country is generally
carried on by small establishments,
and the companies devoted to the man
ufacture of the pencil are few in num
ber. The inferiority of the Japanese
pencil is duo to the fact that the black
lead, obtained chiefly from the Hokur
iku district, falls in quality far below
the foreign product. As to the wood,
Hokkaido and other places produce an
excellent supply. Some of the com
panies in Osaka are said to have suc
ceeded in manufacturing good pencils
with black lead Imported from Amer
ica, and a considerable number of the
pencils have already been exported to
Hongkong, Bombay and other ports
of the east.
Far from Discouraging.
"The free trade organs are fond of
comparing the tariff receipts of the
first sixty days of the Dingley law.
with the first sixty days of the Wilson'
law—well knowing that special condi
tions operated in favor of the Wilson
bill before its passage, and while the
Dingley law was pending.”—Doyleo
town. Pa., Intelligencer, October 2
1897.
Allowing for the disadvantages un
der which the Dingley bill suffer*!,
during the first sixty days of its en
actment, a comparison of its results
with those of the Wilson bill during Its
first two months’ incubation, is fur
from discouraging to the friends of
protection. It will be found else
where.
THE GOLD STANDARD.
INSANE UTTERINCSOF A DEM
OCRATIC SHEET.
A Kccklrai Statement that Is Fnlljr and
Completely Answered—The Party that
Always Bring* Good Times—Something
that BUI Bryan and Sockless Simpson
IT 111 llatre Difficulty In Howling Down.
Let’s See About That.
In a moment of temporary insanity
the Indianapolis Sentinel announces
that—
"The single gold standard has prov
ed a curse to every nation that has
tried it. Business depression, bank
ruptcy, panics, and widspread ruin
have followed wherever it has gone."
Well, let us see about that. Great
Britain has tried that standard since
1816—eighty-one years, or nearly
three generations. She has in that
time grown enormously rich and has
some thousands of millions loaned out
to her colonics and to silver countries,
such as India and Mexico and South
America.
France, Germany, Belgium and Hol
land adopted the gold standard from
twenty-two to twenty-four years ago
and have never prospered as much or
so fast In the same length' of time
or twice that length of time In their
whole history as since they went on
the gold basis.
Japan Is just entering upon the
gold standard. India has taken the
first long step towards It by stopping
the free coinage of silver and having
a limited coinage. She is now pre
paring to take the next—to coin and
circulate gold. China thinks slowly
about anything, but that ossified na
tion is seriously considering whethei
she had not better adopt the gold
standard and stop coining cheap, de
based, fluctuating silver.
Russia has, in effect, after long
thought adopted the gold standard and
has accumulated $400,000,000 of gold
for that purpose. Before 1900 silver
will cease to circulate in the great
Russian empire except as “subsidiary”
money.
No nation In modern times having
once adopted the gold standard and
dropped the sliver standard has ever
returned to silver. No civilised na
tion ever will take such a backward
step and return after having once dis
carded it to the use of clumsy, bulky,
vacillating silver. Gold is stable in
value. Silver is fluctuating and
cheapening, so that yearly a greater
quantity of it Is needed to do a given
amount of monetary work.
If at this moment international bal
ances had to be settled in silver the
weight of the bullion shipped would
be forty times as great as that of the
equivalent sum In gold and it would
take over fifty times as much space
to contain the silver as it does the
gold. So the freight charges would
be much higher.
As gold is the best monetary In
strument yet devised by man, it has
much value in little bulk and has a
stability which silver does not pos
sess. It is easy to understand why
the latter has been discarded for the
former. It is impossible to conceive
of any civilized nation relapsing into
the use of as defective a monetary in
strument as silver or abandoning
some labor saving machine to go back
to hand work.
.Despairof Watterson.
Henry Watterson has given up the
fight, says the Iowa Register. In an
editorial In the Louisville - Courier
Journal he makes a formal announce
ment of his intention no longer to
strive for party leadership. He turns
the democratic party over to those
who have defeated him; that is, to the
free silver faction as opposed to the
gold standard faction. He says that
"what the rest can stand, we can
stand.” He says "we may regret the
verdict against us, but we accept it.
We shall make no further effort to
direct the party course or councils, or
to share in any of the responsibilities
of party leadership, having done our
best, according to our conscience and
belief, to divert our political associ
ates from a policy and procedure, the
end of which no man can now fore
see, the results of which we very much
fear, both to the welfare of the coun
try and party.” He announces that he
Is still/a democrat in political belief,
but that he still believes in what has
become known as sound money.
The giving up of the fight by Mr.
Watterson is marked. The fight be
tween the two factions in the demo
cratic party was made squarely in the
state of Kentucky. It was a fair test
and the gold standard faction has
been routed beyond all anticipations.
There is no longer room to doubt
where the democratic party in the
west and south stands. The work
for sound money must henceforth be
carried on by the republican party,
and we believe that many of those
who have become known as gold dem
ocrats will cast their votes with us.
They can not do otherwise. We do
not look for a gold democratic party
in succeeding elections, now that Wat
terson has given it up. In the con
gressional elections next year the is
sue will be put to the front again. In
Iowa the free silver faction will force
the fight along the old lines. We
Bhall be ready to meet them there,
nor shall we doubt the outcome.
Pedacine Kxpeii****.
There is not a county in Nebraska
says the Lincoln Journal, that has
been under republican control in local
affairs for the last five years that does
not show a direct reduction in running
expenses and a saving to the people.
It is no truer in Lancaster county
than in all others in which republi
cans have had unbroken control. In
this county for five years there has
been a steady decrease in the grand
total of assessment and a decrease in
the levy. The records which have
been published over and over prove
It and'are open for Inspection. The
hue and cry made by the fusion forces
to let them in, is simply the cry for
personal greed. With the best of rec
ords in control of local affairs there
should be no break in local tickets.
Every fuslonlst placed in a county of
fice is a protest against the return to
Nebraska in its business relations to
the profitable and business assocla
' tlons of certain and proved value.
Every fuslonlst placed la a oouuty et
A *
flee Is there to contribute from his
to every campaign against
republicans in the future. It Is the
best ticket for Nebraska that is re
publican from commencement to
close. Every county official lost
weakens the verdict. Every one
gained adds emphasis to It. The more
emphatic the record of Nebraska’s re
turn to normal conditions and asso
ciations the more advantageous it will
Republican* Brins Good Time*.
LincoJn Journal: A republican ad
ministration of national affairs al
ways has been and always will be at
w?Hd,by*vhe best tlmes ever en
joyed in the nation. The protective
tariff policy stimulates business and
supplants idleness with industry. The
home tariff market is always stable
and they have money to buy the best
the farmer raises. The republican
policy of reciprocity goes out In the
world and commands n market for
our surplus products. In eighteen
months during the administration of
Benjamin Harrison, it increased the
foreign market for wheat and flour
over 20 per cent and Increased the
foreign demand for the meat product
of this country over 30 per cent. Rec
iprocity is with us again. The repub
lican tariff policy has raised the price
of wool 10 cents a pound. There will
be two million sheep fed in Nebraska
this winter and their fleeces taken be
fore shipment in the spring. Democ
racy in the nation and fusion in Ne
braska crippled ready for destruction
the beet surgar industry. The re
publican policy has protected the beet
sugar Industry and it will grow and
piosper In Nebraska as never before.
Why should not Nebraska be at homo
politically with the party which if
doing all the good for It?
Republican Wisdom.
Philadelphia Press: The discovery
that the Dingley tariff bill has a
clause giving our merchant marins
some share of the protection afforded
other industry, has stirred up a
great deal of excitement in some
quarters. It does not And favor with
a few New Englanders, who are more
alive to the local advantage which
their section enjoys through the tariff
over Canadian railway lines than to
the Interest of New England vessel
owners and ship builders. The pro
vision Is in thorough accord with re
publican pledges and to give to our
ship owners some of the measure ot
protection so willingly accorded to
our manufacturers, mine owners and
agriculturists.
The Dingley tariff bill is a magnifi
cent piece of legislation. While filling
the treasury it will promote American
industry in every field, including that
long-neglected one—American ship*
building.
Dtray of Populism.
Chicago Tribune: The returns from
Kansas, where district judges and
county officers were elected this fall,
come in slowly. It is apparent, how
ever, that the republicans have made
decided gains in a state which gave
Bryan 13,500 majority last year. Coun
ties which he carried then now elect
republican county officers.
The insanity with which the Kan
sans have been afflicted for some years
is slowly passing away. The abundant
crops of 1897, which have brought high
prices, paid in honest money, with
which the farmers have been paying
back the honest money they borrowed
to enable them to get farms of their
own, have had a soothing effect on
their minds.
The farmers are getting to under
stand that neither 40 cent silver dol
lars nor 5 or 10 cent, flat scrip dollars
can do them any good. So they are
turning their backs on free silverism
and Populism.
The Administration Endorsed.
Kansan City Journal: The only dis
appointment to republicans in the re
sults of this year’s elections is in the
size of the majorities. They carried
practically everything. But the Mc
Kinley administration has done so
well they had a right to expect a
sweeping popular indorsement. The
people, however, rarely record their
judgment of a national administration
until they see how it is going to
wear. Next fall they will be ready to
do some talking at the ballot box.
South Dakota lo line.
The Bryanltes carried South Dakota
last year by less than 200 votes. At
the judicial election held this year
they are badly defeated. That was to
be expected, for populism and agricul
ture do not get along well together.
The latter always drives out the form
er. But in spite of the result in South
Dakota that renegade republican.
Senator Pettigrew, will continue to
vote and talk foiNfrcs silver and 40
cent dollars. _
McL«nn'(i Head Wa»Lev«l.
Johnny MeT.ean showed a level head
when he refused to allow Mr. Bryan
to enter Cincinnati with his 16-to-l-or
bust oration. Hamilton county would
have gone republican notwithstanding
the unholy coalition between the pop
ocrats and disgruntled republicans
had Mr. Bryan rounded up his trip
with a triumphant entry into that
city, as was at first announced.
McKinley is All Bight.
President McKinley is complacent.
If the election returns were not all
that republicans desired, he knows the
fault was not his. The platform
pledges upon which he was elected
have been redeemed with wonderful
promptness and success. The presi
dent's conscience is clear.
Sixteen Speechen Woo’d Tlovo Tlnoo It
Lincoln Journal;. If Mr. Bryan had
made sixteen speeches in Omaha in
stead of eight, goodness knows what
would have happened. Had Douglas
gone unanimously for Post and the
republican ticket we would have car
ried the state by a safe majority.
Horace is Happy.
“I frankly confess,” saya Uncle
Horace'Boies, “that I had no part in
the formation of the Chicago . plat
form.” That’s what Uncle Horace saya,
but it isn’t Just what he means. He
doesn't frankly confess—he prou&y
boasts.
Returned to Her TOallow.
Kentucky has gone back to Demo
cratic rule. The washed sow returns
to her wallow in the mire.
RESULT IN NEBRASKA
SULLIVAN'S PLURALITY
BE ABOUT 13,000.
WILL
Fall Returns From All bat Fire Counties
In the State—Cutter and Kearney the
Only Important Ones Tot to Hear
From—Row Those Reporting Toted
For Supreme Judge.
Nebraska Supreme Judgeship.
Returns from eighty-five counties—
all but five in the state—says the Lin
coln Journal, put Sullivan’s plurality
at 12,183. Custer and Kearney are the
only counties of importance unreport
ed, and these are expected to increase
Sullivan’s plurality. The final figures,
it is thought, will not he far from 13,
non . ■ -.v-v
Counties.
Adams .1,. 1,599
Post. Sullivan.
Antelope
Banner
Blaine
913
133
99
Boone . 1,019
<03
Box Butte
Boyd . 548
Burt . 1.264
Butler ...... 1,250
Buffalo . 1,652
Brown . 333
Chase ... 244
Cass . 2,310
Cherry . 658
Cedar . 1,006
Clay . 1,491
Coltax (maj.).
Cuming . 1,037
Cheyenne ...... 475
Custer (maj.) .
Dakota . • . 674
Dodse .•... 1.738
Dawes . 643
Dixon . 901
Douglas .;. * 616
Dundy . 247
Fillmore . 1.534
Franklin . 751
Frontier . 733
Furnas . 1,034
Garfield . 154
Gosper . 342
Greeley . 375
Grant (maj.) . 11
Gage . 2,SCO
Haves . 325
Hooker . 7
Howard .,. 742
Hall . 1,634
Hamilton . 1,219
Harlan . 717
Hitchcock . 402
Holt (maj.) . .
Jefferson . 1,523
Johnson . 1,303
Kearney . 777
Keith . ..... 207
Keya Paha .t. 244
Kimball . 91
Knox . 925
Lancaster . 6,057
Lincoln . 1,013
Logan . 59
Madison . 1,375
Merrick . S57
Nance . 603
Nemaha . 1,349
Nuckolls . 1,235
Otoe . 1,877
Pawnee . 1,340
Pierce . 549
Perkins . 140
Polk . 6:8
Phelps .. 781
Platte . 1.005
Red Willow . 891
Rock . 354
Richardson . 2,107
Saline . 1,629
Sarpy
591
Saunders .. 1,725
494
433
S7
Sheridan
Sherman
Sioux ..
Seward . 1,458
Stanton . 628
Scotts Bluff . 248
Tha yer. . 1.340
ThomHs . 42
Thurston . 663
Valley . 624
Washington . 1,179
IVayno •... , ■ ■—■ 157
Webster . 1,032
Wheeler . 77
York . 1,707
1,97)8
1,190
103
54
1.245
496
542
1,109
1,9(3
2,174
298
955
2,270
(80
1,342
1,847
550
1,597
490
SO
612
1.473
279
2,068
£19
1,079
7,977
252
l.SlO
1,91*
834
1,556
201
785
2, V0
243
45
1,101
1.581
1,5-6
1,026
550
1,537
1,156
1.148
244
3(2
49
1.225
4,696
' 1,197
95
1,564
951
942
1,760
1,150
2,240
1.141
057
213
1,748
' 1,006
2/60
936
231
2,4 2
.1,793
995
2,5*0
733
754
175
1,836
779
196
1,389
78
515
811
1.210
937
1,755
{
Totals ... S4.503 96,513
State University Lectures.
Mr. Andrew Rosewater, a member
of the American Society of Civil En
gineers, now City Engineer of Omaha,
has consented to deliver five lectures
upon the subject of “Municipal Engi
neering” before the Civil Engineering
Club of the university. The first lec
ture of the series will be given on next
Monday evening. The subject will be
treated under the following heads:
“City Surveys and Grade Systems,’*
"Drainage and Sewerage of Cities,"
“Pavements and Their Maintenance,”
“Water Supply and Fire Protection,”
“The Engineer as a Factor in Munic
ipal Government.” While the lectures 1
are to be addressed primarily to the ' I
students of civil engineering, every ^
one' of them will treat of certain
points that are of great interest to
every student of municipal problems.
Good to Look At.
We cannot look too often at the rec
ord of Nebraska this year. The final
report of the crop product of (he
state is staggering in its magnitude.
Here are the figures:
Wheat, bushels, 32,967,736; corn
237,907,964; oats, 71,234,769; rye, 6.39S,
343; potatoes, 9,876,321; barley, 2,987,
876; flax seed, 296,884; hay, tons, 4,
981,733; sugar beets, tons, 190.080;
chicory, tons, 6,722. The report placss
this value upon the products, compu
ted at values on the local market;
Farm products, $99,370,965.21; dairy
products, $9,438,000; egg3, $2,250,000;
poultry, $7,567,245; live stock, $61,893,
000.
Father ’•hoot* Hie L'ttle Son.
About 7 o’clock last evening, says a
(Tnadilla dispatch, Ralph Van Horn,, a
farmer, 30 years of age, shot and fa
tally wounded his 3-year-old son,
Clarence, and then committed suicide * A
by shotoing himself, the bullet lodfc
ing in the brain. The cause was fam
ily troubles. The child will die from
the wounds inflicted. *-»
Richard J. B. Waldley, a well known
young man of Nebraska City, has mys
teriously disappeared. He was married
Monday in Omaha to Mies Kittle Felt- * ,
houser, also of Nebraska City, and: ar
rived with her on the afternoon train.
He placed his wife in a hack, remark
ing- that he would ride up town on the
street car. There is no trace of him
since that time.
Convlr.trd Mea ^entraffd.
Wilber dispatch: Before adjourn
ment of district court yesterday Judge
Hastings gave sentence in criminal
cases as follows: Joseph Richards, of
DeWitt, assault, fine of $100 and to
pay costs of prosecution: Herbert Per
kins, of Friend, bastardy, ordered to
pay for maintenance of child of Helen )_. .
Milton, $2,000, in monthly install- *
merits of $13.50, and to pay coats of
prosecution. Whitney Stotts, statu
tory assault at Crete, three yean in
the penitentiary.
A fine new mill la being built at
Harvard.
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