Thb fie. wool bill passed the
house yesterday by a vote of 11H
to 60.
THE republican carried the day
in outh Omaha, (he stronghold of
the bourbons, where the independ
ents iind republican! elected their
ticket.
If China wan s to retaliate, let
her do so. We don't want any more
Ch nese immigrants, and we are
going to use all legitimate means to
keep them out.
VEKI'INO U'ATKK is troubled with
tramps and the Republican wants a
stone pile to utilize the wasted ener
gy of the twenty live bums that drop
in there each day.
The treasury's cash balance is
growing. This is a highly encourag
ing condition of things, but we no
tice that the democraiic papers have
forgotteu to mention it.
THE democrats are sure to lose
New York this fall, and where are
they going to get the votes to make
up this loss? They are sure to be
beaten worse than they were in 1888.
Til EKE is not one democrat in five
that believes Cle eland can carry
New York thi year, but they are
bound to nominate him and are
willing to take all risks, as the con
dition of things forces them to.
New Yokk has often knocked out
the west in democratic national con
ventions, and it will do the same
this year. It is only in the republi
can national convention that the
'good western man" has a chance.
The St Louis Republic thinks
the democracy will come west this
year for a presidential candidate
and that it will light on Governor
Boies of Iowa. If it should do so
politics will be lively in Iowa this
fall, and don't you forget it.
The inventer of the age, Mr. Edi
son, has invented a machine that
will project a torpedo two miles un
der water and keep it there ready to
be exploded at the pleasure of the
man in the ship from where it was
started.
Vice President Morton says he
will accept a renomination, and the
party cannot do any better than to
give it to him. He has made an
efficient officer, and he is strong in
the state that will probably decide
the election.
THE farmers evidently have :
little surplus money to i.ivest, as
number of them have already c
traded for new homes to be 1 n
this summer. It ia a pretty g..d
sign that the the country is pros
pering when the farmers provide
better homes for themselves.
Chicago wants more war vessels
on the lakes; she is afraid that if
war should ever be declared between
the United States and England that
the great city of the west would be
shelled. She need not fear for be
fore that ever happens, Edison,
America's greatest in ventor, or some
other inventive genious will have
invented a machine or contrivance
that will lay the modern implements
of warfare along side of the old flint
arrow.
IX all the history of this nation
there has never been a law enacted
by congress and signed by a presi
dent so beneficial to the American
farmer as is the McKinley tariff law.
Its good effects has been felt in the
homes of every farmer in the nation,
its influence has reached along
every channel of agriculture. It
has touched the dozen of eggs and
the pound of butter; the potato has
beon stimulaled to a larger growth
and the old hens after a useful life
can be sold for the table at advanced
prices and more it has reduced in
price all articles consumed on the
farm. This law can be retained by
retaining in power the republican
power. Indianola, Iowa, Herald.
What are the tin plate howlers
going t3 do now? Twenty-two
thousand pounds of block tin was
shipped to New York, from the Te
mescal mines In California the other
day and put up on the market, and
the result was that immediately the
tin combine of England telegraphed
orders to put down prices. The time
is not far distant when the only rc
maining article- of generul con
sumption whose price has advanced
since the passage of the McKinley
bill will l)e withdrawn from the list
This shipment Is only a beginning.
The work etill on a small scute, only
one smelter having bee as yet put
in operation, but in a short time the
output will have a very decided in
ilueuce on the market. In a few
months the Dakota tin mines will
begin to make a showing at Nigger
Hill and Harney's Peak.
THE SILVER SITUATION.
It is evident now that the Bland
bill is dead for this session of con
gress at any rate. The failure of
'Speaker Crisp to render the aid to
' the friends of the measure which
they expected, and which, it is said,
j he hml virtually promised, seals its
; fate for this year. The few demo
i cruts of the Eastern states who are
! sincerely opposed to the passage of
j the bi'l at any time and under any
circumstances, in combination with
the tricksters and (lodgers of the
south and west who, for partisan
reasons, desire to postpone the bill
until after the election, have tri
umphed. Their margin of victory
it is true, is narrow, but it is suf
ficient for their purpose. Mr. bland
and the other honest but deluded
friends of the measure intend to
make another struggle to force it
through the house, but it is easy to
see that they are doomed to defeat.
The effect which this setback for
silver will have upon the canvass
can not be foretold at the present
time with any confidence. Doubt
less a vigorous and persistent at
tempt will be made in the west and
south to secure an expression in the
national convention in favor of free
silver. Unquestionably also these
sections, if they work harmoniously
and with any approach to unanimity
in this endeavor, will nccomplih
their purpose. Yet it would not be
altogether safe to predict that they
will do this. The extremists have
lost prestige by their reverse and
cau scarcely regain their old influ
ence and standing. For the time
being anyhow they are losing
ground. The eastern section of the
party is showing a zeal, a cohesive
iicbs and an affluence of resources
which were not looked for, and
promise to last throughout the can
vass at least. Evidently the demo
cratic leaders and managers are
taking their orders from the east in
stead of the west, as they always did
in the past.
It would be vain to deny that the
republicans are disagreeably dis
appointed by the prspect that the
democrats may be able to dodge
the silver question this year. The
passage of the Bland bill in tne
house would have put the four
doubtful states of the north in the
republican column without the
shadow of a doubt, leaving to the
democracy the old slave state
region only. This woHd have hap
pened even though the bill could
not, by any accident or mischance,
override the presidential veto
which awaited it. However, success
to the republicans has by no means
been altogether dependent on the
silver issue. This would have
t- n. . C1 them a few e. a elec.oinl
, but v'.c.'ory for them has
i assured nil along without ii.
i nrotec.'ion c.misc is si:'l wi.h
i ... r.c ,-e cen be no dodg'ng by
ti.i- dcnuj.alsoii the t.-'r'.ffquest'oii.
Then th""e is the rec; oc:iy issue,
which holds lori'i poss b 'lf 'is of
many success ve triumphs for its
chiwnpions. Under this s'gn they
are sine to conquei. The repub
lican pari is ina1e":ally and dis
tinctively sponger at this moment
than it was o.i the eve of the open
ing of the nafonal campaign of
1SS8. Globe-D'Miiocrat.
IF IT WASN'T FOR THE FACTS.
Reviewing the trade of the
United States in textile manufac
ture during the first three months
of this year, the Dry Goods
Economist says, quoting the great
firm of A. Van Bergen A Co. :
Collections have been in better
shape, and business all around has
been better to do. Bankruptcici
have been fewer than in 1NU1. The
action of the tariff has increased
the manufacture in America of low
price worsted goods. As a proof,
one of our mills is building a new
factory at Camden, Maine, and
another is increasing its production
by extension of plant. Domestic
dress goods have sold much
better.
This report is sadly out of keep
ing with the democratic predictions
of the inability of the American
people to buy clothing because of
"higher protection on account of
the tariff."
But let us continue to quote from
the great organ of the American
dry goods trade:
Another agent, who represents a
well known dress goods mill, re-
forts trade s good as in 1W1.
Credits are much better and
bankruptcies fewer. Prices are
lower than in 1891, with the pros
pects that during the next six
months they will be further re
duced. "Prices lower than in 18VI , with
prospects of further reduction
during the next six months." And
this in the pages of a trade journal
whose editorial opinions ever have
been unfriendly to the McKinle)
bill!
But let us continue to quote:
Frederick W. Hayne, of Lawrence
k Co., reports the condition of the
cotton goods market ia excellent
shape, an increase in the sale of
goods Of better qualities and wear
ing features. The volume of busi
ness has been larger than during
the corresponding quarter, of last
year. I Credits are in a much im
proved condition. The change in
the financial condition of ttf-d.iv, as
compared with a year ago, is a
most noticeatue feature, and tin
prosperity in the west has added
largely to the increased business.
Everybody remembers that the
democratic and free trade press
- said th it the McKinley bill was
trained to fatten the east upon the
tl-sh of the west. But after
eightcc'i months' operation of the
bill it appears that it is "the pros
perity of the west" that is the
notii cable feature.
B':t let us make one more quota
tion: This points to a still greater trade
later on in the year. The west i?
developing to a wonderful extent,
and the distributions are being
made from western and southern
centers that previously were made
from New York. The tendency ot
the manufacturing industries is to
better qualities of goods, better
styles and more originality.
Of late, finding it useless to report
the old falsehood about "higher
prices," the free trade and demo
cratic press has been busy in saying
that prices are kept from rising by
lowering the quality of the goods
sold, but the trade organs tell us
that the demand everywhere
throughout the United States is for
better qualities than ever before
were offered.
If it wasn't for the facts, how ad
mirable would free trade theories be
Chicago Inter Ocean.
A FLORIDA PHENOMENON.
We clip the following from the
Scientific American:
Mr. Editor: I arrived here about
six weeks ago and have since vis
ited on several occasions the most
rare and peculiar phenomenon.
There is a prairie within three
miles of this place that is fifteen
miles in length, with an average
width of live miles. Twelve years
ago it filled with water to a depth of
eight to twenty feet, varying ac
cording to high and low ground.
This water stood undisturbed for
this twelve years' space of time un
til last August, when it suddenly
disappeared entirely in two days,
leaving two small holes of water,
not exceeding ten acres area, and a
few ponds here and there of sizes
too insignificant to mention.
The soil here is principally sand
underlaid at varying depths by
very soft sand and limestone.
There is some Hint at great depths.
Near the location where the water
is thought to have made its exit the
country is b'terally dotted with
holes, varying from ten to forty feet
in depth; the sides are steep and
precipitous. These holes are com
monly known here as sinks, and
are sometimes formed in a single
night.
For days after the escape of the
water from this prai'ie the stench
of putrid fish was intolerable.
The farmers luuiled them off in
wagons for fertilizers.
On the prairie anywhere turtle
shells can be seen, with here and
there the skeleton of some unlortu
raie alligator that has been killed
by some marksman or by some
S' ray hunter.
HAKKY BUNKOk'D.
Gainesville, Fla., March H, 1S9-'.
The following paragraph from
l'ostmasler General Wanamaker's
address before the conference of
postmasters last mouth ought to be
made familiar to every citizen who
desires to see a business-like ad
ministration of our public affairs:
"At 12 o'clock this ve-y day, three
years ago, I took my place as a fel
low workman with you in this ser
vice. As a matter of fact and for
your encouragement I will state
that these three years cannot be
matched in good results to the ser
vice by any other similar period in
102 years of its history. From
March 4, 188(1, to March 5, 1H02, we
have established 10,549 new post
offices, more than one-sixth of the
whole number in existence. To the
2,GT4 presidential offices of 1S80 we
have added in three years 4f7
about 18 per cent of the entire num
ber of such offices, which is now
3,121. In the matter of the revenue,
the three years prior to the present
administration increased postal re
ceipts $24,000,000, or from $13O,0U0,O0O
to ?154,0U0,C:'J, being more than 18
per cent. The three years of this
administration carried the revenue
from $154,00.00:) to over $195,0i,000,
an increase of more than 2I per
cent; in other words, we maintained
the $24,000,000 gained by the last ad
niinistraiion and added over
$40,5( K),(KK) to it."
The dewocrits can't dodge the
free wool bill now for they have
passed it by a solid party vote, and
it will cost their party many
thousands of votes in localities it
cannot afford to spare them. They
can't dodge that question even if
they do dodge lree silver.
Some of the democratic papers of
New York are asking a question
that they think i a stunner and
thinks no one can answer. Here is
the question: ' If Cleveland can't
carry New York, who cau?" V'ewilJ
answer it by not only naming a
aiau who can, but one who will
carry that state this fall and bis
nam' is Harrison.
Mrs. I.essie Hunt and Mis Mattie
Smith were passengers this morn
ing for Omaha.
STATE BASE BALL.
Tho Shcedule as Adopted by
the Directors of the
League.
from .i,'ufiliy'i m fw
The following skedule has been
adapted by the directors of the
state base ball league:
Cim it HHNtnivl.
Beatrice will play at Hastings May
2:-24. June 20-21. July IS !'., August
15-hi, September 12 lit.
Lincoln will play May 20-21, June
IMS July 14-15, August 12 lit, Sep.
tetuher 9-10.
Grand Island will play May liMI,
June 10-11, July 7 -S, August 5 0, Sep
tember 2-H.
Fremont will play May 1(1 17, June
lil 14, July 9 11, August S l, Sep'cm.
her 5 0.
I'lattsmouth will be at Hastings
May IS 19. June 15-10. July 12 13, Aug
ust 10-11, September 7-8.
Gamti at Demrice.
Hastings will be at Beatrice May,
9-10, June 07, July 4 4, August 1-2
August 29-30.
Lincoln will play May IS 19. June
15-10, July 12-13, August 10 11, Sep
tember 7-8.
Grand Island will play May 11-12,
June 8 9, July 5-0, August 3 4 31, Sep
tember 1.
Fremont will play May 13 14, June
10 11, July 7 8, August !)-(, Septem
ber 2-3.
I'lattsmouth will play May lti-17
June 13-14, July 9 11, August S-9, Sep
tember 5 (5.
Games at Lincoln
Hastings will bent Lincoln May 7 8,
June 3-4, July 1-3, July '29-30, August
20-27.
Beatrice will play May 5 0, June
1-2, June 29-30, July 27-28, Aug
ust 24-25.
Grand Island will play May 9-10,
May 30-30, June 5-0, July 4-4-31, Aug
ust 28.
Fremont will play May 11-12, June
8-9, July 5-6, August 3-4-31, Septem
ber 1.
Plattsmou th will play May 13-15
June 10-12, July 7-8, August 0-7, Sep
tember 2-4.
Games at Orand Island.
Hastings will play at Grand Is
land May 1-2, May 15-29, June 25-20,
July 23-24. August 20 21.
Beatrice will play May 25-20, June
23-24, July 20 21, August 17-18, Sep
tember 14-15.
Lincoln will play May 23-24, June
19-20, July 1718, August 1410, Sep
tember 11-12.
Fremont will play May 18-19, June
12-l.r, July 10-13, August 7-10, Sep
tember 4 8.
I'lattsmouth will play May 21-22,
June 1718, July 14-15, August 12-13,
September 9-10.
, , Games at Fremont.
Hastings will play at Fremont
May 3-1, May 30-30, June 27-28, July
25-20, August 22-23.
Beatrice will play May 1-2, May
28- 29, June 25 20, July 3-23-21. Aug
ust 21.
Lincoln will play May 25-20, June
22-23, July 20-21, August 17-18, Sep
tember 1 1-15.
Grand Island will play May 5-0,
June 1-2, June 29-30, July 27-28, Aug
ust 24 25.
I'lattsmouth will play May 23-24,
June 19-20, July 17-18, August 11-10,
September 1112.
Games at Plattsmouth.
Bastings will play in this city
May 5-0, June 1-2, June 29-30, July
27-28, August 24-25.
Beatrice will play in this city
May 3-4, May 30-30, June 27-28, July
25-20, August 22-23.
Lincoln will play in this city May
1-2, May 28-29, June 25-20, July 23-24,
August 20-21.
Grand Island will play in this
city May 7-8, June 3-4, July 1-3, July
29- 30, August 20-27.
Fremont will play in this city
May 9-10, June 5-0, July 4 4, July 31,
August 1-28-29.
By the schedule the season will
open in this city with two games
between Lincoln and the home
team, followed by Beatrice, Hast
ings, Grand Island and Fremont,
each club playing two games with
the home team.
I'lattsmouth also gets two games
on Decoration day and two July 4.
Beatrice will he here on Decoration
day and Fremont on Julv 4.
SHOT AT. HIS WIFE
A University Place Man Who Can
Congratulate Himself on His
Marksmanship.
A story conies floating in from
University Place that D. M. Wolf, a
grocer in that village, has occasion
o entertain grateful reflections that
lie is not an unerring bell-ringer
with a gun. One night early in this
week he was aroused by a suspicious
noise at the front door. Mr. Wolf
hastened at once to the door with a
light and a gun. When he inquired
through the door what was wanted
a man on the outside made some
reply and vanished. Mr. Wolf ex
tinguished the light in due time
and started back to the bedroom.
On his way he noticed some one ut
the kitchen window, and supposing
it to be a burglar who had effected
an entrauce, pointed his weapon in
that direction and fired. lie was
P5.HMERS:
LOOK
v - II. I 1,1 - -
1 oa are rjpowxt to luiMen changei or tcin-ifiratnre, end to Injurle.
ST. JACOBS IL
cure, RHEUMATISM.
SPRAINS, BRUISES, CUTS, WOUNDS. SORENESS.
STIFFNESS, SWELLINCS, BACKACHE, N EUR ALCIAa
SCIATICA, BURN3. '
A PROMPT AND PERMANENT CURE.
Our entire
BOOTS and SHOES
Ladies Glove grain butt $1.25 shoe
red no s id f4 cents,
l.adiys plain rubbers formerly 35c
now 25c.
Ladies Dongola butt $1.50 shoe $1.20
Sadies good Dongola butt $2 00 shoe
for $1.05.
Ladies best Dongola butt $2.00 shoe
for $2.10.
Ladies tine Dongola butt $3,00 shoe
$2.40.
Ladies extra line Dongola hand
We also have a great nianv other bargains that we have not space
to mention in Boys, Misses, and t'hildrens shoes. We intend going t
I exas and will sell them at a great sacrifice.
FRED GORDER W SON,
IIAVK A VKKY LAKGK STOCK OF
Harness - and - Buggies,
AND A fTLL LINK OF FARM MACUINKKY, SUCH AS
HOOSIER SEECERS, PLOWS. HARROWS. ETC.
WK CARRY TIIK TWO LEADING CULTIVATORS
NEW DEPARTURE T0NGUELE8S,
AND JMlXiKIl Ei DING CULTIVATORS
They also carry a hill Line 01 Implements at
their house in Weeping Water
Fred Corder & Son.
IMnHsmoiit Ii.
(ilii HncnMn mill tim
MnrrliMl l,irt, .. .u
"A TIIRA'I'Isri I oil
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Villi
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and wh will maka ton a l)rau Portrait Fre oft'barafs provided foil
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exhibit It to your friend, aa a nampleof our work, and on your Influence In -OntinR
ua future nrdvra. Place name and addrewion baok of picture and H will be re
turnpft in nerfrtorrii.r. We mitfcA tm ehanveln Dlrtiire Ton wleh. not Interfering with tha
llkeneaa. Hefer to any bank In Chlcsuro. addrena all mall to R'L.l Pa'POKT KA IT CO.,
108 and IIO Eaat Randolph 8t., QHICACO.I
nUTtpJiotojmrtrewTinreo
horrified in an iiiHtynt to find that it
was 1 1 i h wife nt whom he had nliot.
She had (dipped into the kitchen un
known to her lumbfind, to clone the
window blinds. So cIohw wns he
when he fired that Mrs. Wolf's neck
was powder burned, which was the
only injury sustained except a very
severe nervous shock which pros
trated the lady for some time.
AMERICAN TIN INDUSTRY.
Twenty-two thousand pounds of
tin is not a great deal, but it was
enough to make the Loudon dealers
in the metal telegraph to New York
to lower the price of foreign tin lest
the American product should in
jure the business. This J,JUU
pounds of tin was the first ship
ment from the Temescal mines, in
this state, received in New York on
Yednesday, and ordered by the
consigness to be sold to dealers in
small lots us samples of an article
which in a short time will supply
the American market.
There is only one smelter at work
at the Temescal mines at the pres
ent time, and the output is necessa
rily limited, but us soon ns addi
tional machinery can be put up the
product of tin will be greatly in
creased. The quality of this first
shipment of California tin is saidto
be fully equal to that ( the best
tin from the Straits Settlements,
and the price will reach that ob
tained for this grade of imported
tin.
OUT!
55 TP
stock of
$4.00 shoe, now $3.25.
Mens butT bals and congress $1.M
shoe, reduced to $1.00.
Mens Hcalf bals and cong $2.00 now
$l.(K).
Mens good calf bals and cong. $2iW
shoe $2.10.
Mens best calf bals and cong. $3.00
shoe $2.50
Mens drews gondola congress $3.59
shoe $3,00.
Mens best sol id $3.00 boot, $2.0
BECIT 2z CO.
Nebraska.
KvorrMAN who..ul.!kr,MwlhnJIIANITUrTtm,thn Main ParU, tho
Nrtt iHrruvorii'ft of Mxillntl Scionne U applli-d to
lit wrl'o fur our wonderful llltl hnnk. MlM
MKN ONI.V." To any osriii'Ktmiinw will mall one
in pinin ninifn cover. "A nmitrft rroni inequacJ
ERIE MEDICAL CO., BUFFALO, N. t.
Wlahlni tn Intrndneftntir CKATOIT POR-
301Y5
f HAITI and atthniama tlm eilmid ourbutloeM
anamak((npciiUimrni.wehiTe dooldodto mak thipll
I'ahlmit I'letnrn. I'hotoirrauh.Tlntr oe. A mlmitT ue
or ntninnnitTDi) i.f vnunnlf nr an lombpr of Tour family. Ilrlnu or dead
ILL. r B -we will lonrii iw n;ui
aa per thia offer.
'. i nil onria popb eng.
It is asserted on good authority
that the deposits of tin ore in the
Temescal mines are very extensive,
and that there is a prospect of a
greut output of the metal. If this
be true it will not take long for the
California tin to make a decided
impress on the imports of the
foreign metal. Our ttnnual import
of tin is valued at about $7,000,000,
so 22,000 pounds of the metal a't 20 or
r2 cents a pound does not cut much
of u figure, or rather would not if
this were the beginningand ending
of it; but because it is believed
there is plenty more where this
came from it exercises an immedi
ate elTect upon the market.
This shipment of tin will discour
uge the tin plate liars more than
ever, if such a thing be possible.
It has not escaped attention that
the democratic house has been per
fectly mum on the tin and tiif plate
schedules of the McKinley bill, and
now there will be less likelihood
than ever of their being touched
this season - San Francisco Chron-
i icle.
Hon. T. M. Dritt was in towu to
day shaking hands with his many
friends. Ilia record was such that
all are glad to meet him and find
him in good health. Glen wood
Opinion. Hon, F. M. Dritt is a
brother of Rev. Hritt of this city,
A.N. Sullivan had business in
Omaha to-day.
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