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PLATTSMOUTH HERALD 0 XXIX. NO 31) PLATTSMOUTH CASSCOUXTY. XKHUASKA. TllUUSDAYDIXM-MHK K 22.1892. Si. 50 A YKAK. -A y vol rmupi Tips in r" T,ir- HOLIDAYS Wilier, selecting 11 preseni urop m show you something USEFUL baby or for grandmother. Our line Trrru i ; . i scriptions; Easy Chaira and in fact complete. We have the LARGEST than anyone else in the city 0"M"E T"NT A J REMEMBER MtAUUUAKltKS hUK A-MAS UUUDS STipiQliT SATTIcEl9! (SUCCESSORS TO HENRY HOECK.) 522 Main Street, - - Plattsmouth, Neb. L -'- - - - - SEE J. I. UNRUH FURNITURE. HE JHTAlSri3LES TUB AND CAN GIVE PARLOR SETS, DINING ROOM SETS, BED ROOM SETS, AND A METROPOLITAN UAlfl STKJSflT. : !3U TMdESTIBLK AND A trial will Klimv li.. USSAT f ll'ERIORITY In pt torn, flavor & cheapness.. F. G. FRICKE & CO., KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A COMPLETE STOCK OF Fimnro . liorlininno . Dninta EJIUKO, . SVSUUIUIIIUO, . B CilllLQ, AND OILS. DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES AND PURE LIQUORS. PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY FILLED at all HOURS. 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Weekly Tribune, regular price The Herald, regular price per year Total 2 50 WE FUR1SH BOTH PAPERS ONE YEAR FOR $1.75. COPY FOR ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE WRRKLY MUST BE IN BY TUESDAY EVENING. furniture . . aim iook over our stocK tor we can as well as ORNAMENTAL for the of Ladies' Desks, Rockers of all de everything in the furniture line in STOCK and sell you CHEATER "NTT") RTP.Tn TT5 THAT WE ARE GOOD BARGAINS, EVERYTHING KEPT IN ESTABLISHMENT. : rLATToMUlJ TH. , tS NUTurnors per year $1 OO 1 50 HRRAT.D HANGING BY A THREAD. James G. Blaine's Life is Slow, ly Ebbing Away. HIS CONDITION CRITICAL. The Physlcln9 'J i -. ntly Remin t His Bed-Slde-The Chances for His Recovery re Very Slim-Notes. Washington, Dec. is. All day long the life of James G. Blaine has hung trembling in the balance. For more than an hour in the fore noon hope was abandoned and the end was momentarily expected by physicians, family and friends. All simulation was thrown nside in the apparent imminent presence of death, and the suppressed facts of his illness the long denied, but now admitted Bright's disease the occasional intervals of delirium, the long hours when he laid,Jincapable of speech or motion (as it is not said was the case when Cardinal Gibbous paid him his recently friendly call), these nnd other dis tressing features of his illness, all incidental to the one over-powering organic trouble, Bright's disease, aggravated, as this has been of late, by a cold contracted while impru dently venturing out driving two weeks ago, and by malarial fever, and confronted by a constitution impared by nearly two year of con tinuous sickness, all these facts arc now tactily admitted. The physicians assert that there have not been any hemorrhages, as has been asserted, but this is al most the only alarming symptoms which is now denied. The first crisis was reached beteen 10 and 11 o'clock this morning, when a sink ing spell set in and the worst was feared. His family was called around the bedside and his physi cians sent messenger after messen ger to the nearest drugstore with perscr-ptions requiring hasty at tention. The distinguished patient lay un conscious and to all appearances dying until shortly before I o'clock p. in., when a slight rally set in. Bis pulse, which had almost ceased to beat, becoming again perceptible and partial conscious ness was restored. At 2 o'clock his physicians, Drs. W. II. Johnson raid Hyatt considered him so much im proved as to render their consent at the bedside unnecessary. While there had been no marked improve ment and no change in his condi tion upon which hopes of ultiine diate recovery could be based, the immediate crissis has been passed. At 'Jl.'M this afternoon a United Stales press reporter saw James G. Blaine jr., at the family residence. He said that his father's attack this morning was very bad and created the gravest apprehension. His condition became so weak that it was feared that in view of his en- tceulcu condition a recurrence mils! involve the gravest conse quences. Mrs. Hale, wile of Sena tor Eugene Hale of Maine, one of Mr. Blaine's closest friends, was at the house for several hours during the day and made a second call late in the afternoon. About 5 o'clock she left, and soon after Senator Hale called. Mr. Hale's statement as he left the house as to Mr. Blaine's condition was that he seemed a little more comfortable than he had been earlier in the day, but that his con dition appeared to be critical. "It may be," he said, "that he will re cover, but those who have an inter est in him have reason to be alarmed. In fact, his condition is alarming. It is difficult to name trouble. It is a general physical breaking up. When he takes a cold it brings on a consuming fever and he is not in a condition to with stand it. Besides there are the or dinary complications. His mind is perfectly clear." The house was lighted up early and all the lower shutters closed. Drs. Hyatt and W. W. Johnston, who were to meet at the house for a con sultation between 7 and X, were sent for just before 5 o'clock. Dr. Hyatt was the First to arrive, lie reached the house about five minutes before iaud was followed soon by Dr. Johnston. The fact that both Dr. Hyatt and Dr. Johnston were sum moned gave rise to the report that the patient was suffcrinc from an other ;ui.ick of exhaustion. This, however, proved to be an rrror, and the statement was aulhoritively made at 1 p. m. that nothing in the nature of a relapse had occurred. While the improvement in Mr. Blaine's condition is but slight and not sufficient to cause any great amount of encouragement to his family and friends, the reaction has seemed to modify the feeling of ap prehension for the immediate fu ture. James G. Blaine, jr., and Wal ter E. Dainsroch, the ex-secretary's son-in-law, were on the street this evening. 8COTTS ULl'FF COUNTY REAL ESTATE. GEK'lNO, Neb., Dec. 18. Warranty deed was recorded last week trans ferring 5,(ki8 acres of land in this county from the receiver of the Union Cattle company to the Go.-hen Hole Irrigation company. The consideration named was only $1.00, but as the land is almost en tirely subject to irrigation from the Mitchell and Horse Creek canals, its value is fully $00,000. The owner ship, so far as individuals are con cerned, is virtually the same, but the land has been in litigation ever since the insolvency of the Union Cattle company, and it is supposed that this transfer leaves it in shape to be placed on the market. TKOUUIK IN MEXICO. New Orleans, La., Dec 13.-The Picayunes special from Laredo says: Two troops of United States cavalry tinder command of Cap tains Chase and Hunter arrived in Laredo tonight from San Antonio. They are the two veteran compan ies D and K, which were in the lower county during the Guraa cam paign. A dipatch received here last night states that General Sesten-Rocha, military iirMruetor at Chapultepec. Mex., is missing and has not been heard from in live days. His ab sence may be significant in view of the present uprising. He is very prominent in the Mexican army and if he saw proper, could lead a larger faction against the present admin istration than any other in. in in the public. afraid of martin. Tope K A, Km., Dec. lS.-There are more than a store of populists here to discuss the senatorial situation and to kill if possible the growing boom of Judge John Martin for sen ator. Chairman Briedeuthal of the people's party, who is the leading populist candidate, refuses to be shelved in the interest of a demo crat and believes he will be success ful. In aii4literview today he said: "There is not an influential populist who favors a democrat for senator. The successful candidate will be a populist who is true and tried. Democrats will receive all the fed eral appointments and the popu lists will get nothing, They have no claim whatever to the senator ship and they will come far from getting it. If a single fusion democrat refuses to enter the cau cus and agree to abide by its decis ion no democrat will receive a vote inthe caucus for United States sen ator." LIVI.D AND DIED IN A CHILD'S CRIII. PAWTLTLMT, R.I., Dec. IS. Rose Donohue died here on Friday aged 17. She was stricken with paraly sis at the age of 0, ami for thirty eight years had not left the little crib in which her 3 feet of body re posed, nor during that time had there been an apparent growth in the limbs, shoulders and trunk. After a time her feet became locked one on the top of the other, and knit together so that the right foot, which was beneath the left, could hardly be seen. Nevertheless her head grew as rapidly to its proper proportions as that of a person who enjoyed good physical health. Her hands were palmless, and the four finders on her right hand and the three on her left were boneless bits of fleshO inches long. Her memory was remarkably clear, and her eyes beamed with brightness and intelli gence. She was a constant reader of religious works and remembered everything which she read, and would repeat it from memory. She devoted all of her time to reading works of eininentCatholics and in prayer. Although she never ex pressed It if people called on her, it could be plainly seen from her manner that she was ill at ease when gasr.ed at too long. In regard to her condition she would never say a word, and was always as happy and contented as possible. The state bankers association is in session today at Lincoln. The express office is doing a large si.cd business. The Christmas trade is on in full blast. VIEWS OF A RADICAL Congressman Bland Gives His Opinion to the Public. MR. BLAND'S PLAIN TALK. Rvnu Reformers Must Choos Between Income Tax nd Single Tax-T riff Reduc tion Me ns Dlticit. One of the Radicals. "I expect I'm one of the radicals." Congressman Bland said to a Globe Democrat reporter the other day "We have got to raise large amounts of money," he continued, "to keep the government running. I am convinced we can't cut down the tarilf and relieve the burden of taxation to the extent of the people rightly expect an still maintain the revenue for the government ser vice as we find it. Either we must make few and unimportant changes in the tarilf, or we must make up in some other way what we cut otf from the tarilf." "Do you mean that you are in fa vor of the single tax?" was asked. "No, I dt.u't believe in that, either in theory or practice," was the quick reply. "What then income tax?" was asked. "Yes," said Mr. Bland decidedly, "I am in favor of cutting down the tarilf and making up the deficiency by leaving an income tax. Some raise the objection that an income tax is a kind of inquistorial pro ceeding. That doesn't strike me as a valid objection. I don't think it would be any more inquistorial than the methods employed by the assessors in Missouri who require people to swear to everything they've got, in the way of person ality. It isn't any worse to call on a man to testify to what his income is, then to require him to make affi davit as to how much money he has got in the bank, how much he has got loaned out of all that." 'The radicals in the east agree that the way to make up the revnue lost by cutting the tarill is by a single tax on land?" was suggested. "I know they do," replied Mr. Bland. "That single-tax idea is something I don't believe in. It doesn't seem practicable to my mind. How is the general govern ment going to levy and collect a tax on land? True, we might say to the states, the government wants money, and we might call on them for revenue in proportion to popu lation, to sustain the general gov ernment, but could we dictate to the states how they should raise that money, whether by single tax on land or in some other way? It would be for the stales to enforce the single tax, if they chose. I haven't yet been to seethe beauty of the single-tax theory. One part of the argument I can appreciate. That is the application to the man who has more land than he can make use of and who lets it lie idle and grow in value through the in dustry and enteprrise of those around him. Such unproductive property ought to bear a larger share of taxation, if some way could be found to reach it. I do not be lieve in encouraging that kind of property holding. But the single tax as it is proposed, with the in tention of making the land bear the burden of taxation, does not appeal to me as the right thing. ' "The single taxers have a theory that the only right to land is the right to its use, not to ownership?" "Yes, I known their theory. But it will not do in this country. It is un-American. It will not become general. The idea of owning the home is too strongly intrenched here. We are a people of home seekers and home owners." Some tarilf reformers argue that with a reduction of the tariff there will be larger importations and hence increased revenue?" "There isn't much in that, in my opinion," said Mr. Bland, "at least not enough to make up the loss from the reduction in rate. I am not one who believes that tUe cut in the tariff will largely increase the importations. I think our manu facturers will goon manufacturing, about us much as they do now. They will have to sell cheaper and be satisfied with smaller profits or will have to find more economical methods. The people will be uble to buy cheaper, but they will buy American manufactures as they do now and the revenue from the tariff will suffer. "The McKinley bill was more art. fully drawn than is generally ap preciated," continued Mr. Bland with a smile. "It put upon the free list some things which cannot be produced in this country, at least not in sufficient quantity, and which bore considerable revenue. We cannot very consistently go back to the taxation ol these things which are in common use in order to raise revenue. And if the cut ting down of the tarill on things manufactured here will not result in largely increased importations and consequently increased rev enue, how are we goiii to get the money to run this expensive gov ernment? I am in favor of doing what we have promised the people to do in the way of tariff reduction, and us that will leave us without money enough I nni in favor of making up the difference by au in come tax." This plain talk of Mr. Bland very plainly presents the condition which confronts democracy. Every body now realizes that a material modification of the tariff is impos sible unless coupled with some new scheme for raising the wind. Democratio Editors. The democratic editors of the state met yesterday at Lincoln. As the meeting was designed primarily to reorganize the association, the first thing done after the doors were closed was to strike from the mem bership rolls the names of those who had deserted the party and gone over to the independents. The weeding out process having been satisfactorily accomplished, the as sociation proceeded to elect the fol lowing permanent officers lor tlio ensuing year: President, D. F. Da. vis of the Columbus Telegram; first vice president, Fred Hassler of the Pawnee Press; second vice presi dent, J. F. Kitcher of the South, Omaha Tribune; third vice presi dent, A, A. Parks of the Norfolk Herald; fourth vice president, C. J. Bowly of the Crete Democrat; fifth vice president, J. L. Greenlee of the Blue Hill Leader; sixth vice pres ident, N. H. Park of the Greeley Herald; secretary, E J. Hall of the Grand Island Democrat; treasurer, C. M. llubner of the Nebraska City News. The executive committee is com posed of the president, secretary treasurer and Edgar Howard of the Papilllion Times and E. W. Hurl but of the Aurora Sun. A general discussion of method,-! and measures then ensued, and af ter a pretty thorough understand ing had been reached a committee on resolutions was appointed as follows: C.J. Bowlby, J. D.Calhoun, C. D.Casper and Edgar Howard. The deliberations of of the commit tee resulted iu the adoptioit of the following resolutions. Ve disapprove of the supreme court passing upon the qualifica tions of members of the legislature a co-ordinate and equal branch of the state government. We are opposed to any political alliance with the republican party on any question or under any cir cumstances. We are in favor of a union be tween all opponents of protective tariffs and force bills. We favor n reduction of railroad, express, telegraph and telephone charges. We favor (in the event that the democrats shall have a majority in the senate in the next congress) a special session ol that lody at the earliest practical date. We take pride and pleasure in calling public attention to the efficient and economical adminis tration of the public institutions of our state by Governor Boyd and his appointees. The association adjourned, to meet at Columbus the day preced iug the meet ing of the state editor ial association. Who is He? The horribly mutilated body of u well dressed man of thirty-live was discovered Monday evening in grain car at the Wabash railroad elevator iu Toledo, Ohio. The de ceased's pockets were turned in.-ide out ami from the injuries to the body it was supposed the man was murdered and robbed. The car ar rived Monday from Saronville, Neb., and was received by the Wabash railroad at Chapin, 111., December 17. There was nothing about th remains to indicate who deceased was or where he belonged. , The Bryan club held a meeting last night in Judge Archer's office. 9 (J
