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THE SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS-HERALD, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB., SEPTEMBER 22. 1897. 2 ine Semi-Weekly News-Heraia PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS . . BV THE . . . NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY, M. D. POLK, EDITOR. DAILY EDITION. One Year, in advance, . . . Six Months, toe Week, Single Copies SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION. One Year, in advance, . Six Months, ; t5 00 . 250 10 5 II 00 50 THF. LARGEST CIRCULATION Of any Cass County Paper. TnoSE tears our friend Bryan is shedding for India because or high priced flour are very good in their place, but Nebraska is not the right place to exhibit these paroxysirs of grief. -mS India ba enjoyed the blessing (?) of free silver coinage for years until a few months ago, and yet its prosperity is of such a feeble nature that a short crop sends millions into a starving condition. Object lessons, however, are of no avail to those who do not want to learn. VV. n. Thompson is now be ing groomed by the triune press for the United States senate to succeed Thurston. As the place will be given to a republicau there can be no harm in pushing little Billy, and In this way be can be Kept out of the road cf IIol comb, Allen and Bryan, the trinue bosses, The opportunity for .demagogic mouthings which the Hazleton affair has given is being used by the fiat press in lurid fashion. This paper does not justify the assault of the dep uties upon the miners, and never did, but it has always stood up for law and order. We believe, however, that il a group of men who did not like the way the Journal ran its business should camp in their back yard and try to bankrupt and intimidate the force, the calamity editor would sing a different song. It is deraagogery of a very cheap sort to rave and rant over this Pennsylvania affair, where both sides were in fault. The Journal seems to be fearful lest we espouse the election of J. J. Snlli van rather than Judge Post. Weep not brethren, for while wo deprecated the expediency of Judge Post's re- nomination, we at no time threat ened to bolt the action of the conven tion,and it will be noticed that Judge Post received the solid support of the - Cass county delegation at the state convention. Mr. Suilivan seems to have dona very well as a county dis trict judge, but bis legislative record is so bad that to elevate bim to a Dosition on the suoreme bench, the court of last resort seems really dan gerous. There may be republicans who did not like Judge Post, but we dare say they cannot afford to vote for his competitor. Judge D. M. Strong: of North Bend has written a letter of acceptance in which he clearly fitrures out how the prohibition , issue is the only real vital issue now before the American people. He points to the millions of dollars worse than squandered for drink, and shows "how this sum ol money, if devoted to buying useful things, would cause the woolen and shoe k factories to be enlarged, the flouring mills to increase their capac ity, and the bicycle manufacturers to use all the open space 3outh of the aurora borealis for their plants. The judge is right in his proposition and if he could furnish a guarantee that voting for him for judge of the su preme court would stop drinking and forever end intoxication, it would make his head swim in November, to count up his majority. Ex. The popocratio press makes an r amusing attack on the "Dingley act says the State Journal, which allows a returning tourist from abroad to bring f n his trunk not more than $100 worth of foreign bought toggery and notions. It wants to know why these traveling squirts are allowed to buy in a foreign land when the people who stay at homo cannot buy a dollar's worth without paying the duty. Of course this is a crushing Indictment, but why, when the popocrals were in the saddle three years ago, did they not come to the rescue of the stay-at-home citizen in the Wilson-Gorman act? Under the terms of that act there was no limit to the amount of plunder the tourist could bring home free of duty so that hs had worn U some time during the trip. The Ding- ley law is certainly an improvement on the Wilson-Gorman law. None but anarchists and their dem agogic sympathizers, ever fear the strong arm of the law,and array them selves against the government. For the benefit of those who havo heard these un-American tirades about gov ernment by injunction with reference to the coal mine strikers, we publish today tho result of the special investi gation of the New York Sun, a dem ocratic paper, in the Hazleton affair, .and the facts leave no defense for any but anarchists to stand upon. It turns out exactly as this paper stated two days after the collision be tween miners and deputies, the asso ciated press report was false in every essential. The New York Sun sent its own reporters to Hazelton who made thorough investigation and what that paper 6ays should silence the anarchy sympathizers, as it shows but too plainly the position they have taken. FOREIGNER PAYS THE TAX. The aprjjle growers of Kansas and Nebraska are haviuc h little practical experience ia legavd to the tariff question. Peoplo from Canada are bera for the purpose of purchasing upp'ea iiud the tariff on the same is forty tents par barrel, which our sell ers have to pay, as they come in direct competition with theCanadiau sellers. Nebraska City News. The above is pretty good, coming from a democratic : organ, and goes to prove what republican claim, viz; that the corsumer dno not always pay the tariff, bu$ that tne foreigner who wants to tell in our market is the one that the tariff hits. It is currently reported that our Mathew Gering's great zeal for fusion this fall, is all brought about by his desire for a - fusion nomination for congress next year. He ued to have no use for the pc ps, but now he loves them with r. warmth that creates suspicion of insincerity. The pops had better l.ot get too confidential with the frisky Mathew. It seem to us that most any demo crat would have been preferrable to the populists than J uUe Sullivan, who the democrats have nominated for supreme judge. 11 5 nas not wuriteu with the populists in the past. He defeated a populist candidate for dis trict judge by fusion with the ie pub licans. He was very bitter against Van Wvck and did all he could to de feat bim for governor and also when member of the legislature assisted to defeat bim for re eientlon as United States senator. It is t-aid that Judge Sullivan is not ol j action able to the gold democrats or the railroads of the state, and it is claimed for him that he is the man that can unite the dem ocraticvparty and 6wallow up the populist party." He must be a great man if he h -s done and can do all these things. Tf the populists want to be "swallowed," all they have to do is to tie to Judire Sullivan. It is amusing to note tho twaddle of the democratic papers in their efforts to persuade their readers that they are afflicted with "hard times'' of the hardest variety. The Bryanite edi tors cling to a blasted hope with the energy of despair. Having so com pletely given themselves over last fall to the idea that republican suc cess meant national distress they now feel compelled to continue the ghost dance, not having the moral couriige to admit their mistake or to acknow ledge the vastly improved conditions since McKinley .ook the chair of the chief executive. But the ghost dnncers are deluding ouly a very few with their" pessimistic harangues a-'d be labored efforts at heading off pros perity. The every day events that confront every citizen give the lie to their assertions and thoroughly vindi cate the wisdom displayed by the na tion last fall in burying democracy popocracy under an avalancho ot ballots. Tecumseh Chieftain. The party of political hunger and unrest, through its organ, the Jour nal, said something about nepotism not long ago. The record shows that we have never had but two or three democratic officers in the county who did not employ relatives when they could. The -state capital is honey combed with tbis sort of thing. 'J he state auditor deputized his wife and made the state pay for her calling cards and embobsed private letter p iper. Other ttate officers are in tLe same boat I Reformer Mutz has both his daughters enjoying soft political berths. The last democratic sheriff we had sent out west for his brother and made bim a deputy. Ho made a good one, and republicans did not complain. The democratic clerk of the district court gave employment to his brother, and scores of cases from the democratic side- of the bouse could be named. If the fusion o-gan cares anything for consistency It will sing low on this subject. THE PENSYLVANIA RIOT. The iNew iork bun printed a care fully written and circumstantial re port of the events which led up to the recent unfortunate collision between the sheriff at Hazleton and his depu ties and the Hun-Pole strikers, s.iys the Chicago Tribune. It clears away much of the exaggeration, misrepre sentation, and actual falsehoods which have been charged and printed in connection with reports of the riot, and will help prepare the way for an impartial and dispassionate investiga tion. Stated in the fewest possible words the story of the riot and 'the tragedy is as follows: The strikers in ques tion struck originally without a grievance. Tho superintendent of a mine wished to make a change in the stable system for greater convience and in the interest of economy. There upon some of the stable boys struck on Aug. 16. Imitating their elders, they began proceedings by stoning and beating the boys who wanted to work, and when the superintendent came to their protection, as wa-i his duty, he, too, was assulted. Then the fathers of the boys, who were miners, struck in sympathy, and after having struck sought a reason for so doing. They demanded the old scale of wagos, 10 per cent higher, and the dismissal of the superintendent. The company agreed to the wage demand, hut refused the second proposition. The strikers returned to work on Aug. 21, but the company not moving fast enough to suit them they struck again on Aug. 25. With the renewal of the strike they inaugurated a succession of acts of violence. Miners who refused to join them were beaten by the striking miners and their wives. They armed themselves and went from colliery to colliery, calling out men and assault ing those who would not join them. The situation at last grew so danger ous that the sheriffs of three counties issued pi oclamatioii4 commanding the strikers to abstna from acts oi vio lence. 1 he strikers paid no heed to the warning, and at last congregated in large numbers and began to march on Uattlmer. V Hat march was at tended by almost constant violence. Men were conscripted and forced into the ranks to save themselves from as sault. While enroute to Lattimer they were met by Sheriff Martin and bis deputies. He tola them they must not go there in a mob, and that if they wished to confer with the miners at work they must send a committee. This they refused to do. Taking a course across fields they sought to get ahead of the deputies, but when they came out into the public road again the deputies were f icing them. The sheriff read the riot act and ordered them to disperse. They ationiDted to force their way through, when some one, not the sheriff, ordered the posse to fire, with the deplorable results which have been related. Such is the plain st ry of the affair as it has been gathered from various sources. It wi.l be seen that it affords no justiGcation for the incendiary speeches and resolutions which were delivered and passed last Sunday. Those agitators weie merely seeking for a pretext which they could utilize as an excuse for m iking threatening harangues and exhibit their lawless, murderous sentiments toward Ameri can society and the laws of the coun try. The owners of the nnthracite mines appear to have had no sei ious quarrel or 'dispute vith their Hun and Pole miners about waged, hours, or anything elite, and they were in no way mixed up with the Fittsburg soft coal strike. Tna Huns and Poles about Hazleton had a sympathetic strike feeling, however, with the soft coal strikers on the west side of the mouitains, and their leaders . deter mined to march mobs aroucd the country and drive the other miners out of their work, and had done tbis lawless act in nearly a doven instances before they wore interfered with and ordered to stop; ' but they scored to obey the order. Of course the shooting resulted in a deplora ble lots of lire, but it does not appear that the sheriff gave orders to fire. That order from ail jiccounts , was given by a deputy sheriff, while according ""to the statements of the surgeon in the hospital, but few of the men were shot in the back. While there are two sides to every qiu slion, it is apparent that when tho official investigation is mttde much misrepresentation and ex aggeration will be cleared away. This done, it will be possible to get at the aotual facts, and if any person has acted outsi-ie of the law, that person win dj responsible, and snould be so held. All law abiding people will suspend judgment until the proper tribunals have passed upon the case, and they will accept their decision whatever it may 1)9. But so far as the anarchists of Chicago are concorned, it will do tbem no good to circulate lies or to make threats agaiDst the peace and good order oi American society, as they will find out in the long run. The people of this country aro able and de termined to take care of their liber ties and their institutions, anarchists or no anarchists, Huns or co Huns ine courts will not be abolished, nor will thoy cease issuing injunctions warning evil-minded men to behave themselves and to cease molesting other men who are only exercising the rights which the laws give. them. 1NFOM RATION AND OPINION i. The statistics of the cotton crop for last year show it to have been 8,757, 964 bales. It has been sold f r about $350,000,000, or something more than the total volume of the greenback currency. This is more than five times the value of tho annual silver product of the country. What follv it it then - for cottongrowers to think that their prosperity depends upon "doing something for silver," when all the silver produced in the country would not buy one in five of their cot ton bales? N. Y. World (Dem.) A populist paper asks, "How can the republican parly exp?ct to win when it is tied to a post?" There is one thing certain and that is as long as the republican party istied to a Post it is not going to be carried away and ab sorbed bodily by some other party a la populist. Tnmlfinfl wna hold nr liot nlirKi " - - . u o w ll V remarked the first club man. "Ilorri blel" ejaculated the second club man. "By whom?" "By his friends. You see he was too drunk to stand alone." . Church Howe hns boon in town at tending the reunion this week. He exoects'to sail from New York in Octo ber on the Kaiser Wilhelm. From Hamburg he will go direct to Sicily to assume his duties. Lincoln Call. Four large contracts have been made in this country for supplying trolley rotds in Great Britain. Our manulncturers of electric machinery have secured the world for their field of operation. The American Theatre company, which was 'recently organized in Plattsmouth by Chas Nelson, well known here, will visit" this city tho last week of this month. Nebraska City Press. Where aro now the sucker farmers who left Nebraska fair? They are on the stage of action; God only knows where. They pulled out from Ne braska to the wetness of the south, and they sold their smiling homesteads in this barren, land of drouth. Their pockets then were bulging for they sold off all their goods," now they've blown their little fortune in the damp and muddy woods where the swamps are full of serpents, tbe mosquitos full of tunes, and the climate full of ague and the people full of prunes. How they'll tear their hair and grapple with the problem to get back, when they hear or the big wheat- crop when its all put in the sack. But. dear friends, be on the lookout, for they'll come back on the dance, and among the things most needed will be a pair of pants. Ex. Fred Schlegel drew his time at the shops yesterday and bas gone out on the road. Ho intends visiting Mexico before returning to this part of the country. navelcck Times. A load of Plattsmouth young people were visitors at the post Sunday after noon. Fort Crook Sun. There will be a state convention of spiritualists at Lincoln Oct. 7. They are not going to nominate a ticket, or have a ghost dance. The only genu ine ghost dance was held when Bryan hsd his three-ringed circus in Lincoln. Greenwood can boast of probably the oldest constable in the Biate. H. F. Swan back is the man, and he is a can didate for re-election this fall. He is eighty-two years old, and is as active as a kitten. Ho says that he is never sick, and only sleeps four hours in twenty-four. lie looks like a m u of forty-eight, probably. He is a man weil fixed, as the word goes, owning two good store buildings in town and and money out at interest. He has a wife and live children. Green wood lie co" d. Georgo A. Hay has filled the office of recorder of deeds in au efficient and agreeable manner. George has hosts of friends all over the county who will see to it that he tills that office an other term. Nehawka Register. . An Ohio lad of tender years left home two years ago without saying a word to his parents. Nothing was learned of his whereabouts until the othor day a letter came from Dawson City containing the gratifying intelli gence that he not only lived, but owned a Klondike mine for which he had refused $50,000. When that pro digal rt-turns thre won't be fatted c lives enough in the neighborhood to do the occ ision full justice. Tho old man will w-int to b.rheeiie everything on tho farm. Ex. The village of Union i- wiestling with the measles, and a number of children in that village are confined to the bouse by tbe disease. There is also ono case of typhoid fever. it is singular mat when any one suggests that any of tho candidates are backed by the Watson faction they jump and deny it. Surely there must be something wrong when these men all deny so emphatically and renounce the support of Mr. Watson and his friends. Some of these candidates talk as though it was something awful to be charged with being the protege of the Watson faction. Nebraska City News. We predict that Nebraska will roll up one of her old-time majorities this fall and that Cass county, as usual, will be heard from in no uncertain sound. Eikenbary for treasurer, Hol lo way for sheriff, Hay for register of deeds, Hilton for surveyor and Boeck for coroner are all stronger candidates than they were two years ngo, and will be elected by bigger majorities. Nehawka Register. A case of yellow fever is reported at Kansas City. As frost is said to kill the microbes, and we are liable to have frost any time, no great alarm is felt. Bat-klen'a Arnica Salve. The bost salve in the world for cuts, burns, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fe ver sores, tetter, chappep hands, chil blains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Pyice 25 cents per box. For salo by F. G. Fricke. Try Allen'! Foot-Ease, A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At this season your feet feel swollen and hot, and get tired easily. If you' have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and makes walking easy. Cures and prevents swollen and sweat ing feet, blisters and callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions of all piin and gives ret and comfort. Try it to day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. Trial packages FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Try Orain-O! Try rln-OI Ask your grocer today to show you a package of Grain-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without in jury hs well ms tho adult. All who try it, liko it- Gram-O hn3 that rich seal brown of M- cha or Java, but it is made from pure grain, nd the most delicate stomach receives it without dUti-ess. i the price of coffee. 15c. and 25 cts. per package. Sold by all grocers. M. 1'. Ak-Sar-Uen Special. The M. P. will have a special train from Nebraska City, Plattsmouth and intermediate points for Omaha on the evening of Sept. 23. Train leaves Plattsmouth at 6:14 p. m., and return ing will leave Omaha after the parade. Ono faro for the round trip. gmmtmmnmmmmm mmmmmtmiMmmmmmmiig 1 B. G. DOVEY & SON. I Our Stock of fall and winter goods is now in. Never before in the history of Plattsmouth has there been such an ar ray of fine goods at such remarkably low prices, we have for fall and winter use. Our line in the Dress Goods de partment offer special attractions and extra good values We mention all Wool Dress Flannels 1 1-2 yds wide, for 39 cts, and 1 yd wide, 25 cts. We have a fine assortment of Dress Patterns no two alike are quite the thing. The earlier you buy the better assortment to choose from. Silks A beautiful line of these goods for trimmings and waists in Taffetas, Roman Stripes, Plaids, etc. Dress Trimmings in Jets, Gimps and all kinds of fancy braids, sets, new buttons. Velvets: We bought these goods last May at the old prices and can give you the best values in these goods ever shown. They have advanced 1-3 since we purchased. r Wrappers! Wrappers! S See our New Fall Styles at 79 : cts. Cheaper than you can : buy the button holes. 8 price 75 cents. Don't forget we are agents for the cele brated Gage Down Corsets. Wear the Chicago Corset Waist The best made. SHOES! SHOES! Attention! Boys and gfirls. There is something" in it for you. We are giving" away with every pair of shoes a nice writing" tablet, for pencil or ink, and oneg"ood lead pencil absolutely FREE 4 6arpete--Fali of 1897. 5 We want you to .call and inspect our line. Remember we 5 have the largest stock of carpets in the county. 3 New Brussels Carpet, 75 cts. "22 New Velvet Carpet, $1.00. 55 r All Wool Ingrain Carpet, 5Q cts. 3 Moquette Carpet, $1.00. 3 - : - It won't pay you to g-o to Omaha for carpets this year. Re-. . . . T . . .member this is jour last chance to?et a carpet at a low price, .... g- .... as prices on these g-oods have all advanced. On these g-cxxls.... ZZ . . . . weboug"ht early You will g"et the benefit. Come and see-... -3 New Rugs, New Linoleums, New Oilrloths, Etc. 3 Keiii ember we have the largest line of Hosiery, liace, 3 . Gloves, Varus, Underwear aitl Handkerchiefs 25 ever shown, and sit the lowest prices rrS E SEMI-WEELKY SLOP PER YEAR. We have just received a new line of Dress Corsets in Black, White and Drab for 50 cents regular gECISTCRgQ-.llilt h,-- i,r, ! , nrr - " - - G. DOTBY & SON 1 Ribbons ! Ribbons ! 25 A new line of Roman Stripes 3 and Plaids for neckwear, 25 They are beauties. 25 81 The best line of shoes in the cit A nice line of Child's green Shoes in all sizes. Sec our Ladies Calfskin Shoe for SI, 50. Childrens' Shoes, SI. Misses Calfskin shoes for SI. 25. NEWS-HERALD