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About Semi-weekly news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1895-1909 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1897)
THE SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS-HERALD, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB., OCTOBER 9. 1897. 2 i m i: IN The Semi ttttkij News-Herald free PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY THK NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY, POLK, EDITOR. DwtlLY EDITION. fne Year, in advance $5 00 Six Months, 2 50 ne Week, 10 Single Copies, 5 SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION. Od6 Year, in advance, .... tl 00 Six Months 50 LIlllULOl UI11UU1.I1 1 IVI1 Of any Cass County Paper. Our pop brethern will know some thing1 about democratic politics after the present campaign has ended, which will maketbem open their eyes. How would you like Matt Gering tor sheriff. His zeal on behalf of Wheeler would not be given if he did not have assurance that he would con trol him. Job Bartlet is still reposing I within the quiet precincts of the Douglas county jail, and the talk about having a bond completed "to morrow" has ceased. Dr. Geokob Li Miller, the only prominent denioc at in Nebraska for the first twenty years of the state's his- tory advises all true democrats to vote for the republican ticket this rail ar.d stamp out Bryan popism. The Otoe county populists seem to be a different breed of cats, from Cass, and ignored the office brokers who wished for fusion by nominating a straight populist connty tlcKet yester- day. They have preserved their self- reipecmiooiaingmore. ; y iol e AKN, of the Iconoclast, waspinceo-herfitatesmen inputting pres-1 mol ed at Waco by a crowd of J sine nts from the university he bad I iua'Jgned, and the boys fairly made j hi u eat hay. He promised to leave I 'to n and never insult the college I Ity again. I . XT TT 1 i I tuxa iw "or,cJ - 1 1 I (V, nlla In the dark. He jompetent, honest county never had if the republican Lag proven himself com :; atad obliging. Cass cou ( i better sheriff, and if the republic: vote is out at the polls his election is assured by a big majority. If tou can make a good hundred cent dollar in unlimited quantities out of 40 cents worth of silver, why not make them out of 30 nta worth of copper or 20 cents worth of zinc or 10 cents worth of paper. The first theory Is just as sensible and practical as the latter. . Governor Holcomb and staff are guests of the Missouri Pacific railway on their trip to Nashville, with private car, diner and all other conveniences. The gTeafaittirmoTOpolyjartyjs bask ing in the sunshine of corporation favors. Reform is a fine cloak for political shams. The democrat end of the fusion party is making lots of noise about how zealous they are for the entire ticket, but every man in Plattsmouth knows they are only fighting here for wneeier, and every other man on the ticket would be gladly sacrificed for Wheeler's benefit. Matt Gerino says he has $200 i . mi , ... .. to I ui on wneeier, ana nis action as well as those of other democrats here who never think of talking for any one but Wheeler unless they are talk ing to popocrats, shows very plainly what their intentions are. They are working the pops to a finish, and if they don't find out before, their eyes will be opened when the returns come in the next day after the election. The gang only bets on Wheeler, and works the way they bet. There is serious trouble in Omaha. Lee Herdman the head of the demo cratic organization in Nebraska has locked horns with Judge Scott and the latter has summoned the young man to appear before him on the charge of contempt of eoui t Scott is the head push of the free silver republicans and to see an open quarrel like that between these two worthies, shows how fusion fuses when tne truth leaks out. Mr. Bryan is fluent in charging things up to the republican party, but with the record of last week before us we modestly agree that the party must be responsible for the following 'Bank clearings for September last amounted to $415,735,429, exceeding by more than. 50,000,000 the clearings for the montn of September in any ye ir auring tne past nve years, r or September, TO, clearings were 9317,- 602,405. These figures give an idea of the increase in businebS in Chicago, An encouraging sign is the heavy de mand for hardwood lumber, ou the part of agricultural implement, car building and wagon building con cerns. THE Tammanyites think they have iouna imuugo t u J """ will siraaaio tuo unwuj vuaoni uu tween the Bryanites and the tiger. Van Wvck was once arrested and jugged for a nignt on iaBiuBr8U. "drunk and disorderly" at tne r rencn Kn nd it is certified that he voted f. nrvan and considers him the irFAfttAst man in America, if not in i-i rn mAt anv other year ,r ,' hv a walkover, 1 i e thn,.rh no i strad- tered the field as the Only original it coinage mac. State Journal. THE FUSION TICKET. The fusion ticket is rapidly failing to pieces in this county, occasioned by its own incongrueties and the lack of confidence existing between the con tending factions which make up the ranks of the three parties that are trying to do business under one tent, and march under one banner with no tentative principle except hunger for nubile pelf. Every voter that is j posted hfs seen the utter irapossi bility of electing a ticket with nothing ( behind it, unless dead issues are con strued to mean something. Before November 2 the fn?ion ticket . will be ridiculed a9 a futile attempt to mix oil with water. Even the eyndicule editors of our astute contemporary note the worae than foolish trial to prevent disruption, and wails in the following fashion at republicans, who have nothing to do with tfceir family quarrels which have grown so serious. The Journal says: "No ooen fight is beiug made by the republicans in behalf of their own ticket or against the fusion candidates. but every effo: t is being made to create dis:ord and dissatisfaction Hinong democrat ana popuusis. raise ttories are boing whispered into the ears of reformers by the secret agents of the republic in m chine and no scheme which might in fiuer.ee a 6ingrle vote is too dishonor- able to be resorted to by the creatures of the county dictator.' The above faithfully shows the 6tate of mind which the managers are iDi he reference to "dictator," etc. only comes from a distorted imajrina- ; tion, but tho feeling of threatened dis ruption is no myth. The London "Spectator," in speak-I lng oi the uucan conuict,says that to I proloncr the war would be a crime.and j America chooses to stop these hide ou3 crueities all Englishmen should applaud and refuse to enouire too enquire too I narrowly into the reason which lnflu- 1 sure onS'JainrJ-Wairnbably re- presents the views of a large majority J of the English people, and very likely J it Is in harmony with the feeliug of i their government. Spain will have no ally in Europe If a conflict comes I between her and the United States, rF H e t o 1 Lr Kaii A nait -an inl ..fit a a I I is absurd, of course. Austria has no navy which would count for anything in a war with the United States, and, moreover, she has trouble enough at fthsnrri nf ("nilrao Austria. Vua nn I home to keep her busy. A few Ger- I man papers . have been shrieking J against the United States and in j favor of Spain, but it is entirely safe to predict that they do not voice the sentiment of any considerable portion of the German people or the feeline of their GTOvernmant. Soain will have to fight the" United States single- handed if she fights at all. The campaign in. Kentucky, the closest state in the union last fall, has been going on with great energy now for several weeks and the goldbug democrat are making the pace ex cessively hot. They have a galaxy or eloquent speakers tramping down the blue grass in every" UltetsUoouu the cheap money chaps are on the run. They have, however, sent up for William J. and he is to go down im mediately after the Nebraska day at Nashville and endeavor to rally the popocratic forces. The republicans of course expect a walk-away, but are I putting in their time as industriously as though it was to be as close a call as it was last November. State Journal. THE STATE FAIR. "The Grand Island Republican ven tures the opinion that the State Pair liulleiin, which the state fair people have clung to with such desperation. was responsible for the loss of ten thousand admissions. No doubt of it. So much for one of the private snaps. And at the 8:mo time it may be re- ma' ked that the t!ate fair has been wo. ked a a sn ip until the manag have about leached the end of the string. A few more years on the same lines and there will be no fair and no snap. ' Kearney Hub The above also applies to county fairs and we venture the prediction that the next legislature will stop a big leak by repealing the law giving state aid to county fairs. There is no justice in it and the sooner it is wiped out the belter. There hasn't been a more grasping monopoly and trust in Nebraska than the insurance trust. It has had pro perty holders by the throat ever since the state was settled and now 6eeks to prevent by every means possible the killing of the goose that lays the golden eggs for the stockholders and high-salaried officers of the old-line companies in the east. Not satisfied with its extortions it two or three years ago under a flimsy pietextar- J bitraril? raised the rates in Nebraska. I The organization of mutual companies I under the new law will be the enter I ing wedge to loosen the grip of the I insurance octopus. The solution of the question is now in the hands of the people and if they refuse to help themselves it will' ba their own fnlt and are unworthy of sympathy. Fremont Tribune. INFORMATION AND OPINIONS. George Abbott, a pop speaker, has been engagad to f peak at Waterman's hall in this city Saturday night. He will probably forget to say that Mr. Bartley's worthless bond was ap proved by Gov. Holcomb, who there- (orfl becomes l argely responsible for th 8latQS loa8 Though worth $50,000, James Web ster, a farmer living four miles from Eldon, la., will probably die in the county poor house. W hen the panic of 1S93 came, Webster turned his pro- in casks upon a f irm which he still he'd u a a tenant. Three months ago his mind filled and although he seems to have recollection of burying his monev, he can't remember the hiding place. He is now a charge on the county, having no relatives upon ivlmm he can depend for support. Ex. William Reisch was murdered at . rr, o . whom is not known. The deceased leaves a wife and three cbildrtn in poor circumstances, ChHS. C. Parmele. a prominent b inker of Plattsmouth. Neb., who is the proud possessor ot an interest in niue patented claims on Squaw creeK, near the Rua and Skinner grounds came over to Terry, accompanied by hi9 wife on Thursday. lie has a force of men engaged in developing the property, and has run a tunnel into the mountain 80 feet and sunk a shaft 40 feet from that and has ore that assays $40 per ton. Mr. Parmele is greatly enthused over the prospects. and says he is sure of opening a eood mine. Bald Mountain (S. D.) News We thought Simon Cameron was dead, but it seems no, as according to an exchange, he was nominated for district judge out at 15 oken Bow last week. A Minneapolis judje, whose head is as level us a republican platform, in a case whore a bicycle rider sued a man for driving over him with a two- seated suriev, charged tne jury as follows: "1 charee you, asbitween a bicycle and a horse and carriage, neither one has any greater right than the other; a two-wheeled ve- hide has just ns much right on the street ns a four-wheelea vehicle a vehicle driven by man power has just as much right as one driven by horse nower. no more, no loss. Each one has the same right on the street as the other. The fact that the bicycle might be anew invention does not make any difference; many things we wWNia357aTiiT'--Te w in v e n 1 1 o s, and have just as much "rlgTTr atrtha old ones So I charge you in that respect that vou must treat tbem with the same consideration one has just las much riffht as the other." Ex , , , . I J. f. ItOUSC WDO naa One Ul IUD I J. P. Kouse, who naa one 01, me finest lo-s of thoroughbred hogs in the county, lost all of them recently with cholera. This being the first siege of cholera he had had on his larm in sixteen years. Mr, Rouse has one of the best farms in western Cass and has been a resident of Greenwood pre- cinct for thirty-one years. A.J Knollen, of Kansas City,-has I leased . premises near Columbus, and will feed 20,000 sheep there this sea- son . The defense in the Luetgert wife murder case, has closed and now the state will have another inning on re buttal, after which comes argument of counsel and then the jury will sy whether the big Eausage maker is eruiltv or not. The public has no doubt of his guilt from reading the A large display of Is ebraska pro - ducts is on exhibition at the Illinois state fair and though Illinois is a great agricultural state itself, the Nebraska exhibit makes the suckers caze in open-mouthed wonder. Ex. The hog crop in Polk county is be' Ing mowed down like weeds by the cholera. The oldest inhabitants 8-'iy they never sausagea contagion among swine. Mrs. Elia Laish, president of the Woman's club of this city has bo n chosen to present i handsome gavel. tbo workmanship of Albert Thies, to the state federation of Women's ciuha at the aunual meeting to be held at Beatrice, "commencing today. The wood fiom which it is m..de is t'ie gift of Mrs. Cfti 1 Morton and was taken from tho old block bouse which in the early days btood ca-t of where the Morton house now stands. Ne braskaCity Press. The supposed grave of Eve is visited by over 40,COJ pilgrims in each year. It is to be seen at Jeddah, in a ceme tery just outside the city walls The tomb is fifty cubits long and twelve cubits wide. The Arabs entertain the I belief that Eve was the tallest woman that ever lived. The cane syrup and sugar facto y has had unexampled bad luck with its machinery, breakage after breakage being the order of the day, but every- thing is all correct now, and the farm ers are hauling in cane as though that was their highest ambition in life. If the warm weather lasts a couple of weeks longer, it is probable thttha entira rron can h t.ro.MA,! successfully. Tho sorghum factory is going to be a success. Beatrice Ex- Z" . The lute Harriet MacMurphy, relict f jonn A. MacMurphy, conducted a cooking school during the state fair, and the folKS say that she did great good, says Walt Masoo. Much as we admire Harriet's energy and enthu- Miasm, we do not believe in cooking schcols Cooks, like poets, are born, not made. One woman can go to work in a cool, calm fashion and prepare, in a litt'.e while, a meal fit for the gods; while another woman, who has had equal advantages, will work around by the hour, In a frantic sort of way, making hereelf and everybody else miserable, and finally dish up a lot of grub that would take the appetite awayfioma cannibal. The big stock sal i at Charjey Gae. eel's today souin ol L.ouisvxi:e, nas called all the candidates and poiiti-, ciaus in iho county out that way. where an amplitudinous politic il hay crop is likely to be harvested The Otoe county pops did not swallow all of the Chicago platform. but they heartily endorsed Bryan as the great free silver champion and still Bryan sivs he it a democrat and not a populist, Wm. Reisch, the man murdered at Nebraska City, carried $2,000 life in- . . m . surance in tne Woodmen oi tne World, which will be a great boon to his otherwise penniless family. Schuyler has a physician by the name or bixta. ir it were tixuien toone, be would be in great demand from the deluded followers of silver monometalism. AS SEEN IN THE BLACK HILLS. A Writer Telia of the Beauties of Terry, 8. I)., and Its Surroundings. (Woman's Edition Evbving News.) Te-ry is a most peculiarly situated little mountain town in South Dakota, and, to one who has always resided in a ieVel country, has many attrac tions It is nestled at the foot of Terry's Peak, which has an elevation of 6,663 feet and is next to the highest point in the Black Hills. One long, narrow, winding:, street. scarcely wide enough for two wagons to pass, com prises the business portion of the town, and on the mountains that tower high above on either side are pinioned the residences. The surroundings are of a most beautiful and peculiar character. Every mountain peak, every wild gorge, every stretch 01 woodland has clustered about them strange tradi tions of the past and wild legends of a passing race. In the early days, it is claimed, this was the happy hunting ground for a warrior tribe and many a feud has been settled in the long winding gulch that is now the abiding plce of a thpusand happy miners and their- families. The scenery "'tTle-wirrouadJng mountains is indeed beautiful, and while it may not compare" with Other localities in the presentation of lofty mountain neaka and w.ills of rock, nor r r- e1ual tQe Vftst chasms measuroiess abysses in ot r tne Hills, .vet, lor maj una aimost otVer portions ajestic beauty and inspiring grandeur, clothed, as it is, by the fair hand of Nature with wild Mowers of wondrous beauty, pine. cedar and evergreens of more than emeral tint with mosses and ferns it stands unrivaled. One can see all the rough country he wants, with deep canons, brist ling pinacles and .vast piles of tvery kind of rock. The life of a miner and the way in which mining is prosecuted is mote than interesting to one not amilfar with their ways and habits People from tho rural districts of Ne braska are generally called grass hoppers. ' The mining resources of our town seem limitless, and several train loads of the worthless looking rock which carries so many dollars in gold per ton is taken away over the narrow 1 gaug-raroid3 daily. The mines en- circle the town, soma.oTthBm4aLa entered by tunnels that penetrate the mountain sides, while in others deep shafts are sunk from one hundred to three hundred feet. The ore is hoisted from the shafts in little cars placed in cages, and alter it is lanuea at tne top, is pushed out over the tramway in the narrow g vuge cars. The ore, which is of a hard, flinty character of rock, is taken to the smelters at Dead wood, where it is placed in furnaces and heated until it melts and runs a red, liquid st: earn from the furnace. as free as water. Tne railroads make their way through, around and over the moun tains in a way that is surprising and looks quite dangerous. At Terry the railroads form a regular not work and are the popular thoroughfares of the town. old People. Otd people who require medicine to regulate the bowels and kidneys will find the true remedy in Electric Bit ters. This medicine does not stimu late ana contains no whiksey nor other intoxicant, but acts as a tonic and alterative. It. acts mildly on the stomach and bowels, adding strength and giving tone to the organs, thereby aiding nature in the performance of the functions. Electric Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aids digestion Old people find it just exactly what they need. Price. 50 cents and $1 per bottle at P. G. Fricke's drug store. Something to Depend o. Mr. James Jones, of the drug firm Jone9 o1. wwaa, in., in ing of Dr. King's New Discovery, says tbat last winter n'8 wue with la grippe, and her case grew so serious that pnjs. 7 " 7". I " Tl Pana could do nothing for ner. It I , a1ah i n , h o LI I nn seemed to oeeiuM . j sumotion. Having Vr. King s Ne Discovery in store, and selliug lots of ht. he took a botte home, and to the surprise of all she began to get better from first dose, and hair dozen dollar bottles cured her sound and well. Dr. nr. King's New Discovery for Con- gumption. Coughs and Colds is guaran teed to do Free trial drug store. this good bottles at 5 work. P. G. Try it. Fricke's Croup Quickly Cared. MOUNTAIN GLKN, Ark. Our child ren were suffering with croup when wo received a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It afforded almost instant relief. F. A. THORNTON. This celebrated remedy Is for sale by all druggiBts. ABOUT WALL PAPER m PAINT. ..WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED.. An Elegant Stock of Wall -Paper For the Fall Trade WHICH YOU SHOULD INSPECT AT ONCE. nsyn We usually buy enough in the spring to last the year through, but our sales were so much larger than heretofore that we were compelled to add an additional stock to supply our customers' needs for the fall papering, which, by the way, is the best time to paper and paint. We handle the "famous Mound City Mixed Paints "Horse Shoe" Brand. IMW OF THE BURLIK Construction ol the Shops and Other Interestlno History. When Completed In 1870 Only 15 Mei Were Employed Their GrowthSome of the Hen who Hare Been Promoted . From Office Boys to Positions of Trust and Profit (Woman's Edition Evening News.) In the autumn of '69 the B. & M. railroad1 was first started In construc tion and the shops begun in this city, The first buildings were completed in .3uaitbat time there was one coach shop, a rrTSfTfitriff hp,jjtj)fAi'''-fftn roundhouse, a little engine houo3jtr blacksmith shop and a storehouse. The building whioh served ns a store house was originally used for a ste-im-boat warehouse. The buildings were all frame and were between Main and Granite streets. At that time the old depot the same one which was torn down last year was situated jus t north of Ojk street and was moved to its position on Main in '76. At first there wore were five en gines the Hurricane, American Eagle, Grafton, Lincoln and Ashland .; I he Ahlat.t was the first bu It on this side of the river, but the Line tin had been built before. Some of the men went to the Iowa side, built a scaffolding out on the common, put the Lincoln together and brought it over on the steamboat. Tbe steam boats landed near where the pump house now stands. In the year TO there were employed in the shops four blacksmiths, four helpers, four machinists, several en ginersand quite a number of carpent ers, because of new buildings in con struction. There were no c:ir re pairers there: now there are one hun dred and riuty. The entire force of men in TO did not exceed one hundred and twenty-five. The chief engineer and supei inten dent was Col. Doane. the founder of Doane college in Crete. Mr. IIol brook was assistant Mr. Holdredge worked in the office and Mr. Taylor now the auditor of the road was then an office boy. Mr. Esrbert was road master, Mr. Paul Hill, master or transpoitation and William Brown, treasurer. . , , , .... None of the brick shop buildings ... , o U I ow used were ueguu uuui ioio, wueu a machine shop, a twenty stall round house and a blacksmith shop were built. The other buildings have since been added. These shops are now the most im portant of tbe B. & M. west of the Missouri river. They employ over five-hundred men. It is interesting to know that the night watchman has been working in that capacity since TO, or for twenty-seven years, and for twenty-one years of that time he failed to miss a night. In Aueust 1881 the fit st train crossed the magnificent iron bridge that spans tbe Missouri at Plattsmouth. Before the completion of the bridge the trains were transferred on large steam ferries or crossed on temporary bridges, constructed on the ice. Pemrl Steam Laundry. B. F. Goodman has his new laundry fully equipped with latest devices, now in running order, and asks a share of your patronage. His work is his best advertisement, and if you try the new laundry there will be no longer any excuse for sendingtgoods away. Nothing too good for our I patrons Is our motto. Work called for and delivered. DRUGGISTS. MAIN SIC. a ii23 a;. 1 i 'j..ilfte Outfit. ( j ( CO buys a Mandoline, jj v, t iiirdseye Maple, Mahogany or Rose- i wood Finish. Fully guaranteed, j. GO bays ! An American ii a guaranteea to stand. steel strings, in Mahogany or Rose . wood finish. j SEXD FOB CATALOGUE OF S.7EET MUSIC. ;50 buys a $ioo Orpn. 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