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About Semi-weekly news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1895-1909 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1900)
The Semi-Weekly Kews-Heraid 6EOR0E L. FARLEY, Proprietor. DAILY EDITION. One Year, in advance, 5 00 Six Months, 2 50 One Week, 10 bingle Copies, '5 SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION. One Year, in advance, .... tl 00 Six Months, 50 w LARGEST CIRCULATION Of any Cass County Paper. READ President McKinley's rcessngo to congress. The News-Hekald could take sorao wood on subscription. A KILL has been introduced in congress providing for a supreme court in the Philippines, said court to consist of five members and the tenure of office to be for life or good be havior. ASS'T SECRETAHY MEMvELJOHX will stick close to Lincoln until after the contest for TJ. S. 6eoators shall have been settled. lie will pive the other fellows a lively chase for the coveted position. President McKixley recommends that congress apply restraints upon such combinations as are injurious and which are within the federal jurisdic tion. This is about all he had to sug gest in regard to the question of trusts, Senator Newell of Plattsmouth must have gone into the campaign with a scoop-shovel, from the manner in which he scooped in his mrjority The senator probably did some of it, then, among the corn piles of Cass. Nebraska Blizzard. Forty-five thousand eight iiun- ri:ed and tiiirty-eioht voters ex pressed themselves at the polls as fav oring Mr. Rosewater forTJ. S. senator. Gilbert M. Hitchcock seems to have been the only fusion ist recsiving any votes for the position. MANY republicans have felt that Mr. Rosewater would, if need be. tie up with the fueionists in order to bo elected to the United States senate, but there seems to be little, if any thing, up to this time to justify any such claims. It HAS been suggested that in case the captain of the Kentucky fails to make the desired impression on the sultan of Turkey it might be well to let Bob Evans go over and deliver a few of his favorite remarks within the hearing of the porte. LOCAL musicians are very buy get ting realy for the opera to be pro duced at the Parmele Theatre Decern ber II and 12 for the benefit of the public library. They will spare no pains in their efforts to make it a suc cess, financially and otherwise. The duke of Manchester has been declared ineligible to sit in the Eng lish House of Lords on account of the fact that he is a bankrupt. As it re quires only $125,000 to square up his accounts. Senator Clark of Montana would consider the feeat cheap. Bee, CHARLES A. Towne has been ap pointed to the United States senate to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the late Senator Davis of Minnesota. Mr. Towne goes to the national capital today. He will be there but a few months, and doesn't intend to lose any time. Senator Allen hns most always made himself more or less conspicuous in Washington, and at the opening of congress in Washing-ton yesterduy he kept up his record by making himself conspicuous by his absence. He will not likely go to the trouble of prepar ing many lengthy speeches during the short session. PLATTSMOUTH will carefully watch the bill introduced by Congressman Burkett, providing for an appropria tion of $75,000 for a public building. Were it not lor the fact that a great many predictions made by citizens of Nebraska have not materialized. The News would venture one that this city would get a public building within the next two years. President McKixley has selected four of the most distinguished jurists this country affords as members of the American international arbitration committee. The personnel of the board is as follows: Ex-PresideDt Harrison, Chief Justice Fuller, At torney General Griggs and ex-Senator Gray ot Delaware two members be ing republicans and two democrats. A WASHINGTON correspondent says that Congressman Burkett of NebrasKa is to lead the opposition in the house to the congressional reapportionment bill which wculd deprive Nebraska of one of its congressmen. The entire Nebraska delegation will doubtless op pose any measure which would deprive us of one member, but it is quite pos sible that the reapportionment, based on the new census, will leave us one short. There is not a little speculation as as to wbether Emperor William really cared to receive Mr. Kruger. The South African's neglecting to comply with the strict etiquette of the German court in not asking for an audience with the emperor before he reached the Belgeo-German frontier, is, by many, looked upon aa an excuse for de nying the audience. It is quite evi dent that the tnipe or desired to re main neutral. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. The constitution of the United States, in artie'e II. section 3, provides thar, the president "a! a.l from time to time give to the congress information of the 6tate of the union, and recom merds to their consideration such measures as be sbill judge necessary aad expedient. " This the president has done in a most business-like manner, reporting to congress the conditions of the union and calling' the attention of the con cress to various matters wherein wise legislation is necessary, without nr rogantly attempting to dictate to the legislative branch of the government. The message is in no sense radical, and is in every tense plausible and safe and conservative. In not invading the do main of congress, Mr. McKiuley is traditionally following the teachings of the fathers of the republic, and wholiy unlike a dictator or emperor, This must appeal to the good cense of the American people, and at the same time sound the funeral knell to the shouts of the anti-imperialists. Critics have and will take the most diametricallv opposite views of this great state paper. Some have criti cisdd it for devoting so much space to foreign affairs and less space to the diocu.-ifcioo of domestic matters, while others have commended it for its com prehensive ditcussiou of our foreign relations. Two illustrations will suffice. The St. Joseph Daily News says: "Even a cursory reading of the message cannot fail to impress any one that our foreign affairs have been elucidated down to the most unimportant minutia, while domestic matters of the utmost im portance are lightly passed over.' The Memphis Commercial Appeal saj-s: "Time was when as many as eighteen thousand words were con sumed in the discussion almost entirely of domestic affairs, with half a dozen p:ragraphs, addenda, so to speak, de voted to foreign affairs. In no country in the world are the United States without interest. Within a few years we have gained possessions in every sea. We have become factors in the tremendous problensof the east and the west." There are those in a morbid and un- patbologic condition of both mind and conscience who are unable to see a fact when it presents itself naked, and must 5ml fault with everything that is real, and who will doubtless find fault with paradise should they be permitted to enter therein, while on the other hand there is n element of human family sober, sound, reasonable in all things Men with normal, active minds and a pure conscience are those to whom we must look for the betterment of the world. To the man who will read the presi dent's message without prejudice it must appeal most strongly. The most absolute frankness and honesty in pre senting the facts showing the condi tions now existing with which the re public is most deeply concerned is most truly apparent to the most cur sory reader. When the present mes1 sage is read together with the message of a year ago, which it must be remem bered was delivered to the same congress, a most complete and explicit statement of all the conditions of the union, both domestic and foreign, it will be found is presonted by the presi dent. THE HATH Cllitfi FOR TKA M I'S. (Chicago Times-Herald.) lleieit criticism of the mayor's plan to establish a "municipal free lodging-house" was called forth by a misipprehension concerning the na ture ard scope of the proposed institu tion. The idea of a free lodging-house for tramos mHintained at public ex pense naturally excited viorou pro test. Such a muoitiip'tl benefaction, it ws very well known, would make ChicRgr the Mecca for all the hoboes, thugs and crtoks in the country. It haonens, however, that the may or's1 lrdgine-house i- to h "free" only in the sense that it is not to le run as a money-making institution nut us a place where vacrants may icceive lodirine and food in exchange for work. Admission to the lodging- house has conditions attached wh'ch are not calculated to make the resort a popular one with tramps. It means rigid inspection by the police, an un covering of the hobo's checkered career, aud a bath. "Dusty Pike" will not care much about the scrutiny of his dark and dubious past, but wheu it comes to a b;.th the thought of it will miike him give the town a wide berth. As be will have to take his choict between jil and a buh, under the proposed lodging-house system, it is a safe iruss that six months' trial of the plan would suffice to rid the city of the able-bodied, acd hence most dang erous cl:is3 of hoboes. The mayor's loiging-houne scheme as now understood hts the unqualified indorsement of Jacob A. Rii. the student of srcihl problems, who re cently criticised the mayor for his prodamition of friend-hip for the hoboes, on the ground tbat it was an advertisement of Chicago as a haven for footpads and an aesurance of wel come to vigrants. Dr. R is bcliaves that the establishment of a muTicipal lodging-house patterned after the ones that have worked su i-u.c !-fully in eastern cit'os would solve tl.c vagrancy prob'em in th:s city. The municipal lodging-hou e with a shower-bath attachment is all right. If THE reapportionment bill intro duced in congress becomes a law, Ne braska will ba entitled to but five rep resentatives icstead of six The rep resentation from fifteen ptates would be increased a: d that from teven diminshtd. The passage of the bill would, of course, necessitate the re districting of this state, which might materially change the pslitical com plexion of some of them. FRYE S SHIPPING BILL The Maine Statesman Begins a Speech for Subsidies for a United Staes Marine. EEP0BT ON THE I3THMIAN CANAL Commission Favors the Xicaraguan Kouie Conclusions of the Ite - port House Session. v. asmngron, uee. o. Tne pro gramme of the senate leaders for i business session was taken up In earn est yesterday ana material progress was made. What is popularly known as the ship subsidy bill was made the unfinished business of the peuate in stead of the Spooner Philippine meas ure, ana tue discussion or It was opened by Frye of Maine, chairman of the committee on commerce -from which the measure was reported. He addressed the senate for more than an hour and a half, and had not con eluded when the senate adjourned. ms statement was elaborate and at times eloquent. Thjs great maritime nation, he said, was placed in a po sition Humiliating beyond, expression oy tne present condition of our iuer chant marine. With a boundless sea coast, unparalleled and unapproach able natural resources, shipbuilders the equal of any in the world, the greatest exports in the world and ev ery other argument in our favor the United States had permitted its coin mercm rivals to seize the pathways or commerce and hold them practically to me exclusion of tins country. Cot of Carrying Our Export. Last year of all the enormous ex ports and imports of the United States only y per cent, was carried In Ameri can oottoins, and the United States paid to foreign nations (principally Great Britain and Germany) $300,000 a tlay for doing carrying-trade work for this country. He pointed out that during tne war with Spain the United States was forced to search the seas over for auxiliary cruisers and trans ports because we had sacrificed our carrying ships. Our Mitpa Are Most Costly. lie presented an array of figures to prove that it cost not only more to con struct American ships, but more to op erate mem a;tter tliey were built than foreign ships. His figures indicated that ships of Greatn Britain had an uuiauuf ui rrom u to per gross ton over American ships in the expense or construction and operation He related the incident cited by Clyde, of the Clyde Steamship company, be fore the commerce committee, of tlie operation of a shin under the Nor wegian flag and an exactly similar ves sel under the American flag. The ex pense of operating the Norwegian shin. he said, was just half that of operat ing the American ship between the same ports. 8ubsily Feature IiMisel. Frye took up that provision of the bill which provides the amount of sub sidy to be paid vessels and explained how the payment was regulated. Clay of Georgia asked if it were true that a 21-knot ship would draw under the bill $.304,000 a year. Frye admitted that it was. "i understand," said Clay, "that tne lu-knot and 12-knot ships which carry the agricultural products of the country do not receive more than one third the subsidy of the fast passen ger vessels which carry no agricultural products." "And I was showing." responded Frye. "that the low speed vessels were the ones which received the actual benefits from the subsidy and not the fast passenger ships." A3 TO THE NICARAGUA CANAL. Commission's Report Is In Favor of It Over the Panama. Washington, Dec. 4. The report of the -Nicaragua canal commission was made public yesterday. The conclu sions of the commission are that the estimated cost of building the Nica ragua canal is about $58,000,000 more than that of completing the Panama canal, leaving out the cost of acquir ing tne latter property; that the New Panama Canal company has shown no disposition to sell its property to the Limed States. Should that company be able and willing to sell there is rea son to believe that the price would not e such 4is would make the total cost to the United States less than that i f the Nicaragua canal. The Panama canal, after comple tion, would be shorter, have fewer locks and less curvature than the Nic aragua canal. But the time required to go from New York or Liverpool to San Francisco would be shorter through the Nicaragua than the Pana ma canal. The government of Colom bia, in which lies the Panama canal, has granted an exclusive concession. which still has many years to run. It is not free to grant the necessary rights to the United States, except upon condition that an agreement be Teached with the New Panama Canal company. The commission hellers that such agreement is impracticable. "The government of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, on the other hand, are nn trammeled by concessions and are free to grant to the United States such privileges as may be mutually agreed upon. In view of these and other facts the commission is of the opinion that the most practicable and feasible route for an isthmian canal to be un der the control, management and own ership of he United States, is that known as the Nicaragua 'route. The estimated cost of the Xiearncn.a canal with a depth of thirty-five feet is .5200.540,000. Washington. Dec. .I. The session of the house yesterday -was brh-f. HuH asked unanimous consent or the con sideration of the armv reorsn nation bill today, but Sulzer objected, so Hull Introduced a resolution for a special order for the consideration of. tjip bnj akes short roads. -nd light loads. (TrrMEASE rdood for everything that runs on wheels. Sold Everywhere. witn provision Tor a vote at me -m m six hours' general debate. Other house business was purely routine. Routine In the Senate. Washington, Doc. 5. Frye began in rne senate yesterday a sieech In favor of subsidies for United States ship ping. Dolllver was sworn In as sen ator from Iowa, and assigned mem bership In several committees. A mimbfT of bills were passed, two belnr tx permit Caprin N. M. Brooks- and George D. Meiklejohn to accept deco ratibns from Germany and Sweden respectively. The shipping subsidy bill was given the precedence over the Philippine bill by a vote of 3S to 20. In executive session it was an nounced that the Ilay-Fauncefote treaty would be pushed. Gage's Report on Finances. Washington, Dec. 5. The report of Secretary Gage, on the national finances, was sent to congress yester day. It 1s a complete exposition of the financial condition of the United. States, and contains comments on the present policy as to finances that are interesting reading for students of financial science. I CITY AND COUNTY WEDNESDAY. Miss Beulah El son spent tne Jay in Omaha. Joseph Fe'z ?r visited in Omaha this afternoon. Dave MeEntee of Lincoln visited in the city today. W. H. Pitzer of Nebraska City was in town today on business. M. W. Betts and George Peters of Avcca were in town today. Attorney D. K. Barr of Greenwood was in town today on legal business. Henry Snyder, the jeweler, was a passenger for Omaha ou the fast mail. Rjpresentative-elect Richard Wil kinson of Eagle was a county seat vis itor today. W. E. Pailing of Greenwood was in town today, looking after some busi- ness matters. I have several applicants for farms. do you want to sell? Address, R. B. Windham, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Mrs. Eva R:ese and children of Omaha are in the city for an extended visit with the former's father, II. C. McMaken. William Il'ibbermsn, an aged Ger man citizjn, who has been ill for some time, was removed to the county hos pital yesterday. Miss Aimee Burgert of Nebraska City, who has been visiting; in the city, the guest of Miss Mae Patterson, re turned home todav. Chailt-s Peacock and Miss Dora Becker departed this morning for Higginsville, Mo., where they will visit relatives and friends. For family use in numberless ways Ballard's Snow Liniment is a useful anl valuable remedy. Price 25 and 50 cents. F. G. Fricke & Co. Fred Warren, who has been making his borne in Clav county during the past summer, is in the city for a visit with his mother, Mrs. It. I). Blunt. M. D. Polk of Lead, S. D., is in the city, having been summoned as a wit ness in the cae of Rowitzer vs Wheeler, now on trial in district court. Frank Krcehler, who has been work- in The Needles, Cal., for some time, returned home this morning. He has been on the sick list for the past two week?. Mrs. Mable UfiruL-Butler of Chi cago, woo for some time nas been visiting with her parents, J. I. TJnrub and wife, in this city, departed this aftornoon for her heme. For Sale Fifty-five full blooded Ply mouth Rock cockerels at $1 each, or four for $3. They are of the Hawkins and We?tbrc ok strains. Enquire of or write Mrs. L. II. Young, Nehawka. Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment has been thoroughly tested for many years and is a positive cure tor tr.is most dis tressing and embaratsicg of troubles. Pries 50 cents in bottles. Tutus 75 cents. F. G. Frictte & Co. . Judge M. Archer ex pec's to goto Oai-dii tomorrow and will reti:rn with bis wife, who has bten at Emanuel hospital for the psst seven weeks. She is rapidly recovering from the effects of the oper.-ition she underwent. Worm take refuge in the small in testine, where they c -n easily multiply. White's Cream Vermifuge will destroy! these para-itee. The verdict .f the people tells plainly how well it has succeeded. Price "o cents. F. G. Fricke & Co. When one rcmemhers '.hat thirty of our singers have given up their time and money. ?n mauy instances, to help give "The Pirates of Penzance," for the benefit of ilu public library, it seems thit a full house both nights would be a fitting rewird for their efforts. An attractive woman thrives on good food acd sunshine, with plenty of ex- ercisa in the epen air. Her form glows with health and her facobioomp with its beauty. When troubled with a costive habit, she t kea a few deses of Herbme to cieanse her system of all impurities. Price M. cents. F. G. Fricke & Cc. A small blazo occurred at the home of Ars. It. P. K -nnedy in the Stcond ward ycatciday, bu. fortunately the' J - . . 11-1 . 1 1 M. coals were beiug removed Tom one stove to aoother a curtain caught fire, th iu u.-iure it l-uuiu uo exiinguiaucu hid spread to the window casing. Disease and danger lur in the vital crgans. The b;oad becomes vitiated i .i , ..I i - . anu iue gene:ai neaun is unuerminea whenever the stomach aod liver fail to j perform their functions as oature in tended. Heroine will tone up the stomach, regulate the liver, where other preparations only relieve. Price 50 cents. F. G. Fricke & Co. r THEl.MAYOrTA . This U the Mayor of 5potIe.fi Town. The brightest man for miles around. The shining light of wisdom can Reflect from such a polished man. And so he says to high and lew t "The brightest use SAPOUO." Some one must direct the affairs of the city. Equally important is the cleanliness of the smallest home in that city. If this can be accomplished by small exertion, at small expense, so much the better. A cake of in the hands of a bright, active woman I will keep a house clean enougn xor the Mayor to live in. THURSDAY. A force of men today removed tome of the superfluous dirt from the paved streets. Walter Johnson and A. II. Dillan of Council Bluffs were in town today on business. Mrs. Isabel Richey has returned from her visit to the western part of the state. Mrs. M. E. Thompson went to Lin coin this morning for a short visit with her son, Oscar. The case of L. M. Rowitzar vs. W. D. Wheeler continued to grind away in district court today. M. S. Briggs returned yesterday from Salem, la., where be visited with his family and other relatives. W. C. Tippens and wife have re turned from their trip to Ohio, where thev visited with the former's parents. E. E. Hohonshel of Lincoln, who has been in the city for two days the guest of T. S. Becker, returned home this afternoon. Father Hennissy of Louisville, who has been in the city for several days the guest of Father Nugent, returned home today. Judge Douglass issued a marriage license this afternoon to Harvey W. Dragoo of Nebraska City and Mrs. Hester McCarthy of Red Oak, la. Gene Williams returned to Council Bluffs this afternoon, where he will resume his duties in the Union Pacafic transfer barber shop. Harry Robinsonxan old-time Cass county boy, who is now traveling for a tea and coffee com piny of Omaha, was a Plattsmouth visitor today. The case of the Peoples' Building and Loan association vs. I. Pearlman, which was appealed to the supreme court from this county, has been af firmed. Father J. T. Carney, who has been at St. Joseph's hospital, Omaha, for the past six weeks, returned home last last evening. Hia health is slightly improved. A large number of married men have been reported missing from var ious parts of the country recently. This behooves wives to treat their hus bands to more beefsteak and less tongue. The most beautiful thing in the world is the baby, all dimples and joy. -The most pitiful thing is that same baby, thin and in tain. And the mother does not know that a little fat makes all . the differ ence. Dimples and joy have gone, and left hollows and fear; the fat, that was comfort and color and cui-ve-all but pity and love-is gone. The little one gets no fat from her food. There is some thing wrong; itis either her food or food-mill. She has had no fat for weeks; is living on what she had stored in that plump little body of hers; and that is gone. She IS Starving IOr tat; jt is death, be quick ! Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil is the fat she can take: it Will Save her. SAPLD 83& IE - It, take no other. If you hare not tried it, sejid , for free sample, its agreeable taste will surprise yon. SCOTT A BOWNE, Chemists. . , ,409 Pearl St.. N. Y. 50c. and St.OO i aU druggists. efts ea gA It Would AlaJze You ile . . To Call on . . Elson Clothier To see our elegant line of floods. Our . . Mens' Overcoats $4.35 to $18.00 Our . . Children's Overcoats $1.50 to $8.00 Our . . Heavy Under Suits $3.75 to $20.00 Our . . Nobby Youth's Suits $2.90 to $15.00 Our . . Elegant Child's Suits $1.25 to $6.50 Will you with us? Elson, the Clothier, DOVEY Plattsmouth, cfr ef cW c ir ir i c ( ( ( ( ( c ( ( ( I F IT IS ANYTHING IN Queensware, Glassware, Chinaware, Dinner Sets, Toilet Sets, Lomi'S you are looking" for, remember that B ennett Sn Tutt have the finest line ever brought to the city. Remember also that their stock of . . GBOCEKll . . is always fresh and complete ( ( ( tir A'' nrg o Ovv o Oeliability in Vehicles .THAT'S WHAT YOU FIND IX OUR. ..Buggies, Road and Spring Wagons. See our Racine Bmg-ies the best manufacture!. We bu-bug-gries in large lots and get them at the right figure. ' also sell them reasonable. Hand-Made Harness Genuine Oak-Tanned Leather. Plattsmouth, 4 1 Our Hat deparlment is complete. Our Gloves and mitts, 5c to $2.00. Our Shirts and Drawers for 45c are daisies. Our Boot and Shoe de partments are also full. come ami smili BLOCK. Nebraska ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) I (6) WHKN' J'u Wlrli to hivo r-!uth' ra.'i'ie up t' date or notify cl "fined or r' 'Hr'd fit h reasonable price t;iv in a call in the Leonard Mock, up flair. I'lattwrnouth phorirs No. iM. Carriages.. our We Nebraska.