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THE JOURNAL.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
PLiATTSMOUTH,
NEBRASKA.
OVEB THE STATE.
Mrs. Bahxaabt, of Pierce county,
who attempted suicide, will recover.
No additional gold finds are re
ported on the Wagner farm near Fort
Calhoun.
A heavy wind in the vicinity of
Ogalalla did considerable damage to
buildings.
A number of people in Omaha lost
quite heavily in the recent fire at Crip
ple Creek, Colo.
Tue fire in the Commercial block at
York is supposed to have been 6tarted
by incendiaries.
Charles Tkipei, of Plattsmouth, has
been declared insane and sent to the
asylum at Lincoln.
Mrs. JJarxhart of Pierce county en
deavored to drown herself. She and
her husband bad quarreled.
The editor of the Fairbury Times is
out his Sunday-go-to-meeting' suit at
the hands of a sneak thief.
'Chuck" Mooster, of Nebraska City,
found guilty of rape, was given two
years in the state penitentiary.
A heavy gale from the northwest
did considerable damage near Phillips
to corn cribs and other buildings.
Frank Fkink of Adams county was
knocked down by lightning and lay in
the road half an hour unconscious.
The republican state convention for
the nomination of state officers will be
held in Lincoln, Wednesday, July 1st.
The state banking board has issued
a charter to the German bank of Mur
dock. Tne capital stock authorized is
5,oa
Robert McCqxnell, of Omaha, for
many years master mechanie of the
Union Pacific railroad, died last week,
aged three score and ten.
Huffmae & Rawlins, near Neligh,
are sowing COO acres of alfalfa. Ex
perience convinces them that its culti
vation is a great success.
At no time since the settlement of
Chase county have there teen such
fiattering crop prospects at at this time.
There will be an increased acreage.
The Methodist church at Schuyler,
which has been rebuilt during the last
three months, was dedicated last Sun
day. It is a splendid building, with
ample room for every need.
Joe Werner, of Grand Island, who
had been on a drunken debauch, made
an effort at suicide by hanging while
in jaiL ile was discovered and cut
down before life was extinct.
The southwestern veterans reunion
association has decided to hold its next
reunion at North Platte at the same
time as the western Nebraska irriga
tion fair, October, 13, 14 and 15.
Joan Hynck, a well-to-do farmer re
siding northwest of Pierce, accidentally
shot his little girl in the abdomen with
his shotgun, while taking the gun
from the house to kill a hawk. The
child will die.
The general merchandise store of
Edward Bros, of Louisville was enter
ed by last week and about S50 worth of
goods, consisting of silk handkerchiefs,
shoes, pants, jewelry, tobacco and
some groceries taken.
The drug store of Dr. Charles Rand
at Crete was closed under chattel
mortgage for 51,200. McPike & Fox,
Peregoy & Moore, and L. A. Ireland
are the main creditors, to whom the
chattel mortgage reads.
The jury at Pawnee City in the case
of II. G. Rrown against the city for
SI, 000 damages on account of a defec
tive sidewalk from which he sustained
an injury about a year ago, brought in
a verdict awarding Rrown S500 dam
ages. Prospects for fruit and crops of all
kinds in the section about Hastings
have not been more promising for
years than at the present time, and
unless causes unforseen arise the hus
bandmen will have no reason for com
plaint at the time of harvest.
John W. IJookwalter of New York
city, is now on his way to Nebraska to
make arrangements for the establish
ment of a number of farming villages.
He owns about 60,000 acres in this
state and proposes to gather agricul
turists into towns of about 500, provide
a good library, theater and give them
many advantages of city life.
George Drake of Red Cloud, who
was arrested several months ago on a
charjre of rape and who was bound
over in the sum of 52,000 for his ap
pearance at the last term of the district
court, but who jumped his bail and left
for parts unknown before court con
vened, returned several days ago and
was turned over to the sheriff by his
bondsmen.
C. J. Anderson, a prominent stock
man of Neligh, states that never at any
time in the past four years has the soil
been so thoroughly soaked as at pres
ent, and all of the ponds which have
been dry for a couple of seasons now
contain water and those which have
been nearly dry have assumed their
former dimensions. Not only is the
surface thoroughly wet, but the subsoil
is saturated affording a reserve supply
of moisture for the hot weather of sum
mer. Farmers are feeling happy and
are put ting in a large acreage.
Don't loaf around the corner grocery
arguing with your neighbors abont the
best tool to use in surface cultivation,
but buy a new Pivotal Frame Captain
Kidd Disc Cultivator, which will render
it easy to dodge the crook edest corn
and unnecessary to dodge the Sheriff
next FalL If you use the Captain Kidd,
you will have money to pay your bills,
and won't have to dodge. Write us for
descriptive circulars and "What Others
Say." Nebraska Moline Plow Co.,
Omaha, Neb
During a thunder storm the barn of
Charles Maronville, about five miles
southwest of Aurora, was destroyed by
fire, which is supposed to have been
started by a stroke of lightning. Five
horses belonging to William Campbell,
a young man who lives with Maron
ville, were burned in the barn.
During a horse race near Plainview
Robert E. Bradshaw, a jeekey, was
thrown from his horse and sustained
injuries -from which he died. Brad
shaw has been in the employ of differ
ent turf men in that vicinity for years
and is well known. His home is in
Liverpool, England, and his relatives
there have been notified.
Henry Bolln, ex-city treasurer cf
Omaha, was on trial last week for
embezzlement of something over SI 00,
000. The jury disagreed, nine being
for conviction and three for acquittal.
The case will be at once taken up by
the present term of court.
John Trausch, a young man of
Hastings, living upon a farm near
Roseland, started to go out hunting,
and as he was leaving the house with
his gun over his shoulder it was dis
charged by some unknown means and
the contents struck and killed Edward
Trausch, a younger brother, who was
standing at the table assisting his
mother to wash the breakfast dishes.
T11AMA8 Wymond. a character who
has been known in Nebraska City and
vicinity for many years, died in a small
room with scarcely a friend to care for
him. At one time he was quite influen
tial in the politics of that section and
had a fair portion of this world's goods,
but lost it all, and for a time was in
the county infirmary. He was three
times married.
General Max person returned last
week from Washington, where he
argued the sugar bounty case before
the supreme court, and a decision from
that tribunal will settle that question.
Associated with him as attorneys for
the plaintiffs were Judge Symmes of
New Orleans, and Joseph U. Choate of
New York, while the attorney general's
department appeared for the govern
xnenL J. G. Tate, grand master workman
of the A. O. U. W., through his attor
ney, has filed his answer to the peti
tion of Mrs. Alice Scott, widow of the
late Barrett Scott. The answer denies
all the allegations set forth in the pe
tition, except that at one time Barrett
Scotc was a member of the organiza
tion. The case will probably come up
for trial in the district court of Holt
county in September.
Owing to a mistake in printing the re--funding
bonds of Greely county, re
cently purchased by the state board of
educational lands and funds, on ac
count of the permanent school fund,
the whole issue will have to be reprint
ed. The county commissioners tried
to correct the mistake by an interline
ation, but the board declined to accept
the bonds in that shape. The amount
of the issue was S3C,0Oa
The secretary of the interior has re
commended to the attorney general to
dismiss the suit against the purchasers
of land from the Burlington road, but
to continue it as against the road, and
it is thought the attorney general will
act on the recommendation of the sec
retary. If this is done it will elimin
ate the 1,700 individual defendants
from the case, and leave the road to
settle its misunderstandings with the
government alone.
Judge W. H. Westover appointed
A. A. Record of Chadron receiver of
the Chadron Banking company. The
report of Bank Examiner Cowdery
6hows that a number of persons owe
the bank from S2.000 to $6,000 each on
their unsecured notes. Mr. Cowdery
figures a large loss on these, and on
the total assets of $50,000 he estimates
a loss of 35.000, leaving SI 5. 000 net as
sets. The deposits amount to 520,000,
of which there is due the county $4,000.
E. W. Hyman, who recently escaped
from the county jail and fled to Iowa,
desires the county attorney to allow
him to enter a plea of guilty and take
three years in the penitentiary. That
official refuses to do this.as, he says,
he has a sure case of robbery against
Hyman and can secure a sentence of
five years, if not longer. Hymen held
up C. V. Fisher, a St Louis traveling
man. a short time ago and relieved him
of S15, at Jthe point of a wicked-looking
knife.
At a meeting of the board of man
agers of the Nebraska Irrigation fair
in North Platte it was decided to give
the first annual fair at North Platte
October 9 to inclusive. Every mem
ber of the board was present, includ
ing E. McLemon of Cheyenne county,
Matthew Daugherty and Ed Searle of
Keith county and O. G. Smith of -Buffalo
county and the local members.
Twenty thousand cupies of the premium
list were ordered gotten out, and com
mittees will be sent through the east
to work up interest in the fair.
Charles K. Grable of Crawford, re
presenting the Crawford Irrigation
company, filed in the clerk's office a
petition, covering seventy pages of
typewritten matter, asking a perman
ent injunction restraining about fifty
defendants from using the water of
White river. A temporary writ was
granted by County Judge Kicker. The
plaintiffs claim a prior right to use the
water and allege that they have ex
pended some $30,000 in cash in the con
struction of the ditch. It promises to
be the biggest law suit ever tried in
the county.
Police Judge Thomas Johnson of
Ashland committed suicide by hang
ing. Squire Hardin happened into the
office about 3:15 o'clock in the after
noon, and just back of the room under
the fire tower sat Mr. Johnson, a rope
about his neck and his hand up to his
face. The body was yet warm. John
son was a Dane, about 50 years of age.
He received notice some ten days ago
that a mortgage on his home for 81,400.
with interest for several years, would
be foreclosed to satisfy the note. This
is supposed to have superinduced the
suicide.
On tne application of Thomas V.
Jaques, a citizen of Keya Paha county,
supported by the petition of a large
number of other citizens of that sec
tion, Governor Hoicomb paroled from
the penitentiary W. A. Chapin. who
was undergoing a sentence of two
years on conviction of horse stealing.
The papers in the case, which consist
of the petition ano a letter from the
county attorney of Keya Paha, reveal
the fact that Chapin's case is another
in which the requirements of the law
have not been complied with in the
trial and the sentencing of criminals in
that county.
The annual report of the State
Banking board has been completed by
Secretary Townley for 1895. During
that year there were 447 commercial
and savings banks doing business in
the state, with an aggregate author
ized capital of S9,21C,525, giving an
average of capital stock of $20,842.
During the past year eleven new banks
were organized, and forty-six discon
tinued business from various causes.
The latter had an aggregate capital of
$1,069,700. and total deposits of $1,305,
334.62. The sixteen insolvent banks
which were placed in the hands of re
ceivers had an aggregate capital stock
of $434,000 and deposits in the sum of
$584,665.
SITUATION ID ARMENIA.
STATEMENT FROM THE SURVIVORS
OF THE MASSACRES.
200,000 PUT TO DEATH.
IiUmiim, Serfdom or Emigration the
Sole Alleviation That Is Still Left
to Those Who Are Yet Alive
Have Given Up All Hope or
Aid From Christian Na
tions Jiark Oatlook.
New York, May 4. The National
Armenian lielief Committee has re
ceived the following from Turkey
showing the feeling of many of the
survivors of the Armenian massacres:
"It is now more than five months that
sword, fire, famine and cold have been
doing their fearful work among us.
Not less than 200,000 of our people,
largely men from influential and pro
ductive classes, have fallen victims to
the fury of our persecutors. More
than 00,000 have, under threats of
instant death, professed Islam ism.
Thousands of our sisters and daugh
ters have been violently carried off to
the harems of the Turks and Kurds.
Not less than 5.00o of our principal
men, including Gregorian priests and
Protestant pastors and teachers,
are languishing in Turkish dun
geons, arrested on utterly baseless
charges and giveu no opportunity
to vindicate themselves. A very large
part of our property has been stolen
or destroyed and all our business has
been paralyzed, so that the property
wo still own is for the present largely
worthless. Nor do we yet see any
signs of marked improvement in our
condition. It is true massacre and
open plunder have been forbidden,
but our Moslem neighbors are still
maintaining a fiercely insulting and
threatening attitude toward us as a
race, and even were they constrained
to abandon their bloody purposes, the
fanatical fury of the Moslem people
among whom we live, has been so
fiercely inflamed that it is sufficient
even against any feeble efforts the
government might be constrained
to make to complete the work of
destruction. We have lonsr since
abandoned all hope of any political
rights or standing in this land. The
only position possible for us is that of
serfs. We have cherished the hope of
effective aid frcm Christian nations.
It has failed us and we are sacrificed
to political and selfish ambition.
What, then, are we to do? Three pos
sible courses of action are open to us.
First, we can surrender all that our
fathers have clung to during their
many years of oppression and suffer
ings: we can abandon our faith, pro
fess Islam and loe ourselves and our
children in the tuass of the Moslem
masters; or. second, we can go on
patiently dragging the chains of our
oppressors and bearing their insults
and abuses, wasting away our strength
and our lives in ignoble servitude; or,
third, we can seek in other lands and
among liberty loving people new
homes and new hopes of enterprise.
Some of our people have already tried
to adjust t hemselves to the first con
dition named, but even now, their
wails of anguish and remorse, tnat
are making their lives an insupport
able burden, warn us that death is a
thousand times to be preferred loa
life so baely purchased. The second
alternative is no doubt still open
to us; we can repudiate all our claims
and aspirations for manhood, we can
surrunder all hope of progress and
take up again the old servile life of
the past. We should so perhaps be
allowed to retain our name, our tradi
tions and our faith, but how dwarfed,
cramped and corrupted. Meanwhile,
other an-. Christian lands open hospit
able doois to us and extend us sym
pathy and generous aid and bid us
welcome to share with them the heri
tage of Christian liberty and civiliza
tion. Only two things we need to
know. First, will our sultan permit
us to emigrate? If so, we should be
glad if arrangements could be made
by which we could secure for our fu
ture use some reasonable part of the
property we have left behind us. Sec
ond, will the Christian nations who
have been witnesses to our sufferings
grant us an asy'.um in their borders
and give us aid in time of our dis
tress?" NO M'KINLEY FOR HIM.
A Pennsylvania Admirer of Qaav Hills
llitnsrlf After Illinois Action.
PiTTsiJt:iM3. Pa., May 4. When Sen
ator Quay announced his candidacy
for the presidential nomination,
George Wilhelm of Heechmont, Alle
ghany county, organized a Quay club
with the intention of taking the mem
bers to St. Louis at convention time.
In other ways he indicated his oppo
sition to Mckinley. When he read in
the paper yesterday of the action of
the Springfield convention he went
into his cellar and shot himself to
death.
Congressman Qaigg; Leaves Ills Paper.
New York, May 4. Lemuel E.
Quigg, M. C, has retired from the
editorship of the New York Press, bis
connection with the paper ceasing to
day. Ervin Wardman, managing ed
itor, succeeds Mr. Quigg as editor-in-chief.
It is understood that differ
ences with Proprietor Einstein caused
the retirement.
Indiana Carpenters Go Out.
Lafatettk, Ind., May 4. Three
hundred carpenters allied with the
union went out on a strike to enforce
a demand for an increase of wages to
2TH cents per hour and a nine-hour
day. As a result building operations
of all kinds have come to a standstill.
senator Hale's Summer Home Darned.
j Ellswboth, Me., May . The Pines,
1 t ri summer home of United States
Senator II ale, with all its contents,
was destroyed by fire, which, it is
thoucrht, was incendiary this morning
j The loss will probably reach $50,000.
SECOND SON MADE SHAH.
Trouble May Come iit lVri:i Clver the
Succession Cause of the Murder.
Tifi.is May 4. Immediately after
the death of the Sh:h 'he heir appar
ent (Valihad), Muzzafer ed-Din, was
proclaimed Shah. llus-i.i and Great
Britain recognized Muzzafer-ed-Din
as heir to the Persian throne in 1838.
The grand vizier will govern until the
arrival of the new Shah at Teheran
from Tabriz.
London, May 2. A dispatch, from
Teheran to the Times regarding the
situation in Persia incident upon the
assassination of the Shah s;iys: "Much
discontent has existed for o.n time
through the dearness of provisions,
partly caused by the excessive issue
of copper coins. Considerable alarm
prevails here and Prince Naib-es-Sul-taneh,
third son of the late Shal . has
retired to his palace at th- ivjiu'st of
the government. The assassin., iiamt;
is Mollah Kezi, ana lie is urp -i I to
be from liabec.'
An article in the Times on tin- '.ate
shah calls to mind that at the begin
ning of his reign he put to death by
thousands the members of the Ititn-c
sect, whose crusade against uMic
and privade corruption in Persia wj;s
so popular as to become a menace t
the government.
"The chief apprehensions that now
arise," says the Times, "are let the
new shah's eldest brother, Zil-es-Sul-tan,
should attempt to dispute the ac
cession (the late shah is succeeded by
his second son and not the eldest son).
Zil-es-Sultan is governor of Ispahan
and was for a long time the virtual
ruler of Southern Persia till the late
shah, in iS90, greatlv i-educed his
power and disbanded his regiments."
George N. Curzon, under secretary
of state for foreign affairs, who is au
acknowledged authority on Persia,
considers Muzzafer-ed-Din Mirzi Vali
had, the new shah, a man of great
intelligence, but he has been seel u led
all his i'.fe as to have no knowledge of
the duties incumbent upon him as
ruler of Persia.
SMITH AND LELAND
The Former Says the Latter Lies and
Knows It Famous Kanan at Cut.
Topeka, Kan., May i. Replying
to Cyrus Leland's statement that
"Farmer" A. W. Smith had, in Feb
ruary, 1S04, offered to get out of
E. N. Morrill's way for governor if
the latter would pay him S3, 500 cash
for the expense of his campaign for
governor in 1602. Smith telegraphs the
following denial:
"McPuekson. May 2. Mrv Leland's
ttatement is a willful and malicious
alsehood. I never, at any time, or
under .any circumstances, offered to
stay out of the campaign against Mor
rill for a money consideration, neither
did I authorize anyone to make such a
proposition for me. In conclusion. I
want to reiterate and emphasize that
Mr. Leland lies and knows he lies.
A. W. Smith."
Governor Morrill, when asked about
Leland's statement, said: "I cannot
now recall that Mr. Leland came to
me with such a proposition from Mr.
Smith either during the Newton en
campment, or afterward. I have no
doubt, however, that Mr. Leland
submitted the proposition to me
as he says. He is a truthful
man and not given to extravagant
talk, and what he says may be
depended upon. I may have gotten
his statement to me confused with a
proposition submitted to me directly
by one of Mr. Smith's friends. It is
not necessary to disclose the name of
this friend. It is enough to say that
he came to my room in the Depot hotel
at Newton saying that he was author
ized to make the proposition that if I
would pay Smith's campaign expenses
of 189:;, amounting to S3,j0: Smith
would get out of my way and support
me for the nomination for Governor.
The proposition struck me as absurd.
At that time I did not think Smith
was in it. I believed my nomination
was assured. Therefore I gave the
proposition no thought, and it passed
out of my mind."
Reed Men Sore at Proctor.
Washington, May 4. The Reed met
here claim that Senator Proctor was
intrusted with their campaign in Ver
mont and assured them that McKinley
sentiments would be kept well to the
rear. Then he took to Vermont one
of McKin ley's most ardent champions
Senator Thurston of Nebraska and
seems to have been in constant com
munication with Mark II anna. Be
fore even the bulletin of the action of
the convention had been sent broad
cast over the country, Mark Ilanna
had been informed by Senator Proctor
of the condition of things in Vermont.
Capitalists to Aid Cripple Creek.
Denver, Colo., May 4. Arrange
ments are being made for a big mass
meeting of business men in Cripple
Creek next Tuesda3T. It is expected
that D. U. Moffat, Eben Smith, W. S
Stratton, N. J. Jackson. Irving How
bert and other capitalists will be pres
ent and will aid liberally in rebuilding.
W. S. Stratton is reported to have said
that he will furnish 85,000,000 to the
responsible business men of Cripple
Creek who wish to rebuild in the
burned district.
American Horses in Germany.
Washington, May 4. United States
Consul Keenan at Bremen has report
ed to the state department that the
importation of American horses into
Germany is considerable, but that it is
hampered by the underhand methods
of local horse dealers. Last year 10,
000 American horses were shipped to
Germany, but all were rigidly inspect
ed on account of charges of unhealth
fulness. College Stndente Strike.
Delaware, Ohio, May 4. Last night
at chapel time, 1,000 students of Ohio
Wesleyan university went on a strike.
The strike is attributed to the action
of the faculty in imposing such strin
gent conditions upon the contem
plated Western tour of the glee club
s to make the trip almost impossible
Girls to Wait on British Statesmen.
London. May 4. Among the reforms
of the new kitchen committee of the !
house of commons will be the substi
tution of waitresses for waiters.
I THE STRAIGHT GOODS.
ANOTHER SET OF DELEGATES
TO CHICAGO. . .
Cleveland and Sound Money Democrats
of Nebraska Hold Their State Conven
tionSixteen Delegates to Represent
the Administration Followers, l'art of
Them Ifeing Selected by Acclamation
Sllverites Roasted to a Brown.
Cleveland and Sound Money.
Delegates-at-Large
TOBIA- CASTOR, Lancaster,
WILLIAM A. PAXTU.N. Douglas.
DA.WV.t'O K, Jape,
C'U AKLKS G. BY A.N, Hall
Alternates-at- ar?e-
MILTON M. IKiOLITTLE, Lincoln,
(iEOKGK W. WKST. Holt.
JAMES M'HIANK. Douglas,
JAM KS f. CKAWFOKD, Cuming.
Lincoln, April 30. Euclid Martin,
chairman of the state committee, called
the administration democratic state
convention together at noon yesterday.
Secretary .1. K- Sheean read the call.
Six hundred delegates were in their
seats when the chairman rapped the
convention to order.
Following the reading of the call
Chairman Martin named W. D. Mc
Ilugh of Douglas county as temporary
chairman and G M. Hubner of Otoe
county, temporary secretary. Later
on this was made permanent.
Chairman Mcllugh named as a com
mittee on credentials IL S. Bibb. Jerry
Farrell, II. E. Phelps, Samuel Wallace
and J. P. Ilea.
As committee on resolutions he nam
ed T. J. Mahoney, N. S. Harwood,
George P. Marvin, J. C. Crawford, Lee
M. Spratlin, J. I. Leese and D. P. Rolf.
Committee on permanent organiza
tion: Milton Doolittle, Robert Patrick
and Albert Watkins.
The committee on credentials report
ed that every county in the state, with
the exception of Stanton, was repre
sented by a full delegation on the lloor
of this house.
The convention then proceeded to
the election of candidates for
delegates-at-large to the Chicago
convention, the result being as given
above, the first four by acclamation.
Following is the list of district
delegates elected, together with their
alternates:
First District N. S. Ilarwocd, Lan
caster county; alternate, D. S. Gould,
Cass county; D. I'. Rolf, Otoe; altern
ate, A. W. liuffin, Johnson county.
Second District T. J. Mahoney,
Douglas county; alternate, George
Parks, Douglas; Euclid Martin, Doug
las; alternate, George W. Shields, Doug
las. Third District Fred Vaughan, Dodge
county; alternate, Frank Jouvenat,
Boone county; Frank A. Deaborn,
Wayne; alternate, E B. Wilbur, Dako
ta county.
Fourth District O. IL Scott, Thayer
county; alternate, J. C Hartigan; R.
E. Dumphey, Seward county; altern
ate, A. D. Ritchie, Butler county.
Fifth District George P. Kingsley,
Kearney; alternate, J. G. Glasser, Clay
county; II. G. Keeler, Webster county:
alternate, M. L. Meade, Perkins county.
Sixth District J. I. Leese, Dawes
county; alternate, O. F. Biglin, Holt
county; J. J. Mcintosh, Cheyenne coun
ty; alternate, A. G. Holt, Brown county-
The democrats of Nebraska, in con
vention assembled, pledge anew our
fealty to the principles of the demo
cratic party. We repel alike the im
pudent assumptions of republican
plutocratic paternalism and the vagar
ies of populist and socialistic paternal
ism. We denounce as dishonest the
claims of the republican party to be re
turned to power on account of financial
disturbance, produced by republican
legislation, and as equally dangerous
the clamor of populiais and their allies
for a more extensive application for
the same pernicious legislation. We
adhere to the time-honored principles
of the party, as enunciated by Jeffer
son and expounded by Jackson, Tilden
and Cleveland.
We believe with Thomas Jefferson
that the market value of bullion regu
lates the value of the coin, and not its
coin value, we accept the teaching of
economic science, that under free coin
age the cheaper money will always
drive out the better money, leaving
nothing but the poorer in circulation,
and that under the unvarying law the
adoption of free coinage of silver at 10
to 1 would expel from circulation all
the gold and paper money redeemable
in gold, and leave the country on a
silver basis, with a poorer currency
and much less of it.
We believe that common honesty and
a just regard for the rights of our cred
itors, as well as the rights of the wage
earners, require us to use all honorable
means to prevent the insertion of a free
coinage plank in the national plat
form. We adhere to our previous declara
tions on this subject, and declare our
selves unequivocally and unreservedly
for the metalic money, as the standard
unit, the bullion and mint value of
which are approximately the same, and
the purchasing power of which, regard
less of government mintage, is the least
fluctuating in all the markets of the
world. We insist on this policy as es
pecially necassary for the protection of
the farmers, laborers and property
owning debtors, the most defenseless
victims of unstable and tluctuating'cur
rency. We deny the right of congress to
levy taxes for any other purpose
than the maintenance of the govern
ment, and demand a fair trial for the
Wilson tariff law, under which busi
ness and industry have been recovering
from the paralytic stroke of McKinley
ism. We are in favor of the retirement of
the forced loans of the United States
government made in the exigencies of
war, and of the government going out
of the banking business at the earliest
practicable moment, and the establish- '
xnent of our currency and banking upon .'
some basis that will give stability to j
our paper money and security to de
positors. The theory of noninterference on the
part of European governments on this
continent, announced by President
Monroe, more than half a century ago, '
has taken a firm hold of- the American
people, and we heartily endorse and ap
prove the course of President Cleveland
and Secretary Olney in their firm and
unfaltering adherence to this great
principle.
We deny the claim of a small faction
who rctcufcij -, , i
rention in the name ol tne u. ,
of this state, and pretended to S t
delegates to the democratic a
convention, because they hav ,
years repudiated the national .
ocratic party and its platforms; tt-
have insisted on the withdrawal
2-1. V tntornst Ol til
democratic ikkcw " t4
populist party; they have refused w. t
join in the nomination of democrats-
for office, but msteau t
and supported populist candidates, who
accept one of the teachings of democ
racy; they have sought and held othce
by appointment from a populi&r irov
ernor as a reward for treachery t- the
democrats; they have been repuu.ated
by a two-thirds vote of the democrats
of the state; they have, by publ.c ut
terance, in their recent convention, de
clared that if the national democratic
convention refused to adopt the:-peculiar
notions, they will not abi lc by
its judgment, and ha've sought t ; e
the way for their entrance to the popu
list national convention in St- Louis
by the adoption of the most extreme of
the many hair-brained theories of that
party.
We believe in the government f rind
ed by the fathers of this republic, and
in the constitution, which, for more
than a century has been the admira
tion of the civilized world; and v re
pudiate the theories of populists and
so-called democrats, allied with popu
lists, who would destroy that constitu
tion for the socialistic experiment of
the initiative and referendum. .
We deprecate and denounce the
fiammatory language used by a certain
class of politicians ana puoiic peanci
in recent days in their efforts to stir
up strife and array one section of thev
country against another, and one class
of people against the other. We live,
under one constitution and one flag,
and we are, and of right should be, on
people.
The democracy of Nebraska declares
that it recognizes in governmental,
commercial and financial alfairs no
east, no west, no north, no south; that
the interdependence of the str.tes or
dains the closest identity of interests
without regard to section or locality,
and that all teachings to the contrary,
by whomsoever disseminated, are false
and pernicious.
Wa ti;v that evrv American citi
zen, duly qualified, has the right XX
vote and hold othce regaraiess 01 m
religious belief or affiliations, and we
condemn social organizations based up
on a different theory as inimical to our
free institutions.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Scales are now made of such a nice
adjustment that they will weigh any
thing, to the smallest hair plucked from
the eyebrow. In fact, they will weigh
pencil mark.
Sir John Lubbock describes an ant
which can support a weight three thou
sand times heavier than itself, oPequal
in proportion to a man holding 10 tons
by his teeth.
Thunder is sometimes one grf-at
crash, because the lightning cloucf is
near the earth and as all the vibrations
of the air (on which the sound depends)
reach the car at the same time. ,
The air is clear at Arequlpa, Peru.
From the observatory at that place, S050
feet above the sea, a black spot, one inch
in diameter, placed on a white disc, has
been seen on Mount Charchani, a dis
tance of eleven miles, through a thir
teen inch telescope.
Geological specimens brought home
recently from the Antarctic region by a
Norwegian explorer has been analyzed
and found to contain microlene gran" ,
with garnets and tourmaline an
schists. As these have never bf
in an ocean island, the concl ;s
that a continent exifctE around the t
pole.
A few drops of benzoin placed ol
ton and put in or around a tooth ti
aching will almost lnariably t-to
pain.
hot water and allowed to stand fif'
minutes before beginning to seed.
Clear, black coffee, diluted with war.r
and containing a little ammonia, will
clean and restore black clothes.
A treatment that may be relic! on
for removing spots of Iron rtist from
white fabrics is the following: Pour
boiling water into a bowl, stretch the
cloth that is spotted over it, and drop
on the spot of rust a drop of hydro
chloric or muriatic acid. Leave it there
half a minute, then dip the place In hot
water. Wash out thoroughly after
wards in water softened with ammonia.
Soap must not be used, as the acid will
decompose it and leave a grease pct
on the cloth
USEFUL ITEMS.
Books with clasps or raided sides
damage those . near them on the
shelves.
To Remove Iron Mould. Apply first
a solution of sulphuret potash, and
afterward one of oxalic acid. The sul
phuret acts on the iron.
To Polish Old Book Bindings. Thor
oughly clean the leather by rubbing
with a piece of flannel; if the leathy
is broken fill up the holes with a lit 1
paste, beat up the yolk of an egg, ai
rub it well over the covers with
piece of sponge; polish it by passing
hot iron over.
To Loosen Glass Stoppers. Apply
salad oil to the mouth of the decanter
by means of a feather; the bottle
should then be placed about one-half
yard from the fire. When warm the
stopper should be gently struck on all
sides, and attempts should be made to
move it If It still remains fast, ap
ply more oil. A few sharp taps on the
stopper, all the way round, with a key
is a7.o very effectual.
Senator Smith of New Jersey says
the Democrats of that state will in
struct for a third term for Cleveland.
A big consignment of bicycles has
been shipped to Cuba for use by the
insurgents in the war.
The Cuban junta has chartered
seven vessels in American ports to run
oeiween .New York and Cuba, r
yuan licit Nam, a Chinaman boi
t tt. . 1 , . . . .
u mis cuunvry, uu maae iDDUettu,
for appointment on the New Y01I
police force. II is prospects are goooN
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