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THE AMERICAN. rKllNTS IILTLY TO HO UK Ell, (riluiun iff lr. allir SwrrUry One of ihs uuint luUjres-tiug tf all e a Iributioos to the d eutuentary history of the trouble in the T.o.veol Lincoln of the Catholic church. av the Ikt, ml.l bo found ia the fuUwln.' letter from two of ti e priests who have Jiorui the brunt o! the fitrht: Thtmskh, Neb., November y To the F.ditur of the i'' : In your is-sue .f November Uev. Dr. K inker, private secretary of the apo-tolle Ui lo-jai'.ion. through jour correspondent at Wii-h ington, attempt no explanation that doe not explain, but rather envelop in deeper mysteries the conditions sir rounding the jH!ito!ie delegation. For the first lime we are informed, by Dr. Hooker, that 110 official information about the-1 mg continued and wide spread ecclesiastical troubles m Ne bra;ka has readied the representative in America of L o XIII. Will Dr. Hooker explain to an anxious public why this is so? Numerous letters have been fcent by priests of Nebraska to the apjbtolic delegate. Have they been intercepted? Have they never been re ceived? Many of those letters have been registered, others have been sent by express and receipts therefor re turned, bearing, some, the signature of Dr. Hooker; others, that of the apos tolic delegate himself. What does all this mean? Those letters contained public matters of great importance, of which it was the duty of the delegation to take cognizance. Were not these officially conveyed to the delegate? If not, why not? How has he then lieen able to send forth documents intimately affecting the civil and religious inter ests of the people of Nebraska, and, through Nebraska, of all America? Has his name been forged to these grave documents? Who has forged it? Will Rav. Di'. Hooker please answer these inquiries, and thus set at rest an anxious public? Dr. Rooker says that of these grave matters "nothing is officially known at the delegation." What, then, is the delegation In America for? We, twelve in number, nearly three years ago, met the delegation in Omaha, and received promises of redress, and papers to that effect wereBigned. and assurances were there given that no persecution against us by the Bishop of Lincoln, pending the settlement of the controversies, would receive countenance or sanction from him until the difficulties were fully and fairly heard and adjudicated. And yet Dr. Hooker fays that "the delegation knows nothing officially of these mutters." And Dr. Hooker "is an honorable man!" Several of us met the delegate in Chi cago, during the Columbian exposition, at the reception given him by the Co lumbus Club of tha. city. And even there, remembering to have met us in Omaha, the delegate turned aside to whisper assurances that the matters were receiving his attention and would soon be righted. Yet Dr. Hooker says we are "obstreperous and recalcitrant," and fit only to be "dislodged, like rent ers who have not paid their rent." We wish to tell Dr. Hooker that even rent ers in America are respected and es teemed citizens, and from some of the rented homes of Nebraska moneys have been generously remitted to purchase the palatial residence in Washington wherein Dr. Hooker is now "lodged." And yet he is a charitable priest! The Bishop of Omaha was commis , sioned by the delegation to obtain in formation concerning the diflic i!tics in the convent at IIa6t'ngs. He asked the resident priest of Hastings to fur nish him the fa its of the ca-e. For complying with this request that worthy priest incurred the anger of the Bishop of Lincoln, was threatened with suspension and finally driven from his parish -and ultimately from the diccese. A committee of honorable citizens from Hastings went all the way to Washing ton to remonstrate with, and were re ceived by, the delegate. And yet Dr. Rooker says "nothing of all these troubles is officially known at the dele gation." But Dr. Rooker is a truthful priest! Over a year ago the Archbishop of Dubuque was directed by the delegate "to give his solicitude and apply his authority to the Lincoln difficulties. (These are the exact words of the dele gate to our advocate, Dr. Smith.) At the same time the Archbishop of Du buque was instructed by the cardinal prefect of the Propaganda Fide at Home to proceed at once to the investi gation. The archbishop killed time by unnecessary delays, as if, being a well known friend of the Bishop of Lincoln, he wished thereby to kill or disperse the witnesses in the case, and thus de stroy theievidence. The delegate, an-gered-by these delays, repeated his di rections to proceed immediately to Lin coln. The archbishop delayed his coming. But when he did come, re fused to come farther than Omaha, whereihe held a sham trial, and then returned to his home in Dubuque. Our complaint of this conduct moved the delegate to renew his instructions to the archbishop to proceed to Lincoln. At length he came to the city of Lin coln, where, in the face of the intelli gent and cultured people of that city, a city of schools andccolleges, the seat of! one of the leading universities of Amer-' lea, a city n b-auiiful'y called the I'yjtH-n of ti e 1'rair .-," he .;red to carry on tar clamber pre, ding.ono UeJ aid a Milan. Yet Dr, linker y thai tt:hif UorticiaUy knovo at the illegal on of tht s j dirticull ei. and he is the private secretary of the apos tolic delegate. What, then, has Uv iniiie of the report which tin- rch- bishiijj should he rende-ed of the ; proceeding heU in Omaha and Lin coln, and t J whiih report the asUiie 'delegate re'e-r 'd in a li tter to u? j We have ro..e ved many letter from t the delegate it-versing entente j ' iiii'cst us by the His), op of L'n o!n. j The-e letters bear, to all apjiettrani.fi', j the seal and signature of the apostolic ;delega'e. Are the sea! and signature j genuine or f.rgeJ? If tin y are genuine, ho is it that Dr. Hooker says "nothing is known officially at the delegation a'niul these matters?" If forged, what are the conditions surrounding the dele gation at Washington, by which such cocduct is made possible? And yet Dr. Kojkcr is an honest priest! In the petition for an injunction against us, brought by the II shop of Lincoln, in the court of the First ju dicial district yesterday, when the question of a decision from the highest tribunal known to the Catholic church was broached, the Bishop of Lincoln im mediately produced with a manifesta tion o! glee, and was about to put in evidence, a document from the delega tion at Washington. And jet Dr. Hooker tays "nothing is officially known at the delegation about the Lin coln difficulties." In this preliminary hearing the spotless honor of an incor ruptible judge, a defender even of the rights of renters, refused to place in the hands of the Bishop of Lincoln the club of the cruel tyrant an injunc tion. Beaten in his attempt to grasp the tyrant's club, the injunction, he at the railway station at South Auburn, in the presence of the traveling public, threatened to strike us next week with the terrible club of "public excommu nication," and signified that we ought to bo In hell. And yet Dr. Rooker can see no other solution of those L'ncoln difficulties than the invocation of the civil power "to dislodge those recalci trant and obstreperous priests." Have the influences of the Bishop of Lincoln, which a year ago impeded an appeal to the supreme court of this state from the unjust decision rendered in the dis trict court at Nebraska City, reached tho portals of the delegation? Does Dr. Rooker know that the incorruptible people of Nebraska rose up in their might on the 5th day of this month and hurled from their sacred tribunal of justie3 tha "tool of a haughty Roman Catholic prelate?" Let Dr. Rooker come within the boundaries of young and fruitful and beautiful Nebraska, and there attempt to enforce bis bar barous decree "to dislodge those recal citrant and obstreperous priests, just as I would throw out of my house a renter who had not paid me my rent, " Yours respectfully, D. Fitz;khali, WT. MvurnY. I III ltd! LOTTERIES ILLEGAL. Decision of Illinois' Assistant Attorney tiencral on Sales at ''Fairs." SruiNGFiEU), 111., Nov. 2. An im portant question was settled t3-diy by the law department of th ? state. The question at issue was: "Js it illegal for a church or society conducting what is termed a 'fair,' to sell quilts or other articles by chance, lot or ticket?" and Assistant Attorney -General Martin L. Newell rendered the opinion that it is illegal and may be the subject for prose cution under the state laws concerning lotteries. Drop in Title (notations. New YORK,November8. An Ameri can heiress with 000,000 and a de sire for the title of princess may com municate with Pastor J. Berger of the Roman Ca'holic Church of Leopold, P.rry county, Ind. The $2,000,000 must be in cold cash or convertible se curities. A slight discount may be made on quick bu-iness. Lawyer Al berts. Warner of 277 Broadway has received a letter written in French on the official note paper of the church in question, by Pastor Berger, in which the writer says: A young French prince, a friend of mine, desires to contract a marriage in America with a young person ("jitewe" pcnonnel) who has at least $2,000,000. Can you secure such an individual for him? If you can you will be paid after tho marriage the sum of $10,000 as commission, which will be guaranteed to you. If you carry the matter through oa or before December 1 you will re ceive an extra compensation of $0,000, as the need is urgent. The young prince in question belongs to the most illustrious family of the French nobility. His title dates back to the time of the Crusades. He is 29 years of age and a Catholic a very ex treme Catholic. He desires that the young person should also be a Catholic, but the religious question will not nec essarily be an obstacle to an otherwise satisfactory marriage. Why This Slur! Senator Thurston of Nebraska has re fused to make any campaign speeches this fall on the excuse of ill health. This is a little peculiar, however, for it was only about a week ago that he was fully able to appear in court in San Francisco in behalf of the Union Pacific Railroad, from which he is still drawing a large stipend. Kansas City Star, THE NEW DAILY SCHEME. j ho. n oken for in tho hemo get U, Ti.e friend at Omaha are trj lug t up patriotic daily paper in Omaha: rmiM tunVifnl capital to etart m'"'"li. VI. , l.:i'lmrr . , . ., .... . . . 4 IO ife-.. Ill iy American daily. 1 hey already have , n,,,., n,t- n-i. it . fi, ,. .,,, .1. tl, ',mn..M ..I rietuis everywlera in the United Slate. Can you take one or tuorv hares, on account of true A merit an ism? Tl.U i their p'an: in annwer to rept ju d requests we have tit ally consented to undertake the , nave ui auj cotisemcu m unutr iiktsine M , . j task of starting a Daily Amkku an in i Omaha. This would be -an tasy thirg i to do if iKop'ie w ere to at I as they la!k. Ytt lt will not be in. ssit le, even if ; they uo not, for there are thousands of patriots mho are ai xlous to have the news anxious to hc.the 1'rolcsUiit preachers as. fair a hearing as is ao Otded to lit n an 1 1 it sis 1 1 d 'him lant lecturers of the Jesuit Sherman stamp who will rcsoond to our call for sub scribers for Block to enable us'to estab lish a Daily Amkkican. We have consulted with our friends, and they have sugge-ted-thisplan; Increase the capital osUx'k if the American Publishing Co. to,l.".0,0O0. Divide Into IO.OiH) shares-of 1." each. Begin business wheof 100,000 has been subscribed Each stockholder mustK' a suli scrlber. Subscription iirlce of the pa-cr, first year, will be $10; S the second, and whatever tho directors decide there after. 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Arrangements have just been com pleted whereby tho Union l'acilic and connecting lines will run a I'ullnian Tourist Sleeper from Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn,, to Los Angeles, Cul., via Sioux City and Columbus, Neb., without clmtitjt, Car to lenvo Minneap olis Thursday 7:40 p. m , St. I'aul H;l,"i p. m.. and returning, have Los Angeles at 2:00 p. tn. every Thursday. For comfort there is nothing that ex cels the tourist curs operated by the Union l'acilic, and it is an established fact Unit this lint! makes faster time than any other line in the west. This already gives promise of being the pop ular line for California travel, and ap plications for space in the sleeper should be made early. 'For Information in regard to this through car line, apply to your nearest Union l'acilic agent or L. L. Lomax, (ien'l Pass, and Ticket Agent, Omaha, Neb. M rouged a Girl. Minnkai'omh, Minn., November !. Kditok Tn k A mkrican: 1 low strange it would be if a wet k were to pass with out a M-andal for tho Roman priesthood. Stranger it is, however, how the press tries to dodge printing these items. A row in Polish circles in Minneapolis brings to light an unpublished case here. Frances Morow.inski caused two of her cjuntrymen to be arraigned in court for ahutive and obieene language Tho girl recently caused the iii-rest of Wladislaw I'oliK'tk, a student for the priesthood, on the charge of bastardy. She is now a mother. She claims that whenever she passes the house of tho friends of the young priest, she is sub jected to all manner of vulgar mimes because she had him arretted for being the father of the child. This 1'olacek, so far as known to your correspondent, did not marry the Mor owzinskl girl, but-is still studying for his future position. If the girl's charges are true, he is a father, and should be eligible for the priesthood without a doubt. Her tormentors were found guilty, and were fined J'! or three days' im prisonment. Zamhot. A Ministerial Ass. A Presbyterian minister, Dr. Trum bull, if a sermon preached in Alle gheny last week, made tho remarkable statement that "people who belong to secret soeietiesaro not Christians," and that "they introduce Into their social affairs, strong drink, which tends to do away with Christianity." It is truly surprising thitt a man of reputed intel ligence, who is supposed to ce a leader among the people, should be so ex tremely ignorant of the suhject he at tempts to discuss, to the extent of slandering the best men of the coun try. Pittsburgh American. Assaulted. From the report of the Presbytery of Santa Fe, New Mexico, we learn that Rev. Jose K.Cruz was assaulted, not by a mob, but by the police, for refusal to remove his hat before the host as borne by the Romanists through the streets of Las Vegas. 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