H A ME RICAN THE AMERICAN Catrrvd at FuatoAf m anroad-elaM Maltar JOHN O. THOMPSON. NT. W. C KKLLKY. Buaa liuior. rcBLiciiicn wkkklt Br thi AMERICAN POBUSHUG COMPACT, 1(1 HOWARD 8TKBBT, 04A. Nl. THK AMKKICAM OrriOB. HU Howard Pti. (. Wb. Koom ft. m Kul HaatoltB HirMi, CM fl? Whitney Butldla, mm our. Mo P. O. Ho 00. Cripple Or Uot. Ilir.OO Vr mtrtcttv Im Arfro THE AMERICAN; From Now Until January I. I'7. For In mall of ? 50--CENTS--50 f Pat Your Subscription at t Rat Up to Data, and Tako Ad vantae of i Our Great Offer. X Any Person Sanding U Ton Now Sub i acribora will ba Favorod With a Year's T T Subscription to THE AMERICAN. 1 No perianal chock accoptad unless X ma!- for 16 eta. mora than I ha amount of subscription you wian io pay. T aMM 0. "' Sum m tlx Omit- I Wmt M OaM. Cf No Commission to Axtvln. If yuu dealt v..h r... . ...... kla 0 AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO. ttttttttTTTtttTTtTTt MARCH 8. 18IW. OUR CHOICE. For President: W. 3. LINTON of Michigan. For Vice-President: JOHN L. WEBSTER of Nebraaka. What does the A. P. A. owe Frank Ransom? Cheer up, boy! Only one more year of G rover. JOIN the Central Republican Club. It's an American organization. Does the A. P. A. owe Billy Gurley anything but a good dreading down? DO THK moa who voted to sustain tbe new fire and police board owe Charles J. Greene anything? The only redeeming feature In Man dorion is found in the fact that he works for the most accommodating railroad in the state. The recent deramst rations in Spain will not help the Spanish cause In Cuba, and It may result in the entire loss of the West Indies to Spain. Thb 308,000 teacher in the public schools of this country receive only 196,000,000 yearly for their services. The pay of the United Stages school teachers is evidently far too small. L - - .J By the death of W. J. Campbell, in Chicago, Wednesday, the Republican party lost one of its leaders. He was chairman of the national committee In 1802, but resigned in favor of Tom Carter. THE governor of Massachusetts, F. T. Grecnbalge, died Wednesday. He was an Englishman by birth, though not by education as he was brought to this country by his parents when he was two years of age. One of the Roman prelates who had the good sense and the courage to op pose the promulgation of the dogma of papal infallibility, ex-Archbishop Ken rick, died this week at his home in St. Louis. Peace to his soul. It is now said that A. P. A. secrets have been exposed in Des Moines. Horrible 1 Wonder if tbe expose will have the same effect ever there that like exposures bad in Omaha last fall? If it does, Rome and her political hacks are doomed to defeat. Washington's Roman Catholic pa per, Church Xews, speaks in its last Is sue of two Know-nothings who occupied seats in congress prior to the war, who afterward joined the Roman church. Probably if the truth was known they were Romanists when they joined the Know-nothingE. The lengths to which the Roman church will go to defraud its communi cants is being fully shown in Judge Fawoett s court this week. It is in the case where Mrs. Shelby la endeavor ing to have the will of her father, J. D. Creighton, set aside because of his mental incapacity to execute or make a will. The church he had enriched now comes In and fights for the legacy which rightfully belongs to the daughter, and causes her the humlla tion of having to see the idiosyncrasy of her father paraded before an un sympathetic public. Before that it had threatened her with spiritual punish ment, and ita attorney had Induced her 0 sign a blank petition to have the will probated, besides doing many Other thiags to embarrass and make her afraid. Mrs. Shelby will have tbe moral support of every American la this city la her fight against the Roman octopus and la behalf of her family. Why should sot we elect John L. Webster at large and two A. P. A. delegates from this district? The A. P. A. is in the majority io this olty, Is the majority to give the minority all the plums to keep them in line? There Is a pretty young lady over Cedar Rapid,!-, who has brought ia and sent In two lisU of subscribers, to whom we desire to extend our thanks. One on ber first list will also aooept our thanks for new subscribers sent la. Wbea our fair friends take hold there is no ehanoe to fail. On page 406 of tbe Atlantic Monthly for March the assertion Is made that 85 per cent of the publlo-school teachers la Nebraska obtain their positions through improper influences. This might be true If 65 per cent of the Uacbers in the public schools of Ne braska were Roman Catholics. The lnfallible-non-mlatakable-pope of Rome has reversed himself, partly. Some time ago he decreed that every Roman should leave the K. P., the I. O. O. F. and the Sons of Temperance. Now he says those who are lu can re main there If It would result la pecuni ary loss to withdraw. The holy father always keeps an eye on the dollars. "We must elect Thurston to down Manderson!" Is the shout sent up by some of our friends, and Thurston says, 'The will of the people of the state, fairly and honestly expressed, must be obeyed." That doesn't look much like boating Manderson, for the state at large will stay by him. The only way to defeat Manderson Is to elect two A. P. A. delegates. In a certain public school In Chicago the teacher has been giving the little children religious cards. One of the scholars carried the one she got home, and her parents told her to go back and tell the teacher that they did not have any use lor Homan uathono cards. When the little one did to, the teacher attempted to get out of it by saying: Those are not Roman Catholic cards, they are Presbyterian." OCR contemporary, the Boston C'ii- zen, says two men, Judge Van Forsen, of the state of Washington, and Con gressman Linton, of Michigan, are prominently mentioned for the office of supreme president of the A. P. A. From that Linton must be an A. P. A., which demonstrates that every man the A. P. A. lias elected to office has not forgotton his obligation as soon is he was Installed in a public office. LINCOLN'S assassination was the re sult of a Jesuit conspiracy, and tbe ly ing of the Chmnick of Chicago In their behalf will not lessen the responsibility of that society for his death. If any one doubts this assertion let him read the "Assassinatlcn of Lincoln," by General T. M. Harris, who was one of the court-martial who tried the con spirators, or "Fifty Years In the Church of Rome," by Rev. Cbas. Chlnl quy. After perusing those works they will wonder how even a Chicago Demo cratic paper could sink low enough to defend such a murderous outfit. "We will continue to wage a deter mined fight for a fair ballot and an honest count And we are a unit in favor of free schools, and while we greet with the open arms of welcome the intelli gent and honorable emigrants from the oppressed nations of the old world, we unitedly deprecate the invasion of this nation by the pauper labor of Europe, who drive free and honest American toilers from active employment to Idle ness, want and desperation," says the Reform Press Association. That comes very near being sound Amerlcon doc trine. Will their party nominee be as earless? Some of our friends say they are for Thurston, so as to teach the Burling ton to keep its hands out of Douglas county politics. If it has come to where a man must choose between rail roads, we can see no good reason why the choice should not fall to the Bur lington. It Is run by white men, by men who helped whip Roeey, and by men who have been noted for their ac commodating predilections. But there Is no necessity for making such a choice. Choose two men who will rep resent this district, regardless of any thought as to whether they are friendly to the Burlington or the Union Pacific. Wonder where our friends, who are supporting John M. Thurston, will be if they, by any chance, succeed in electing him as a delegate to the Na tional Republican Convention and then the state declares for Manderson? Thurston, in an Interview In the World-Herald last Saturday morning, said he would be for Manderson if the people declared for him. By that, the electors of this district are to be, prac tically, disfranchised if the state de clares for Manderson. This district Is largely in sympathy with the princi ples of the A. P. A., yet if it elects John M. Thurston under the impres sion that he stands for what it wants and then the state says it wants some thing else, Mr. Thurstoo will disregard the wishes of the electors of this dis trict and follow the wishes of the state, or his words are a misrepresentation to the electors of this stale. He is either not sincere ia his declaration to the electors of this state or he Is not sin cere when he asks you to elect him oa your platform. ONE of our subscribers write u from Fillmore that The American onoe contained a dirty little fling at General Harrison calling him a little monkey. The editor of The Ameri can thought he was a very close stu dent of the columns of the paper over which he presides; but if General Ear risen was referred to In them as a little monkey, he must confess he never saw the item. Of all the men mentioned for president, Benjamin Harrison was our choice up to tbe hour of hi with drawal; and we would not be guilty of casting a reflection upon a man whom we desired to see the people elect, or upon one, lor that matter, whom we desired them to defeat, if there was no good and sufficient reason for such re flection. It 1 not necessary for u to ay what motive prompt us to support or oppose a candidate for any position. Those who have read the paper for any length of time know that we have but one object in view and that object 1 to keep our oftloe free of men who pander to Rome. A certain Chicago dally finds fault 1th the wording of the resolutions sent to Washington from Peoria by the state council of the A. P. A. The pur ist on that paper might have improved on the diction but not on the sentiment; for all the world understands now that the Illinois A. P. A. is opposed to plac ing a statue of a Jesuit a member of the Society of Jesus, which is the syn onym or rape and rapine, or murder and misery, of fraud and fawning, of superstition and scurrility, of cunning and craft, of hate and humility, of cringing and crawling and creeping, and of all that is low, base, corrupt and evil in statuary hall in this nation's capital. That paper could not have made itself more thoroughly under stood. The proposod expenditure of $80,000,- 000 for coast defenses and (40,000,000 for the improvement of the navy are steps which will be commended by every patriotic American. In time of peace prepare for war that is the best way to preserve peace. The Church News says Linton's edu cation was along the line of logs and not on that of the law. This was par tially true, also, of Lincoln. Yet Lin coln rose to be president, a position we hope some day to Linton occupy. The A. 1'. A. of Omaha and Douglas county, which has done such good work in former elections, is divided Into as many factions as there are presidential aspirants. It will not be in that condi tion after the nominations are made. Dr. Hunter, Republican candidate for United States senator from Ken; tucky, withdrew from the fight last Saturday, in order to give his Republi can friends a chance to agree upon some other candidate. The Republicans of Rockford, 111., held their primaries last Saturday, and elected Tanner delegates to the state convention. It is reported that the A. P. A. is in control of the dele gation. The antl-McKinley Republicans of Indiana are trying to organize and agree upon some other candidate, but so far bave been unable to agree. Why not form Linton and Webster Clubs? Senator Cullom's part in the con firmation of Copplnger will not im prove his chanoe of securing a delega tion to the National Republican Con vention in his interest. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which is one of the oldest companies in the world, has gone into the hands of a receiver, under tbe order oi tne United States court. We are well pleased with tbe selec tion of Dr. Peter Sohwenck for the office of clerk of the police court. The council should confirm him by a unani mous vote. We are in receipt of an excellent four-page American paper from Clin ton, Ky., sailing under the title of the Kentucky Clipper. Success to the new paper. - Low Rates. One fare for the round trip plus two dollars Is the rate authorized for the sale of tickets to points In Nebraska and Kansas on March 10, via UNION PACIFIC. For further information, call at City Ticket Office, 1302 Farnam street. Cheap Excursion. For the Homeseekers' Excursion of March 10, the UNION PACIFIC will sell tickets to points in Nebraska and Kansas at rate of one fare for the round trip, plus $2.00. For full particulars call at City Ticket Office, 1302 Farnam street. AICBEIESTS. It 1 seldom that a new play particu larly on of tbe melodramatic order- continue on the road for a whole son witbout receiving at least one "roasting'; but such Is the record of "An American Boy," la which, merry Katie Emmett Is this year delighting all her old friends and making host of new one. From Boot an to Chicago both star and play bave scored one un interrupted success; and It is to be ex pected that when this highly success ful attraction open at the Creighton for four night, commencing with a low-priced matinee on Sunday, March 8, we shall bave the pleasure of adding a few words of commendation to the many column already devoted to the play. Ml Emmett, as an Impersonator of the merry, hustling newsboy, stands without a rival; and, surrounded a she 1 with a company of actor a long way above tne average, It must be a poor play Indeed that she I unable to make "go." In "An American Boy," how- ever, which is irom the pens oi Hubert and Marion Sockett, she ha a piece in every respect superior to her famous Waifs of New York," which made more money than any similar piece ever written, as a literary produc tion, the new play is said to command the Interest and respect of the most critical and intelligent men and women; bile the thrilling situations and cli maxes are so cleverly conceived and happily introduced that they prove both logical and convincing. These throw the gallery into an ecstacy of delight, while the lower portions of tbe house are equally appreciative. One of the main situations of the play shows a cutting for a new street in the Harlem district of New York City, where a section gang ia engaged in blasting the rock. This gang consists of a superintendent, assistant superin tendent, overseer, and one laborer to do the work, while the three politi cians boss the job a keen and humor ous satire on Tammany methods. The bad men of the piece have drugged a little child and placed her where the next blast will inevitably kill her; but just a second before the dynamite ex plodes Chat seizes the child, takes hold of a rope hanging from the crane arm and swings both to safety clear across the stage. Tbia is really a perilous leap, and is nightly received with the most vociferous applause. Baby lea belle, aged 3 years, not only (peaks the lines and acts her little part in a won derfully precocious manner, but she also sings an English and a German song in perfect time and perfect tune. Excellent scenery, showing several well-known New York localities, and an abundance oi comedy and special ties, round out the promises of the management. - - . There was another crush at the New Dohany Theater, Council Bluffs, last evening. The jam at the box office and the door was so great as to seri ously Interfere with the sale of tickets and the admission of the crowd. It was necessary to delay the raising of the curtain for tan minutes. "Pawn Ticket No. 210" was the play, and it seemed to catch the crowd. The mati nee yesterday afternoon packed the house, and with one exception was the largest matinee crowd that has ever rejoiced the heart of Manager Alton. The Woodwards have played a two- weeks' engagement to houses packed to the doors every night. This unex ampled success has induced Manager Alton to extend their engagement an other week. Next Sunday night they will open a week's engagement at the Boyd in Omaha. One feature of the Inauguration of low-priced theatricals here is the large attendance it has at tracted from Omaha. One theater train carried seventy-five Omaha people home after the show Thursday night, and every night there have been crowds on the returning motors. Omalia Ike, March 1. The Woodwards are at Boyd's The ater for a week, commencing Sunday matinee, March 8. The Hinrichs French and Italian Grand Opera Company was organized under the auspices of a number of wealthy people of Philadelphia, who subscribed a large guarantee fund for sustenance for a winter season of grand opera in Philadelphia. The season was opened at the Academy of Music 1th the first performance of Ernest Reyer's "Sigurd," on November 12th, 1895, and was continued for fourteen weeks, closing on February 15th. Five and six performances were given a week, and during the season twenty five of the leading French, Italian and German works were presented, which were more different operas than any other city in the world had the privi lege of enjoying the past winter. When the company sings in this city the operas presented will be the most successful of those produced in Philadelphia. The management of Boyd's Theater takes pleasure in an nouncing the dates to be March 19, 20 and 21, with the following repertoire: "Lucia Dl Lammermoor," "Faust," "La Traniata" and "Cavallerla Rusti cana" (grand double bill), and "Pag llaccl." The mere announcement that Sousa is coming wui oe sumcient to create a furore. VTho can resist the swing and motion of rhythm of the delightful music, military and otherwise, of Sousa and hi men They are admired by tbe lover of the claase a well for their playing of the music of the grest maaters, a for the lighter style, which please the popular taste. Ah! the getting out of one' elf la listening to the tilt and awing and cadence of Sousa muslo and the magnetism of his own marches. Sousa has a mission and till hi niche in life most beauti fully. He I appreciated wherever he choose to go. Look out for Sousa, be I coming to Boyd' Theatre on Satur day, March Uth, matinee and evenlag. A. P. A.8 OUTWITTED. The KUtne f Father Marqaette Placed la the Capites Wltheat Retire. Washington, D. C, Feb. 29. Tb statue of Father Marquette, placed in statuary hall at the capltol building by the state of Wisconsin, was unveiled to-day. It wa not generally expected that the unveiling would occur until next week and consequently there were few person in the hall. The unveil lng waa Informal in character and there were no exercises of any kind. Those who witnessed it were Senators Mitchell and Vilas of Wisconsin, one or two members of the house, J. W. Lozy, chairman of the committee which had charge of the matter, and represented the governor of Wiscon sin, Guetana Trentanove, the sculptor, a few newspaper representative and a mall number of visitors. The statue is heroic in size and represent Father Marquette in his priestly robes. It is mounted on a pedestal about four feet In height. It was pronounced a hand son.) piece of work by those who saw it. There was haste in unveiling the statue for the reason that Mr. Linton, the A. P. A. member from Michigan, had expected to introduce in the house to-day a resolution to prevent the plac ing of the statue in the capltol, basing his protest on a law providing that only statue of citizens of the state furnish ing them shall be placed there and claiming that Father Marquetto was not a citizen of Wisconsin. Fulling Into Line. Report says that California is falling into line with the other states in ihe power of the A. P. A. The Roman Catholics have always been organized because they are a secret organization, but the A. P. A.'s are now looking after the Interests of the Protestants. There are Protestants who detest the pagan religion of the Roman Catholics, and do not want their children brought up under its Influence and especially they do not want the state united with such a travesty on religion as that. And there are others who fight It sim ply as a political - machine. The pops will find he will have enemies among the gold-fields of California as well as among the heretics of Chicago and Omaha. She has invited the attack and she is getting it. There was a time when one of the Roman Catholics, who signed his name by a double dag ger, wrote to "Father" O'Connor, editor of the Converted Cttilvolk, that if he did not stop lecturing upon the public Bcbool question he would be hung to the nearest lamp-post. Why do not the Romans especially those who sign a double dagger after their names do that now? Such talk might be toler ated in some countries, but not here. And that is the cause of the cry heard from Maine to California that we must down the pope's army, and put on guard those who are Americans In spirit; and If the Roman Catholics con tinue their aggressive warfare, as they seem likely to, they will be pushed to the corners of the earth. This warfare against a nation's foe.is contagious, and there will be many who will fall into line in every gold field and in every cotton field, until the ears of the pope will tingle with the A. P. A. reports from the New World. A. What Is It? A short time ago I wrote an -article advising all patriotic men who were Christians to do some Christian work among Roman Catholics by getting a Sad Iter's Almanac and s writing to the priests and showing them that they were not properly Christians but rather pagans; that the Bible is not taught as it should be and they would thus do a good work. Now we find a lawsuit started between a priest and a lady parishioner, and, as has been &Utou, there was never a suit on this point before, and, judging it from first sight, I would say that it is a "job" put up by some Roman Catholics to stop all per sons sending through the mails any thing that would have a tendency to Injure their form of idolatry. When a suit is started so as to establish a prece dent, we should always see If there Is a Roman In the fence. A. X. He Wag Glad. When a Presbyterian church In St, Louis was burning, a man made this remark: "I'm glad to see the whole business burn; it's a Protestant outfit, anyhow." Necessity is the mother of invention; and some people think they cannot live unless they have something to make them glad, and in order that this necessity might be met there might have been some invention to ac comollsh it. It is at least not a new invention. A. PATRIOTS IN COUNCIL They Organize a Strong Club to Advance Americanism. WUI be Eaewa a the Central Repefcli east tUb, as will leet la vTaskiagtea Hall.. Pursuant to announcement, there was a meeting at 1615 Howard street Thursday evening to organise a club to work in the Interest of W. 8. Linton for president and John L. Webster for vice-president A "larger number responded to the call than we had expected and we were unable to comfortably accommodate a majority of those who came. Last week we told Mr. M. H. Red- field that if fifteen men would respond to the call he had just read we would be satisfied. Instead of fifteen there were more than forty present, and ail were enthusiastic Speeches were made br Judge Scott. Mr. Gillian, W. B. Howard, J. B. Piper, Anton Inda, Dorsey B. Houck, G. A. Ambler, F. H. Alexander and Samuel MacLeod, the tenor of which was that all were to work to have two men sent from this district to the Republican national convention bo would fully represent the senti ment of the A. P. A. The name of W. G. Whitemore and John C. Thomp son were mentioned as suitable candi dates for the honor. No definite action was taken, however, as everybody felt that they would be satisfied with any man who would stand squarely upon the A. P. A. declaration of principles. After the Informal discussion was over, D. B. Houck moved that the club be named the Central Republican Club, which was seconded and carried. The next meeting will be held in Washington hall, Thursday evening, March 12. The officers of the new club consist of a president, secretary and treasurer. John C. Thompson was elected presi dent, G. W. Bettesworth secretary and J. B, Piper treasurer. The Central Republican Club Is to be a permanent organization. Its pur pose will be to secure, at all times, the election of men who are thoroughly imbued with a love of country, our free Institutions and enough of an Ameri can to declare in the open that his al legiance is not divided but prim aril y and continually to the United States. There will be some good speeches along American lines next meeting night, and you who enjoyed the meet ings of old No. 1 and of No's. 2. 5, 8, 9, 13, 32, 40 and 122 will be amply re paid for coming up to Washington hall. it is the Intention of the president to . write Congressman Linton and reauest him to come and deliver at least one speech In this state prior to the hold ing of the district and state conven tions. The Central Republican Club is now a reality, and those who desire to work in harmony with it are cordially In vited to attend the next meeting and sign the roll. Remember, the next meeting will be held in Washington hall, Eighteenth and Harney. Thursday evening, March 12. Let all loyal Americans attend. Let us make the Central Republican Club a factor in Douglas county poll tics. How's Thisl We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward (or any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure! F.J. CHENEY A CO., Imps., Toledo, O. We the undersigned, hare known F. J. 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Oarllchs; Union Trust Co. vs. F. B. Johnson et al. ON march 24. Carmlchael vs. Jeffrey. National Bank of Commerce vs. Annie R, Ktnkead. Hinsdale vs. Winter, et al. ON APRIL 7th, 1806.' Elizabeth H. Abbott vs. Chas J. Bead, et al. SPECIAL MASTER COMMISSIONER'S SALES. ON MARCH 10th, 1896. Isaac N. Watson, Special Master Commit sloner. George P. Davis vs. Vina Snlvely et al. Louis P. Gougler vs. John T. Murphy et aU H. S. Hall vs. Herman Busch et al. Elizabeth H. Bates vs. James Ainscow et al, Richard Goodman vs. Rachel Kallsh et al. James Harris, Sr., vs. Joseph I. Watt et al. APRIL 7, 1896. Havemeyer vs. Jaros, et al. Chas. L. Thomas, Special Master. Nichols vs. Noble. Harry E. Burnam, Special Master. Twtntlng vs. Campbell. George W. Holbrtok, Special Master. Bailey, Ex. vs. Taylor, George W. Holbrook, Special Master. ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION. Omaha Railroad and Crossing Alarm CoJ Chas. F. Reed, et al, NON-RESIDENT DEFENDANTS. ANSWBR DAT, MARCH 9, 1896. Thomas H. Bowen et al. 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