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HARRISON PRESS-JOURNAl OEO. D. CANON. Editor. HARRISON. - - NEBRASKA KEBRASKA NEWS NOTES. Gothenburg reports crop prospect as Too Columbus Journal is making ex tensive Improvements in its plant. Boat Woodruff, who resided at Ta for thirty years, is dead. Lincoln business men are preparing or big cele bration on May day. Brakeman Hennion was Instantly while coupling cars at Arlington. Attorney Johnson of Stuart has been for subornation of perjury. Mrs. Mary Carman, a resident of Tecamseh for thirty-five years, is dead. The pupils of the Juniata public School have just contributed 115.39 to the India famine relief fund. K. J. Burket was renominated for osagrees at the First district repub lican convention at Lincoln Thursday. Kx tensive Improvements are being Blade on the Burlington road between Wattemouth and Louisville. Springfield is beginning to boom the arpy county fair, to be held for three Slays, beginning September 12. While working on a building at Stan oa Cyrus Trend fell to the ground, sus. ; a serious fracture of the hip. A light fall of snow occurred at Co lumbus Wednesday morning, melting mbnoet as fast as it fell. Rain is badly In this vicinity. District court, with Judge Norrle on r the bench, was in session at Imperial last week. There were 114 cases on the olecket, and in that number there is at a divorce nor criminal case. A sale of thoroughbred shorthorn attle at Mlnden Tuesday attracted ajolte a large crowd of stockmen from ail over the state. AH ages sold on an for about $110 per head. The new village trustees at Btirwell were sworn in Tuesday night and were called to act on two petitions for li cense, but as there were remonstrances in each case the matter was postponed. 9e board Is strictly high license. The case of the state against Dr. Isaac t. Jones, In which Minnie E. Ka Ojcff charges the doctor with having produced an abortion, has occupied the Mention of Justice Archer's court at JTattsmooth. About fifty came from Sooth Bend as witnesses. 1 P. Anderson, a well digger, who eras walling up a well, was suddenly jhtken with an epileptic fit and fell twenty-five feet headlong Into five feet f water and was drowned at the farm of P. W. Swanson at Oakland. He , wife and daughter and son. grain about Schuyler Is about all ta, and It awaited several days the rain to sprout It An unusually acreage of spring wheat was bat the acreage of winter wheat lIL What there Is, Is In good Many are now plowing for Polk county will contribute about 1300 jo the famine sufferers of India. The German Methodist Episcopal church of Osceola has raised about MO for these offerers and placed ft in the hands f their pastor, Rev. A. J. Ross, to be forwarded to the proper officers for distribution. Br. A. J. Baker of Columbus shot a -strange bird on the Platte river. He Nought the bird to town and It proves to be what h called by ornithologists a the Tflght Heron and Is said to be seldom seen In this part of the coun try. The bird Is a water fowl of the family of waders and has a very beau Wat pi urns ge. number of the Reflector, a published in the Interests of the aagh school, made Its appearance at Ootambus. The mechanical work Is done by the Telegram, but the paper is ed ited by Charles Duffy and William "Wagner of the High School cadets. On (he cover page appears a fine half-tone rut of the new high school. It Is a lateen-pake paper and Jwtll lappeai assatUy. TLAMKB AT THE EXPOSITIONS Omaha. Neb. (Special.) Flames de .Otrwyed the last building but one at the Omaha exposition, when the Transpor tattoo, banding burned. A few minutes S o'clock an alarm from the i brought out several companies of the department, but such headway had been gained by the flames that the lh booms efforts were directed to sav taar taw surrounding property A few frame houses and sheds caught Sjra, hot the blase was put out In each sjssw sjrtth Httle damage ' and walls of the big wooden fell s quarter of sn hour after ho fJN started. A pile of wreckage saw by caught Are and. together with jfha- hen sing bonding, made a blase jObb sorhtsd op the northern part of otJr Woefcs. nothing of value In tht i hollaing. Workmen en : down the other itroe m f d oaod H (or a headquarters. J t tmt fcwXasw. storad with flaw i t:r"l..ttm . owaoor si CCJA 9 ottoAtoo shoot i r Oo. as ami : THE LONG STRUGGLE OF MAN. i (By John P. Altgeld, ex-Governor of Illinois.) The progress of man Is one long struggle for Independence, a struggle for freedom, a struggle to get out of the power of other men. No matter how well-intentioned the wielder of the pow er may be, the person over whom It is wielded cannot reach a -healthy devel opment or enjoy the full measure of existence In that condition. Lincoln ex pressed a fundamental truth when he declared that no man was good enough to govern another. The principle un derlying It all Is that when a man Is In the power of another he cannot reach his highest estate. Mamiesuy, mere couia w no more .i v., . i , Jjectlonable power than a power that we wear and the roof we lie down un der at night. It Is clear that our Intel lectual, religious and political freedom will avail us little If we are to have industrial and financial slavery. We find that In many fields compe tition has entirely failed and ceased to exist. Whether In the long run this Is for the better or the worse we need not now Inquire. In the whole domain of pub'lc utilities, such as supplying water, gss, electric light, street railway service, etc.. there Is no longer compe tition, but monopoly In the hands of a few Individuals. In all of these esses If the people got the benefit of the monopoly It would be a blesslng.because monopoly can cheap en production and Improve the serv ice. But so long as te monopoly Is In the hands of a few Individuals the pub lic Is absolutely In their power. The web and woof of modern soclrty l transportation. Communities are no longer Independent, s they once were, but are Infer-derendent. Tet trans- portntlon. which Is both food, raiment snd shelter. Is controlled, not bv the public, whose l'fe depends on It. but bv private mononolv a monopolv that has the public abolutely In Its power, and is yet the'e has been no exception to the rule that when men have power they use It Not only Is the public In the power of the transportation companies, but these companies practice discriminations whereby ther build op a few mlghtly Interests and destroy the smaller ship per. ubstsntlslly every manufactured artlo'e that Is of prime necessity to our people 1a controlled by a trust, which can arbitrarily fix prices. The method of forming a trust Is simple. All. or Nearly all. of the establishments en gaged In manufacturing the same line sf goods art placed under on msnag ssenL This management then has s 1 nsjiosty of sopalj Ing tbs market sad eon rlase prteaa at p lessor, Pn if "WOULDN'T THAT JAR YOU!" nuisTaiBMiaiBiiaiiisisisisrsiaTaTBisraisiaisiiu it lowered prices It is evident that the principle Is bad, for the public ought not to be in the power of any set of men. If there were no other objections to trusts and monopolies than these I have named It is clear that we must rise up and destroy them or be devoured. But the evils we have complained of are worse than the direct ones. First, they do not bear their share of the public burdens. Second, they insist on controlling the preacher In the pulpit, the editor In the sanctum and the professor In the lec ture room. They cow Independence and I destroy free thought and free speech. 1 They suppress the truth and cultivate ' laisenooa, ana wun a. vulgar swagger ... . . business and all social affairs. j Third, the systems and the practice which the corporations have brought in vogue destroy the families of the-mer who profit by them, and thus society ir the end suffers from the destruction of a portion of Its members. There is no question but what the tariff is the mother of some of the trusts; it builds a wall around the coun try and keeps foreign goods out. Near ly all of the abuses we complain of to day can be traced to special privileges. The Idea of government ownership of railroads is not new. It is already old. It Is not radical, but Is following the most conservative people In the world. If we were to adopt government owner ship it would not only wipe out a lot of trusts and give small dealers a chance, but we would wipe out powerful lobbies and corrupt machines and our people would get back their government. It would restore republican Institutions. We have reached a point where man's progress requires a broader freedom and the Industrial, transportation and financial kings must go. ALL STEAL. Not only actually but theoretically. The new trust Is the (Sheet Steel com pany, with a united ownership of 144 mills! Aa an "Infant Industry" It leap ed out of Ita swaddling clothes, cut Its eyo teeth and grew whiskers aa soon as born. The Chicago Iron and Bteel sayt of It: ' "A Jump of from 13 to $6 per ton In the price of black sheets M by some mills, S3 by others, who wera lower and sn advance of i per cent In the prV of salranlxed sheets were the features of the Iron and steal markets this week. This sharp advanoa was the Immediate effect of the formation at Pittsburg on Wednesday of the Ameri can Bteel Ihsst company, a combina. tlon of most nf tht ahsst ml Ha of the A 1 country. The new ownership of this combination Is closely allied to the Na tional Steel company, the American Tin Plate company and the American Steel Hoop company. The sheet mill combi nation was necessary to that aggrega tion of manufacturers as the Interme diate link between the National Steel company, makers of crude steel, and the American Tin Plate company, mak ers of the finished tin plates. It strengthens this coterie of combination? and very perceptibly widens their influ ence. The future of the trade points to the continuation of business method! for revenue only." The Jump from 13 to 15 would indicate that without much mental strain. CEORCE WASHINGTON SAID: "Against the Insidious wiles of for eign Influence the Jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake." "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world." "The great rule of conduct fur us In regard to foreign nations Is to have a do. There were chickens to feed, with them as little political connection :ows to milk, laundry work to do, wa as possible." j r 10 fy tr"m an old-fashioned well "There can be no greater error than j -and a thousand and one other duties to exoect or calculate upon real favors nlch are surprising to a woman who from nation to nation." "Why, by Interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, en tangle our peace and prosperity In the tolls of European ambition, rivalshlp. Interest, humor or caprice?" "The name American must always exalt the Just pride of patriotism." "To the efficacy and parmaner.cy of your union a government for the whole Is Indispensable." "Every attempt to alienate any por- tlon of our country from the rest should be Indignantly frowned upon." "Let us Impart all the blessings we possess. or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind." "Let us erect a standard to which the good and honest may repair." '"Tls substantially true that virtue or morality Is a necessary spring of popular government." "Labor to keep alive In your breast that little spark of celestial fire, con science." "It Is Incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare." "It would be repugnant to the vital principles of our government virtually to exclude from public trusts talen's and virtue unless accompanied by wealth." "Give such encouragements to our jwn navigation as will render our com- mereejess dependent on foreign bot- tom8" I have never maae an appointment from a deflre to serve a friend or rel ative." "In contemplating the causes which may disturb our union, it occurs as a matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished tot geographical discriminations." SECRET ALLIANCES. It Is quite true, as says the Albany CS. Y.) Argus, that "the constitution forbids any state to enter into any treaty, alliance or confederation, so that no treaty can possibly be made by the states severally, while Jointly the United States can only make treaties by and with the advice and consent of the senate, provided two-thirds of the senators present concur. It is ab solutely Impossible for any American president, no matter what his wlshei may be, to negotiate a secret treaty. The United States,' says a Washington correspondent, 'are the only one of the civilised nations unable to make a se cret alliance with another power. Eu ropean cabinets can negotiate and have engaged In aecret alliance, but the United States are prohibited by their constitution from making a treaty or alliance which has not been submitted to the senate and ratified by that hod.' " But In tbeae unconstitutional days, all it.. UeKlnlev administration has to sav . make a aecret alliance, la to declare the policy one of stra-conatltuUonal,ty, What Is there to hinder Itt ' r , . at... r ib aew naraaoi hsndi. mrm of Ugbt colored asloral wood. SEQUEL TO A ROMANCE A GIRL MARRIES WEALTH AND BECOMES UNHAPPY. Story of Matrimonial Infelicy Told at Length in Petition Asking For a Divorce, Omaha, Neb. (Special.) When Maria Huizinger, a charming Omaha girl, be came the bride of Valentine Schramm in July, 1898, and went with him to live a life of Independent contentment on his 41-0-acre faim in Sarpy county, her friends declared shfe had made the most likely "catch" of the season. Ma ria's beauty and accomplishments were her fortune, for she was not blessed with worldly wealth. But what mat tered that, for the gallant Valentine as rich in land, cash and stock, lie was her Ideal of a country gentleman. To Maria there was something roman tic about her marriage. Now, the sequel to this apparently happy mating has come out in divorce court. A petition was filed Saturday afternoon, in which the wife is plain tiff. The allegations contained therein ire many and sensational. When Mrs. Schramm left her home circle in Omaha and went to live on a. farm In Sarpy county she was im pressed with the belief, so she Inti mates in her petition, that life would be one endless round of pleasure that is the wife of a wealthy furmer she sould have naught to do but carol with the birds, bask in the new-mown hay nd while away summer afternoons , with hook and line along the fern-fes-tooned brooks that wind their way through Sarpy county's sylvan glades. Such a life was rich In promise absj- ! ute realization of some of the pretty dyls Maria had read in story boks. PROVES HOLLOW MOCKERY. According to Mrs. Schramm's pctl :lon she found soon after her arrival it the big farm house on the Schramm lomestead in Sarpy county that she. was expected to live with the parents f her husband. Instead of being tne lole mlstreRB of the vine-clad cottage ihe had seen in her golden visions. Sne lino discovered somewhat abruptly. she leclures, that she was expected to a tist the mother-in-law in doing the aousehold work for that big farmhouse. She sets forth that in order to keep the Wo-acre farm going her huband and lis father employed a large foice oi ilred men. Those men were "hearty ! o not been reared a farm. In ler petition Mrs. Schramm designates hiB kind of work as "farm chores." It is further related In the petition Jiat when the petitioner was a bride if three months her molher-ln-law died uid from that time she was compelled :o do all the household work, tnclud ng an immense amount of washing md ironing. She declares that she )leaded with her husband to furnish j elp. but that he turned a deaf ear to iuch appeals. She also charges that e appeared to care more for the pio- rress of his farm business than he did ibout making ner nappy ana mat in nany ways her life was Intermingled lilh a series of miseries. She asserts bat the drudgery she was forced to do nade serious Inroads upon her vital ly and that she was mote like a 'bound girl" slaving her life away than .he mistress of the homestead that ;rowned the broad acres owned by her lusband. FATHER-IN-LAW GETS GAY. , Continuing, Mrs. Schramm recites Jiat her father-in-law took no active jart in the farm work, and that he emalned about the house the greater art of the time. Bhe mentions, his whiskers in such manner as to warrant .he presumption that his hirsute adorn jient is something Pefferlan, and she lula... thnt ho freniipnflv rrimmnnd- ,d hef (( k(M hlm on the pt , TniB ! as distasteful to the young city bride, ind she demurred with all the vehe nence of outraged femininity. She al 'eges that she frequently Informed her lusband of his father's actions and :hat he usually replied: "That won't hurt you keep on the rood side of him, and maybe he'll five me another farm." (letting down to details, the petitioner relates an Incident in which the elder Schramm Is alleged to have partly di verted himself of ralnmpnt, after which he commanded his son's wife to bring him his pipe and tobacco. Another charge against the father-in-law Is that he has a hahlt of med dling In culinary affairs. It Is alleged that he found great delight In lifting the lids from pots and kettles and tast ing the food contained therein while It was undergoing the cooking process, j Objection was urged to this, so the petitioner relates, because the old man would allow the broth or whatever he happened to Inspect to trickle down his unkempt whiskers and dribble back Into the cooking receptacle. He also l.oked upon every room In t'.ie house as a cuspidor, It la hinted, and was no respector of places to be used for x ectoratlon. HEB. NEHVE8 ARE WRECKED. All this and a lot more la told In the petition. Last September affairs had reached such a crisis that Mra. Bchram left her Sarpy county husband and re- turned to the home of her parenta In Omaha. Several times prior to leaving sne naa swoon in. prr I tratlon, shs alleges) and when she reached Omaha she wss sent to a hoe bMtM vU,U4 thr and asked how much money she would) take to remain permanently away from, him. so she tells In her application for divorce. To this query she declures she replied that she felt as though death would remove her and that be need not pay her anything. Recovering from her Illness, Mrs. Scramm returned to the parental homo and Is still there-broken in spirit and health and with pride crushed, she de clares. In the concluding section of the petition, the unhappy wife asks for absolute divorce, restoration of her maiden name, ".00 temporary alimony and such permanent financial internets as the court may deem proper, consid ering the weaJth of the defendant bua band. TRANS-MISSISSIPPI MEETIKG. Congrass of Valley Statoe to Dis cuss World's Fair, ' St. Louis. Mo. (Special,) Edwin . Stanard, president of the Trans-Mls-nlfslppl Commercial congress, the elev enth session of which will be held la Houston, Tex., April 17 to 21 Inclusive, believes that the coming session will be the moFt successful and Interesting yet held. President Stanard says the Teiai people are Inking great Interest in th congress and are making preparations to entertain the delegates most royally. One trip arranged for the visitors Is a sail out through the famous Jetties at the mouth of Galveston bay Into thr waters of the gulf. The congrees closes on the anniver sary of the final triumph of the Tex ans over Santa Ana, and the delegates will have an opportunity to see hoa Texas celebrates her Fourth of July. The territory to be represented bi delegates appointed by governors.may ors and other officials, includes all th states and territories west of the Mis rissippl river. It comprises lO.GOoOOt people and embraces the world's great est agricultural, mineral and stock growing region. Among the principal subjects for dls cuoflo nwlll be the St. Ixmls World's fair of ISO?,, Irrigation, rivers and har bors, railroad transportation, tradt with Mexico, exports and Imports thio gulf and Pacific ports, and the need ol home factories. One of the notable addresses at th congress will be on the subject of the St. Louis world's fair by furmer Gov ernor David K. Franc-is. Hon. Gurdon W. Wattles, who wai president of the Omaha exposition, will also discuss the coming World's fair. George B. Harrison, Jr.. of Glasgow, member of the Missouri executive com mittee of the congress, will speak on "Consular Service." "A lepnrtment of Mines and Min ing" will be the topic handled by Hon. L Bradford Prince of Santn Fe, N. M. The subject (if livers and harbors which will probably attract as much attention as any other before the con gress, will be treated by Hon. Lyman K. Cooley of Chicago. Other notable speakers will be Gen eral John H. Gordon of Georgia, Hon. William M. Klshback of Fort Smith. Ark., Governor W. E. Stanley of Knn sa!",Governor Sayers of Texas and Prof, S. Waterhouse of St. Louis. The latter will speak on 'Trade with the Orient." and also on "Good Roads." Hon. Charles A, l'rouiy, a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, will discuss tariff conditions In gen eral. His address Is anticipated wlih special Interest. President Stanard believes that this congress is accomplishing much good for the trans-Mississippi region. The brainiest and mot substantial mn of each state, as a rule, are sent as dele- gales, and each year the Interest In the work of the congress Increases. The delegstes-at-large for Missouri, appointed by Governor Stephens, are I). K. Francis, St. Louis; H. O. Stanard, St. Louis; H. R. Whltmore. St. Lout; George B. Harrison, Jr., Glasgow: W, 8. Woods. Kansas City; E. V. Bigelow, Kansas City; Edgar P. Mann, Green field; H. R. Ingllsh, Oiean; James Wat son. Dearborn; E. B. Craighead, Fay ette. The governor will attend at the head of the delegation. Mayor Ziegenhetn has named as del egates E. O. Stanard, Ed Flad, John I. Martin, C. J. McCauley, Edward Pree- toilus, F. B. White, Charles W. Knapp, I). M. House, Nathan Frank, 8. Water- houfe. Delegates named to represent 8t. Louis clubs are: Merchants' Exchange, E. O. Stanard, Clnton Rowell, Sylvester Waterhouse, 8. W, Cobb, Murray Carleton. Commercial Club, D. II. Francis, C It. Spencer. Builders' Exchange, Jomes Green, John M. Sellers, William J. Simpson, George W. Blmpklns, Patrick Mulcahy, Henry Fairback. Among famous old women now livine In England Is Lady Georgians Grey. the oldeet resident of Hampton Court palace, who was 100 years old on Feb ruary 17. She has had apartments (n the palace for twenty-four years a.id bids fair to remain for years to come. Other veneiable dames are Lady Mary Lourln, daughter of the First lord of Harrowby, the first In London to heiir the news of the battle of Waterloo. Lady Louisa Tighe, who waa allowed by her mother, the duchess of Rich mond, to sit up to look on at the mem orable ball at Bruasela on the eve ol Waterloo, has juat died at the age of ST. Indiana as a glass producer rankt first In the window glass line, havlna passed Pennsylvania during the las) year. There are now more than 1M glass plants In the Indiana Held, all at work, employing aa estimated fores at lf,N