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HARRISON PRESS-JOURNAL GEO. D. CANON, Editor. . HARRISON. - - NEBRASKA UEBRASKA STATE NEWS. Fir In Fremont entirely destroyed 1kt Fremont hotel. Eliza Halligan, for many yean , widen! of Ogalalla. is dead. Arbor day was generally observed mt Nebraska City by the closing of houses. Nathan Nelson of Hlldreth was run by a lumber wagon and fatally In the chest. Republicans of Saline. Polk and Sar tor counties met and elected delegates to the state convention. Odd Fellows of Doniphan gave entertainment and banquet. waica was largely attended. Kveret Andeison, who was charged Wrtta criminal assault on Anna Ander on near Rag an. Neb., was acquitted. John Randolph, a farmer living near PapiUlon. hanged himself. It is be- his mind was deranged. The residence and several outbuild on on the farm of Samuel Wilson, Ames, were destroyed by Ore. 11,000; no insurance. Aa unknown woman turned up at -'Columbus and declared that she bad been severely beaten and deserted by ever husband. Mrs. Samuel Lout, wife of a Dodge county farmer, and Charles Parker of Vteaiont are flying from Mrs. Lout's usband. A number of saloon bonds presented mt Beatrice were declared invalid be cause some of the signers were held en other bonds. Camp and Marran, two tramps, who were arrested for stealing clothing from the store of P. W. Shea of Orleans, srere adjudged guilty of grand larceny Few celebrated Arbor day at Tork swing to rainfall during the day. The were closed and court house ofJ and employes took a holiday. A few planted trees. Wausa capitalists have formed a osnpany to operate a brick-making; plant at that place. The ground has been secured and machinery purchased, which will mean active operations -within thirty days. The semi-annual convocation of the priests of the West Point deanery met ml the parochial house at that place. A large number of clergymen were In attendance. Rt. Rev. Bishop Scannell presided at the conference. The executive officers of theNebras fca Women's Christian Temperance un ion held their annual meeting In Te kamah Wednesday and Thursday. Many preparations were made to give them a creditable reception. Sneak thieves entered the home of Mr. I. K. Turner at Hastings and se cured a pocketbook containing $90. The thieves climbed upon the porch and entered Mr. Turner's bedroom through m window, but did not waken any of the family. John A. Davies, referee In bankrupt cy, has appointed Frank Dickson trus tee for the R. T. Roehford Mercantile company of Louisville. Mr. Dickson will endeavor to sell the goods and col lect the outstanding claims, amounting to about $700. Aa election was held at Wayne to vote on a proposition to bond the dis trict for the sum of 110,000 to erect a arhool building. The contest was quite an Interesting one, about eighty women voting. The bonds were defeated by a cnajorlty of twenty-five. The Auburn canning plant Is now as sured, the necessary amount of stock tiaring been subscribed by twelve re sponsible men, eleven of whom are i men of Auburn. The company Will Incorporate Immediately and at proceed to secure the potting out mt several hundred acres of corn and The new city council of Hasting sset and Mayor Fisher announced a few mt bis appointments, aa follows: Water sjasataiMloner, Charles Pratt; engineer at water works, Tom Crtssman; chief of (re department. Will Hoagland; mera mmrm of Are department, Ray Brown, John Hamond, Walter Kent. David Brecde; patrolmen, William Widmler, win Dycus, Joe Budnlck. The remain! of a man apparently year old were found about half miles east of Grand on the Union Pacific railroad. Taw body was completely severed from the limb. Hi clothing was aeat and eleaa, but thoroughly soaked, and was H. O. KcAnnescy, Winona, On hit person was a letter ad- to Mrs. I. Eros. Osceola, Neb j taquett was held. ' ft is proposed by the city council at Tim - to tax all foreign dostillers of Cyhtr dealers Who keep agents to thai mMw lakma orders for intoxicating M- lo be delivered n engrnoi has sat year a T ttartttM have vlawrousty id Now a lares hi Cwsr is tttsaed I It Is the tolsatlssr to r" unlaw at fores tJsr agents tsi Brack aftttor break m f salts Wee .---------- PUZZLE FIND THE PRESIDENT. ; T VOICE OF DEMOCRATIC LEADER. Bryce, in his "American Common wealth," gives General James B. Wea ver of Iowa, crelt for Introducing the first resolution proposing an amend ment to the federal constitution pro viding for the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people. The resolution was introduced in the Forty-sixth congress, on January 31, 18S1. Nothing more clearly shows the growth of public opinion or more fully demonstrates the Irresistible force of a good ldeathan the progress which this reform has made during the past eighteen years. The democratic house of representatives, in the Fifty-second congress, and again in the Fifty-third, adopted resolutions proposing such an amendment, but the resolutions died in the senate committee. No one who ha watched the trend of events can doubt that publie sentiment will finally pre vail. If the amendment Is once sub mitted to the states for ratification they will make quick work of it adop tion, for there Is scarcely a state where there Is not an overwhelming major ity in favor of this effort to bring th government closer to the people. The legislature of Nebraska, at its recent sesflon, adopted a resolution declaring in favor of the popular election of sen ators. In the state senate the resolu tion was adopted without a roll call, In the house the vote stood eighty-four to filve a little more than sixteen to one in favor of the proposition. Several reasons may be suggested for the change. First Popular election would make the senator more truly the representa tive of the people for whom he speaks. Second Whatever may have been the original reason for the present method of electing senators, new conditions THE REPUBLIC (By the Editor of the New York Journal.) Bad as the Porto Rlcan oppression Is in Itself. It is not the most sinister phase of the present situation. It Is obvious to'any reasoning being that when President McKlnley made his humiliating change of front at the demand of the trusts it must have been for a substantial consideration. The most moderate and reasonable sup position is that this consideration wa the purchase of his re-election. The representatives of the trusts may be Imagined as saying: "Never mind popular c'amor. Depend on us and we will guarantee your t election. There was a popular clamor gainst Hanna, but he was elected against Quay, but he was elected. Clamor does not avail against cash. We look out for those who look out for us." Undoubtedly Mr. McKlnley wss con verted by this powerful srgument, the force of which he had already experi enced, and In the coming elections we hall shudder to see the ase laid st the roots of the American republic. Eaormous aggregation of capital will awe their wealth to corrupt the people and bay the return to power of the party that has fostered them. The treats will put millions of dollars Into the coming campaign, and the wrest avast lea at Issue will not be the tariff, or silver, or Bryan, or McKlnley, but whether the American peopl ess be and whether the power of un- wealth which earraptod and esTcvcd Hct,! that! bc.tin Ce corrp have made a change imperative. The corporations are now potent In their Influence, and can control the action of legislatures much easier than they can popular elections. It Is sometimes ar gued that party conventions would be aa liable to nominate undesirable can didates for the renate as legislatures are to elect them, but there is an Im portant difference. When a conven tion nominates an unci -sirable man the people sit in judgment upon the nomi nation, and the fear of rejection at the' polls acts as a restraint upon the con vention. When a legislature elects a? undesirable man for the senate there Is no appeal mm its decision. Third The present method of elect ing senators Interferes seriously with tate affair. Where the mate legisla tures meet every two years,' two leg Irlature out of every three elect a sen ator, and when a senatorial election is pending party lines are drawn and the candidate's capacity for state affairs Is often overshadowed by the necessity of having a party majority In the legisla ture. Fourth Sometimes the legislature adjourns without electing, and then the stare has only half of lis senatorial representation for two years. Fifth If there was no other reason for the change.a sufficient reason would be found In the scandals growing out of senatorial elections. The charge of direct bribery Is made with increasing frequency, and indirect forms of brib ery are even more common. An amendment to the constitution will enable the people to elect their senators as they select their other offi cers, thus giving them the choice and placing within their power the means of punishment If official trust Is be trayed. William J. Bryan in the New York Journal. May 4, 1899. THREATENED. tlon and destruction of the great Amer- can republic. As has been said so many times In these columns, the foundations of a republic are the intelligence, independ ence and Integrity of Its citizens. Where the citizens are too Ignorant to exercise an Intelligent ballot, too de pendent to exercise a free ballot, or too corrupt to exercise an honest ballot, republican government becomes Impos sible. The Roman republic was not over thrown by ambition, but fell through corruption, and to realize adequately what Is threatening us we should re member what has happened before un- der somewhat similar conditions. Amer ican citizens may profitably re-read at this time the introductory chapters of Froude'i Caesar, where the events and causes leading to the dissolution of the Roman republic are clearly and forci bly set forth. W. R. HEARST. A granddaughter of Wolf Tone, the famous leader of the Irish rebellion of 17M, ha just died In Brooklyn In her 724 year. She waa Mrs. Oorglsna Tone Maxwell. Her father, William Theobald Wolfe Tone, served under Napoleon as captain, raaws- to this country, became a lieutenant In the United Mates army and married the daughter of another exile of 'H, Wil liam Bampoon, a noted lawyer of hit day at the New Tork bar. New Tork machinists wo naa eight monthf tr": fcr the rint-hour day. INSANITY. SOLDIERS IN THE PHILIPPINES ARE SACRIFICED. WORSE THAN DEATH. Letter From Senator W. V. Allen Giving the Report of the War Department Washington. D. C (Special.) One of the moat bitter of the sacrifices that are being made to carry out the new conception of American destiny is the sacrifice of the reason of our soldiers In the Philippines. "Benevolent assimilation" is making corpses of the Filipinos; it is making maniacs of the American soldiera The magnitude of this eacritic can be pressed home no more vividly; its meaning in heartaches and despair can be realized no more fully than by a visit to the government hospital far la Bane sailors and soldiers. This Institution, nominally tenanted by a few men, old, decrepit or "queer," gathered from the ranks of the army and navy, is now the theater of a dif ferent scene. The rooms are filled with young men now. So fearful is the havoc wrought by the tropical sun and exposure on the firing line and In the putrid trenches of the Philippine cam paign that as the war progresses It be comes necessary for new corridors to be built so that the emaciated, reason dethroned soldiers may be properly cared for. Ship after ship brings new recruits. From Cuba, from Porto Rico, and from the Philippines they come, a never-end Ing stream of worse than dead hu manlly. This week brought nine from Manila. Two escaped on the way across the continent, and there are now twenty eight en route, also from Manila, who will reach the hospital In another week or so. Could the view which meets the eye by a visit to this living tomb be spread before the mothers who have boy In the Philippines; could the sounds that here meet the ear be listened to by the great sympathetic nation, the cry of "destiny" would be turned to one of horror and protest St. Elizabeth's Is the only govern gloorny, massive structure, on the An- acosta hill overlooking the Potomac, within view of the capltol. There are many outbuildings, all with Iron-barred windows and strong doors. The grounds comprising some several hundreds ol acres, are Inclosed by a high brick wail. Bt. Elizabeths Is the only govern ment hospital In the country. Its offi cers and attendants are all govern ment employes, and the grounds and buildings are guarded with military ex. sctness. As the heavy doors of a ward are locked behind you and you stand ir. the midst of a half hundred more ot Ll'.-ss uniformed soldiers, gathered fron many regiments and various companies because their reason has left them, you realize, perhaps as you have never re alized before, but In a manner uhi I: you will never forget, what sacrifice for country may mean. Some are sitting dejectedly against the a!!n of the room, their heads bow ed upon their chests. Nothing can arouse them they are the living d.-ad Others look at you with a strange feat In their bewildered eyes, and back away In shrinking cowardice, while a few look ut one Intelligently unfor tunates whose Insanity -Is periodical. An unwritten law of the Institution forbids that the Identity of, its Inmates shall be given to the public. You ask to see the nine unfortunates who have Just arrived from the Orient. Several are In this room, and to the call of "Step here. Sergeant," by the attendant, a big, stalwart fellow, with clear blue eyes and an honest and open expression, springs from a bench and advances to "attention" in true mili tary manner. One of the boys who has been pro nounced cured, but who Is waiting for his discharge papers to arrive, still persists In his declaration that he was a prisoner for several months In the hands of Aguinaldo. The officers have no way of verifying this, and as the young Ohloan seem mentally balanced In every way, no at tention Is paid to this claim. One fine-looking young soldier told how, while he was on the firing line facing the Filipinos, he was suddenly overcome by a voice dictating to him nd Impelling him to obey Its man dates. This spectre still is with him, and at Intervals torments his soul with Its waitings. WHAT SENATOR ALLEN SATS. Faots and Figure Gathered Prom Official Reporta. Total deaths reported to date 1,K0 Died of disease, etc 1,32 Killed In action - snd died of wounds &2S Number of Insane (estimated) 300 Number furloughed and Invalided home for sickness (estlmsted). .1,500 Rick now In Philippine etlmsced)3,500 Died of smallpox 141 ulcldes (actual number reported) 12 Suicides (reported aa accidental deaths), drownings, missing, etc. (estimated) M The above table represent the cas altles to date In the Philippines. The figure were secured from reports re eeived at th war department Those tla'.lva actual r.u;r.r ct C-.z:hr, soldiers klHed la aetloa, died of thotaf wounds, of sickness and of stnallpoa. and the number of suicides are gather ed from official records at the war de partment. The estimated figures of in sane those sent home on account of sickness, and the present sick list In the Philippines are compiled from fil ial of the war department returning from the Philippines. The war department has consistently declined to give out figures on the cas ualties in the Philippines, and has gen erally discredited reports of the prev alence of disease among the troops, and. especially the dreaded and loathsome smallpox, and of the great number of insane arid the large number of sui cide In the Philippines, slating that such reports were exaggerated. When asked for figures to prove tbclr state- menu, the plea was that no tables had been compiled, and that it would in volve an exhaustive search of the rec ords to gain the desired Information, As to the number of Insaae soldiers no report regarding insanity among the troops has been received from Gen eral Otis, but the number of unfor tunate soldiers whose minds havt given way under the terrific beat and hard ships of a campaign In the Philippines, arriving periodically at the government hospital for the Insane near Washing ton, more than bears out all reports of pievaillng Insanity among Otis' troops; and those returned to this country are only the most aggravated cases, no re port being made of those driven tem porarily insane, or who have become weaklings In mind and body. The figures given deal only with the troops after they have embarked from this country for the Philippines. The present death rate in the Phil ippines averages from thirty to thirty five per week, with scarcely a battle or skirmish reported, and under acknowl edgedly the best climatic conditions that could prevail. With the advent of the arlny season, when the troops will be confined to camps and barracks, sickness and dis ease will Increase, but In what propor tion can only be estimated. A con servative estimate, based on reports re ceived during the last rainy season, places It at 100 per cent, but epidemics and the exhausted physical condition ot the troops rendering them vulnerable to the attacks of disease double or tre ble the Increase. Smallpox existing to such a large extent among the soldiers when In the field, with no unsanitary camps or bar racks to feed the scourge, makes the pect for the coming rainy season truTs y alarming. The disease Is now on the Increase among the troops, and all attempts to stamp It out have proved futile. With the men congested In the camps a rapid spread of the disease is to be looked forward to, and Filipino bullets will be a bagatelle compared with the victims claimed by smallpox. In one report received retently Gen eral Oils tells of three suicides of sol diers In a weeks' time. One of these was a brave young officer, and several other officers have ended their existence by self-lnflleted wounds since the be ginning of the Philippine campaign. A lamentable fact connected with the sui cides o well a Insanity among the American soldier In the Philippines, is that a huge majority are bright. Intel ligent, and In many cases, accotnplli-h-m young men. The superintendent at f-'t. rMzabeths Insane allium com mented upon and deplored this fact. I inttoduced rby tesolutlon calling for facts and figures from the war depart ment on (baths. d!?ea:e, Insanity and sub Ides among the American soldier in the Philippines, because Information has come to me from reliable sources regarding the prevalence of diseane and incanlty. to the extent of the figures given above, which prove that Amer icans cannot get along In the climate of the Philippines. This fact should be made known to the people of the United States, and that Is the object of the res olution. I have been told by returning soldiers of the ereat number of sick, of the alarming spread of smallpox, of th arge percentage of Insanity among the troops, leading In many cases to sul fides. These statements have pictured such existing conditions among the Amer ican soldiers In the Philippines, and are coupled with such trustworthy statements that the army now there I in such an exhausted physical condition that It will have to be withdrawn shortly to save It from annihilation by disease; that. In the absence of any contradictory official statement, I could not and would not advise any young man who came to me for counsel to en list for service in the Philippines, and 1 claim that such action on my pari would not be unpatriotic. WILLIAM V. ALLEN. STORY OF A YEOMANRY OFFICER. They are telling a delicious story in Edlnburg Just now at the expense of a certain yeomanry officer, an Immensely popular young man, whofe one weak ness I his belief that the making of great general wa lost when he went Into the business of keeping a shop. The militia regiment garrisoning Kdln burg castle, in (he absence of the Cor don Highlanders, contain some choice spirits, and the other day, after a lay ing together of heed among the offi cers, a stripling rushed Into the estab lishment of the officer In question. "O, Colonel Ho-and-So!" he called, "have you heard the new? You sre ordered off for active service Immediately!" The colonel darted to hi feet. "Great heavens!" he cried, "ha Robert been kllledpSlresdyr Davenport as Treacy of Greenwich, Conn., the largest piano plate manufac turers In the country, voluntarily raised the wage of their employe 3 cents a C-jr. CENTRAL AMERICAN INDIAN. A Returned Traveler Tells His Ex perience With Them, "It Is a common imprerslon that the Central American Indian is singularly honest and free from guile," laid a traveler who came up on th last ba nana boat, "but don't you believe a word of that story. I recently made a mul-back trip to the Olancha district In northwest Honduras, my particular purpose being to take a look at the famous old placer diggings on me Guayape river. I spent a week or so in the region, and was especially Interest ed In the native Indians who live aolng the banks of the stream and who re gard the placers as a sort of family pocketbook. from which Ihey help themselves as they Jlease. When a household needs anything that cannot be hunted or fished in other woras. that has to be bought at the store the women sally out with their 'bateas or wooden bowls and proceed to wash as much gold as Is required for the pur chase. The metal they secure In that m yls usually In the form of minute trains, hardly as large as the head of i. pin, but occasionally they find little nuggets, and that brings me to my tory. "The day before I left I was at the principal store of the district talking to the proprietor, or 'llenderos, when a typical Olancha Indian shambled In and sat down on the floor. I attempt ed to question him about the diggings, nd presently he untied a corner of his neckcloth and showed me three fan tastically shaped nuggets, which he said his wife had lately found. It oc ?urred to me that they would make in cresting souvenirs mounted as scarf pins or bangles, and after some hag gling I bought the lot for it-they weighed altogether something under a juarter of an ounce. I was so dlfarrn d by the apparent simplicity of th Indian that I never thought to ex amine the nuggets closely until I -eached Port Cortex, and then It hardly needed a second look to see that they were not gold at all, but evidently a jort of brass alloy. "A few days later I learned from an engineer who came down from the Guayape district that my Indian friend was boasting that he had stolen some yellow 'composition metal' bearing from l stamp mill and melted up a frag ment In a home-made clay crucible. In that way he producel his hand' nuggets. If he had put In the same imount of labor at the placers he ould easily have washed out 120 worth f gold. That's what I call a natural iptltude for crookedness." TRAMPS ARE COMING, They Spend Winter In the South and Summer In the North. Following close upon the myriads of luacltlng geese and ducks that are now winging their way to northern climes, comes that migratory species of the genus hobo, the tramp, who has spent the winter In the sunnv south. Th northern cities begin to suffer from thfl inaslon at the first breath of spring nd every incoming freight will Uxiv.g its cargo of humanity. Very few people know thct the "ha!f-a-ay" station for the gentry of the ro.t 1 Is bleated but a few inlYs from Warh ngtoti. It appears that Mason's an Dixon' line was not a mere artificial boundary, for the tramp considers tl,;,t ne has completed half hi! Jouuuy a hen he approaehes thi? Potomac, iitvl be has located hln stopping place w!:n in eye to natural as well as po!ltii,il sonditionB. This resort of the tramps Is kr.own ss "Hoboes' Rest," and it Is located at Cameron Hun, about three-quai t"i of a mile west of Alexandria, Va. It U an Ideal spot for such a purpc. a pretty grove, with trees tall enotig.i and shady enough to rival the iJruid oaks, marks their habitat, and, divested of Its motley array of humanity, could be converted Into an Ideal picnic ground. Here during the months of March and April, (xtolxr and Novem ber, the woodland glade Is transformed Into a camping ground for "hoboes." In the autumn they are fully as numerous a they are making for their winter quarters In the south. At present only the advance guard of the vast army has arrived. Twenty or thirty of those whose blood I thick enough to permit them to brave the rigors of Inclement weather, have taken possession of the land, which they have come to regard as their by right, and are preparing it for the occupation ot those yet to come. It Is estimated that fully 3,000 tramps stop at "Hoboes' Rest" and hold their carnival during the course of a season. They are wie, however, and do not congregate In such number that the police take cog nizance of the matter. It Ik a good deal like a reception given by their more fortunate brethren In the upper crust if society. When one contingent ar rives another leaves on the outbound train ,and It I seldom thai the plact ha more than 1C0 at a lime. The national executive committee which Is to take charge of the move ment for a national federation of Chris tian worker ha been organized, with headquarter In New York. The first national conference will be held some time next year. The work of this ei ecutlve committee will be to foster com munication between local and church federation, with special reference to supplying Information In regard to the work In all part of! the country; to provide counsel and to promote the or ganisation of city and state federa tion; to report a plan for th basis of membership In the conference nest year, to arrange for the conference next year and to devise a plan for raising mont to defray expense.
