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I ABOUT NEBRASKA.
I The child of Constable Al. Beach ,
K of Lincoln , was severely , if not fatall/ ,
burned in a bonfire last week.
H Adfspatob from. Plum Creek Bays :
I 'Colonel B. S. Adams , a farmer living
M about seven miles nortlioast of this city ,
shot and instantly killed a renter named
< Walter "West on the premises of the
former this morning. They got into a
dispute about some grain which West
claimed , Adams forbidding him to take
it. Adams' report is that West grap
pled with him and clutched his throat.
Adams ordered him to let go. West re
fused , whereupon Adams shot him
through the heart. Ho left the bedy ,
came to town and gavo himself up.
There is talk of the establishment of
a canning factory at Talmago.
A flouring mill with a capacity of
seventy-five barrels a day is to bo built
| at Ohadron.
The Bohemian oats agents are re
ported to be at work in some portions of
J Custer county reaping a rich harvest.
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Farmers and all others are warned
I to bo on the guard for them.
The Odd Fellows have recently
organized a lodge at Stockham with a
good list of members.
The home of Mr Barnes , of Central
City , caught fire and was considerably
damaged last week. Bumor has it that
it looked very suspicious , the first per-
sons who got into tho house claiming
S that they found'a bunch of hay and a
bucket filled with rags and paper and a
candle in it , all of which were saturated
| with kerosene.
J At Niobrara Fred Opensensky had
Hi about 100,000 cottonwood trees stolen
l | from back of his store , aud Marshall &
1 Lundak , noxt door neighbors , had about
1 20,000 btolen.
B § Gorge E. Bigelow , tho prohibition
II _ candidato for governor , has challenged
H I Gov. Thayer to discuss with him tho
11 position of the republican and deino-
11 cratic parties in tho state canvass. Ho
If says : "I will affirm any proposition
I i setting forth the reasonableness and de-
H S sirability of prohibition if you will deny
i it ; or , if you believe in prohibition , but
I want it through the republican party ,
I I will deny any proposition which you
H will nfiirm while maintaining that the
I republican party will or can give the
I people of this state and nation prohibi-
I tion , or to bo _ more than fair , I will
H nfiirm a negative and maintain that tho
I republican party will not and can not
I give the people of this state and nation
I prohibition. " It is said Gov. Thayer
B will accept the challenge.
H The grand lodge Knights of Pythias ,
I in their session held in Fremont last
H week , in accorance with a recomenda-
I tion made by Grand Chancellor O'Neill ,
I passed an amendment to the constitu-
tion of the _ order in Nebraska forbid-
H the admission of liquor dealers.
I jtfrs. Stacey , the wife of Nathaniel
I Stacey , of tho Union Pacifio shops ,
I Omaha , has deserted her husband.
Tho firm of E. P. Beynolds & Co. ,
I of Wymore , Neb. , have forwarded their
H check of $ G00 to a member of the Potter
monument commission in Omaha , to be
I applied on the Potter monument fund.
H § The Washington county republican
I g convention passed the following : Be-
H H solved , That it is the sense of this con-
H w vention that the sentiment of this conn-
i ty is opposed to the submission by the
H Ij .legislature of this state of au amend-
H j | ment to the constitution having for its
H st object the prohibition of the mannfac-
| ture of malt and spirituous liquors
II within tho state of Nebraska.
18 The democratic convention held at
H s Seward nominated Frank Slonecker and
II 0. E. Bernacker for representatives.
I g There is an active movement in Fre-
I p jinont real estate at this time. The
H j | 'grading gang preceding the pavers is
H doing the work.
H H A series of union meetings is being
I I held in Wahoo to discuss the subject of
H 1 Sunday oVservance.
§ Bev. Mr. Elliott , a Baptist clergy-
J ! . man of Custer county , had his house
I H and barn burned last week , together
I ffi with all tho contents , leaving himself
§ and family in an utterly destitute con-
f dition. . . . . . .
m John M. Barrett , associate editor oi
IH the Omaha Herald , in 18S2 , died in St.
B m Paul of pneumonia last week.
MM Lincoln is short on lime so short
1 that it will interfere for a time with
11 building operations.
Mm ' The local coal dealers on the various
Wr * roads in Nebraska , especially on the
B U Chicago , St. Paul , Minneapolis &
B H Omaha , have already laid in a full sup-
k ply of coftl for the coming white * . Last
winter many towns had a very small
I I stock of fuel on hand when the "bliz-
S zards" set in.
I I Charles Lloyd was sent to the Doug-
• las county jail last week , charged with
I having an excess of alcohol in his sys
tem. He was found on tho bottoms at
| Council Bluffs wandering aimlessly
! | around and endeavoring to tear r.p the
willows on the river bank. Lloyd was
at one time the superintendent of the
'bus line at Omaha. Misfortune drove
I liim to drink , and from drink he gradu
ated into insanity.
The Odd Fellows were in annual
session in Omaha lost week.
I § j Political meetings are growing more
1 § § frequent as tho day for voting an--
IK proaches. All parties are active in be-
ls | half of their respective candidates.
Jc | The sports of Wahoo are at work
1 ® organizing a rifle team. It is proposed
XWs. to secure Bemington guns and spend
leisure hours in target shooting.
\ The daughter of Senator Paddock
I will be married on the 30th inst. , tho
I ceremony taking place at the home of
§ the bride's parents in Beatrice.
1 The hotel at Pine Bidge agency is
1 completed and was thrown open to the
jl public on the 17th inst
m Potatoes are not plenty in Hamf-
jl ton county and are selU'mj * S 50 a 4 S3
if cents a bushel.
m The season is now at hand for the
n champion corn hnsker to come to the
K front
M Bismarck has sent to Philadelphia fox
B n dozen pairs of canvas-back ducks. But
he still refuses to eat American pork-
I Bev. Mr. Sherrill , who for nearly
twenty years has been pastor of the
First Congregational church of Omaha ,
[ has accepted a call from a church of his
denomination in Atlanta , Go.
! Lena Webbeke , of Seward , who was
so terribly injured in last winter's bliz-
zard is an inmate of the Lincoln
Echo ' ols , and was exempted from tuition
by tho action of the school board at its
last regular meeting.
The citizens of Surprise , Butler
county , donated 123bushels of potatoes ,
145 bushels of corn and $10 in cash to
the Home of tho Friendless.
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Louisvillo papers report consider
able typhoid fever in that locality.
Tho six-year-old daughter of Jaok
Switch , of Omaha , was attacked by a
vicious dog and badly bitten.
Omaha and Council Bluffs will jubi
late greatly on the occasion of tho open
ing of tho now bridge between the two
cities. , ( j
Bev. Mr. Pickle is tho now pastor'
of tho M. E. church at O'Neill.
David City has granted a franchise' '
for electric lighting to James Bell , the
lights to bo in within three months and
the city to take twelve arc lights.
Tho Christian church at Dorohestor
is holding a series of revival meetings.
Tho primary department of Dor
chester's public school is much crowded ,
and additional room will have to be pro
vided.
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The quantity and quality of potatoes ,
s ys tho Fremont Tribune , that ar
offered on the market is an assurance
that thero can bo no great tuffering
among any one of tho different classes
of people for tho staple vegetable which
is a full bill of fare in itself.
Tho David City Tribune says : Cen
ter township was startled Monday morn
ing by tho report that Thos. Fox , Jr. ,
had been found dead in his bed. Tho
report was confirmed later. Tho young
man was at the home of his uncle , Wm.
Fox , tho evening before at 10 o'clock.
When ho went homo ho complained of
not feeling well , and wont to bed with
his brother , who awoke about 4 o'clock
in tho morning and found him cold in
death. Heart disease was the trouble.
The family is prominently known over
the county , aud sympathy for them in
the sad occurrence is widespread.
One Omaha daily paper has done
over $80,000 worth of cash advertising
in the past eleven months.
Jjast week burglars broke open lour
of the leading business houses at Arling
ton , taking a supply of guns and small
arms from the hardware store of John
Hamming , a fur overcoat from J. L.
Blessing's harness shop , a supply of
cigars and whisky from N. Hansen's sa
loon and about $8 in small change from
the Arlington meat market. The total
loss was about $125.
Dr. E. D. Barrett , of Beatrice , was
arrested at Burwell last week on com
plaint of Charles Honnich , for obtain
ing money under false pretenses. Some
time ago the "doctor" came along and
offered to cure a child of Mr. Hennich's
for the sum of $100. Ho took Mr. Hen
nich's note for the amount , left some
medicine and went to the bank and sold i
the note. That was the last heard of
the "doctor" until he made his appear
ance in Loup county , when Mr. Hen-
nich had him arrested. He was ac- ,
quitted on technical grounds , but nar
rowly escaped an "egging from an in
dignant populace.
The Fremont .Tribune says thai
some of the Knights of Pythias who
were in attendance upon the grand
lodge during the past week were not
backward in declaring that the local
order had not shown the grand lodge the
usual courtesies. They complained thai
no reception committee was on duty
and that they would not have known
that thero was a lodge in Fremont had
they not met its three representatives
in the hall.
Frank Holt , of Gage county , is
broken up over the loss of a valuable
six months old Counsellor filly. The
colt was worth$500. In playfully jump
ing aud running about a lot on the farm
it collided with a fence , breaking its
neck.
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The management of the Burlington
system have placed orders for 2,000
freight cars of 50,000 pounds capacity
each and twenty new engines to pull
these cars have also been contracted.
Potatoes aro being shipped from
O'Neill , says the Frontier , by the train
loads. They are tho finest in the land ,
raised on Holt county soil and weigh on
an average about a pound apiece.
What's the matter with erecting a po
tato palace ?
The red ribbon squash shown
at the Dawes county fair is now on ex
hibition in Chadron. It weighs ninety-
six pounds.
The state meeting of the T. M. O. A.
will be held in Beatrice October 25 to 28.
Albert Edwards , an Omaha negro ,
became jealous of his wife for attentions
and smiles she was bestowing upon an
other man , and attacked her with a dirk ,
inflicting eight ugly stabs. She will
die. The murderer is in jail.
About fifty of the young men ol
Fremont , says the Tribune , met at the
Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon
to consider the project of organizing a
Young Men's Christian association. A
great deal of discussion was indulged in ,
pro and con , on the feasibility and ad
visability of such an organization.
There seemed to be a union of opinion
as to the necessity of such an organiza
tion , but there was a division of senti
ment as to whether such an organiza
tion could bo maintained.
Armour , Cudahay & Co. , South
Omaha , commenced beef killing last
week. They have a capacity for slaugh
tering 600 head per day.
On the last Monday in October ,
which this year is the 29th. the Baptists
hold their regular annual state conven
tion. It this year meets in Lincoln , and
continues five 'days. Several hundred pas
tors of the denomination and lay del
egates from tho various churches are
expected to be present , aud preparations
are now being made to receive them.
"There is no truth in the rumor
that wo are trying to settle the strike
on our road , " said General Passenger
Agent Francis of the Burlington to an
Omaha reporter last week. "Wo have
no strike to settle. There was a strike ,
or what was called a strike , on the Bur-
lington system several months ago , but
as far as we'are concerned that was set
tled long ago. "
Lincoln lias $38,865.57 in tho school
fund.
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Nebraska City now has telephone
connection with Hamburg , Iowa.
Ed. Hoagland , an employe of the
Union Pacific , was killed by the cars in
Omaha last week.
Four robberies were recently com
mitted at David City , $500 worth of
property and cash taken.
A Negro Murderess Hanged.
Union Springs ( Ala. ) dispatch : Paul
ino McCoy-a negro girl aged Tijneteenp
was hanged hero to-day for flio murder
of Annie Jordan , a fourteen-year-old
white child , last February The execu
tion was private , only the necessary per
sons being admitted. The crime for
which the woman was hanged was a pe
culiar one. Tho victim , Annie Jordan ,
strayed away from her home in Mont
gomery , and nothing was heard of her
till her dead body was found in a plum
thicket Circumstances pointed to
Pauline , and she was arrested with the
dead girl's clothing on her. She was
found guilty last spring and sentenced
to death. Efforts were made to get the
governor to interfere , but to no avail.
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THE LONGEST SESSION ON RECORD.
A Urmime of tho Work of the Fiftieth Con-
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Washington dispatch : Tomorrow at
1 o'clock tho first session of the Fiftieth
congress will end tho longest continu
ous session in nearly a century of con-
; gross , having lasted 321 days. Tho
longest previous session ran 802 days ,
ending September 30. Apart from a
-protracted but interesting discussion ol
the tariff question in both houses , and
tho dead-lock in tho
unparalleled - con
sideration of tho bill to refund the di
rect tax , tho session has been remark
able in several ways , but in none more
than in the enormous number of meas
ures introduced in both houses of con
gress.
In tho senate 3,641 bills and 110 joint
resolutions were presented , and in the
house tho record ran up to tho un
equalled figures of 11,598 bills and 230
joint resolutions , making a grand total
of 15,585 measures introduced in ono
session. In tho senate 2,391 measures
were reported back from committees
and placed on tho calendar , a much
larger proportion than in the house ,
where 8,305 measures of the total num
ber of 11,928 introduced still slumber in
committee rooms.
Among tho measures of public inter
est that have become laws aro tho fol
lowing :
ltelating to the permissible marks on
mail matter.
For the division of the Sioux reserva
tion.
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For a conference with the South and
Central American nations.
Limiting tho hour of work of letter
carriers.
Making Lieutenant General Sheridan
a general of tho army.
To establish a department of labor.
For an international maritime confer
ence.
Bequiring tho Pacific railroad compa
nies to maintain telegraph lines.
To prohibit the carrying of Chinese
laborers to tho United States.
For tho establishment of rules in re
spect to the St. Mario and other canals.
To create boards of arbitration to set
tle controversies between common car
riers and their employes.
To prevent tho return of Chinese
laborers to this country.
To aid stato homes for disabled sol
diers.
Changing the date of the meeting of
the electoral college.
In the next stage , that is in conference
between tho two houses , aro two bills of
the first importance , namel3r , repealing
the pre-emption and timber culture laws ,
and providing a general homestead laM
and declaring tho forfeiture of the un
earned railroad land grants.
Pending before the senate is the house
tariff bill and senate substitute.
* Tho senate , passed bills to divide Da
kota and admit the southern half as a
state , and to aid the common school ed
ucation Ctho Blair bill ] , but they never
reached the house for action.
The following are the most important
bills unacted upon on tho senate calen
dar :
For the admission of Montana and
Washington territories.
To prohibit the alcoholic liquor traffic.
To declare trusts unlawful.
The following measures of importance
were reported from the house commit
tees and are still on the house calendar :
To refund the direct tax. the vote on
which lull be taken early in December
next under the agreement by which tho
memorable dendlock over this bill was
broken.
For "the payment of arrears of pen
sions.
Bequiring the investment of the na
tional bank redemption fund in circula
tion notes.
To include telegraph companies under
the inter-state commerce act.
To promote commercial union with
Canada.
Following are some of the important
senate bills which slumber in commit
tees :
Bequesting the president to open ne
gotiations with Great Britain looking to
the annexation of Canada to the United
States.
For the free coinage of silver.
To repeal the oleomargarine act.
The Hennepin canal bill.
To reduce letter postage to 1 cent
To grant woman suffrage and meas
ures proposing radical changes in the
government's financial polic3r .
Following are a few of the original
house bills which likewise never got out
of the committees :
To repeal the internal revenue laws.
To prohibit tho marking of newspa
pers containing lottery advertisements.
To levy a graduated income tax.
To repeal the civil service law.
For full reciprocity between tho
United States and Canada.
Directing judicial proceedings to be
brought against the Pacific railroads.
I To bank trusts and various measures
proposing changes in our pension , tariff
and financial laws.
I The most important private bills of
this session was those pensioning Mrs.
'Logan ' and Mrs. Frank P. Blair , both of
which became laws , aud bills to pension
Mrs. Waite and Mrs. Sheridan which
passed the senate hut never were acted
on by the house %
I Among tho bills introduced in tho |
present congress which have failed to ;
become laws are : The tariff bill ; the
Des Moines river land bill ; the postal
telegraph ; act to regulate the inter-state
telegraph ; amendments to the inter-state
commerce law ; the dependent pension
bill ; bills for the admission of Washing
ton and Dakota territories ; the Blair
educational bill ; the bill to increase the
salary of United States judges to $5,000 ;
to repeal the pre-emption timber culture
and railwaj" bill ; forfeiting all unearned
railroad grants ; various bills for tho
abolition of trusts ; the bill to refund the
direct taxes ; the bill to prevent the
undervaluation of imports ; to incorpor
ate the Nicaragua canal ; to reimburse
depositors in the Freedman's bank ; to
authorize the purchase of bonds under
certain circumstances to provide forthe
payment of Indiana depredation claims ;
to creato an executive department of
agriculture ; for the establishment of an
international copyright ; for coast de
fenses and providing for the eleventh
census.
All these measures have passed one
house or the other and several of them
have passed both houses but have not
3et been signed by the president.
Among the measures local to Nebraska
remaining on the house calendars un
acted upon are bills for the erection of a
public building at Hastings ; for the re
lief of the settlers on the Winnebago
and Crow creek reservations in Dakota ;
Springer's omnibus territorial admis
sion ; providing for a public building at
Davenport , la. ; for a public building at
Burliiigton ; providing additional "jus
tices in several of the territories ; to in
demnify certain states for swamp and
overflowed lands disposed of ; public
building at Fremont , Neb. ; to provide
for the completion of quarters , barracks
and stables at Forts Bobinson and Nio
brara ; for the erection of a public build
ing at Fort Dndge. The Paddock bill
providing for a general law for postoffico
buildings , and a bill to declare the Iowa :
river below Wapello an unnavigable
stream , besides several bills of minor
importance and a number of privato
pension bills.
The contract has been let for a Pres
byterian church at Adams.
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THE ANNEXATION OF CANADA.
ttenntor Sliermitti'n Views on the U 1aHont
oftne Dominion and the United States
The New York Sun prints a long let
ter from Blakely Hall , from Washing
ton , giving Senator Sherman's views on
tho relations of Canada with tho United
States. The Ohio Senator is quoted as
saying :
Mr. Wiman has strong predictions for
oommorcial union. I differ with him a
good deal about it. I know of no case
in history where commercial union had
advanced political union. It was tried
between this country and Canada twice
and utterly failod. It was not until
thej' secured political union under tho
name of a confederacy called the United
States that they wore able to mako a
Btaud against tho parent country. Even
that confederacy proved to be insuffi
cient to insure commercial union , aud
so tho United States formed a constitu
tion , and then , for tho first time , had a
commercial and political union. Com
mercial union followed political union.
The Zollverein novor promoted union in
Germany. It promoted discord. There
fore T think that these gentlemen , like
my friend Butterworth , make a mistake
when they look to commercial union as
a road to political union. I think com
mercial union promotes points of differ
ence , not points of union. From the
sceno of the fishery controversy clear to
Vancouver's Island there aro points of
controversy that canuot bo avoided by
commercial union.
Senator Sherman was then asked if he
thought Canada was ready for union
now and ho answered : "No , I suppose
not. That can onlv come after long con
sideration. It cannot be hurried. "
"Do 3ou think the president's retalia
tory message will help along annexation
or a commercial uniou ? "
"No , I think not. It would rather
create a hostile feeling as a kind of
'dare. ' It tends to mako hostile feelings
instead of friendly feelings. I mako no
secret or reserve as to my opinion of
Canada. I have said for forty j'ears that
the political union of Canada and tho
United States was the inevitable destiny.
When quite a young man I traveled in
Canada , and last 3rear I crossed the whole
continent from Montreal to Vancouver ,
and know perhaps as much about it as
any public man here. I talked Avith
members of parliament. I dined with
Sir Donald Smith at Montreal. I think
a political union \ \ ould be of mutual
benefit to both countries , but of especial
benefit to Canada. The long boundary
line of 4,000 miles , half of which is an
intangible line , and tho other half
water crossed by vessels of both
countries , makes a union necessary
or war inevitable. I do not sa3' there is
any feeling that would justify war , but
tho situation is such as it was between
tho Scotch and tho English wars grow
ing out of trivial things. They do not
grow out of enmities. They grow out
of accidents. The line between Canada
and the United States is incapable of
fortification or defense , and custom
houses are useless. The familiarit3r of
the people in language , descent , habits
and institutions makes union natural
and eas3T . "
"If the retaliatory measures are car
ried out the situation would be unpleas
ant ? "
"Yes ; Canada wants our markets , and
the United States wants her natural re
sources. All the the products of Mani
toba and the northwestern territor3' nat
urally follow the valley into Minnesota
and Dakota. It is a light with nature
to cany those products east or west over
the mountains. The maritime prov |
inces of Canada have their natural out
let and a market in New England , which
can furnish them capital and enterprise.
The United States will find in these
provinces what the United States needs ,
a real nursery for seamen. The prov
inces will fall heir to all the fisheries
of Now England without dispute or con
tention. I know of no province or seo-
tion but would gain largely by union
without losing any local advantage it
now possesses. "
More Land Decisions.
Washington special : The secretary of
tho interior handed down a number of
northwestern land decisions to-da3f , sev
eral of which were for Dakota and ono
for Nebraska. The latter decision was
in the case of James M. Burton vs. James
Clay. Clay had homesteaded a claim on
a certain section of land in the Blooni-
ington district. He complied with the
law , proved up and then went to live
with his father on a homestead near b3T
because as he said , he did not like to.
batch it. Iu November , 1884 , fifteen
months after proving up on his home
stead he bought a relinquishment of
Mary A. Bates of her timber culture en-
tiy on the southeast quarter of section
25 , township 5 , north of range 18 west of
tho sixth principal meridian , Blooming-
ton district , and the same day filed
a pro-emption declaratory statement
thereon. The commissioner general of
the land office cancelled his pre-emption
entry on the ground that he was pro
hibited from filing on this pre-emption
claim , as he was not a bonafide resident
of his father's house. The secretary of
the interior sustains the fiudings of the
commissioner general of the land office.
Fritz Schonneck , homesteaded the
north half of the southeast quarter , and
southeast quarter of the southeast quar
ter of section 30 , township 116 , range 62 ,
Pierre district , Dakota. After proving
up he sold his claim to other parties , and
then the commissioner general of the
land ofiico held the entr3r up for cancel
lation on the alleged ground that thero
was a lack of good faith. He based this
decision on the fact that Schonneck had
sold his claim , but the secretary finds
that that in itself was not sufficient to
show bad faith , and he therefore _ re
verses the decision and sustains the right
of the purchasers of Schonneck's inter
est to their laud :
They Fought for Blood.
New Haven special : The broad sword
contest at Hamilton park yesterda3' be
tween B3an L3'nn of this citja mem
ber of the Connecticut National guard i
and formerly a member of the prince of
Wales' hussars , and the Egj-ptian camel
corps , and Xavier Orlofsky , of the Ger
man Black hussars , for $200 a side aud
gate receipts , developed so much bad i
blood that Chief of Police Ballmnn in-j
terfered and stopped the fight. When |
L3rnn rode up and sainted Orlofsk'he
latter retaliated by giving Lynn a bad
cut across the wrist. This made the
crowd very indignant and the police
had hard work to keep them from mob
bing the German. The contest pro
ceeded in a very exciting manner , the
men slashing as if determined to disable
eitch'bther ; The New Haven .man had
the better ofthe fight and the score
stood Lynn 8 points and Orlofsky. 6
points. When the men came together
in the next bout Lynn greatly surprised
the German by unhorsing hiin . At
this the latter became enraged and"rush -
ing up to Lynn , Btrnck him aeross the
sword arm. The crowd then made a
break for Orlofskj" , and the police had
a lively time to keep them off. When
! it was partially restored to order the po
lice stopped the fight After a long
squabble between the judges and con
testants , the referees decided the score
to be : L3'nn , 9 points ; Orlofsky , 5
points , and ordered the fight continued
at some future time. Both men are still
claiming the gate money.
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DISCUSSING POLITICAL ISSUES.
Tariff and Other matters Bteelt Upon by
37turman and Jllainr.
There was a political demonstration
by tho republicans of New Albany , Ind. ,
on tho 15th , tho principal speaker being
James & Blaine. Among other tilings
he said :
I find in tho papers to-day tho report
of a democratic meeting in Now York
before which Fairchild , secretarj' of tho
treasury , appeared to defend his policy
of loaning $60,000,000 of tho people's
money to certain national banks without
interest. His defenso consists chiefly
in proving that I overstated the amount
that those banks could mako out of the
transaction. He says that I calculated
interest on tho whole $60,000,000 ,
whereas the banks'aro compelled to
keep 25 per cent of it in thet vaults.
Poor banks ! What hardships they havo
to endure. [ Laughter and cheers. ] I
think Fairchild's answer is positively
amusing , and it recalls to mo tho solilo
quy of tho man who drew a ten thous
and dollar prize in a lottery four years
ago , when the habit was to deduct 15
per cent before payinjr tho amount.
"How lucky it was , ' * said he , "that I
did not draw twenty thousand. It
would have ruined me to pay the pre
mium. " [ Laughter and cheers. ] Fair-
child doesn't frankly and manfully con
front tho issue. He does not state to
tho people how the banks could afford
to buy government bonds when the gov
ernment itself could not afford it If it
was an advantageous proceeding for
those banks to invent $60,000,000 in gov
ernment bonds , why was it not still
more advantageous for the government
to do it ? [ Cheers. ] I press this ques
tion upon Mr. Fairchild , for ho has not
answered why if the banks could mako
2 to 2V per cent on the purchase of Uni
ted States fours , tho treasury depart
ment could not do as much , [ Cheers ]
when ly doing what tho banks do he
could havo wiped out sixty millions of
the public debt [ Cheers. ] I press this
question because it is a pertinent ques
tion.
tion.General
General Harrison made a well-guarded
accusation , and used a happy phraso
when ho accused the national adminis
tration of "nursing tho surplus. " If
Fairchild had invested the $60,000,000
in United States bonds it would not
have appeared in tho surplus , but if ho
loaned it to tho banks it still appears as
part of the frightful surplus , to get rid
of which tho people must destroy tho
protectivo tariff. Thero is a very sug-
gestivo point bearing on that , to which
I beg Fairchild's attention. Between
March 4,1885 , and June 30 , 1886 , a year
and four months from President Cleve
land's inauguration , the surplus in tho
treasury increased $95,000,000 , and the
pnblic debt was only reduced $50,000 , -
000. Of this $50,000 000 forty-four and
one-half millions was the compulsoiy
purchase for the sinking fund. The
further fact is revealed that thero was at
that very date $50,000,000 of 3 per cent
bonds that could have been called in at
par , and they were left in tho hands of
private holders , drawing no interest , and
in order that the bug bear of a surplus
might be raised , and as Gen. Hrrisou
says , "carefull } ' nursed. " [ Cheers. ]
Mr. Blaine said that when the demo
cratic party came into power four } * ears
ago it had found no surplus at all ,
though during tho campaign of 1884
democratic speakers had placed tho al
leged surplus at $400,000,000. The pol
icy of President Cleveland's administra
tion was to accumulate a surplus which
coidd have been avoided by paying off
bonds as they became due.
Judge Thurman spoke at Shelbyville ,
Ind. , on the 15th. Following is a por
tion of his remarks : •
1 am thrice happy to see all around
me signs of victory in this state. [ Great
enthusiasm and cries of "You bet ! " ] And
victory in Indiana means th'election of
Grover Cleveland to the presidency of
United States. [ Applause. ] Now , my
friends , [ here Thurman produced his
bandana , which was the signal for an
other outburst of applause , ] four } * ears
ago I had the honor to speak at a num
ber of meetings in the state of Indiana. '
I was advocating the election of Grover
Cleveland then to be president of the ,
United States. Our opponents weie ac-
tivel } ' engaged in the same contest , and ,
wherever I went I heaid their gloomy
predictions of what would befall tho :
country should Cleveland be elected
president. [ A voice : "We still live. " ]
Everywhere they predicted ruin to tho "
business of the country. Everywhere
the } ' told us that the mills and factories •
and furnaces of the United States would
shut down , because they could not live
under the administration of Grover ' ,
Cleveland. Everywhere they talked
about the p.iyment of the public debt , ]
pensioning rebel soldiers , and the Lord i
knows what other evils their vivid imag- .
ination did not portray to the people to \
prevent them from voting for Cleveland ]
for president of the United States. The j
people did not believe their sad predic
tions , and they elected that man to the ,
piesidency , and now he has been presi
dent for a little over three years and a j
half , and what do we now hear ? Why , I
from the very same republican orators
we hear it declared that tho United
States was never as prosperous as they
are to-day. [ Applause. ] All their
prophecies of ruin to the business of
the country ; all their prophecies in re
gard to tho payment of the public debt ;
all predictions of pensioning rebel j
soldiers , also the flaunting of the bloody :
shiit has gone for nothing , and is only
remembered to be ridiculed. !
31friends , if I had time to do it I :
would like to say a few words upon the \
subject that interests you so much , and
which is talked of so much this year
the question of the tariff. What is a J
tariff ? It is nothing in the wide world I
but a tax. It is a tax levied upon your ]
people , and when it is levied for no \
other purpose than of furnishing tho
government of the country with suffi
cient means to carry the government j
on , no man of any party makes any ob
jection to it , and when it is used , not |
for the purpose of raising in that way
the necessary revenue for the govern
ment but for raising millions and tens
of millions nay , hundreds of millions
of dollars or more of revenue for which ]
the government has no legitimate use , '
then , mfriends , the government puts
its hand into your pockets and robs you
of 3'our daily earnings. [ Applause. ] I '
say it is a tax , and it is a tax paid in
most unequal degree by the poor man 1
of the land. How is this tax paid ? !
Does the tax gatherer of the United
States come around and demand it of you !
on 3'our farm or in 3'onr work shop ? No ,
that is not the way. It is this way. Upon ]
every article of foreign manufacture
thatis brought into your country for ]
sale , this tax is levied. " It is collected
in the custom houses of the United
States. It is first paid by the man who.
brings the goods here , the importeraud ;
then of course he puts that tax upon the
price which he paid for the goods , and
sells it for that increased price when he
disposes of it to tho merchants. Then ,
when the merchants sell it to yon , here
in this goodly city of Shelbyville , he
keeps on that tax in the price that he
charges you pay for it , otherwise he
could not carry on his business twenty-
four hours.
Governor Gray followed Judge Thur
man , and held the crowd for three-quar
ters of an hour longer , after which .the 1
party were driven to th depot , and <
>
after somo littlo delay wont into Indian
apolis , whoro tho judgo will remain over
night Tho party arrived at 9 o'clock ,
lo-morrow afternoon at 1:10 o'clock tho
judge aud party will leavo for Fort
Wayno , where Judgo Thurman will
speak Wednesday.
MR. THURMAN'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.
XI is at T.at Gleen to the I'tibllo Zlirough
the 1'res * .
Judgo Thnrmau's letter of acceptance
has been given to the press and is as
follows :
Columbus , O. , Oct. 12 , 1888. Hon.
Patrick A. Collins and Others , Commit
tee Gentlemen : In obedienco to cus
tom I send you this formal acceptance
of my nomination for tho office of vice
president of tho United States , mado by
tho national convention of tho demo
cratic party at St. Louis. When you did
mo tho honor to call upon mo at Colum
bus and officially notify me of my nom
ination , I expressed to you my sense ol
obligation to tho convention , and stated
that , although I had not sought the
nomination. I did not fool at liberty ,
under tho circumstances , to decline it
I thought then , as I still think , that
whatevor I could properly do to pro
mote tho re-election of President Clove-
land I ought to do. His administration
has boen marked by such integrity ,
good sense , manly courage and exalted
patriotism , that a just appreciation oi
these high qnalitios seem to call for his
re-election. I am also stropgly im
pressed with tho belief that his re-elec
tion would powerfully tend to strengthen
that feeling of fraternity among the
American people that is so essential to
their welfare , peace and happiness , and
to tho perpetuity of the union and of
our free institutions.
I approve tho platform of the St.
Louis convention , and I cannot too
strongly express my dissent from tho
heretical teachings of the monopolists ,
that the welfaro of a poople can be pro
moted by a system of exorbitant taxa
tion far in excess of tho wants of the
government The idea that a people
can be enriched by heavy and unneces
sary taxation ; that a man's condition
can be improved by taxing him on all
he wears , on all his wife and children
wear , on all his tools and implements of
industry , is an obvious absurdity. To
fill the vaults of the treasury with an
idle surplus for which tho government
has no legitimate use , and to thereby
deprive the peoplo of currency needed
for their business and daily wants , and
to create a powerful and dangerous
stimulus to extravagance and corrup
tion in the expenditures of tho govern
ment seems to mo to be a policy at vari
ance with very sound principles of gov
ernment and political economy.
Tho necessity of reducing taxation to
prevent such an accumulation of surplus
revenue , and the consequent depletion
of the circulating medium , is so appar
ent that no party dares to deny it ; but
when wo come to consider the modes by
which the reduction may be mado wo
find a wide antagonism between our par
ty and the monopolistic leaders of our
political opponents. We seek to reduce
taxs upon the necessaries of life ; our
opponents seek to increase them. We
sar , give to the masses of tho peoplo
cheap and good clothing , cheap blan
kets , cheap tools and cheap lumber. Tho
republicans , by their platform and their
leaders in the senate , and by their pro
posed bill , sa } % increase tho taxes on
clothing and blankets and thereby in
crease their cost , maintain a high duty
on the tools of the farmer and mechanic
and upon the lumber which they need
for the construction of their modest
dwellings , shops and barns , and thereby
prevent their obtaining these necessa
ries at reasonable prices.
Can any sensible man doubt as to
where he should stand in this contro
versy ? Can any well-informed man be
deceived by tho false pretense that a
system so unreasonable and unjust is
for the benefit of the laboring men ?
Much is said about tho competition of
American laborers with the pauper labor
of Europe , but does not every man who
looks around him see and know that an
immense majority of the laborers in
America are not engaged in what are
called the protected industries ? And as
to those who aro employed in such in
dustries , i3 it not undeniable that the
duties proposed by the democratic meas
ure called the Mills bill , far exceed the
difference between American and Euro
pean wages , and that , therefore , if it
were admitted that our workmen can be
protected by tariffs acrainst cheaper la
bor , they would be fully protected , and
more than protected , by that bill ? Doe3
not every well-informed man know that
the increase in price of home manufac
tures produced by a high tariff" does not
go into the pockets of laboring men , but
nnl } ' tends to swell the profits of others ?
It seems to me that if the policy of the
democratic party is plainly presented ,
all must understand that wo seek to
make the cost of living less and at the
same time increase the share of tho
laboring man in the benefits of national
prosperity and growth.
I am very respectfully , your obedient
3ervant , Allen G. Tiiursiax.
Work of the Pension Committee.
Washington special : Senator Davis
lias beaten the record with his commit
tee on pensions this session. Never be
fore , it is said , has the senate commit
tee on pensions turned out so much
work or placed on the senate calendar
such an amount of senate legislation.
I'he senator has given his personal at
tention to almost every bill that has
gone through , aud the file of the com
mittee so far as evidence is concerned
on the bills that have been passed
would , if made public , convict President
Cleveland of the most malicious hatred
of the soldier and of the most disreput
able self-seeking for a false reputation
in his pension vetoes. Following is a
summary of the work of the committee
for the present session :
Senate bills , private , referred to com
mittee , 1,270 ; general bills , G9 ; house
bills , private , GC9. Total , 2.00S. Private
senate bills reported favorably , C45 ; pri
vate senate bills reported adversely , 3GG ;
private house bills reported favorably ,
jG9 ; general bills reported favorably ,
15. Total reports , 1,505. That the sen-
ite bills have received close aud careful
scrutiny , is evident by the figures ,
which show that over 83 per cent were
repoited adversely. Out of the fifteen
general pension bills reported favorably
nine havo passed the senate , and but ono
of which have passed the house , and
that one is $ o00 increase for deafness.
I'he business done by this committee
[ luring this session breaks the record.
I'he amount of work done exceeds by 50
per cent that of any former session. The
largest number of reports made during
any former session was 1,0S0 , during the
Brst forty-ninth - -
Long John Wenlworth's Funeral.
Chicago dispatch : The funeral ser
vices over the remains of tho lato Hon.
John Wentworth were held this morn
ing at the Second Presbyterian church.
The casket was borne to the hearse by
six firemen and the same number of po
licemen , and in the funeral cortege were
Mayor Roche , Robert T. Lincoln , Pot
ter Palmer and many other distin
guished citizens.
T\rigg Florence Bayard is a snecess at
tennis. She is the champion lady player
of tho District of Columbia.
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PROBABLE D0NDITI0N OF THE TREASURY- J9f
Some Important t'aet Oleen by Acting Secjffl -
retaru Thotnpion. . Sflj
Acting Secretary Thompson , of the- 48 *
treasury , in spoaking in rogard to the- IB
probablo condition of tho treasury at j
tho end of tho present fiscal year , said : . w
Tho appropriation bills having alt - " j
been passed by tho presont congress , . * JjB
soino estimoto Han now bo mado of tho- | 9
probablo surplus of revenue for tho fiscafc m
year onding Juno 80 , 1889 , over tho ox- IS
ponditures for tho samo year : ' Ms
Estimating ono or two minor items , . ' Jtt'
tho amount in tho oggrogoto is § 300- 3W
000,000 , and tho permanent annual an- m
propriations , which aro put at $115,040 , - Jgg
708 , mako a total of 4421,640,708. Tho- m ,
total estimated rovenuer aro $440f)00- J9 <
000 , making an oxcess of revenuo over- | p
tho total of appropriations of about $19- 1 * .
000,000 ; but this by no means represents ® i
tho v * ual surplus of revenuo for tho w
current fiscal year. A careful estimate *
shows that of these appropriations there- VS ]
will bo at least $37,000,000 which will % '
not and cannot bo properly expended 'M
during this fiscal year , which makes an Jl
actual surplus of $ .10,000,000 , which is. f § •
substantially tho samo amount estimated ill
by tho secretary in tho annual report ij
But even this does not fairly represent | |
tho surplus revenues for tho fiscal year- * '
of 1889 , for in tho appropriations abovo ? i
stated thero is included the sum of $18 , - I
000,000 for deficiencies in appropriations- ,
for 1888 and prior years , which should I
have been appropriated for at prior ses- * " * *
sions of congress and paid out of tho- '
surplus revenues of former years. This , i
added to the abovo sum of S56,000,000 ,
increases tho surplus revenues of 1889- . !
to $7,400,000. This does not includo tho- V
balances which will bo covered into tho )
treasury on the 30th of June , 1889 , of ft
unexpended appropropriaMons of 1887 ,
and prior years , which , according to <
careful estimates , will not bo less than. /f
$000,000. V
In expenditures thero is included \
nearly § 4,800,000 for tho sinking fund , U
which is really part of tho surplus rev-
enues , and if added will make a total of I
§ 122,000,000 of revenuo in excess of tho-
actual and necesssary expenditures of 1
the government for the fiscal year. 1889 ,
which would mako the actual increase
of the surplus at the end of this year of
$10,400,000. /
The estiinato of tho unexpended bal
ances at the close of this fiscal year , . i
given above , is extremely low compared. V
with tho actual balances which have re- \
mained unexpended during the year. \ j
For instance , on June 30 , 1888 , tho nn- yk
expended balance of appropriations for k
that year was $70,514,000 ; on the 30th \
of June , 1837 , $4,371,80.1 for the fiscal ,
year which ended on that day , and for ' H
each of tho years 188G and 1885 , it was. 'J
over $53,000,000. T * '
The above statement has reference to i "
the excess of revenues for the present < L
fiscal year over tho expenditures for tho | |
same time , and is entirely independent 1 * ' |
i of the surplus now in tho treasury < *
amounting to $97,934,305 , including Jl ' "H
$24,347,548 of fractional coin. Any por- 1
tion of the present surplus not expended , e iU
within this fiscal year for the purchaso H
of bonds must bo added to the $104 , - - H
000,000 to arrive at tho actual surplus
which will remain in the treasury on tho , -H
30th of June next S
With respect to the probable revenues H
for the fiscal year 1889 , tho books of tho fl
treasury show that during tho present -H
fiscal year , up to and including October * S
15 , tho daily receipts havo aggregated * U
$ U3)8G,5GG ! ) , as against $115,8 8,473 for
the same period last year , a falling off" H
of only $1,881,907 , which may be more S
than made up by increased receipts dur-
ing the remainder of the year , which H
decrease/is ucL more than is usual dur- H
ing the few months immediately preced- H
ing a presidential election. There is , B
therefore , no reason to believe that the * B
actual receipts for tho fiscal year 1889 '
will fall below the estimated receipts. H
In view of the increased activity in all H
branches of business , it is believed they H
will fully equal if not exceed tho esti- H
mate. H
An Anarchist Gives Himself Up.
Chicago dispatch : Fritz Sallapsky , . |
an anarchist and member of tho Lehr 1
und Wehr Verein , which was so con-
spicnous at the time of the Haymarket- * 1
riot , came into tho Larabee street po- 1
lice station late last night considerably
under the influence of liquor. "Here , " " * M
he said , as ho emptied the contents of a
large leather pouch upon the desk , 9
"here , you have taken my rifle from m
me , now you may have everything else jfl
I have got. "
The sergeant was somewhat startled. k
I
to see in front of him a bayonet , two WW
largo revolvers , a largo supply of car- %
tridges and a book of instructions and H
tactics of the Lehr und Wehr Verein. 9
Sallapsky then became very violent in I
his denunciations of the police , and was- _ B
locked up in a cell where ho bpent the- ! H
remainder of the night singing the Mar- M
seilluise. jH
jr. . Tanner , who won glory a few J
years ago by breaking tho fasting record , M
is now proposing to give his soul a rest I
For sixty days , having his body sealed M
meanwhile in an air-thrht casket. At I M
: iie end of the two months he promises- /
: o come out of the cofiin just as well a > /mt
le w as when ho was boxed ud. fl
THE MARKET3.
OMAHA. Iv ,9
Whkat No. 2 98 @ 98& V
Cokn No. 2 mixed 30 @ 30 % , H
Oats-No. 2 30 @ 30 ? , WM
Rye 25 @ 25&
Karlev 48 @ 49 I
Huttek Creamery 18 § 23
Bctteu Choice country. . . 17 @ 19
Eggs Fresh 18 @ 19
Chickens per doz 2 00 @ 2 50
Lesions Choice , perbox. . . 4 00 @ 5 00 flm\
Oiii.NGES Per box 7 00 (5j ( 8 00 H
Onions Per bu 30 @ 40 \MM \
Potatoes New 23 @ 40 ' < mn
Sweet Potatoes 60 @ 80-
Turnips Per bu 25 fa ) 30
Apples Per bbl 2 00 @ 4 00 H
Carrots Per bu 50 @ GO jH
Tomatoes , per bu 50 @ 6C MM
Wool Fine , " rsr lb 13 @ 20 H
Honey . . 1G @ lc
Chopped Feed Per ton..l7 ° 0 ( vl 50 MM
Hay Bailed 5 00 @ G Oa H
Flax SEEiPrb 1 15 @ 1 20 H
Hogs .Mixed pnclsin- 5 SO @ G 00 M
Hogs Fsavv weighta G DO @ G 10 fl
Beeves Choice HteeM 4 00 @ 5 00
NEW YOIilC.
< Viuat-No. 2 red 135 (5 ( 1 15' r-
Wheat Unsraded red 1 07 @ 1 13V. \ 1
Corn No. 2 63 < < 9 G4 l ,
Oats Mixed western 25 @ 32 \M
Poiik 1G50 @ 17 00 M
Lahd 10 00 (310 ( 00
CHICAGO. 9
Wheat Per bushel 11 0 @ 1 10 . 9
Corn Por bushel 45 @ 45V.
Oats Per bushel 24 @ 24& ,
PoRtr. 15 00 @ 15 55 - *
Lard . 9 50 @ 10 00
Hogs Packing itsliippin ? . 5 90 @ G 30 i
Cattle Western Rangers 3 25 @ 4 15 "V JH
Sheep Natives 3 00 @ 3 90 WM
ST. LOUIS. WM
Wheat No. 2 red cash 112 @ 113 I
Corn Per bushel 39 (5) ( ) 40-
Oats Per bushel - 22 @ 23-
Hogs Mixed packing 6 00 @ 6 25 ' {
Cattle Feeders 2 00 @ 3 10-
Sheep Western S 50 @ 4 50
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KANSAS CITY.
Wheat Per bushel 1 08 @ 110 .
Corn Per bushel 36 @ 37 ;
Oats Per btidhe ! 20 @ 20JJ
Cattle Native steers 5 00 @ 5 25 M\
Hoa Good to choice E 95 GJ 6 05
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