Nebraska Newspapers

    DEMOCRATIC TIMES
HIT THE THEATRICAL PROFES
SION VERY HARO.
ri‘° Hox-Ofllee Kecetpt* a Fair Indica
tion of tlic I'roipority that Followed
the Flection of Cleveland and Hi*
1’arty.
It is time to givo particular atten
tion to the condition of the theatrical
profession in the United States this
vear as compared with 1S92 and 1893,
.tod show the large number of unem
ployed actors who have been the re
cipients of charity from a fund es
pecially collected for that purpose.
ACT I. 1892.
In order to investigate'this condition
more fully a number of the leading
theaters in different states in the
country have been asked to furnish a
comparative statement of their re
ceipts during the first three months of
isV:: and 1894. Taking 100 to represent
their receipts from January to March.
1893, the figures in the second and
third columns represent the receipts
during the corresponding three
months of the two years, as follows:
Number Keceipts, January
of thea- lo March, hosi
Slates. ters. 1893. 1894. 1895.
Alabama. 2 210 143 57
Georgia. 3 301 201 100
Illinois. 5 501 301 199
Indiana. 3 200 141 59
Iowa. 1 100 81 19
Kan-as. 2 200 150 50
Kentucky. 1 100 90 10
Maiylend. 1 100 93 7
Massachusetts. 5 500 432 98
Michigan. 2 200 179 21
Minnesota_ 1 100 60 40
Mississippi. .. 1 ICO 100
New H'pshire.. 2 200 141 59
New Jersey... 3 300 171 129
New York_ 3 300 238 62
Ohio. 2 200 109 91
Pennsylvania. 5 500 41S 82
Tenn-.sse. 1 100 77 23
Texas. 1 100 67 13
West Virginia. 1 100 52 48
Washington... 1 100 60 40
Wisconsin. 2 200 135 65
Total. 47 4,700 3,408 1,292
Average loss, 27 per cent.
The forgoing shows reports from
forty-seven of the leading theaters of
the I'nited States For every §4,700
received by these theaters during the
first three months of 1893 their re
ceipts amounted to only §5,408 during
the first three months of the present
year, the loss being §1,292, or 27 per
cent for the whole country. While
the actor is not directly protected by
a tariff, it is very evident that the
prosperity of the country under a pro
tective tariff affords larger receipts to
those engaged in the theatrical pro
fession than the disturbed condition
of the country will permit under the
4.CT II. 1S94.
mere threat of free trade. When peo
ple are not earning money at all, or
are not earning good wages, it is im
possible for them to spend money
upon amusements. Protection to
American industries means prosperity
to the theatrical business.
Some Facts About Wool.
If American manufacturers are to
supply themselves with foreign wool,
it would be only because it would be
cheaper to them than American wool.
Who, then, will be left ter bnv the
American clip, and wbat is to become
of it? If American wool falls to the
foreign price under free trade, the
American sheep will be fattened and
sent to the butcher, and woolgrowing
in America will cease to be an industry
except in limited cases where the farm
ers can produce the coarser wool
sheep for the meat as they now pro
duce cattle for that purpose. They
■would then have to consider the wool
a by-product, as bullocks hides are
now considered.
If the duty be soon removed or even
reduced at a time when the govern
ment needs more rather than less rev
enue, the only way to procure even
the same revenue that is now collected
is to double onr imports. If we
double our imports we obtain our sup
plies from abroad instead of at home.
We cripple our manufacturers and
lessen our market for our wool. We
give a great industrial impulse to for
eign mills, and to this extent take
employment from our American mills,
*nd for what? Simply in order to
*aise as much revenue under reduced
luties for revenue only as we now
collect under duties that are jrotee
tive. Why, therefore, should we de
stroy a well-established industry that
pays taxes to our government and in
stead promote a foreign industry that
pays nothing toward the support of
our government.
Wail From a Miner.
Lots of us don't like it; but you
know its three more years of Drover,
and then the clover will be on top of
us I think. We have over 29,000 min
ers idle in Illinois, and fourteen com
panies of the state militia in different
places in the state at present That’s
democracy sure enough. We had to
work before, so you see we can do
without it now and get the soldiers to
watch us, as they do over in the old
country. We must be English, they
say. Don’t you think it’s pretty like
it? Twenty cents p8r ton of a reduc
tion will help to bring us nearer to it
And many of our republicans here said
it was better over there than here.
They did not expect it to come so
soon. All I hope is that they will
smother that bill in cougress so dead
that it will never live again, and all
the bourbons and copperheads with it
forever. The monster, the southern
confederacy, would like to show its
slimy head again—that’s my honest
opinion. A man's bread is his life,
and when they bargain for my bread
I must kick. Rout. I!o\vik.
Itraidwood, 111., May 29, 1»94.
The Pottery Strike.
In the settlement of the pottery
strike the wage scale hangs on the de
gree ef protection accorded the indus
try in the democratic tariff bill. This
is a practical illustration of the point
which republicans have made and
democrats denied, and there can be
no wriggling out of it.
The democrats will have to take
their medicine. The democratic poli
ticians can no longer throw dust in
the eyes of the men who earn their
living in American potteries. They
have learned, if they did not know be
fore, that the tariff has something to
do with wages.
Some of them understood this thor
oughly and did not wait for the dem
ocratic party and sad experience to
teach them the lesson.—The Intelli
gencer, Wheeling, W. Ya.
The SmTH
S3 Shop*
SPY Wt S-Uv $UL
J DcSsJVe "rf c.
i lA.Pti0gf1<H rtjjjgfij
Wages In Japan.
The Japan Mail, published at Yoko
hama, is authority for the following,
in regard to the wages of mill opera
tives in Japan, also as to the value of
Japanese money and the cost of coal,
all of which may throw some light
upon the problem of successful indus
trial competition with the "Yankees
of the east.”
The daily wages of a factory girl in
Hiogo is nine sen, whereas in Tokio it
is thirteen sen, and 10,0( 0 pounds of
coal, costing from twenty-two to
twenty-three yen in the latter city,
can be had in the former for from
eighteen to nineteen wen. One yen
equals a Mexican dollar. One Mexi
can dollar equals 50 cents United
States gold. One sen is one one hun
dredth part of a yen or one-half cent
gold. Nine sen for a girl is equivo
lent to four and a half cents gold per
day. Wages of a girl for one year, or
300 days, $13. 50 gold, or $27 silver, per
year. Coal at nineteen yen for five
tons equals about $1.90 per ton.
In 1892 we had absolute men em
ployed in our business forty-five, and
these forty-five remained with us up
until October, 1S33, when|business fell
down to such an extent that we cut
them down to forty. April 1, 1834,we
cut the men down to twenty-three.
This gives the standing exactly of the
house to-day. In 1832 with a capital
of half a million we employed forty
five hands. The same capital, the
close of 1893, could only give employ
ment to forty hands. The same capi
tal in 1S94 can only employ twenty
three hands. In addition to this we
have been obliged to cutoff six branch
houses, which, in 1892, yielded good
returns; but made a loss in 1S93 and
the continuance of them in 1894
would have been ruinous. Comment
is unnecessary and the figures stand
for themselves. The articles we have
manufactured and sold are agricult
ural implements, every one of which
was manufactured in the states of
New York. Ohio and Illinois and fit
ted up and finished here.—Charles H.
Dodd, president of Charles H. Dodd &
Co, dealers in agricultural imple
ments, hardware and steel, Portland,
Ore., April 21, 1894.
Weary Waiting.
The democrats have often told us to
“just wait.” And we have arrived at
a point where that is all we can do—
“just wait.” All labor organizations
on a strike, the farmer can not sell his
wheat, corn, hogs, cattle, poultry nor
any of his farm products. The mer
chant can get no goods of any kind;
business of all kinds is on a stand
still. How we do wish the democrats
would tell us how long we are to
wait and what we are waiting for.—
The Bloomfield (Indiana) News. *
EYEBLASTING LIFE*
SUBJECT OF DR. TALMACE'S
LATEST SERMON.
There la No Rest for the Weary In ThU
World—‘‘Arise, Ye, and Depart, for
This Is Not Your Rest.”—Text from
Micah « : X.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 2G.—Rev. Dr.
Talmage, who is now in Australia on
his globe-girdling tour, has selected
as the subject of his sermon for to-day,
through the press, the words, "Ever
lasting Life, ■’ the text being from
Micah 2: x: "Arise ve and depart,
for this is not your rest”
This was the drum-beat of a prophet
who wanted to arouse his people from
their oppressed and sinful condition;
but it may just as properly be uttered
now as then. Bells, by long exposure
and much ringing, lose their clearness
of tone; but this rousing bell of the
gospel strikes in as clear a tone as
when it first rang on the air.
As far as I can see, your great want
and mine is rest From the time we
enter life a great many vexations and
annoyances take after us. We may
have our holidays, and our seasons of
recreation and quiet, but where is the
man come to mid-life who has found en
tire rest? The fact is that God did not
make this world to rest in. A ship might
as well go down off Cape Hatteras
to nna smooth waier as a man in this
world to find quiet From the way
that God has strewn the thorns, and
hung the clouds, and sharpened the
tusks; from the colds that distress us,
and the heats that smite us, and the
pleurisies that stab us, and the fevers
that consume us, I know that he did
not make this world as a place to loiter
in. God does everything success
fully; and this world would be a very
different world if it were intended for
us to lounge in. It does right well
for a few hours. Indeed, it is magni
ficent! Nothing but finite wisdom
and goodness could have mixed this
beverage of water, or hung up these
brackets of stars, or trained these
voices of rill, and bird, and ocean—so
that God has but to lift his hand, and
the whole world breaks forth into
orchestra. But, after all, it is only
the splendors of a king’s highway,
over which we are to march on to
eternal conquests.
You and I have seen men who tried
to rest here. They builded themselves
great stores. They gathered around
♦them the patronage of merchant
princes. The voice of their bid shook
the money markets They had stock
in the most successful railroads, and
in “safety deposits” great rolls of
government securities They had
emblazoned carriages, high-mettled
steeds, footmen, plate that confounded
lords and senators who sat at their
table, tapestry on which floated the
richest designs of foreign looms,
splendor of canvas on the wall, ex
quisiteness of music rising among
pedestals of bronze, and dropping,
soft as light, on snow of sculpture.
Here let them rest. Put back the
embroidered curtain, and shake up
the pillow of down. Turn out
the lights! It is 11 o'clock
at night. Let slumber drop upon
the eyelids, and the air float through
the half-opened lattice drowsy with
midsummer perfume. Stand back, all
cure, anxiety, and trouble! But no!
they will not stand back They rat
tle the lattice. They look under the
canopy. With rough touch they
startle his pulses. They cry out at 12
o’clock at night, “Awake, man! How
can you sleep when things are so un
certain'! What about those stocks?
Hark to the tap of that fire bell; it js
ycur district! How if you should die
soon? Awake, man! Think of it!
Who will get your property when you
are gone? What will they do with it?
Wake up! Riches sometimes take
wings. How if you should get poor?
Wake up!” Bising on one elbow, the
man of fortune looks out into the
darkness of the room, and wipes the
dampness from his forehead, and
says, “Alas! For all this scene of
wealth and magnificence—no rest”
I passed down a street of a city
with a merchant He knew all the
finest houses on the street. He said,
“There is something the matter in all
these houses. In that one it is con
jugal infeliciti'. In that one, a dis
sipated son. In that, a dissolute
father. In that an idiot child. In
that, the prospect of bankrupt-.”
This world’s wealth can give no per
manent satisfaction. This is not your
res*
You and 1 have seen men try in
another direction. A man says. “If I
could only rise to such and such a
place of renown; if I could pain that
office; if I could only get the stand
and have my sentiments met with one
pood round of hand-clapping applause:
if I could only write a book that would
live, or make a speech that would
thrill, or do an action that would re
sound!” The tide turns in his favor.
Bis name is on ten thousand lips.
He is bowed to and sought after, and
advanced. Men drink his health at
great dinners. At his fiery words the
multitudes huzza! From galleries of
beauty they throw garlands. From
house tops, as he passes in long pro
cession, they shake ont the national
standards. Here let him rest. It is
11 o'clock at night On pillow stuffed
with a nation's praise let him lie
down. Hush! all disturbant voices.
In his dream let there be hoisted a
throne, and across it march a corona
tion. Hush! Hush! “Wake up!” says a
rough voice. “Political sentiment is
changing. How if you should lose
this place of honor? Wake up! The
morning papers are to be full of de
nunciation. Harken to the execra
tions of those who once caressed
you. By to-morrow night there will
be multitudes sneering at the
I words which last night you expected
wonld be universally admired. How
can you sleep when everything de
pends upon the next turn of the great
tragedy? Up. man! Off of this pil
low!" The man, with his head yet
hot from his last oration, starts up
suddenly, looks out upon the night,
but sees nothing except the flowers
that lie on his stand, or the scroll
from which he read his speech, or the
hooks from which he quoted his au
thorities, and goes to his desk to finish
his neglected correspondence, or to
pen sn indignant line to some re
porter. or sketch the plan for a pub- ,
lie defense against the assaults of the j
people. Happy when he got his first |
lawyer's brief; exultant when he tri
umphed over his first political rival;
yet, sitting on the very top of all this
world offers of praise, he exclaims,
“No rest! no rest!”
Napoleon wanted to make all Eu
rope tremble at his power; made it I
tremble, then died, his entire military
achievements dwindling down to a
pair of military boots which he in
sisted on having on his feet when dy
ing. At Versailles I saw a picture of
Napoleon in his triumphs. I went
into another room and saw a bust of
Napoleon as he appeared at St. Hele
na; but ob, what grief and anguish
in the face of the latter! The first
was Napoleon in triumph, the last
was Napoleon with his heart broken.
How they laughed and cried when
silver tongned Sheridan, in the midday
of prosperity harangued the people of
ISritain, and how they howled at and
execrated him, when, outside of the
room where his corpse lay, his credit
ors tried to get his miserable bones
and sell them!
inis world for rest? Aha: cry
the waters, “no rest here—we plunge
to the sea.” “Aha!” cry tiie moun
tains, “no rest here—we crumble to
the plain.” “Aha!” cry the towers,
“no rest here—we follow Babylon
and Thebes and Nineveh into the
dust” No rest for the flowers; they
fade. No rest for the stars; they die.
No rest for man; he must work, toil,
suffer and slave.
Now, for what have I said all this?
Just to prepare you for the text:
“Arise ye, and depart; for this is not
your rest” I am going to make you
a grand offer. Some of you remem
ber that when gold was discovered in
California large companies were made
up and started off to get their fortune.
To-day I want to make lip a party for
the Land of Gold. I hold in my hand
a deed from the proprietor of the
estate, in which he offers to all who
will join the company 10,000 shares of
infinite value in a city whose streets
are gold, whose harps are gold,
whose crowns are gold. You have
read of the Crusaders—how that many
thousands of them went off to con
quer the holy Sepulchre. I ask you
to join a grander crusade—not for the
purpose of conquering the sepulchre
of a dead Christ, but for the purpose
of reaching the throne of a living
Jesus. When an army is to be made
up, the recruiting officer examines the
volunteers; he tests their eyesight; he
sounds their lungs; he measures their
stature; they must be just right, or
they are rejected. But there shall he
no partiality in making up this army
of Christ. Whatever your moral or
physical stature, whatever your dis
sipations, whateveryour crimes, what
ever your weaknesses; I have a com
mission from the Lord Almighty to
make up this regiment of redeemed
souls, and I cry, “Arise ye, and de
part; for this is not your rest.” Many
of you have lately joined this com
pany, and my desire is thatyou may all
join it Why not? You know in your
own hearts’experiencs that what I have
said about this world is true—that it
is no place to rest in. There are hun
dreds here weary—oh, how weary— ,
weary with sin; weary with trouble;
weary with bereavement. Some of ,
you have been pierced through aad '
through. You carry tiro scars of a 1
thousand conflicts, in which you have '
puic. tiUU yuusi^u. WIl,
that I had the wings of a dove, that I ■
might fly away and be at rest!” |
You have taken the cup of this world's
pleasures and drunk it to the dregs,
and still the thirst claws at your
tongue and the fever strikes to your ■
brain. You have chased Pleasure
through every valley, by every stream,
amid every brightness and under every
shadow; but just at the moment when
you were all ready to put your hand
upon the rosy, laughing sylph of the
wood, she turned upon you with the
glare of a fiend and the eye of a satyr,
her locks adders and her breath the
chill damp of a grave. Out of Jesus
Christ no rest. No voice to silence
the storm. No light to kindle the
darkness. No dry dock to repair the
split bulwark
Oh ye whose locks are wet with the
dews of the night of grief; ye whose
hearts are heavy, because those well
known footsteps sound no more at the
doorway, yonder is your rest! There
is David triumphant; but once he be
moaned Absalom. There is Abraham
enthroned; but once he wept for
Sarah. There is Paul exultant; but he
once sat with his feet in the stocks.
There is Payson radiant with immortal
health; but on earth he was always |
sick. No toil, no tears, no partings,
no strife, no 'agonizing cough, to- I
night. No storm to ruffle the crystal '
sea. No alarm to strike from the
cathedral towers. No dirge throbbing 1
from seraphic harps. No tremor in the !
everlasting song; but rest—perfect
rest—unending rest
Into that rest how many of our
loved ones have gone! The little chil
dren have been gathered up into the
bosom of Christ One of them went
out of the ai ms of a widowed mother,
following its father who died a few
weeks before. In its last moment it
seemed to see the departed father, for
it said, looking upward with bright
ened countenance, "Papa, take me
UP”
“ Jeannie, did you divide your paper
of chocolate with your brother?”
“ Yes, certainly, mamma; I ate the
chocolate, and gave him the motto—he
is fond of reading, you know.” i
A TICKET IS NAMED.
STATE CONVENTION OF NE
BRASKA REPUBLICANS.
Lieut. Got. Majors, of Nemaha County,
Nominated for Governor on the First
Ballot—R. E. Moore Will Make the
Race for Lieutenant Governor—The
Platform Upon Which Republicans of
Nebraska Will Go Before the People to
Stand or Fall as the Voters May Elect.
Nebraska State Republican Convention.
GOVERNOR.THOMAS J. MAJORS
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
„ .K. E. MOORE
SECRETARY OP' STATE.J. J. PIPER
AUDITOR OP STATE....EUGENE MOORE
TREASURER.J. S. HARTLEY
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
, . . A. 8. CHURCHILL
SUPERINTENDENT OP PUBLIC IN
STRUCTION.. H. li. CORBETT
COMMISSIONER PUBLIC LANDS
AND BUILDINGS.H. C. RUSSELL
Omaha, August 24.—The republican
state convention in session in this city
yesterday, placed in nomination the
ticket above given. Thomas J. Majors,
for governor, was dominated on the
first ballot, the result standing Majors
552}£, McColl 4013^, Crounse 0, Cady L
THE PLATFORM.
The republicans of Nebraska in con
vention assembled deplore the disas
trous result of the “change'1 in the pol
icies of the national government, de
creed by the people a» a time when the
mental balance of the country was
temporarily disturbed by the exhilara
tion of a long course of peace, progress
and material p-osperity, and the clam
or of demagogues and political quacks,
and confidently appeal to the people of
the state for a return to the conditions
that existed prior to the elections of
1892.
Dismayed by the financial revulsions
that paralyzed the business centres of
the country, when the results of the
national and state elections made it
certain that the policy of protection of
home industries and the guarantee of
public credit and a sound currency
were about to be overthrown by a dem
ocratic president and a congress demo
cratic in both branches, the leaders of
the party, wholly in power for the first
time in thirty years, have had neither
the courage to embody the principles
set forth in theirmational convention at
Chicago in legislation, or the wisdom to
abandon their threatened raid on the
industries of the country, lint tiiey
have kept the business interests of the
people in suspense and uncertainty du
ring twelve months of unprofitable de
bate over the work of framing a reve
nue bill founded on no definite or rec
ognizable commercial system, corrupt
on its face, discriminating against
northern industries for the benefit of
the south, openly denounced by a ma
jority of those whose votes carried it
to its passage, and not only fraught
with disaster to the people, but confes
sedly stamped with ‘ party perfidy and
party dishonor,”as an abandonment of
the cause of a “tariff for revenue only,”
and the principles and pledges upon
which they were placed in power.
“How can they face the people after
indulging in such outrageous discrim
ination and violation of principles” as
are found in almost every paragraph of
the sugar trust tariff bill?
In view of the practical results of a
year and a half of democratic rule, we
reaffirm with renewed faith and fervor
the platform of the national republican
convention at Minneapolis. We de
mand the restoration of the American
policy of protection and commercial re
ciprocity with our sister republics of
Mexico, Central and South America and
the governments of the West India
Islands.
The republican party of Nebraska
has always been the consistent friend
and aggressive champion of honest
money and it now takes no step back
ward. While we favor bimetallism and
demand the use of both gold and silver
standard mon^y, tve insist that the par
ity of the value of the two metals be
maintained, so that every dollar, paper
or coin, issued by the government, shall
be as good as any other.
we acinere to the doctrine that all
railway lines are subject to regulation
and control by the state, and we de
mand the regulation of railway and
transportation lines to such extent and
in such manner as will insure fair and
reasonable rates to the producers and
consumers of the country. To that end
we insist that laws shall be enforced
forbidding the fictitious capitalization
of such corporations and that the con
stitution of the state shall be rigidly
enforced wherein it is provided: “Mo
railroad corporation shall issue any
stock or bonds except for money, labor
or property actually received and ap
plied to the purpose for which such cor
poration was created, and all stock
dividends and other fictitious increase
of the capital stock or indebtedness of
any such corporation shall be void.”
\\ c- are in favor of tiie enforcement
of all laws, whether they affect the in
dividual or the corporation, and we
therefore demand the enforcement of
the maximum rate bill passed by the
last legislature until the same is de
clared void by the courts or is repealed.
\\ e are in favor of the enactment of
laws by congress that will provide for
the supervision, regulation and control
of corporations engaged in interstate
commerce, with a view to preventing
the fictitious capitalization and exces
sive bonding of such corporations.
AA'e <Tenounce ail combinations of cap
ital organized in trusts, or otherwise,
to control arbitrarily the conditions of
trade, and arraign as criminal legisla
tion the manifest concessions of the
tariff bill now in the hands of the pres
ident to the sugar and whisky crusts.
AA'e recognize the rights of laborers
to organize, using all honorable meas
ures for the purpose of dignifying their
condition and placing them on an equal
footing with capital, to the end that
they may both fully understand that
they are necessary to the prosperity of
the country. Arbitration should take
the place of strikes and lockouts for
settling labor disputes.
The extirpation of anarchy is essen
tial to the self-preservation of the na
tion. and we therefore favor the pend
ing bill in congress for the exclusion of
anarchists.
A\e recommend that the ensuing leg
islature submit an amendment to the
constitution, to be voted on by the peo
ple at the next general election, pro
viding for the investment of the per
manent school fund in state, county
and school district bonds.
AA'e believe that the industries of our
state should be diversified, to relieve
the masses of the people from depend
ence upon one class of agricultural pro
ducts subject to crop failures, and it
being demonstrated that the soil of
this state is adapted to the production
of sugar beets, even in dry seasons, a
source of incalculable wealth, we favor
legislation that shall bring to our peo
ple its full realization.
Ever mindful of the services and sac
rifices of the men who saved the life of
the nation, we protest against the illib
eral and unjust policy of the pension
department under the present adminis
tration, and pledge anew to the veteran
soldiers of the republic a recognition of
their just claims upon a grateful peo
ple.
SEW STATE COMMITTEE.
The list of state committeemen is as
follows, by districts:
First—A. K. Keim, Falls City.
Second—M. H. Christy, Sterling.
Third—J. R. Mclvee, l’almyra.
Fourth—George Sheldon, Nehawka
Fifth—H. M. Clark, Ithica.
Sixth—H. U. Hoyles, Frunk llurman,
Peter Schwenclt.
Seventh—J.; R. Sutherland, Teka
mah.
Eighth—John D. liaskel, Wakefield.
Ninth—J. F. Hoyd, Oakdale.
Tenth—R. H. Snyder, Fremont.
Eleventh—J. M. Alden, Pierce
Twelfth—E. T. llodsdon. Schuyler.
Thirteenth—Sanford Parker, Hutler.
Fourteentii—George A. Eckles, Chad
ron.
Fifteenth—M. E. Getter, Ord.
Sixteenth—Aaron Wall, Loup City.
Seventeenth—F. W. Crew, St. Paul
Eighteenth—J. II. Mickey, Osceola.
Nineteenth—W. II. lluseinatier, Liu
wood.
Twentieth—J. H. Clay, Lincoln, and
J. J. Trornpen, llickman.
Twenty-first—J. E. Hays, Beatrice.
Twenty-second—.1. hi. Van Duyn,
Wilber.
Twenty-third—John Ilcssty, Fair
bury.
Twenty-fourth—C. A. McCloud, York.
Twenty-fifth—
Twenty, sixth—II. Galusha, Bed
Cloud.
Twenty-seventh—C. F. McGrow, Has
tings.
Twenty-eighth—S. C. Stuart, Axtel.
Twenty-ninth—C. D. Fuller, Impe
rial.
Thirtieth—A. E. Allyn, Cozad.
The following are ex-officio member!
of the committee, the first six being
the chairmen of the republican con
| gressional committees and the last two
the president and secretary of the Be
! publican State league.
H. M. Buslinel, Lincoln, First dis
trict; B. H. Robinson, Omaha, Second
j district; C. C. McXish, Wisner Third
! district; S. II. Steele, David City,
! Fourth district; R. Q. Stewart, Camp
j bell. Fifth district; Henry Cutting,
| Kearney. Sixth district; Frank Collins,
j Lincoln; II. M. Warring, Omaha.
-.—
KIND WORDS FOR PULLMAN.
Witnesses Who Think the Talace Car
Magnate Is All flight.
Chicago, Aug. 23.—Several of the
witnesses examined by the strike com
J mission to-day gave testimony more
, favorable to the Pullman company
j than that which had previously been
! heard. Frank W. Glover, a real estate
agent, said he considered the Pullman
; houses at §18 and §20 a month really
j cheaper than §12 a month houses in
I surrounding towns. The Pullman
1 houses were well equippe d and beau
tifully located, he said, and rents were
not, in his opinion, too high. In reply
to a query of Commissioner Wright.he
denied that he was in any way con
nected with the Pullman company.
Paul E. Hermes, a news dealer, who
formerly worked in the Pull man
shops, said he did not place much
j faith in the complaints of the men.
I Their trouble, he thought, was largely
| due to their fondness for beer. All
I the saloon keepers in the surrounding
! towns had grown rich, and a large
number of Kensington beer wagons
| were well supported by Pullman em
j ploves. Of real estate values ho
j knew little, but did not believe that
i Pullman rents were unusualiy hlgdT. i
i L. II Johnson, a Pullman furniture
j dealer, testified that store room rents
J in the town had been cut, though no
reduction had been made in the resi
dence rentals. •
Chairman Wright announced that
the commission had concluded its in
quiry into the strike from the side of
the employes and would now hear the
statements of public officials and
i those of the employers who wished to
| testify. Mayor Hopkins, Chief of
Police Brennan, Fire Chief Sween e
i and other city officials have been
i summoned and Governor Altgeld will
; probably- be called upon. The com
missioners refuse to say whether or
not Mr. Pullman will testify-.
A NEW RIVAL FOR AMERICA.
Siberian \\ heat Will Enter the World's
Market With the New Koad.
Washington, Aug. 23. — United
States Consul General Jonas at St.
Petersburg, in a report to the de
partment of state, points to the fact
that the early completion of the Si
berian railroad is likely to have a
depressing effect upon the prices of
grain throughout the world- No re
liable estimate can be formed of the
probable export of Siberian grain to
Europe by this road, and one rough
estimate placing it at 0,000,000 bushels
for the West Siberian side is regarded
as decidedly too low. Moreover, tiie
completion of the road is expectel to
greatly stimulate the planting of
grain in the black soil belt,famous for
its fertility. In 1999 Siberia produced
a surplus of 30,000,000 bushels of grain.
To lessen the depressing effect upon
the local-St. Petersburg market of the
expected in-rush of Siberian wheat, a
new outlet is provided by a line of
railroad from Perm, already con
nected with Western Siberia to Kot
las, on the Dvina river, offering an
easy way to Archangel on the White
sea. whence the wheat can be ex
ported to other European countries.
A Justice Short 89,009.
Kansas Citt, Mo., Aug. 23.—The
county court gave out for publica
tion at 2 o'clock this afternoon the
report of the County Accountant £.
D. Slater on the office of Justice of the
Peace Uoss W. Latshaw. It shows
that Latshaw is short to the county
to the extent of S3,060, with all credits
allowed. The report further shows
that Latshaw has exacted a tribute
from the keepers of disorderly houses,
the great bulk of which does not ap
pear on the books of his office.