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A. IT. FHclicorrc pondcntand olicltor ,
LINCOLN , Oct. 1C , 1881.
To the Editor of Tim Uii.
Why don't you hoist the republican
state ticket in the editorial columns
of your daily ? A STAI.WAHT.
. The custom of printing the party
ticket at the head of the editorial col
umns is no longer in vogue among the
loading dailies of the country oven
in national campaign years. The po
litic.-xl views of every metropolitan pa
per nra well known , and it is tacitly
understood that each party supports
its party candidates unless it expressly
opposes them. The BEE is a republican -
* can paper. It has vigorously sup
ported the republican ticket in every
national campaign , and , with the ex
ception of Valentino and Cams , every
republican candidate on every state
' ticket ninco it was founded.
* 'In ' the present campaign the BKK
"has pxprossea .satisfaction with the re-
nomination of Judge Maxwell , but , in
view of the fact that ho is as well
known as any public man in Nebras
ka , wo did not doom it necessary
to enlarge upon , his past history or
" /ilia record. The amo is true 'oj
the Republican candidates for Regents
of the University. Inasmuch as the
Democratic ! nomination of competitors
is a moro matter of form and the only
, , question is ono of majorities , anactivo
- ' campaign on behalf of these candidates -
/ dates is not necessary.
We have just received a circular
letter from the chairman of the Re
publican State Committee , and as a
matter of information for the guid
ance of Republican electors , wo call
attention to the fact that the full
names of our candidates , as they
should appear on the local tickets ,
* * ' ' are aa folio we :
* * , , / For Judge of the Supreme Court ,
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* * ' SAMUEL MAXWELL.
_ , .For Regents of the University of Ne-
n \ braska ,
LEBBEUSB. PIFIELD ,
ISAAC POWERS.
VKHHOR predicted a dry fall. Any
further comment on Vcnnor in unnec
essary.
Oou county campaign hasn't begun
yet , but in another week the political
pot will boil and bubble.
PAUNELL has been hurling defiance
at the British lion , and the British
lion is not to bo trifled with ,
JUST about election time , Dr. Miller
will have n pressing call to the oast.
A call in time naves considerable
Bcratclnni' .
' f . Ma. DOANE lias
* bpoi } writing on-
i , other ot those impertinent letters to
the Herald. Mr. Doano in a thorn in
the democratic monopolists' flesh.
DKNVEU journals complain that
"skin" and vonusrod houses nro being
qroctod in prominent streets of the
city. Denver's prosperity is only skin
.deop ,
his resignation handed in Mr.
"Window laughi ftt the Wall street
sharks who abuse him for refusing to
furnish the menu * for continued stock
, gambling.
lUDDLEIIKltOEH Ilil3 foUU'llt two I
duals , but that does not exactly quali
fy him to act us the sorgeant-at-aruis
of the United States Senate. Riddle-
berger will have U < retire on his
laurels ,
ia no longer a regular 1
Voshington correspondent , but tlioro
ar o a number of letter writers at the
ca. > ital who could give both Oath and
Ell 1'crkins odds , and still remain the
chai npion Haw on the continent.
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SHORTER.
At a special meeting hold by the
city council of Fremont , Friday night ,
the following communication was sub
mitted and the request embodied
therein promptly granted !
FREMONT , Neb. , Oct. 1-1 th , ' 81.
To th Honor btc Mayor m ) Council of the City
of rrimont : .
OKNTLKMEN : I am inslructod by the
Lincoln t Fremont railway company
to withdraw the proposition to build a
line of railroid from Lincoln to Fre
mont , via Wahoo , in Snundors county.
Al a recent election held in
the precincts > f Saunders
county through which it was
proposed to build the Lincoln & Fremont -
mont Railroad , the people refused to
give the aid required ; although tljii
action on their part will cause some
delay and necessitate a change of the
present survey , making the road bo-
Ueon Lincoln and Fremont about
two and n half miles shorter , yet I am
confident that with a reasonable
amount of nid from your city , the
road will unquestionably bo
built within the next
year. I therefore rcopcctfully
ask that you repeal the oulinuncc sub
mitting to the legal voters of Fnsmont
the question of issuing bonds to the
amount of $35,000 , to bo voted on the
17th of the present month , and hope
to bo able at an early day to submit a
proposition more favorable to the in
terests of the people of your city.
Very respectfully ,
H. B. GALBV.
Scc'y of the L. & F. R. R.
This is a specimen brick of bulldoze
and blackmail , to which railroad con
struction ring * always resort when
the people refuse to mortgage their
homes to them as a bonus for their
benevolent enterprises. So the Lin
coln fc Fremont railroad project is
temporarily laid on the shelf to afford
the onginecra time for shortening the
line two and n half miles , andtholcgal
voters of Fremont , who wore so anxi
ous to vote a $35,000 mortgage on
themselves , this very week will have
to forego that pleasure for a few
months longer. Tin's is indeed a
very sad turn of affairs but
the people of Lancaster , Dodge and
Saundera derive consolation in the
assurance that the 'road ' will bo short-
onrd two and a half miles.
Down in Saundora county it in well
understood where this short cut in
Mr. Galoy'fl road is to bo made , .Tmt
before the recent bond election in
datmd&'ra county , Iho gentle bulldo-
sers of the road exhibited a little ma i
lo the merchants and property own-
jrs ofVahoo , in a confidential way ,
which represented the road ns run-
ling two and a half miles cast of the
; own and they 'were incidentally
yarned that' the road would leave
iVahoo two and a half miles from the
Jincohvand Fremont linoif the bonds
voro voted down.
Those throats did not seem to have
ho desired effect on the stubborn
rVahoosiors , and Mr. Qaloy now pro-
> osos to whip them in by the sham
vithdrawal of the proposition at Fro *
nont , coupled with the threat of
ihortoning the linotwo , and a half
nilos. In thia game of blackmail and
> ulldozo , the construction ring of the
jincoln and Fremont abort line is fol-
owing closely in the footpaths of the
xedit mobilier ringstors , that built
ho trunk lines across the continent.
Fhoso highwaymen commanded the
icoplo of every town along their line
o hold up their hands and deliver up
ho deeds for their depot grounds
md mortgages upon their homes ,
indor the .throat of having
the road located a few miles on ono
lido with a rival town to chock their
growth and destroy their prosperity ,
tt was just by such a damning game
if blackmail that Omaha and Douglas
sounty were robbed of nearly $1,000-
)00 , and the proceeds of our bonds
ivero finally used to build an elegant
jnion depot at Council BlufTd , The
mine infamous tactics were played
apon the people of Columbus by Jay
3ould , but the rise in the Platte and
Loup rivers last sprint ? compelled the
[ Jnion Pacific to civo up their
ichcmo of strangling Columbus.
Phis open threat to leave Wahoo two
and a half miles west of the proposed
road will , however , hardly produce
the desired effect. Wahoo la already
n flourishing county scat and
, no one-
horse railroad can destroy that grow
ing and prosperous town by shorten
ing its line two miles and a half.
The main object of the capitalists
who propose to operate this now road
lifter the construction , ring has
squeezed 8125,000 out of the counties
through which it is to pats , is to com
pute with existing roads for local
traffic. They can only compote BUG-
jossfully by building their road
through the most important local
trade centers in the country trav-
orsod. If it is true that this road will
become an extension of the Chicago
md Northwestern and Elknorn Val
ley line , then the road is bound to bo
built without a dollar of subsidy. If
the road is a moro local line , projected
by Galov Fi * " " " " ' ' ' & Co. as a opocu-
road will note
* o rival lines
'dies asked
if built ,
I
have sot fire to the Antelope county
court house , to cover a defalcation ,
nmnicd themselves at West
Point last week by burning a
traveling agent of the BKR
in effigy. It was eminently in accord
with the eternal fitness of things for
an export incendiary , who , if ho had
his deserts , would to-day bo wearing
a zebra suit , to take such delimit In
effigy burning , It is also o'.ninontly
proper that embezzlers am1 , firo-fionds
should assume the chair.pjonship of n
man who swindled homesteaders and
robbed the tax payers of this state1 by
lobbying a back pay steal of 81,800 ,
through the 'egislaturo for services ho
never performed.
THE IRISH SITUATION.
No end need any longer accuse Sir ,
Gladstone's ministry of a polioy of
masterly inactivity towards Ireland.
TJio blow ittruck nt the Land Lcnguo
by the arrest of Parnoll has boon fol
lowed by the roarre.it of Dillon and
imprisonment of Quinn , Sexton and
Iloaley , nil leaders in the land move
ment. The troops throughout Ire
land are under arms. Every garrison
has been reinforced. The principal
offensive points nro covered by loaded
cannon and armed mon of war patrol
the colats nnd protect the harbora.
Ireland is in a * state of siege , garrisoned -
od by a force against which opposition
is dangerous and resistance certain
dcatb.
Mr. Forstor , under whoso depart'
mont the supervision of Irish attain
falls , haa announced his intention o :
forcing the land league into subjcc
tion to the law at all hazards. As af
fairs have recently stood throughou
Ireland , the authority of the crown
has been practically nullified and th
law of the league has been the enl ;
authority respected or regarded by
the Irish people. According to the
view taken of the matter by the con
Borvativo party and finally forced for
adoption upon the cabinet , tholandbil
which coat the ministerial party forty
whig votes and the son-ices of three
of their leaden , was in process of ab
rogation through the organization o
which Mr. Parnell is the head , Lib
erty of speech had degenerated into
license and contempt of the Jaw into
opposition to the crown. Under the
cloak of land rotorm a movement was
in progress for complete separation
from England , and the consequent
disintegration of the British Empire.
With those ehaigos ringing in their
oars the ministry determined to save
themselves from , party disaffection
by changing their policy to one
9f bold aggression , and dealing
i powerful blow at the Land
League through the arrest of
its most influential loader * . The ex
tension of the coercion act to counties
not already included under the provl
sions , the strengthening of the BO !
diery and the reinforcement of the
garrisons were the 'natural consequences
quences having for their object the repression
prossion of excitement and the over
awing of the people.
Mr. Gladsono having ontrered upon
his polioy of coercion will bo forced to
carry it out at all hazards. It may bo
us most of the English journals Bcem
to consider it , a political nocscsty.
Experience will alone prove whether
it ia not also a grand politica
blunder. Mr , Qladston haa in times
past proved himself able to resist
popular clamor in pursuing a policy
which ho considered best for the in
terests of the nation. Ho showed
that ho lost liitlo of this trait of
character , so rare in modern states
men , when ho fought the late land
bill through a lukewarm .house . of
commons and a violently antagonistic
peerage. It ia a serious question
whether in the present instance ho has
not yielded to a clamor which would
have died away when the true aims of
the men against whom it waa directed
had been ascertained.
The loaders of the Land league are
in prison , but the Land league still
remains , its organization unbroken ,
its ranks apparently unshaken. Other
mon have stopped into the positions
vacated by 1'nrnoll and Dillon , by
Sexton , Healy and Quinn. Ireland
may bo temporarily cowed , but no
DUO believes that she is subdued. TJio
Qjadstono ministry may gain a few
rotes in Whig boroughs , but the
Radical element is scarcely likely to
bo strengthened by such a summary
md high-handed exercise of authority
IB is now in progress. And with the
certain extension of the franchise to
the poorer classes , a reaction against
jovornment by brute force will cer
tainly make itself manifest at the
polio in a manner which will more
seriously detract from the strength of
the liberal party than can bo sot off
by any gains secured through a policy
backed up by bayonoU and enforced
by the suspension of the great safe
guards of constitutional law and
equity.
When the democratic party in con
vention assembled f ila to awaken en
thusiasm by retailing the well worn
"principlea" of itstim6 honoredorgan-
iration it falls back upon sheer cheek
fill out their platforms. The late
ntion that assembled at Albany
ntion to this rule in its
following astonishing
' ' and immo-
* r-routo
treasury , and the vigorous prosecution
already'too long delayed of all par
ticipants , both high and low , in these
pravo crimes , whereby the moneys of
the people were stolen from the treas
ury , and plunderers were made to provide -
vide a corruption fund which was used
to carry the latt presidential election
for the republican party.
Every democrat who voted for this
resolution know perfectly well that a
thorough and immediate investigation
of the "star routes" was begun within
a week after the inauguration of Presi
dent Garfiold. They were aware that
this investigation was begun by a re
publican postmaster general , aided by
a republican attorney general and
sanctioned by a republican cabinet
and president. They know that un-
drr the greatest difficulties this inves
tigation han been vigorously prose
cuted for seven months until the
cases are now ready for trial with a
mass of evidence sufficient to
convict the offenders. They also
know , though they probably
did not care to reflect very
long upon the fact that the "star
routea. " were Investigated by a Dome
cratio House of Representatives in
two auccossivo sessions , and that all
parties accused were triumphantly ac
quitted. In the view of such facta it
is the boldest hypocrisy for the Demo
crats to call for a thorough and immediate -
mediate investigation of the star
route frauds. They will certainly
fail in making any political capital out
of auch a display of cheeky assump
tion. It haa always fallen to the
aharo pf tno Republican party , not
only to expose the frauda of Demo
cratic administrations , but the failings
of their own , and that they have done
both thoroughly , ia ono of their groat-
cat claims on public confidence.
Titu'rotirement of Secretary Kirk-
wood from the Interior department ia
to bo regretted if on no other
grounds , because the appointment of
a successor may prevent the carrying
out of the plans which ho had mapped
out for a rigid investigation into its
various offices. This ia particularly
the case with the land office , which is
in need of a thorough overhauling ,
and to which Secretary Kirkwood was
about to direct his attention , The
pension office was also under inspec
tion , but the general opinion is that the
great leakage in thia bureau of the in
terior department can only bo met by
a closer inspection of the methods of
making up claims by ex parts testi
mony throughout the country.
In the Indian 'bureau ' , however ,
whore' Mr. Kirkwood haa had an op
portunity of acting , aSairs have been
administered with a dispatch and suc
cess which is highly creditable to its
head. " , The Ponca difficulty , over
which the department and a band of
eastern fanatics had been fight
ing for nearly two years , has
been settled to the satisfaction
of all parties ascertained. The
Northern Cheyenne trouble has been
arranged by the transfer of the band
to the Sioux country and the removal
of the Utos has been accomplished
without bloodshed or further parley.
For a department as notoriously slow
in its oporationa as the Interior de
partment these achievements in such
a limited space of time aa floven
montha are quite remarkable and Mr.
Kirkwood must receive the credit of
an energetic administration of affairs.
It is to bo hoped that his successor
will catch some of the spirit of the old
Iowa war horse and carry out tlio re
forms contemplated by Mr. Kirkwood
in other bureaus which are seriously
in need of imtncdiato attention.
THIS recent rise in confederate bonds
in Europe la ncoountcd for by the
Now Orleans Democrat by the state
ment that theft Will soon bo applied
to their payment $7,000,000 deposited
by the Confederate government in
the Bank of England before the war.
According to the Democrat this sum
has been drawing interest all the time ,
and Secretary Scward tried to draw
the money from the bank but failed.
This story is sheer nonsense. There
are no good grounds for the state
ment that any ouch jmm was over de
posited by Confederate . govern
ment , and less grounds for making
out on behalf of the bondholders any
valid claim for the amount if it was
in existence. The fact that at the
outsat of the rebellion the Confeder
ate government stole ton times this
sum from the United Slatoa makes
any disposal ot the remnants of their
public plunder the receiving of stolen
property It should bo handed over
to our government , if in existence ,
and used to pay pensions to the sol
diora and widows of mon who lost
their lives in the rebellion. The hold-
era of the bogus bonds have no claim
whatever on the amount.
Now that the star route business ia
an the doolino , some of the "noble
: harity" benefactors will besiege
Congress with schemes for subsidizing
: ostly wagon roads through the ro-
jions inhabited by coyotes. A new
wagon road is projected from Fart
Washakio to the Yellowstone park
rvliichtho projectors are willing to
: oiutruct for the trifling sum of $50-
XX ) . Inasmuch ai Congress has al
ready appropriated a good many mil-
ions in public lands to construct rail-
oads into Montana through that re-
lion , and these railroads are now bo
ng vigorously pushed- there will
hardly bo any pressing necessity of
voting 850,000 for a single wagon
road from Fort Wasliakio to the Yellowstone -
lowstono park. Jf such an appropria
tion was made tliij winter it would
take another appropriation of 8100-
000 the very next session to keep the
road in repair
THK Now York election more than
that of any other state is likely to
show the effects of the "off year" in
politics. The first day's registration
in Now York city nnd Brooklyn was
less than half of that on the first day
of last year , and 3,000 less than on the
.first diy of 1870. In such cases the
falling of is invariably to the disad
vantage of the republican parly.
Chris. Hartman is doing 5 peed deal
of active buttonholing. It is all in
vain , Chris , You are throwing away
time and money.
TliR name of the next sheriff of
Douglas county is Dave Miller , and a
good many people are willing to bet
oil it ,
CURRENCY.
Senator Jones' wealth ia placed at
$4,000,000. *
Four thousand native Americana
consume opium.
The loseca in the late fire in Now
York aggregated over $2,000,000.
The funeral expenses attending the
Qarficld obsequies are placed at $208-
000.
000.Tho
The season of revivals is approach
ing. Mr. Moody is having good suc
cess in England.
About four weeks since an Illinois
hoodoo predicted an unusually. pleas
ant and dry full. Gone to moot Von-
nor.
Somebody eatimatea that the re
cent heavy frost did 1,000,000 worth
of damage in the territory within ton
miles of .Boston.
An imaginative western reporter de
scribes a waterfall at Box Canon , Ari
zona , as being as "pure and clear as
an angel's record. "
Chicagoans who have been bitten in
recent wheat deals are discussing the
immorality of "corners. " The mo
rality depends upon who wins.
A reporter of a California free fight
says : "Colonel Baggs waa shot once
in the left side , once in the right
shoulder , and once in the drinking
saloon adjacent.
A scoundrel in Denver , Colorado ,
recently escaped arrest by directing
the constable s attention to a red pla
card bearing the legend , "Small-pox
here , " which hung upon his door.
Names seem to have lost their sig
nificance. Christian Johnson ia un
der arrest in Detroit , Mich.on the
charge of burglary , and Christian An
gel for refusing to support hia family.
Paris has more poor people than any
city in the world. The number of
registered poor who have received re
lief during the present year reaches
the number of 354,812 , of whom 200- ,
000 icceived outdoor relief.
A German mouse-catcher , who has
made Greenwood cemetery his hunt
ing Rro-rids , haa trapped and killed
within the last five years not less than
25,000 chipmunks , moles and other
animals in that city of the dead.
It ia reported that Boston ladies of
the upper lusthetic crust have taken
to gambling in stocks. This a new
freak. People in this section have
always considered Boston ladies as
confining their attention to gambling
in stockings blue stockings.
The wife of the bonanza monopolist
of California rides in a carriage in
Paris that cost $30,000 , and requires
an annual outlay of $2,000 for repairs.
Like the lillies of the field , she toils
not neither does she f pin ; yet Solo
mon in all his glory didn't ride in BO
gorgeous a conveyance.
Notwithstanding the fact that pri
vate banks are given the benefit of
every doubt , and that assessments
made by revenue agents are not main
tained unless the law plainly supports
them. t Js found tbnfc the Kggregalo
amount duo the government from
these banka now foots up to over 82-
000,000.
A iist of about five hundred post
masters in different parts of the
country , whoso commissions expire in
October , November and December , is
being prepared in the office of the
first assistant postmaster general. It
is not known whether any nomina
tions to fill these expired terms will bo
made to the special session.
People who have wondered why
uhero was BO heavy an emigration
from Germany this year will find a
pertV'ctly clear explanation in the fact ,
now reported for the first time , that a
Germau1 version of "Pinafore" is
about to bO produced in Berlin. The
Emma Abbot'.1 performance in Omaha
caused n inaOn * decline in house
rents.
The Now York Commercial and
Financial Chronicle m it element of
the cotton crop in thos United States
for the year ending September 1.1881
shows that the production i
unprecedented figure of
bales an increase of 832,000
aver the production last year ,
1,510,000 bales over that of two yean.1
tigo.
tigo.St
St , Louis' fire record in the past
lour years is superlatively bad. In
that time she has had 1,207 fires , in
which there was insurance to the
amount of $11,475,177. I" the matter -
tor of loss to the insurance companies
tiy fires , Now York is first , San Fran-
: isco second and St. Louis third , while
, ho latter city atanda at the head in i
: > er cent , of loss.
At the approach of cold weather
ho practical people of Now York
iiainfy busy themselves with the put-
, ing up of stoves and grates. Boston
) ooplo make out a list of books for
oading in the long evenings. Gincin-
lati people got their pianos tuned at
ligh pitch. Philadolphiana prudent-
y chop enough mince moat to lost all
winter on the cider. Chicago people
> id for a religious revival. Omaha
icoplo figure up the price of coal with
510 a car added for bridge tolla across
ho Union Pacific.
Anent the introduction of Pullman
loepora on the English and European
oftdB , Dr. Morris , of Lagrange , K'y. ,
Mates that , in the month of August ,
1878 , ho rode twice In a Pullman from
Edinburgh to London , and in both
instances waa th ) only passenger. The
trains were immensely long and
crowded , but , though passengers
looked through the sleeper witti
curiosity , and asked for explanation ,
not ono would invent the eight shil
lings ( $2) ) necessary for a 400-mile
rido. Stingy things ! How they
would kick if they had to pay just
double that amount for the sumo dis
tance on the Union Pacific railroad.
PRESS COMMENT.
FBEDLB YET IIOHUST.
Mr. Tildon may bo feeble as a statesman -
man , but ho is very robust as a boss.
-N. Y. Tribune.
A JMIWT CLASS 1IITB.
Mr. Parnell haa been for some time
fishing for martyrdom , and ho has now
got a first-class bite. Chicago Times ,
aUITEAU'a INDICTMENT.
The existing forma of criminal pro
cedure , so far as indictments are con
cerned , are antiquated , cumbrous and
wholly unnecessary. They should bo
icformcd altogether and brougnt up
to the advanced spirit of the limos ,
N. Y. Herald ,
DEMOCRATIC AllOUA.
The Omaha Herald concedes that
Mr. Tildon will not bo a candidate for
the presidency in 1884. Inasmuch as
the proprietor of the Herald travels
in Mr. Tildon's this
vest-pocket , an
nouncement has the aroma of authori
ty about it. Denver Tribune.
FRIENDLY WOKDS.
THE OMAHA BKR has distinguished
itself during President Garfiold's ill
ness and since his death in a manner
deserving special approbation. Our
enterprising contemporary at the
other end pf the U. P. R. R. has gene
to great expense in securing the best
reports , averaging from 6,000 to 9,000
words daily besides the market re
ports. Parties and papers not in di
rect receipt of Associated Press re
ports or other telegraphic information
have been kept aa well posted by THE
BKK , day after day , aa though they re
ceived the leading Chicago or St.
Louis journals ,
Besides wo will admit that THK BEB
devotes n good deal of its space and
attention to Utah affairs , and gener
ally in a tolerably fair and friendly
feeling. Ogden Herald.
IOWA BOILED DOWN.
The Obebolt flax mill is in successful
operation.
The Fort Dodge water-works are nearly
ready for operation.
The Presbyterian church at Ida Grove
has a new 750 pound bell.
The Fort Dodge telephone exchange will
soon be ready for business.
* < linton is entertaining n proposition to
light the streets with gasoline.
The diphtheria ia so bad in Garner that
the schools have been dismissed for the
present.
Calliope , on tha Big Sioux river , the
old county seat of Sioux , county , has a
regn'ar ' boom.
An Episcopal church , to cost 81,500
when completed , has been built at Mitch-
til and is now occupied.
Alight vote , a heavy rain and a tremen
deus Republican majority sum up the in
cidents of election day m Iowa.
The Burlington , Cedar Rapids t North
ern Railroad Company put ten new loco
motives upon their road last week.
The Fort Dodge coal mines pay from
$1.25 to.$1.3o per ton for mining , , and
miners make from $4 to $5 per day.
There yu a 9-foot rise in the Big Sioux
at Calliope last week , the like of which
was never , before known in October.
Steps have been taken by the state au
thorities to repair the damage done to the
reform school at Eldara by the recent
storm.
The freshet at .Dubuquo marks twenty
feet two inches above low water mark , and
is only two feet eix inches below high
water of lost year.
Jennings Crawford , one of the first set
tlers of Lynn county , Iowa , was killed on
ttio llth instant by being caught in the
tumbling ted of a hay press. '
The newPresbvterian church at Fort
Dodge was dedicated a week ago Sunday.
It co t about 817,000 , nncl is elegant and
complete iu all its appointments.
Kate Shelly , the 1C year old eirl who
some time since signaled A Noitliwestern
train near Boone and i-aved it from being
wrecked , haj receired a check for 8100
from the company.
Casey , ttie Man after whom the town by
that name in Guthrie county is _ named ,
dird recently .and bequeathed to hij sister
800,000 , 810,000 of which is to be invested
in a form near Ailair.
The state auditor has issued warrants to
the various companies of the Iowa National -
al Guards , aggregating 81,005 , for armory
rent and incidental expensed for six
months.
The New York City agent of the Chil-
dren's Aid association announces that he
will have another party of homeless boys
at Sheldon by the 22d inst , , for distribu
tion among farmer * and others.
In a Davenport figlit , the other evening ,
Otto Schultz threw : v stone or siting-shot
at his opponent. It missed the man but
struck a little girl , Minnie Martens , on the
temple , inflicting an injury that may prove
fatal.
Owing to the high stage of water at Du
buquo many faniiuen hat e been forced to
abandon their houses , nnd at least COO men
have been thrown out of employment on
account of the Htoppige of overflowed man
ufacturing establibhments.
The new stations on the Chicago , Mil.
waukee & St. Paul main line , now being
constructed from Marion westward , via
Tania City , are named Louisiana , ilaig ,
Newhall , Van Horn. Keystone , Halifax ,
Vinning , Gladstone , Potter , Uunbar , Fer
guson , Hannerhill , Melbourne , Rhodes ,
Collins , Latimer and Cambridge.
A woman of bad reputation named Kit-
tie Holmes , of Clurinua , is under arrest at
lied Oalc for attempting to ensnare two
Jinucent young girls , on their way to Lin-
ox'i Neb. , tate a "fa ° f shame. Ono
j , jk'i , of Vilisca , was the tool she used to
iccoinvn'ish ' her hellish work , Irat the
cream * i1' the girls , an they found what
run tf2.ccUd ° f them , brought them oftl-
ial uMiilanrV . , . , , _
llw. S. B. V nedict , of Dccorah , has
afsed by her otrn personal efforts , about
10,000 in Iowa , ( ort e purpose of erecting
home in this stats for fallen women. It
3 now pr poaad by th friflflds nod actvn-
ate of the project to wk the co-npe.r -
ion of the legislature at it next fcsaton ,
nd if nu appropriation can be obtained
or building A prfcon for female criminals ,
I will be carried on Jn conaectioa with
tie home.
At Clinton , on Friday venfra > a eoopift
f women hailed two boys nnd oHertdlbera
n-enty-five cents to take a banket contain-
iKO baby to rtiehouao of the R r , Mr.
'rimlJe , uymg they would be there
retcutly themselves. Not luopecting any- I
ling wrong they carried the infant to the
ouse of the minister and explained mat
ins but the re crnnd gentleman declined
j receire the waif , and it was turn d over
> the o veneer of the poor.
LeMors Liberal , 10 : "Mra. O. W. Ben-
ett. formerly of thin place , but now of
Wlber , Neb. , it in town. Mrs. Bennett
DIQC * L re lot Un purpoae of haying let
wide the decree of divorce obtained by her
husband nt the last sitting of the diitrict
court and also to have the hale -of her
property , corner of Sixth und Clarke
strcctn , annulled , Mrs. Bennett claims
that the divorce and sale were illegally ob-
tamed , and she will pray the court that
the wrong done her may bo rectified.
At Shcnandonh , last week , Mra , Rob *
rt Bell shot her husband , killing him In-
rtftnOy. She nrose before her husband
did , and taking a small Urct gun , loaded
it with a cnrtridc , nnd returning to the bed
room shot him In the head while he WAS
yet asleep. She went down stairs and
told her son what had been done , She
sMd that while building the kitchen fironn
angel came nnd told her to commit the
deed. After doing co , she took a dose of
laudanum to end her own life , but ftntl-
dotes were forcibly Administered nnd she
recovered. Mrs. Bell has for some time
been deranged in mind ,
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ADDITION !
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Omaha.
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Ever Offered
IN THIS OITY.
10' CASH PAYMENTS
Required of Persons Desir- '
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LOTS OH PATIEMTS
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'
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S5 Splendid
RESIDENCE LOTS ,
Located on 27th , 28th , 29th
and 30th Streets , between
Parnham , Douglas and the pro
posed extension of Dodge St. ,
12 to 14 Blocks from Court
House and Post Office , AT
PEIOBS ranging from
$300 to $400
which is about Two-Thirds of
their Value , on Sm ll Monthly
Payment of $5 to S1O.
Parties desiring to'Build and
Improve Need Not Make any
Payment for one or two years ,
but can use all their Means fox
Improving.
Persons having $100 or $200
of their own , But not Enough
to Build such a house as they
want , can take a lot and we
will Loan them enough to com
plete their Building.
These lots are located between tha
MAIN BUSINESS STREETS of the
city , within 12 minutes walk of th
Business Center. Good Sidewalks extend >
tend the Entire Distance on Dodge
Street , and the lots can bo reached by
way of either Farnham , Douglas or
Dodge Streets. They lie in a part ot
the city that ia very Rapidly Improv
ing and consequently Increasing in
Value , and purchasers may reasonably
liope to Double their Honey within a
ihort time. r * & *
Some of the most Sightly Location !
in the city may be selected from those
lots , especially on 30th Street.
We will build houses on a Smal
3aah Payment of $150 or $200 , .and
toll house and lot on small monthly
payments.
It is expected that these lotejwill bo
apidly sold on these liberal terms ,
md persona wishing to purchase
iheuld call at our om'cp ana secure
heir lota at the earliest moment.
Ye b're redy to show those lota to all
tenons' wishing to purchase.
BOGGS & HILL ,
t , ° , al Estate Brokers ,
14OS
forthSlde of Farnbom Street ,
Opp , vGrand Central Hotel ,
.OMAHA NEB.