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THE DAILY BEE OMAHA F11IDAY , FJbBRUAM 20 , 1884.
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Omaha , Neb.
IT is hoped that thia is the Last kick of
winter.
A FEW explosions nround Omalm will
cause a rise in the prioo of glass.
IF March will only como in like A
lamb , wo can aland it if it goes out like a
lion. '
Ir Governor DAWOS should happen to
hava the privilege of appointing a United
Slates senator , ho would lese comldora-
bio sleep.
Mn. GBitu , of the State Journal , wants
to go to congress , but if ho cannot go
there ho is willing to anro his country by
nerving M poatmaktor at Lincoln.
IF Omaha was located within the do
minions of Qioon Victoria the recent
explosions would bo charged up to the
account of the dynamite section.
WE hope that the regulator of the
weather will keep some of the Manitoba
waves in store for use next summer , nnd
not give them all to us this winter.
THERE Is a vacancy in the oilico of
lioutonant-govornor of Nebraska , but
Church Ho wo positively declines to fill
the place which is a vacuum with A goo
in it.
SEKATOH VKHT , upon being importuned
to vote , "for God's Baku , " for the bill
providing now cruisers for the navy , said
that the Almighty had nothing to do with
it , but that it was for John Roach's sake.
Senator Vest is lovol-hoadod on this
point. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
TiiEUK is BO much talk and gossip
among the political wire-workers about
Senator Mandersou's probable appoint
ment to the MoOrory vacancy that the
price of night-shirts has gone up twenty
five per cont. General Mandcrson'a suc
cessor would hold the aouatorahip until
the middle of next January , which is
nine months longer than the tnrm of
Tabor , the thirty-day senator of Colorado -
rado , Ho could nflbrd to wear 9250
night shirts.
Nineteen newspaper outfits are or
route for the Cwur d'Alouo mining dia
tricb in Idaho. Thia is the Bottlomoni
where immensely rich deposits are said
to have boon discovered , and thousand
of minors are said to bo on their way
thither. After the incorporation of a
mining camp into n town , a newspaper i
the first thing the minors decide upon
having , and the first editor who arrives
with an outfit gets the bonus and tin
business. It will bo interesting to learn
which of the nineteen who have atarte
for Uiiiur d'Alono ' will secure the prizo.
Duui.vo the congressional session
1881-82 a bill , introduced by Senate
Saunders , was passed for the straighten
ing of the northern boundary of Nobrask
by annexing about 200,000 acres of Ian
from the territory of Dakota. This lam
lies west of Niobrara , adjoining Kno
county. It has not yet boon thrown
open to settlement , although there is
great demand for it on the part of not
tiers. Immediate stops should bo take :
by our congressional delegates to hav
this land opened up BO that settlers coul
secure homesteads tnoro early in th
spring.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
SOME men booomo famous by "happ ;
lute. " Congressman Herr became famou
by assorting in ono of his speeches tha
"tho soutn had bettor raise more ho
and leas boll. " He is now regarded .
one of the wittiest speakers in congress
Congressman Ilatoh , the other day , mad.
a somewhat similar hit when ho said that
what the democratic
party wanted was a
few funerals. His speech in which thia
sentiment was the text has m&do him fa
mous. It was not only witty but truthful -
ful and sensible.
Sunset Cox can no
lonqor be regarded as the only wit in con-
t'reas. Such mou as Dorr and Hatch
have made him take a back neat.
TUK house committee on publio lands
is evidently do orinlnod to bo impartial
und thorough in its action regarding the
forfeiture of unearned railroad lands.
Although vigorous aud iniluential efforts
have been exerted to nave the Northern
. < , Pacific from .losing a large portion of its
' * U bud grant , the committee has decided ,
by a vote of 7 to 4 , to recommend the
forfeiture of all granted land contiguoui
to that portion of the road not completed
prior to July 4th , 1870. It it estimated
that by this forfeiture , if the bill pauos ,
the Northern Pacific will lose about
3,500,000 acre * . Penoni who have pur-
bM d any of this land from the railro&d
company are to be treated the aamo as if
tky jvwe purohawr * of the government.
TUK STOIUGX OP KXI'LOSIVbS.
The pxploaion f the powder
south of the city limits , causing thdeath
of four boys , shows the danger of'storing
explosives too cloao to the city. There
, ra five or BK ! athcr powder houses in the
MHO vicinity , not more than eight hun-
red yards from each other , and the won-
or is that thuy were not all exploded by
ic terrible concussion caused by the
lowing up of the first ono. Such an ac-
dent occurred at Salt Lake City some
hreo or four years ago. Two boys shot
i the door of a powder house , which in *
tnntly blow up , killing the boys , nnd
Atising the explosion of two other maga-
nes more than half a milo apart. TJiu
owdor houses of Onnha , ns they nro
iow located , are too nonr the city , nnd
10 authorities should take immediate
tops to cause their removal to moro dis
tant locations.
In this connection the fact should not
10 overlooked that there are within the
: ity several institutions that nro in reality
torohousos for explosives and combust- !
iles of the moat dangerous character.
Ono of those is tlio warehouse of the
Consolidated Tank Line company , in
hich is stored an immense quantity ot
asolino and oils , which , in case of ox-
lesion and fire , at the time of a high
rind or gale from the cast or south ,
would bo liable to destroy fully ono-thirc
if the business part of the city. Another
angorous institution , located in the
oart of the city , is the gas works.
Under the now process of ninkitij.
water-gas those works nro liable
omo d y to blow up nnd cause great do-
truction of lifo and property. Wator-
as is highly explosive , and too much
recaution cannot bo exorcised in regard
o it , although , owing to good fortune ,
uch an accident as the blowing up ol
ho gns works may noror hippon. It
lannot bo denied that the gas works nro
ocated too near the business center of
.ho city , and stops should bo taken look-
ng towards their removal to a moro re
mote and isolated locality. The storage
, nd manufacture of explosives within
ho city is a matter which should at once
o carefully investigated by the authori-
, ios , and while they are doing this it
would bo proper for them to consider the
ubjcct of steam boilers. It is estimatec
hat there are two hundred steam boil-
rs in use in Omaha , some of them being
sod for steam heating purposes , but the
majority for power. It is high time thai
thorough system of bailer inspection
ihould bo established in Omaha , and a
; ompotont inspector appointed , Such
, n inspector should bo an export ongt
noor. His compensation could bo p * %
idod for by requiring the owners of
loiters to pay a foe , my of ? 5 , for each
inspection and permit , the inspection to
bo made twice a year , or oftener if doom-
d necessary. In this way the foes
would amcunt to about $2,000 a year ,
which ought to secure the services of n
lompetont and honest inspector.
HOHCOE CONKMNO , in reply to U Now
Jersey editor who nttomptod to draw him
DUt on the political situation , related an
ncidont of Zono. When the Persian
imbassy was about to take leave of ths
Grecian court , they asked and received
omo message from each of the person-
igos present. When the turn ofono
came ho said : "Toll your master that
you saw a gray'haired old man in Athens
who Know enough to hold his tongue. "
Mr. Oonkling said to the How Joraoy
editor that his admiration for /ono and
his teachings compelled him to keep si
lence regarding his action in the politics
of the future. It seems , however , that
Mr. Conkling has ninco boon betrayed
into an interview , which ho is now stren
uously denying. In that interview ho is
reported to have said that the republicans
wore doomed to defeat , and that
although a democrat might not bo
elected , yet the democratic party would
bo the determining factor in the result.
That Mr. Oonkling forgot that little
story about /ono , is quite evident from
the fact that ho forgot to hold his tongue.
The interview occurred at the dinner ta
ble of the Now York club , and the in
terviewer was A St. Louis clergyman
named Snydor. Mr. Conkling admits
that there was an extended conversation
between himself and'Snydor , but that it
was of a private social character , and
that furthermore it was not truly re
ported. Snyder now says that it is sim
ply a question of voracity between Conk
ling and himself , and that ho is satisfied
that his report was correct. Tha inci
dent illustrates moro strongly than over
that silence is golden , aud that old /uno'a
head was level. Mr. Conkling now prob
ably wishes that ho had hold his tongue
likt Zono.
TUB Iowa farmers have for years
boon bravely and persistently fighting
the , barbed-wire fence monopoly , and pi
last , after most expensive legislation ,
have won a substantial victory. Judge
McCrary has just entered a final decree ,
at Kookuk , Iowa , in the barbed-wire
cues brought by Washburn & Moon for
alleged infnngemtmt of their patents.
Ho decided that the roiwucsof the Kelly
and Gliddon patents on which the Mas.
aachusotts monopolists have based their
claims were invalid bating his opinion
on the fact that the specifications wore
unduly expanded in granting the reissue ,
which was not oven applied fur until
after an unreasonably long time , The
case will probably go to the supreme
court of the United States. The Iowa
farmers thus ono3uragodwill , however ,
continue to fight the monopoly , aim will
probably bj auocessful in the last court
of appeal. The barbod-wiro monopoly
has been an outragooui imposition , and
its final defeat will be bailed with joy
all over the great agricultural state of
Iowa , as well as in every other part of
ho west whore barbed-wire is used for
dicing purposes.
MOJtK
MADIHON. Nob. , February L'0,1884.
; noticed the following nrticlo in n lalo
BEE :
The Woman's Chtintlnn Temp ranco Union ,
the G od Tomjil'irn , nnd nil other tom | > orntico
peonlii nro coMiUntly oxhnrtliig our people
Against tha demon of alcohol nnd the tnrriblo
vicearil crime * that Miilnjr from Intemper
ance , hut they netcr tnko the first practical
nt | ) hi the direction which would ntmto the
wnrttovils of Intcmrornnco. They wnnt the
chllJrmi In the nchnol * taught about the terri
ble eflacta of alcoholic nllmulantn upon the
human system. They wnnt more ntrlnRont
law * to p'ovont the unto nnd nmnufacturu of
linorhiit | when they are told that under the
| > rc ont l w every m n and woman may pro-
tent the llcomlii * < f low ilcnn uncl notoriously
disorderly houson by n ulinpln protest , they
nlmitf their shouldem nnd shirk the respoml
bUtty.
bUtty.Wo
Wo ndmit most of thn above , but when
you say that "ovory man or woman may
[ irovont too licensing of low dons and no-
toriouvly disorderly nouses by a simple
protest , " wo do not ndmit it and know
that it is not so hero. The
temperance workers did not
"shrug their shoulders and shirk the
responsibility of getting up a protest , but
got ono with over n hundred signers. The
saloons took nrrund their petitions nnd
got the required number of names by
law , and thun filed said petitiona. But
when the protest was brought against
thono petitions for being fraudulent , and
praying that they would . , not grant u
license to the saloons because they had
violated the license laws bp selling liquor
to drunkards , for selling liquor three
days after their licenses expired , thus
soiling that time without any licensenlso
because aoino of the persons whosonamcs
were on their petitions lived outside of
Madison and others were not freehold
ers did that got us rid of the saloons ?
No. The tow board returned thoio pe
titions , artor they had been filed , to the
saloon keepers , and had moro uamca
added , when they were accepted.
It was proved by witnesses under oath
that liquor had boon sold to n drunkard ,
nnd Unit the ualoons had sold without
license.
The saloons have also obtained their
licenses for $250 , nnd the law snya that
they must pay § 500. They are HOST sell
ing liquor for $250 licenses.
Yet with nil this the town board
granted licenses to the saloons
( low shall wo prevent it ? Must wo keep
trom tolling our children that the liquor
that "bitoth like a serpent , and stinguth
like an adder" will hurt them ] Must WH
xoo our follow men almost in the jaws of
death and not toll them that they are in
danger ! Must wo BOO our friends mur
dered and yet keep our mouths shut nnd
lay our pens down , not letting any one
know that this serpent is ono of the
worst'casos of mankind ? Must wo do all
this , and only got up a protest , which
can bo disregarded by and dishonest
board ? No , wo say , temperance fan-
otics ( ? ) don't work in that way. Wo will
not stop showing the evils of intempor-
, nco until prohibition crowns our efforts ,
Jut till then wo will bo "constantly ex-
lorting our people against the demon of
alcohol and the terrible vices and crimes
, liat spring from in tomporanco. " Unti
tioa "thoy want the children in the
schools taught about the terrible effect1
of alcoholic stimulants upon the humni
systr.m. They want moro stringent laws
, o prevent the sale and manufacture of
iquor , " and then , when this enemy hat *
icon overcome by mankind's friend , pro
libition , vro will bo satisfied.
W. A. BLAKEUIV.
Taking it for granted that the facts so
'orth by Mr. Blakoly are as stated , wo
are amazed nt the utter hulplousncs
which ho and the friends of tomporanci
reform exhibit in dealing with this ques
ion. Our laws expressly command tha
.ho county and town board shall no
grant license to any applicant who i
irovon to have violated any of the pro
visions of the license law within twelve
months preceding his application , and
, hey ( cannot legally issue a license fo :
loss than 8500. It is not necessary that
ono hundred persons should remonstrate
Ono man or ono woman may prevent the
issuing of n license upon furnishing prno
before the board that the applicant ha
violated the laws by selling withou
license , Belling to habitual drunkards , o
minors , or keeping a disorderly house ,
Section 25 of the Slocumb law provide
"that in granting licenses or permits such
corporate authorities shall comply with
and bo governed by all the provisions o
this act in the granting of licenses. " Bu
suppose that the board , as in the case a
Madison , does grant license in spite o
the remonstrance , backed by proof , tha' '
establishes the fact that the applicant hai
violated the law in many particulars , doe
the refusal of the board to compl ,
with the law bar all redress ? Does no
the law Rive the aggrieved parties th
privilege to appeal , sot aside and nullif'
the action of tlio town board 1 Section
of the Slocumb law provides that "an
party interested shall have process t
compel the attendance of witnesses ,
whoso testimony shall bo reduced „ to wril
ing.andfilodinthoufllco of application an
if any person feel * himself aggrieved b
the decision in said oiso ho may oppsa
therefrom to the district court , and sai
testimony ahall bo transmittel to sai
district court , and auoh appa l shall b
decided by the judge of smh court upon
said evidence nlono. " Nowr there is not
a shadow of doubt that if thia
comae had boon pursued by the parties
who made remonstrance at filidison the
court would have annulled this action of
the town board and revoked the license.
There is a plain remedy , which could
have been applied successfully providing
the parties that are agitating temperance
reform worojdlsposed to takojthe practical
course plainly pointed out by law. But
in the face of their confessed helplessness
to enforce the laws which wo now have ,
they clamor for more stria-
gent laws. Uow are they
going to enforce them if they
cannot enforce the present laws ? Sup
pose that prohibition was decreed and
the penalty for soiling a drink of whisky
was five years at hard labor in the peni
tentiary , could any man guilty of selling
liquor without license bo indicted by a
Madison county grand jury or convicted
by ono of their petit juries , when their
| juries can hardly bo brought
j to the point of indicting a party for
I selling without license where the
penalty is only a light fine and confinej
cnt in the county jnill Docs not the
tatc of facts related by Mr. Blakoly
iow conclusively that the community in
hich ho lives is not educated up to the
tandnrd of morality that would give
ouutenancn to prohibition nnd moro
ringont laws than wo now have ? Docs
ot common sense dictate to all who do-
ro to eradicate the worst evils of intom-
oranco that they should confine their
( Torts to the enforcomontof existing laws.
Tim explosion of that powder mngn-
no , just south of the city limiU , shows
10 danger of the storing of explosives in
r near the city. Although .tho powder
oiiscs nro outside of the city limits ,
ipy are still too near the city nnd ought
o bo moved to a moro remote nnd inola-
d location.
Surrender to tlio Itallronds.
Chicago Tribune.
"Wo have met the pool railroad nnd
vo are theirs , " is the report which the
XJinmorco committee should make to
do house of ropresonsativos when it preen -
en ta the emasculated Reagan bill for
onsidoration.
All that the railroads have permitted
lie committee to recommend is a com-
nission instead of regulation , and talk
nstead 'f action. The remedy for tlio
Imost universal mismanngemnnt of their
lowers by the railroads is , that three
.ontlcman ahall bo appointed to consider
lie question of pool and publish essays
n this subject at the end of the year.
LS a summary method to chock the most
taring evils pending the publication of
lie essays which nro expected to shako
lie guilty railroad-pooling world to its
ontro it is provided that the three essay-
writing gentlemen may pause long enough
rom their literary labor i to listen to
omplaints , and , if satisfied that a rail-
oad is violating the law , may toll the
( lending corporation to stop it , and if ( it
ufnscs to stop it they nro to give it
ixty days to continue its offenses , and nt
ho end of tha sixty days the parries may
11 go into the United ( States courts and
tay there until they find the way out.
A moro lame and impotent conclusion
ban thia of the hopi s of reform and relief
rom intolerable railroad abuses have not
fton reached oven congress. Is is but n
mockery to toll people who are wronged
> y the huge railroad corporations to go
nto the federal courts , wh'on the bill
crupUously omits , in its emasculated
hape , all special provision for enabling
hem to cope there on oven terms with
heso monopoly antagonists. Victims of
ho railroads can go into court now if
hpy have a strong taste for running tilts
igaiust wind-mills.
The commerce committo have com-
ilotely abandoned the whole1 case of the
jooplo by recommending that the roads
10 permitted to discriminate between
hippors unless their shipments nro made
'under similar circumstances , " This
oavoa the roads free to continue their
work of using their control of the high
ways to crush out the competitors of the
Standard Oil company , the great coal
companies , the lending merchant and
manufacturer in each place they reach ,
[ "ho " small rcGners , coal operators , trades <
men. and manufacturers cannot possibly
ship "undpr similar circumstances" with
heir formidable rivals. They must ship
ess , for the railroads , by their previous
use of the highways have made thorn in
capable of shipping as much as their fa
vored competitors. This bill says to the
rrilro ids : Having made those men poor ,
mu may , bocaueo they are poor go on to
nako thorn still poorer.
The railroad commission which the bill
irovides for is a good enough thing ,
fho Tribune has always been in favor oi
railroad commissions , and welcomes this
ono. But at this late day , when wo see
on every hand the ominous results ol
ailroad discrimination ossilying into the
mrdenod structure of vested wrongs all
over the country , to offer us a commis
sion of a lawyer , n railroad man , and a
politician without power , as thr. only help
ho people are to have from their own
representatives , is a mockery and an
outrage.
It did not need Prof. Bryce , the emi
nent thinker and member of parliament ,
o come from England to tell us that the
: wo greatest dangers threatening this
country are the growth of abnormal for-
; uncs and the excessive power of groai
corporations. Every ono who looks care
fully at the diiftof the social develop
ment of the United States sees in these
the parasitic fungi that will surely over
come the common weal if not cut out by
a sharp surgery The great corporations
that threaten us are tlio railroad corpora
tions and those they have bred ; the great
fortunes are almost without exception
railroad fortunes. Thn power which
those corporations have used to create
abuses they are showing to-day at Wash
ington in forcing congrera to dccla > o
them lawful , and they will show it again
in dictating the choice of the commis
sioners who are to investigate charges
against them , The redistribution of the
wealth and business of the country by
their favor is going on to-day as ever ,
and the people's congress is asked by the
commerce committee to continue this
prerogative in set terms permitting then
to discriminate.
There are lawyers enough in the commerce
morco committeeit' there were any patriots
there , to pass a bill compelling the rail
roads to give at least thirty ( Jays' notici
before increasing rates ; to make all thoii
turilla publio , forbidding any diacrimina
tion between largo and small shippers
oxcupt that which accurately answered to
the actual diffrrenco in expense , if any
between handling largo and smal
amounts ; prohibiting all unjust discrimi
nations on any pretext ; providing penal
ties for improper discriminations am
drawbacks ; and giving an ample mitativo
to the law oflicors of the government to
proceed in behalf of the people to socun
the punishment of the offenders. Thi
illegality of the practices of the railrotd
in making the rich and then making
them richer , and punishing the poor b ;
making them peeler is well established
The difficulty is , that individuals canno
cope with huso corporations in the federal
oral couits , wh ro their righU alone cat
bo enforced. What is wanted is , tha
the national government shall appear ji
the federal courts on the side rf the pee
pie , as it does in thu case of the j roseoii
tion of other criminals against its laws.
A. Historical Clock.
ArbUonlt ( | - ) Dc i. . tch.
Dr. Edward Swivel , of Huntington , | i
Hio powcsjor of an antique pu-co 4
mechanism which has a remarkable hi )
lory. In 1713 tllo ance8tOH of Mi
Swivel left Germany fur America , and
n eng their effect * was an old-fashione l
eiueu that was prized highly by thorn a
un neirloorn , Btforo reaching America ,
the v el on which they had sailed wai
wrecked. A few weeks after the cargO
of the vessel was lecoved by wreckers ,
when
the
chick was tmt to ita propei
owners , who had located in Pennsylvania ,
At this ttmo the Indians had become very
troublesome in the Cumberland
Valley , where the Swivels had
settled , nnd the pcoplo of that region
were kept in constant dread of an int
ending invasion. Finally an attack was
nado on the settlers , many of whom
were killed , a number taken into cap-
ivity nnd their village destroyed.
Among the number taken captive were
he Swivels , who were treated barbar
ously by their dusky captors , but were
inally liberated after months of priva-
ion and suffering. From the date of
his occurrence nothing was hoard of the
> ld clock until about two years afterward ,
vhon a party of Indian ? , who were trod-
ng in the Juniata Vnlloy , where the
Swivel family had subsequently moved ,
ixchnngod the old timepiece for nmrnuni-
.ton . to the very family from which it bad
jcon stolen during the Indian raids in
.ho Cumberland Valley. The old clock
ins descended from ono generation to
mother , until it now docs excellent duty
'or one of its owner's descendants in
Suntingdon.
STATE JOTTINGS.
LIKCOLN.
iV careless traveler , west bound , lust his
> ockttbook , containing $7,000 in bonds , on
ha card. A brakeman found and returned it.
It Is rmnorod in polica circles that Blundoll ,
10 ubjconduiff telephone manager , has boon
tpturcd in Kuglaud. A reward of $250 la
olloroJ for htm ,
Kmlgranti are already pouring Into the
Into , a month In advance of the usual time.
L'bo Arrival of emigrant movoablcH avenges a
train load n day.
Mr. Ltpsis , the tenant on tlio lower floor ol
In opera hou'o building has been induced t < >
move out for S.VO , and tha work of remodel-
' .ng and enlarging the opera house will go on.
The Democrat Is forcing the eoason by don
ning a spring suit of the latest cut , topped
with n nobby ronmn head. The , possibility of
victory next full doubtless cheers The Donio
crat-Ia heart.
A Httlo boy from Hustings who destroyed
.ho sight of ono eye with tin fioin a BIIUO
airing , had his oy ball removed nnd the tin
extracted by Prof. Hart , before the homeo
pathic class of tlio university.
H.ATTSMOUTH.
W. < T. Agnew has purchased the Kobbins
[ aim of100 acrcH , near Ashland , at a cost of
310,000.
B. C. Do Scltn , wluiwas employed for along
, Imo In the U & M. yards , died recently at
DoKalb , 111. His lilo wns Insured In the A.
0. U. W. of I'luttsmouth for S'2,000 , which
roes to hU mother.
yitKMONT.
It Is rumored thatDr. . L. J. Abbott will
mild on cue house on the corner of fifth
and I" , streets.
J. W. Love , of this citv , IH half owner in
.ho Cameron ranch in Colfax county , for which
§ 20,000 was paid recently.
The Brown countv horao thieves confined
tore for some weeks , have been taken back
'or trial. It is likely the regulators will give
.hem a worm grootlng.
An expert bookkeeper has been employed to
n\esato the books of ox-County Clerk
LCerkow , at the [ request of that gentleman ,
1'ho North Bend Flail has charged him with
embezzlement.
THE STATE IN OEKEKAt.
The U. P. telegraph line to Beatrice is about
completed.
Jamaica and Saltlllo are rival towns on rival
railroads in Gugo county , half n milo apart.
The Missouri Pacific section boss at Dun-
jar , Otoo county , has been arrested for rape
and bound over to the next term of the dis
trict court.
The Barton residence at North Platte hoe
purchased by the Union Pacific and will
M turned into a hospital. The consideration
was $15,000.
A syndicate of Brownvillo capitalists have
in\ested In a Moxicin gold mine. F. K. John
son and J. AY , i'ord are now in Mexico super
intending the matter.
A six inch ein of coal thirty feet below the
surface has been discovered on tlio Hoadley
property'in the west end of Brownvillo. It is
of a fair quality. The prospecting is beiiif
[ iiuhed.
Parties who have been prospecting in the
neighborhood of Goose lake , near Cache crook ,
In Holt countv , claim to have struck a vein ol
coal fifteen , feet thick at a distance of fifty
feet below the surface.
Charlie Bovorodjjo is feeding 050 head ol
steers and 701) ) hogs at his place in Suundors
county , about eight mlloi wouth of Fremont ,
uii'l has thia winter purchased 50OCO bushels
of corn.
! jM'si ? Lou Hannah , of York , agoal L'2 , burned
up what was left of a broken heart with a lirge
ilosp nf nxaliiiu acid , a deadly poison. It was
deliberate act to end the heartaches of unre
quited I ( HO.
At Firth , Lancaster county , the other day ,
an angry father mauled the breath out of an
Insuranto agent for making an improper pro
posal to liln Httlo daughter. The town grow
BO hot for him that he packed up his cheek
and left.
A Ponca preacher wont out into the country
to marry a couple. The groom placed a criHj
bill into the parson's hand , and the parson
pushed it into his vest pocket without looking
at It. HU livery was S2.60 , and ho puller1 his
fco out to pay the livery inin. Itwosutlol-
lur bill. Ho hired the hostler to do hit cuss-
ing.
ing.N.
N. D , rarroll , a brakeman on the B. & M. ,
was run ever and killed at Coder Creek quar
rles , near houUvIllo , Tuesday. The car upon
which Farrell was riding parted in the middle ,
throning him under the car , where ha was
drapgod by the brake learns until cru > hed to
( loath. Ilia remains were taken to Mendota ,
111. , for burial.
The Koirnoy Piess Is threatened with star
vation "btc.msn It dared denounce the throe per
cent sharks of Kearney , and Buffalo county ,
iimlbecauBo it hus atticlced the hy | > ociicy oi
thoia whj profess rulfgiou and violaVo laws
Divine and human , In extorting money from
the poor.1' The Press seems to be "Holden1
ita grip pretty well , and the iquealu of the
BhylocUa uro harbingers of victory.
The Pacific ho o company , of Hastings , has
ordered u two-\\hnelod hoio cait of the stan
dard inakn nnd weight , which will bo uttoit at
the next Fireman's tournament , to be held in
Omaha next Juno. The boj s have chlppod ir
a liltli extra ca-h and ordered the axle am
spindles htulfed with comlom > ed whita light
nin ; and concentrated extract of Kansas cy
clonn. It will hn a "get there ynlly'1 go-curt
and don't you forget it. [ Gazette-Journal.
A resident of ClarkBvlllo.in Merrlck county
WAS recently arreoted for stealing coal belong
lug to the railroad company. Ho put in no
dofenqe , except wUng for a jury , admitting
that lie took the coal after bcgninp , and l > or
rowinir , and after burning all avallnblo ftie
around him there being none for gala In the
town , and tha weather being very tovcro. The
jury promptly acquitted him , calling It moll
clous pnuacutlon without cause for actionam
taxed the costs up to the complainant. The
cents amounted to 871 CiThis means , prob
ably , that ti man hai a tight to llvn.
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