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1 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : FRIDAY. APRIL 1 , 1887. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. OF sansonirTio' * : Dillr ( Morning Edition ) including Sunday BE * , Ono Year . . . . . . $10 01 ForSIx Months . t HO For Three Months . 260 The Omaha Hmidny DKE , mailed to any address , Ono Year.- . 500 OMAHA Orncr. No. 91 ANH n < FAntfAM BTttirr. Nrw YORK omen , noou r.S , TntniiNi Hnii.ni.HO. WA8UIXUTUM OrnCI , NO.iUFuUHTIIHTllSTItlET. onnnxsroNDCKCR ! AM communications relating to noirg nnd edi torial matter nhould b KMrosaoU to the EDI- Ton or TII ii BK. AH business letter * and romlttancon should ba addressed to Tin tin Pirin-mniNO Co Mr ANY. OMAHA. Drafts , cheuks and ponlolBco order * to bo made pa/able to the ord ref tbo company. THE BEE POBLISHIHTCOMPJIHY , PROPRIETORS , E. ROSEWATKR , EniTon. TUB DAILY DEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska , I , . . 3.8. County of Douglas. [ Oeo. B. Tzschuck , secretary of The nee Publishing company , does aolcmnly nwrar that the actual circulation of the Daily lice tor the week ending Mar. 25th 1887 , was as follows : Baturdav.Mar.19 14.725 Sundav.Mnr. 20 13.075 Monday , Mnr. 21 14,890 Tuesday. Mar. 23. 14.315 Wednesday , Mar. 23 14.335 Thursday , Mar. 24 14.WO Friday , Mar. S3 .14.505 Averace 14.423 tiKO. U. ' 1 ZSCIIUCK. Subscribed andswornjtobefore me this 20th day of March A. D. , 1887. N. P. FEU , . [ SEAL ! Notary Public. ( ! eo. B. 'I'zschuck , belnc first duly sworn , deposes nnd says that lie is secretary of The Bee Publishing company , that the actual av- craee dnllv circulation of the Dally Bee for the month of March , 18SO , 11,537 copli-s ; for April , 1880,12,101 copies : lor for May , Ibhfl , 12- < : ! 9 copies ; for June. IBM ) , 12,298 copies ; for July , 1880 , 18,314 copies ; for Aueust , 18W5 , 18,404 copies ; for September. 1880 , 13.0.TO copies ; for October , 1880. 12,9s1. ) copies ; for November , 1880 , i ; > ,348 copies ; for December. 18SO. 13,237 copies ; for January. 1887. 10,200 copies ; for February , 1887 , 14,19S copies. QKO. R , TZSOIIUCK. subscribed nnd sworn to before mo this 9th dnyof March , A. I ) . 18S > 7. ISKAL. I N. P. FKIU NolanPublic. . Tun record of the lately adjourned leg islature is a warning to all future gene rations. HASTINGS secures an asylum for the in curable insane. Hastings is to be con gratulated. A mo railroad boom lias been planted for Omaha. It will bloom with the liow- crs of spring. Tin : legislature has closed its mortal existence and over ita bier the people will pray that they may never see its like again. THE only happy phase of the so-called science of evolution is that our ancestors , when monkeys , were not members of the legislature. THE railroads , as betrayed constitu encies will floon enough learn , succeeded in capturing the legislature. There is an end to all things. MR. AGEE in one particular is like \Voolsoy of old. Ho has served his mas ter faithfully and from this time on will sleep in dull cold marble. Mu. BIAINE makes a hurried trip west this month and next month goes to Ire land. Ho will also visit different parts of Europe , remaining abroad about one year. _ THE police ought to pay a little more attention to the prize-fighting element in iu this city. Pugilists arc becoming altogether too numerous and too import ant. They should bo suppressed. Ciiuncn UOWE has one satisfaction for being kept on the outside of the doiuuct legislature. Tom Major was in it and Church is now ready to compare records oven as a senatorial lightning rod. IT is all over at Lincoln. To-day will witness clerks and members carrying away furniture , baskets , stationery , etc. It will bo two years until the solons meet again. Herein is sufficient hope for con gratulations. THE judiciary committee boodlors have passed in their checks literally speak ing. Wo don't know whether John Shody's name appears on the back of each check or the name of some other son of Pharaoh. AT O/ark , Mo. , April 10 , a special term of court * will bo hold to try the Bald- Knobbors for murder and other criminal conspiracies. This is , indeed , a pretty ending to a company of men organized to detect criminals. THE American party is gaining a foot hold m California , and old time politic ians are fearing its strength in the next etato campaign. Knowuothinglsm on the Pacific slope is indeed a new phase iu politics these times. THE Wisconsin legislature has passed a bill which pi ados u liability for injuries Hustainod from a mob , upon the count ; to whicn the mob congregates. Tins was an important measure of which Colonel Calby d id not think. HITSSEL'S vote is recorded In favor ol the anti-gambling bill. This might have boon expected. Kussoll is very cuniuiip as the Honorable Bill Drown remarked talking about the gambling bill boodlors , "Ho always covers his tracks well. " IN Montreal the current rate of intcrcsl has taken a sudden jump from tnroo to Bovon per cent. , while hero in Nebraska it remains steady at from six to fifty poi oent. The chattel mortgage bill , to dc away with greedy usurers did not become a law. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ TUB main object of interest to eastorr readers in the Now York papers for the last wcok has boon accounts of the race between the two yatchs Dauntless ant Coronet between Now York nnd Quoonstown. Out hero in the west i common mud scow on the Missouri rivci between Omaha and Kansas City car make faster time than either of the yatclv causing all this furroro. * THE Honorable Tingle from way uj U on his way to these dear constituents , Wonder if he has any of that f 930 in goli left tingling and jingltug in his poolcol which ho exhibited about the sixth ol March to bis confidential friends.V < happen to kaow that the coin did nol 1 come out the- state treasury and that' ; What make ? us so inquisitive. ; Ilnthnr Lukewarm , Mr. Matt Miller madn a very valuable nnd useful member in the legislature of two years ago. Ho was always on hand ready to oppose every job , fought straight from the shoulder for railway egulation at every stage of the proceed- ngs and voted right on nearly every im- lortant bill. This winter Mr. Miller disappointed many of his warmest admirers.Vhlle keeping up a show of fight and opposing some questionable measures , ho has played fast and loose on various occa sions whore ho was expected to come to the front and strike for the right in his ; isual vigorous and effective manner. With the moat charitable disposition to overlook his seeming indifference and frequent absence , when true blue men wore badly needed on the lloor of Llio house , hh rather lukewarm actions have compelled us to doubt Ills sincerity on the burning issues of the day. His opposition to Senator Sterling's bill Imposing city taxes upon the real estate of railroad companies in towns and cities , is not readily explained away. The bill in question did not in any way affect the present system of state appraisement for county purposes. It simply placed the railroad property in every village and city on the same basis as the property of private individuals and other corpora- lions which arc compelled now to bear the entire expense of city government. If Mr. Miller can show good reason why railroad property should bo practi cally exempt from city taxation , wo shall cheerfully give him a full hearing through the Mnn. An Abortive Pretext. It might have been supposed that the ingenuity of the railroad attorneys , which lias been exerted to its uttermost limits m finding expedients for rendering the interstate commerce law oppressive and obnoxious , would have stopped short of an effort to assail or invade the sovereign rights of the government. The perver sion of the law in sonic respects , and the strained construction put upon it in others , left no doubt in the minds of in telligent people of the purpose of such unwarrantable action , but as very gener ally happens to these who are bent on mischief , the corporations overreached when they proposed to cripple or embar rass the postal service of the country by applying to the employes of the govern ment in that service on the railroads the provision of the act construed to prohibit the granting of free passes except as specified. Not all of the roads upon which the railway mail service extends proposed to deliberately apply the pro vision of the law , agreeably to their con struction of it , to postal clerks , inspectors specters , and other t'mnloycs of the de partment connected with this service , but there was evidently a general under standing that it should be applied , if possible , as one of the methods , and per haps a very potent one , of producing and aggravating : popular hostility to the law. The opinion of the attorney general , who in this matter is on the side of the people against the corporations , has ren dered this interesting .ichomo of the rail roads abortive. His opinion is that the law was created to regulate commerce and not the United States mail service , unit that it rraa not the intnut > . < t iiiu law makers that it should bo construed to in clude the mail service , The postal ser vice is organized in pursuance of an es tablished governmental policy , and its operations "can only bo conducted suc cessfully by uniform and general rules. " In the conduct of this service the United States , "to the exclusion of all others , oxcrciso ono of the functions of govern mental sovereignty. " To apply the inter-state commerce Jaw to the mail service would bo a palpable intorlorenco with that sovereignty , since it would "materially diminish the power and rights heretofore exercised and had nuder the postal laws , and modify a clearly defined policy established as the result of the experience of the whole national life. " Among the instrumentalities necessary to the efficient and proper conduct of tbo service the nostoffioo department is au thorized by law to send oflicors , agents and clerks of the government to perform specified duties , and such persons when in the performance of such duties , or iu pursuance thereof , "going to or return ing from their places of residence , " are unaffected by the provisions of the new law. law.By By way of increasing the disco mfor- turo of the railroads , the postmaster general oral holds that the transportation given postal employes is not free travel , but by tbo law and regulations constitutes part of the sorvioe paid for in mileage com pensation to railroad carriers , and ho instructs such employes who may bo re quired to pay faro when on official busi ness to take a receipt for the same nnd roporc the facts to the department , in order - dor that the amount paid may bo de ducted from the carrier's compensation. In this matter , the importance of which is not to bo measured by the money con sideration involved , the corporations have encountered their first ' experience in defeat of their obvious p'urposo to ren tier the now law unpopular. It may be the forerunner of others. Gratifying Fact * . The opening at the navy department last week of the bids of American steel manufacturers for the plato with which the now cruisers authorized by congress are to bo armored , and for gun forgmgs , disclosed the gratifying fact that there are several plants in this country which can not only produce the required armor and forgmgs equal to any made elsewhere , but at a cost no greater than the govern ment would have to pay for them if made by foreign manufacturers. This is a dis covery which the great majority of the American people , including doubtless the secretary of the navy , were not prepared for , but which they will none the less re ceive with great satisfaction. Further' moro , it drew out the information that the limit of progress has not boon reached , The president of the Bethlehem Steal company of Pennsylvania stated that his company will soon be able to forgo steel shafts for vessels of the largest burden. Thus , it appears that in every depart ment of steel production this country la rapidly overtaking England , fa ml whoc ono rottocts upon what has been accora plishcd in this direction in the past few years the time cannot bo far m the iuturc when the stool manufacturers of the United States will in a position to com pete id all respects with these of Kng < land. There are some other' facts of rcccnl information , relative to the advance o American manufacturing enterprise , not less gratifying than the nbovo. The special consular reports of British repre sentatives , which are published in Great Britain as soon ns received , conclusively show that the competition of American manufactured goods with these of Eng land is meeting with marked success in all quarters of the globo. This has been notable In Brazil nnd Italy , the latter country bclnz ono of the best markets For American hardware. A recent Brit ish consular report from southern Russia shows that a number of articles of Ameri can manufacture are preferred to these of England , for the reason frankly ad mitted by the London Times that they arc very much superior. In Cliih Ameri can hardware has almost driven out the English product. From ether quarters Lho Intelligence conveyed by these Brit ish consuls , .vlilch is of course beyond suspicion , is all favorable as showing the advance .of American manufactured goods In markets hitherto controlled or Wholly monopolized by English goods. It is inevitable that we shall continue to make progress in this respect. American skill and enterprise have by no moans reached the limit of their possibili ties , and the conditions essential to a cheaper and moro perfect production of everything In which wo compete with ether manufacturing nations arc more favorable and ample now than ever be fore. All things point to this country as the world's great workshop of the fu ture. Our No\v I'oHlniiiHtcr. The appointment of Mr. C. V. Gallagher as psstmaster of Omaha is ollicially announced from Washington. The summary removal of Postmaster Coutant may bo in tlio interest of civil service reform , but the choice ot his suc cessor docs not squint in that direction. The Omaha postollico has for some time past been in need of a head competent and vigorous enough to conduct the immense nnd steadily increasing business more cfliciently than it has been admin istered for the past year or two. The of fice has been demoralized ever since the democratic president has occupied the white house. Mr. Coutant's head being liable to comn oft'at any hour the subordinates In the dllico became unmanageable. Our new post master brings to the discharge of his duties good business qualifications and fair executive ability. If ho will devotu his entire energies to the task before him ho may give the patrons of the otlice prompt and efficient service. The choice of Mr. Gallgaiior will , however , not receive popular approba tion. The citizens of Omaha as a bod3r , have reason not to repose confi dence in him as a public man. His con duct as a contractor and politician has bnen , to put it mildly , a source of popu lar distrust In his integrity. It will re main for Postmaster Gallagher to show by his conduct as an officer , charged with the handling of the people's most confidential communications , that the high trust reposed in him is in safe hands. As the heaviest patton of the Omaha postoffico , the BEE is interested only in having the mails ex pedited promptly nnd impartially. If nnr uow iiootinmter nil ! improve the service and introduce business methods into the office , he will hoar no complaint from this quarter. A Strict Enforcement. Many people interested are wondering if the railroad companies will not attempt to construe the inter-state commerce law as bad , take Grant's advice on sucha | law and "enforce it , " in order to make it a dnad letter. The fact that all pools , com binations , agents' commissions and the hundred other privileges extended under the old order of things will now bo en tirely donoaway with , the rates advanced in most instances and rarely lowered , goes to show that there is a determined * effort on the part of cor porato powers to laugh the law out of effect and educate the people to believe t hat it is a hindrance to their own interests. The Philadelphia Record very sensibly says upon this sub ject : The railroad companies are trylne to make the Inter-state commerce law as odious as possible , and they are proceeding In a way that will bo likely to nurt their business. They announce a suspension of the sale of mileage tickets and an advance in their charges for commutation tickets. This action will result in a diminished traffic after a time , and will drive into tlie cities those per sons Who had boon induced throuzh the low rates of the railroad companies to locate at stations along the various linos. In freights also there will be many changes. It has been announced by a prominent wool receiver that the rate of transportation on wool from San Francisco to this city Is to be increased from accent per pound to 5 % cents per pound. The rate on sugar is to be Increased at some point from 19 to S3 cents pur 100 pounds. In the East when navigation shall have opened , there will bo to some extent an abandonment of the policy to "freeze out" the law. In the West , however , say InNobraska , whereoxtortionato railroad tolls have boon the bane of all farmers and shippers existence , the leveling force of competition will have no chance to bring about the long-needed reduction of rates. It is to 1)0 sincerely hoped that the uow departure will bo given a fair chance , change the order of things , and give some relief to the plundered producer. THE trial of John Aronsdorf , the Sioux City brewer , for the murder of the Rev. Mr. Haddock , is already a celebrated case. The testimony for the prosecution so far is very direct and positive , and of a very dramatic character. 'Iho evidence of Lcavitt is corroborated in every par ticular by that of Koschniski , who tells a straightforward story. Ho , like Loav- lit , was an eye-witness , and was bribed to leave Iowa soon after the shootiug. Both Lcavitt and Koschniscki were in the conspiracy to punish Haddock nnd con sequently know every detail of the great r.riruo. The network of evidence that is being woven around the accused is of sucii a nature that his escape from the extreme penalty of the law scorns im possible at this stage of the trial. The earnest manner in which the case is be ing prosecuted repels the wholesale at tacks which have been made upon Sioux City as a refuge for criminals. THE whole country will regard with in terest the decision ot the court in the case of the state ot Pennsylvania against the anthracite coal combination , which Was submitted by the attorney general last weak. The state rested tbo question wholly upon the law , whioh with an en tirely fair and upright court ought to be ample to assure the destruction of this dangerous nnd damaging monopoly. The constitutio of Pennsylvania in most explicit langiikge , a misconstruction of which wotili' ' Ssccm inipo.'slblo , pro- liibits transport ittou companies from en- gaging in mlnit U or manufacturing , nnd in the case of this pool the provision has been clearly violated. The ridiculous plea of the combination attorneys is that the heartless and greedy monopoly lias bo3ti a good thing for the miners , the railroad , and the people generally. Move the case before a court of almost any other state wo'liught with a sense of safety venture1 tot predict a decision favorably to the pcoule , but the record of Pennsylvania courts with respect to the corporations doe ? not warrant the ex pectation that the monopoly will en counter merited defeat. BKAU SLAUciimit : has filed an applica tion with the governor for Iho position of oil inspector. Why not appoint Paul Vanderbum ? He was chief inspector of the oil rooms for the last sixty days. By the way , Brad would make a high-proof oil tester after the most approved stand ard of the Standard Oil company. THE inter-statu commerce law , as in terpreted by trunk linns nnd the Central Traffic association , abolishes all com missions heretofore allowed agents on tickets to the agents in dillercnt parts of the country. This will make a differ ence in their income of from $50 to $500 per month. Commissions have cost the railways annually $ .j.000,000. Accoiiwsa to the Washington Critic , Senator Mandcrson , who has just re turned from riorida , sails for Eurono this month , where ho will remain a short time. Within two years Senator Marnier- son will be at homo carefully nursing an "ex" before his present proud title. CONGRESSMAN McSiiANU's Omaha post master is not a very popular appoint ment. TUB FIKIiD OK I.NDUSTIIY. Less than 10,000 men stiuck timing March. The co-operative store at Demur has been discontinued. The Boston uoikmcn are agitating for eight hours. I'ho St. Louis knights propose to build a hall by 5-ccnl contributions. Ten New i'ork clothing linns have agieed to employ only union men. The Chicago garment cutters have oicran- i/ed a co-operative inauulactuiing clothing company. Fifteen thousand iron and steel employes in Chicago and tlio northwest have had their \vaco3 ; IncieasedO per cent. Hordes of Italians will land along the Atlantic and gulf coasts dining the next sixty days to woik ou ralhoads. Trade organizations are strong runt confi dent , and if labor disputes can bo avoided the year will bo oue ot phenomenal prosper ity. English Iron nialcirig inteiests want the government to spend the equivalent of 830,000,000ln building and equipping 7,514 miles ot railway. There are l.fiio tapestry looms in the coun try , of which 830 are in Phlladephln. iS'ew York state lias SOS. The capacity per year for all is 522,050,000 yards. The reduction In postage from tlaee to two cents has greatly increased the demand lor envelopes , nnd a great many establishments are now working night and day. Thousands of women and girls in Xow York who have heretofore worked in shops are now working at home manufacturers , finding the Item of shop expenses equal to a fair margin of profit , The miners in the east have shared In the Improvements , but In the west more or less 'latent discontent exists. . All through the Ohio Valley the iron , coal , lumber and machinery interests are prospering. American pump-makers are crowding Eng lish-made pumps out the Indian of markets. They are even selling In England , and have forced Encllsh pilces down. The competi tion is both iu hand and horse-power pumps. Manufacturers gennrally are Increasing their output and booking orders for futuie delivery at the same mill or factory price that has been ruling for the past tlnee months. The upward tendency In pi lees has been arrested , but the upward tendency In waires continues. Labor is In steadily Increasing demand throughout the country , immigration will Increase the supply of both skilled and un skilled labor , and no general advance in the rate of machine shop and mill labor is re garded as prob.iblo. All tlirouch tlie New England Iron centres there la great activity. The loom manu facturers have all they can do. Cotton mills are partlculaily active. The car shops are driven to their fullest capacity , and all the New England roads are adding to their roll ing stock , A hosiery mill Is to bo erected at Louis ville. A large cotton-mill addition is being made at Rome. The Southern textile mill capacltv will bo largely increased this sum mer. Within thirty miles of Charlotte , N. C. , twelve cotton factories turn out § 2,000,000 worth of goods annually. Late reports from Western cities show that great activity in building operations will pre vail. Small houses will bo erected in large numbers , which can bo tented and or sold ou reasonable terms. WorKingmen are exhib iting a desire to buy and in many localities every opportunity is olfered them to obtain homes. The textile manufactures have been greatly encouraged by tlio inflow ol orders during the past fnw weeks. Prices are higher and the tone of the market lirmor. Manufacturers aio therefore ordering additional capacity. All the machlneiy making establishments are very busy and no labor troubles exist or are threatened. Tne bull'JIiu trades In all large cities west are better organized this year than last , but but for all that more conservatism pievalls. Tlie number of strikes Is trilling. Stonema sons and bricklayersevince n strong dislike to Idleness during the building season. The plumbers and painters are more Inclined to make trouble. Printers are tlndlng increased employment. MachlutMs lind work moro nbundautand wages' bbtter than they have been tor years. At present there are 4211 looms turning out extra and medium super carpets , ot which 218'J , or about one-hairaro In Philadelphia. The average output is thlity yards per aay. and the maximum yield of the country Is : i7,8'.K > , ooo yards per annum , or about thirteen souare miles. The estimated value Is about & 2.J.OOO.OOO , wholesale Wlce. There are 11U2 Brussels looms in the United States , making titty yards per day on u average , total pio- ductlve capacity of 18WXOOOyaids ) ; value of product , 818,000,000. | ; Cotton goods manufoptnrcrs are not meetIng - Ing with as much success iu establishing an export trade as their mechanical appliances , cheap fuel and cheap cotton call for. Ureat Britain's cotton goods exportatlons last year were 4b50OOO.eoO yards , \vhllo this country's shipments fell below ' . # 0,000,000 yards. China takes six yards of British cotton cloth to one from us ; South America , sixteen ; Central America , seven. The East Indies take nearly ono naif ot the British product. Brazil takes over 2tO,00,000 ! yards trom Ureat Britain , while wo export' less than 8,000,000 yards. Muzzling the Press. CMcaqo Nt\c \ $ . The Nebraska legislature is considering a bill ttio object of whicn Is to muzzle the press of the whole country , as far as Nebraska people are concerned. This seems at the first glance , to bo a rather large undertaking , yet tho'means to be employed are as simple as they .are outrazeous. TneSnellCriminal libel bill , as amended by the house , provides that any editor , reporter , hqad-lluo writer , correspondent , or publisher may bo Indicted and Imprisoned In any county in Nebraska nlierc a libel written or published may hap pen to circulate. > < obraska has abolished grand juries , nnd under this bill , should It become a law , the county attoinny of any county In the state might , for revenue or other unworthy rea oii , lllo nn information for criminal libel In hts court and compel the attendance of , for Instance , Charles A , Dan a and the entire staff of the New York Sun. Wo understand that ( hero Is a probability ot the passage of this measure. In such an event It will be the duty of the governor to veto It. Tlio state of Ncbraskacannot afford to guarantee Its scoundrels against news paper criticism. The nrlghtor Hope. San FrancltM Kzamlntr , Dream not of the days that are passed , With their dvlng ambition and hopes un- tullilled , Of castles you built too airy to last , And objects since found less sublime than you willed. Dn not despond that the life of your choice Seems to you void and tuo worthless to mend , When to despond Is but to rejoice That lite Is a blank from beginning to end. Bright Starot IIopol guide theo onward and ou , Lending her llcht to encourage and cheer , tor what aru the sludows ot days that are 1:0110 : To the hopes that grow brighter with each coming year' ' STATK AM ) THitlUTOUr. Nebraska Hastings hopes for a population of 50- 000 in fifteen years. A full temperance ticket is flourishing in the field at Wymoro. The prohibits are the first in the field in Nebraska City with a "spring" ticket. The quantity of Haddock dished up these luntun days is ample for all pious purposes. Tlio Democrat is willing to concede that JJ.OOO new homes will bo erected in Lincoln this year. Ui'alrico lias been invited to iiarlako of diluted Missouri , vintage ot 1837 , at Phittsmouth on the Gth. Heatric-o is negotiating with Hon. John ritzgernld for the establishment of a packing irjuso at that point. Tliu avurngo daily attendance at ( he Grand Island schools last month was 807 out ot a total enrollment of 1,2 13. The Nebraska City News is improving rapidly in size and quantity of contents. Steam power now sceths Dehind its tin ono. Grand Island must put up the deed for the site of the soldiers' homo to-motrow. nnd the circulation of the hut to-day will be lively and interesting. "The Model Husband" was exhibited in Wymoro : v few nights. It was a Hoosiur product of imaginative proper tions. The original died young. Wash Cunningham , a prominent far mer near Liberty , was found dead in tlio snow near that place lust Monday. Heart disease is supposed to be the cause. Nine and ono-thlrd miles of water mains have boon planted in Hastings. The waterworks will bo in operation in a few weeks , nnd tlie town will then douse all rivals with a shower bath. "The South Omaha stock yards , " says tlio Scliuyler Herald , "tiro proving a grand thing for the stock raisers of this state. A majority of the stock raised in this state is now marketed there. " The Nebraska City board of trade did the neat tiling wlien it presented Mr Boyschlag vyith warranty deeds to lots on which he will erect factories fortho man ufacture of starch , oatmeal and hominy. Mr. IJoysclilag was agreeably surprised at this substantial evidence of local appre ciation. Tlio Columbus Journal is out in a neat and natty spring suit of the latest pat tern. The Journal has puttered along m stall bourgcoiso for a dozen years or moro , and the change to modern toga is especially pleasing , uoth as an evidence of .prosperity and a determination to keep up with the procession. The Rock Island railroad extension in tliis state , known west of tlio Missouri river as the Chicago , Kansas & Nebraska , was completed to Hebron , Tlmyor county , last Monday. The event was celebrated in a thoroughly business stylo. The en terprising people of Hebron took advan tage ot a tender of a free train from the company , loaded it with corn , bunting nnd banners and started for Chicago. Every car hud two banners on each side. On the side of the first car was "Hebron , the Queen City of the Little Blue Val ley ; " " 5.000 Farmers Wanted in Thayer county. " Each side of every car was decorated in a similar manner , and every banner set forth in largo letters and pro claimed to the people all along the line tlio great advantages and wonderful resources of this section of Nebraska. Iowa Items. The state debt amounts to ? 8 13,077.05. Dubuque's floating debt is 833,012.85. Kate Claxton and her orphans are doing tlie state. Marcngo in sinking an artesian well found coal oil at a depth of UGU feet. The total assessed valuation of Boone is $015,000 and the total indebtedness * 2l ,707. A vein of coal , supposed to bo six or seven feet in thickness , was uncovered in a brick yard at Williamsburg. Burlington's weather prophet has broke loose again. Ho is howling in a wilder ness of mild March weather for remnants of lus lost storms , Peter Miller , an unmarried man living on a farm lie owned in Clay county , com mitted suicide Jast Sunday by shooting himself through tlio head. No cause is assigned. Lena DIpplo. of Davennort , has sued Frank Haberda for $5,000 damages for breach of marriage contract , and as a slight recompense for the ridicule heaped upon her for getting the mitten. Mrs. Celia B. Thomas , of What Cheer , becoming weary of the society of Mr. Thomas , lavished stolen all'cctions upon the nice family boarder and finally car ried out the elopement progrimmo by n trip to Nebraska. As usual , society is astonished. The enforcement of the prohibition law in Ues Moines county , according to the Burlington Gazette , is wiping out a large number of the big vineyards in that locality. Only one remains , the Uowein , from which the owner last year sold 4,500 pounds of grapes , nnd made 800 gallons of wine , it is eleven acres in extent. _ Dnicotn. There are twenty-five daily papers in the territory. Natural gas has been found at a depth of 135 feet on the farm of Uoburt McClure in Sully county. Two hundred of the best families of New England are announced to leave for Dakota about Mav 1. A colony of French farmers near Quebec , Canada , are negotiating for land iu Yankton county. Trudell , the man who killed Connolly nt DoaUwood two months ago. has been convicted of manslaughter , tlio penalty for which is from four years to life itu- priaoumont iu the penitentiary. Reliable information from the Belle Foucho country states that the loss in newer or tnrongh cattle may reach 60 per cent , whllo that in old or range cattle will not exceed 15 per cent aud is likely to bo under 10 per cent. The Milwaukee railroad company have 100.000 bushels best quality of scrd wheat which it is loaning out to the farmers along us various lines west of Aberdeen , the terms of the compact being that the farmers pay back to the road , after har vest , ouo and a half bushels for every bushel borrowed. Miuitniin. Prairlo hay is now worth , in Butti' , from $25 to $30 per ton , nnd timothy about i35. Helena ships all her beef from Chicago. And yet almost half n million cattle are owned by residents of that city. The meat contracts for the various military posts in Montana for thu year commencing July 1 will be for an aggre gate of 41)0,000 ) pounds in beef aud mutton. About 4,000 head of cattle wore wint ered on the Crow rer.ervatlon at 50 cents per head. The losses in that viciultv were about 25 per cent natives aud 40 per cent of pilgrim cattle. The Montana Wool Grower estimates that there will be nearly a million shoap sheared in the territory this year , produc ing at li-ast 8,000,000 pounds of wool a million more pounds than the product in ISM. It is not surprising that so many rail roads are aiming to roach Itulte , when ono considers thu immensity of the freight receipts. For last week they footed over $50,000. which is equal to $200,000 per mouth. While making a railroad cut in the Boulder Valley branch of Sam Hnuscr's road , a vein of ore was opened which bv subsequent development Is said to uow show $200,000 worth of pay rock , D. A. Larson owns it. The Utah & Northern is commencing the work of putting in tics and making other cpreparntions for widening the gauge of the road on July 1. An order was issued the other day allowingall sec tion foremen eight men and the number will bo increased as fast as tics and other material can bo secured. The latest estimate of thu loss of stock during the winter is fifty per cent. With sheep and horses the loss is not near so heavy as among the cattle , but still the loss is great among horses and sheep , On soiiio ranges it. is reported that one- half of the horses have died , and that sheep are still dying by thu hundreds. A HKKO'S DEATH. How Henry n. Kumscy Ijnst His Life to Save tlmt of n Child. The following taken from the Fort Wayne ( Ind. ) Gazette relates to the death and burial of the late Henry B. llumsoy , well known in this city : The remains of Henry B. Rumsey.Esq. , arrived froir uuualo by the W abash route earl ; Sunday morning , Marcli 20. They were met at the depot by a hoarse nnd convoyed to the undertaking estab lishment of James C. Peltier , and at a later hour they wore reverently removed to the residence of his fathar-iii-lnw , Hon. Joseph K. Edgerton , No. 87 West Wayne street , where his heart-broken wife nnd child awaited them. Sirs. Uunisey is a delicate lady , and the shock of her husband's tcrnblo death so pros trated her that her condition lias been a source of much alarm to her family. Later the lady was somewhat improved. It may bo stated that the iunornl will bo hold at the Trinity Episcopal church and probably on Wednesday afternoon. Plulo Rumsey csq.aud wife , his parents' ' , loft their homo at Santa Fe , Now Mexico , for Fort Wajno at 2:30 : Sunday morning and , unless they are delayed , may bo ex pected at 7:40 : this evening. If they roach Fort Wayne at that time the funeral will bo on Wednesday afternoon. The pall bearers will bo selected to-day. The story of the death of Lieutenant Commander llumscy as learned by a Ga- zottoj reporter from an authoritative source , diKoloscs a horoiam no noble us to class him with the bravest of men. When ho was awakened at half past tlneo o'clock Friday morning he was oc cupying a room ou the fifth floor , lie drew on his trousers and shoes and rushed down the stairs to the fourth lloor , only to find that farther descent was impossible by the staircaiso , which was n nms of flames. Ho ran to an open window at the end of the hall and looked out. The window was free from the tire and lie had time for deliberation. Below him , nt a dis tance not greater than ten feet , was thereof roof of BunnelPs museum , which was ac cessible by the fire ladders from the street. Escape then was easy nnd ho prepared to drop from the window. At that moment ho heard the cry of a child behind him. Uo had a little ono at homo and a father's love overcame thoughts of personal safety. Ho turned and faced the advancing flames. The child was nol to bo found for several precious minutes. At last ho discovered the little ono in a room. It had become separated from its parents and Hoeing to this apartment had closed the door. Mr. Rumsey so'zed ' the child , thrust it under his night dress nnd ran to the win dow. The whirling flames now barred his course and singed his hair as he dashed blindly on. There was a child to save nnd no did his whole duty. Ho reached the window , throw himself and lus living burden onto the roof below aud both were picked up nnd carried down to the street in the arms of the fireman. Botli were terribly burned. Mr. Rumsoy's injuries wore all above the waist. His pantaloons and shoes protected his limbs and f'ct. : Worse than all he had inhaled the flames in his race for life through tlie hall way. Ho was taken to the Fitch hospital whore ho was given tlio most carotin attention by nurses and -surgeons. The telegraph report errs when it states that ho raved about the child. Ho never lost his reason until ho died and could not bear to consent that a telegram bo sent to his wife because ho feared the shock to nor. He died at 1:30 : Saturday morning. She was the last of the family at homo to learn of his fate and had oven written a letter and addressed it to hnr husband , when her brother , to whom she gave it for mailing , know that ho was dead but could not bring himself to toll her. All the personal oflccls of Mr. Rumsey that wore saved was his watch , which lie had thrust in his trousers' pocket. Ho leaves two children , a son , who is past midshipman in the United States navy and is now at tlio Island of Mtulurln on his first cruise , and a daughter of ten years. FOR APRIL. SUBJECTS : CONTRIBUTORS ; Abraham Lincoln , John C. fticolay anil cioKurljr DJiiKlaj Debutes Col. John Hay. cio Mrs , van Rensselner. Canterbury Cathedral. Joel Chandler Harris. "Little Compton. " ( "uncie lleimin" ' ) Homliem w r lory. Edward Eggleston. Colonial Churches. Prof.W.D. Whitney. The Veda. Mark Twain. " She is as "English " General D. H. Hill. TauQlt" . Ed * aril Atkinson. Chickamauga.\ \ Frank R. Stoclttr.n , . Margin ot Profits. " OeorgeParsonLathrop. "The Hundredth Man" Hawthorne Portraits. Oudler Buck , antl Thomas International Music , others. Copy-Right Wftr-iiiytt The Reserve at Chickamnuga , Gen. J. S. rul- lerton. Editorials on "Lincoln and Lowell , " ' The Injustice of Soclaliuu , " etc ; Poems ; Hrlc-a-brac , etc. $4.00 a year. 35 c nt number. Sold ev ery where. THE CENTUHV CO , , N. Y. A CAB ) . TO THK AVith tlio approach ! spring and the increased interest man ifested in real estate ( matters , I am more than evoriconsnlb- cd by intending purcli\sora \ as to favorable opportunities for investment , and to all such would say : When putting any Proper ty on the market , and advor * tising it as desirable , I invariably confined myself tc ! a plain unvarnished statement of facts , never indulging iu vague promises" for the future , and the result in every case has been that the expectations of purchasers wore mo < motfaf than realized. I can refer wit11 ! pleasure to Albright's Annex and Baker Place , as sample il lustrations. Lots in the "Annex" have quadrupled in value and are still advancing , while a street car line is already building 81 past Baker Place , adding hun dreds of dollars to the value of every lot. Albright's Choice was se lected by me with the greatest care after a thorough study and with the full knowledge of its value , and I can consci entiously say to those seeking a safe and profitable invest * ment that Albright's Choice offers chances not excelled in this market for a sure thing. Early investors have already reaped large profits in CASH , and with the many important improvements contemplated , some of which are now under way , every lot in this splen did addition will prove a bo nama to first buyers. Further information , plata and prices , will bo cheerfully furnished. Buggies ready at all times to show property. Respectfully , W , G , ALBRIGHT SOLE OWNER , 218 S. 15th Street. Branoh ollice at South Oma ha. N.if. . PropwTty ( or fial parts of the city