Nebraska Newspapers

    THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ; ITUBBDAft tJGUST 23. 1887 ,
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" 'TWAS the catl" 'Twns Scavoy
That's the usual outcome of every sensa
tional report about police blunders whiot
finds Us way into the council combine
organs.
A MUUNT-'COKK minstrel mnn suicided
ftt Kookuk yesterday through the agonoi
6 < chloroform. The propriety of hii
choice of route is ns unquestioned a !
that the executioner should chop off hii
own head , the soldier put n gun she
through his heart and the lawyer tall
hlnisolf to death.
Tin : entries in the speed trials , whicl
naturally form the central feature of the
coming fair and exhibition were closet
yesterday. Just as a spur to closer scru
tiny , the board of control is warnoi
ngainst ringers and outlaws who ooca
flionnlly campaign tlio western turf
Memories of Lothalro still survive and t
Jocky trick of any kind can mar the bos
devised event.
MAUUICK HOSKNFELDT , the Chlcag <
stock and grain broker who was caugh
in the'Juno wheat crash on tlio Chicag <
board , just now feels the rebuke of hi
Into distinguished father. A codicil ii
the old man's will , inserted during tin
brief interval between tlio breaking of tin
corner and his death , devises to the wife
of Maurice the share of the hnndsomi
legacy naturally falling to that son.
THE indignation oyoked from thi
friends of liburty under all skies save
British , by the proscription of th
National league of Ireland , swells to thi
expression of some stirring sentiment
from the distinguished Irish citizens c
Lincoln. The resolutions passed in tin
meeting of the branch of the Lan <
league m that city , ns given in thi
morning's UEK , appeal for endorsomen
to the spirit of our own free institutions
TUB brutal and deliberate murder o
the Newer brothers near Friend , yester
day , puts another chapter to the serial o
crime which Nebraska has been issuinj
in rather rapid installments of late. 1
Would sooiu that neither the life cell , th
execution by law and the swift rctnbu
live judgments of 'Squire I < ynch , whicl
liavo steadily mot each outrage , ofl'ur bu
little dismay to the robber , rapist and as
Bussin.
A SCOTCHMAN recently arrived in Nov
York under contract to work for a Ken
lucky farmer. The collector sent hire
back , as his landing would bo in violatioi
of the foreign contract labor law , and thi
United States circuit court sustained hint
In this decision. Poor people are son
bark because they may bcoomo public
charges , and when they have arranged
lor work they have disqualified them
lolves for lauding. It will soon bo casiei
[ or a cnmol to pass through tlio eye of ;
nondlo than for n poor man to enter th
territory of the United States.
AN elevator full in New York las
week , killing ono person , fatully injurin
another : and more or less seriously main :
ing eleven other vfctims. This disasto
was brought about by an attempt to sav <
the dill'eronco in expense between a cost
iron and wrought-irpu cog whool. Suol
parsimony is criminal , and the proprietors
tors should bo prosecuted. The clovato
is coining moro and more into gonem
USD ana it should bo constructed in sue
n mannar that a person may not feel u
though ho were taking his life In h
bands every time ho avails himself of oni
So many improvements have boon mad
in elevators recently that if they are mad
of the best material and properly mannc
there need bo little risk of life in usin
them. _ _ _ _ „ _ _ _ _ _
THE president of Venezuela , Guzma
Blanco , now stopping in Now York , sa ]
Great Britain has become very nggrci
ive in acquiring territory in his ropubll
and south of the Orinoco , lie is aui
prised that the proas of this country h ;
not made note of thta aggrcssivonos
Venezuela has suspended relations wit
England in .consequence and hai a |
pcaloil to the United States to act as a
bitrator for tbo South American countr ,
The English government has denied th
right of arbitration , and the republic pr
poses to appeal to arms. A few the
sand soldiers have boon raised to drh
the usurpers from the territory. Th
country ought to take a stand la favor <
the sister republic , for the matter is
' considerable import 16 the United Stati
both directly aud indirectly.-
The RlghtR of tbo Farther. ,
Addressing the farmora at the inter
state convention rcccnlyhcld nt Atlanta ,
Senator Colqultt said : "Could you bo
allowed to sell where you could cot the
best price and buy where you could buy
cheapest , your incomes , lot thorn bo
great or small , would bo enhanced perhaps -
haps thirty-thrco and onethird'per cont.1'
Tlio proposition applies as well to the
farmers of the west as to those of tlio
south. The policy which operates to the
detriment of the producers from the neil
in ono section , is in a dogrco , If not
equally , to the disadvantage of produc
ers in all sections. The farmora of the
hole country nro .compelled to sell in
ho cheapest market and buy in the dear *
st. The price of their products is cs-
ablishod In a foreign market , subject to
he frco competition of the similar
roducts of other countries , but when
hey come to buy the implements neccs-
mry to sow and harvest their crops , or
ny necessity not of their own produc
tion , they find that it has been protected
gainst competition aud they must pay n
lounty on it. Their wheat and corn
must take thn chances of supply and de
mand with the wheat and corn of other
ountncs , but the manufacturers of
'lows ' and harrows , mowers and reapers ,
nd all the other implements of the farm ,
re subject to no such conditions , but
re in a position to tnako every year's
roductlon yield n profit. So it is with
ivcrythlng oluo thn American farmer has
buy. Senator Dawns , of Mnssa-
husetts , in a speech some tnnn ago which
as been extensively commented upon ,
deplored the inadequacy of protection in
vorstcd goods , The duty on goods cithot
mtinlly made of worsted or wholly made
f that material is 83.18 per emit and
i3.15 per cent , and this industry employs
, majority of women aud children in
rdor to secure cheap labor. Does it
lOOd moro protection , in order that the
armor shall have to pay an increased
> rico on the garments ho must buy for
imsolf and family ?
It is said that a powerful effort is being
made through Indian merchants in Eng-
and to secure reductions in railway
'reights in India in order to compete
more effectually with American wheat.
This is but one of numerous facts whicl
how that the ether grain-producing
lountrics of the world are making every
possible effort to divide the trade
now enjoyed by the American
'armor ' , not , however , as nt
ntolllgont and fair-minded po
itie.il economist has recently said
greatly to their profit. The gram ? rowoi
f the United States may see his market ;
narrawing and fool the growing prcssun
t a competition from India , Russia , Tur
coy , Egypt and South Amnrlca , but he
has no alternative but to grin nnd bear it
n his patient and trustful way ho wll
lontinun on sowing and reaping as the
leasons come and go , hoping for a bottoi
ttxto of things. Meanwhile , the protect
cd manufacturer will soil him all that lu
: an afford to buy and take their goncrou :
profits without a qualm , willing to in
crease them by adding to the duties , a ;
Senator D.IWOS would do in the case o
worsted goods. The fault , however , i :
argcly with the farmers thomsolvns
They have it in their power to apply tin
remedy , but they have submittot
so long to the control of theories which
lowevcr justifiable In th6 past , are m
ongcr applicable , that they seam unable
now to free themselves of the control ,
They cannot misapprehend the triu
character of the situation or the meaning
of the facts of evory-day experience , and
hat they do not rnvolt against a system
.vliich they must know to bo an oppros
siou can only bo explained on the scon
of that strom ; conservatism which i
characteristic of the farming element
and is repelled by anything which seems
to bo reactionary. But whatever the
nlluonco that holds them to the sup
port of a policy which continuall :
robs thorn , and is every year increasing
their disadvantages , it cannot bo mucl
onger maintained. The oppression i
becoming so heavy , the yoke so galling
that before long there will bo heard a do
niand for relief which will startle tin
tariff monopolists from their dream e
security and force them from a shoo
sense of their own safety to make a fai
concession for lessoning the burden o
taxation they have imposed on
ttiral industry.
The Nicaragua Routo.
The fact that the company which pro
poses the construction of the Nicaragu
canal lias deposited the pledge of gooi
faith , $100,000 , demanded by the Nicar
aguan government , must bo regarded a
an expression of confidence inthat enterprise
terpriso and an assurance of business in
tontion-that give tho-projoct a claim t
regard as something very likely to b
rciili/.ed. The sohomo has been in con
tcmplation a number of years , and th
question of its feasibility has receive
the most careful consideration from so
entitle men , chiolly ofllcors of the Unitoi
Stutos navy. Very little doubt is no <
entertained that the canal can bo sue
cossfully constructed at n cost not to o
ccotl $75,000,000 and in a period of fror
live to six years.
The project is purely a privat
enterprise , aud does not seek
subsidy from this or any ether govern
mout. The company , which is cntirol
American , last May obtained from t !
the government of Nicaragua liberal coi
cessions , which are to continue for tw
hundred years. This corporation wi
look to private capital wholly for carrj
ing out tbo enterprise , boliovine that
is not only entirely practicable , bt
would certainly become immensely pr <
titable. The commercial advantages o :
pectod from the completion of this worl
if they should bo realized , are of tbo mo
important character. Ono of these , it
thought , would bo the establishment of
great lumber trade between Alaska an
the Atlantic. It would doubtless effect
great increase of the guano and nltra
trade with the west coast of Soul
America. Germany would use tl
canal for her trade with thu Soul
soa. Spain for commerce wl
the Phllipino islands , France with Toi
quin ana Utahito , Holland with Jav
and Russia with Eastern Siberia. Mm
of the English trade with China , Japai
Australia aud Now Zealand would ui
this line of travel. Most of the trad
which goes in sailing ships betwee
Europe and the cast would use the no
routo. It would , in short , iu the opinic
of the projectors , open up a great avem
for commerce for which there is a gro
and urgent demand , and from which tl
United States would secure almost it
measurable benefits.
The ultimate completion of the P
nama canal is still regarded ! by capable
scientific mou but ovcu If that bo accom
plished , the enterprise h likely never to
bo a profitable one. U will bo
burdened with an enormous debt ,
the Interest of which will call
for all the possible earnings and
which will compel the exaction of extremely -
tromoly heavy tolls , Tills , with the un
favorable climatic conditions , which do
not exist on the Nicaragua route , will
tend to keep dcrwn the business of the
Panama canal , and with the former ns n
rival the latter would perhaps never pay ,
and certainly not for generations. The
fact that tlio Nicaragua project is purely
an Anierlr.au enterprise , to bo built by
the capital nnd under the management
of Americans particularly commends it
to the favorable regard of the people of
this country , and now * that the pro
jectors nro pushing the matter in earnest
aud have given an ampb plcdgo of their
faith in its success , it will bo no surprise
if it shall speedily take practical form
nnd become a consummated fact within
the time proscribed for its construction ,
IMnn For Electoral lie form.
Mr. Allen Thorndiko Rice , editor of the
North American Review , has drawn up a
plan for the prevention of bribery at
elections. Ills method contemplates
open nominations to ofilco which will do
uway with primaries. This is no doubt a
move in the right direction , but Mr.
Rico's system , in detail , Is cumbersome
and would bo found to bo imnracticablo.
Iho plan is substantially ns follows :
T ho registration oflieurs are to receive
and print live days before the registra
tion the names of all the eligible persons
who may be recommended by a certain
number of voters ns fitted for the oilices
to bo filled at the ensuing
election. When a citizen regis
ters ho will bo requested to designate
such of these persons as ho may
wish to bo put In nomination , and any
person thus designated by one-tenth o !
thn voters registered at the' last election
shall bo placed on the list of candidates ,
nnd the expanses of election iiro to be
borne by the county. The registration
officers will prepare the ballots contain
ing the names of the candidates , there
being as many different ballots as there
are offices , and the names of all candi
dates for the same olllcc to bo upon one
ballot , oanh ballot to bo attached to n
stub or counterfeit , which must correspond
spend with a book of ballots of the same
form to bo given to the inspectors on the
morning of election. At the election the
voter takes his ballots aud marks off from
each the candidates for whom he doe :
not wish to vote , compartments IE
the polling place being provided
for this purpose. Before the ballol
is delivered to the elector hi :
number , name , and description must IK
called , a mark must bo put on tlio regis
tration list to show ho has received the
ballot , and it must bo stamped by thi
chairman of the board of inspectors ; and
ufter thu canvass of the votes the stubs ol
the ballot-books , together with all de
faced or mutilated ballots , all unused
ballots , and the stamp , must bo filled in
the same manner and nt tlio same time ns
the poll list or registry list is required tc
bo tiled.
Mr. Rice says : "This plan would givt
any stated uumbor of citizens the legal
power to secure the nomination of nil
honest and competent candidate in then
district or ward wlthoutoncouutoriug the
uoisy perils of the primaries. "
TIIEKE appears to bo nnonllict between
th&wino-growcrs of California and Ohio
and if wo may judge from the remarks o ;
a San Francisco contemporary it is no' '
likely to bo easily settled. From thii
one-sided statement it seems that Call
fornin growers insist on mnkiug onli
pure wines , whllo those of Ohio nre no
averse to making n spurious article am
really do so. The evident opinion of oui
contemporary is that in any event goot
wine cannot bo mmlo from thu Oliit
grape , and it does not hesitate to sny tha
the wine industry there is not a genuini
industry. Therefore , it Biakcs no refer
vation in inviting nnd welcoming th <
conflict which is expected to manifest it
self in full vigor when Oongressmar
Romics. of Ohio , who represents tin
chief wine-growing section , shnl
introduce his pure-wine bill in th
next congress. Lot us make tin
issue , " says the San Frpncisco journal
"nnd fiirht it out. Lot us show the ens
where wo stand nnd where Ohio stands
Lot us force the Oliioans into thn groun <
they seem to want. It will do Cnlifornii
no harm to bo advertised as ptrainin *
every nerve to supply the east with pun
wine , while persons in Ohio are exertim
themselves to maintain the manufnctun
of n mixture of grnpo juice nnd con
spirits to bo sold as winu. " This is ;
matter which may have an interest enl
for wine-drinkers , but wo desire to sa1
that until Ohio is heard from the verdic
must bo favorable to California. A win
that can evoke such rhetoric as the nbov
nnd much more likoit has very decide
merit , whether it bo purer than som
ether wine , and particularly the Ohi
vintage , or not.
E inspection of oil has disclosed th
fact th'at no petroleum oil was being of
fercd in the markets of Nebraska fo
illuminating purooses below the re
quired tests. All such oil inspected dm
ing July was passed. Thu gasoline in
spected was condemned for lighting
There is good reason to believe that th
enactment of the law was immediate !
effective , in advance of the nppointmen
of inspectors , m substituting a good an
safe oil for the inferior article , a gres
dual of which unquestionably was sol
before the law was passed. If curotu
and honest inspection is maintained th
people of Nebraska who usa oil fo
illuminating purposes may rest assure
of hereafter getting a reliable article.
Tin : city treasury is running low. Th
council should lop off all supernumoi
nries if it desires to retain funds enoug
for legitimate municipal expense !
There is no reason why the city shoul
pay $4CO per month for three duput
city treasurers whoa the charter pr <
Tides only for ono deputy. There is n
excuse for squandering money on o :
pensive deputy city clerks , or any othe
deputies or clerks where the principal
are paid to do the work and oan do it !
disposed to devote thnlr time to thei
ofllolal dutiei. The city of Omaha is nt
running a pension bureau , nor an invall
rotroat.
As is usual in such cases , importan
booJcs of account , used by the luloa
Napoleon of fiuonco , are musing : ' Th
withholding of such books when de
manded by the proper authorities is con-
cmpt of court , nnl [ Houry S. Ives may
uddonly find himself In jail niter all.
mportant booTcs wore reported missing
n the recent IJnlon Pacific investigation
also , but Stanford ! lluntington , Crocker
iVCo. . did not sccrii to bo takou to task
n regard to th'o matter as they should
lave boon. In these attempts to bring
hlovcs on a largo scale to justice , moro
horoughncs3 ,1s , .neccessary , It looks
nero as though the proceedings against
hem is morolyU snare to pacify the pub
ic which is beginning to clamor for
moro equality in the administration of
ustlco , without nny real desire to bring
about decided results.
THE G. A. R. Glee Ulub Is rehearsing
'or n worthy rendition of "Marching
L'hrough Georgia" on the occasion of the
grand reunion shortly to bo held here. A
lappy inspiration prompts this step , for
of all the war songs of the nation none
so vividly carries the martial spirit in
melody and words. It is a singular cir
cumstance that beyond a few catch
words of the refrain the words of this
ringing battle hymn , "ono of the surely
> ermancnt musical legacies of the war , "
arc almost if not entirely unknown to the
people. An air so closely linked with
.he proudest achievements of our arms
should bo Wedded to words of equally
thrllliuir measure and put into the brain
nnd heart of every patriot son and
daughter who can lift a volco in loyal
song.
A CLAIM is now pending before the
council for the swooping of Doilce street
in July. The board of public works has
rejected this claim bocnuso the work was
never done , and could not have been
done on account of the obstruction by the
cabin rend of that street. But the couti'
cil committee has over-ruled the boaro
and reported in favor of allowing this
bid. The question is , ' what use is there
for tflc board of public works , nnd whj
should the city pay for sweeping streets
that have nuvor been swept any more
Minn they should pay for paving street !
that have not been pnvod.
THE county commissioners will be
obliged to make the division of the conn
ty into live commissioner districts within
n week. This apportionment is of tin
utmost importance to the interests ; of tin
county , nnd upon it hinges very largely
the character and make-up of the county
government.
Miss POITLV.TON'S realistic sketch o !
Jefferson square1 its : i park presents gooi
argument for tlie improvement of thn
square by the Council , but no logica
'
reasons nro prevj'qntod in support of th <
proposition thutiU public library then
would make the iqunro a moro ngreeabh
and sightly resorf.
A CHEAT deal'of plotting nnd under
hand scheming is already going on ii
political circles i for the nominations tt
the district bt'hch. Any man who wil
descend to the level of the pot-housi
politician in his anxiety to become :
judge , is utterly unlit for the place.
JOHN M. TimiisioN will doubtless b ;
gratified to learn that the Pacific r.ulr.oai .
commission bus nbout concluded its in
vustigation , nnd has no disposition to re
turn to Omaha to into.rvlow him nboui
oil rooms nnd legislative boodle.
the months of Mny , Juno nnc
July the city street commissioner gaiif
has drawn out of the trensury $8,344.88
The question is , what has the city toshov
in the way of improvements for thi
enormous sum ?
I'RO.HINHNT PERSONS
Stanley has more lives and deaths than i
cat.
cat.Mr.
Mr. Parnell has lapsed from health ngaii
and isaillntr.
Fifty members of the Marsh family met li
Hartford , Conn. , the other day.
. . Newman "Grunt's " I
Itov. J. P. , paison ,
the guest of Senator Stanford , in tinn Tran
cltco.
cltco.Wall
Wall sticut has not yet decided what th <
effect of tht > birth ot Jay Gould's Krnudsoi
\\ill have upon the m.ukct.
The widow of Louis Spohr , the composer
Is still living In Cassel. She recently celebrated
brated her eightieth birthday.
( iouerul Furron , HoulanKot's successor a
French minister ot war , is n tall , fino-loolcin :
man , with gray hair and mustache.
General of the Army Sheridan has gone t
Newport to join his family , and will not ic
turn to Washington before September.
lied Shirt Is disgusted with the Brills !
parliament After his viblt to the bald
headed liouso of commons he remarked thn
there was not a "scalp" to be soon from th
gallery.
And now It Is said that Senator Kiddie
bcrccr wants to light a duel with Judge Now
man. Illddlrborger seems to bo a good ( let
moie fitted by nature for breaklntr laws thai
for making them.
Ex-Governor itoadlcy , of Ohio , ts going t
build a 340,000 icsldenco In New York. II
has recovered quickly from his alleged bank
ruptcy through the operations of Archblshoi
1'iirccll's assignee.
General Kosser , having demolished th
general of our armies , now inoves upon th
national treasury , t\ud proposes to bankrup
the general govern awnt by using its assests I
payment of the debt'Of ' Virginia.
Pobedouncznw 'Is ' ' the uncompromlsln ;
name of the man Who will probably succor
the Into Killlor KatkJjr as the leader of th
Russian Panslavlsts. *
A sun of the actress Rachel , M. Felix , lieu
tenant In the French nrmy , died recently I
the interior of Africa , lie distlugulshe
himself by his bravery In the war of 1870.
A monument of beautiful design will see :
bo placed over the grave of Chester A
Arthur. Besides this he will have a menu
meet in Now York city , erected by volun
tary subsrclptlons fo { ho amount of 530,000.
Colonel Thomas E. Row , commander a
Fort Court to , Tex. , to at Cape May. Colon <
Rose Is the man who'originated the famou
escape from Llbby'prVson whereby forty-nlti
union soldiers retained their freedom on th
night of February 9,1804.
KOJCOO Conkllng U making a reputation a
a swimmer. Ha U very fond ot the iport an
his specialty la floating , lie can float fe
hours at a time. TQelung development h
has obtained as an orator stands him In goo
stead when he enters tbo water.
Colorow , the Ute chief , who Is making tli
disturbance In Colorado , Is an enormous ol
savage welehln ; 800 pounds. lie Is what i
kuown ID the base tall slang as "a kicker.
He has never been satlsQed with the govern
moot , aud has been more or less rebellious a
bis life ,
Mrs ; Cleveland has grown very brown i
Marlon. Her complexion Is one which H In
proved by a coal of tan , and she now look
like * Spanish beauty. The name "Uonn
Frances" which was Riven her by her friends
at Wells collcRO has followed her to her pres
ent abiding plnce. nnn oven the countryfolks
nbout Marlon call her by that romantic
tille.
Onrljong Armed Politicians ,
Philadelphia TfmM.
Wo havn't any emperors In this country to
embrace when they meet , but wo have plenty
ot politicians wno will embrace anything
from a department clerkship to a cabinet
ofllco.
Lninnr at * nn Anti-Poverty Society.
The rate at which Secretary Lamnr is re
storing railway lands to the public domain
; lvcs rise to the suspicion that ho has organ
ized himself Into a very effective null-poverty-
society , _
A Lesson From llussln.
A station Is to bo established in St. Peters
burg for the examination of food materials
ottered for sale In the city , It will be under
the charge of scientists appointed by the
government.
A Mllltnrr Question ,
Chicago Herald.
Isn't it a little severe on the secretary of
war for the treasury department to dcclilo
that the horses which draw him do not come
under the head of ' 'army transportallonV" If
the secretary Is not the army , who' Is ?
This Hns n Familiar Sound.
StocMnn Matt.
When nu eastern man arrives nt Los Augt'lcs
and deposits his wealth In ono of the local
banks , the bank president cl.ips on his plug
hat and frantically hunts up a real estate
spectilntor with the Information : "There's n
now sucker In town. Got S2. > ,000 Go for
him I"
Did Not Socin In Feel itt Homo.
llouiftioM Jmti Mill.
John Stevens , n frltiml ot ours , attended a
spiritual seance last week , nnd was In con-
veisatlou with the aulrlt ot a voting laity.
After borne talk he asked her where she was.
Shu said , "in hca\on. " Ho asked her how
she liked It. She said : "Pretty well ; but it
Isn't Now York.
\VnttlnR.
Sam T. Clover.
Serene I hold my hand and wait ,
Nor care tor bluff , nor full , nor pat ,
linvo no morn'gainst luck nor fate ,
For , lol the stakes will settle that.
I stav my haste , I feign my delay
I inward quake yet show no siirn ;
A diamond soiiminco smiles my way ,
And tells mu that tlio pot is mine.
Slnco yesternight till tearly day.
This little game I've bucked In vain-
Anil wntchud tin ; dollars eo astray
With sinking heart and aching brain.
What matter if the cash hns flown ?
I wait with joy the coming hot ;
M } ' hand shall reap what has boon sown ,
Aud make mo even with them you
So let them draw ; I little care
For nidilvthish or tempting straight ;
And thotmh I cannot show a pair ,
All blull'b will 1 accommodate.
With each now bet my spirit roars
Tim ending plilnly 1 forseo ;
Notllitsh , nor lull , nor oven ' 'fours"
Can take the put away from mo.
Damu Fortune long Ins proved unkind ,
But now at lust she deigns to smile ,
And In mv bosom sits enshrined ,
Fen , lol 1 gather in the pile. "
STATK AM ) TI3IUUTOIIY.
Fnditott ! is the latest Nebraska town tc
announce the discovery of coal.
Harvard anil Clay Center can saj
"hullo" to uauh oilier over the tele
phone.
Grand Island citizens go thirsty on
Sunday now , the saloons having been
closed on that day.
Beatrice was very quiet last week ,
there not being a Ringfu cn.so to bo dis
posed of in police court.
Mrs. llob'orts , of Nordon , foil down a
llight of stops the other day nntl cnmc
very near climbing the coltiun stairs.
Mrs. Frederick llnnzo , of Fairfield , has
left her licgo lord , but carries a bullet in
ono of her legs as a last token of regard
from her Into consort.
Iladnr , Pierce county , hns lost its post-
oflico. The poitmnstor removed from
town the other day nnd nobody else
wants the job.
The wife of Peter Howard , living neni
Doniphau. has bean bunt to the insane
asylum. Her mnlady was caused bj
being frightened by a severe storm.
Some twontv citizens of Endicott have
signed articles of incorporation of the
Kndieott Milling nsisocintion , nnd a Hour'
ing null will bo built at that place in the
near future.
A human suoloton wns discovered six
foot under ground by workmen in n stone
quarry near Culbortson. The spinnl
column was curiously incased in rock
and thoroughly putiiliud.
Sid Flyto , a Hitchcock county horse
thiet , escaped ftom jail at Culburtson will ;
the aid of a friend , and is now roaming
nt large , with no 'particular cllbrt buinp
mndo to recapture him.
The Chuyenno county commissioners
have boon asked to submit a proposition
to the peoplu nt the coming election tr
vote $45,001) ) in bonds for the purpose ol
building three bridges across the North
Platte river.
Hitchcock county is so lenient with
horse thieves that the Stratton Gazette
advises young men out of employment tc
enter the business , giving as substantial
reasons that "tho profits are large , the
work light , and the risk nothing aftei
the officials get after you. "
A young man named Bogps , while
driving a team near Beatrice Saturday ,
wns struck by lightning nnd rendered in' '
sensible. The electricity tickled the
horses also nnd they ran away , but the
young mnn recovered in time to stop
thorn buforo nny damage wns dono.
H ward's hose company has been or
ilored not to use nny moro water from
the railroad tank. The boys got a little
funny thu ether d'ty and turned the hose
on a passing passenger tram to cool of
the dusty travelers. This action .caused
n coolness on the part of the rail rout ;
company and the above order was the
result.
The Sidney Telegraph reports the town
full of cowboys Inst week and says
"Thursday morning ouo of them made
an olit-fitshioncd display of getting full
nnd running through the streets on horse
back tiring his revolver. That's FO old a
chestnut wo supposed the boys had
learned better and turned such work oyui
to the 'shavetails. ' ' "
Iowa.
Iowa has 8,000 miles of railroad that
cost over $250,000,000.
The next annual session of the grand
lougo of Good Templars will bo held m
Hampton.
Allamakoo county Is considerably excited -
cited over the discovery of iron Mid the
preliminaries for the development of the
minus.
At the competitive examination in Con
pressman Holmes' dUtrict Hay Burgess ,
of Boone , carried oft' the honors and re
ceived the appointment.
Geo. Trout , the murderer of Ed. Hatch ,
has fallen away fifteen pounds since con.
lined in tbo Anamosa penitentiary. He
does no work , his health being very poor ,
and It is thought that ho will not live t
great while.
E. D. Fenn , the democratic postmivBtci
at Nevada , who is also a merchant , tws
failed. It is said to bu a very bad failure
the liabilities being f9,000 nnd the asset *
very small. Giving too much attention
to politics is said to bo the cau&u.
Morrison ; prisoner at Cherokee ,
broke iall Wednesday night by knocking ;
the jailor down with a chair. Ho stole a
horse from a farmer with which to got
out of that region , The farmer , however ,
gave chase , nnd with the sheriff cap
tured the culprit.
Eliza Toby Dodge , of Mineral Point ,
nn old colored woman who came to Iowa
county with Governor Dotlgo , the first
torrltorlnl governor of Wisconsin , died in
the Iowa county poorhotiso hoar Dodge-
villo , aged seventy-eight yours. She was
born a slave , nnd took with her to the
grave scars made by lashes in the bar
barous days of slavery iu the south. /
Dnkotn.
Work will soon bo begun on the court
house at Aberdeen.
Yankton is arranging for a lecture
course for next winter.
Governor Mollotto thinks division will
carry oven In north Dakota ,
The corner stone of the territorial nor-
nml school at Spenrllsh , was laid last
Friday.
The Aberdeen , Bismarck & Northwest
ern has made n proposition to the citi
zens of Watertown to build their line in
there. '
The Dondwood authorities raided
Chinatown Friday nnd captured liftcen
celestial keepers anil inmates of opium
joints. *
Thu Milwaukee company has now ttos
and stool rails scattered along its line
from Vermillion to Ynukton. It will Im
prove its road.
Mitchull has sent a committee to inter-
vluw the Manitoba and Illinois Contrnl
railwny companies rolntivo to building
their lines into that city.
Hallway Commissioner Grlggs says
that before lone all the warehouses will
bo obliged to tnkc out a license ami give
bonds for the storing of grain. Ho con
siders it protection nliko to elevator muii
nnd farmers.
Oliver Dnlrymplo , the extensive noith
Dakota farmer , says wheat is not thrash
ing out ns much within three or four
bushels per acre as wns expected. Cnss
county's yield will bo but twelve or
thirteen bushels per acre ,
W. II. Phelps , sovuuty-spvon years of
ngc , a brother of Minister Phelps , who
represents this country at the court of
St. James , earns his daily broad at Sioux
Falls by sewing m u tailor shop thoro.
Ho was oncu a successful writer on the
Now York Herald in the days of the
older Bennett. Mr. Phelps lias visited
every state iu thu union , hns done busi
ness in fourteen states nnd in South
America. Hu is very eccentric and hns
not spoken to any of the Phelps family
for thirty years. Thn family is ouo of
the most noted in Vermont , and the
Sioux Falls member is a college graduate
and highly educated.
Wyoming.
The slstors of uhanty are to build n
hospital at Evnnston.
The now flouring mill at Lnrnmio will
bo completed in sixty days.
A magnificent ledge of lima rock has
been discovered near Cokovillc.
Stops nro beinir taken toward estab
lishing a public library in Sundance. , _
A blind mnn named Stanley , claiming
to bo the grandfather ot the African ex
plorer , is playing the piano to large
houses in Larnmlo.
The Y. M. C. A. young mon of Choy.
cnno will harden their muscles for the
chrl.stinn fight in a gymnasium to be
opened September 1.
Mat Murphy , of the Murphy Cnttle
company , mut with an nccident a fo\\
days ago at thn Crow agoncy. Ho was
assisting in rounding tip homo cattle ami
the horsu he was riding foil , whorcb >
Mr. Murphy broke his leg in two places
between the knee aud aukle.
Ministers are so scarce in Idaho that
when ouo happens to citop over the line
from Wyoming ho Is immediately cor-
ralcil for the purpose of tying nuptial
knots. Sylvester ( 'ollutt ami iSorn Tnnnui
captured llov. F. L. Arnold , of Kvhtiston ,
the other day ns ho wns riding across the
country and were doubled up in an open
field of sago brush.
Jlio I'ncllio Const.
The Montana Press association meets
in Helena this wccki
A colony of 000 families from Missouri
is to bo located iu San Barnardino
county.
Butte citizens have been entertaining
with honor Mrs. Mengher , widow of Gen
eral Thomns Francis Alcaghor.
It is roportctl Mint a Chinese lopcr ex
ists in Sobastapol , nnd the authorities tire
taking stops to have him removed.
Three hundred Chinpso employed In
fruit-drying near San Jose , last Friday
became engaged in a fight. Clubs and
knives were frcoly used.
There nro porspns in Arizona who bo-
liuvo the latu train robbery wns planned
and managed li.v Dick Luldoll , ono ot the
notorious Jesse Jtiiues ganp.
The Cluneso who were driven out of
Bloomficld recently are endeavoring to
make arrangements to return , but the
citizens of that place- declare they shall
not.
Lyman Crandull , known as Brother
Crandnll , a well-known eccentric char
acter in the mines , died at North San
Juan Saturday night. Ho was a a Mexi
can veteran.
An examination of the registry ol
tourists nt the hotels in the National Park
last week shows that moro people from
Helena nro visitors there than from any
ether city in tlio United States.
Wm. Mnllory , known" as Tobacco Bill ,
who lives nt Cherry Hill. Nevada county ,
i.s on a rnmpago. Ho owned several line
hives , which wore filled with houoy , and
a pack of prowling bears in search ol
something sweet came upon Tobaccc
Bill'i ) store. They soon cleaned out the
whole business. William is on the big
gest boar hunt ho over undurtook.
Hi. Eminence , Jnmrs Gibbonn. cardi
nal archbishop of Baltimore , will bo n
cuust of the Right Uov. J. B. Brondel ,
bishop of Helena , for a day or two in the
early part of October , and will bo accom
panied by a number of distinguished
gentlemen , who will journey with the
cardinal to Portland , whither he coes to
confer the Pallium upou Archbishop
Gross.
About two weeks ago , says the Salmon
City ( Idaho ) Uucordur , tha editor of the
Kccnrdur hired the building so lonir oc
cupied by Colonel Shuii ) > , on the corner
of Main" and St. Charles streets and
leased the same for five years. Tons of
cold dust had boon weighed out in the
building , and ns u mntter of course , much
had been spilled. Mr. Booth left I ant
Saturday with Iho intent of nttunding the
press convention nt Shoshnnu Falls , and
stopping at Franklin , Onclda county , to
visit his son n lad of nbout ton years.
lu the meantime the carpenters nud
other men hu had left in charge had
scraped the iloor taken up thu bdards
and collected about three barrels of dirt ,
which upon being washed yielded the
sum of $1,200.01. This was panned out
near Fudge's house ami wan altogether
in excess of anything that had been ex
pected. A hundred or two dollars was
all that tint most sanguine had predicted.
\Nu expect that a division or a law suit
will bo the result.
Quito u severe accident occurred Sun
day morning to FranK Edwurds.tho four-
tcen-ycar-old son of Edward J. Kdwnnls ,
of Omaha View. Thu boy was invusti-
gating a bran now pistol of the bulldog
patternwhen tlio weapon was discharged
and thu ball entered the calf of the right
leg , traveling with n downwnrd course
and coming out in thu right hide of tno
foot below thu ankle. Dr. Uuthurford
was summoned nnd found thu bull in thu
young man's stocking. Thu bull was of
US calibre , nud thti dl.stanuu It traveled iu
the boy'ri limb will naturally make the
wound a serious ouo.
t - - , j & k * ' A ft / 'S. .Jt- ' . L.V \
CITY HAIMVAY8.
Now Sloven Doing Made liy the nival
Companies.
Yesterday the Motor line company put
ft gang of men nt work cutting the
pavement of Fourteenth street nt the in *
torsuotton of Davenport , for the purpose
of laying their rails for a continu
ation of the track southward
from that point. The rails were
laid to the Intersection n fuw weeks ngo.
Besides , n corps of engineers wan on tlio
ground and ran a line along Fourteenth
southward. The objective point of the
company is the now bridge ncross the
Missouri , which they will probably ronch
by menus of Douglas struct. When
the mils will bo laid , seems
at present problematical , because no iron '
hns yet been delivered , and when it Is , it ij
will have to bu of the style specified in $
the ordinance which is different from thu &
T rail already laid laid by the company , w
The steam motor on the Benson Hue J
was out practicing yesterday. No cars a
have arrived ns yet. ' jj
TUB CAULK TRAMWAY. ?
It Is now understood that this company $
has decided to run a line down California 7
street from Underwood nvenuo on the > *
Patrick farm down California street to '
Lowe avenue. Where the outlet cityward ' ,
will bu from the latter point ia uot yet .
known. , '
NOTTS.
E. G. Lomnx , passenger agent of the .
Chicago , Burlington & Quinoy , at Cht- \
cngo , is expected iiero in n day or two to
join the Union Pacific official forces ns I
successor to Assistant Pas ungcr Agout '
S. B. Jones. '
Thomns L. Klmbnll. of thu Union Pa-
oilic , hns gone to St. Louis via the
Kansas City & St. Joe routu. It Is re
ported that ho is going to met S. H. H.
Clark , with reference to a promised ap
pointment on the Missouri Pacific.
Till : llUFIT.f OAKS.
Contrary to nrrnngomunts nnd expectation - '
tation , the Buffet cans have not com- U
menci'd running yot. One wns tnkun out Mf- '
of the shops on Saturday at 0 o'clock * t
and is now bolng slocked ncross t'
the river. A rumor was currant fj
yesterday , that the Union Pacific had
signed a contract with the Chicago ,
Milwaukee As St. Paul for tlio lease of the >
latter's lino" to Chicago , nnd that the , J
bullet car.s would not bo put on until a , '
through routu could be made from the
lakes to thu coast.
NKIIUAKICA Oil IOWA. '
ID Which of ThcHo States la Cut-Off j
Island Liooated. i
Mayor Broatch yesterday , expressed I
some solicitude over the state of affairs |
recently dnscnbed in an nrticlo in the i -
BKK , as existing on the shores of Cut-Off
lake. Ho said that for some time back ,
the police had been watching in the
neighborhood because a number of re
port * had reached headquarters of . '
strange doiturs in that part of the city.
Thu difliculty experienced in keeping
watch over the district wns bccnuso of
the inadequacy of the police forco. The
niayor also denied that the beer hut on thu '
island surrounded by Cut-Off lake was in
lown , ns claimedand said hu proposed to
investigate the matter. In this
hut beer is sold without either Omnlm or
Council Bluffs license , the proprietor '
paying only the government tax. In op
position to thu opinion of tha mayor , is
that of the proprietor ot the plnuo , as also '
all the residents on the island who hold
that the place wns surveyed years ago as
a part of lown , nnd that the shitting of |
the river did not of itself change the territory - !
ritory into Nebraska. With this und in
viuw those settlers have gone through the
formality of claiming thu land , and arc
taking steps to have an official survey of
the same ns government land made ,
which , nftur being held a num
ber of years , will become the
property of the settlers. Tha iilnoo
seems to bo too far from Council Bluffs ,
not worth the attention of the commis
sioners of Pottawattomio county. Iowa ,
and ns n consequence , , the sale of all
kinds of liquor , as mentioned above , is
unrestricted. _
1 * U HLIc'woitKS.
McArthur again Talks * about the
Eleventh Street Viaduct.
Me Arthur , Into superintendent of the
Eleventh street viaduct , who haa boon
making objection to the acceptance of
that structure by the board of public
works , has not abandoned his intuntion
of bringing the mnttor again to the at
tention of the board. Hu showed a BKH
reporter an envelope address to Mayor
Broutch , which ho said contained pings
of iron which ho had dug from old con--
detuned material that had been incorpo
rated into the viaduct. Ho hnsgot tired ,
he claims , of going to the papers , ami
proposes now to tilu u formal and specific
complaint of the work done on the
viaduct with thu board of public woikH.
In viuw of thu fact that ntits last moot
ing that body unanimously voted that the
constructors of tha viaduct had complied
with nil the specifications , it is n matter
of doubt ns to what good McArthur's act
will effect.
The Fowler-Stock Yards Cnno.
On the 5th of this month , Messrs. Fowler
ler Bros. , packers in South Omnhn ,
sought an injunction In the United States
court , restraining the Stock Yards com-
punv from issuing $100,000 slock ns n
bonus to sccuro the removal to
this place of Armour , the packer.
The Stock Yards company have filed"
their answer getting fourth their mem
bership , time of incorporation , also that
thp plaintiffs were granted 1,000 shares of
stock ns it is proposed to grunt to Ar
mour ; that another 1,000 , shnres wore
granted Swift nnd that ono of the Few
ler's was present nt the meeting
nt which this was done ; that
the ; board of directors authonzod
the president to enter inton like contract
with Armour , but that the contract ban
not yet been executed ; that in making
the said contracts , the directors of the
defendant's company were moved solely
bv their concern for the bust interests of
the company and its stockholders * .
All unlawful combination or con
federacy in denied nnd the net is claimed
to bo in accordance with thu rules of the
company. For those reasons the ilcfund-
ants ask for the dismissal of the case.
Walking the Wholesale BIon.
C. H. Barnatto , nlins C. H. Johnson ,
was arrested yesterday charged with
obtaining money under falsu pretenses ,
and was bound over to the district court.
Ho had a well worded subscrip
tion paper , with a.i imitation of the olliciul
stamp of thu Switchman's Brotherhood ,
bodge No 41. impressed upon the
right hand corner , nnd spoilt thu af
ternoon Saturday calling on thu wholesale
houses of thu city "and soliciting contri
butions in behalf of Itulplt Howard , nn
invalid switchman , whoso friends wished
to send him away for medical tieatinent.
AH n further inducement Johnson ntatud
to thu merchants that hu was assistant
hand switchman in the yards hero , nnd
that ho would HOG that their cars should
always bo run up early , nnd nn especial
lookout kept on their freight matter.
The following merchantman ) among
Mr. Johnson's dupes : Pnxton , Gallagher
& Co. , $ * > ; Sloan , Johnson & Co. , $ r > ;
Dewey & Stone , | 5 ; Blake , Hruro & Co. .
$5 ; Purlin , Orendorff A ; Martin , if'J ; Fred
Krugo , $5 ; T. W. Hnrvey , | 5.
Yesterday cvtmilig a demand wrw mndo
by thu olHcIals of tha Medical college
upon Coroner Druxitl for thu rumaliiH of
John G. Wallace , thu mnn who com
mitted suicide in llanscom park on Fri
day last , nnd they worn accordingly
turned over to thu in titutlon by U > u
ollioor in question , as Wallace's relative *
bad not boon heard from.