Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 13, 1881, Page 4

4 e SRS, o~ it SN ASS = 4 Published every morning, except Sunday. The ouly Monday morning daily. TERMS BY MAITL One year. £10.00 | Three Months.£8.00 Six Months... 500 |One .. 100 THE WEKLY BEE, published ev- ery Wednesday TERMS POST PATD One r......£2.00 | Three Months.. 50 Six Months. ... 1.00 | One e W CORRESPONDENCE— A1l Communi- eations relating to News and Editorial mat ters should be addressed to the EpitoR o¥ Tur B BUSINE Letters and Re dressed to THE OMANA PUBLISHING CoM- PANY, OsanA. Drafts, Checks and Post. office Onders to be made payable to the order of the Company. All Business LETTERS ittances should be ad- OMAHA PUBLISHING C0,, Prop'rs E.ROSEWATER, Editor. John H. Pierce is in Charge of the Circu- ation of THE DAILY BEE. " eInogu” to * Foxhall'— ¢ Shake ! Owana'’s Swngerfest was a “‘howl- ing success.” | Tue half breeds seem to be thor- oughbreds. NERRASKA is suffering from a mania for suicide. Nrw York sporting men are crying Keene-o with great relish. Tue American horse is creating Europe even a greater sensation in than the American hog. NepraskA druggists are now wrest- ling with the new liquor laws, and a test case issoon to be taken to the courts. Graxt has arrived in go and concludes that he won't A hand in that senatorial mud- dle in Albany. CoNKLING returned to Abany to- day, and says he proposes to show the half-breeds of what stuff stalwarts are made. PooL seems to be a paying game. ‘The members of the last wheat pool at Chicago cleared $1,250,000 by the transaction. NorwITHSTANDING the refusal of numberless counties to vote bonds, the railreads still continue to extend their lines in every direction. Arruicants for the English mission will mourn over the announcement that James Russell Lowell will retain his position at the court of St. James. Or cighty thousand Swedes who emigrate this year to America, the largest portion will settle on lands of the Northern Pacific in the north- west. By the recent contracts the gov- ernment will save £300,000 in four years on the cost price of postal cards, and £40,000 in one year on stamped envelopos, —_— Nozoby is very anxious to have the | not soon get over. late lamented Nebraska legislature re- THE GREAT FESTIVAL. The Swengerfest has closed, and the visiting members of the Swengerbund have left for their various homes, taking with them, no doubt, most pleasing recollections of the hospital- Omaha and her German-Ameri- i | can citizens, and of the festival which they assisted in making such a social and artistic success, It must be ex- tremely gratifying to the energetic gement of the Swengerfest to know that their efforts resulted in the complishment of their highest ex- mar ations. From beginning to close, not a single failure marked the course of the week's entertainment, and the enjoyment of the occasion was shared equally by guests and participants, Omaha, too, may congratulato itself upon having been sclected as the place in which the musical festival was held. Apart from the fact that thousands of dollars were put in circulation in the who had never before known of our commercial importance became ae- quainted with the resources and de- velopment of our growing city, the influence of the saengerfest upon mus- ical culture in our city has been marked and will continue to make itself felt for a long time to come. It brought to Omaha the finest orchestra which has ever performed in thi# section of the coun- try. Itintroduced to our people a class of music which was entircly now to most of our citizons and gave us a was the largest that was ever gathered in Omaha. But aside from its musical merit the Saengerfest has much to tear down a prejudice which has existed in some minds concerning foreign social cus- toms. It has shown that well bred people are well bred whatever their surroundings and that a man ca as much of a gentleman and as good a n while singing songsand sipping his beer, as when chanting hymns or intoning gospel songs within the walls of a church. It must be exceedingly gratifying to our German-American citizens and chorus which done 1 be their friends who assisted in securing the Swngerfest for Omaha to know that during its entire progress not a single act of disorder or breach of the peace occurred to mar its success or cast discredit on those who took part init. It has become quite the custom for a certain class of social reformers to take the measure of the entire Ger- man nationality from the lunch fiends, bummers and hoodlums, who frequent low groggeries, and they have virtually charged that no one can take a social glass of beer or wine without at once descending to the level of drunken bummers and row- dics. The Swengerfest has dispelled that delusion from the minds of all candid people, and this has been by 10 means the least important of its many advantages. One thing more. During this fes- tive week Omaha has shown to every visitor that she is not disposed to take advantage of the necessities of strangers whether they are thrown here by accident or come here for pleasure. Over the never the complaint among visiting firomen was that they were mercilessly gouged by everybody who had any- thing to sell, and a grea many went home with a grudge that thoy will Hore, hotols, res- taurants and store keepers made no convened, but the present outlook is | advance in prices and all vied with that we shall have an extra session of | each other in offering o that body of eminent statesmen next | dation winter, if for no other purpose than |stranger visitors, to apportion the state into congres- sional districts, Devraare Perrianew of Dakota is very confident that southern Dakota Ory HCCOMINO- at reasonable Justice Stanley Matthows ovidently felt the force of the strong opposition which was made to his appointment will be orranized into u state Ly the He claims’ there are already 110,000 people in that part of the territory and thousands will come mnext congress, in this season. The chances of Dako- to the supr ne bench on the ground of his monopoly tendencies. In a speech delivered before the soldiers’ reunion at Cinciunati, he wmade the following romarks on the supject; Lot mo say, comrades, that if any ta being the thirty-ninth state are de- | man knows what an honest judge is cidedly favorable, but there will bea | going to decide, they know more than very lively contest over her admission in Congress. —_— Tuk Grand Prize of Paris, a race second only in importance to the En- | sponsibility to glish Derby and with & substantial |anything of myself, T think I money value of $20,000, has been won by Foxhall an American horse owned hearing testimony and reading argu- ment, he deliberates in the chambers of his own conscience and settles his judgment under a solomn_sense of re- God, If T know all be influenced by tha’ consideration to administer the Jaw for the pur- pose of doing justice between man by Mr. James R. Keeno, the Wall|and man without fear, favor or affec- street speculator. The victory of M. . | tion, impartial and equal; and so to TLorillard's *Troquois” last woek at | Duild up the great !Ium[nlu of justice in Epsom Downs and the splendic which, and in wh alone, we can find peace and properit; d And what achievement of * Foxhall” at Puris | 1 ghall endeavor to do is to cast way yesterday will do wonders towards in creasing the interest in horse-breed ing in this country, John Roach’s peuliar mothod fo -| behind me every bias, every preju- .| dice, and everything which can pos- sibly draw the mind away from a just comprehension of the truth as it may be presented in the present life, and Y| to treat every question commg before controlling legislation is aptly illus- | the tribunal of justice as & now sub- trated by the unique manner in whicl i | jeet of investigation, to be studied, he and his agents lobbiod a subsidy | *Xamined, learned and treatod without through the Sandwich Islands legis lature, of members to vote for the scheme one of the more shrewd of the Sand wich statesmen proposed to move a reconsideration, when a burly black smith proceeded to thrash him for a consideration on the floor of the as sembly, and in the excitement a Having bribed the majority veference to any past consideration, Money is more plentiful in New » | York owing to the calling in of so * | many sceurities for investment. Some of the New York bankers predict that money will be loaning at one per cent. on call @efore July 1. S In a recent speech at a parliamen- friend of the measure moved o sine | tary dinner, Prince Bismarck said: **1 die adjournment, which prevalled, for | will write my name under no law the members all wanted to see the | which murdersthe poor workingman.” side show. cured. Bo the subsidy was se- [ Bismarck has forgotten the Franco- Prussian war and a score of laws The Pioncer Press pertinently asks | which have opposed and virtually whether some one can’t get up & fight | murdered thousands of poor working- on the assembly floor at Albany, men, A CHMEAPER POSTAGE. | In the year 1852 the [« ffice de- partment for the first time since its organization found itself without a de- ficit. Postage rates were at once re- duced on the ground that the public and not the government should share the profits of the postal department. Tt was openly announced in congress that when the _department showed an even again balance sheet it its letter rates from three totwo cents, and inaugurate a would reduce really cheap system of postage on the same basis as that which prevailed in Great | Britain, passed, and notwithstanding *the in Thirty years have and the large additions to the wealth of the country, the department has failed to find itself able to make the desired change, and the three cent rate crensed use of the postal sery still remains in force, The time seems to be rapidly ap- city, and that hundreds of strangers | proaching when the change to a cheaper postage The annual defic department are steadily decreasing n be safely made. ncies in the postal year by ar. For last year, the deficit was only 82,786,- 341 on a business of §36,100,- 820. This year the deficiency will be about 3,000,000 on a business of nearly forty millions of dollars, which is less than half the deficit which several years ago was reported from the department. of cheap postage depends upon the The question ability of the postmaster-general to place the department on a self-sus- taining basis, and on this account ev- ery man, woman and child is vitally interested in the success of his plans for postal reform, It is estimated that the reductions in the star route servi will save from $1,500,000 to $2,000,- 000 annually to the government, thus reducing the deficiency in the postal revenues to within £1,000,000, or at most 81,600,000 of becoming self- sustaining. The threo items of rail- road transportation, star routes, and postmaster’s salaries make up more than two-thirds of the total cost of the departments, and on the smallest item Postmaster-General James has saved one-fourth of the current deficit. Congress should mow take im- mediate steps to investigate the railway mail service. Charges are made of gross frauds in the weighing of the mails by which the government is annually swindled out of thousands of dollars. A care- ful and thorough examination of the service would result in a large decrease of the amount now paid out for rail- way transportation of the mails and a corresponding.saving to the govern- ment. Even mote could be done in the matter of postmaster’s salaries, Tt is a singular fact that the postoftice dopartment is to-day the only large transportation company paying higher official salaries than before the panic, Statistics prove that the salaries of postmasters have uot only kept pace with the increasing revenue of the government, but that they have grown faster than the num- ber of postofices or the total business ay measured by the gross expendi- ture. A comparison of the years 1870 and 1880 shows that while the num- ber of postmasters has grown 50 per 8 cent. and their salaries 66 per cent., the number of postal clerks has in- creased 71 per cent. and their salaries only 54 per cent. 1f the growth «f postmasters’ salaries had followed the same law the department could 1 both ends meet in the current year Post- nmiastors’ clerks avo paid fixed salaries, e The reason for this is plain. but tho salaries of postmasters, taken as a whole, are regulated by a per- centage on the business done, The result is that as the business increases salaries increase, and the postmasters and not the people get the benefit of In the of the very arge oflices the pe the change, has been abandoned. While this probably not be changed in the very small office method — could dium there is a lage class of \e does, until the fime comes after | $ized offices where a proper economy would easily save from $500,000 to $1,000;000. If an equal saving was made i the railway muil service the problem of a two cent postage would be solved, Tue New York 7Times, the cham- pion of anti-monopoly principles in New York fails to take stock in the charge that Mr., Conkling's defeat is being sought by the railroads on account of his anti-monopoly record, It says : While we are no advocate of Mr, Depew’s candidacy, it seems a trifle ridiculous to find it assailed from such a quarter. Did Mr. Conkling never hold a brief for the Central railroad, has he not made a very comfortable income during the last six months out of fees paid him by railroad monopo- lists, and is he not now the retained advocate of a paper-made corporation created for the special purpose o making the people pay divi- dends on stock which ~ represents nothing hut the greed of a handful of speculators! Where was Mr. Conk- link when the confirmation of Stanley Matthews was at the mercy of a single adverse vote, and what vote of fiu in the senate can be recalled to show that he is on the side of the people or against the monopolists? Is there a srominent Conkling man in the logis- ture who has been distingushed for his advocacy of the railroad bills or of 5 | groate: THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JU AGR.ICULTURAL SUPREMACY | The census bureau has published a statement «liowing the increase in all cereal crops of the United States from 1870 to 18%0. In 1870 the entire acreage was 79,162,000 acres in corn, wheat, berley, rye, oats and buck- wheat. In 1880, 128, are reported with an average yield per acre fully us high as it was ten years previous, Corn went up from 1,094,- ,000 to 1,773,106,616 bushels, an increase of nearly 700,000,000, bushels, Wheat rose from 233,884, 000 in 1870 to 459,600,000 in 1880, an inerease of neatly 100 per cent, These fizures are suggestive not only of the our country, but also of its boundless agricultural resources, rapid development of During ten years our now acreage in grain and corn amounted to 39,703,570 acres or 2,478,737 more than there is land in all England and Wales. 1In corn alone, our increased acreage is equal to more than two-thirds of the total acres contained in England, and our increasc in wheat farming, 16,500,000 acres, is five times the total wheat acreage in England and Wales in 1880. Such an exhibit may despondency and despair among Eng- lish farmers. It is only a beginning of what American agriculturists can doif put on their mettle. The entire acreage of first class wheat land in the United States amounts to more than 400,000 acres. We have in addition 500,000,000 acres of excellent corn land that with ordinary cultivation will yield forty bushels to the acre. Should occasion demand we could in a single year produce 20,000,000,000 bushels of corn and 7,000,000,000 bushels of wheat with a few hundred millions of oats, rye and barley thrown in to make good measure. figures are well cause These based on the productive capacity of our agricultu- ral lands under the present system of cultivation. Tt need hardly be added that with anything like the laborious methods of foreign farmers in sub- soiling, draining, fertilizing and eco- nomic management of waste, the totals Lands now unproductive or yielding scanty crops could be made to triple their annual harvests. The question of a market for these enormous crops does not seem difficult of solution. With the mighty emigra- tion pouring into our country, the home demand must be vastly in- creased. The increase of transporta- tion facilitics will still further aid in bringing the consumer and producer nearer together, and our annual sur- plus will be readily disposed of, per- haps at lower prices than now, to the hungry millions of England and the continent® No competition can stand against our limitless resources, our cheap lands and our certain seasons, when to these are added industry, economical agricultural methods and ready means of laying our harvests at the gates of the grain markets of the world, would bo vastly increased. Witiiy less than forty days the principal throughfares of Omaha will be supplicd with pure Missouri river watier by the city waterworks com- pany. This constant supply of water will enable us to keep down the dust provided the proper arrangements are made for street sprinkling. It is a matter of vital interest to our wmer- chants that the principal business strocts bo sprinkled regularly during the summer and fall. They must, however, take action in this matter at an early day if we ave to desire any advantage from our water- They wmust ot de- pend on the city for works, council ng on the work of strect sprinkling, We may at somo future time beable to rai a special fund for street sprinkling by taxation, but such a tax cannot be levied for the present and the expense must be born by pri- vate subscription. Heretofore the was the scant supply of water and cost of hauling it from distant points. This will bein the way., With hydra convenicnt places, and water always on hand in any quantity, the expense for carting will be materially reduced. The four wheel sprinkling carts heretofore in use will, however, hard ly answer the purpose now. A two wheel cart with a round tank and large sprinkling trough modelled after the sprinkling carts in use at Chicago, should be built and put in operation in Omaha. 1t will take several weeks to contruct hulf a dozen such carts, and o longer ts in no time ought to be lost in raising the necessary subseription—for this rea- son, — WHEN one considers the tact that Mrs. Mackey's cook at Paris gets $6,000 a year for frying omelettes, and Fred Archer, the English horse jockey, 80,000 for riding *‘Iroquois,” who can say that the fine arts are not handsomcly paid. The Irish Revolt. Philadelphia Press, Lord Cararvon is right when he describes the present condition of affairs in Ireland as civil war, It matters not that he is assailing the Gladstone government because it does not move fast enough to crush out the rebellion; he calls the thing itself by its right name, 1f Mr. Chamberlain any of the measures introduced during the last fow years to restrain the power of corporations! The Conkling ob- l«ctiam to Depew are simply an exhi- ition of hypocritical cant, is well advised when he says that *‘the and bill is the maximum which any nglish Parliament will pass,” peace is not near at hand. g The land bill concedes more than E 13, 1881, the land leagures asked when they be- gan the agitation, It yields more than it was thought a British _parlia- | ment would ever agree to. The bill| |i8 not perfection, andif the worst fears | of the friends of Treland shall be re- | alized underit there will still be cases of hardship and denials of justioe where a poor tenant has to contend before the local magistrate against a hard and unbending landlord. But the measure is founded on a just principle, and is of value because it is o concession, because it recognizes that the agitation is not without rea son and the cause of Treland not with- out justice. At any previous time a bill offering s0 much would have been hailed with joy throughout Ireland. The Treland of to-day is a long re- move from the Ireland of other times. The island was never so aroused, the | people never so thoroughly organized, never so abundantly supplied with funds from outside sympathizers. Under the fostering policy of Great Britain a new Ireland has sprung up | in America. Itis a republican Ire- | land, enjoying freedom itself and | dreaming of liberty for the Ireland across the sea. The old ties are strong to the second and third genera- tion. The American Ireland is pros- | perous, with something to spare for the Treland which suffers and sobs un- der British oppression, and money is poured in upon the oldsod withliberal hand. Not only money, but warm, active sympathy abounds here for Tre- land, whose sad story is never heard unmoved by an American assemblage. The mails go Joaded with this to Ire- land, and her cause is immeasurably strenghtened by the encouragement from this shore. If the Ireland of ’08 had had the America of 1881 to lean upon there might have been a very different issue of the rash and brave rebellion. What is to come of this struggle the longest head cannot foresee. It meets every condition of civil war, except a formal declaration and the armed forces of revolt in the field. The best offer ever made by an_English parli ment is practically rejected before it is tried. Violence defies the gov- ernment, whose civil process must be supported by the military power. The truth seems to be that Ireland will not be satisfied with any measurc that a British parliament will pass. She is not staking her hoves on a British parliament but on an Irish parliament, or, better still, an Irish congress. She dreams of indepen- dence, perhaps a republic. More bi ter days are in store for her, but she is as reckless of the cost as she is de- termined to join the issue. Peaceful counsels may prevail tora time, but the voleano of Trish discontent will re- main, to break out at some other mo- ment with a hot tide and a belching fury which even a strong government will find it _diflicult, if not impossible, to deal with. Tt cannot be that Ire- land will be ground forever. 1s There Any Danger? ollowing is what a few far-see- patriotic men have thought and The following extract from a recent letter written by Hon. David Davis, once a judge of the supreme court, now a senator of the United States, indicates the serious nature of the problem before us: “‘Great corporations and consolidat- ed monopolies are fast seizing the avenues of power that lead to the con- trol of the government. itis an open secret that they rule states through procured legislatures and corrupted courts; that they are strong in con- gress, and that they are unscrupulous in the use of means to conquer preju- dice and acquire influence. This con- dition of things is truly alarming, for unless it be changed quickly and thor- oughly, free institutions are doomed to be subverted by an oligarchy rest- ing upon a basis of money and of cor- porate power.” The present secretary of the treas- ury, Mr. Windom, in a recent letter to the president of the Anti-Monopo- ly League, says: ““The channels of thought and the channels of commerce thus owned and controll an, or by a few men orporate power or to fix a limit to its exactions upon the people? What is then to hinder these men from depressing or inflating the value of all kinds of property to | suit their caprice or avavice, and thereby gathering into their own cof- fers the wealth of the nation/ Where is the limit to such a power as this! What shall be smid of the spirit of a free people who will submit without a protest to be thus bound hand and foot? Hon, Jeremiah S. Black, ex-judge of the supreme court and ex-attorncy general of the United States, recently stated: 1l public men must take their | side on this question. There can be no neutrals, He that is not for usis| against u We must have le tection against these abuses This gitation once begun, and _the magni- tude of the grievance being under- stood, it will force our rulers to give us u remedy against it. The monopo- | lies will resist with all their arts and iufluence, but fifty millions of },u.,.l.‘, in process of time, will learn the im- portant fact that they are fifty mil- lions strong,”’ Governor Gray, of Indiana, in a message to the legislature of that state in January last, said: “In my judgment the republic can- not hive long in the atmosphere which now surrounds the ballot-box. Mon- eyed corporations, to secure favorable legislation for themselves, taking | an active part in elections by furnish- ing voter and purchase special privileges from the government, If money can control the decision at the ballot-box it will not be long until it can control its existence.” This is in entire accordance with the views of Daniel Webster, who said: ““The freest government cannot long endure, where the tendency of the law is to create a rapid accumulation of property in the hands of few, and to l'cm{ur the masses of the people poor and dependent.” The press, with the exception of that portion which is owned or subsi- fight. The New York Times (Rep.), under date of May 19, in an article re- garding the encroachments of corpor- ate power, says: “It is not unl{muhsurbiug to itself the fruits of labor and the gains of trade and piling up wealth in the hands of the few, but it is controlling legislation and endeavoring to sway | Grundy Center, with a capital of rge sums of money to corrupt the | {and killed his mother. dized, are with the ‘i‘cuplu in this| " the decisions of courts in its N in- terest. We are now at a stage in the contest where the people may vindi- cate their authority and place these corporations under the regulation of law.” The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (dem.), in recent editorial, said: i “ There is a pretty general feeling that the Continent of America Wwas not discovered by Columbus, and civil liberty establishe¢ by the Fathers of the Republic, to the end that fifty millions of people might be made trib- utary to a band of railroad magnates, or that farmers, artisans and mer- chants might, by hand work and keen competition raise up a dozen Varder- bilts, with each several hundred mil- lion of dollars, Those who entertain this feeling have become persuaded that the time has arrived for the in- dustrious masses of this country to protect themselves, if they ever in tend to do so. It will certainly not be easier after the adversary has grown stronger. In this contest every de- lay is to the disadvantage of the peo- ple. Let the issue be deferred for a fow years, and nothing buta miracle or a revolution as violent as that of France will overthrow the op- pression. Of all misleading delusions there is none more mischevious than the notion that popular suffrage and popular power are synonymous, Given the means of bribing multitudes, of intimidating others, or wreeking op- ponents, coupled with actual posses- sion of the government, and adverse sentiment must be paralyzed. If the sutizage is to be our salvation, it must be applied sharply while there are still odds on the side of unbought and unterrorized manhood.” A hundred columns might be filled with similar expressions from news- papers published in all parts of the country and now on file in the office of the National Anti-Monopoly Leagu Comment is necedless. The public welfare is in danger, and the influeuce of every patriotic citizen is invoked to avert it. Respectfully, ecte., . E. CHITTENDEN, Pres’t National Anti-Monopoly gue. Headquarters, 7 Warren St., Y. IOWA BOILED DOWN. Spencer will soon have a new creamery. Wapello has purchased a new 210 acre poor farm. A new steam Aouring mill is being built at Grundy Center. Webster City has reccived the plans for a new $20,000 school house. The tooth of a mastodon was found in | Marshall county re: One hundred have been erected in Le M fall. he new £500,000 hank at Des Moines will be the heaviest financial institution in the state. Towa City and Muscatine are both tak- ing steps toward the construction of street railways. X Towa City recently made a loan of 1 000 for the purpose of redeeming city bonds then due. The farmers of Kossuth county are going to organize for protection against the barh wire monopoly. A good many new settlers are locating about Seney and a large amount of break- ing is being done. Near Ely, on the Burlington road, a single stroke of lightning killed seventeen Thogs the other-dny. The building rush continues at Fort Dodge. Among the new buildings will be a three-story brick hotel. Arrang ; he establishment to employ thirty ds, at Keokuk. alltown canning works put up the 2d, claimed to be the ork on record, ince Clay county sold_its acres, for $10,000, which ised value, The next convention of the Catholic e society of lowa, will be held at on on the second Wednesday of ntly. Wl twenty five houses s since last perfected for s wind mill, The Keokuk canning 90,000 cans on hand, and reatly en- aged with the outlook for a fine crop canning company at Musea- cady for business in a few ad will run a force of 200 hands, apt. Boyton, floating 3 St. Louix in his rubber suit, reache huque on the 8th and was grected by an fumense crowd, There will be 1,032 delegates to the re- ublican state convention so that 514 votes will be nece 5 A farmer in Marshall that in four we farm grew to & The pension offic out, duri unty reports com on_his y-fourinches, aid From the q f flax planted in the northwestern counties this season, it is in- ferred that an oil mill hereabouts will be a tuble investment, According sus of Towa Cit; ion of over 51 tly completed cens t present a popu- The population, ac: vernment census of 1880 A stock company has been formed at i ,000, for the steam flouring mill 105060 feet, five stories high. It is said that with a little dredging the Towa river can be made to carry grain barges, T'wo all steamboats are being run on that stream this season, One of the % interested in the starch and g orks to be put up in Moines, is negotiating for the purchase of 10,000 acres of land in Pocahontas county to make a farm out of, Something v much like the army worm has appeared in large numbers in Delaware county, As yet the depreda- tions of the pest have been confined to timothy meadows and oat fields, Lightning struck a quarry at Towa Falls the other night and heaved out fifty cords of ‘stane in a8 good shape s 1t could have been blasted out with powder. a full share of this yew's There are sever ch, English and Scandinay ming, and besides that the state is iving many settlers from llinois, Indi- {other localities to the east. hill, the clerk who was found i gagged at Onslow, when the store in which he was sloeping was robbed of $5,000 to 86,000, was ar- rested on the Sth and taken to Anamosa for examinatiou, 1t is believed he robbed the safe himself, Near Towa Falls the other night light- ning struck the house of Jesse Cogswell She was sleeping on a feather bed at the time, which goes to show that the popular superstition that they re a protection from livhtning is not Toca. unty is a barn 56 by 200 feét, and the numerous other buildings on the place cost $15,000. He has an arte- sion well, sunk at’ an expense of 5,000, which furnishes water enough to supply a city of 10,000 inhabitants. 1t is proposed to hold a meeting at Ona- wa. Sunday, June 25, for the fl:‘\:fl of foriing a Monona county Anti Wire association, and to elect “delegates to the tate association to be held at Des Moines the last week in June, The object is to raise funds to fight several cases through. the courts, Sometime since it was reported that Theodore Frank, a stock dealer at Scran. ton, had 1 chloroformed and robbed of 24,000 in cash. He has sinc t! and there " v which he was enabled to get away witi about 815,000, Tt is probable | that he was not robhed atall as reported by | him During a recent thunder storm at Towa Yity lightning entered the telephone office on the wires, burning them off aud set fire to the building, creating quite a blaze, This is said to be the first accident of the | kind that ever oceurred in a telephone of- fice. W. Johnson, a big, burly negro, and a member of Sprague's Ceorgia minstrels, seduced & white girl whom he first met at |the Wilson house, where she was em- | ployed, She followed him to Dubuque, | where the plot of the rascal wasdiscovered, | but too late to save the virtue of the mis- guided girl, When the officers went to ar- rest him, Johnson jumped out of a second-. story window and madegood his escape. He is the fellow with the big mouth w sings: “I'm going to climb the golden staire.” The T'ulmquu Herald, however, rather takes the edge off the sensation by aying that the woman, whe gave her name as Alice Carmichel, is known to have been asoiled dove of long standing, and unfa vorably 1 by those who frequent the western division of the Illinois Central railroad,—(Sioux City Journal. BRUTAL MURDER, Unprovoked Killing of a Plow boy Near St. Panl, Nob, Correspondence of the Bee, St. Pavr, June 1L.—Our usually quiet town was thrown into a fever of excitement on last Wednesday morn- ing by the report that a brutal and horrible murder had been committed about fourteen miles north west of St. Paul on what is known as the North Loup table land. Our sheriff with several other of our citizens has- tened to the spot when the following particulars were learned. A young man about eighteen or nineteen years old by the name of Paxton, went out on his claim to plow and not returning at the proper time, search was made by his friends when he was found with a bullet hole through his head, and other marks of violence on his head, as if he had been with tome blunt instrument, then a rope had been tied around his neck, and to the plow and the body dragged for several rods. The team had then been taken from the plow and hitched to the wagon and driven away, leaving the murdered man tied to the plow. The trail was followed, and erelong one horse and the wagon was found in a deep ravine, and later the other horse was found, but still no murderer, but facts were developed that cast suspicion on a young German about eighteen years old by the name of Henry Tebher. To-day he was arrested, when he confessed the erime, assigning no reason for the deed. He- was brought to St. Paul and lodged in jail. Excitement is at fever heat, and strong talk of lynching. While lynching is none to bad for such characters, it is better that the law should take its course. QK ‘The Convention. Des Moines Register, A convention is to be held at Coun- cil Bluffs on the 21st of June, called in the interest of the improvement of the Missouri, looking to the introduc- tion of barge transportation. The convention has been called largely un- der the inspiration and leadership of the Nonpareil, the first paper in Towa to lead off in reforming commerci relations and active trade between. Towa and St. Louis and the Missis- sippi river. the Wabash road was brought to Council Blufls nearly two years ago, since which time that city has had, through the help of the Wabash road and the active rivalry of St. Louis with Chicago such advantage in rates of freights as no other city in Iowa has had. A short time ago The Nonpareil took up this work of inaugurating a movement for the improvement of the Missouri. It has shownno jealousy of other interests in the matter, as it has also encouraged and advocated every sensible proposition for the upper Mississippi, and also the Hen- nepn canal idea. But still it has kept teadily and earnestly pushing the idea of taking care of the Missouri improvements as well—an aspiration in which all Towa will heartily share, when the object of it becomes fully understood. At the convention at Council Bluffs on the 21st, every city and town in the state should be represented. We hope Des Moines will not fail to have able and ample representatives there. Bya rccent very able report of Major Suter, of the river improve- ment commission, after a careful sur- vey of the Missouri river from the mouth to Sioux City, a distance of 800 miles, it was ascertained that ten feet of water may be sceured at low water the whole distance for the sum of §8,- 000,000, and in making this improve- ment to navigation the banks are in- cinlent:\ll{ secured, which is a consid- eration that will not be lost sight of. His recommendation is that the work be done in sections, commencing at the mouth, which of course is the proper way to do the work. Terrible Cyclone. Pierce Ciry, Mo., June 11, cyclone struck the e of Swan Star Springs, & small watering place in Barry county, yesterday, and anni- hilated the pla A cloud burst, ac- companied {,y a wind storm, and con- verted a little storm into a torrent which washed away houses and prop- erty of all kinds. So far as heard from no lives have been lost. One family, a mother and five children, were swept down stream and lodged iu a clump of bushes, to which they clung for two hours, being finally resoued by men, who with some difti- cuhfv swam to them and carried them to shore. Experiences of nany other families are similar and it is looked upon as a miracle that some were not killed outright or drowned. “‘Fun on the Bristol,” at Baldwin’s theatre, San Francisco, came to an abrupt close on Saturday. The sher- iff seized the thestre on account of debts of the management. ‘‘Hazel Kirke,” at the California theatre, is doing an immense business, drawing the largest matinee on Saturday that was ever inside of the theatre, Through its active efforts.