Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 18, 1881, Page 4

i t ! The Omaha Bee. Published every morning, except Sunday. only Monday morning daily. = TERMS BY MAIL:— if At £10.00 | Three Months. $3.00 % _ Months... 5.00|One w gl IHE WEEKLY BEE, publiched ev- | vy Wednesday. WERMS POST PATD:— WOne Year......82.00 | ThreoMontha.. %0 |8ix Months. ... 1.00 One “ive B i) CORRESPONDENCE—All Communi eations relating to News and Fditorial mat. “ters should be addressed to the Eprron o¥ Tar Bex. BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Letters and Remittances should be ad- dreased to Tue OMAHA PUBLISHING CoM- ! pANy, OwAMA. Drafts, Checks and Post- | office Orders to be made payable to the 1 order of the Campany. OMAHA PUBLISHING C0., Prop'rs E.ROSEWATER, Editor. John H. Pierce is in Charee of the Circu- ation of THE DAILY BE! Nebraska Republican State Cen- tral Committee. The members of the Republican State Central Committee of Nebraska, are here- by called to meet at the Commercial Hotel in the City of Lincoln, on Wednesday, the St day of August, A, D,, 1881, at 2 w'clock p. m., for the transaction of such business as may properly come before the Committee. Javrs W, Dawes, Chairman, Crere, August 12, 1881 SemiNkLE, sprinkle, little cart, Seenm——— GuiTeAv needs a hemp neck-tie. Our waterworks will not bé finished a minute too soon, ;. — Dr. Briss would make ‘s splended life insurance agent. Prorerty in Omaha keeps pace with the rise of the thermometer., Gexeran GARFIELD'S marvelous vi- tality may pull him through yet. Omana always manages to got up three or four fires on the same day. i —— PENNSYLYANIA is the only state where politics are 'discussed in' the heated term. D Tk city council must extend the fire limit down'Thirteenth street to the U. P, bridge. Onear transportation tant day be the great 'issue before the American people. Oy and Council Bluffs demand and must havoa free 'vug(m‘ bridge mcross the #juouri. Sm—— SHoRrTER hours for overworked' la- boring men means better and more work turned out for employers, Doveras county is preparing for a development which will surprise her meighbors on the north and south. Tr the president could only rid him- solf of two or three doctors his chances of recovery would be excel- lent. _Coxnruicriya bulletins from the ‘White House and vress agents agree upon one ”t, and that is that the president 18 very seriously ill. Omana has furnished another vie- tim of kerosene explosion, It wo- aen are bound to have something to play with lot them invest in a toy pistol. TuE grain gamblers are in clover just now over the prospective shortage of grain crops in this country and the brisk demand for American grain abroad, Tun line of packets betweon St. Louis and 8t. Paul is the forerunner of a fleot on the great rivers which oannot be monopolized by any une worporation or controlled by a single stock jobber, ——— Couney gandidates are now pa- ndlnfl.hoir‘,,vinm throughont the atate and explaining that agrioulture is the noblest of professions. Of oourse this has no reference to the farmer's vote. — A0ccoRpING to the Cincinnati Com- mereial the outlook for the republicans of Indiana is not very encouraging this fall. This is more especially truo of Indianapolis, where there appears Lo bo great dissatisfaction with local republican officials, ———— Tur South Carolina constitutional commission, which has just closed its session, recommends amendments to make the teams of state and county officers, M'u::n' mewbers of the r dimin- by “the nnm “:l. elec- ; auother chauges the time for state aud county eloctions, making them on a different day from THE SAME MAN. To the Editor of “he Bee, Dear Bre.: 1 see so many allusions to one Ti¥bles in your and also many other papers that 1 thought T would ask you just what it all means, 1 hava not read your paper very long but have others and have failed to read anything of his recent histor; and perhaps others of your readers are in the same fix. 1 used to know T. Henry Tibbles well that used to live in Des Moines county, Towa. He left there about 1870 or '71; was asort of patent rights man and Methodist exhorter, pettifogger and dead beat enerally. Tsthis the same man? and fowbout his marrying & squaw? Is he the same one that paraded the Ponea Indians over the country a few years ago? A brief sketch will greatly oblige, Yours truly, 8. We take pleasure in informing cur correspondent that his T. Henry Tib- bles is the identical Tibbles, the nat- ural born journalists of Nebraska and the collection box passer for the Pon- ca Indiaus, Tibbles’ history may be summed up in a very few lines. After leaving Towa he scttled in Nebraska first as grasshopper martyr and ox- hortor until, retired by the Metho- dists from his position on account of too much devotion to female frailty. From preaching Tibbles passed to the next best profession, that of an editor, and wandered from one Omaha paper to another in his search for notoriety. The troubles of Standing Bear, a shift- less Indian who had no standing among his own people, gave TissLEs another opportunity o pose before the public in the role of a philanthro- pist. Leaving his wife in Omaha #ith two children to support, TissLES started east with Standing Bear, Bright Eyes and his Indian show, en- dorsed by'a number of prominent men, who ought to have known bet- ter, played upon the credulity of the eastern public, and passed around his hat with golden_results. While this imooptér was on tho tramp, his ‘yi(u Qied and was buried by trangers, TipbLEs.being too much abserbed in his work to relurn to pay the last sad offices of affection. Returning to Nebraska after a year's absence, Tis- BLEs has oncg more become o family man, by marrying his latost affiinity. Tt is supposed that he is pre- paring for another startling departure in his chase after notoriety. Oxe of the most serious drawbacks this city has in the past experienced, is the high rate of taxation. When foreign capitalists who desire to invest in Omaha are told that ' our oity and county taxes aggregate nearly five per cent., they generally shrink from making an investment. If property in this city and county were assessed Impartially, according to its absolute value, the aggregate tax would not be more than two per cent. If all the property of individuals and corpora- ations was taxed and the tax as- sessment properly cqualized, the aty and county tax would not ag- gregato over one per cent. As long as most of the property is assessed at one-third or one-fifth of its sheriff sale value; as long as our wealthiest men and corporations can shirk the burden of taxation entirely, the tax levy will continue to be from four to five per cent and then our rev- enue will fall short of actual requir ments. Much of this unjust dis- crimination of the assessment of property, and the absolute exemption of millions of personal property from taxation must be laid at the door of our county commissioners and city council. Both of these bodies are authorized and required to revige the assessment rolls and equalize taxation, Every year they mect as boards of equaliza- tion, but have never attempted to re- vise the assessment roll. It is not so in other cities. A fow days ago the board of equalization of Ramsey county, Minnesota, of which St. Paul is the capital, held its annual session, and as a result the St, Paul press has publishéd a revision which shows that this board of equalization does not abide by the returns of assessors, They raised the assessment on cattle and horses from fifteen: to forty per cent. They overhauled the returns made by merchants and manufacturers and bankers and raised their assess- men's from the amounts reported by assessors in the nggregate over $176,- 000. They furthermore sclected the heaviest capitalists who had failed to roport any personal property and fixod their asscesment at amounts ranging from $26,000 to §50,000 each, Had our city council, sitting as & board of equalization, made a careful revision of the asscssment rolls this city could have added from §25,000 ta §50,000 to its annual income, In- stead of being too poor to engage in suy systom of permavent improve- ments we should have money enough in the treasury to put our streets and thoroughfares in first class condition, and that without unjust or unreason- able taxation of anybody. Ex-Sexaton Hakiax about to re- entor public life in Towa as state sena- tor from Henry county. His nomi- nation is roceived with cordial appro- batio throughout the state, The Des Moines Register says: lmm no‘:l.llu:?: of ex Benator Har- » @ in Henr county is the lln! of lnmuhh'z . It is the right path fer his to public lifc, as the Register stated three or four years ago. It has never been possible for hun to be- 000,000,000 is THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 183i. gin again at the top. But there has always been the open way on which he hasneverentered, of beginning anew and possibly rising to his former es- tato. In the legislature, identified withand leading new measures and popular reforms, and winning the people to him in his renewed leader- ship, the hill of difficulty will not be too high for his gradual steps- He will come to the legislature and its debates to make other men look small and fo show to the state his own great strongth, 1f he goes on the right side, and there is little doubt of that, he can go forward more rapidly and go higher than any new and wntried man. Intellectually he is perhaps the equal of any man the state has produced, if indeed he is not in sheer rugged strength, not accounting mere brillirncy, the ablest’ of all the men we have had, He will wield actual power in the Sen- ate, and we beliove he wil exert it for the best interests of the state. Consequently we are glad to see his return to public life. With his feet once more placed on the hard ground of gotual power, the weaker men who have been more popular in the few years past, and who would be his ri- vals in public favor even if they can- not be in the true quality of greatness, may well seem timorous and uncertain a8 to their own future, Of the public it may be said, we believe, that Mr. Harlan will be greeted in the senate with ardent and almost universal good wishes, and many will feel that he re-onters public Jife at the door which is best both foriim and the stato. Tue addrers recently delivered by Comptroller of the Currency Knox is a particularly valuable and inter- esting document. It presents statis- tics which show that the greatest cir- culating medium of our people is in the form of bank checks and drafts, and that we use $20 in checks and drafts where we use $1 in money. The transactions of the banks during the year ending June 30 aggregated the enromous sum of nearly $100,- 000,000,000. Of this amount §95,- put in cirenlation without the wuse of moncy by means of paper tokens represonting money in reserve. Mr. Knox's in- vestigations show in what proportions these payments are made to the na- tional banks in checks and deafts. In Now York 08.7 per cent of all finan- cial trausactions through the banks are on paper. Philadelphia shows a proportion of 96 per cent; Boston of 96.5 per cent; Chicago 91.9 per cent, andy twelve cities outside of New York oh an average of 04,4 per cent. This statement throws an important light on the discussion concerning the amount of currency necessary for the transaction of business. Our money of coin, legal tender and national bank notes is but a small portion of actual circulating medinm. Prac- tically less than 4 per cent. of the aggregate yearly payments are made by paper money, .65 of one per cent. in gold coin and about .16 of one per cent, ingilver coin. The largest por- tion of mercantile business is trans- acted through the banks and nine- tenths of it without the handling of any money whatever. INDIAN AGENT LLEWELLYN hag fur- nished o report to the Interior de- partment relative to the depredations committed by a band of Mescalero Apache Indians now on the warpath. Under date of July 28th he writes as follows: “Tt sooms some few months ago a lieutenant of the United States army then stationed here gave a written permit to three Indians at this agency to go to Old Mexico, and bring back a party of their friends, whom they claimed had left at the time of tho Victeria troubles. This party was due home three waeks ago, and at that time attempted to come in, but were chased and driven into the mountains thirty miles from the agency to Soult. . Since that time they have made, accarding to the statemont of one ' of Parker's scouts, three ineffectual attempts to get into the ageney, being preventented each by scouts and eoldiers. Finding they could not return to the agency, as they had been led to be- lievo they could, they concluded to go on'the war path. T learn on good authority there are about seventy In- dians in this rty. The Indians here feel badly their friends could not be permitted to return, but all unite in telling me they will keop quiet, and show the great father their hearts are good.” — Grorola is becoming excited over the success of Mormon missionaries in her midst, and a bill is being prepared for the legislature making the propa- gation of polygamy in that state a felony, If Georgia continues in her moral development we may soon ex- poct the passage of a bill making bal- lot box stuffing and frauds at elections a misdemaganor, Tae Omaha Herald as usual secks to make political capital for the dem- ocracy out of the recent decision on the Slocunb law, Ttis in acoord with the eternal fitness of things for Dr, Miller, who Las been advoeating high license for & number of years, to arraign the republican party for a law that he has favored. Tue latest advices from Standing Rock agenoy, where the great body of recently hostile Sioux are located, foteshadow trouble unless some de- cisive course, is soon wdopted to set them at work or employmeat is found for their young men that will keep them out of wischief. Now Oredit Mobillers. Over seven thousand miles of new railroad were constructed last year in the Unitéd States, Unless the crash which Rufus Hatch promises us shall come before next January the miliage of track laid this year will be still greater. The west, southwest, north- west and the pacific coast are covered with the surveys of projected lines in actual process of construction. The older states, north and south, are little, if any, behind in adding to their present lines. Some exception- al roads, here and there, are let out to contractor under competition and are paid for in cash as the work ad- vances. By much the larger propor- tion, however, could nover be built, oxcept that an easy market makes a ready sale for bonds of all sorts, and many of the largest of them are pushed forward by the device known as @.construction company. Bradstreet’s of August contains a very suggestive article on these com- panies and the character and extent of their operations. Nothing 1 clearer as a question of morals or of poliey than that the directors and officers of a road should not be pecu- larliy interested in its construction. They are in the position of trustees, and their manifest duty is to have the road built as cheaply and as well as possible. The utmi{()htlorwnrd method is to let out the building of tho rosd to contractors. There would be no objection to letting it to a construction company if the latter were entirely dissociated from the directors or officers of the company. But ' that is not what construction companies were invented for. They are composed exclusively of those on the inside, the directors and ' officers of the railroad and perhaps a few chosen friends, ! Then the directors on behalf of the stockholders of the road make a con- tract with themselves as a conatruc- tion company. They are no longer interested in building the road as cheaply as possible, but the more they can make the company pay _the greater will be their profits. Tt is usually stipulated that they.take their pay in bonds. They in this way receive in bonds per mile about twice the cost of the road. These bonds they sell to a confiding public, and as soon as the road is finished they care not how soon it goes into the hands of areceiver. The stockholders are crowded out entirely and the hond- holder is fortunate if he finds that his bond is secured to the extent of fifty cents on the dollar. The public were first made familiar with this form of enterprise through the Credit Mobilier developments of eight or nine years ago. That was a construction company for building the Union Pacific railroad. There are a large number of these companies now in operation, and so profitable are they found to be that their stock, when obtainable at all, commands a high premium. “The American Cable Construction Company” was organized to lay new Atlantic cables, though it does none of the work., It manages to catch enough between the cables and Siemens Bros., who lay the cables, to make its stock $158% and no sellers. *‘The Pacific Im- provoment Company” has on hand the Texas Pacific, and its stock is worth @260, ‘‘The International Improvement Company” is extending the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and 1ts shares are quoted at $120 to $123. “The American Railway Construc- tion Company” is building the New Orleans Pacifie, with its shares at $226. DBradstreet's give a lisf of these companies, all of which are promoting the sales of bonds in quan- tities suflicient to build their road or lay their cable and enrich the stock- nolders of the construction companies in addition. Thus it comes that new roads cost- ing $20,000 a mile are bonded to the amount of $40,000, with often an equal proportion of stock. So great is the confidence, so abundant is money, 80 good are the times, that both stock and bonds find ready sale. Railroad stocks, new and old, are exceptionally high, many having doubled and tripled their price within three years without the roads having increased in paying capacity in any- thing like the same proportion. There is much to support the coufi- dent predictions which are made of an early reaction and decline in the wholé line of stocks to a basis of something like real values. Until this comes construction companies will probably continue to flourish and their members grow rich by wiping out the property of the stockholders whose interests they were chosen to guard, snd by floating all the bonds they have the courage to issue and can find capitalists trustful enough to purchase. s The Iowa Senatorship. Do Molnes Register, There is undoubtedly a rising tide in public opiuion all over the state in favor of Senator McDill for the Kirk- wood succession—both longeand short terms. It is growing rapidly and en- tirely of 1ts own motion, as absolutely nothing is being done to premote it, while the friends of the so-called two leading candidates, who are working with remarkable energy, are working actively against it. There is a rooted and grounded public faith in MeDill, his integrity and reliability, and this is increased by the growing knowledge of ability. He'is to those who have known him longest and best, as well qualified for the senatorship as any of his competitors, Hu is_not so brilliant in speech-making as Wilson, nor perhaps so great 8 man in details as Gear. But, to make up for the things in which he may fall short of them, he has qualities that neither of them has, and qualities that go to the making up of tlns trusty and best of public servants, On the 8lope, where ho 15 so well known, it only needs his assent for that portion of the state to mass to his support. And as it is, with his refusing to en- ter the canvass for the long term, pub- lie opinion is surely settling in his favor. In another place we give ex- tracts srom various leading papers on the Sleve, whose tone clearly indicates the growing tide of which we speak. All over southwestern Iowa there is a partial feeling in his favor, as there would be, too, in western and cen- tral Towa if Mr, n were f understood not to be & candidate. The western half of the state begins to feel that 1t has rights to defend and interests to serve, and that it has men amply able to represent the state, But #0 far this almost universal feeling has has not taken definite or working shape, and meantime the active can- didates, who know and fear this great sub-current of Eu\uic opinion, are in dustriously working the state and get- ting legislative candidates instructed, a practice which is not meritorious in itself, and prejudicial finally to the best interests of the party and state. Wliat, betwsen men chosen for the | legislature because they happen to be for wome certain man for United States senator, and others chosen be- cause of their views for or agaiust the temperance amendment, weare likely, to have legislatures not chosen for their capacity for general business About next winter, the people will see that it would have been better to choose a legislature well qualified for the duties and re ponsibilites of gen- eral legislation. But it will be too late to mend it then. Of course all thisis treason in the eyos of the factions who would make two questions the only questions in politics just now, and who would drag the whole party at the heels of some one man’s individual and selfish interests. Doubtless we shall catch hark for it from the men who are in one pool or the other for general and special benefits But we con- sider the interests of the party and the state of more importance than those of any man or faction. The practice of instructing candidates for the leg- islature on the question of United States senator, we have always op- posed. It is something no man has an actual right te ask for, and is an evidence of weakness on the part of any man who asks for it, we don't care who the man is. It involves the party in quarrels and endangers the arty candidates to chances of defeat. 'Ilu the Harlan-Allison contest a num- ber of Reoublican candidates were defeated because of chis policy of instruction. We doubt not the same will be true this year. Kor human nature is the same now as then. We know of no fair excuse which can be made for any candidate for the United States senate imperiling the elec- tion of any party candidate for the legislature. ~ Opposition or sup- port of any applicant for United States Senator is a personal matter, and there is no warrant and no excuse for a party making a personal matter a party test on any of its members. High-spirited and hizh-minded men always have resented such tests being placed upon them, and they always will resent them. Why should it be made for any man who is strong, or whose friends claim he-is strong? There is no danger of our Iowa legis- lature electing a weak or unfit man to the United States Senate. A man who cannot be trusted to do what is right had better be defeated outright: ina county conyention than sent to the legislature with'a public pledge made in advance of his public oath. All this will start up the big and little wheels of the big and little ma- chines. But as the senatorial can- vass is getting so sharp, and is being prosecuted in the interest of some of the candidates, with an activity and industry and system never before known in Towa, and which is all the more to be noted because of the secre- cy of a great part of the work, it would “seem it were time that some- body said a little something in behalf of the general interests of the party aud the state. They are two things not to be iost sight of, even when compared with any individual man however great, or any faction however strong. Let the practice of forcing instruction of legislative candidates be continued in Towa a few years, and the party will weaken under it to that same result of doubtful strength to which the same practice, more than anything else, has brought the party in Pennsylvania and New York. Whenever the party gets on an in- clined plane, where the interests of any leader or any faction is made major to the general interests of the Fnrzy, and the unity of the party is held junior to the passing ambition of some one man, itis on the road to small majoritics and early decay. Baron Stenbens Descendants. Secretary Blaine has transmitted the following cordial invitation to Baron Steuben’s descendants to at- tend, the Yorktown celebration, in common with the descendants of La- fayette: Hon, Andrew D. Berlin: Sr—During the darkest period of the revolutionary war, a German sol- dier of character and distinction, tendered his sword in_aid of Ameri- can independence. Frederick Wil- liam Augustus, Baron Steuben, joined Washington at Valley Forge, in the memorable and disastrous campaign of 1778, He attested the sincerity of his attachment to the patriotic cause by espousing it when its fortunes were adverse, its prospects gloomy, and its hopes, but for the intense zeal of the people, well nigh crushed, Baron Steuben was recvived by Wash- ington with amostcordial welcomeand immediately placed on duty as inspector general of the army, A detailed history of his White, Minister, mili career in America would form an epitome of the revolutionary strug- gle. Hehad served in the seven ears war on the staff of the Great rederick, and had acquired in the campaigns of that master of militar; science, skill and experience, so much noeded by the untrained soldiers of the Continental army, drill and disei- plme and effective organization, which under the commanding patron- age of Washington were at once im- parted to the American army by the zeal and dilligence of Steuben, trans- formed the volunteers and raw levies into veterans, who successfully met the British regulars in all the "cam- paigns of the prolonged contest. The final surrender of the British army under Lord Cornwallis, occur- red at Yorktown, Va., on the 19th of October, 1781. Baron Steuben bore & most conspicuous part in the ardu- ous campaign, which ended so aus- piciously for the Continental army, and 1t fell to his lot to receive the first official notification of the pro- posed capitulation, and to bear it to he illustrious commander-in-chief. The centennial of that great event in American history is to be celebrated with appropriate observances and ully | ceremonies on the approaching anni- versary. T am directed by the president to tender through you an invitation to the representatives of Baron Steu- ben's family in Germany to attend the celebration as guests of the gov- ernment of the United States. You will communicate the invita- tion through the imperial minister of | foreign affairs, and will express to | him the very earnest desire of this government that it shall be accepted. ‘Those who como as representatives of Baron Steuben will be assured, in our day of pence and prosperity, of as warm a welcome as was given to their illustrious kinsman in the dark days of adversity and war, They will be the honored guests of 50,000,000 Americans, a number of whom have German blood in their veins, and co stitute oneof the most worthy and val- | uable felements that make up the | strength of the republic. Devoted with patriotic fidelity to America, they yet retain and cherish and transmit most affectionate memories of the fa- therland. To these a visit of Baron Steuben's relatives will have some thing of a revival of family ties, while to all Americans, of whatever origin, the presance of the German guests will afford a fitting opportunity of tes- tifying their respect for that great eountry within whose limits are in- cluded 8o much of human grandeur and human progress. I am, sir, your obedient servant, Jawes G. BLAINE. STATE JOTTINGS. Hebron has street sprinkling. New hay at Hebron is 23 a ton. Tecumseh has a building boom in solid brick, Nance county .is bonsting of glorious crops, q Washington county has corn nineteen feet high. Calvert listened to its first sermon last Sunday. A Baptist church is Herman, Hon. 8, H. Haley is lying very low at Red Cloud, The Orleans Sentinel enters upon its ninth year, Ord is calling loudly for a hook and lad- der company. Hebron precinct, Thayer county, has organized an alliance. The post of the G. A. R, at North Platte have been mustered . Fairfield has organized a effective fire department. North Platte’s Epi al church has or- ganized a Library association. The foundation is being laid for the Clarkson school at North Platte, ‘Wheat in Hamilton county is said to average about ten bushels per acre, Oxford's Catholic church building will be completed by the first of Octoher, Sarpy county will have thirteen more miles of railroad next year than this. The corner stone of the Coneregational Academy at Franklin was laid last week. The cornar stone of Syracuse’s German Evangelical church was laid on Wednes- day. One lumberman from the Superior sold over 23,000 worth of lumber within a week, The Ord people have raised %1050 toward building a Baptist church at that place. More hay is being put up in Lincoln county this season, than during any pre- vious year. The Lincoln & Fremont organized and elected officers Fitzgerald as president. The re-union of the Republican Valley Soldiers’ Aesociation will be held at Ox- ford on the 22d of this month, The village of Edgar has passed an ordinance l»mhihitim{ the erection of wooden buildings on the mamn street, ‘The Missouri Pacific is being pushed rapidly forward, Graders in large num- Ders are at work in Cass and Sarpy coun- ties A lad named Cunningham, living near Lincoln was bitten by a rattlesnake on Monday, and died trom " the effects of the wound, A few days sinte near Orda Buffalo was killed by & party of hunters. He was a straggler and the first seen in that section for many years, to be built at small but road has i John siness houses are in progress of construction in Lincoln. Sev- eral of them are three story, and they cost from $2000 to £10,000 eaclr, Managers of the Central Nebraska Dis- trict Fair are making extensive prepara- tions for the coming exhibition, which will be held from the 19th to the 23d of next month, Two men stopped at the Hoover House one night last week. One of the men was busted, and the other man loaned him out of #40 which he had. During the night the scamp stole the remaining $83 and skipped out, and has not since been heard frow Newaha Times, Steps looking to the building of the Missouri Pacific from Nebraska City to Crete, thence up the West Blue to York and Grand Tsland, are being taken, and with & good showing of success. The rnmlnny that first gets this territory gets the best there is left in that part of the state, A soldier named Monagan was killed at Sidney last week, Tt seems that he was ,‘.x,.ymg a game of poker with xome sol- dier companions, and attempting to “draw out’* of the game, the others ob. jected. To_enforce their objection they elabored him with a chair, thereby injur- ing him to such an extent that he ‘died in a few daye. The murderers have heen turned over to the eivil authorities, The Weather Natlonal Awscciated Fross. WASHINGTON, August 17.The chief signal ofticer furnishes the fol- lowing special bulletin: A hurricane, with its track yet undetermined, is centered west of Southern Florda, The temperature has tallen in the At- lantic states and visen in the lake regions. lowa, Missouri pnd Ohio valleys generally below mean for the month, East of the Mississippi river local rains are indicated for Thursday in the lake regions. el ek = A Resolute Suicide. National Associated Prow: SueLsy, N. 0., Augest 17.—Wmn. Brooks, a farmer, had trouble with his wife and uotified the neighbors that he would hang himself. Yester- day he was tollowed to the woods by a crowd, and he perched himself on the top of a tall oak tree with a rope around his neck, and before he could be prevented he jumped from the tree and broke his neck. e ol & === Mexican Matters. Natioual Associated Pross. Crry oF Mexico, August 17.—The president signed a bill to-day incorpo- rating the Erauce-Egyptian bank in the nawe of the Enaelzlin bank. It will be opened at once, The report that the Gould and Huntington concessions may not be ratified ‘y congress is without founda- tion., aAd 1 qol;:ceniom decreed will be approved without trouble. The pres- ul)nnt reports his doings to wngngn in September, and no further action is nnlmd y to make the concessions vahd, ANOTHER FIRE. Baumer, the Jeweler, This Time the Victim. Sharp Fight With the Flames ‘Which Soon Succumb, About midnight last night flames | were discovered issuing from the roof [ of the huilding on Farnham street oc- cupied by John Baumer as a jewelry store. The fire spread with wonder- | ful rapidity, and by the time the de- artment could arrive the entire roof enveloped in a sheet of flames. The adjoining building is another frame structure, occupied by Lehman & Co., and filled with inflammable material. Owing to the high wind it was thought that the fire could not be prevented from spreading and a second alarm was sent in ealling out the whole department. The fire was first attacked from the front of the building but a line of hose was soon run over the roof of Lehman's store and from that perch the firemen did fine work. While this work was going on a party of friends broke into Mr. Bau- mer’s store, that gentlemen not hav- ing yet arrived, and began to carry the exvosed stock to a place of safety in Peavey’s, across the way. In this manner the entire stock was finally removed. Having extinguished the roof of the building the hose was withdrawn to the ground and run in between the buildings. © Another line was run up- stairs into the office occupied by Dr. Charles, the dentist, and there suc- ceeded in extinguishing some flames that burned stubbornly. In less than an hour after the alarm had been sent in the fire was completely ex- tinguished. The building, which isa common frame structure, is badly gutted and may be considered a total loss. . It is. owned by Frank Swith, of New York, who will lose about §1,000. Baumer carried a stock worth about $20,000. The most valuable articles were, of course, in the safe, but the clocks and silverware in stock were damaged to the extent of $2,000 by water. Mr. Baumer’s policy of insu- rance expired only a couple of days ago. Dr. Charles will probably lose about £800. Lehman’s stock may be slightly damaged by water. % .- THE HOTTEST YET. So the Signal Seryice People Remark About Yesterday. Thermometers Everywhere Take an Aerial Flight. Yesterday was the hottest, thus far, of this summer. At an early hour yester- day morningit becameapparentthat the day would be scorcher, and’as it ad- vanced the most confirmed talkers on the heat were astonished. Men gen- erally have sought the coolest places possible, and given themselves up to repose.and ease. Some, however, have kept up their different avocations despite the warmth. Those who ventrred out stole quictly along in the shade of buildings, andit was almost impos- sible to see any one on the sunny side of streets. Every one wore a de- jected and sort of *‘played out” look, and those who are the possessors of a bank accounts talk of emigrating immediately tomore northern places if the present state of the weather continues much longer, Had it not been for the breeze during the day the weather would have been almost insupportable, The workmen engaged on the “Mllard” quit work at 8 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, They resumed yesterday morning, but quit again, Men employed on other buildings succumbed and laid off. The signal service thermometer gave the temperature at 80" at 5:45 in the morn- ing, and at 9:45 o'clock it had run up the tube to 93}. Along about one o'clock it became considerably hotter, and the signal service indicated the highest point it has reached at any similar hour during the year, viz: 994", When it is considered that the thermometer there is at an elevation of over sixty-five feet from the side- walk it will be seen that it in- dicates only the temporature of the air. The highest point preyiously reached at a similar hour was 96, At two o'clock Max Meyer's thermometer showed 102°, and this is probably a better criterion of the actual heat on the streets in the shade. At 2:30 the same thermometer showed 103} At 3 o'dlock Schiroter & Becht's thermometer showed 108 dagrees, Saxe’s 106 and Max Meyer's 104. - i Sisters of the Sacred Heart The Sisters of the Sacred Heart have rented and will hereafter occupy the large brick structure at Ninth and Howard streets, Tt wag rented for $650 a year. P Mr. J, Marsh, Bauk of Toronto, Ont., writes: *“Biliousness and dyepepsia seems to have grown up with me; having been & sutferer for years, I have tried many reme edies; but with no lasting result until I used your BUkDock BLoon BiiTess, The: bave been truly a blessing to me, und{ cannot speak too highly I\l} them.” Price $1.00, trial size 10 cents, codlw