Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 18, 1883, Page 4

4 THE r\‘lA HA BEE Omaha Office, No. 016 Farnam St. Council Blufts Office, No. 7 Pearl| Strect, Near Broadway New York Office, Ttoom 65 Tribune Building. RATLROAD WARS It is commonly believed that the *‘Towa pool,” composed of the four railroads be- | tween Chicago and Omaha, has been finally broken, and that the business in that important route will shortly be ne | the subject of & “‘war of rates.” A fow | ~ we ks ago the Kansas Cicy pool was on ( Sublished evers worning, except Sunday. The | the eve of disruption, and now the great @aly Monday moruiog daily Trunk line pool is threatened with dis- | "“:':_“”T:‘”““ h 8o turbance growin ,',,,, ‘I‘I \'wl(‘nHln. r of o g P 01 assenver rates by the ‘‘Nickel Plate gh-er AN b 100 | foad. The present difliculties may be | AR WRRKLY BRR, FURLIBIIRD RVERY WRDNRADAT Shoothiad over, but theit existence points TRRMS POSTRATD §2.00 | Three M * 50 1.00 | Onic Month 2 ompany, Solo):AgentsNewsdeal at CORRRSPODRNCA'S A OCommunications relating to News and Editorial matters should be addrossed to the Eptror or Tun . Ono Year Bix Months. Amorioan News ors o the Unite BUSINRSS LETTRRA. All Businews Lottors and Remittances should be addrossod to Tiiw BRR PUSLISITING COMPANY, OMATIA Drafts, Chocks and Postoffice orders to be made pay able to the order of the company THE BER PUBLISHING (0., PROPS. E. ROSEWATER, Editor, ] Pot republican conventions in Omaha, 105 in Louisiana reminds one of Vicror Huco does not seem to have wuch influence with Queen Victoria, M. Rivoresercer has longer legs| than Mahone. He still straddles the fence. Sexator Maxu voted for Mc- Cook. They hoth fought with the Army of the Cumberland, and both hailed from Ohio about that time. ERSON Par. HAwEs is serving out his contin- gont term as usual at Washington, Per- haps Pat thinks he has been elected con- tingent congressman for life. OVERNOR J. STERLING MORTON, of Nebraska, arrived in the city yester- day.—Chicago Tribunc. The way to get a title in Nebraska is to run for a high offico and be defeated. Crevm Cuasg, spondent, may be able to follow the move- wents of Senator Manderson, but he can’t keep track of our *“Val.” While he was reporting the stalwart cottonwood of the Elkhorn Valley as homeward bound, the associated press announces that he is still our Washington corre there as the hired spokesman of the whisky distillers. It now looks as if the democrats will hold their national convention in Chicago also. The point made against Chicago in the republican convention was that two out of the three presidents mnomi- nated there have been assassinated. If the democrats and republicans both nominate at Chicago the next president ought to be iron-clad and bullet-proof, UxNpERGROUND telegraph and trlephone wires rocently put down in Washington are working well. A twelve-mile tele- phone circuit was formed and worked with far better results than had it beea strung in the air. What has been done in Washington will soon be deno in every city of any prominence, if the authorities have back-bone enough to force the com- panies to comply with their orders, in ac- cordance with ordinances passed to gov- orn the matter, Prov, Enuo'rt, of the bm:lhnunmu. who has spent much time in Alaska, thinks that owing to the failure of recent gold mines there the population of the torritory does not now exceed 400 por- sons, We presume that he means 400 white persons. If this is the casc it will be an expensive luxury to give Alaska a territorial government, with legislative and judicial ofticers. Possibly the best way out of the dilemma is to annex Aluska to Washington territory for ernmental jurisdiotion. V- CoxoressMaN Haskerr, of Kunsas, is dead, He was one of the ablest repre sentatives that Kansas has cver sent to the national legislature, He represented the Second district of Kansas, which in- cluded the counties of Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Labette, Lynn, Mi- ami, Montgomery, Neosha, Wilson and Wyandotte. His home 18 at Lawrence, He was born at Springfield, Vt,, March , 1824, recoived a classical education at Easthampton, Mass., and took a spocial course at Yale college; engaged in mer. cantile pursuits; removed to Kansas in 1865; was a member of lhc state houseof reprosentatives in 1872, 75 and 76, gerving the last term as speaker of the house; was nominated for governor hy the temperance party in 1874 and de- clined; was clected to the Forty-fifthand Forty-sixth congrosses, and was re-elected to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth congresses as a republican, . S — Wik the southern people deprecate the revival of sectional issues they should be made to understand that they cannot at this late day expect the United States to cash their claims for the chattels wl wrar upon oss of human ch was increased during their the government, A St Louis papor is authority for the staternent that ‘‘prominent parties in Texas will soon bring suit in the fed- eral court of claims to recover the yalue of slaves emancipated during the war, They propose to base their action on the clauses of the state constitution of Texas, which congress approved and indorsed when that state was admitted Union, which, they say, *n gov- ernment of the United State for alave property” lost by the act of emanci pation, The nuwmber of slaves uo lost to the slaveholders of Texas was about 10, 000. Averaging then at 8400 cach, their total value was #:6,000,000, It would be a rich haul if they could realize it, and would greatly reduce the surplus iu the national treasury. into 0 the | nost serious danger that hangs | way-property in this country-—a | danger far more to be apprehended than | | any which congress or state legislature | have ever t | This danger consists in_“‘overproduc- tion” of the same type as that which now [ afticts the iron and" woollen and paper mills of the country. It isa part of the | competition of capital, which is every where going on and which cannot bekept | out of railroad buildin ny more than | out of cotton spinning. he very misery of it to the railroad men, is that they cannot suppress or retard it, even within their own circles. An officer of an im- portant railway in the west, whose origi nalling was confined to the state of 1lli- nois, but now extends to Colorado,with a fan-tail of branches in ery direction, said recently that every mile of road which had been built by his company beyond the original plan had been under- taken with extrere reluctance and only when forced upon them by the plainest necessity. It was mnot to t new business, but to save and retain the old, that they had built here and chere, and were building still. All the rivals and competitors of this company have been and are still working upon the same theory. ch is pushed on by the other in nho line of over- production until the business becomes unsatisfactory, and the “pools” break up and there is a war of rates and « tumble in stocks, and the public derive the advautage, for a longer or shorter time, of very low rates of transportation. If existing railways cannot avoid over production and thecutting of each other's throats (as they clearly cannot), still less can thoy prevent the building of other and entirely new lines to compete with their own, such as the Nickle Plate and West Shore roads, which form a_par- allel to the New York Central and Lake Shore system for a distance of nearly a thousand miles. Nor can anything prevent it except the hand of government, This is a remedy which is not to be looked for in the present stage of the railroad problem, but the time is coming, in our judgment, when the ablest railroad managera will be glad to surrender their now exclusive control rates of transportation to the gov- ernment in return for protection against the encronchments of each upon the other. At all events it is worth the con- sideration of the anti-monopolists, whether the advantages which they think are to be brought about by state inter- ference not working them 8 oub with suflicient rapidity under the law of competition,.—New York Evening Post. The anti-monopolists do not propose to submit to the arbitrary exactions of the railroad barons until relief comes through the law of competition. There can be no permanent competition between rail- ronds bocause in the very nature of things railroads are monopolies. Every railrond in this country has a monopaly of its local traftic at every point that is not touched by another railroad, and when competition does come by the é¢onstruc- tion of rival lines, combination always follows as a matter of necessity, Whether the combination is made by uniform rates, which are invariably higher than the rival lines could afford to make them, or whether their earnings are pooled, the monopoly always remains, Pooling within itself ulwuyn means the repeal of the laws of competition, and the cut- throat wars between pool lines are gen- erally paid for by the patrons of the rail- roads when the war is over. The cor- poration press, with which the New York Evening Post is now identitied, readily admits that the government must sooner |ate a new departure in | men to ed, among other things, that| dvanced the theoryjthat and that he could Times cha Massey had man had seven souls, | obtain proo of the existenco of his sev- [enth or only really valuable soul by get- ting drunk, -~ DENPOR'S NEW DEPARTURE The city of Denver is about to inaugur- the matter of srdi mended for passage in | raistng revenue. An 1ce has heen unanimously r un council to impose license fees upon | nearly every class of mercantile business. | It may be of interest to Omana husiness know how little they are taxed comparatively. The schedule of license foos in Denver is very lengthy, It in cludes among others the following: Auc tioneers, %200 a year; brewers, 300 | retail liquor dealers, %1,000; wholesale liquor dealers, $300; book agents, &40 commission merchants, #200; intelligence oftices or employment bureaus, £200; i wagons, h; money changers and £100; patent medicine peddlers, £100; pawn-brokers, £300; ped- lers of patent inventions, 8100; lightning rod peddlers, ¥150; tree peddiers, $100; roller skating rinks, £100; other skating rinks, #200; second hand dealers in fur- niture, £300; railroad ticketbroker, $100; dealers in atoc solicitor for real estate, insurance agent, or railroad ticket broker, £100; advertis- ing agents and bill posters, 810; insur- ance agent, %500; loaner of money on personal property, £200; sewing machine agent, 8100; agent for forcign breweries, 8300; agent for powder company or powder, $100; menagerie for firat exhibition, 8250; each subseqnent exhibition, 8100; each sideshow where admission is charged, 25; peanut stands and sidewalk merchants, $120, telegraph £500; telephone companics, $1.00 per year for each instrument; junk dealers, $50, Liquor licenses are paya- ble for six months in advance, other li- censes must be paid one year in advance, |° except transients, such as pedlavs,agents, ete. With suct nue as that Denver can have a large police force to appre- hend thieves and roughs, and the crim- inal class generally, and should have enough to maintain a splendid fire de- partment. In Omaha there is nothing like this liconse system, and it migh not be good policy to establish such rates but there ought to be a better system than we have for licensing certain classes of business which pay no other taxes for eping up the city. To besure the license money in Omaha would all go to the school fund, but this would relieve us from all school tax and enable us to pay off the school debt. and circus, companies, re CUT OFF THE “CONTINC At nearly every sossion of the Ne- braska legislature for the last ten years bills have been log-rolled through to pay claim agents for collecting money due to this state from the national government. We have had bills for the relief of Tom Kennard and Pat O. Hawes and other professional lobbyists, and in nearly every instance these lobbyists have suc- coeded by pooling with the Lincoln rings, and every bogus claimant whohap- pens to want reliof at the expense of the taxpayers. On page 352 of the statutes of 1883 we find the following item among other miscellaneous appropria- tions: *To pay Patrick O Hawes in full for collecting the claim of the state of Nebraska from the United States for suppressing Indian hostilities in 1864, $1,038. When this allowance was made to Mr. Hawes it was done with the understanding that this closed the or later step in and prevent the construc tion of railroads where existing roads af- ford ample facility for all the traffic of the section through which the road proposes to puss. In other words the government must stop the building of railroads where needed in order to prevent an over-production of railroads, which would force their owners aither to exact exorbitant tolls or new two only ome s to ro sort to a ruinous competion for business, The Evening Zosf even admits that the Mest railroad s will be glad to surrender their oxclusive control over transportation rates to the government in return for its protection againgt the “encroachments of each upon the other. In the why not beginnow? time is coming when tho manug name of common sense, Why do they want to put off to some future day what they admit must be done as a matter of self proservation? Why should any more trunk lines be parvalleled by *‘nickel- plate’’ syndicates, whose sole object is to amass millions through Credit Molulier construction rings, and then after the road is mortgaged forall it is worth to glut the market with an unlimited issuo of stock upon which tho patrous of the new road are expected to pay a dividend, whother the road is operated ia competi- tion earnings with the old line Why should not the present cougress or pools its enact an inter-state commerce law that will prevent tho systematic highway robberies to which the people of this country have hoen subjected for yeara Why not establish & maximum rate, above which no railroad shall charge, and & minimum rate below which none of them shall cut! Why should not the legislatures of the states interfere on behalf of the people and the railroads, too. Is not this continuous plea of Jefl ALl we want is to be let alone,” on the part of the railroad managers and | tion press, getting about a4 it is impudent, Massey \ try somie years ago on the subject, **Why | Doesn't God Kill the Devil Now Mr Massey answers his conundruin by suin Tincs for §5,000 for 1 damsge to his character, Davis, ot a8 mon lectured in thi GiEray » New York 1 I'he ledger account between him and the State of Nebraska. But Pat O, Hawes is again at Washington pretend- ing to be the accredited agent of this state for the collection of claims, be of interest to the taxpayers of hras- ka to know why anybody should be eni- ployed to act as state claim agent. By whoin has Pat. Hawes been appointed and by what authority Ttmay Nebraska has two senators and three members of con- gress at Washington under pay, and thoy certainly ought to be competent to adjust any claims which this state may have against the general government, 1f they ave not competent or willing *o attend to such matters, they are unfit to ropresent us. It behooves the governor of Ne- braska to recall all claim agents, or pre- tended agents, to save our legslature from future anuoyauce, and the state from further expense. Nebraska has had enough of the contingent congress- man farce, DIO LEWIS ANE JOHN B, FINCH, Dr, Dio Lewis, who has been a rec nizod authority on matters of temper ance, in oating as woll as drinking, bas struck a Ohio, suag in his voyage through 1t appears that ten years ago Dr. Lewis was the apostle of the Ohio eru- sadors, and indivectly the founder of ‘the Women's Christian Temperance unic The ofticers of that society had recently made arrangements to celebrate the tenth anuiversary, which will ocour on the 23d | of Dacemb to Dr. that occasic An invitation was issued Lewis to address the assembly on at Hillsboro, It appears, however, that the doctor has undergone a great change of heart during the last ten years, He had reached the after travelin clusion, rom Maine to California, that prohibition does not pro- hibit, where the community has not reached a high moral standard, With Lim, therefore, t 3 ance veform had lecome a battle fc Dio Lewis will now | pay him 8200 a night for his services. | ers is pending in congress. lluu John B, Finch, to come to ills- \ boro as the champion of prohibition to de- | bate with Dr. | owis and administer to that that will | Whether come reimains to be | of | backslider a sound castigation remind him of the old crusade. seen. Our own Finch will be there, conrse, as large as life and twice as nat- | ural. He is always on hand to please | the ladics, and particulatly when they Tie whisky distillers at Washington urging upon congress the | A con- | re in full force extension of the bonded period. ar lins been enlisted | ; Fol-| to relieve the distill- | ional committee to plead their cause before Secreta ger while their bill The comnt Blackburn, of Ken tucky, a Bourbon of Bourbons, and our Valentine brings up the tee is headed by rear of this unique committee as the representative of this year's Nebraska corn-juice trana formed into fifty-near-old Irish whisky by Tichenor's patent. Nebraska is high ly honored. Tur cabinet O'Donnell Tuesday. session to consider the jite was adjourned until While Mr. Frelinghuysenwas adjusting his golden spectacles Mr. O'Donnell climbed the golden atair. v LSONALITIES, Mr. Reagan (Texas) looks younger sinco he is shaven cloan. Sam Sixkiller is Ch ukvaf\nlwu the high sheriff of the 1y's face is all twisted out bo with rhoumatism, For kissing a pretty irl against her will, W, E. Hamilton, of Duluth, Minn,, has been Ol M, Christiancy is no danger of dying from grief, He was trepanned with boiler iron many years ago. The Washington monument is now 410 feet highs bt Goneral Logan thinks ho 15 a few inches high There is no such word as dude now. They call them “slims.” David Davis, do you hear? Senator 'abin, the new chairman of the na tional cemmittee, looks like Logan, Thisa great recommendation, Thero is at last some prospect that Oscar Wilde will drop out of print—he is going to get married. So Spencer, ex-carpet- \u\(.,i(m, was the crea- tor of >ostmaster James! Y8 50, John G, Thompson has returned to Ohio bleating ng like & foolish bull calf that has ra pail of milk, and hopes by his pla ies to induce the hired man to bring hi her pailiul. Queen Victoria 15 passionately fond of baked apples. The walnut is another favorite of hers. She has a dish of these nuts constantly rre]mu--l, with the shells removed and every it of brown skin taken off, leaving the nut white and whole, Joe Kmmet is said to be developing rare ‘mesmeric powers. Joe may be able to control others, but it would be more money in his pocket if he conld find somebody able to con- trol him, A femalo cowboy- ~that is te say, a cow-girl ~has been discovered in New Mexico. She can throw the lariat and rope in an avimal with the best of them. — The last we hoard of Kate Field she was out there somewhere rid- ilu;: a horse a-straddle. We say nothing rash, but— Jay Gould, V\llo was not invited to the Van- derbilt “‘snorter,” is said to be planning a par- ty which wil 1ake the descendants of the old CGommaodore sick for generations to come. It looks as though Russell Sage and Cyrus W. Field, hoth well known for their hospitality, ought g got into this game somewhere. William Y. Buttes, the *‘cowboy poet,” Was never on the plains in his life, but has for years been a government employe at Washington. Had he been out there, and did he know what a cowboy really was, he'd see himself in Tophet before he'd call himself one. Speaker Carlisle is a very pale man, with brown hair, no whiskers or mystache, and with cloan-cut_features, indicating_a very neryous organization. He is of the Gireek type, hav- inv a_long, straight nose, a handsome chin prominent enough to indicate firmness wit! out obstinacy, and clear blue eyes. It transpires that the Christian name of the omely Miss Chiamberlain, who i» figuring in London society as a Imum,y. is not Giladys, nor Honoria, nor Ethel, nor Marguerite. nor Agatha, but plain, simple, hard, homely Jane, Which by her family has been diminutized to the popular but plebeian Jennie, This is in the nature of 4 national calamity. Sedalia Pazoo: Fay Templeton is a grass idow and a slick one. Hor hubby was bad, y fired him out of the honsehold bodi- y. othen ho has wandered around the world, figuratively. looking for broad cast upon the water. During his trip he read tho papers, and <aw how much money ay b Leen making, and then he commonced to rub 1 and the result is he tarted out in istry in Brown L, and a few s professor of chen ersity, at Providonce, | years ago went to Colorado to a ores, One .L?~ a miner came to him with a nugget. Hill said that it was gold. He wormed the location out of the man and made haste to ot possession of tho mine. 1t has made him a wiillionaire. Knowledgo is power. So says the man Wwho was juggled out of the niine, Schur/’s Retirement. New York Times, In retiring from The Evening Post Mr. Carl Schurz simply gives public proof of what has been or some time privately known, that his own views of certain im- pdrtant questions of the day are not in accord with those adopted by the gentle- men lately associated with him, 1t is known that Mr, Schurz's vishes and ad- vice were ignored when The Post so zeal- ously espoused the cause of the Western Union Telegraph company against the striking operators last summer, and in other matteys of similar importance his judgment concerning the course of the paper has been set aside. We believe that Mr, Schurz has been responsible none of those articles in The Post which during the past four or five months have 80 frequently surprised a large class of its readors, s retirement is ontirely cred itable to him, A man of Mr, Schurz's independence i d honesty of opinion is obviously out place on a corporation | newspaper. A\ Serew lLoose, Mr. F. O. Bell, lumber York, made a visit to Lincoln last week to sev what rights a shipper over the B, A M, roads had, and to what extent the railrond could push down the thumb- screw. We have repeatedly made men- | tion in The Democrat of the great incon- venience brought about by the lack of | sufficient side-tracks at York, and it | appears, from the nature of Mr. Bll's complaint that the freight 1l rtment of the company are attempting to make the | An’old | admitted, merchant at|t e ————————————————————— e ur hours, nm] spers witl be compelled o ay a demurrage fee of 813,00 per car per | day until unloaded, and that the contents will be held by the road umtil demur- parts, or pay a demmurage fee of $10,00 per car Is one any fairy than the other? Is one any more reasonable, under the circum- stances, than the other | Flatbush and h, i New York Times The attention of the Rey. Mr. Tal- mage and other persons who desire to ex- | terminate the Mormons because they are | polygamists, who marry several simul- taneous wi instead of divorcing the old ones before marrying the new ones, | as i the custom in more civilized com | munities, is called to that peculiar insti- tution the ‘*‘church sociable.” If the, will read the testimuny in the Higbie- Vaughan case they will learn that kiss- | ing is the chief occupation of the fre- quenters of these sociables although oc- | casionally a mockery of the marriage sacrament is performed, in order, per- haps to add a new zeal to the kissing. Practices such as these cannot be mad decent by pretending that they are re- ligious practices, swnctioned by tho| “church sociables,” any more than poly- | gamy in Utah can be excused on the| ground that it is a religious practice and is sanctioned by a so-called churcl Itisevident that the Flatbush “‘church sociable” is a terribly demoralizing affair, and the promiscususand constant Kissing in which its members mdulge is simply | sickening. We must wipe out this blot upon our tion at all hazards This is pre-eminently acase in which “‘troops” | arefrequired, Let ussend Phil Sheridan to Flatbush at the head of anarmy, with mqiruumm to put every member of the ociable” to the sword., Mr. doubtless ready to march with | the (mnp and to urge them on in their | bloody work. Flatbush is much nearer than Utah, and for that reason will be a better place in which to begin the work of extermination in the cause of purity. Full-Blossomed ¥ opolies, San Francisco Chroniold Tre Oyana Bek complains of the mo- nopoly in meat created by the groat cat- | tle kings, and declares that these men | will soon wield a power second only to | that of the railroad magnates. The Paci- ast points in the way of monopolies. Our railroad without a peer in the country in ; our sugar ring is fertile in resources to make the peoplu pay a high price for sugar, which tho 'vournment has assisted them in l'urniahulg at a low rate; and, finally, our cattle ring sees to it that with a big supply of the raw material for good living, we are forced to pay nearly as much for choice beef as Chicago does, although the cattle sold in that city are transported ten times as far as ours are. In fine, for full-blossomed monopolies one must come west of the rockies. ‘Winter Work on F Up to the present time there has been little to prevent western farmers from continuing to work out of doors. Persons who do not consult the almanac or notice the name of the month on the papers they read will hardly be aware that it is winter. In most parts of the west there is no snow or ice, and the weather is as favorable to many farm operations as it is in the fall or spring. The ground is generally in good condition for plowing. In some of the southern states and in | many countries in Burope, where the winters are generally like the present one here, fields are plowed for crops that are | to be sown the commg spring. There | are many other farming operations that can be conducted with advantage. Itis | not generally advisable to put up board fence in the winter, even if the weather is favorable to working out of doors. The posts are not secure in the ground till the soil sottles around them, and they are| v liable to he blown out of line by the | nst the boards attached | Wire, howeyer, has generally | arms. to them. taken_the place of hoards for making | farm fences in all parts of the west, and wire feaces can be erected in winter as well as in summer if the weatheris favor able. The wind can not act against the | posts with sufticient force to blow h.\m! out of line. In most parts of the west | the soil is not frozen, and is free fium snow. Ivis sufliciently moist to allow post holes to be dug casily, but not satu- | rated with water, as it is likely to be in early spring. There has been no better | time then the present for putting up| wire fence during the entire year, The opportunity for doing this work should | not be neglected by farmers who are | obliged to build fences before sowing seed spring. n open winteris an excellent time for ing drainage operations. Men | o generally idle. Horses and | good condition to do hard | oxen are work, There are no insects to trouble | them. Ifit is necessary to hire extra laborers, they can be obtained for mt less than in the spring of summer. around is in the best condition to dig. Drains can be cut now much easier than they can when thesoil lecomes very dr rm engineer, b asked t best time to dr S\ h\n you have the most unoceupied time,” He however, that the zondition of the suil in respect to moisture had much | o do in insuring an easy job, As with | digging the post-holes, so with digging drains—the work can be done with the greatest case when the earth is quite moist but not cowpletely saturated with water. Many farmers are prevent from draining land for want of time u the scarcity of help® There is so much to do during the spring in preparing the soil for seeding and putting in crops that they have no time for ¢ draiug and shippers pay for what their road lacks in neceasary track facilities at this point ghor morals within the fawily circle instead of a vain attompt to regulate the | Appetites and Wy pro- | Libitory Hills oard of the conversion of the high local option systews, decided upon a new de ted abits of people b tute, The ladies of boro, having Dr, Lewis to license and parture, They iny our own, the | chants, but it is quite expen We havo only two short and after cars are dropped loading by the regular, t me in @ y *fox and geese” with the cars for the balance of the day, pre- hing cars atall. ~ Of venting shippers course this is not only a delay to our m e to the thut side-tracks, | Lere for un extra will But the com if cars are n y haw issiied londed w orde | Under putting in tiles. They busy during | all the summer in cu crop .ml | harye d grain, It is g ure extra labos an | during any other ar. | I'he ground is also i he. ng hard and dry and often cov with growis In the fall the 1l employed in havves'ing lrains have bec ry common ¢ Britain the re egetation and teams are G | | performance of a large amount of work | necessity. | head yuarters, | a man said: | and reports that the telephone w during the winter when there is little £Or men and teams to do on farms, bY dmwining land this winter it will be in prime condition to work early ter should be the means of insuring the | that is generally put oft till spring from DANGEROUS ELECTRICITY, An Arc Light Wire Accider t Caunses a Fire in Fulton Street. w York Sun, Decen:ber 11, A blue-white flame shot out at 5:30 o'clock on Saturday afternoon from a window sill in the second story of 12 Fulton street, where a telephone wire runs into the building. At the same in- stant the telephone box in the office of Winkoop & Hallenbeck, printers, on the second floor of 121, was burned out, and the annunciator at the tetephone 198 Broadway was in like manner destroyed. The telephone wire had become crossed with an electric light wire, and had worn the covering off, sc that a large part of the powerful current was sent over the tele- phone wire, The water poured on the | window sill made the wood a good con- ductor, and employes who put their hands on the wet wood received severe shocks. The poles of the United States Flec- tric Illuminating company are the only arc-light poles in Fulton street. At the company’s office in Elm strect last night v sill. Our hin ftirteen feet of ““I examined that windc | wires do not run wi that telephone wire. “‘Do_any other elevtric light wires run through that street "’ was asked. “No. The tclephone wire was ground- ed with another wire that gotthe current from some other part of the city." Fire Marshal Sheldon investigated, e did cross with an electric light The actual damage to the building in Fulton screet ua light, because the employes SuB BERMar mEMEDY FOR PAIIN. Rheumallsm Neural ia, Sciatica, iflac u Toothach 1t ARLES A, VOGELER O Waliimnre, 3 C.E.MAYNE & CO., {1509 Famam Street, Omaha, Neb, WHOLESALE SHIPPERS AND DEALERS IN Hard & Soft Coal --AND— CONNELSVILLEEC KO! £ Write for Prices. UMPHREY& EOPATHH: fi n vszs'psclr_lcs 109 Falton Sireet, Now ¥ ork, NERVI]US DEB!LETY noxt | Speak Right up. Yauaska theronghbred, fall blcotedh e thinks of Dr. Thomas' Eolecteic Cil, an1 he w mage 18 paid. * Tt looks to us e though |spring. The coast of tho work will bo '™ ™" ol bbbt onbe this was a new heme to thmmp the | trifling, as the men and teams required to [ **"* shipper again. say nothing of the |do it wemld earn little in any other em-| Youask Anh to s * his injustice of the requirement, womld it | ployment, timate of D7, Thomas' Ec'ectric 01 and hs wil not put on more of 4 color of fairness if | A mild and open winter also affords an | 1\ yiue shore sy be 4 better intoren and e the company would first give their pa-|excellent epportunity for digaing wells Hat ani kniow of it trons at least necessary facilities for and making sisterns for storing soft water, | 701" Pt he com S % meeting such orders as the one in ques- | Itis also favorable for excavating and | [0 think there i#aothin . tion! Tt is impossible to finda car at one | walling up silos for preserving green fod- [ O Foracold or hoeme " place long enough to unload it, and we | der. Land cas be cle Lushes and |3t o, 4. Fellow, Brr fosey are informed that the major part [atumps to excollent If the | of them have be unloaded | stamps s ted out by means of giant a Knii A from the end of the car, which|powd ments can be used fox| btz bt aidred p o consumes one hundred per cent more | fuel during the winter. [If the houae | Thoms' Fel Ol R C- Joitioty/ot Tien .0 time. If the company can lay down a | contains an open fireplace stu m‘.a.fu. | Hitedate County, Micn law to compel shippers to unload with. | siderable size may e burned in it. AdL| wern fvetines its price, s 6, Dufr |in twenty-four hours, when they can't|vantage should bs taken the nul.l} o i AHEONK, O Ehe At T8Ves unload at all, or pay a demurrage fec |weather to put coad under cover, asit| s .oy i . of £7¢0, why can't the company lay [will produce much more heat and be | ! fam on foot down a law that the car shall be unloaded | cleaner to handle if it is k ept out of the| Asaremedy for catarrh it stand oiie o). Ede before the train that brings it here de- |influence of rain and snow. \ mild win- | ward 8 soaley, 208 W, Tw ltth streot. Dacenpore, towa 1« the bestarticl In cases of cronp it never faled to cure 0.7 smiey €. R, Halt, Grayville, 11, Ltell you 't isa Drwkiek, N. ¥ Thomay e trio Ol fs sold by evers @og N.Y. Azent for Omaha, Nl DR, FELIX LE BRUN'S h AND PREVENTIVE AND CURE. JOR EITHER SEX. Th remody belng Injected dircotly to the seat ihe teaso, requirea no change of diet oF nauseous, 1 of poisonous medicines to be taken intern liy Whon ‘1sed 0an preventive by either sex, it (3 {mpossiole to contraot any private disoase; but in the 2ag0 of those already uniortunately afflicted we guar- Anton threo boxea to cure, or we will rotund tha money. Prics by mail, postige pald, 2 per box, or \hreo boxes for 3. iWRITTEN OUARANTEES ssued by all authorized agents. Dr.FelixLeBruné&Co SOLE PROPRIETORS.? &P Goodman, Drugiiet, Solo Agent, for Omai b Imported Beer IN BOTTLES. 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