Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 13, 1884, Page 4

T OMAHA DAILY PEE MONDAY. OCTOBER 13 1484 I'HE DAILY BEE e O Ol N e 7 Peatt 5| Tho membera of the commisslon for Strect Rear BORAWAY. the development of the trade of the New York Offics, Room 65 Tribune | United States with the South American Bullding. =78 countries called on ex-President Geant - zoopt Bondayt The | the other day to obtain hia views on the subject. General Grant, among other s | things, suggested a very novel way of 1.9 | developlng the South American trade. He recommended the reorganization of the consulate service in Central and South America, and that instead of scattering consuls here and there, commercial agenta should be appointed to every port, PRI and they should have the privilege of on- A, Gommunteations relting to News and Edilors | £0¢ing In business. They should be per- matters should bo addressed 4o the Korron of Tid | mjtted to act as drammers for the manu- = facturers of the United States They 1d be | should have samples sent them and be al- AMERICAN COMMERCE. Poblished every moming #aly Monday mornlog daily. B BT MATL .#10.00 | Three Montha . 5,00 | One Month. . Por Woek, 26 Oenta. FITR WARKLY REN, PURLISIAD NVARY WEDNASDAY. TRRMS POSTPAID. Throe Months 930 Yoar.. Six Montha, Amerioan News Company, Solo Agente, Newsdeal- oredn the United States. BUSINRSS LNTTARS, All Businoss Tottors and Remittances sh Dral ecks ane . . able to the order of the company. the ports at which they are located. The 'HE BBE P“BL‘SHING UU., PBUPS’ trouble now 1is that poorly paid con- ROSEWATER or suls_ have no motive in prompting trade AR Fih;h A rD.‘llyCirvuluinu p [and the merchants and manufacturers 3 3 h 0. Box, 488 Omaha, Neb, three weeks from to-morrow. properly registered when the time comes. Toespay tells the hla"ivn“(r)‘hio. Some hard work is being done In that State to- day. Ir Ohio goes democratic In this presi- dential year it will go back on Its record, extending back to 1856, Nnnmsx:; now reveling in the luxa- most agreeable season of the year. —_— 7 bulld up an independe Tax republican campaigners willmarch |o o 0" 0¢ hich would make the con- in a body from Ohio to New York on|y .. salary no object. In other words, Wednesday next. Tho Bmpire state is | oporal Grant proposes to substi- to bo the scene of somo pretty lively |, government drummer service work between now and November 4th. |, place of the consular service in South Amerioa, and relieve the merchants and manufacturers of all expense save the transportation of their goods and the percentage fees which they would have to pay these consular drummers. This scheme may look very attractive on its face, but in all probability the consular drummers would soon have a monopoly of their own, and have our exporters at their mercy. Ricaaro K. Fox, who is one of the shrewdest sporting men in New York City, says that the odds are 100 to 76 that Blaine will carry the ntate of New York, and that the local sporting men are betting on Blaine. Tue use of *‘soap” in political cam- Paigns is necessitated by the unclean rec- ords of candidates. 1If all the reports are true more ‘‘soap” will be used in this campaign than in any political contest in the history of the United States. Ir there is any eflicacy in prayer St. John and Daniel ought to trlumph in the great contest. While the other political parties are spending theirmoney in drink and riotous living, the prohibitionists will observe the 209th of October as a day of prayer and annE. fore the commissioners vislted him, stilt goes on. This Is a good thing for | business in that state to transmit messages wost-bound travelers, but persons golng | with impartiality and good faith in the on the cut rate, which makes the round |offering the message. In trlp only a little more than half-price. rate. ConaressMaN WEAVER has blundered, to use a mild phrase, when he challenged James W, Davis to produce proofs to sustain his inuendoes about Mr, Weaver's l::r:‘;:;::::::::n hasty flight from Kearney when the . Eaton-Howa libel suit was to be tried. Mr. Weaver was not present at Lincoln during the investigation of the senatorial acandal in which Church Howe was in- volved, and he may never have read the testimony taken before the legislature. If he had read that testimony it was cer- tainly imprudent for him to challenge Davls to the proof. ute does not abridge the freedom of com- mercial intercourse among the states, The annua report of the Western Union telegraph company gives ita cap- ital stock at $80,000,000. The report, however, fails to give the per centage of water, which is not less than 50 per cent. The bonded debt is $7,214,000. The revenues for the past year were §10,082- 000 and the expenses $13,022,000. To the §6,610,000 profits is added §3,008,- | made to live up toits provisions. That 000 surplus on hand July 1, 1883, mak-|they do not do it is the fault of patrons ing » total of $10,268,000. Deducting|in not prosecuting them for their delin- " quencies, either through indifference or ta'lw"'mp‘i:d ti’:ud":::nd rhll:u'ti owin%to‘lhe fact that they are ignorant 4 P 9% that they have an adequate remedy. $1,158,000, Tae Bee was mistaken the other day parties and the subject matter within our jurisdiction by enforcing the performance in stating that the board of education all eyes are turned towards that state. |and his wife, the Queen, is a year older. The Emperor of Austria is 04, and his wife is 40, while King Leopold of Bel- giuw, 40 years old, has a wife aged b50. oungest monarchs reigning onso of Spain, who has seen 27 years, and next to him come King George of Greece, and Alexander of Russia, each of whom are in the neigh- The Sultan of Turkey 42, King Oscar of Sweden 55, Louis of Portugal 46, Humbert of Italy 40, and President Grevy, of France, 71. 8 ’ _ wife of the Russian cept the high school bonds, which run |irom neighboring states, particularly from | youpger than her hi twenty years from the date of issue at Maryland, to be voted in democratic [ the German five, and the Queen of Ttaly counties where the democrats have the |seven. would submit two propositions to the|It may now well bo said as goes the voters to issue bonds for the erection of | Buckeye state so goes the union. Each two school houses to cost $18,000 each, | party has exerted every effort to mass | (ne of the ngth and draw recruits from |is King Alp The propositions simply ask authority to |its own strei spend the money out of the funds of the | the other. That a very heavy vote will board, in accordance with the law which be cast there is no doubt, and that the provides that sny expenditure over |democrats will attempt all sorts of des-|horhood of 59, $5,000 by the hoard shall be voted upon | Perate games there is no question. The|is by the people. As we understand it|Cleveland Lcader charges that organized there are no other school bonds out ex-|gsngs of repeaters are to be brought ten per cent. o I S i » political machinery in their own hands, Tur question is often asked whethor |y jyeq of all kinds bave beon mado :‘:‘;“:"‘:”':“‘;: 'w"::.““h“."o“::f; to the liquor element, whish is doing all killed by electric light wires, and the other evening an electric light in Niblo's theatre, New York, set fire to some Nowi t W actificial roses. This acoident led to '°fi':fi“.:;s“&.":mbiim. o inquiry among the theatre proprietors, | 0,080 the patriotism and high-souled in- a number of whom gave it as their | tegrity of their party, and place relisvce opinion that the eleetric light is dan-|ou the li:lncgri(by of }t.lhuganplu‘ 'l‘lm.l())‘iu is republican by a handsome wmajority cn gorous ko property as well as o Mo |, il vota is an uadoubted fact, wud it ::l:;‘ the n:w t u. P';l:'y this v::e'whlulh tha'hreinrl;lh.u-m N ever| eas | tnass at the poles on the 14th ivst, the electric light will continue to ,‘,a‘,lumnt b';':xo slay. ;-hullllsl ou :ex; b\ day. 0 , the lawe, and the R o o Wh2uld unite with the robust iu health e discharge & duty which must affoot erly destroyed by the electric light than ! fulure of the eutire country, Ohio by gas. uever yet faltered on the eve of a p in its power against the republicans, The Leader, being alive to the impor- tance of a full republican vote, makes the dential election, and there is no reason | why republicans should now hold back | when so much depends upon their action. | They have every iucentive to do whole duty, and iRAL GRANT ON SOUTH| awaits doter- never surrenders, Thero will be no sur- render on Tuesday next if overy republi- can faces the enemy with a determination said Cambronne. e e, Pullman car company has been avery successful tax-dodger, but it has hands of the supreme court of Penn- The Pullman company has for yonrs resisted local taxation on ies through cars, and in this way has avoided paying any tax at all upon them. Pennsylvania brought a suit against the company, and the supreme court has sus- tained the right of through cars passing over its territory from one state to another, resisted the tax upon two grounds: First, that its Pennsylvania business was carried on under a lease from a Pennsylvania havh no means of reaching certain foreign corporation, which upon its own part paid markets excopt by incurring the expenso | jis full share of state taxes; and, second, Tur presidential election takes place |of mending agents to these places, Tho [ ¢pat the levying of such a tax was in the commercial agents, as General Grant|,sturo of an interforence with inter- — suggests, should perform all the duties|uiate commerce, the plain intention of Every voter should see that heis |now assigned to consuls, roceive fees|hqo constitutional provislon apon this therefor, and besides be allowed to en-|guhject being that the citizen of any goge in business as ordinary merchants. | ytate should be at liberty to pass through We have no doubt that General|tho territory of any other stato without Grant's plan would materially develop | rendering any toil or tribute whatever the trado of the United Staten with South | for guch privilege. Should the supreme America. This scheme might suit our | court cf the United States sustain this manufacturers and exporters, as it would | decision, it would give to every state the save them tho expenso of drummers and | right of loca! taxation, but it would seem many ‘“‘incidental expenses.” Besides | to us thatif the Pullman company shows such a reorganization of the consul- | that it has paid taxes on through cars in ate servico would afford abundant oppor- | one state, it could not be compelled to 1y of the hazy Indisn summer—the tunity for commercial drummers to se- | pay again on the same cars in another cure a soft berth, and r many instances | stato, t the state to tax But that it must pay its taxes on business, the | through cars at somo place there can be Jiv Lamep is not only doing a very heavy land office business but is also very extensively engaged in pension broker- age and patronage distribution. cording to latest advices every democratic doctor in the second district has been promised a position as pensioner exami- ner, and scores of dupes are ransacking every precinct for votes under promiee that they are to get lucrative positione and employment under Every other striker expects to be survey- or-general, attorney-general, or judge of and hundreds have In addition to this unique recommend- | some territory, ation, General Grant suggested that|beon American steamship llnes be subsidized | land-office until a commerco has been establishad to | other kind of enable them to sustain themselves, One [of the president. would almost suppose that John Roach |masters are all doomed. Their places had called upon General Grant just be - | are being promised right and left, just as most of them were two years ago when - was running for the first time. TuE question of state regulation of tel- | Fortunately the postmaster-gencral does egraphs has recently been decided in In. | not remove men by order of the congress- ana, in which state thereis a statute, |men from the second district, at least not PasseNGER rates from Chleago’ to|somewhat similar to theone in Nebraska, |unless charges are preferred and sus- Omaha are quoted st $1.60 and the war | requiring all telegraph companies doing | tained. regisirar-ships and every oftice within The present post- A JupcMeNT of $1,600,600 has recently east have to pay the old rate of 816.00 to | order in which they are received. For|been rendered against New York city. Chicago. The present west-bound cut | refusal or failure to do this the company | This is a relic of the Tweed regime. In can however be taken advantage of by |is made liable to a penalty of one hundred | 1871 Boss Tweed awarded a contract for persons golng to Chicago and returning | dollars, to be recovered by the person|10,000 water-moters at $7 each. The suit brought | meters were furnished by the contractor, against it the Western Union set up the | but were never used, and the municipal It is a little singular that Omaha has | defence that the statute was unconstitu- | athorities refused payment. After the never had the benefit of an east-bound out ional, for the reascn that it was an inter- | disclosures cf the rascalities of the Tweed forence with an intoratate commerce, the |ring there was a suspiclon that this con- lUines and business of the company not | tract was one of the ring's jobs, and the oing limited to Indiana, but extending |city continued to resist payment, The to other states. The Indiana supreme | contractor, after several years litigation, defenceand holds the [has finally won his suit, and the city It says that the stat- | will have to pay the judgment. Mg, Lairp's chief bugleman at Hast- and declares that a state has|ings delights in the delusion that the Bze the power to require ‘‘all persons, |is fast losing its circulation on account of artificial or natural, doing business within |its course in the present campaign. The its borders to transact that business with | proof of thepudding is in the eating there- fairness, diligence and impartialty,” It |of, and the best evidence that the B2k is is true, the court adds, that the lines of {more popular than ever is shown by the the company extend and its messages are | fact that our daily circulation outside of sent to and received from other states, | Omaha has increased 50 per cent during But “'the statute operates upon the | the last slx months, Junae McFARLAND, commissioner of of a duty created here, owing here and | the general jand office, recommends the violated here.” This deoislon is inter- repeal of esting to Nebraska people as it shows|culture laws In the interest of actual pretty conclusively that the telegraph [settlers. The congressman from this dis- statute in this state is constitutional and | trict, Judge Weaver, voted against the theretore the telegraph companies can be [ repeal of these laws, but he still insists that every vote ho gave was in the interest of the people, he pre-emption and timber The Ages of Monarchs The Emperor William is the oldest monarch in Europe. T2'ia the ave of 1hs Batils in Oblo, and | o SUsiL Y istor King Ohristian of Denmark is 66, THE TRUTH OF HISTORY. Judge Weaver's Hasty Flight From Kearney. An Interesting Ohapter of Legislative Orookedness Oulled from the Investigation of Church Howe in 1877, Lixcors, Neb., Ostober 3, 1884, Hox. A.J. WEAVER, Fall City, Nob., Dear Stn:—1I never charged that you received any portion of the ten thousand dollars(810,000) alleged to havebeen paid overin 1875 as referred to in my interroga- tories submitted at Wahoo. Isimply asked if you were presentand had cognizance of any such corrupt conference. You den; in positive terms that you had ever taken part in any such conference or were pres- ent in any room where votes have been negotiated corruptly during any senato- nfl contest. You go even farther than that and ochallenge any man to produce proofs to the contrary. While you admit that you were called to Kearney to testify in the KEaton libel suit which, as you know, was never tried, because Church Howe did not dare to risk a trial, you deny that you were advised by attorneys for the prose- cution to leave Kearney during the night preceding the trial in order to prevent disclosures that would have been damag- ing both to yourself and Howe. In urder to refresh your memory and justify my own conduct I herewith respectfully submit the following extract from the published testimony taken in February, 1877, before the senate committee charged with the investigation into the allzged corruption of Church Howe dur- ing the senatorial election of 1875: THIRDDAY'S INVESTIGATION PROCEEDINGS. WebNespAy, Feb'y 6, 1877, Seth T. Cole, examined by General Eaterbrook, testified as follows: I had a conversation with Mr, Cowin in the presence of Mr. Rosewater a short time before the state convention, at the corner of Fifteenth and Dodge streets, at the poss office, Omaha; we were talk- ing there of the probability of his candi- dacy for congress; think Rosewater told him Crounse would not b a candidate and that he preferred him to any other man then spoken of; Rosewater asked what support he could get south of the Platte; Cowin said that he could get the support of Weaver, Towls, Howe, Laird and Ashby; Rosewater remarked that Towle was a Hitchcock man, and he pre- sumed Howe was; Cowin remarked that Howe and Towle would both support him—he knew that; I don’t know whether [ or Rosewater then remarked “‘that was on account of the Kearney trial;” he said it was, and then said he knew Towle was to get $10,000 for the Richardson county delegation in the Pat- rick affair, and that Weaver was present in the room when the agreement was mads, and that at the Kearney trial he had advised Weaver to leave the state, as it would be no more damaging to leave and incur the displeasure of the court than to stay; hesaid Howe had got money in the senatorial fight, and he be- lieved he was the only one who had not paid the money back. * * * By Mr. Cowin: Q. Any cne present except you and Mr. Rosewater! No, sir, Q. Have you and Mr. Rosewater had any conversations about this matter? A. No, sir, until-the time I was coming down here on the train. You will remember this: Mr. Mills (the witness afterwards cor- rected this statement and said it was Asron Cahn,) came along and wanted to know what conspiracy we had on hand. He had a box of cigars under his arm and you asked him for a cigar, and he sai after you was elected congressman he would give you a cigar. Q. That was liable to take place any time? A. Yes sir. Fdward Rosewater, recalled, testified as follows: Geoneral Eastabro-k. Q. I will ask you whether you ever had an interview with Mr, Cowin where he has made any state- ments indicating that Howe was guilty; it so, state what took place? . T used to go to Mr. Cowin’s office during the campaign to talk about the campalgn prospects and vi rious matters. Incidentally T asked Mr. Cowin about his own candidacy. At that time he was very undecided, It was some time after the Kearney fiasco—at which I should have been a witness, but 1 didn't testify there. At one time in his office I had a private conversation with him and he confidentially gave me this information, and I should haye kept it but for the fact that it was made public on the street when Mr. Cole was present. ‘That conversation being public and also his telling Mr. Bristol I didn’t consider it a secret. I didn't know that aitera trial was over an attorney was bound to keep the secrets of his client. I regret that this matter has come up as I was very friendly to Mr. Cowin, but as I stated, Mr. Cowin = said that during the trinl develop- meats took place which made it very dangerous for the defense—that is, that the indictment against Eaton would be sustained, Mr. Cowin, Is that the same conver- sation that Cole has given! A. Yes, eir; but I have more particulars than he bas given. You said that the evening ruler is three years usband, the wife of st m—— TR Fionk of Naturo and Purgery, Special Telegram to Trr Bex. OnicaG0, Ootober 12,—A. queer case ha been brought to light here, azoa daughter was born 0 @ well known itizen in this city, and was christened Harriet She grew up like all girls but was rather long-legeed and awkward, time ago her voice began to assuine & man- uish tone aud the ewminent surgeons, Mores and Gunn, were consulted, sult was u surgical operation whi Her name was changed fiom He puton boy's clothes " and was sent to the east to scnool to save the blushes of his girl school-mates. b S — A Orazy Man Hanged, Seventeen years Harriot to Barry, before the trial, in examining matters of evidence that would be produced there, you found Judge Weaver was actually present in the room when the bargain was made for the Ricnardson county del- egation. It was a bargain for the trans- fer by Towle of the Richardson county delegation, and when Weaver mado a statement thal he would have to state what was done, he was advised to leave Kearney that night, and did leave, and when the trisl came on the next morn- ing he was gone, and by same process the thing was worked so that the case was dismissed; 1 don’c know whether all the details as to Weay- er's leaving that night were from that in- terview, but the information was given in a general way; that they were allin a pretty bad row of stumps; 1 have had other conversations with Cowin; I will state here that in these conversations Cowin didn't state point blank that Howe confessed to him, but 1 inferred from what he said that Howe aud the rest were guilty; 1 think he said there that Howe was the only one that kept the money, and 1 took it for granted that Howe had made a confession, By Cowin—(Q, Youremember the time 1 came from Kearney, the time the in- dictment was found. 1 had been attecd fog court up there—and you asked we what about 1t, and I told you what Tim- physicians to-day inade an examination of the rles W. Butler, exccuted at Co- lumbia City, Ind., Friday. sufficient evidence is found to sust: theory of insavity urged by the defen blen had told me, and said if what he said was true, they might bo guiltyl A, 1 dou't remember it Q. Why is it you don't remember that, when you remember 80 much else 1 | iy A, Becouse the information that Judge ' O.ty for safe keepivg. They confessed Lo hay- 80 atartling to me and it made an impres: sion on my mind, duly sworn testified as follows ¢ You wers For of the lower house I velieve! Yos, sir, A. I have met him. A. Yes, sir, regard to his senatorial aspirations? A. at his room. plaus? A, Only in general terms, about as good a republican as any body, Y| and if elested he thought he could do as much for this state as any body else. Q. He wanted to be elected on his politics? A, That is the talk had that night, Q. Who else was presont at thav con- versation? A. Judge Weaver. Q. Who was present at the firat con- versation? A. I had only an introduc- tion the first time; I had no conversa- tion. * * * * Q. What county did you represent? A, Richardson county. Q. How large a delegation was there from that county? A. One in the sen- ate and three in the house. Q Was anything said to you and Pat- rick in regard to carrying that entire del- egation for him! A. He wanted to know if we could carry it, or what 1 knew of the prospect of carrging it for him, I told him I had talked with them about it and had’nt thought anything about it. Q. Did any one come as from him,claim- ing to be his friend. Suggesting the out- lay of money? A. No, eir; never at all. Iwould not have went into that room that night, as I told you before, if I had not been sent in there by Henry Atkin- son. Dundy had withdrawn and Atkin- son came on the track, This was after the caucus in which the democrats had agreed to go for Thayer, and his idea was to get the democrats back from Thayer and throw the whole thing in the pot again, * * * * * Q. Were you one of the parties to that suit at Kearney? A, No, sir. Q. Were you one of the attorneys? A No, sir. T was prosent as a witness, Q. Was Judge Weaver present also? A, Yeg, air. ¥ * # Q. Did you know of Weaver's leaving Kearney precipitately? A. He told me the attorneys for the prosecution—uo, for the defence—had excused him, Q. Don't you know the fact to be that he was excused, and left bacause if saf- fered to testify he would affiem all that had been charged? A. No, air, not that I know of. Q. Wasn't it a matter of common ru- mor around here that Patrick had m+ney to vse? A. Oh, yes, that was in every- body’s mouth. 1t was supposed he had about $100,000. It was said he had a “‘bushel” of money, (). That was before they got to using a“bar'l”? A. Oh, yes, sir; a bushel will apply to a state and a barrel to the unlon, I would say this: If I had known Mr, Patrick then as well as I do now, after Mr. Dundy got off the track, I would have voted for him, JOSEPH BARKER. Question by General Estabrook : State whether or not you know J. H. N. Pat- rick, and if 8o, how long? A. Yes, sir; for twenty years. Q. State whether or not you bear any tamily relation to him; if so, what? Hls sister is my wifo. Q). State whether or not you know if d | Mr. Patrick was a candidate for the Uni- ted States senate two years ago? A, He was. () State whether you were at that time a friend of his in that project and a confi- dant in its execution? A. Mr, Chair- man: [ have answered these questions so far, but I decline to answer this, as it might compromise me. I don’t wish to be charged with contempt in declining to answer, The Chairman. For what reason do you decline to answer! A, Because it might be injurious to me. General Estabrook, I will not press this now, but will ask another question: Were the arrangements of Mr, Patrick made before the commencement of the session of the legislature. and if €0, how long before that session! I declino to answer for the same reason. Q. Were they made in Omaha? A. I decline to answer for the same reason. (). Was money to bo used as ono of the agencies to secure that election! A. I decline to answer for the same reason. Q. Were you one of the parties to fur- nish money to secure that eleotion? A. I dacline to avswer for the same reason. Q. Did you at any time prior to the session of the legislature seo Church Howe in the presence of Mr* Patrick at Omaha, or any other place? A. Yes, Q. How long prior to the session? A. [ don’t know, Q. Was it after the eloction of No- vember! A. Yes. (). Was the subject of the use of men tioued in your presence or talked over between Cnurch Howe and Patrick? A, 1 have no remembrauce of such talk, Did you know anything of his plac- ing money at the disposal ot Me. Howe, to aid in securing his elcetion, in any manner? A. I decline to unswer, Now, judge,idoes/th:s testimony refresh your memory! You certainly cannou charge that the witnees were your perso- nal or political enemies and you know that the facts drawn out relative to your flight from Kesrney were incidental, I quite disagree with you as to my inqui- ries being of no importance. Permit me in conclusion to add that I think the vo- ters of the first conzressional district will take decided issue with you upon such conclusion, Very Respectfully, Jaxes W, Davis, sTAY OLTINGS, Adaw Ingram the Lo got two years in Nobes ville car burg ar » for his labors, John N, Adan s, a stockman, has been nom, inated for the legislature by the democrats o Sidney, The republic inated Dan G m and William J, Irwin for representatives. Osgood, of North Platte, has been tive, fifty-eighth district, | Plattamouth, was scquitied by a mution head | jury misconstruing the instructions of the Cuurt wele taken, { T'wo young hosse thieves were arrested on | AuTan ¢ Rock, October the Towa side of theriver, opposits Nebraska Weaver was in that room at the time wse Edwin 8. Towle called on the part of the respondent, (Church Howe), being Q. Were you acquainted with Patrick! Q. Meet him hore during the session? Q. Have any conversation with him in Yes, sir, once; I only met him twice, The first tima I met him was in the saloon of the Tichenor house, and the second time Q. Did he disclose to you any of his Q. What were those plans, in gencral terms! A. He told me he was a Grant man, & Grant republican; he said he stood in well with Grant; that ho was of Platte cownty have nom- | d by the repubiicans for’ sepresenta- | John Splitthotf, the coufessed rapist of #s fiom Mr, Draper of | Hu ( hoxk county to 1a | %aief 1 amonnted over ! e Culbortson eries alond for more temements, here is not a vacant | n town, Holdrege has actod for a 811,000, s am power flouriog mill o be erected at I The loss by the Alma fire on the Oth is placed at £30,000, partially covered by insur ance, Over twenty families have moved on to their land adjacent to Coleridgs within the last two weeks. Thoe Good Templars of the s'ate have a membership of 5,865, During the past year forty-three new lodges were instituted, Lou's Smith of Crete “‘didn’t know it was loade A bullet in his hip convinced him that Tho wonnd is painful but not serious, . John T. M ot Cortland, Gage county, is under arrest for forping the names of Oliver Ward and William Tenant to a note for $100 a year ago. Tho proposition submitted to the voters of Wymore and Blue Springs to grant right of wav for a straet raillway to connect both towns was almost unanimonsly carried at the special election on the 7th. Curtis H, Eaton, of Bloomington, died sud- denly on tho 7th of heart disease, A brother of his died suddenly of the same disease in Delovan, Wis., some threo weeks ago. The former was 70 years old. The Mecthodists of Holdrege have evolved a now method of wiping out the church debt At the dedication of the church each member is expected to bring the family jug along with his or her conteibution, Itis o nickle plated scheme by the jug full. Miss Dora Brck, of Lincoln, sister of Pri- vate Henry, of the Greely Arctic expedition, has received the lotters and papers of her brother and also a copy of his wi]l, which was witnessed by Lioutenant Kislingbury and Pri- vate Bender, aleo victims of the expedition, Louie and Willim Schench, sons of n farmer in Washiagton county, were hoeing their hills of potatoes when a squeaking hawk soared acefully and tempting near, Louie secured is gun and blazed away, sending thirty-eight Lird ehot into the neck and scalp of his broth- er. The wound was not serions. A Bohemian who lived in Skull Croek township was in Schuyler Jast week and got drunk and started home with a load of lum- ber. Another wagon followed, A lurch of the wagon throw the Bohemian cut and both wagons ran_over him. He lived till next morning. He leaves a wifo and seven chil- dren, A petition has been submitted to the county board of Dodge county, asking for the con- struct’on of a ditch six miles in gth, emp- tying into o branch of the Rawhide in the Jamestown nei, hborhocd, Dstimates say that a ditch eight feet wide and two feet deop can be made for fifty cents a rod. Thix would make the ditch cost less than $1,000. The Adams County Democrat says: The Minden Reporter comes out and supports Jim Laird for congress and the republican state ticket, For a consideration of $25 down and $75 at the end of the campaign, the Raporter takes this fatal atep. The Gazetta-Journal of this city sold out somewhat cheaper, Laird only having to appoint one of their pets to a pu;ltiun as mail sgent on the B, & M. rail- road. Last Thursday two men, Moran and An- ders, got into a quarrelin a saloon in Ashland, Saurders county, after_which Moran went to his home, Anders followed with a revolver and shot Moran from the rear, the ball enter- ing the man’s back near the right shoulder, Anders escaped with a team and wagon but Was overtaken on the island in the Platte near Fremont, whers he was captured by the sher- ff of Saunders county, The town of Valentine is in the throes of a violent tensation. The wife of Burley C. Hill, of the Valentine Reporter, and post: master of that place, who has just heen mar- ried five months, gave birth on Saturday, ths | o 4th, to a full grown child and murdered it, A coroner’s jury brought in the following ver- dict: Died by strangulation at the hands of its mother, withs felonious intent. She is un- der arrest. The Oakland Independent says: *‘On Mon- day of this weel a sad accident befel the ditcher train, below Craig. As they wore deing some ditching & shovel was dow, which caught on some bridge timbers; this frightened the workmen and ~they flad from their post, Jeaving the shovel to go lower and do more damage. The ditcher car, with machinery, was turned upside down g.ing down an embankment, and_the boss, Louis Deluney, a laborer named Louis Thompzon, and another laborer, unknown to us, were badly injured. Louis Thompson was thought futally ivjured ot frst, belog hurt inter- nally. Tho agricultural exhibit of the Plattsmouth Herxld boasts of fancy corn from the farm of J. W. Bank, of Greeawood. The variety is the improved Lesming, ninety day corn, o very heavy yellow Dent, hard, compact, large ears. aud very small cab. This corn was planted by Mr. Bouk the 27th of May, and was ripe September 1st. The field from which the sample we have was taken yielding by act- ual test seventy-five bushels per acre, and just as fine corn as ever was raised in America, The Grand Island Times has done_some figuriog on the stock business of the Union Pacific road as shown by the record of the station ageut for the first week in October. “There Were 700 cars passed through and 87 received making o tocal of 877. At an avveage of 20 head to the car, makes 17,556 head, Twenty cars to the train would make 44 traing passing over tho rond seven trains every 24 hours or one every 8% hours, Fach car averaging thirty-three fvct the above number of oars would gk one train of cattle about six miles in length. Al critter . there was a baef visiblo here au wasn't much of d it ANTI-MONC First District, Hon, Charles H. Brownwas appointed to address meetings in the First congress fonal district, at the places named below a8 follows: Tecumseh, Monday, October 13th, 7. b, m. Humboldt, Wednenday, October 15th, Pawnee City, Friday, October 17th, 7p, m. Reatrice, Monday, October 20th. 7 p. m, Lincoln, Thursday, October 23rd, 7 p_m. Nebraska City, Satuzday, October 25th, 7 p. 0. P Datos for Omaha and other places in the district will be duly announced, Uaptain J. B, Stickle's Appointments Capt. J H, Stickle, of Thayer county, monopo'y eanddate for congress in the 2d dis- wrict, will discuss the political issues of the day at the following powts in southwestern No- briska on the datss hera named: Minden—Monday, October 13th, in the evening. Holdredge—Tuesday October14th evening, Oxfo d—Wednesday, October 15th, at 7,50 p. 10, Homerville—Thursday, October 16th at 2 p. . Arapahoe—¥riday, October 17th, at 7.30 Wednesday, October 22d, mington—Thursday, October 23d, at ) m. Red Cloud - Friday, October 24th, at 7 g0 Frieods will please arrange for hall and name hour when not herein stated, as well as polutinent thoroughly at each Ily invited to grace each sce, By order of Cou- EVNOLDS, Chairman, Hon, James W, Davis will address the following places—people withour reforence party esspecially fuvited A gt g of burglars made a general raid on | the stures and residents in the north end of Kearney ouve night last week, Some $6.00 in | cash, o Jittle jewelry, clothiug and provisions ast Wednesday und shipped to Falls At Cloan Creek, October 10, 7 p. 10, At Firth October 15, 7 p, m. At Blue Spriugs Octol At Beatrice, October 1 i Ag Cortland, October 17, 7 p. m, | At Sterliag, October 18, 7 p. m. 1 A& cumseh, October 20, 7 v. m, « At Pawna. City, O 47 pom. l At Burchard, Octobe At Humboldt, October opo'y candl district, will ening, October 13, paday evening, Cetober 14, Long Pine, Wednesday evening, October 15, Ainswor h, Valentis g, Oc'ober 16, ning, October 18, ng, October 20, Niobrara, Tussday evening, October 2L, St. Helenn, Wedne:day evening, October Ponca, Thnraday evening, Octobe 'Octaber Wayne, Monday evening, October 2 Norfolk, Tnesday evening, October Stanton, Wednerday evening, Octol Wisner, Thureday 2 p. m., October 30. West Point, Thursduy evening, October 30, Oakland, Friday evening, October 81. Blair Satutday ovening, November 1, REPUBLICAN APPOINTMENTS, Appointments for Gen, Charies F. Manderson, Senator Manderson and other speakers will addross tho people at the following places on the dates named: Weeping Water, October 11th, David City, October 13th. Lincoln, Octcber 14th. Ashland, .Uctober 15th, Omabia, October 16th. Nebraska City, October 17th, Brownville, October 18th. Falls City, October £0t! Pawnee City, October Fairbury, October 22d. Red Cloud, October 23d, Arapahoe, October 24th. pesple on the political items of the day at the [ ¢ York, October 27th, Central City, October 26 Grand Island, October 29th. Kearney, October 30th. Holdregs, November 1st. Speakers and Appointments in Third Congressional District, Oakdale—J W, Tucker and H. C, Brome, Monday evening, October 13th, Atkinson~J, W. Tucker and H. C. Brome, Taesday evening, October 14th, Ewing—J. W, Tucker and H. C. Brome, ‘Wednesday evening. October 15th. Scribner—J. W, Tucker and H. C. Brome. Thursday evening, October 16th. C.. B. Yost, Chai n Stato Central Committee, J. W. Lovi man_Congressional Cen- tral Committee, Third Distri Hon. G. M, Lambertson and Hon. J. L Webster will speak at Nerth Bend. on Satur- day evening, October 11th. The Fremont taud will accompany them and a big rally will be had. Hon, G. M. Lumbertson will speak at Loup City, Sherma') county, next Monday evening, October 13th. J. W. Love. Chairman Tép. song. com, Appointments for George W, Dorsey and J. G, Tate. FOR GEO W. E. DORSEY AND . A, H, CONNOR. Ord—Monday evening, October 13, Broken Bow-- Tuesday evening, October 14. Loup City—Wednesday evening, October 5, St. Paul—Thursday evening, October I6. Scotia—TFriday afternoon, October 17, Grand Island—Friday evening, October 17, Central City—Saturday evening, October Fullerton—Monday evening, October 20, Cojumbus—Tuesday evening, October 21, ,,North Platte—Wednesday evening, October “Plum Creek—Thursday evening, October Kearney—TFriday evening, October 2 Schuyler—Saturday eyening, October 25, GEO, W. . DORSEY AND OTHER SPEAKERS. Albion—Monday evening, October 27, Blair—Tuesday evening, October 25, Dakota City—Wednesdny evening, Octo ber 29. Tekamah ~Thursday ovening. October 30, West Point—FKriday evening, October 31. Mr, Dorsoy wiil be accompanied by candi- dates for state offices, C. E. Yosr, J. W, Love, Ch'n State Cen. Com. Ch'n Cong. Com. The Owner of Seventeen Newspapers Philadelphia Record. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the famous Pittsburg iron-master, seems to have ex- cited the ire of certain English newspap- ers, They do not like the idea of his controlling so many papers as he does in England. It is rather odd, but then, if Mr, Carnegle has a fancy for investing his good American money in Knglish newspapers, who is to say him nay? It is & strange fancy but not an impractic- ablo one. Mr. Carnegie now controls seventoon newspapers, daily and weekly, which he leaves in the control of Mr, Samuel Story, M. P,, formerly the own- er of the Sunderland Echo, which now belongs to Mr. Carnegie’s combination. Of these seventeen papers, seven are dailies aud ten woeklies. They reach, 80 it is estimated some 2,000,000 readers a day, and they are mnot a3 ex- pensive as one would think, for Mr. Carnegie, who is’an exceedingly shrewd businees man, makes them play into each other’s hands; as they are published in different parts of the country their news can be used simultancously. It is a sort of association, and the ablest writers and the keen est. nows-gatherers are engnged by this millionaire, Mr. Carnegio is 8 scotchman by birth, but he is an Ameri- can by training, and thovgh he has never been naturalized in this country, I be- lieve, he has a great respeet for our in- stitutionsand our ways of doing things, which he is trying to introduce into Eng- land. He runs his seventeenth paper on an American plan, and fromwhat 1 know of the man, 1 will venture to say that he makes them all pay. TEST TOUR BAKING PUWUER '10-DAY! 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