Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1885, Page 4

[ — THE DAILY BEE---FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1835, YTHE DAILY BEE. Ovvien Mo, 014 axp 818 Fanxax By, g-;mmm-msm L) Sunday. The In Ahe vhate. Wil Tockany oy v WERNE BT NATL = -’ and Bditerial Oommun! relating bo News e be “addressed o the Ebrron ar T3 and Post ¥he ardor of bhe sompany. & POBLISHING CO., Props. ROSEWATER, Eorrom Manager D Olroulation, ‘..‘O..I.DCI'.“%MA. .N.b..u, Tue acquittal of Short loads Mrs, Dad- ley, the azsallant of O'Donovon Rossa, to hope fcr a similar resalt In her case. Commrsstons for Nebraska office- seekers are not belng sent by the fast mall. They are coming by slow freight. P Way did the Omaha Republican sappress the complaint of Rev. Mr. Woodbey, after 1t bad agreed to pub- lish it? SeoreTARY WHITNEY In ordering so many trial trips of the Dolphin is at the same time trylng the patience of Mr. John Roach. Deari is liable to carry of the entlre 1llinols leglslatars before it elects a United States senator. One of the dem- ocrats 1s now on the slck llst, and very ill. Tue Herald's Washington correspon- dent says that the panie still continues among Nebraska postmasters. The panlo, however, has not struck Omaha. A THREE-FOOT veln of coal has been found near Ainsworth, in Brown county. If some one counld dlscover coal near Omaha it would be better than a gold mine, HorizoNtAL Brin MorrisoN has been withdrawn from the Illinois senatorlal race. The democrats blame him ina great meaeure for the loss of the thirty- fourth district. Hap De Ahna taken hold of Commls- sloner Sparks’ coat collar does anyone suppose he would have escaped a fine In the Washington police court, as Mr. Sparks did? Olrcumstances alter caess. Cov. JorN A, Jovce has been heard fcom agaln. The snnouncement is made that he is to publish a volame of poems. Thus it is again demonatrated that the whirligig of tlme brings round its re- venges, I~ a recent libel sult in Chicago the plaintiff who sued for $100,000 got a ver- dict of $260. According to this ratio Carter Harrlson who has brought libel suits for $800,000 w1ll receive a total of $2,000, if he gets & verdiot, which we very much doubt. — Sunser Cox is on the fence. He doesn’t know whether he will go to Tur- key or stay at home, His admirlng con- stituents have urged him to refuse the Tarkish mission, a8 our government needs & man of his ability and experlence. The admlnlstration, however, thinks Mr, Cox I8 just the man for the Turkish misslon, Ir may be fun forsome persons to start newspapers but it Is a pratty expsnsive sort of amueement, It is nothing to start a nowspaper enterprise, but to keep it golog is the problem that but few pub- lishers can solve. Three Infant New York newspapers gave up the ghost last week: Valentine's five-cent comle woeekly, Snap, the goody-goody children’s dally, The Dawn, and the daily Sporting @Qlobe. Thelr projestors have learned how high the glory of being a publisher comes. ConsssioNEr BLACK proposss to thor- oughly Investigate the work of the pen- slon examiners, There is reason to be- lisvo that in some cases he will dlscover extenslve frauds, The Investigation of a recent {llegal claim, which was rajected, showed that it personally Interested, to the extent of several thousand dollars, a medical examiner in the pension office, and the commissloner, belleving thatsuch & person was not a proper publio cfficlal, removed him, How many similar cases there are in the office can only be asser- talned by caraful inquiry. Tue Ohlo leglslature recently passed a stringent election law, which possesses soveral good features. The election pre- clnote are limited to 300 voters, and no person can vote without being regularly roglstered. This provislon, we suppose, does away with the afiidavit system that 1s s0 much resorted to oc election day, and which is & frulifal source of perjury and fraud, The reglstration llsts must be thoroughly revised by the reglsters, and the judges of election must retuin the checked llsts to the reglaters within three days after the election. The pro- seaslonal election-worker and ticke!- peddler has recelved a black eye in the provision prohibiting any person from loi- terlng within one hundred feet of the vot- ing place, or to hinder or delay, In any way, sy elector in reaching the poll. No tlckets can be given or displsyed within one hundred feet of the voting place. Phis is undoubtedly & good law, and if enforced, as it ought to be, will no doubt Bave a healtby eflect upon elections, WE WONDER. ““Van Wyck was not always a blican,” says the St. Lovis Republioan, ‘‘As he fre- quently votes with the democrats he is a very good independent,” Does the senator regard this as compli- mentary? Does he seek such distinction? If he does, we wonder where he will seck for ro- eloction,—Nemaha Times, Senator Van Wyck has been a republl- oan ever slnce the republican party came into existence, He was republican enough to organize and muster into the servioe of the country in its hour of peril a reglment of soldlers in the city of New York, He was republican enough to rlsk bis life in facing his country'’s enemy by gallantly leading his reg'ment through the thickest of the fight In sever- sl campaigns, He was a republioan in 1867, when some of the would-be stalwarts of to-day deserted thelr party for the flesh-pots of Andrew Johnson, He was a republi- can In 1872 when some of the loyal le- glon _shook hands scroes the bloody chasm with the confeds for Greeley. He kLas been a republlcan whenever the card- inal princlples of free soil, free specch, free press, and fres men were to be as- serted elther In the halls of ccngrees or on thestarrp. He will remain a repub- lican £0 long s the party adheres to the principles which have made It the bul- wark of the laborlng maeses, the home- steaders, end the freedmen,'7) Senator Van Wyck has been indepen- dent upon all questions which effect the material welfare of the maeses. He re- volted sgeainst corporation rule and hunted down the land pirates, He has repudiated the party whenever the party name was used as a maek for robbera, plunderera and | jobbers, and whenever the party machinery was converted into an engine of oppression and wrong. He has been Independent when independence symbolized manhood, courage and moral stamiua as agalnst knavery, hypocrisy, fraud and imbecllity in public places, If the republican party had been as inde- pendent as Ssnator Van Wyck In dealing with corporations and public plunderers of every class it would not bhave been out of power to-day. Unlees the republican party can emancl- pate itself from the bossism and corrup- tlon within, and corporate control from without, there {s no hope for its ever re- suming sway in natlonal affairs, 1f Senator Van Wyck should scek re- eloction he will not get it from the mo- nopoly mob that wears the livery of the party to serve monopolists, but from the people who recognize the diffcrence be- tween an honest man independent enough .and plucky enough to battle sgainst class legislation and legalized robbertes, and daring enough to denounce the crimes and wrongs committed within hls own party. EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW. The complaint of Rev. George W. Woeodbey, concerning his treatment by the manager cf Boyd's opera house, de- serves more thanpassing attention. When Mr, Woodbey presented himself at the opera house last Saturdsy, and attempted to enter the parquette upon a compli- mentary ticket, he was refused admlt. tance on account of his color. If the langusge used by Manager Boyd is cor- rectly reported, Mr. Woodbey was not only grossly Insulted, but subjected to indignitfes and threats of violence which would only be justifiable agalnat rowdles and roughs. Mr., Woodbey was llterally the invited guest of the Women's Ohristian Temperance Unlon for the evening. He came there with his wife at thelr instance, and was entitled to all the privileges accorded to any other respectable msn. Mr, Boyd had no right to refanse him admlssion, much less to insult and abuse him. We know that Mr. Boyd's notions about the negro have been formed durlng a long resldence in the south, He forgets, how- ever, that he is now In Nebraska, a state that takes pride In its motto, *‘Equality before the law.” In this clty and In this state all race prejudices must give way to human rights. This is not a ques— tlon of wsoclal equalliy, but of clvil rights and their unrestricted enjoy- ment in public places. 1f Mr, Woodbey had asked for admission to the Omshs c'ub it would have been the privilege of its members to reject him, just as it would be their privilege to refuse to asso- clate with him at their hemes, In view of the fact that Mr, Woodbey had pre- vlously ocoupled a seat on the stage of Boyd’s opera houss during the Moody re- vival it would seem that his preserce in the parquette would not have contami- nated the select white people who had seats In that part of the house. But beyond impropriety and ungentle- manly treatment lies the questlon whether Mr. Boyd can defy the laws of this state which expressly prohiblt dis- crimination in public resorts on account of race or color. The last leglalature in order to emphasizs the motto, ‘‘Equality before the law,”” passed an act providing that all persons within this state shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantsges, facilitles and privileges of Inns, publie conveyances, barber shops, theaters and other placss of amusement, and any per- son violating the provisions of the act shall be fined in any sum not less than $25 nor more than $200, This act has bean a law from the date of Its passage In February, But even if Mansger Boyd had not lald himeelf liable under this law his conduct in this instance was reprehentible. — Tue supreme ocourt of Nebraska has rendered a very lmportant declsion in reversing the decislon of Judge Wakely, who beld that no damages could ba re- covered from the clty upon streets that had been improved before the grade was established, In cther words, If any party had erected a building or bulldings upon a ateeet upon which the grade was not established, such party would have to take the risk as to the fature establish- ment of the grade. This decltion of Judge Wakely was very proper. It is desirable that the grades of streets should be eetablished 8o as to make them accessi- ble to the public and easy for travel, but if the cily, according to the declsion of the supreme oourt, wiil make ftself liable for damages to parties who may have seen fit to bulld houses or make other Im- provements on sireets where no grades have been established, it certalnly will never make an attempt to grade unless every properly owner waives damages. What will bé the effect of this decislon upon Omaha? It Is a death blow to out- slde property because no Improvements will be made outside of the streets that already have an established grade. It will result in numerous damsge sults and needleesly increass the burdens of the olty, preventlng Improvements and re. tarding the growth generally. We can- not regard the supreme court declrion otherwise than perniclous, Judge Wake- Jy, who has been overruled In this mat- tor, is occrialnly a man of dsep legal learning and is as capable of making a clear, correct and honest deciston as any man on the suprcme bench. The supreme court has slmply struck a blow at Omaha, and has done nobody any good. The only advantage that will be derlved from its decision la that what- ever improvements are needed hereafter will be conflned to streets having an es- tablished grade which are in the center of the olty. Asto the outside property it will remaln in its présent up-and- down-hill condition for many yeare, and conscquently ts value will not Increase to any materlal extent. Tue attitude of the secular prees in America toward religlon was the subject of discusslon before the ‘‘congress of churches” in Hartford, the other day. One of the speakers, the Rev. Washing- ton Gladden, of Ohilo, waa gratified to observe that although not over-reverent toward religlon, the secular edltor does take an Interest In it. He admitted that the succestful dally papers do not Ignore rel!glon, but glve It great prominence, as religious movements and events make up an important part of the news of the day quite as worthy to be chronicled as dog fights and divorces, Mr. Gladden {s eminently correct In saying that the Increase of attentlon to religlous matters by the secalar prees s due 10 & better comprehenslon of the scope and functlon of newspapers, and that religlon is a better recognized and more energetic force in public affairs than it was twenty-five years ago is due In some measure to the agency of the secu- jar press. United States Senator Haw- ley, in speaking upon this subject, sald that of the 11,314 perlodicals printed in the United States, 8,863 constltute the secular preas. Although out of over 8,000 dally papers nct one proferses to be religlous, yet Senator Hawley was led to exclaim: . “If this press {s badly irrelig- ious, Ged eave the republic!” He as- sorted that ‘‘the secular press Is a part of religion. It cannot dieconnect itself from religion If it desires to, and It does not dosire to. The secular press is glad to report religious meetings, but there was s tlme when it did not. Now, tens of millions of people, not knowling that they are being taught or molded, are hearing every otherdenomination kindly treated.” CommisSIONER ATKINS has rejected all the bids offered for furnishing beef to the Pine Rldge, Rosebud, Yankton and Crow Croek roservatlons becaunse he consldered them too high, and he has accordingly advertised for new proposals. It is clalmed that Mr. Atkins will not be able to get any cheaper prices, as the cattle men are pretty independent about the matter. The price demanded this year is an average of €3 75 per hundred, which is 50 cents higher than last year. Those who are well posted consider the situa- tion to be of a rather serlous gharacter, for with higher prices and the same limit of appropriations, the Indians are likely to be short on beef during the coming year and perhaps starve for some little time, Tae new Missourl law rogulating the soclal evil provides that any person rent- ing ahouse 1o be usad for immoral pur- potes shall be deemed gallty of felony, and upon conviction shall bs liable to a fine and imprisonment of not less than twe nor more than ten years. The @lobe-Democrat says that the strict en- forcement of this feature of the law would create quite a eensatlon in St. Louls when the names of offenders would be made known, and no doubt a strict enforcement of this clause would sooner remedy the evil than action taken agalost the frall ones themselves, This is indeed a stringent law, and the effect will be to make landlords very careful about renting thelr premises, TaE street rallway company, as we are informed, pays but very llitle attention to the ordinance that was recently passed by the clty counell, requlring it to begin moving its cars at 6 a. m., and continu- ing them until midnight. The ocity authorities ought to ascertain whether this is a fact, and If it 1s they ought to take steps to forcw the company to com- Tae arrival and sale of 2,000 eacks of Russlan flour in New York looks very much like carrying coals to Newcastle, Btriking Steel Makers Oause Trouble Cricago, Iil, May 14.—During the psst week the owners of the Chicago steel mills have had some trouble with their workmen, having employed & number of non-union men., The police were called out several times to avert an anticipated collision between the upion and non-uuion men. This after- noen & non-union man was asssulted by three of the strikers and left on the streot senseless, His assailants were arrasted, Republican Treatment of the Admin- istration, 8t. Lonis Globe Democrat. Thers Is every indioation so far that the attitade of the republioan party to- ward thenew administration is to bs a respectful, considerate and broad-minded one. The course of the republican ma- jority of the senate during the special sesslon was In every respect fair and courteous to the president. Hisappoint- ments were promptly ocnfirmed, with only a few exceptions; and where It was deemed advleabls to withhold approval, there was no attempt to provoke a con- troversy, or to interfere on partisan grounds with the free ex- erclse of any of bis rights or privileges. Not a few of his momloations were distasteful, but no effort was made to de. feat them on that account. e was glven fall swing, so to speak, snd a spirit of sound and careful regard for his wishes and his position were constantly present. The only criticlems of his acts came from senators of his own party; the only signs of opposition were such as portained to dissppointments in the demooratio ranks, The rameis true of the treatment which Mr. Cleveland bas received from the re- publican press and at the hands of the great majority of republican cltizens. Here and thera a republican paper hes found it Impossible to avoid attacking him on general principles, or to glve him any credit for fatr deeds or good inten- tlons; aud a republican speaker bas ccca- slonally denounced and derided him in somewhat heated and vinalotive terms. But, as a rule, he has been deslt with in a singnlarly candid and generous way by those who opposed his electlon, and whose politicsl interests are dirootly and fixedly antegonistic to those which he was chesen to conserve and prowuiote. ‘When he has done a good thing, the re- publicans have recognized it and encour- sged him to go on dolog ltkewise, Al- most all the praise ho has obtained, in fact, has come trom republican sourcer. If he had secured only such commenda- tlon as bas been gradgingly given him by the demociats he weuld have reason to feel that he might as well glve up the job of trying to win a decent measure of pop- ular favor, ° It mast be taken into acccunt, to be sure, that all the good tkings which the new president has done have been in keeping with republican bellels ard pro- cedents; and that has made 1t easy for republicans to do him justico snd award him proper credit. He started out by delivering an Inavgural address which in its main features was a vindication of the record of the republican periy, and a notice that he proposcd to carry cut the doctrines and designs already inaugu- rated by his republican predecersors. In exact proportion as he has obeerved the conditions of that address, his course has been indorsed and applauded; and when- ever he has stepped aside from those conditlons, and indulged in a fancy for strict democratic methods and tendencles, he has encountered prompt and sharp reproof. The republicans are ready to pralse him, In other words, for every act which indicates sympathy with the known triumphs and teachings of their party; and it so happens that it is only by acts of this kind that he can hope to sustaln himsslf. That s to say, the prevailing sentiment «f the country fs still unmistakably republican, and he can not run counter to it withcut inviting cerlain disaster. There need be no fear of weakenlng the republican party by rendering gener- cus praise to Mr. Clevelind for things done sfter republican models and under iufluence of republican doctrines and practices, He ls a democratic president none the less, and the credit given him in the connectlon stated will do nothing towards persuading the counn- try that the democratlo party s’ patrlotlc and trustworthy. On the contrary, it will serve to empha- size the fact that a democcratic president Is obliged to seek euccess by conforming to republican examples, and that nvn:iy departure from that line brings him peril and reproach. The people are not golng to be convinced that they ought to elect a democratic saccessor to Mr, Clevelaud because he finds it necessary to adopt re- publican sentiments and continue repub- lican plans of doing business. They will be made to understand, rather, that it is useless and foolish to choose a democrat for president when practical experlence proves that a democrat can fill that poel- tion satlsfactorily only in so far as he respeots what the republican party bas accomplished, and promotes objects for which the republican party has contend- ed and still contends. Let the administration be applanded by republicans whenever it does anything to justify such recognition, Every point that 1t may galn In that way will return to plague its party In the next cam- paign. Republicans can weli afford to render credit to a cemocrstic president for acts that amount to confessions that republican eentlments ara right and wholesome, and that the democratc is compelled to adolt in order to admin Ister the government with any degree of success, All such acts ara so many ccn- cluslve arguments in favor of the restora- tion of republioan rule. Lst Mr. Cleve- land be encouraged to do as much of that sort of thing as pozslble—no! only b2caunse it 1s right and best for the country, but also because it will Lelp to simplify the canvass of 1888, and prevent a recurrence of the mistake that was made las: Novem- ber. A democratic president can not be re-elected on republican pralees, nor his party be commended to public sonfidence and support by reason of the fact that he copies republican methods and pays trib- ute to republican convictions and pur- poses e —— The New York Democracy Com Plaining. New York Letter in Boston Post (Dem ) I had a long and interesting discussion with one of the leading democrats in the s'ate. Helsa merchant of high stand- ing, took lrromlnunt part In last fall’s canvass, and was In a positlon to know the inner history of the democratlc slde of the campalgn. He sald to me: “The whole trouble is that President Cleveland s leaniog too far toward the republicans at the expense of his own party. These mugwumps know that Oleveland feels under obligations ‘o his pporters, snd ever since een endeavoring to con- vince the president that they represent the entire republican vote cast in the last presidentlal “election for the democratic ticket. Why, within & very few days ex-Attorney General Francis O, Barlow and other high dignitarles of the mug- wumps have assured Prasident Cleveland that they would coutinue to support him, but accompanied the announcement with the Intimation that he must keep to thelr platform and not appoint politiclans to offices. In other words it amounted to esying, we will deliver the same repub- lican vote this year that was polled for you last, provided you do as we " “‘Bat now look at the other side of the question. The republican support which Cleveland recelved would never have o'ected him had it not been for the mag- nificent organization snd unprecedented work on our side. About the first of Inst September the canvas mads by the demooratic stato committes showed that the republisans would carry this state by at least 40,000. That was the darkest hour of ‘the sosmpalgn. Tho task before the democrats was almost hopeless, But our leading party men then oame tv forward, At great porsonal eactifices they supplied the neccsiaty funcs, They turned fnand worked as they never worked before, and the result was our sucoess. 13 not President Oleve- land indebted to these men as much as he s to the mogwamps? “‘Now what is the resalt? So far s the administration has apparently fol- lowed the policy of overlooking the men who bore the bruat of the fight and rich- ly rewarding many who stood aloof during the campaign,this kind of business cannot go on withont retulting in disaster to the party. We cannot elect our oan- dldate for governor withont an organiza- tlon, and is Is certain (hat we will have no organization if the adminlstration adopts a policy cf prosoriblog thoee whose work has In the past and is now necessary to secure democ ———— ‘Warden Nobes Must (o, Plattsmouth Herald, (Rep.) Warden Nobes, by the grace of Gover- nor Dawes and execulive clemoncy, etill holds the fort as warden of the peniten- tiary, which positlcn a stacding commit- tee of the state senate proved that War- den Nobes had prostltuted and proved himeelf and incompetent , aud dishonest official, Why, in the face of the fact as elictted by Senator Hyers' committee, Mr, Nobes is allowed to remaln in his Y“mo“ 18 a quert'on no man can answer. £ 1t wero a case of irresporsible charger, with no facts eliclted, then we submit there would be tenable grounds to move slowly In this matter; but when the naked truth in all ita purity stands up and proves Mr. Nobes incompetent, and his office msl-administered against the publis good and public honesty, then we_submit thero s no halting ground ard no flag of trace to ralze. This com— mittee in its investigation showed that hundreds of dollars of the state’s funds had been pald for Brussels and velvet carpetannd desks for banking houses— articles that never have and never will see the penitentiary and never be used for the atate a dollar’s worth, and all of the bille for these att'cles spproved by Warden Nobes, and by his approval au- thorized to ba pald cut of the public funds Is there any justice in keeping an official, with a record of that kind, In office? Is there any excuse for a business of thiskind? The Herald in all calm- ness but in all earnestness insists that this mstler needs and demands attentlon. The case Is not one to be proved, but is already proven from the record. The {ssucs in this case are made up and jug- ment on the part of 1he state sanate has been glven, and the people have entered that judgment up against the cass and ask that there be no longer any delay In thls matter. There Is no passion or prej- udice in demanding attention to these matters, In justice to the political party that made it possible for Mr. Nobes to be warden, and in jastice to the party that throogh its representativer proved him incompetent and dishonest In his work, this matter cught to be brought to a close. As the Herald has sald here- tofore, there s evidence in the county clerk’s office in this clty to prove Warden Nobes is dishonest, and which shows that he made a false statsment and put fn a dishonest bill bafore the county commissioners. Therefore the Herald says let justice be done, and let men who prostitute their places feel the s'ropg arm of the law, which never lets dishonesty and dishonett officials remain in power, If its demends are enforced and its princlples protected by those who have its enforcement in their hands. ——— Fate of the Etevens Battery, New York Times. 1t any of the millionaires who are own- ers of the new Queen Anne cotiages at Babylon, Bay Shore, or some of the oth- er summer retorts on Long Island, were to be told that their hands>me wood: werk finlshings were merely remnants of the old Stevens battery Igo statement would probably be - recelved with many doubts, Yet such is the fact. When Mr. Stevens presented the famons ves:el to the state of New Jersey the United States government decided that a man.of- was could not be accepted as the individ— ual property of any state. Mr. Stevens then cfferea it to the national govern- ment, bat It was refused as being inade- quate to perform the dutfos required of a wer ehip, Several suits followed this decision between the e:tate of Mr. Ste— vens and the stated of New Jeraey, which claimed that, althcugh it could not hold the vessel, it was entitled to its valus In money. The final de- clefon was in favor of the state, and the Slevers battery, ss it stood on the ways, was eold to Mr. William E. Lalmbeer, cf this city, for $565,000. He was given six months in which to romove his purchase, but for half of that time be turned it over to the Stevcns’ inati- tate for the use cf its scholars. In con- sequence, President R, H. Thurston was able to give his puplls three months of the most Interesting practical etudy that has ever been ava'lable in this pait of the couniry. The dismantling of the hull occupled the remainder of the time allowed the purchaser. On no day during this period were there less than forty men at work, while at times the number ran up to 100. The woodwork was all found to be of the finest Georgla pine, in a high state of preservation. That used in the side of the hull was in layers to a thick- ne:s of five feet slx Inches, These layers were dovetaile together and cured by bolts four feet long. In and around these jolnings crecsote was packed In Jarge quantitles, and although, this wood bad been in place for more than tweaty years, It was found to be In better condition than when freshly cut. All the ekill of the work- men and the strength of the tools could not force the lsyers of the wood apart, &nd the work was finally done by burn. ing. It wasfound to be exceedingly dry and susceptible of high polish, snd, as bas been stated, a large quantity of it has been used in the new cottages built and building on the south shore of Long island, From the kold were taken two erglnes of 6,000 horee power, each made ex- pressly for use ina twin-screw vessel, and therefore worthless. These were broken up and sold to the Delemater iron works, from wheuce they came, In ad- ditlon to the two propelling engines made in Ssotland for that purpose, and possessed unuwual tensilo qualities, heas were in good condition after thelr long years of service, and weso shipped to England, where they wero used in the manufacture of barrals for the eports- man's shotgun. The bolt heads were bought by & nickle-plater, of this city, who rold them to a patrlotio publio. When all the mevable articles had been carted awsy, the two pointed ends of the boat wers chopped off, and the immense hull, over foor hundred feet long, was parted by fts own weight, The labor of collccting the remnsnts was then ocmparatively easy. Immense quantities of glant powder was used, however, to reduce the bulk of the Iron to a mass small enough to be oarted away, There remalns fntact today but one article that was ussd on board the Ste- vons lronclad steam battery. It is & brouzy bell, four feet In olroumforence. This Instrument houschold forture rang the working hours at the old ebipyard since 1842, A cart 1841, ard it is probably the oldest brorzs bell in America to-day. Dock Commirsioner Laimbeer, father of gm‘] purchaser of the hoat, at Tenafly, “Tho kelrs of Me. Stevens say that he project in addition to $500,000 granted tor the purchase by the government., In his will was a codicil ordering the ex- pondituce of $1,200,000 addltions], which was made under the supervision of Gen. Geergo B. McClellan, When had never been even afloat brought §55,- 000. It cost Mr. Laimbeer in addition $31,000 to break her up, but selling it only as raw material he made a very handsome profit, e —— STATE JOLTINGS, Burglara cracked the _eafo of J, 0. Maullis gan's store in Scribner, Sunday night. A Kearnoy business man named Camp was run over by a runaway team at Shelton a fow days ago and dangerously injured. Tha Thayer County Herald entered upon its third volume Init week with prospects cen, Mr», Cynthia Hamilton, the bride of a week, wa'shaken by her husband at Nebraskn City. Charitable friends sent her to her home in Kansas City. Central City’s bank account shows a balance grodit for the year ondiog May 5 of S13480. The municipal expenses for the tame time foots up $2,838,7 Haatings has a paid-up national bank capi- tal of 250,000, Fremont comes mext with $185 000, Nebraska City _next with $175,000, and Kearney next with $150,000, Mrs, W. S, Tamblin committed suicido with chloroform in Lincoln, Sunday, The sudden death of her husband tix weeks ago unsettled her entire nervous system and led directly to her sad end. Mr, Peregrine G. Eaton. of Springville, New York, ied of heart diseaso in Nebaska City last Monday. He was G7 years of age, and was visiting his cousins, Mrs, James Swest and Mrs, Dr. Herechey, Frank Morehouse, of Hooper, Dodge county, bas beon awarded a large government corn contract, to furnish 300,000 cwt., to be delivered at Gorden OGity, Neb., for Pine TRidge agency, at $1.13 per cwt., and 400,000 cwt. to bo dolivered by eame contractor at Valentine, Neb, for the Ro.cbud agency. at 1.0 per cwt, Thursday last the twelve year-o'd son of Adolph Greese, Sr., living in Cuming pre- cinct. Dodge county, was atruck in the hand by a rattlesnake. As he screamed his brother ran to him, and as quickly as possible tied a pieco of lariat xopo around the wriat, in the ope of confining the poison until they could et to his home, a considerablo distance away. hen they got there the father in his excite- ment cut the bandsge, the hand being terribl awollen, and the potson at onoo sproad through the system. Doctors were called, and_after unavailing efforts it was determined to ampu- tate the hand, However, he died on Sunday, after suff ring intensely. IN THE COURTS. Another of the St, Joseph & Denver Oity Railroaa Land Grant Oases Up Before Judge Dundy. Last Mondsy Judges Brewer, of the United States clrcult ccurt, and Dundy, of the United States distriot court, kad up before them a case entitled Denlinzo Walden va. Sherman W. Knevals, in- volving lands granted to the St. Joseph & Denver City Railroad company. It had been appled ,from the district court at Nebraska City and was argued before thesa gentlemen on a motlon to set aside the decislon of the lower court. But the defendant, who became plain- tiff in the higher court, was defeated, be- cause the dacislon of tha lower court was sustalned, Yeaterday Judge Dondy de- clded another slmilar case, {n fact one re- Iating to the samo matter, but with the Hoo. Charles 14, Van Wyke 28 the do- fendant. Ho also sustalned the action of the lower court. A few small motions were arcued, and court &djourned untll 10 o'click this moraing. Ta the conuty court JudgeMcCallough was enterteined trying the cass of Me- Bain & Hubbard vs Murphy, in which seven carloads of Sioux Falls granite was the object of litigation. Judge Wakeley will hold a sesslon of the dlstrict court at the councll chamber to-morrow, and 1t 18 understood the bar will then appoint that committee to assist the county comm/ssioners in making ar- rangements for the court house warming on the 28th instant, SHOT AT, Obas, Kuhlman Experiences the Sen- sation of Hearing & Bullet Whiz Close by His Ear, About 11 o'clock Wednesday night, a8 Charles Kuhlman, who keeps the Scaundinavisn drug store at 492 Douglas street, was going home, when opposite Smith’ grocery on Tenth street, just south of the B. & M. depot a shot was fired at him, Ho heard the deadly bullet hum fts little sobg closa to his head and standing cn the sidewalk saw a man, axd heard bim say: “You s— I will put a hole through you yet.” Kuhl- man, of o urse, became very much fright- ened, and hurrled along fast as he cou'd, He was on horseback and carried in front of him a large bundle of gocds. Mr. Kuhlman don't know why aoy one should wmake a terget of bim, and is inclined to think that the follow was elther drank, or lay- ing for eome other person. If drank and allowed to go running recklessly through the streets, on anybody and everybody, there were slxween dnving engioes, which were preeerved intact and taken to coal mines in Pennsylvania, whero they aro still used as superior to any new ln- ventions, Over 2,000 tons of iron plate were taken from the battery and sold 1o the Catausagua iron-works in Peunsylvanis, and 33 per cent of it was rerolled in this country. The bal ance was tent abroad. The bolts used in the corstruction of the veesel were then the polico are certaluly attending lghtly to their duties, Mr. Kuhlman is not cogoizant of having an enemy, who wants to get away with him, ——— * Eight Business Houses Burned, CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind,, May 14.—Fire de stroyed most of the business portion of Dar- lington, 12 miles from here, early this morn- ing Abouteight of the'leadlng busines flrma o te city wers buraed out, Loss about of k near the top bears the date of 1t still performs its duty at the country plase cf retiring spent over $2,000,000 upon his pev put up at auction this maes of iron that brighter than ever before for continued suc: e R R RRRRRRRRRRRRRORRERRRRECEER UNITED STATES National Ban U. 8. DEPOSITORY, S. W. Cor. Farnam and 12th Sts Capital, - $100,000.00 0. W, HAMILTON, Pres't M. T, BARLOW, Osahier DIR) H. M, Oatowery, B, T, Bwrr, 0. W, HamiLtox, M. T. Basrow, . Wity HAMILION, Acconnts solicited and kept subject to slght check, Oertificates of Deposit issuod payable in 8, 6 and 12 months, bearlng interest, or on de- mand without interest, Advances made to customers or approved securities at market rates of interest. The Intereats of customers sre closely guard- ed and every facility compatible with prinel- ples of sonnd banking freely exteaded, Draw sight drafts on England, Ireland, Scotland, an¢ all parts of Europe. Sell European paseage tokots, Collectlons Premoptly Made. United 8tates Depository. First Natonel Baok Cor, 13th and Farnam Sts, The 0Oldest Banking Establishment in Omaha. SUCCESSORS TO KOUNTZR BROTHERS, Organized in 1858, Organized as a National Bank In 1860, OBPITAL ... .co0o0ieee .. $200,000 SURPLUS gnd PROFIT! 150,000 OFFICKRS AND DIRKCTORS: residont. Vi-o Prostdent, 2x, 24 Vico Pres'dont. ¥To%. . Davs, Cashler, n, Asslatant Cashler. noral hanking business. Tasues timo ten boaring inforess. Draws drafts en San Francisco snd principal cities In the United States; #l.0 Loudon, Dublin, Edinburg, and the priacipal cities of the continent and Europe. MADE COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY i (A LARD ARENCY s GAVIS & 0., i< U00ksSORS 10 DavVIs & SNYDER); €4 1605 FARNAM STREET. . . OMAHA, Havo for sle 200,000 acres carefully solocted lands 1o Eastorn Nebraska, at low price and on oasy terma Tmproved farms for salo iu Douglas, Dodge, Calfax, Platte, Burt, uming, darpy, Washibgton, Merrick, Baundors, ans Butler counties, ‘Taxcs paid fn all parts of the state, Money loared on tmproved farms? Notary Publio alwaya In ofioo. ~ Corrospondence clted DREXEL & MATL, (SUCCESSORI TO JOEN &, JACOBH| UNDERTAKERS i At the old 6tand 1417 Farnam 86, GCrders by iolo. {aph solicited sud prompti- abbended fo. Telopdoos o FURNITURE REPAIRED AND UPHOLSTERED. Matreescemadoover. Crrpetslaid. Cane chairs re- ssatods’ Al work gusr saioad bosire pmie: action. Ball Brothers, North 16th St. Omaha, Neb. OMAHA REAL ESTATE ==AND— LOAN COMPANY FOR SALE. 2 lots in Himebangh Place, $1200 each., 6 lots in Grundview Add, $200 to $400 each, 24 lots in W. A. Redick’s Add, $600, 8 hmi in Hacall's Add to Okohoma, $350 each, 8 lot« in Plainyiew and Kirkwood Add, $300 to $150 each, 7lots in Lowe's Add, 8175 to 8300 each, House and lot , N 19th St., $1300 House and Jot on Saunders St., § House and lot near Suunders St., in Parker's 'Add, 7 rooms, barn, celiar, full Jot, south front, all in fine condition, §2200, casy _ terms —a hargain, 0 lots in Shinn's Add., at from 8700 to $1000 each, Good house and 24 acres land on 8 13th St. 1or eale cheap. 6 lots in Parker’s Add , at from €500 to 900, 41ots in Thornburg Place, at $210 to $300, 2 lots on Sherman Avenue, for eale cheap. A _house of 8rooms and full lot, in E. V. Smith’s Add, North 22d St,, $1700, 6 lots in Hanscom Place, 8C50 to 8500 each, Large bouseand barn, full lot, on 19th St., in K.V, S8mith's Add, $3500—a bargain. (Good aore lots for sale, cn easy terms, in all directions from city. Other residence property, improved and un- ¥ amproved, in all parts of the city, A full lot on Farnam 8t, in the center of bus. ineas, $24,000. Corner Jot on Howard St., in center of bus- iness, £16,000, Full lot oo Harney St., micely situated for businear, §10,000, ' Soveral pleces of fino business property on Dodge Bt., between 11th and 14th, for sale cheap, A good location on 156th St., for 3 or 4 stores at & bargain, Several thousand acres farm lands in Tows and Nebraeks, very cheap. Rents Co'lected, Titles Pertected. 8pecial attention giv- en to drawing of all kinds of legal instru- mets. Business of non- residents carefully at- ended to. Parties_resident or non-fesi dents having money to loan on real estaté security, are res- pectfully invited to confer with U510HN 1. DILLON, Manager, Roows & and 10 Frenzer Block, Opp, P, 0, | bt