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

THE DAILY BEE. Onana Orricr No. 014 axp 016 Farvax St New York Orrion, Roox 66 Trinoxs Burun: KNG, Published every morning, except Sunday. The ©nly Monday morring daily published In tho state. TERMS KT MAIL One Year. ... #10.00 | Three Months Bix Months 5.00 | One Month .. The Weekly Bee, Published every Wednesday THRAS, POSTPAID, One Year, with premium ... One Year, without promium Hix Months, without premium . One Month, on trial, . CORRRSPONDRNCR All Communioations relating to Newsand Editorial matters should be addressed to the Eoiror of rim b 050 1.00 w200 BUSINRSS LRTTERS. All Business Lotters and Remittances should be sddressed to Tin Bre PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drats,Checks and Post office ordors to be made pay able to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING C0., Props. E. ROSEWATER, Epiron. A, H. Titch, Manager Daily Circulation, P. 0. Box, 483 Omaha, Neb, Ir the Phonograph had not been In- vented the Republican would have been raved a good deal of worry and mortifica- tlon, Tur Republican libellers try to be very funny over the black eye which thoy received at the hands of an Impartial jory. iy Tue Omaha Herald 1s informed that Dr. Miller has been callad to attend upon Prenldent Cleveland. The office-seckers in this state hope that the doctor's medi- onl advice and prescription will have a salutary effect. He no doubt will glve Mr. Oleveland plenty of taffy ArTer escaplng from an indic'ment, it s but natural that Yost and Nye should accept the verdlct of the jury as arelief. They and thelr counsel knew that they had no proof whatever to sue- taln their libellous charges, and the only chance for an ercape was In hangirg the jury. CoNTrIBUTIONS are soliclted by Fred Nye for the benefit of the proprietors of the Republican to pay the fine and costs In that libel euit. If the contributions don’t comein any faster than they did towards Freddy's hospital fand, when he was at the helm of the defunct News, he wiil have to ask for astay of execution. THERE was o when the proceed- ings of the Illinofs leglslature were of general interest, but the readers of the asgoclated press dispatches throughout the country are getting tired of the blg grist that continues to be sent out dally from Springfield concerning matters that aro of Interest only to the paople of the Sucker state. Mavor HarrisoN having closedj the Chleago Jgambling houses, and taken a course of baths at the Hot Springs of Arkaneas, no doubt consider himself purified morally and physlcally. He now returns to Chicago expecting to resume the daties of his office, and become a moxai mayor, if he is not ousted from his position by reason of the lllegal votes that gave him a bare majority. COnartes Francis Apams has started THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. him as an ex-confederate who did his s JU meetlngs. Hardly a day passes without The arrlvsl to day in New York har.|bushwhacking from behind the edltorlal {some new pool being organized or some bor of the statae of Liberty Eallghtning the World will prove an Interesting event in ilie American metropolls, It will be formally presented by the de- signer and builder, M, Bartholdl, who conceived the idea some twenty years ago, when he first saw New York harbor afler & stormy voyage from mcross the Atlantle, The statue Is the glft of the Itberty-loving people of France to the citizens of the American republle. When placed upon Its pedeital It will be the highest statne ever erected, and will be one of the wonders of the world, The Oolossus of Rhodes, which was the won- der and admlration of the anclents, was an almost Insignificant affalr compared with the statue of Liberty. The Bartholdl statute, while Indicat- Ing to the foreigner as he approaches our shores that this Is the land of freedom, where the oppressed of all natlons may find a refoge and a home, and bs unre- stralned In the legitimate pursult of life, liberty and happiness, wiil at the same time symbolize the bond of friendship that exlsta between the people of the Fronch and Amerfcan republles, Illa- minated hy electricity the torch in the r'ght hand will be seon at night far out at son and the ocean voyager will hall with dellght this beacon of = liberty. Standing at the gateway of travel and commerce between the old and new worlds, illuminating land and sea, no more appropriate locatlon could have been found for this great monumental work, Every Amerlcan wlll naturally take pride In this statue, which ’ere long columns of the Lineoln Journai. There is as much difference between a rebel bushwhacker and an ‘‘ex-confed” firing away from behind the ambush of n republican newspaper as there Is between a chestnut horse and a horse chesinut, Mz. J. D. Ualhoun, to whom we referred, 1s a native of the south who eerved in the confederate army, and has never made any secret of 1t. 4 Ithough assoclate edl- tor of a republican paper he is a demo- orat, and when he is not too bitter we take his satire In good part beoause it 1s generally known and understood that his democratio blunderbuss, when loaded to the muzzle with republican ammunition, only kicks back and hurts most at the breach, Hence the point he made about the alleged libel 1s not well taken. HOFFMAN'S PROMOTION, 1t is announced that Governor Dawea hae appolnted to the position of asslstant adjatant-general his notorlous private secretary, J. M. Hoffman. This ap- pointment shows how utterly careless Governor Dawes is of his own reputation and how devoid he Is of the great re- sponelbility resting upon hls shoulders as chlef executive of a great commouwealth, His latest action with reference to Hoff- man more than ever coufirms the sus: piclon that tkere Is a powerful link bind- ing the two together, which Governor Dawes dares not break. There was at the tlme of the ehooting affeay in the state tremturer's cffice some very myaterious connection be- tween the governor, his private wlill rear its lofty figure high above the metropolis. STAR-ROUTE PRISECUTIONS. The star route swindles, which had al- most been forgotien, kave been recalled to mind by the announcement that a suit against the Parkers is at last to be trled in Kansas this week. The Parkers, it wlill be remembered, were among thomont extensive and prominent star-route mail contractors. One of thelr routea extended from Vinita, in the Indlan territory, to Las Vegas, In New Mexico, & dlatance of e'ght hundred miles. It was a uscless route, and the mail bag hardly ever con- talned more than one or two letters, and was frequently empty. For hundreds of miles there was not aliving person on the tecretary, and the detectives who con- cocted the job and shot down the wooden- legged man whom they had Invelgled Into the attempt to rob theatate treasury. 1t was malnly because our knowledge of Hoffman's previous history created the impression that he must in some way have been connegcted with this crooked piece of business that we gave publiclty to his record. No denial has ever been made except in the shape of a brief editorial in the Lincola Journal, which ridiculed the idea that any charge made by the Bee against any public official could possibly have a substantiai founda- tion. The people of the state have looked on In amazsment at the retentlon of Hoff- man In his confidential positlon, and route, muchless apostoffice* They started In at $6,330 a year, but in a very short time they had thelr compensation increasad by the wusual expediting methods to $150,501, In thls and other steals they were asslated by eeveral sen- ators, and other public men. This Is a sample of the list of ninety-three routes. The government now proposes to recover if poesible a portion of the money pald to these plunderers, and the result will of course have an important besrlng upon all the other star-route cases. It ls clalmed by the postofiice department that upon forty of these ring roates there is really due to the government over $2,000,- 000. It is also arrested that the evi- dence is sufficient to warrant legal pro- they are not likely to conslder his eleva- tlon to the office of awsistant acjutant- general as a vindicatlon from grave charges which were made by this paper, with a fall knowledge of the consequences that attached thereto. SUPERINTENDENT LANE has very prop- erly extended the time for taking the census in Omaha, which otherwise would have been very Incomplete. It is very important that a full and correct census shall be taken, and every citizen who has the welfare of Omaha In view ehould as- slst the enumerators in every poesible way. One of the main difficulties will be to get the names of per:ons who occu- Py rooms in vne building and take their from Poriland for Omaha. This snggests | ceedings In these forty cises, but as to pussisiinjavothor. gICEIs/sAe Lol ayjthat t upon his arrival he be stationed be- tween the tracks north of the Unlon Paclfic depot, and kept there for twelve hoars to dodge tHe trains that are con- stantly crossing Tenth street. If that doesn't convince him of the Imperative necesslty of a new pessenger depot, with safe and commoplous approaches, nothingZonearth will do it except a dyna- mite explosion, Tae architect of the Lindquest build- iog, which was blown down, finds fault with the strictures of the Bee.” He says that the foundation was eolidly bullt, and I8 not In any way disturbed. It was nob necessary that it should rest on plil- ing, as the excavation was made deep enough to reach a firm bed of ground, He says that the trouble was in rapld constractlon, which did not give the walls time enough to become firmly knit, 88 one might express It. The factis that landlords are too anxlous to get rents, and hence demand that buildings be rushed up. Tae New York Sun confesses to a de- craase of about 40,000 in its circulation, which Is a remarkable admission for a newspaper to make. It sascrlbes this shrinkage to financial, Industrial, and commercial depression, This explana- tion, however, will hardly be accepted by the public which knows that several * New York papers, by introducing popular and novel features and reduclng their prices to one, two and three cents, have made wonderful strides in clrculatlon and have naturally drawn subscribers away from the Sun, Sl the Sun con- tinues to shine for 100,000 subscribers, which is a clroulatlon enjoyed by but very few papers. But what forced 1t to admit a decrease—s fact which must affect its advertising rates—is Jsemething we cannot understand. WEe are not disposed to bandy words with the Republican over the ‘‘confed- erate spy” libel suit, Had the publishers shown the slightest disposition to correct the falsehoods to which they had given elroulation we should not have pressed the sult to trial, But from the very ont- set they showed malice and & dellberate Intent to keep the libel afloat, They never published one line concerning the erphatic denlal nor did they ever allude to the fact that a libel suit had been in- otituted agalnst them, Up to Friday) they etudiously avolded all reference to tho sult end it was evident that they in- tondcd to keep the readers of the Kepub. lican in ignorance concerning the steps which we had taken to dlsprove their in- famous slander. 1n view of this fact,the sititude which the convicted libellers oc- cupy before the people of this commun- ity end etate 1s not very enviable. the others thers s considerable doubt. It is but falr to eay that the proceedings that were Inaugurated at the in- stance of Postmaster-General James during his term of office, now bid fair to be pushed to a terminatlon, and it is hoped that the government will recover every dollar that it has pald out under fraudulent representatious and practices. Such a result would Lave been brought about long ago had the de- partment of justica done its duty as efticlently and faithfully as the post- office department did under the adminis- tration of Mr., James. Hox, Braxce K. Bruck, who has re. tired from the office of reglater of the treasury, proposes to return to Missies'p- pi and continue to make that state his home, He is & man of whom the colored people of this country may well feel proud. The Chlcago Herald, one of the ablest democratic papers of the unpreju- diced stamp, pays the following high com- pliment to Mr. Bruce: In the estimation of most people Mr, Brue is the best representative of his race in Amer- fca to-day. Heis motthe equal of Fred Douglas in oratorical powers, but in every- thing else, and more especially in the graces of mind and manner he is his superior, Bruce is not a professional negro or a habituated politician. He has the tact to conduct him- self as & white gentleman would, and he never finds avy rough corners projected in his way, Douglass and some other men of prominence will go out of their way to invite an insult or stir up race prejudice, During Mr. Bruce's career in the senate and in the treasury he has won the raspect of all men, without regard to party. Ho will be Tollowed into retirement with the good will of the public, and the wish will be general that he may soon reappear in political life as a southern representative, Hon, Par O, Hawgs resents as an In- sult the statement that he is Indebted to Senator Van Wyck for his successful ef- forts in recoveving from Uncle Sam claims sor Indian depredations in Ne- braska, According to Mr, Hawes the only thing that Senator Van Wyck dld was to introduce him to Secretary Endl- cott and other members of the new ad- ministration. That is the only thing we blame Senator Van Wyck for. For once Queen Victorla and Parnell are happy over the same event, Both ara very glad to get rid of Gladstone, It remafns to be seen how much Parnell will gain by the trade. The tories never bave been very frlendly to the Irish cause, Tae assoclate editor of the Lincoln Journal threatens us with a requlsition for one hundred dollare. He clalms that the Bee has fime and again called him a rebel bushwhacker. The nearest we have come to it was when we referred to there are at least five thousand persons in this clty who live in this way, and the enamerators should make a special effort in that direction. They wiil find a large number of such persons living in rooms in business blocks, and they should make repeated efforts to secure thelr names. We would suggest that before the cens: work is cloged up the enumerators hold a meeting for at least one week in some public office for the purpose of recelving the names of persons who have been overlooked, and that all persons who think or know ibat they have not been reglstered be requested to call at such place a8 may be designated and give the enumerators the required statistios con- cerning themselves, JunGe Lasmperr Tree haviog been glven some prom!nence as the cpporent of General Logan In two or three ballots at the tail end of the senatorfal contest, now thinks ho is entltled to the Itallan mis- elon, It is aliltle late in the season, nd perheps another spriog will have to roll around before the Chicago Tree leaves. Tue growth of some of the southern states is il'ustrated by the statement concerning Chattinooga that it has In. creased since the war ‘‘“from a clump of whitewashed warehouses and shantles to a clty of 25,000 inhabitants; from a tax- roll of $1,300,000 to one of $7,000,000, and has 1increased its business capital from $200,000 to $5,000,000." — ALTHOUGH young in years the Amerl- can republic now posse: three of the grestest artlficial wonders of the world— the Washington monument, which is the highest ever bullt, the East river brldge, which is the highest and longest suspen- slon span ever constructed, and the Barthold! statue, which will loom up far above all other Mgz, Jorx O, BonNeLn has been ap* polnted adjutant general of the Nebraska militia, The B. & M, will be safe now. If that corporation should have any more “‘dump"” troubles it will be so handy to have one of its own officers in charge of of the mlliti We wonder if the private secretary of Governor Dawes has ,contributed to the Republican's five cent fund? If not, he should by all means forward a five cent postage stamp, e Tux editor of & democratlo paper has bzen bratally atsaulted by a justice of the peace, This is what we call *‘cffensive partisanship.” TaE principal occupation of the gen- rillway, freight, and paesenger offices nowadaye eeems to be In attending pool old one bursting. T name of the state cow-doctor has not been officially announced as yet. If thero ls anybody in the Lincoln Jowrnal who bas not already been provided for he ehonld file his sheepskin ss veterlnary surgeon, Cor. Sarr has been heard from on pro hibltion in Towa, He pronounces the ex- periment a dead failare. Probably the colonel is famlllar with the back doors of the Council Blaffs refreshment bureaus. Boss Boyp has been heard from. It will be a cold day when Bierbower becomes a left bower. Wiar the Nebraska ralleoad commis- sion doesn’t know about rallroading would fill several volumes. STATE JOTLINGS, Crete City is nssessed at $320,473, The tax levy of Columbus is ten mills on the dollar, The adventista are holding a camp meeting at Norfolk, Wolf scalps command $2,00 apiece in Thayer county, The aggregate assesement of Dakota county this year is $800,000, The assessed v Fremont is $650,6:0. The Sutton high echool will turn out soven graduates next Thursday, A base ball tournament Hastings July 1 2, 3 A 10,000 bank building i one of the im- provements propoted at Sutton, The reduction of tax in Fremont this year amounta to nearly thirty mills, Myriads of ground squirrels are ravaging crops in the White river country, Creighton 1s pnssing _sround the hat for fands to build a $10,000 grist mill, Osceola s promised & branch of the Burl ington & Missouri from Ulysses. The editor of the Seward Democrat has ordered a patent outside for his bread Lasket. The corner stone of tho First Methodist Tipiscopal church of York will b laid on- the th, Tshmael Hickey, the giant of Johnton county, died on the Sth. He wa3 60 yeu:s of age und weighed 480 pounds, A wicked breezo struck the neighborhood of Antelope on the 5th and wrecked several barns, windmills and fences. James Casey, of Beatrice, was given a fif- teen year term in_the penitentiary for as saulting William McElhaney, A Jackson genius is building wings with which to float into spuce on July fourth, He will use his tongue a3 « fan mll, Lightning etruck the city hall in St. Helena Monday night, demolishing the chimney and ripping off considerablo siding. Tho site chosen by the postofiice building in Nebraska Uity 18 a strip of ground 120x144 on the corzer of Eighth and Otoe streets, An old lady 70years of ago wandered from hor home near Hanover a few days ago and was found a fow houra afterward in a slough and dead. A Wilber boast in human shape is in jai for incest, The daughter gave birth to a child, and the father and his wife buried the infant alive. The cheese factory recently established at Brainard, Saunders county, is proving a great success, Four thousand pounds of milk ate consumed daily. Neligh will voto Wednesday on the proposi- tion toiswue $6,500 in bonds to build school, The bonds are to run ten years and bear 7 per cent interest. Fred Rooves, 16 years old, in attempting to jomp a gravel tram at Burnett Taesday, elipped and was run over by soven cats, being lterally cut to pieces. W. H, Parker, a beavy cattlo dealer and owner, is reported to havo sold his interest in the Paxton and Patker herd to J, H, Bosler, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Niobrara has a band called the Dudes, who gave their first frae open air entertainment a fow nights ago, and are now cautioned by the authorities not to let it occur again, Maurice O'Rourke, the great navigator of Plattsmouth, is busily engaged floating schooners over the bar. “Navigation and irri- gation dovetail in the Cass metropolis, The regulation tax in Nebraska City is 27 mills on the dollar, and every able.-bodied man between the ages of 21 and 50, is re- quired to do two days labor or give its equiv- alent in cagh, Plattemouth has concluded to pay the high school bonds and a proposition has been sub- mitted to the voters to fund the persent ten per cent bonds by issuing bonds bearivg six and a half per cent. During a heavy storm ot Celia last week lightning struch the house of H. Judson,doing no ivjury to any of the family with the excep- tion of tho b-year-old daughter, who was made desf by ths shuck, A proclamation for a special election in Cedar county, on the 30th inst.,, to deiide whether or not the peopla wish to repeal the herd law passed atthe last session of the legislature, has been issued. The state auditor has refused to register the bonds voted by the Fullerton school district, on the ground that it was unlawful to use the levy of 1885 asa basis of voting bonde, until the board of equ.lization had adjusted the assessment of 1855, A blind tramp named Winters was struck and killed by & locomotive on tha Missouri Pacific near Weeping Water on Wednesday, Tho man was being led by a boy across a high trestling, when he was thrown to the boitom of the ravine sixty feet below, The Johnson County Journal is after the scalp of A, W, Griffen, chief of the ser- viea of this s*ate, on the “‘offensive partisan” dodge. It charges him with the great crime of recommendiog republicans as' worthy of ruilroud passes, while demo:rats must puy full fare or check ties, A runawsy team in Grand Island jumped onto the wagon of Henry Aherns, who en- deavored to ¢et out of their way, When Mr, Aherns was extricated from the wreck he was unconcious, the back of his skull was crushed lnation of the precinct of will be held at OO0 o but the replanting has been finished. The corn crop may rated a8 a little above the average in con dition and an average as to stand. Only good weather is nesded now, weather that will allow the farmers to keep the cultivators golng to make a_good corn crop. There is nothing to eay about ahe small grain except- ing that the outlook averywhere in these parts was never better, if so good. This ap plies to wheat, oats, flax, rye and barley. here is, a8 far as can be learned, ho exaep. tion to this sweepivg and satisfactory state- mentabout the small grain, For the benefit of H, A, Barrows, of Cen. tral City, the BR desires to state that the letter chargiog him with being a-carpet-bag. ger was consiened to the fathomless depths of the waste basket, as are all letters of like na ture, The Ber will give neither space nor comfort to the personal fights of office-seekers, and the reference made to Mr, Barrows as & carpet-bagger was published simply to show the silly rgnhm employed by rival offics hunters, Ninety nine out of every hundred personain the state are ‘‘carpet:-baggers” in the sense that they are not natives, The scramble for the Seward postoffice cul minated in a row Inst week, W. J, Taylor, son-in-law of the notorious ex-lisutenant- Governor Oarns, called on the editor of the Democrat and insisted that the aforesaid ecribe should sign his potition for the postof- fice or take a thrashing. He chose the latter and the racket began without coremony, Shooting-sticks, mallets, and old cuts salled around the room promiscuously before the pugilists got into clote quarters, Taylor grabbad for the editor's top-knot, but failing to find enough hair tocling to. he rammed his digits into the yawning mouth before him, The editorial masticators closed down with a snap that made the postoftice aspirant yell for meroy, The way those fingers were munched would be a curiosity for a museum, In ad. dition to a lame hand. Taylor contributed $11.50 to the echool fund and stopped his paper, Capturing John Wilkes Booth, Baltimore Herald, ““We at once surrounded the barn,” [said Capt. E. P, Doherty] and I went to the door and trled to open {t, bat it was locked with a padlock. Young Garrett had the key to the padlock with him, and, when he unlocked it, 1 called to the man inside: “*I have come hrre to take you. I know who you ars, and I want you, If you do not come out, I have men enough to take you, dead or alive.’ ‘At firat thers was no snswer. Fin- ally, in a loud, strong voice, Booth re- plied: ‘Who are you, and what do you want?' I ssid: ‘It's no matter what we want, deliver up your arms and surrender your- selves.’ “He called out again: o *I replied: ‘That makes no difference. We know who you are, and we want you. I have fifty men here armed, and you cannot get away.’ “‘Booth =ade eome answer about his being captured by his friende, and then he atked for, time to think the matter over. Finally I eald tohim: ‘We have waited long enough; it is time for you to surrender.” Booth called out: ‘I am crippled and alone. Take your men back fifty yards from the door snd I will come out. You cught to give me a chancs for my life.” “‘I told him that we bad not come to fight, but to capture him, and he had better come out. After awhile Booth called, “*There is a man here who wants to surrender, and wants to surrender awfal bad.” ‘At thiy Harold came out to the door and said: *““Let me cut. I want to sur- render.’” I sald, *‘Hand out your arms,’ and Booth s3aid he had no srms. I took my pistol and told Harold to put both hands out at the door. He did 8o, and I caught him and pulled him out. Then Booth made some stage-like speech that I could not distinctly uaderstind, bat I remember he eald: ‘Boys, prepare a stretcher for me. Another man is slain under our glorfous banner.” A few min- utes later he called out to me agsin to take my men from around the barn and give him a chance for his life. Just at that moment somebody, whether one of my men or one of the detectives, I am not sure, Jit a match and dropped. it in the straw in tho rearof thebarn. In an instant the whole place was lighted up. We saw Booth standing on the floor of the barn leaning over on his cratch. Oa the floor was the straw, and outlining Booth as he stocd there glaring around a8 If trylog to ece us on the cuteide. I do not think he Intended to shoot at us but had made up his mind to kill him- self, It wes hardly a moment after the fire burst out before Booth dropped his cratch and took his carblne in both haade, still glaring about the barn, and reslly looked ss if he wero nbout to shoot. At this instant we hearda shot. Booth gave a yell ard for the moment stocd with the carblne be- tween his legs, his head bent over the butt, and then, as he was about to fall, 1 caught him under the arms and pulled him outcfthe barn, Some oue called out ‘He has shot himself,” and 1t was for soms timoe my ‘mprestiou that that was the cae, But Sergeant Boston Corbett soon told mo that he had thot, intending only to disable Booth’s arm, *'Booth lived about two hours, 1 took the blanket off my horse, sewed him up in it: took an o'd negro with his cart and returned to Belle Plaine, whera the steamer I 8, Ide, Captain Wileon, was waiting for me; returned to Washington with the corpse of Booth and David E Herold as prisoner, and at 3 a, m, on April 26, 1865, turned Booth over to the naval authorities in charge of the iron- clad monitor Montauk at the navy yary. *‘Booth had on an old business suit— black, with little white epots. In his pockets were a lot of llttle onions, A diary was in one pocket, I did not read it carefully, Several pages had been written after the assaseination. He al luded to hliaself as the greatest patriot known to modern history. I turned the dairy over to the war department. I ‘Why are and he died on the night of the 9th, The un tortunate man farmed six miles from town and leaves a wife and two children, Chief Cleland, of the Fremont fire”depart- ment, was presentod with a $45 trumpet last woek. 1t is a German silver one with a gold liniog. Beautiful desigos axe engraved upon it, among them being hooks and ladders and a steam engine, It bears the inscription, “Tc our Chief, Jobn C. Cleland, from Fremont, Neb., Fire Department, June 10th, 1885, The venerable and venerated bachelor, Dick Thompson, has ’pulltd his props ¢ Hastings, taken to himse!f a helpmeet and settled in the neighborhood of the land office notices in M- Dick’s helpmeet is R.B. Walquist, and the tie that binos thewm is the McUook Democrat, the first issue of which has just reached these headquarters, It is a fac simile of the Adams County Democrat, and a neater, newsier weekly cannot be found outside the metropolts. Howe & Nixon and the Lincoln Land com- pany haye contracted with the commiesioners of I{umihn county toerecta buildiog to be used for a court house, and which isto bs completed by August 1st. The building will be 40x40, with a lean-to 40x14, and with the exception of the addition will ba two stories high, The entire buildiog wi'l be rented to the county for §50 per month for a term of five years, with the privilege of continuing five years more at the option of the county, Crop reports from points in_northeastern Nebraska to the Sioux OCity Journal show that up to the 6ih there had baen no rain; the fields, excepting low bottoms have dried off, and the farmers are in the corn fields from daylight to dark, The corn 15 considerably in the weeds, but with continued dry weather the weeds will be overtaken. On very low bottom the corn is hopelessly drowned out, but this low bottom constitutés but a smal r cant of the tctal acreage, On medium ow land the stand s not good in wany fields, think 1t was never published. “‘The prize money of $75,000 was divl- ved on the plan governivg the distribu- tlon of priz) money in the navy, I was regarded as the captain of a vessel pass- iog from one squadron to another, and makiog a capture on the way. I r ceived 87 600, Colonel Baker 83,750, Conger $4,000, L. B, Baker $4,000, Cor- bett and the other sergeant $2,645, seven corporals got $2,291, and elghteen pri- vates got $2,063. Nearly all the men live now near Plattsburg, N. Y., where they invested their money in farms, I live in Louisians, and am engaged on government werk on the Red river, 1 sm happy to say I have multiplied my share cf the 875,000 several times.” e —The body of Janies Templar arrived here yesterday morning from Reno, Nevads, and was taken to Drexel & Maul's, wher it re. mained until 2 o’clock and then was sent on Its journey, by way of the Wabash road, to Springfield, Ill,, for burlal, On the Gth inst , Templar was thrown from his pony near Rano and killed, whils chasing cattle, He was a young and wealthy cattle wan, A little breezs of excltement was created yesterday afternoon down st the UnionPacific shops by one__of the toughest old female hags in the town charging that respectable man had insulted her, She called officer O'Brien to have him arrested, whereupon several shopmen put in 1| an appearance and demacded that if any ar resting be done she should be the one arrested, But no arrests were made, FINE CORNICES, An Omaha Firm Puats Them Up AN Over the West, Notleing the grent popularity which galvanized cornloos have galned, s Brx man had a shor! talk yebterday * with the representative cornice manufacturers, Messrs, Ruemplrg & Bolte at 310 South Twelfth street, near Farnam street, and learned many valaable fasts. The flae cornice ornamentatlons which this firm have been putting up all over the state are attracting a geeat deal of attention, both on sccount of the beauty and quality as woll as their sclentific manner in which they are placed on the build ings. Nearly all the best buildings in the west are ornamented by Messrs, Ruempng & Bolte's renowned cornices, and any job, large or small, stands as the highest commendation as to this firms good work, They have now on hand some of the largest contracts In the state and 1t is oafe to eay that a very sat- isfactory job will ba the result, as both the proprietors from childhood up have been practical cornice manufacturors who employ mnone but first-clasy workmen to asslat them, For four years Mesars, Ruempiog & Bolte have been dolng an excellent businees, cornices, amonnting to over 830,000 belng put out during the past ye Nofirm in the city more richly deserves their great success than Mesera. Ruemping & Bolte, as for fine work and low prices they lead ail com. petitors, i A HOWEING HURRICANE. The ventral and Western Part of Ne- braska Entertained with & Lively Wind Btorm, The little breeza that rattled up Omana 80 lively yesterday morning soems to have been much more severe and ditastrous farther west. It appoara to have traveled from southeast to northwest and along its courso left more or less damage to property. Up snd down the Nebraska rallroad eouth of Lincoln much damsge is reported, but fortunately it ls not very heavy damage. Telegraph poles aud wires all down in many pleces and at Phillips statlon the depot was partially wrecked, Several light and airy build- ings were blown from thelr foundations and occazionally one fell to ruins, At Calhoun a house was blown down. From Grand Island west a dlstance f six mlles every telegraph pole along the Union Pacific road Is laying flat on the ground. Some of them were snapped off as though they had boen mown down, At Elkhorn report says that one house and two frame barns were carrled off of their foundations, and at Millard station the wind played havoc with two lumber yarde. The storm siruck North Platte about half past six o'clock last evening, and when the wires stopped working they sald everybody Is gettirg out of the depot to save themaelvez, as it s belng torn to pleces. Another hard rain paseed over the country last night, but it was not preced- ed by qulite eo hervy a wind as either of the two previous storms. BADLY BRUISED. are A Man Knocked off the Track at sheeley’s Crossing by No, 3, After chaeing down four or five siry rumors last evenlog a reporter for the BEE finally ascertained part of the facts connected with an accident that occurred yesterdsy afternoon on the U, P. rosd, out near Sheeley’s packing house.; A man was knocked off the track by freight train No. 3, which was just leaving forn trip to the west. Nelther the tralnmen or Dr. Galbraith, who attended the un- fortunate fellow, learned his neme, but the night watchman at Sheely’s estab- lishment eays it was a man by tho name of Peter Mentis, who keeps a boarding house near where be was injored. He had two ribs broken ond his shoulder krocked out cf place. He will recover. —————— ACRAZY CHINAMAN, Lost His Reason From the Use of Opium, The first Chinese patlent that ever en- tered St. Joseph's hospital was taken there yesterdey crazy as a loon—so crazy that his name coald not be learned, though some on» eald that it is Sing Loe. He was brought over from Council Bluffs ye:terday morning and conveyed to the hospltal. It was ascertalned by the sleters from another celestlal who ac- companies him that Lee {s en route from New York to Sacramento and expects to proceed on his journey a3 soon as he gets able. But there are eerious doubta about his ever being able. Lge is the victlm of too much opium and looks like a man in the very last stages of consumption, His once mahogany colored complexion hus changed to an asty palenees and his mind seems to bo & total wreck, One of his countrymen is at the hosplial with im. A New Acquisition, Mr. David Jamison, of the Nebraska Oosland Lime company, has sold his inter- ost to Mr, J. H, Halbert, Mr, Halbert ‘e- | for the past year has been general agent for the Chicago, Mil #ankee & St. Paul at Council Bluffs, prior to that at Daobuque—having rallroaded nineteen years, He now retires, and comes to Omaha with the highest recommends- tlons from all partfes, ana will be an acquisition o the mercantile interests of the city. i The Nebraska Ccal and Lime com- pany, organized two years sgo, has made » good record; having handled over one thousand cavs of coal and lime in that time, Mr. Balch, the manager, has bad fifteen years experience in the coal trade, At cne time ho was sales agent for the old houss of L. R Wilion & Co., of Baffalo, N. Y., and afterwards with their successors, Lang- don, Rlchardson & Co., of Chicago, eell- ing coal to permanent deslers in the citles of eeven states. Mr, Balch has made friends with all who have come In contact with him and has worked hard for the success of his compaay., Mr Balch says thatthe very best quality of Antbracite coal In the market will come to Omaba this eeascn for the Nebraska Coal & Lime compiny, and great care willbe taken to plesse all who favor them with their patronsge. We welcome Mr, Halbert as an accession to Omaha as woll as the Nebraska Coal & L'me Qo, SATURDAY'SSPORTS. Omaha \\'hfl:-(:lllli Holds Its irst Spring Meeting - Amatenr Base Ball, Saturday afternoon at Athletic park, the Omaha Wheel olub held its firat spring moeeting, whioh was falrly attended with spectators and the eports offered consisted of five byelole races. The firat, a mile dash, In which only members of the clab were entered was for a gold medal, and the contestants were J. G, Hitchcock, Thomas F. Black- more, Roy Runcle and Perry Badollet. The second race was slso for a gold medal but open to all and there were four entrles, as follows: Harry Marford, Perry Badollet, O. H. Gordon and F., H. Merrfum, The third race was a three mile handicap race with only Hitchcook and Runcle In and the fourth, was a half mile ran open to all. Blackmore, Morford and Badollet, wero theonly onew,however, who entered. The sport was Jively while it lasted, avd showed (hat the young men have become (uite proficient bleycle riders. Following aro the scores: Firs! race—Milo dath, gold medal; J. H. Hiteheock, scratch 1, 2:56 2 Thos, F. Biackmore, 100 yarde, 2, Roy Bunels, 250 yarcs; Perry Badollet, 300 yards, Second rase—Mile, gcld med Morfcrd; Perey Badollet, 1, 3:35; Gordon, 5:39; T. H, Merrlam, 3, Third race—Taree mile dash, gold medal: John G. <Hitchoock, scratoh, 1 minute and 10:03 seconds; Roy Run- cte, 600 yarde, 2 minates. Fourth race-—Half mile, gold medal: Thomas F. Blackmore, 1 minute and 1.30 1.5 seconds, Harry Morford, 2 min- utes and 1:35 secords; Perry Badollett, 3 minutes. At the close of thero r:gularly set con- tests Mr. Hitchcock gave an exhibltion of his strength ard skill on the wheels inan effort to lower the 1:29 record made here 1157 season by Westbrook, and ho did It In great shape, making the half mile ran In 1:24 2-5. His one mile dash 1s the fastest time ever made on a bycisle weat of the Miseouri river. A gamo of base ball was played Satur- day afternoon, on the B, & M. grounds by the High school and Capitol Hill nines 1t was a hotly conterted and well played gawe, and aftraced a fsrge rowd cof spectators, Following is a summary of the game Tonings 12 Capitol Hi High School 112 A Base Hits 1 Hill 20, High School 4, Errore—Capitol Hill 14, High School 16, Stauck out—By Hall 6, by Wilson 12, Batteries — Capitol _ Hill, Wilson Shields ; High School, Hall and Rose. Double play— Garley to Smith, and Matters are Moving The Omaha Falr and Expesition Asso- clatlon held & meeting Saturday evenivg, at which the following gentlemen were appointad to officle] positions: S. G. Couch, general superintendent; J. W, Bedford, gate and ticket superin- tendent. D. H. Wheeler, socretary of the asso- ciation, and J. H, McShane were select- ed a commlitee, and instructed to visit Chicago next Tuezday, with a vlew of secaring speed horses for the fair. After passing a notice giving certaln instructions to stock Lolders, the meet- irg was adjourned. o —— A Qalet wedding, Saturdsy afternoon Capt. George of the Puliman palace car com- pany, and Mre. Elizabeth C. Clirk, a bright lady from Jerecy Clty, N.J., were quletly married at the resldencs of the Rev. W. H. Scott, 1205 Park avenue. They took a hack drive to the minia‘ers house, had him perform the ceremony there, after which the newly joined couple returned to the Paxton hotel and ara now its guests, Capt. George has been with the Pullman palace car com- pany at this place about seven years, and numbers his friends by the hundreds. His bride is a charming lady and the Bex, with all others who know them, joins in extending its well wishes. —— Hendricks Will Spaak at Yale, INDIANAPOLIS, June 14, —Vice-President and Mrs, Hendricks left this afternoon for New York, Me. Hendricks is billed for an address b Yalo collegs during commence- ment k. 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