Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 14, 1886, Page 4

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Silence would be his death blow sm of the musical “Zenobia' was altogether too numerous. ‘Lhere should have been less of Pratt and more of Mendelssohn, Bellini, Wagner, and other such com- posers. ONE desery fostival is that The people are being fully informed of Senator Van Wyck's five years' record as their servant at Washington. The record of his rivals must be soarched for in the offices of the corporations of Omaha, whose faithful henchmen they have been for years. Mosr of Nebraska corn in store grades “rojected’’ owing to the carclessness of farmers who neglect to crib it in the fall and permit it to lie in the field over winter. Such shiftle: arming brings i own punishment in prices for the aged corn which scarcely pay for the husking. Reports from Washington note that the heat is excessive, and that congress will soon be foreed to adjourn in conse- quence. The heat is tl excuse ~ for the delinquenc zy and incom- petent members, who shirk their duties during the cool weather and cool them- selves with iced tea in the restaurants ONE assessor in Omaha did his duty. He raised the assessment of his ward 41 per cent. But he felt very lonely when ke found that his fellow assessors had been unable to discover any material ad wvance in real estate in Omaha since si _ yoars ago. Mr. Mountdeserves commen- dation for his fidelity to his oath of of- fice. . Iris suggested that Senator Van Wyck should consent to meet some of his riv on the stump during the approaching | canyass, Without consulting the senator . we have no doubt that he will cheerfully | mgree to the proposition. After debating - with Edmunds, Hoar, Ingalls and other gtatesmen of that calibre the senator eould probably stand at least a couple of rounds with Ajax Weaver and Jim Laird. | WueN the current of events becomes a " little dry and monotonous, itis refreshing [ as a mental diversion to get something from General Benjamin ¥. Butler, The * general has just given to the reporter of | & Philadelphia newspaper his early sum- mer forecast of the political future, ana it is not altogether encouraging. He | discerns danger ahead in the preponder- ‘mnce of the south in the national coun- eils, and predicts trouble as inevitable " some day in the ‘‘sweet bye-and-bye." ‘Mt s noteworthy also that the general * confesses a complote loss of confidence | #n the ability of the laboring elemeat to " mnify as a politicnl power, which is a " guite nataral conclusion from his uneat- #sfuctory experience as a labor candidate for the presidency., 1t is some time since ‘the prophecies of Mr. Butler ceased to be ‘oracular and became simply diverting. . Normina shows better the solid ad- " wancement of the state than the steady ‘gise in town property throughout Ne- ‘Praska and the rapid improvement of the Mmterior citics. Town property in the is proving a good investment from ch men of foresight and small capital reaping handsome returns. The perity of Nebraska farms is inti- | mately bound up with the welfare of Ne- ika towns, and this fact is the surest upon which to found predictions a future whose develop ts are still in their infancy. Nebraska has doubled her population thin the past five years, and the in ase, as shown by the census, was quite mpartially divided botween the two sce * tions of the state north and south of the "Platto. The chief cities bave shown an e proportionate to the increase in farming sections. Each growing Zrows by, sccretions from the tradc rritory of which it is the center. This the natural law in new communities. the years pass cities often increase at expense of the country owingto greater attractions which mumeipal has to those who live in er settlement But in our rn states the time will not arrive years when the growth of our towns cities need be u matter of jealousy to people of the country. At present ouly effect of such advancement is to the value of the adjacent ium‘i g regions by furnishing markots an J of supplies for thlr inhabitauts. 'They All Do Auditor Babcock's defense, as made by himselt over his own name in the papers that nover fail to defend crookedness and yobbery, may be summed up in the four words: “They all do it Accord- ing to Mr. Babcock, he is doing better than Leidtke, who pocketed all the insur- ance fees and ran away, and no worse than several other offlcers who have col- lected fees unlawfully and kept them for months in their pockets until it suited them to turn them over. It is the habit of the cuttle fish to be- cloud the water with an inky fluid when he gets into close quarters with the sword fish. Auditor Babcock imagines that he can save himself by pursuing the same tactics. He has squirted a quart of ink through the Lincoln Journal to becloud the issue on which he is arraigned. He splits hairs over Leidtke's suspension by showing that Nance did not suspend Leidtke but allowed him to vacate, and the salary for the unexpired term was paid under mandamus to Wallichs in the name of Leiat That point has no bearing whatever upon the conduct of Mr. Babeock. On the vital question as to collecting and retaining fees, which under the constitution he has no busi- ness to handle or to keep, Mr. Babcock says: 1took possession of the office 1885, and during that year received into the state treasury S1370LS5 January 1, 1885, 1 have collected over $12,000, and If I am not suspended (like Auditor Leldtke) will pay the sajne into the treasury. Some time in December last, I requested the state treasurer to receive the fees usually paid this office and thereby save the editor of sity of suspending me or having me suspended, but he refused and in sisted that injthis matter both his office and mineshould be conducted as heretorore, say- ing, “Pay in the money just when you please.” This is a very flimsv protext for an evasion of toe law. Mr. Babeock is not the custodian of the public funds. He 1s simply the auditor. He has no more right to receive and retain money belonging to the state than any other state ofli the treasurer alone excepted. The sec tary of state does not touch a dollar of fees although he has just as much precedent for doing so as the auditor. Other secre- taries of state did handle fees, but Mr. Roggen has determmed to comply strictly with the constitutional proviso and the order of the supreme court, The state treasurer does not dare to refuse the tender of fees for services by the s retary, and if Mr. Babcock had been as anxious to deposit the $12,000 he has col- lected as he is tokeep them in his pocket, he would have met with no difliculty in turning the money over where it belongs. Why does he insist upon doing what some other ofticial has done who did not obey the law? Does he lend this out at interest or does he specu- hit? If not, why does he insist upon retaining it? In the course of his lame defense Mr. Bahcock exclaims; have not got another Leidtke in the audi- tor's office."” Well, that depends. We do not imag- ine that the present auditor is squande ing the state money in reckless dissip: tion like Leidtke, but his conduct warrants grave suspicion that he needs watching. . Since the charges against him appeared in this paper, our attention has been called to his peculia conduct in the oflice held in Valle county before he became auditor. We are informed that Mr. Babcock was a very crooked county clerk, Citizens of Valley county assert that he did not turn over the fees of his oftice there as re- quired by law, and this general belief is said to have destroyed the confidence of his neighbors in his integrity to such an ex- tent that he run way behind his ticket at his home when a candidate for auditor. Another ingenious attempt to be- the real issue is made the auditor in the he tries to creep out of the chnr"‘u that he has issued $20,000 of warrants upon the state capitol fund ahead of the levy. He tells us that the legislative ap- propriation of the proceeds of the half- mill tax for capitol building is equivalent to alevy of the tax for two yearsin ad- vance, even though the amount to be raised by the taxisnot known, He fortifies himself with un old oninion of ex-Attorney General Isaac Powers, who assured Mr. Wallichs that he did not see a legal ob- stacle to drawing on the fund ahead of the levy. Mr. Powers, however, felt called upon to say that “Of course war- rants in oxcess of the amount raised, or to be raised by the one-half mill levy, cannot be issued, but if confined within such Limits no yalid objection can be urged to issuing upon such estimates.” Mr. Powcers was a very warin friend of Mr. Stout, the contractor, who probably also takes u great deal of stock in Bab- cock. Thbe question is whether our audit- ors are vested with discretionary powers with regard to drawing in advance of a levy. 1f such powers ever were conceded they would be very dangerous. There is no limitation whatever except the pleas- ure of the auditor. If he can draw $20,000 ahead of the y he can draw $300,000. Who is to stop him in such lawless work? The big ink blotch is thrown in by Mr. Babcock when he says ‘I'he board of public lands and buildings consisting of Hon. Joseph Scott, Hon. E, P, Roggen, Hon, C. i, Willard and Hon. Wil- liaw Leese, first allowed the elaims and e tified the same to me then, Mr. Koggen ap- proved the vouchers for the $20,000 warrants Mr, Rosewater s; were illegally drawn, and Mr, Willard countersigned the same, ucts necessary betfore my mioney could be obtained on thew, and yet My, Roggen niade 0o blunder and My, Willard attended strictly to business. This is meant to imply that the whole Loard of state officers was in collusion with Babeock in the 1ssuc of these war- rants and particularly Messrs. Roggen and Willard. The truth is that the board simply passed upon Mr, Stout’s cluim and the secretury of state ecerti vouchers, but the board did not di; uuditor to issue the warrants in advs of the levy and the fact that the rants were hawked out in England shows that there was seri ous doubt as to their legality. But even if every ~state ofli- cer had sanctioned their issue we would still say it is a daugerous and reck- less exercise of authouity, or rather an exercise of authority that should be good grounds for impeachwment. An eflicient and trustworthy officer will always be found within the bounds of the luw and a strist coustructionist of his powers. It is immaterial to us whether Mr. Dawes upholds Babeock in' his crooked work or not.” The state of Nebraska, anuary “Mr. Rosewater, you | through its mext legislature, must put & veto upon such ir- regular transactions and make it impossible for an auditor to accumulate $12000 of the state funds and hold them in his possession for months at a tim They must put it beyond his power to i sue warrants before the levy is made or the tax collected. The plea that “‘they all do it” may satisfy some people who have very loose notions about the rights and duties of public officers, but it will not satisfy taxpayers, The Effect of the Ulster Riots. Ulster during the past week has celo- brated the temporary defeat of home rule with riot, arson and murder, and hun- dreds of houses belonging to Catholic citizens were wrecked, numbers were burned to the ground, the chief of police was fatally injured and the eity for hours was held by a mob of the vilest description, This 18 the ronical response which bloody Belfast has made to the assertion of the Churchill conservatives that Ulster is the only part of Ireland capable of self-gov- ernment, The moral effect ot the Belfast riots cannot but materiall sist in furthering the intercsts of the home rule eamnpaign., Ihe argument that Catholic ascendancy would imperil the fortunes of the “‘loyal Protestant minority'* falls at once to the ground. English voters will not soon forget that the very moment when their own party was in the ascendancy through the defeat of home rule, the Orangemen at tacked the Catholics, burned their houses and defied the poli The Belfast riots will effeetively put a stop to the plea of the Ulster Protestants that they are in continual danger from tl Catholie neignbors. The boot 18 now on the other foot. The appeal of the ministry to the coun- try promises to be responded to by an overwhelming vote of confidence in Mr. Gladstone. The lines are already being closely drawn upon which the coming elections will be contested. Home rule is the sole issue, and Mr. Gladstone in- that every constituency shall be sup- plicd with a home rule candidate. Not a single liberal association has swerved from its allegiance to Mr. Glad- stone. This encouraging nformation conies directly from Mr. Sehnadhorst, the chief of the national liberal federa- tion union. The premier will take the fiold in person directing the campaign and supplying the policy. Ircland 1s on the eve of self-government. Her friends and sympathizers may sately record this asa fact. With Parnell and Gladstone joining hands, and liberal England at , the corrupt coalition of nd foiled ambition, as exempli- isbury and Chamberlain, will be defeated at the polling booths of the August election. Tue commissioner of the New York bu- reau of statistics of labor proposes this year tomake a more thorough investiga- tion than has ever been thus far done in that state into all matters connected with labor, and particularly with respect to the causes and results of strikes and boy- cotts, and approximate estimates of the loss inflicted tuereby upon employer and employe. He has addressed to the labor unions and to employers circulars con- taining the questions desired to be an- swered, and the law of the state makes it a misdemeanor to decline to furnish the information nsked for. The facts that will be thus obtained will have very great yalue as a contribution to accurate in- formation regarding the direct effects, pecuniarily, of labor conflicts on both employers and employes, as well as other matters about which the popular mind is not so well informed as it might be. We apprehend that the great mass of laborers are notin the habit of making careful computations of the cost of strikes, ot tuking a deliberately practical view of the matter, and such information as the New York labor commissioner proposes to get will help them casily to a Dbetter understanding of this very important consid- eration than they now have. Itis hardly to be doubted thatf this matter of cost 1y better understood than it working men the would be few sor confliets than have prevailed for several years past. which mechanieal labor is ate of the bill to legalize the incorpora- tion of national trade unions may be re- garded us a decisively 1mportant point gained in behalf of trade organizations. It is an unequivocal acknowledgment of the right of such organizations to exist, aud the terms of the moasure are as com- prehensive in respect to the privileges ae- corded as the most exacting advocate of trade unionism could demand. Among tho rights to be exercised by a national trade union are the regulation of the wages of its members aud of the laws and conditions of labor, the protection of the rights of individuals in the prosceution of their trade, and such other object or ' ob- jects for which working people may law- fully combine, having jn view their mu- tual protection or benef Surely the working men of the country must con- cedo that they are not without considera- tion and respeet in the legislative halls of the nation. The bill will undoubtedly pass the house. Tue French chamber of deputies en Friduy took the radical step for some time promised with respect to the princes whose presence in the republic 18 a source of periodical political disturbance, and a continusl menace to the security and ce of the nation, by adopting without division a moasure requiring the compul- sory expulsion of the pretenders, and leaving it optional with the government to expel other members of the former pning families. The votes taken ed the pretenders to have a large support, and time alone will demonstrate whether the extreme action of the cham- beris the wisest that could have been pursued. ‘Toe railvoad war this time has resulted in cut rates eastward as well as west- ward. This is the first tim the history of railroad wars that Omaha and Council Biufls have had the benclit of an east- bound eut rute WE notice t some of the newspa- wers assert that Sam Jones is on the de- cline. We don't believe it, as we have no proof positive of his deelining. $3,000 for o series of revival meetings. ONDAY, JUNE 14, 1886, Ly Hazen Pri Conceding to Gen rn\ lhrou all the ability and merit which his most ardent admiver believes him to possess, and it is still possible to feel that he is most unfor- tunate in having an almést abnormal ap potite forcontroversy. Nobody questions that Hazen was an excéllent soldier, do- ing his wholo duty and doing it well. Nor is there any widespread disposition to find fault with him in his present posi- tion as chief signal officer, although he has not wholly escaped eri On the other hand nobody who ta impassioned view of the matter can feel otherwise than that ‘the evident love of Gen, Hazen for imviting issues with those with whom his duties bring him into con- tact, and of carrying coutroyersy to the farthest oxtreme, is derogatory to his reputation, demoralizing to the service, and ought to be greatly curbed or not vermitted to exert itself at all. “The right of a man to defend himself when he feels that unjust charges and imputa- tions have been made against him is con- ceded, but there are methods of doing thie that are less obtrusive yet quite as effective as those adopted by Hazen, The fact that he adopts the more obtrusive plan suggests as the promptiug cause an overweeningdesire for notoriety, General Hazen has just sent out a pamphlet of nearly one hundred pages discussing tho issue between himself and the second comptroller of the treasury, in which there is rather more than the usual amount of self-adulation by no means modestly set down. As to the merits of the controversy the great mass of people care nothing, but whether i the right or in the wrong General Hazen does not help his reputation by thus entering into public disputation and making it the op- portunity to reassert his past and present claims, generally conceded, to popular steem and confidence. Some friend of Hazen can perform an excellent service for that officer by inducing him to forego in future this sort of !ll'f\‘ni(‘ and confine himsclf to legitimate methods, while for his military achievements ho can safely leave those to the impartial verdict of history. Wi an assessment roll of $12,000,000, the city would have $130,000 for usein the general fund. Of this sum $100,000 are required to run the city government, to pay aries, rent and other current expenses. The balance remaining would be available tor grading purposes. But contracts have already been lot tor grad- ing, which will eat up $15,000, and the remaining $15.000 will be scarcely a drop in the bucket. Fifteen thous- and dollar will move in round figures only 150,000 yards of dirt, and pe titions are in for grading five times that amount. The fact is sp ar that it needs no denial that the actual require- ments of our city demand an assessment of at least $20,000,000, gpon which to levy taxes. The I estate of Omaha is worth more than five times this amount. There 1s no 1eason why we stould con- tinue. cutting off our noses to spite our faces, by refusing any longer to assess property at a fair and cquitable valua- tion. It is quite possible ,that the desire of Mr. Morrisen, as announced in the house on Fr , to renaw turiff discussion in the present session, will be defeated. It 15 said t Randall is marshaling end, and he will proba- the support of the tariff reform- who do not regard kindly the pros- pect of prolonging the session, possibly into dog-days, which a renewal of the- sy now would render inevitable. will suit all parties. A more dis- graceful oxhibition of cowardice has never been seen in Washington than the record of the democracy in the Dpresent scssion upon this issue of reliey- ing the people trom the burdens of execs- sive taxation. TuE rapidity with which cities spring upin northern Nebraska is simply mar- yelous. Chadron grew to 2,000 peeple in nine months, The lots of a new town Crawford, thirty miles west of Chadron on the Elkhorn Valley road, will be sold at public anction on the inst., and the inbabitants are alresdy predicting that it will soon the metroplis of Dawes county i size and prosperity. ANoTHER want in On Five hun- ages 1or renting purposes. POLITICAL POINTS, General Keifer of Ohio wants tobe returned congress, The Illinois republican state convention will meet at Springiield September 1, Rhode Island has in its legislature ninety- four republican members out of 108 i all, The Texas newspapers stipulate with all legislative ndidates for a change in the libel laws. It is said that Judge Poland could be gov- ernor of Vi ont if he wanted to, but that he gives no sign, Charile Foster still insists that Ohio is for Blaine, Senator Sherman to the contrary no withstanding. A democratic senate would be able to assist the president materially 1 solving the ques- tion of the offices, Bodwell has about three-fourths of the republican delegates in Maine and will be the candidate for governor, | T'he Portland Oregonian, having gone back on the republicans in Qregon, is supporting the prohibition ticket, ‘I'he Memphis Avalanchg considers Mr. Cleveland as the “logical aud inevitable can- didate” of the dt‘muuml? in 1888, The Georgia gubernatorial campaign is complicated by the chauee that ex-Congress- man Felton may run as an. independent can- didate, ) Democrats in Congreséman Reed’s district in Maine talk of supporting a Methodist clergyman, who is to make the race on a pro. hibition-labor platform. | The 1ndiana prohibitignist.inelude in their platform a: plank declaring in favor of woman suffrage, and another for the issue of money by government only, The Chicago News is pained tonote that no pronounced advocate of civil service reform has been prominently named by either party as leader in the next presidential race. 1u Texas it Is proposed to unite the Knights of Labor, Farmers' alliance, Prohibitionists and various other political and non-political elements in a grand effort to elect officers, Secretary Whitney is occasionally men- tioned as a possible candidate for the senate, but the prospect is that the New York legis- lature will remain in the hands of the repub- licans, One of the incidents of the Blaine move- ment is a revival just at this time of the story that large sus of British gold were expended to defeat him in 4584, because of his [iTFh views. Steve Dorsey says Logau and Sherman to- gother will have & majority in the next repul Tican convention, but that Blaine's chances for a nomination are better now than ever be- fore. Twelve republicans aided in the defeat of the local option bill in the New Jersey legis- Iature and now their party papers are grumb- ling that if the bill had passea there would be no temperance issue in this year's elec- tion, R — Prlmnry ‘Blection Logislation. delphia Times. There nrMm easing evidences that prim- ary election legislation does not legislate, — Civil Service, New York World, The World has never made light of honest clvil service reform—only the sham article. =y Annexation of Canada, Montreal Witness, The best settlement of the fisheries ques- tion would be the annexation of Canada to the United States, ——. A Hint to the Democrats, Washington Post. ¥, If this democratic administration would make a record it must somewhat reduce the current taxation, - Sparks’ Motives. New York Times, Sparks’ motives were good, and this should not be forgotten by those who are inclined to consure him for his error. e . A Strong Temptation. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, The temptation to conquer Canada has al- ways been very strong. Donot make it over- whelming. Hardly an idenl Honeymoon. Boston Record, A loneymoon that has to be guarded by twelve dotectives is hardly the ideal seclusion of newly married couples in a free country. pecyers o ileinlat Recommendation to Mercy. New York World, 1f we were on a jury trying Commissioner Sparks we would vote to recommend him_ to mercy while handing iu_the verdict of guilty. L That New Dictionary. Dallo Vew A new English dictionary is coming out with 240,000 words. Hon. Willam M. ts will charter a tug to go down the harbor to welcome it. — . Only One Horave of America. Teras Siftings. They make much of Dr. Liolues in Eng- land. He is “dubbed the Horace of America,” but we won’t stand that. There was only one Horace of America—Horace Greeley. e No Mistake This Time. Philadelphia ERecord. The London papers sometimes fall into mistakes in discussing American political questions, but they seem’tohave made a very careful study of ames G. Blaine. Sam Jones and the Watermelon, Chicago News. The Rev. Sam Jones appears to have stirred up the saints as well as the sinners. He denounced from several Indianapolis pulpits last Sunday, and out in Omaha there is really an opposition to the proposal to have Dim visit that city. We fear thatthe Georgia preacher, like the new Georgia electric girl, has seen his best day. The Georgia water- melon, however, we are glad 1o be able to say, has never lost its hold on public contidenct —— The Amenities of Politics, Washington Hatchet. “When do you think congress will ad- Journ?” Senator Hoar was asked. “I don’t kuow now,” he replied. “There were $46 sent to the conscience fund yesterday, and [ suppose we will have to stay until Senator Blair gets up a bill to give the money away to somebody.” “Wnen do you think congress will adjourn?”” Senator Blair was asked, **O it is impossible to tell now,”{ he answered, see that Senator Hoar has given notice of his intention to deliver a speech.” e e The Presidential Veto, Lincoln Journal. “Well, Dan, what is it?” sleepily yawned the president to his secretary, as he reached the office at 11 a. m. and found the secretary in the act of laying some papers on the presi- dential desk. “A few little bills, sir.”” “Whavare they? I wish congress would 12t me alone a day or two.” “These are not from coogress, sir. One Is for a bonnet, one is for hack hire, three of of em—"" “Veto 'em, Dan. Veto 'em.” They were accordingly vetoed, but it was announced in committee at dinner that they had been passed over the veto by Mother Folsom, —— Revolution in Topography. ‘When finally the honeymoon, withall its joys is over, the hirds, the flowers, and sunny June, {he sweets' of scented” clover, and thieving time flits all too soon for thie de- lighted Grover, “Then when they leave thelrmountain haunts, clear pools and arbors sha Swill bquestrian jannts, tie vim of court- ship's heyday: and pleasant recollection taunts our nation’s primal lady. “The enterprising ngent, then will start in his romaneing, he'll call yon forest Grover's Glen, this Frances Vale entrancing: this pool will be her mirror when the radiant sun is glancing, ath a tree to ward Perchance they stood ber ulh}r h'lu some passing showe the Presid mountain b, not faney tree, will yield to Cupid's power, Where Grover stood in plessant ways, or Frances paused and listened to_sotigsters caroling " their lays, or watched when Kirenintots wlistend, i ehtonicles of later days all, all will be rechristened. ‘The Frances Glen, the Grover Glade, the Grotto Presidential, the bondoir ail by foliage made, for dreams of love-poten- tial, where larking lads and jesting jades find all the sport essential, el AND TE STATE RRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Broom corn isthe great crop in Phelps county. The reacl Squirrels western counti The school: the coming ye: The Plattsmouth cannery toading tins July 1 Benkleman's band is supplied with horns and yet the town lives. The young town of Beemer is negotiat- ing for a $10,000 packing plant J. K. Zedicker, of Franklin, declines to be a eandidate for secretary of state Thu new Methodist church of Arapa- which eost #3,479, was dedicated k. asscssed valuation of Hastings injuring corn fields in f Norfolk will cost $9,175 will begin The assessed valuation of West Point shows an increase of $30,000 over last year, York gazes into the future and sees a $10,000 de pot. “Distance lends enchant- ment."” Burglars popped the till in Mumm's saloon in Plattsmouth and gathered up $20.50, The young son of H.C.Waliace of Talmage dropped an arm in & coin shel- ler last week. Sarpy Luuu(]v pays about a thousand a year Lo boa er prisoners in tue Doug- las county jail. The town of Re tax purposes at # $15,000 over last y Cloud is vaiued for ,000, 1 ‘The Bufialo county fair is bouked for i an_ increase of | October 59. Alarge and voried premium list has been arranged. The boet blacks of Hastings are deter- mined to shine asa labor organization, and banish tramp polishers. Seventeen hundred and fifty dollars is all that is required to run_the municipal machinery of O'Neill for the next year. The voters of Cuming county ‘almost unanimously rejected tie proposition to issue §20,000 in bonds for building roads and bridges. Columbus confidentially boasts that it ts any town on the line of the Union ic in the matter of buildings now Ils City cannery has commenced operations on the pea crop. Over two nundred hands, of varying sizes and sexes, are employed. A York county jury, composed of busi- ness men and farmers, took a vote on the senatorial succession and declared for Van Wyck by 11to 1. A storm last week destroyed a large streteh of growing grain in ‘the vicinity of Utica. Fruit trees were barked by the hail and the fruit destroyed. L. Hunger, of Indianaola, attempt- ed the dangerous feat of vulling a gun barrel foremost into a wagon. The town ;In('lol is confident that he can save his g ‘I'he journalistic strawberry blondes of Hastings and Nebrasks (n_‘ o bidding for a reserved seat among the forty liars The Otoe metropolis is a thousand quarts ahead and severat inches in size, Ex-M Gant, of Hastings, is a man of deep religious sentiment and practical faith ery nignt,” he says, “I got down on my knees and say my little , and don’t care & —— who sees The Deuber wateh company is looking for a location in some western town and has sent out ecireulars as feelers for a bonus. The company wants lifteen acres of ground for a factory which will em- ploy 600 hands. Senator A. J. Durland, of Norfolk, was married last week to Miss Winnie Rich- ards, daughter — of Dr. Richards, of that c¢ity. The bridal party has gone east on'a two months’ tour. Mr. Schaud, proprictor of the burnt flour mill in Grand Island, threatens to sue the city for his loss because the 3 were not completed and in the time of the fir The “‘shortage” in the treasury of Otoe county has reached 835,000, and the himit is not'in sight. The county stands a de- Jighttul prospect of losing several thous- and dol ed from taxpa ¥ A Kansas City capitalist has pur for a site for u pork packery a Island. Three acres of ground, t: from the city, has been secured and work on the building will begin at early day. David City, Butler county, offers sib- stantial inducements to enterprising cap- to put up and operate there a factory and a cannery. Juames om, oflicers of the Business Men's asso ation, will furnish details of the prizes, The \\'copin[: Water Eagle has set its pinions on the following ticket: For president, James G. Blaine; for senator, C. H. Van Wyck; for governor, John M Tha, for representative, Walter Bllll\hll" improvements now in sight in North Platte will cost $135,000. Among the number are the l\mm block, £30,000; grist mill, $20,000; Platte river bridge, §13,000; works, ,000; six brick ness blocks, ‘nd numerous residences, churches and additions. The town bmuulmg lightly but firmly on the billows of prosperity. An Iowa paper tells of a Plattsmouth man who stumbled onto a dead snake coiled on the steps of the (uml house. He staggered b: a few steps, ped 1118 head hetween his hands, and grownod despairingly, “Heavens, I've got them again, l\n. editorial base ball club, of O'Neill, bout to disband. Ina recent matel game the associate pitcher sent a hot curve in the direction of the editor-in- chief and took the umpire in the cheek. The bull was flattencd and the pitcher discharged on the spot. ‘The bourbons of Ogallala embody to a marked degree (hu virtues of “Jeflerson- ian simplicity ' An unrepentant wag telegraphed them 1y last week that President Cleveland and his bride were aboard the 10 p. m. tram. They turned out bodily, hired a band and “marched through rain, mud and slush to honor tlm chief exccutive. After a melodious wa of half an hour light pene S e ness, and the sercnaders adjourned. Dakota. The base ball craze has struck Rapd City. Large colonies of C ing into Faulk county. The Black Hills I)nnmc'\l will soon make its appearance in id City. The children in the schools of Fargo are drilled in the fire alarm movement, Northern Dakota was visited by a dam- aging frost Monday night. ‘The idica- tions are that the reduction in the wheat yield will be very larg: The little town of ( ton, is greatly excited over & number of cases of hydrophobia, Dogs, hogs, horses and cattle were innoculated, causing death in each instance. he town is out gunuing for curs, nadians are mov- pville, near Yank- = % * * Rupturc rad pile tumors and fistu umphlvl of particulars 10 cents in stamps. World's b;hgnn:‘uy Medical Association, Buffalo, cured, also L A Reasonablp Complaint. San Francisco Chronicle *'Is this the health oflc “Yes madam.’ “Aml are you uw heslth officer.” -un madam.’ | an’ I came in to inquire how Mrs Munxhy is this morning.” “Mrs, Murphy?" “Yes. 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