Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 7, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERWS OF SUBSORIPTION ¢ Dafly (Morniag Edition) including Sunday Bir, One ) ear For 8% Months For Threa Monthe 0. 0000000 Tise Omaha Swnday Ties, mailed to uny nddress, Oue Year. . tere E;um OFPIeR, No. 914 AND G18 FARNAM Yo YORK OPFICE. ROoM 03, TRNCNR B ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTRENTIS CORRESPONDENCE! Al) communioations relating to naws and edi- torial mAter shouid bo addressed o the Kol TOR OF THE BrE. BUSINERS LETTERS! ATl burine: addressed to Tn OMANA, Drafts, che ks and postoffice orders o be made payable to 1he order of the compuny, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRICTORS, ROSEWATER, Entton. —_— THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation, Btate of Nebraska, 1 ¢ County of Douglas, | % % Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual cirenlation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Feb, 4th, 1557, wus as follows. Baturday, Jan, 29, Tuesday. Wednesd Thursda Friday, I Average........ 14000 Gro. B, Tz8ciives, Subseribed and sworn 1o if my_presence thigdth day of February A, 1., 1857, Y N. . FrIL, [SEALI Notarv Publie. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erace daily eirculation of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 18%, was 10,378 coplies, for February, 184, 10,505 copies; for March, 1886, 11,537 copies: ‘for April, 189, 12,100 copes: for May, 1550, 12,439 copies; for June, 1856, 12,208 copie Juily, 1856, 12,514 copies for August, 186, 12,464 copies:for September, 1886, 13,030 _coples: for October, 1556, coples: for November, 1845, M8 copies; for December, 1586, 13,237 copics, Gro. B, T7scmueR, Sworn to and subseribed before me this 1st day of January A. . 1557, [SEAL.| N. P. Feir. Notary Public. 1118 the prevailing opinion in Wash- mgton that Mr. Fairchild will be Mr. Manning's suc cessor as secretary of the treasury. Trere was a large assemblage of rail- road clerks at the charter meeting, They are not to blame for the position which they are forced to assume in this com- munity as the puppets of their corporate maste Bread and butter is a powerful incentive to action, A¥TER packing the charter meeting in advance of the hour for opening, seizing the chair and organizing the gathering, the sn crowd of railrogues discovered shat they had their hands full, and th took something besides lungs to dise Iranchise the taxpayers of a great city. Dr. MiLLer s said to have reached home. The rapidly decreasing list of the readers of the Herald wiil re the news. During the doctor’s absence his paper has been conducted with a reckless disrcgard of ordinary decency and truthfulness, which has cast disgrace npon the newspaper protession. TraT infamous blatherskite, Paul Van- dervoort, was on nd at the charter meeting bellowing with the railrogues und trying to drown all argument with his yells against City Attorney Connell. Vandervoort has had a grudge against Connell cver since Mr. Connell gave nway the fact that a Douglas county grand jury failed by only one vote in in- dicting the postal mspector for insti- gating a murderous assanlt on the per- #on of the editor of the B THERE has been a much more rapid growth of the trade between the United States and Central America, during the ast decade, than is generally supposed. ‘on years ago the entire trade between New Orleans and Cent Amcrica and the Bayislands adjacent was carried on by a handful of small sailing vessels whose coming and going depended on the weather or the market for fruit, the me commodity m wh they dealt, Now some fifteen steamers are kept busy down with all going and coming, lox kinds of Contral American produc A NumBer of colored republicans in W ashington profess to feel very badly over the rejection of Matthows by the kenate, and threaten to issue their pro- test in pamphiet form for general ciren- lation. On the other hand the colored republican league of Albany has de- nounced Matthews as an ‘‘offensive of- fice seeker, unworthy of the endorsement of a republican senate.” Other declara- Lions by republicans of the race of the re- Jocted recorder were equally strong in their denunciation of him. His appoint- ment was ispleasing to demoerats, not- withstanding the demagogic plea of the president that it was made in order to give recognition to the colored man 1 poli- tics. The Washington colored men seem to be following a delusion in this matter. Nohody wanted Matthews as recorder except Manning, and it is ab- surd for colorea republicans to feel ag- grieved because senators of both partics concluded upon satistactory evidence that the appointment was one not fit to be made and rejected it. PR —— Tae telephone trial in the supreme court brought out several surprises. One of the most notoworthy was ereated by the attorney for the Clay Commercial Teleptione company, Mr. W. W, Ker, who gained some fame s one of the counsel of the government in the star route case His main argument was that telephoning is merely a development or improvement of the art of telegraphy, and that, the art being old, no one is entitled to any mo opoly of the means of transmitting speech by electrieity, but that every in- ventor is necessarily confined to his own peculiar device for such transmission, and that in theopen ficld and free market the inventor who makes the most valua- ble or convenient deviee will seeure lib- eral patronage. Mr. Ker claimed to be uble to show that Professor Bell's tele- phone, as descrived in his patents of 1870 and 1877, was anticipated 1 all points by an Englishman named Varley, who ob- tained an English patent for his device In 1870. He read evidence purporting to show that Varley deseribed Beil's fawmous undulatory current in terms, and ulso pvery specitic part and mode of the ongi- ual Bell telephone at least six years be lore Professor Bell thought of the in- pution. Shot Guna and Vigilantes, Mt. Andrew J. Poppleton, general at- torney of the Union Pacific railroad, without any previous provocation, de- clared at the outset of the debate over the proposed charter, at the citizens' meeting, that they, the railroad people, had come to this meeting in spite of threats of shot guns and vigilantes. In making this charge, Mr. Poppleton came ao nearer the truth than he did when he said that under the new charter nobody could be a councitman in Omaha anless he owned $2,000 worth of real estate. The only shadow ot a basis for his statement was a talk between my sclf and Mr. Ca In the early part of 1ast week I called on Mr. Calla. 3 Union Pacific headgquarters to in- duce him to order the company's lobby at Lincoln to stop its warfare on the new charter, I expressed iny regrets to Mr. Callaway that the company had resumed the old tactics which for ycars had em- broiled it under the former management in bitter war with the people, and ‘ap- pealed to him in the interests of the Union Pacific, as well as of Omaha, to put a stop to it. In making my 1, Idrew a picture of the intense resent- ment which the peovle felt all over the state over the out ous, eriminal and infamous interference of the r rond lobby. Nobody would object, said I, to a proper and legitimate pro- tost or ument of your attorne before the legislative committees against any proposed railroad or tax law which you decm unjust or unfair to your cor- porations. But when you send down 1gs of notorions shysters, jury fixers and_ corruptionists to poison the woll springs of our government and under - mine its very found itions b; wl corrnplanterference, people become ex- asperated and desperate. I assure you, suid I, that the situation is becoming more serious than you are aware of. People are beginning to talk ail over the state of setting an example and of adopt- ing means to punish the men who sell out and the parties who are corrupting them. I then showed Mr. Callaway a letter from aformer member of o Nebraska legisla- ture, now in the south, in which the writer said that vigilantes and hemp were, in his opinion, nceded now to protect the state of Nebraska against the raids upon her legislatures. This letter d 1, i reflex of a growing sentiment whi neither able nor disposed to repress. These rogues whom your companies em- ploy to debauch our legislatures are no better than horse thiaves or road agents. There is no talk of dynamite or the de- struction of property, and I would be the last mun to encourage any such attemnts. All my interests are against it. But we are liable to have San Francisco lynch law if something is not done to put an end to this villainous interference with law makers. Thisis the sum and substance of the talk which formed the basis of Mr, Popplet sertion that threats of shot guns vigilantes were made by myselt in con- nection with this meeting. As a matter of fact, the meeting w not then even thought of. Whatever disorder ocenrred in that meeting was caused by the bull- dozing tactics of Mr. Popplceton and his associates, coupled with the outrage at- tempted by Contractor Gallagher when he tried to overrule a five sixths majority of the meeting. It may be of interest to the public to know what Mr. Callaway said or did in response to my appeal. After hstening to my statement courteously Mr. Calla- way, whom 1 have always found to be a gentleman and a man disposed to act fairly, said that he was not personally familiar with the objectionable tax elause of the new charter, but had left it to Mr. Poppleton, who was in dir charge of their tax division, Ile advised me to talk the matter over with Mr. Poppleton. This I declined to do, giving as my rea- son that Idid not care about parleymg with o man who was more in his anti-monopoly views privs tban 1 am, who public in lectur to the students of the Nebraska and Indiana universities, denounced corpor- ate methods and predictea the destruction of the republic if these abu are not checked, but who at the me time s willing for hire to be a party to the o rages which he condemns. Mr., Calla- way then promised that he would talk it over with Mr. Poppleton himself. This is the true inwardness of Mr. Poppleton’s bombastie charge about shot guns and vigilantes. His declaration that he haa come ready to give employment to a doe- tor and undertaker for my benefit is in keeping with 1t, but in decided contrast with his hypocritical appeal to the meek and lowly Savior by whose life he pro- fessed to regulate his personal conduct. 1. ROSEWATER. Needs of' the Naval Service, The country has long been familiar with the fact that our naval establish- ment is a national disgrace. The people have had the truth repeatedly presented to them from many authoritative sources that the nation really has no navy in the proper sense of the term. The effect of this has been to prodi somcthing of an awakening, which helped by cireum- stances that might have b deemed hardly possible a year ago, seems likely to bring about necessary reform and in proveinent that if persisted in will ult- mately give the country a navy which Americans need not be ashamed of, and which will be adequate for purposes of defense and for the protection ot Ameri- can commerce, But while the represent- atives of the people are considering the expediency of building war ships, and plans are being seriously studied at the navy department, it should be kept n mind that an eflicient naval establish- ment cannot be secured by simply build. ing vessels, however perfect they may be, These are the instruments, which will be valuable in the degree that they are wisely employed, and it is quite as neces- sary to have men who thoronghly under- stand their usc as it 18 to have the instru- wients themselves. Thus necossity is urged by Professor ley, of the naval academy, in un ar- ticle in Scribuer's Magazine tor the cur- rent month, Regarding the present con- dition of the navy, he shows that for any war-like duty it is far less ready to-day than it was at the outbreak of the civil war, when it took eight months to put the servico in trim for aggressive work. Before the lapse of such & period now a war would ba ovs Respeeting the well worn argumeants against the necessity of this country maintaining au effective navy, namely, ourisolated position geo- graphically and our strength, Professor Soley suys thut while there is a grjan of truth in this reasoning, yel ‘‘no state, whatever its position or its traditional policy, is secure against an invasion of There are facts at hand which the soundness of this view. Ad- mitting this obvious truth, what is necded to provide the country with an adequate defonse at sea? Professor Soley does not answer with an appeal for big ships and plenty of them, He pleads first for a substantial reform in the administration of the service, un- der which merit may rise to the top, and having got there, may be given achance to exercise its genius for diree- tion, The theory of Professor Soleyis that naval officers should be allotte more active share in the administrative affairs of government that are allied to their professional work. Schools of applica- tion should also be further developed, and above all he holds that the iron rules of seniority in proinotion be so relaxed that officers may feel the stimalus of the comuetitions of iife. The administration of the service should proceed on the prineiple that its value depends on its efliciency in war, and in order that this may be o the d ing minde most be familiar with the fighting strength of the navy and with the military problems it is expected to solve, a knowledge which it isinferred they do not now possess, A tgeneral stalf™ for advisory purposes and a reserve foree recruited among soa- faring men are among the refrrms Pro- fes<or Soley would introduce. Our naval diministration may not be so incflicient it is made to appear by Professor Solay, but there is undoubtedly oppor- tunity for improvements, and it may very properly be began in connection with the re-building of a nay The Charter Meeting, The disgraceful attempt of the ral- rogue strikers to break up the charter mecting on Saturday evening tailed Cont or Gallagher found out that there are limits to the powers of an ur just chairman. General Attorneys T pleton and Greene and a horde of clerks and roustabou ts discovered that in a tax payers’ meeting wealth and influence count for mnothing. Bulldozing and threats may work results in private con- ference with merchants and employes. They cannot be effecty agninst the honest mdignation of an arcusea com- munity. The sentiment of that gather- ing ot 1,200 citizens was overwhelmingly in favor of the passage of the new charter. Every v minded man present admits that, Several members of the legislature from outside countics were convineed tha whatever may be the howls of the rail- rogue press the people of Omahi in mass meeting assembled fully enforced their right to acharter of their own choice. All the yells of the minority, the ontrageous rulings of the chairman and attempts of the gang of roustabowis and to suppress this fact failed Lour. | of the taxpayers presentat fnst sueceeded in forcing a division and demonstratea Dby an oven vote what Omaba's veal feel i s on the question of municipal r form assettorth in the charter which none ‘but the railroad attorneys and their hirelings s working to defeat T'he true state of the case was clearly brought out in the vigorous effort mude to suppress all discussion of the clause compelling the ralroads to pay taxes on all veal estate except their right of wi All the ingenuity of the railroad attorne; und the lungs of thewr mob of strike was put into full play to confine the dis- cussion to a section of the charter to which no one objected. When that failed device was to break up the Ti «d mot debate the shirker: runk from s who outnumbered And when the real brougiit to the front defeat. upon which members of the legislature desirous of granting the wishes of Omahsa stand i opposing the | new charter. The vote which relegated the whole subject to the Douglas delo tron affords no chance for quibble. Ti railroad attorneys were defeated in n pitched battle with the citizens of this commumty. ‘They should fare no better in theissue which they joined with the siRlntn ro; SUSESCE RSN High License Growing in Pavor, Wherever legislation for regulating the liquor traflic is being sought or serionsly diseussed there is evidence of the growing ty of the high license prineiple, st with respect to large comimuni- Within a short time some of the most active and radical advoeates of pro- hibition hitherto have enrolled them- selves among the supporters of high license, convinced thereto by the plain lessons of experience with both the prohibitory and license systems. This question is now before several of the state legislatures, and there is a strong probability that in most s where any legislation is adopted the license principle will prevail. It is almost as- sured that agli aw will prevail in Minnesota, and the chances are good for the pa f the high 1 1se bill now before the legislature of New York,which has the support of temperance adyocates who until now would not listen to any poliey othier than prohibition. The bill in New York was drawn by Dr. Howard Crosby, and that very earn- est and indefatigable champion of tem- perance i8 laboring for its passage with his wonted energy. Associated with him in urging the measure are ex-Juldge Nosh Davis, General Wager Swayne Robert ¥, Cutting,ex-Governor Chamber- lain and Robert Graham, all more or less prominently identified with the temper- 1se. In presenting their views to the excise committee of the legislature a fow days ago, all these gentlemen agreed aardin, bition as impracties e cities, and expressed opinion that high license is the only ctical remedy. Judge Noah Davis said that “‘prohibition would in York amount practically to free rum, aud that local option would be ridiculous in that city,” a view which appl with equal force to all large cities. Therc were o new arguments advanced in support of license, the old being ample, but these were enforced by new experi- ences which prove the futlity of prohi- bition, as in the ¢ of Atlanta, and at- test the wisdom and eflicacy of the license system wherever it prevail: Wiy should not corporations pay muni cipal taxes? This is the question which no railroad attorney. has yet ventured to answer, STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Norfolk real estate is picking up in price. huyler is promised a DBohemian paper. Real estate prices are rising steadily in Hastings. The scheme to divide Holt county has been revived, ted Willow county has contracted for a jail to cost $10,500. Duady connty wants a court house and a bridge over the Republican. ‘The expenses of Lincoln county for 1837 amounted to $32,235.80, Red Willow county proposes to pull throngh the present year on a stipend of §47,800. John I one of the Columbus train | wreckers, is booked for a spare room in Hyersville. Tho contract for the court house in Madison has been let for $7.000. The building will be 50x60, two stories gh, with a tower. The city couneil of Grand Island is ssdlyin need of a quoram. Manutacturers are requested to foward specitications and prices at once. It is an extremely monotonous day in hern Nevraska and northern Kansas, when but two or three paper railroads are constructed. are being lectured secretly on th ir in Life.” It is said they are proficient in shooting glaneces. The andoned military reservations of Lorts Hartsull and McPherson and Camp Sheridan arve to be platted and opened to settl it Iton. H. B. Nicodemns, of Douglas county, has two ponderous pigs of the Red breed, whose combined weight is 1,201 pounds. Liquor and opium are said to be the immediate iseof the suicide of Dr. Gibson, of Wood River. Deathiis a wel- come relief to such bondage. The rising town of R ina is talking up an industrial school and orphuns’ home. The pushing residents pledge £22,000 in d 640 acres of land to ‘I'he young town of Shickley on the B. M. i8 promised a round house and re- pair shops, A two-story, seven-room school building is to be erected early in the summer, The Methodists of Oakland are whoop- | ing up the sinful in the neighborhood in wiively style, and scores of the afliicted have apphied for immunity from the fires of the future. Anentervrising resident of Waverly, with an eye singie to the future growth of the oity, 3 ton of ¢ to every couple marryir ore the April rise in the thermonietir, I'he bieyeld e of the Omaha report- ers was able tailure. They seratched on the first lap and sank to r on the cold, hard floor. The sargeons scooped them in. I'ic unioaded revolver in the hands of areless youth in Schaupsville plowed furrow through the fleshy part of the limb of a Miss Lawrence, who happened to be within 150, Orin D. Smith. alad ot th m, I strayed way from his home ne Ogallala — ile is a bluc-eyed boy w brown hair, Dorid corplexion, rather t for his age and lame e the right hip. Liberty had a three-hour five last w with the mercury resting in the bulb Gore & Ausmus’ drug store, Ishell’s and & Haraen's oftices and Myers' sa burned to the ground :» Democrat, noting the bill Manderson to enlarge the Omauha postotiice, says: *“T'huse Omaha people do not want the earth, but they em to be looking vretty close after everything else in sight.” Archie McClanahan, of Elk Creek, while returning from a spelling mateh, was thrown by his pony against a hedye fence, mashing his head aind badiy bruis- ing his body and limbs, e is " booked for a long spell of rest. A Grand Island ruflian, who made an indecent assault on an unproteeted woman, has, coward-like, crawled under the cloak of family respectability, and es. eaped both publicity and punishment. It 1s not the only town in which the “first sons,” to suve the famly name, ¢s 6 o ntimental Scrivner girvl, who laid : nights building air e for eattle king, was the ipient of a nun ber of pretty letters scented with the ne mown odors of barny known adorer must sure man, she mused, and proniptly ace his offer. After ma discov that he was istant forcman of a feed One of the buttonless bachelor beanties of Keya Paha county, who has entered the matrimonial arena in seareh of sonme thing 1o earess and devour, is deseribed s a blonde of fifty years with a matured stock of bunions.” Ile isaloud sieeper, with a foll bes and a wenlth of rolling low neck brow. He also swings a splendid hand for the domestic game of poker, is childless and bland, and drives y mule with a fence ral, Omaha’s phenomenal growth is the wonder and admiration of the country press. ‘The Wayne Herald puts it this Wi “When the census was taken in 1885 the most enthusiastic citizens of Omiha predicted that by 1800 t(he city would have 100,000 people, They exp now to see the number increased to 125,000 by the first of Jannary next, and that 1800 wilt smule on Omaha with two hundred thousand or more,” The six months old babe ot Thom: Hough, of North Platte, met with a ho rible death Just Tuesd Mrs. Hough had left her three children, the oldest less 2o, at home to go to her mother’s house near by, She had sly left home when some elothing, ng near the stove took fice and fell on the babe, When assistance came the older children were found unhurt unde the bed, but the babe's clothing was burnt off and the flesh o mass of blisters, The child lived only a few minutes. The fire in St, Paul Friday was n disastrous one, ‘T'he tirst intimation gf iv was an explosion that shook up half ‘the town, and strengthened the belief that an incendiary applied ‘the fuse. The loss amounted to $45,000. The victims were Christensen & Co, W. I. Renker, grocers; James Slick, dry W. H. Chenn, drugs: F. W, Scott, are; Graber & Swmith, rketi C. W, Pyne, saloon; Adams & Saunle, Herring Bros,, con- fectionery and fancy goods, und the St. Paul National bank A Grand Island dispenser of dry groceries politely requested a debtoy to pay a bill of $10 bofere leaving town, The latter jingled the ¢oin in his pocket and invited the groceryman to take it out of his hide, “I'll go you,"” he responded as he ordered the elerk to lock the door [here wus rief but lively embrace, boxes and barrels danced around, and in the height of the watinee a smothered ery was heard, “Hold, cnougl The meek and mutilated repudiator forked over the cash and departed, This forei ble process of tanving and extraction is commended in its naked beauty. The Arapahoe hog thicves, who have been operating in the vieinity for nearly two years, are said to have harvested from” $15,000 to $20,000 worth of pork. ‘T'ie leader of the gaug W Denms Me- Gurl, proprietor of a soap factory, with six assistants, They have been bound over to the distriet court for trial. The plan of the roubery was to board 2 stock tram at 4 raiiroad erossing, or othersto; ping point, and, entering one of the cars, remain there until the train was under headway. Opening the door of the cur, short ordet and unobseryed, and the thieves would themselves alight. McGurl was piling up riches too fast for honest dealing and thus gave himself away. Ihe dictnm has gone forth t her Martin, the noted mnovelist of mnorth Nebraska, , is about to retire with his well ‘earned literary | laurels and devote his attention to the prosaic but profitable work of selling lots in the Nebraska bottoms opposite Sioux City. This announcement will carr, vast volume of pain and regret to the ex- tables of the state. The thrilling sted by the marvellous an: tiquity of “The Conflict, Love and Money,” the death and resurrection of characters, the futile efforts of the author to marry off a score of Nebraska bache- lors to the charming heiress, the trans- portation of notables from the Rookies to the Catskills by a single swipe of the pen- cil, and the unaccountable mistake of two democratio editors who took water when old rye was at hand, alt form a cyelorama of enchanting beauty. Gen- erations yet to come will never know what they missed, but the present one ghould rise up and bless him—for cutting itshort at the 425th chapter. Towa Ltems, There are 5,368 notary publies in the state The old soldiers in Towa stll number up bigh--3,862, Des Moines provoses to compel raii- roads to gait their crossings Ottamwa police made 106 arrests in Jannary, and the saloons are not closed, her, The internal revenne receipts of Col lector Thompson's district for Janu amount to ¥ 8.1 2. Vhe famons Crocker brigade will hold their fourth biennial reunion at Daven- vort, September 21 and 22 Union township, Harrison county, boasts of more bachelors to tho square and on the square than all other p recinets in the county. Creston has six ladies that have won the everlasting gratitude of the male fra- ternity of that town. y remove their hats it the ope Brush Creek has a seandal travel- mg decorator and painter was found in the bed of a very highly respected lady of that town last Saturday night by her I and suits, courts, churches and cocicty are whirling testimonials and v buttals into the ring so thick tnat the air is hot with ind ion and the snow is melting unde A Keokuk society girl of musieal talent took a good-sized swig from the sherry bottle oui the center table of a friend that was entertaining a party of young people the other evening. Soon she was funny enough to assert that she “hish going to join operish _company 15 show my S-sheshape. His got daisy 1—— " She was fanned by old Boreasin the summer kitchen and taken home ¢ of on immense quantity of land wle, by er of the United os court, by ter Lomax, at the in Des Moines, March et promises many thousand wres of farm - and e number of town lots in Webster City, Fort Dodge and other northwes owns of it state. ‘The sale is th le of the suit between snell and Butterworth. Dakota, oux Falls is negotiating for a union depot. “The artesian well at Marion is down 653 feet, The cold weather ot Inst week snuffed the eleetric leht in Rapid Cit The snow on Bald mountain and Ruby basin is said to be three to cight feet deep. “The receipts of the eounty treasure oftice at Deadwood on Monday Iast were over $30,000. Of thissum the Homestalie Mining company paid nearly $39,000. Ed Smith, who is now confined in the Yankton county jail for | ny.is known to the oflicers of the v ern states and territories as a bad one, e 1 inno- cent looking youth, and ean command the English linguage sufliciently to play wsoft tunc on the tender cords of almost any hard-hearted pioneer. The ing qualities of a Dakota snow bank were exhibited on the 3d inst. on the Milwaukee rond when a locomotive of the average size and weight dinto a wintry deposit about a foot deep, after getting a long start and attaining a high Tate of specd. The iron horse went in about two feet and then with a gros came to a stop and backed np to in. The King operation peated several times beiore through. — What Can Railroads Expect? Chicago Herald, In at least two states at this moment the railroads attempting to eleet senaton of the United States, In New J ) ) wre for the return of Sewell and in Nebraska they have beaten Van Wyek, Mr. Sewell i3 known as the Pennsyl- vania railroud’s man. He was elected a such six ye: zo and he still stands in the same attitude. Opn the other hand, Mr. Van Wyck has on all oceasions an- tagonized the ads, and it 15 for this that that the biggest lobby ever seen in ssembled theve for the purpose of the undisguised ope jons at these two eapi shrewd railrond men wonder th ing hostile to them is growing in all parts of the country? They may be sure that whateve Ivantage the in now will be but temporary, and if this advans tage is misused as it has been in the past, they need not be surprised if public wrath at length makes things exceedingly uncomfortable for them. He is a smart railrond man who mixes in volities, and by elever diplomacy and free expenditure hoodwinks the repre sentatives of the people, but he 15 a smarter railroad man who attends to his own business and does not interfere ex- copt as a citizen with the people’s right to_govern themsclves, ‘The more the railtoads attempt to control government the more will the |,....|‘.1.- fuvor the con- trol of the railronds, and in the long run it will be the people who will win in a game of that kind, —~ The Tallest Man of Modern Times London Standard: There appeared at the London pavilion last evening (Janu ary 10), for the first time, the tallest man whose height has been recorded in mod ern time The ne ntis an Austrian named Winkelmeier, and his height is cight feet nine inches, which is over one foot more than that of Chang, the Chincse giant, Winkelmeier was born at Freidbuig, near Salsburg, Upper Austria, in 1865, his parents beiniz in an humble station in life, Heis the youngest of a family of five children, none of whom are of abnormal stature, borare his parents or grandpar- ents unusually tail. His ingers span two octaves on a piano, and the strength of his arms is enormous, He showed no development of this ex traordinary growth up to the e of four teen, but since then he has been growing rapidly, and medical authorities in_Ber- lin and Paris have expressed the opini that he is hkely to increasc till he twenty-five The young man is healthy, strong iniclligent. Beyond doubt he is the greatest curiosities of the day huge bed has been constructed for b in the building of the pavilion, w will be s home for some time to come e A wild boar was killed in I swamp. nesr Palatha, Fla, i ago. -'Fhe hog weighed more (h rdred pounds, aud . the | threc or four hogs could be thrown ol ml about sevéu anches long. PROTESTS FROM THE PRESS. onorable Jonrnals of All Parties Condemn- ing Van Wyck's Defeats PRINCIPLE PERISHES. Will Have Their Day- Representa- Direct Ountrage Upon the Toiling Masses, Nebraska's Greatnst Beatrice Nonpr that if he was clected to the state senate county for United States county was almost Wyck, and yet Colby cas Paddock, the man who could not carr his own precinct. nimous for Van The People Know the Renegade Editor Rosew personal letters in to show the treachery wore elected as Van Wyck's friends Mr. Rosewater writes up all the traitorous rascals in the republican jobon his hands than Mor- ot, Not a Relief. Gothenburg Independent: Senator Van Wyck, and +our mind on that 1self a worthy representative, Thankful for, himself takes his defear good : thronghout ought to he The people ought to be thankful for the senate who has lifted the style of sentative statesmanship from out of the mediocrity It onuzht to be considered nd common place, fortunate 1t ferm 2 man with 1 national reputation. Most Popular Man in the West, reely over hefc Since Senator Van V ject under diseussion and his follow tefeat the su s do in_the to be the most popular man in Net before the people. political and personal man in the west, and g harmony with the demoeratic party f Senator Van Wy ble to eut something of a figure 1n Ne- braska polit o Patent “Coupler," at (Lincoln): City News says: “The Lincoln - Democ that Van Wyc its choice over 1ins to be seen comments: with the democe democerats to redouble cflorts to defeat V. Another efl stalwart demoe et it had was to drive the s"'into the embraces W. Holdrege, an eminent and wrer of men and railroads, about throwing stalwart re; to a democ or the senat Lin return w should vote ht republican w alled bargain the Her for a democrat And to this so for Congress. Pawnee Republics Senator Van Wyek 1 himself as senator from e to succeed this state, and commands Though opposed to the methods him in hissenatorial as) that we could cheerfu! st support for congress k for congre this district to sues A. MeShane two years henee. Whi incoln Journal or f ajority of the republi and republiean vote K ion for tit position. ar a second rd Shows His Consiste mont Tribune: askivwho elaim th anti-monopoly views. cerity i this belief and nough to accord livered before the joint convention of the an Wyek then and there stood up before the eyes for four days and the cares of his w51 hoarse almost to 4 whisver, and asserted in that trying hour of defe nizhts,” worn eyt 2 e AR M the aid of republicans who believed he would. A Blow at the Farming Community, Springfiecld Monitor: Aftera few weeks' political skirmishing and trickery tho ralroad monopolies sueceeded in defeats ing the popular choice of the people of Nebraska for senator. Senator Van Wyck will be suceeeded by A. S. Paddock, of Beatrice, The honest Nebraska farmers will receive this pic of news with re sentment, and, in being defrauded of theit choice for so important a position, their faith in present legislative methods will be considerably shaken. Van Wyck was without a doubt the choice of the largo majority of our eiizens. Hig efforts in congress in behalf of the labor ing wan and against King Monopoly have endeared Nim to our people and have made for him an_enviable national reputation. He has always championed the cause of the farmer uinst exorbi- tant rates of railronds. In consequence of his numerons creditable acts he engendercd the unholy wrath and enmity of all corporations and suflered defeat at their hands, And the 1t Nobraska Signal: The senator tost is over and the result s remarks The railroads did not get their first nor second choice, Neither were the peoplo gratiticd by the election of their favorite, General Charles H. Van Wyck. Never since Nebraska joined the great sister- hood of states was n senator contestso carnest, so long continued and deter mined, and never did the conclusion ereate wreater publie surprise. The issug upon which the campaign was conducted and the last great battle fought, still lives and moves forward, thowgh its rep- entative has satfered defeat. We labored for years for the suce coss of this great living issue, but inside of republican lines and not out, and we feel more encouraged to-day in the hope that suceess is not far distant, than ever before, When the repubican party champions the cause of the people it must and will gneceed, A loader may o down here and there in the strogele, jut the great prineiple of reform will go marching on if the republican party is true to itself. The People Will ave T) Day. Gothenburg Independent: The recent orial contest in this state shouwd be {to convinee every fair minded reardless of his polities, of the ne- v ol a dircet vote of the people for the eclection of s tors, Besides inte! berng with and delaying needed legisln. tion the present systeln 1s a potent frecder of politieal corruption, The resent session of our legislature is about f rone, and comparatively nothing 18 been done in the way of legislution, thing of importance was accomplished side from clecting a United 3 senators and rep- v their salary of #3 per 3 y adding to this the salary of a horde of “clerks, it will be seen that it was an expensive aflaic to the people of the state, all ot which could be avoided by taking t vote at eleetion, There is just as much reason for delegating to our national congress the cleetion of the president as there is for the election of United States senators by legislature! Men of Principle Never Say Die. Ulysses Dispate Ana thus was slaughtered one of the ablest, truest and best senators who ever graced a seat in the Unitea States senate, and the only influential people’s representative tho state of Nebraska has ever had. Senator n Wyck's Jdefeat is a crnel blow at fair play and the farming and laboring interests of this whole country, and the man, or set of men, who rejoice ut his downfall are not of the people, or for the people, neither are they entitled to the confidence of the horny-handed rank and file of any party, as their actions in so doing plainly idicate that they pre sce monopolies and organmized ¢ ruloe this land under the guise of *'s wart republicinism.” This may scem like pretty strong language, but we mean every word of it, and 2,100 voters of But- ler county and over fifty thousand V k follow the Just election will a rty and vociferous amen. an have but little desire to over the de- t of their chosen champion; with rail- road money asfree as w id - politi- cal trickery at a premium, it is no won - der that an aggressive, combied, un- compromising, seltish and tyranical op- position to one man, grand old hero t heis meant sure and eertain defeat. Van Wyck has been a consistent and untirmg dvocate of the rights of the peoplo against the corrupting imflucnce of mo- nopoly. He has labored in season and out of season to preserve the ancient land marks of |m|u|5 rogovernment, and for all this he has recewved the open urses of the Church Howe, Ed Cuarnes, C. H. Gere and Valentine hordes, on whom have been placed the finger marks of politieal death, But while Senator Van Wyel tem- porarly de d, tho prineiple of eternal just he he d aimost singl United States senate for the past six s, will o marehing on and on fore d though we are, our | L and the Van Wyck forecs it on this line trinmphantly two ye hence, Men who fight for prineiple, and not for boodle, never siy dia. - -— A Royal Fire Laddie, ~ Court Journal: The king of Italy, o ing from the Quirmal the fames isning has 50 steadf: ently advocated for a li advice and warnings to the body of law- makers before him that they will do well that oceasior that the T and mislead by Van Wyck. perpetual cousistency in insinecrity. Nebraska's “Bull-Bun Russell,” Schayler Quill: As the Quill an Wyck pretensions for the purpose of catehing vols only taken a short time to prove J vns openly voting for ly cutting his throat, of an impo Vin Wycek and sec It took even the chairmanship to secure his vote for Har- | Jan, the Van Wyck eandidate for sy » Sun please give another ch ter on Russell's work for only has Rus iits we had expected man has played | connty false campaign, has succeeded i necompl not he would sup- questioned whether ¢ Tum a demo port Van W crat and it ¢ A prospect to gt but whenever 1 atise b would tor conld not be stuck to his party wh d with him > seven had forsuken s vore for Nun Wyck, would havg from the famous Chigi palace,and know- ing the Odescalehi, nastened thither with three of his gentlemen-in-waiting, and not only showed his sympathy but helped to bring a little order out of tho great confasion. The eflect of his pres- ce and sympathy were such on tho Prince Baltha Mesealehi, who is hera known us a radi icale, that he declares his opposition to the king henceforth ceases. He as a member of the lower house of parlinment, was only a fow days azo up- pointed on the committee to go to the palace of the Quirinal to tender the cu tomary New Year's wishes to the mons arch, "He refused to be present. ‘The evening of that day he bebeld the king coming to him in ty and in sy thy; and he now des s that this visit of King Humbert, under such eircum stances, has reconciled him *to the hon of Savoy.” Furthermore, the princ 1to some ot his inmates and cgualy who had condoled with him for bis losses SPhe damage ean be repaived: but ong thing [ can never forget, and that is this: the first person who met me ¥ wita and children had reached safety King Humbert.” - Private Snow Storms, In “Guunar,” a tale of Nurse life author produces striking eflect by ating that during a rustic dance the clos and over-heated room was s with moisture from the breath and spiration of the energetic dancers th the opening of an outside door, the sud- den inrush of icy air filled the room with a dazzling shower of snow condensed from the vaporous atmosphere. A sote what similar private snow storm wa lately witn the oflice of the Hart- ford Courant, top of the build- ing is o large tank c ning the water used Lo run the ¢lovator Ihe wate pumped over and over, and COIne hot as 1o throw off ¢ s of st A recent atlernoor 5 o8t bove the building i | the tiny drops of wat air, fell in a s snow flakes on but inters Didn't ¢ = plexion Pow dur