Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 25, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25 1887 THE DAILY -BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERVE OF RUBSCRIPTION ¢ Pafly Morniag Edition) including Sunday Brr, One Year....... For 8ix Monthe For Throe Month ... The Omaba Swnday | address, One Y ear. &-A'u orrier, No. 3 20 m 50 260 | 200 §14 AND 018 FARNAM STREFT. & BUILDING. W YORK O i RTRENTH STREET. ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 CORRESPONDENCE: AN communiontions relating to nesws and edl. torial mattor should be addressed Lo the Evi- TOR OF THE Bre. BUSTNESS LETTERS: AN businoss Jotters and remittancos should be addressod to THE DEe PUBLISHING COMPAKY, Omana. Drafts, chocks and postoffice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISEIVG COMPANY, PROPRICTORS, E. ROSEWATER, Eprror. —_— THE DAILY BER. Bworn Statement of Ctroulation. Btate of Nebraska, |, o County of Douglas, | * * Geo, B. Tzschuck, socretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Feb. 15th, 1887, wus as follows: Saturday, Feb, 12, Bunday, Feb. 1 Monday, Fi Thursday, Feb. Friday, Feb. 18... Average........ [ Eubserfbed in my presence and sworn to be- fore me this 19th day of February A. D. 1857, N. P. FriL, SEALI . Nhtarv Publle. (eo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he |s secretary of ‘The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze daily circulation of the Dally Bee for the month of Fubruary, 189, was 10,605 copies for March, 1886, 11,537 coples; for April, 1886, 12,191 copes: for for May, 1886, 12,430 coples; for June, 1686, 12,208 conles : for Jiily, 185, 12,314 coples: for August, 185, 18,464 copies;for September, 1856, K30 copres; for October, 1856, 12,080 coples: for November, 1886, 13,348 vopies; for De , 237 copies for January opies. . ‘T ZEOHUCK, fore me this Sth Notary Public. Subseribedand sworn to ¢ dayo ‘ebruary A. D), 85 L.\ N. P.Frx OnmanA has demonstrated that she is to be the musieal art center of the future. Wirn this great addition boom all over the country Four-aker would be a popu- ulur presidentinl nomine Partr’s manager knew his busines: judging from the vast audicnce last even- ing, when he named it the fare-well tour, It has been a long time since a voice from the Pacific slope has screamed, “the Chinese must go.” There must be some- thing the matter out there. Tnu preachers have agreed that the inter-state commerce bill does not affect their business. A short haulor a long maul over their lines is fr e old world has been shaken up by rthquake. With both earthq mite over there, the attractions of Europe grow less each year. THE new party will doubtles ‘well, The architects have had much experience in trying to make themselves, 1n all the other parties of the countr AN Omaha man who purchased ten cars of coai on the side tracks, and waited for the price to be raised, say men who deal ir real estate huve no idea of the road to wealth Tue New Orleans exposition closed two years ago, but Mr. Furnas, the Ne- braska commissioner, continues with his exhibits. He is just now exhibiting a bill for a grab of §500 back pay. ——— Tur man who cut a pair of bellows open to see where the wind came from was no smarter than the Lincoln sport who purchased a copy of Hoyle to sce if tour jucks would beat a heetic flush. Two years ago an unfortun veg- Jegged Ssot was shot for attempting to rob the state treasury. This year no one has been shot as yet, but the treasury raids have largely inc d in numbers. I is said that unless several bills intro- duced, relating to appointments and buildings not needed, are not amended, Goy. Thayer will imitatoe Grover Cleve- land a little, and try his hand at vetoing. e Wit women voting in Kansas, Colby down with the mumps, Agee pleading for normal schools and the legislature threatening to hold out twenty days longer, Mr. Joscph Cook still gravely wonders if death ends all, —_— Dave BUTLER failed to unseat Holmes, 60 he goes down to Cincinnati as a dele- gate to the ‘“new party’’ and will be ready to go to the legislature two years hence. The frost is heavy when Mr. Butler is not before the people. Ox the B. & M. the other day a con- ductor stopped his train and pitched a man off into the snow drift. He ex- plaived it by snying the fellow had actu- nlly purchased n ticket. He was told to £0 back to Lincoln and get a pass, OzaAna is the greatest “'show’’ town in the country, Last night 5,000 people were present at the Patti concert and nearly 2,000 attended the Haverly minstrel per- formunce. The Patti management took in over §10,200 and Haverly about $1,600. YEArs ago in Greece, the law required eacth member of the assembly or legisla- ture, in presenting a bill, to do it with & rope around his neck. 1f the bill failed to receive favorable cousideration the member introducing it was taken out and hong. Alas! that Colby did pot li that olden day. e Tung papers that are fighting the char- ter in the interest of the paving contract- ors' ring have not dared to deny that Con Gallagher wrote his own paving contracts, secured their approval by the board and pushed them through the council within s very few hours. Cou is 8 very sccommodating person. Emm— A LEGISLATIVE munual has been issned. 1ts pages are filled with priceless pane- gyric and gushing encomiums. The book sells at the price of one dollar—and each member mentioned in the pages will take soveral volumes. Far reaching, indeed, is vanity fed on three dollars per day. A wanuul relating to the lobbyists, if within its pages the truth were told, would make a book and a history the state could neyer forget, Adding Insult to Injury. The action of the state senate on the railroad bill presented by Mr. Sterling as a substitute for the railroad mill which the honse had passed ten days ago vir- tually decides the fate of all railroad regulation bills for this session. 1f any further evidence were wanting that the railroads have absolute control of a ma- jority of the senate it has now been fur- nished. It is needless to point out the methods by which thi was done. Every honest man in Nebraska believes and knows that improper means have been used to subvert the will of the people. This is the third legislature elected on pledges of railway regulation which goes-into history branded with a base betrayal of the people’s trust It is not a matter of party or locality. Party pledges have proven a rope of sand and no locality approyes the surrender to railway domination by its chosen repre- sentatiyes. Two years age when the proposition to create a railway commis- sion submitted to the people it was voted down by a two-thirds majority. In defiance of this popular decree, the railroad bosses marched boldly upon the floors of both houses of the legis- lature and forced wupon the stato an abortion which the peo- ple had only two months before rejected. The fact that no man who had helped to put through this picce of jug- glery has been held to answer for his criminal interference by any court and the fact that the men who sold out the people have gone scot free is responsible for what has huppened again. The work of the railroad lobby this winter has been more open and more eriminal because men who engage in this outlaw work are not afraid of the penitentiary and in real- ity are not likely to stand any the worse n what nowadays is called good society. Getting. high salar from a corporation makes men hon- able, even when their business 18 no more reputable and lawfnl than that of the burglar and pickpocket ‘The new railroad bill which a majority of the senate has foisted upon that body at the dictates of the railroad attorneys ouly adds insult to injury. The Sterling substitute, while not all that the people would wish, had this merit init. The bill lowered the present exorbitant local rates a fraction, and prohibited all the known abuses that beget diferimination against people and places. While con- ceding to the railroads the commission feature it had o redeeming quality in the reduction of rates and prohibition of higher rates than those established in the bill. The mongrel rmlway bill which the railroads have ordered their servants in the legislature to pass is an impudent and batefaced sham. It continues the ruilroad commission without limiting any of the abuses from which relicf is sought. Now that it has become a fixea fact that we are to have no railroad regulation cept such as is ordercd by the monopely rers, the legislature had bette: about, stop wasting moncy and time, kill off all jobs and steals and adjourn as soon as possible. It is bad enough that the people haye been disappointed and sold out. They will have all they can do for the next two years to pay their tax bills and interest on mortgages. The Jndiciary Juggle. The judiciary cowmittee of the house has, we are told, held a session with closed doors to cousider the Omaha charter. Why the committee should hold a star chambur council over a bill that was referred to 1t on its legal and constitutional bearings, nobody can ex- plain, The reporters of papers that have opposed the charter professto know just what was doneinside the committec room and from them we gather that sevoral amendments have been almost unani- mously agreed on, Theseamendments do not in any way scem to have any bearing upon the points which this committee was created to pass upon. They have, it is reported, decided to recommend a re- duction in the nggrogate a of our city from thirty to twenty-five square miles. They will recommend that the power of the city to secure parks shall not extend outside of the county limits and by their abolition of the proposed board of public works they propose to break up the park commssion and pre- vent the creation of boulevards and parks around the city for the next two years. They bave inscrted a new rail- road taxation clause which was drafted in a great hurry and is known to be defective on the points which the dele- gation and citizens agreed to incorporate, ‘They havesubstituted the printing clauso originally drawn by the charter commit- tee under Mr. Poppleton’s spiteful dicta- tion. This bt of judicial committee jug- glery is as impertinent as it is bungling. Suppose a bill proposing to apportion dis- trict judges or reating to the lower or higher courts of the state had becn re- forred to tbe committee on cities and towns under some pretext, what would be thought of the course of that committee if it undertook to dissect the bill and substitute provizions and amend- ments with which the commit- tee from its very make-up was incompetent to deul? And yet eight or nine lawyers, living mostly in villages of less than 2,500 population, who don't know any more about the wants of Omaha or any other large city than they do about the Chinese language undertake to tinker with a charter patterned after the charters of leading cities and framed by men who have lived here from fifteen to twenty-five years, What excusc is there for such mockery common sense and common Omaba has s delegation capital respousible to its She pays one-tenth of the entire state taxes on property within berlimits, Dacs the legislature propose to run rough-shod over the representa- tives of the leading city and permit a committee of nou-resident lawyers to make themselves merry over tearing up her charjert Why should tho members of thut committee persist in handling a bill with which they have no legitimate business unless it is for pure epite work and subserviency to corporate interests are dommant in Lincoln? e A Few Plain Words. About four months ago the Omahu Re- publican ehanged hands. The new pro- prietor: d their editor received a co dial and warm welcome from this paper. Our compliments were ueither back handed unor double-meaning. We were sincere in congratulating that paper and Owaha upon the infusion of new and vigovous life, beeause we earnestly de- sire 1o see the Omaba press improved in quality and elevated in its tone. at decency? at the constitnents, Tlisre has been no rivalry for years be- tween this paper and the other dailies, and there can be nong until they pro- duce better neswspapers in every respect than the Beg, In the very brief period since the change has taken place in the ownership of the Republican, that paper has utterly failed to meet the promises held out to the public. As a newspaper it has proved itself no better than it was under the old management. With that failure, we have, however, no concern. Weonly have to deal in this article with the man who is reputed to be its re- sponsible editor. Mr. Rothacker came to Omaha with a reputation as an able and brilliant writer, and we supposed him to be a man of honor and high re- spectability. * As such he was treated until he gave himself away by his own condact. We always judge & man by the company he keeps, and the company Mr. Rothacker has kept in the Lincoln lobby has not been very choice or reputable, Inspired by an in- sane notion that his advent in Nebrask was to revolutionize our entire political em, the Republican editor sought to y to the front in a coalition with elements and men who have made ics almost a national di grace and a stench in the nostrils of the people. The outcome bas only been dis- astrous to his paper and to his own in- fluence. iis bold and reckless misrepr sentationsof the charter and its contents have very naturally compelled us to han- dle him and his confederates without kid gloves, He boasted openly last week in our streets thathe and Morrissey and the contractors had tied up with the railroads to *“do up'' Rosewater in the legislature. 1s this the language of a high toned jour- nalist who professes to advocate purer government? \Would an honorable man join hands with the enemies of good gov- ernment out of pure personal ambition o be recognized as a great leader? Does it become a man who has not yet become a voter of Omaha to force his 1l digested and snap judgment views upon the fun- damental laws of this city? But most remarkable attempt of this comparativ Nebraska to introduce the code in Omaha. Coming from Kentucky he imagines that he can only gain public re- spect by challenging some editor to mortal combat. Such high strung “honah” will no longer puss for bravery at the “Confed X Roads.”” Manhood and bravery are not guaged in this section by the standard of the bravo. The man of courage stands up for his convictions and advocates the right against all odds. Pistols and coffee for two have long ago passed out of date among men of real honor. Once for all we say to the roar- ing swashbuckler, that the Ber will con- duct its columns fearlessly hereafter as before. Its locul contemporaries may combine i the future,as they have in the past, to bravely heap up mountains of slander and abuse on one man and then squirm and squeal when their brutal course is resented in plain languag these men want notoriety or fame let the build up their own papers by honc fort and enterprise. of all 15 the stranger in Arrogant Contractors. We are asked to state when and where there has been any crookedness or bad work by the contractors’ ring, which seeks to defeat the charter and wants to control the mext mayor, couneil and board of public works. We will cheer- fully respond to the request. There was something very crooked in che peculiar relations between Con Gallagher, as clerk of the board, and Con Gallagher, the partner of contractors for the Far- nam street improvement. There has been a mysterious method, to call it by a mild name, in the letting of the contracts for paving, curbing and guttering this year. Mr. Gallagher drew up s own contracts and accidentally, as it were, they contained an allowance for extras which other Dbidders could never have secured on a fair and square deal. There was bad work and wretched material in the Farnam street pavement between Ninth and Fifteenth, laid by Murphy & Co. 1In any other city half of the paving stone would have been rejected as rough and ill sized, As the result of this rough pavement Farnam street crossings had to be relaid with other material and the street itsolf is almost too rough for wagon travel. After tuxing the property owners thousands and thousands of dol- lars the pavement will have to be reluid and the rough stones cast out within a very short time. The same contractors have forced upon our people, by all sorts of misrepresentation, miles upon miles of wooden pavement which will be worthless within a very few years. Complaints are already coming in about the wretchedly uneven laying of this pave- ment, and the spring thaws will show what we have for our money. The con- tractors have found this sort of thing very profitable and would like to have it continued for a few years longer. They have had their own way with the board and inspectors so long that they actually have the arrogance now to dictate that the charter should be made for their ben- efit alone. Hewitt's Hostility to Labor, Mayor Hewitt, of New York, who was elected as the pronounced opponent of the labor candidate, seems disposed to lose no opportunity to emphasize his hos- tility to labor movements, as if to reas- sure those who elected him that they made no mistake in their choice. In his letter read at the dinner of the board of trade and transportation on lust Monday evening he dwelt upon the alleged par- alysis of business resulting from the late zed the action of the men who directed the strike asa usurpation of power which it is the duty of the business community to resist at whatever sacrifice of time, money and ef- fort may be nceded. It transpires that Hewitt sent u letter to be read at a ban- quet of the Brooklyn democratic club on Tuesday evening, 1 which he deplored the fact that certain democratic leaders had pandered to the labor vote, the ref- erence evidently beiog to Hill. After de- liberation and the refusal of the gov- ernor to attend the dinner if the letter was read, it was decided to suppress it, aud only the spirit of this contribution of one of the leading democrats of the coun- try to the encmies of labor will ever be- come 8 matter of public knowledge. Mr. Hewitt is several times a willionaire, and for - that rea- son cannot perhaps .be expected to have much sympathy with the stroggles of labor to better its condition, but 1u considering these public utterances regard is not to be had for his personal concerns and feelings, but for his rela- tions a8 a public man representing prom- inently a volitical party in one of its groat stronghoMs, It is a fair inference that in these comrunications Mr. Hewitt voiced the sentiment of those most inti- mate with him in political and official councils. He would hardly have ven- tured to make them without a knowledge that they would five no offense to the convictions of those whose confidence he is chiefly concerned to possess. What conclusion must te workingmen of New York and the country inevitably derive | | England. from the demonstration of antagonism in this quarter? Can they have any faith in the democratic pretense of friendliness when one of the foremost leaders of de- mocracy, occupying a position of power and influence, sccks to strengthen and stimulate opposition to them by charging upon them the wholo responsibility for the disturbance and losses of business? Mr. Hewitt may represent only an ele- ment of the demoeratic ty, but itis a very considerable and a very influential clement. It is now the most powerful in the councils of the party at Washington, and it is in full sympathy with capital as against labor A Grana Ovation The magnificent reception which Omaba has given to the peerless queen of song, Adelina Patti, surprised even the most sanguine admirers of the great- ost prima donna of the age. It was an ovation which the g rtist herself cannot fail to appreciate and always re- member. In point of num- bers and receipts it was the best house to which Patti has sung during her present American tour. Omaha in this instance has demonstrated that she ranks among the foremost Amer- ican cities in the love of music and high art, The cordial greeting extended to Adelina Patti will eyer redound to the credit of this cit It aflords striking proof that the world's greatest artists can rely upon the most liberal patronage in iis rising metropolis of the great west. Do They Mean Business? Some suspicion is thrown by our Wash- ing dispatch of Wednesday upon the action of the house of representatives on that day i adopting a substitute to the senate bill, passed several weeks ago, providing for a limited policy of retalia- tion tow. ;. There has been a good d id, since the senate bill sed, regarding the influences tl were at work in the house to defeat r talintory legislation. It husbeenreported, for example, that owing to the financiai connection of the Belmonts with the Rothschilds, the ehairmun of the hous committee on foreign affars, Mr. Perry Belmont, was extremely desirous to avoid any hostile action that would imperil this conneceion, and that his anxiety in the matter has caused the delay in reaching a consideration of this subject. It been charged that he carried his solic! tude in the matter to the white house, and is believed to have made an impre: sion there. At all events, 1t appears to have become pretty generally understood that a change had taken place in the views and desires of the president, al- though as to tiis nothing very definite could be learned. Itis a fact, however, that the house foreign aflairs com- mittee, of course at the instance of its chairn Manning for his view: rding enate and house bills and asking suggestions, These were duly given, ac- companied by the draft of a bill intended to avoid the ambiguities which the secr tary thought to exist in the other meas- ures. The communication of Mr. Man- ning was moderate in language and ju- dicial in tone, and features of it might doubtless be regarded as indicating a disposition to modify the original atti- tude of the government. But on the whole it scemed a fair and judicious view of the situation and its requirement The measure adopted by the house substitute for the senate bill is in lnrge part identical with the draft subwmitted by Mr. Mouning. it provides for abso- lute non-intercourse, and is therefore much more radical than the senate bil which limited the policy of retaliation to the vessels of the British Dominions of North America. The extreme character of the house measure is the ground for suspeeting the sincerity of its promoters. It is belieyed by the republicans gener- ally, according to our dispatch, to have been framed with the conviction that it would not be aocepted by the senate, which is understood to adhere firmly to its own bill as meeting all the requirements of the situation. In this event there would be a conference, and if this failed to agree, as of course it would if each house instructed its con- ferees not to recede from its action, all legislation on this subject would fail, ‘There was some republican opposition to the bill, on the ground that the senate measure was adequate, but it received the full republican vote present on its passage. 1t is quite possible that the result may come us apprehended. It can bardly fail to come if the senate refuses to accept the house measure. But we are not able to detect in the action of the house & deliberate purpose to bring about such a result, The supporters of the substi- tute tulked with apparent fairness and candor, There w no evidence of in- sincerity in their advocacy of the meas- and while we may agree that for the xisting exigency the senate bill scems to be all that is required, or ought properly to be attempted, it must be granted that there is a wide chance for a difference of opinion on this point. Our grievance is certainly a ver) ous one., Under no circumstances should we continue to bear insult and outrages Wito no other efforts for redress than complaints and pro- tests which are unheeded, But there is a w:se limit to a policy of retaliation which even the mostipowerful nations v not prudently disregard. The time is brief in which the present congress can act finally upon this guestion, and the country will know the result i a few days. THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY . Last vear the Mononzahela valley, western Pennsylvania, furnished 91,000,000 bushels of coal. An elegtrie light company in Pitisburg is turning out 4,000 electric lamps per day, and will soon be able to turn out 5,000, The earning power of capital has decreased since 1560 from 8to 4 per cent, while the laborers’ condition has greatly improved. Manufacturers throuzhout the state of Ohio are greatly encouraged at the prospects for an abundant and cheap natural gas sip- ply. The laying of several pipe lines has been projected. Dayton manufacturers are expecting the completion of a fifty mile pipe line from the gas wells. An eight inch pipe will be used. It will be laid in a trench three feet deep, and will travel up and down hill, The Freneh government has ordered & very large supply of drop hammersto be used for the manufacture of rifles, because they turn out Interchangeable parts in large quantities and reliably uniform. The silk and velvet manufacturers in Ger- many report a very heavy demand and im- proving prices, and increased export trade to The silk imports to the United States fell off from $40,000,000 in value in 1882 Lo 25,000,000 last year. May 0 is the day fixed for a compelitive test of brakes to be used on cars, large number of competitors, and the prom- sed patronnge for the successful competitor is 50 heavy that a large number have been stimulated to enter upon the contest. Natural gas has been compelling coal pro- ducers in the natural gas region to crowd their coal into western markets, and this has resulted in reducing the output of IlH- noly coal during 1886 to the extent of 500,000 tons, The seams there are low, and the cost of mining is high. 1t is rumored that several 1arge Furopean silk manufacturers are about to establish fac- tories at Paterson, N. J. Several silk mills are running on short time, anticipating a total shut down for lack of material. The Western Silk association met in St. Louis and found the iudustry in a healthy condi- tion, Natural gas has taken the place of coal in 10,000 honses in Pittsbury and Alleghany City. About 850,000 cubie feet of gas aro brought to those cities daily, taking the place of about 200,000,000 bushels of coal, ofes- gor Leslie declares that natural gas is a van- ishing phenomenon. The supply has given out at certain plac ‘The new Kn'ght of Labor building at Min- neapolis will have five store-rooms on its first floor, which are already rented. The third floor will be fo mblies and com- mittee rooms. th floor will be the lecture room. The structure will be built ot St Louis pressed brick, trimmed with Ohio blue sandstone. ‘Lhe walls will be two feet thick, and the building will cost §75,000. Few new induostrial establishments are be ng started in New England in contrast with £65.000,000 invested in like enterprises during the vear at the south, 1. Chevney, & W known citlzen Hampshire, that cotton manu lias seenprobably its best days in New Hampshire; that inore mills have been built i nee the war than are now in operation in that state, —~——— The Bee's Good Work. ¢ Independent s engazed in the good work of exvosing the unholy practices of the Westerr. Mutual Benevolent association of Beatrice, and it half the Brk charges up to that institution be true, the thing oucht to squelched” instanter. Men who rob the people of their money In the manner set forih by our Omaha contemporary should be taken care of by the authorities. e A Menagerie at Lincoln. Kansas City Jowrnal, Lincoln, Neb., citizens are figuring with a St. Louis man to locate. a permanent menag- erie in Lincoln. The Nebraska state legis- lature does very well while it lasts, but it is only in session a portion of the time and merely whets the appetite of Lincoln for a menagerie that will be permanent. That Insurance Fraud. Columlus Democrat, 'he Omaha BEr is after the sealp of the Western Mutual Benevolent association. This is extremely proper and will make the B popular. Exposes of fraud by a news- paner which will save hard-earned money to the people is what makes the paper particu- larly valuable. Bring your every charge home, until all such institutions are a thing of the past. S Sleep—A Sonnet, Rose Howard. We and dream. Who has not seen and met i heart's”desire in that chatmed palace— slecn, And hucged the happiness he could not keep Or kissed an ideal hie could never set L place of waking facts? " “Thus, from the el And toil of life we enter, wandering deep Through tho long corridors, where dreams that steep Our souls with gladne: s wile us to forget That they are dreams, Here in the sleeping nto tho presence, face to face, Q iere ‘streteh our lands To touch reembered form of yore, And speak the words we should have spole hefor Our friends passed from us into distant lands. —~ TE AND some wel RRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Kearney's water works are completed. A scheme for a new hotel is budding in Norfolk. Kearney expects a branch road south to Holdrege and the Rock Island exten- sion, A flock of tin whistle gamblers is the {;m- t evidence of a boom in Nebraska it A pit of singing sand has been found near Rushyille, Choirs will be supplied ‘“free gratis.” Nebraska City is determined to be metropolitan in all things, even to a burnt district. The Farmers' Horsa [mporting com- pany, of Unadilla, capital $10,000, Las been incorporated in Otoe connty. The old Nebraska college in Nebraska City, comprising five buildings and half a block of ground, has been sold for $5,000. Mr. . W. Ripley and family, pioneers of Des Moines county, Iowa, hay moved from Burlington to a farm near Hastings. Schuyler's fire department is now ready for business, having purchased 450 fect of hose and four rubber overcoats. A supply of fans is promised. The Union Pacific extension up the Wood river valley is nearly ali graded. Material for bridging and track laying is on the ground awaiting the appearance of spring. The Rushville Standard has moved into new quarters, and the editor de- clares, in double leads, that he is now “‘abundantly able to receive cash on sub- seription, Herman Lindeman, of Milford, ex- pressed his contempt for high license by selling liquor without a permit. It took $000 and trimmings to cut his acquain- tance with the Slocumb law. Burglars raided Yano & Zwamcik's hardware store in Wilber Tuesday night and captured $250 in cold cash, “besides $100 worth of knives, razors and revol- vers. The thieves are running loose, An airy costumer in an interior town advertises ,1f you wear one of our glove fitting corsets, you will wear ouiing else.’ A black beauty-spot on th right cheek might be added to give it color and variety. The amendment, however, is not insisted upon. The Nebraska City News has been re- organized as a_stock company. The veteran Thomas Morton, who has been connected with it since 1854, retains an interest. Messrs. C, M. Huebner and Ed 1), Marnell are the new members of the firm. The News will be enlarged and generally improved at &n early day. fowa Items, The Jeffries mining company of Keo- kuk, capital $250,000, has beeu incorpo- A coffin factory is to be started in Dubuque to compete with Davenport's crematory. There were twelve marriagoes, thicty. three births and fonrteen deaths recorded in Linn county last weck The bonus of 818,000 required to secure the location of tieltoek Island shops at Davenport has been subseribed A government architect is at work at Keokuk on the new plans and prepara- i for the new government building o The startling news comes from Bur- lington that two mules were killed near tiere in a bout with a locomotive. It is consoling to know that the locomotive was fatally bruised. Mr. C. L. Banfield, of Cedar Falls, is seoking to trace the whereabouts of Joo Ewmerson. The lost man is described as about five feet in height, bad scar over left eye, blue eyes and a trifle gray, wore n]l;gm mustache, and about thirty years old. Montana. Emma Abbott is doing the territory. For the month of January the Drum Lummon produced §180,000. Butte last Silver bar shipments from week aggregated in yalue §143,852.) The Montana sampling works of Helena were incorporated last weck, capital stock $100,000. The copper works at Butts closed for want of salt, the snow blockade having stopped transportation, George Thirloway, of Butte, was dragged to death by being eaught in the stirrup of a saddle ‘horse which he was riding. It is reported from Choteau county that 4,000 sheep belonging to Hays “Bros. strayed from the herders during the late storm and were lost, D. C. Corbin, the well-known Montana apitalist, purchased the line of thejCorur d’Alene Steam Navigation & Transporta- tion company for between £50,000 and $60,000 last week ‘The loss of stock in all parts of the ter- ritory is enormous. Reports from the Boulder country and other localities are unvarying tales of intense cold ana un- al depth of snow, |Im~klf dotted with s of frozen cattle, sheep and The Paciic Coast. Two of the bomb-throwing carmen of San Francisco have been jailed A rich coal ficld has been discovered within five miles ot Albuquerque. Aring is on exhibition in Los Angeles which is said to have belonged to Martin Luther. Two wild swans, weighing thirty pounds each, were killed near Woodland, al., reeently, Better and bigger diamonds have been found at French Corral, in Nev county, than in any other part of C: ifornia. The fears of a dry season in westorn Nevada are gone, and millmen and ranchmen can now count on a prosper- ous year. A woman of Santa Cruz has sued her husband for divoree, the chief ground for complaint being that he neglected to say grace at his meal Indians in the eastern part of eat the flesh of the rabbits make robes of their skius bounty on their scalps. There are now in Yuma county, Cal- ifornia, nine irrigating canals, completed and in course of completion, that will furnish an abundant supply for an agare- gate of 150,000 acres of land, The ease of Hodges, the fiend who car- ried dynamite to the ti concert in San Francisco, is on trial. The Chronicle s **We enter a protest in advance against any of the sentimental nonsenso and {lummery which attends so many i ed in the casa of simply a wild beast, who was willing to slaughter a hecatomb of innocent men, women and children to gratify his own thirst for blood, and it is only by the grace of modern civi jon and the inborn respect for law which characterizes the American people that he s entitled to a trial atall.” evada —— “The Mutual Benevolent. Owmaina, Feb, 28—To the Editor of the B I have read with a good deal of in- terest your fearless expose of that noto- rious “soap bukble,” the Western Mu- tual Benevolent (?) association, of Be- atrice, and its capital stock. Will you permit me to say a few words about the capital stock? What 1sitfor? To com ply with the statutes of the state, which proyide that any life insurance company organized in this state shall have a paid up capital of $100,000, securities for this amount must be on deposit with the state auditor. But this law was not passed for such a concern as this. This “mushroom” is not an insurance com- pany. They do not pretend to insure; they do not issue policies of insurance, only certificates of membership. The; promise nothing in th certificates except that the; will act as a kind of collecting a y,—to solicit aid for the benefit mily of the deceased—that is, to pass the hat around and let the rest of them chipin, The amount thus chipped- in is what they promise to pay over to the family of the deceased, and not one cent more, There is but ohe sure thing in the whole policy or certificate, that is the amount shall not execed a given amount. It reads: “They promise, ete., te pay, ete., a sum not exceeding $5,000, or whatever the maximum amount may be. 10 maximum amount is printed in large display letters, while the_preceding words, ‘‘not exceading,’’ are inserted 1n small type, and never referred to by their agents. It will be seen that it is not dif- ficult to comply with such a contract, If the $100,000 so-called securities or deposit with the auditor were all in twenty-dol- lar gold 8, and if the beneficiaries of those who suppose themselves insured in that benevotent concern don't go over fifty cents as a death Joss they could not touch one dollar of the company’s securs ity or capital, as the contract or certifi- cate does not say how little the associa- tionmay pay. It only provides for a maximun,not a mimmunm,amount. Is it not strange that an intelligent people will allow themselyes to be humbugged by such aswindle, particularly when the history of the past is covered with the " ks of such impositions? There are histories of over 1,300 dead co-operative or agsessment insurance associations in United States within the last twenty s, and 1 challenge the benevolent A iabin to give me the name of one that lived s dozen years doing busincss on the basis that his concern does. They call it “mutual,” and adve L paid-up capital of $100,000. How can it be mu tual and still have stockholders? Great American mutual life 1nsurance com- panies have no capital stocl They are mutaal, and such swindles as Mr. Subin is maniging bave simply stolen their names, JONN BTEEL. s Death of Patrick McGrath, Patrick MeGrath, a bachelor sixty-five yeurs old, who has been in the employ of the Union Pacitic road in this city for the last eighteen ycars, and has recently worked for * County Commissiongr O'Keefe, died Wednesday in St. Joseph’s hospital. His funeral will be held from Commussioner O'Keefe's residence, South Thirteenth street, at 2 o'clock w-morrow afternoon. - Colgate's Cashmere Bouquet, absolutely pure, exquisitely perfumed popularity unprecedented. "i‘lw soft and delicate skius, > o triumph. FI‘AN(*“I‘.J(\I(‘ 8. orybody GIad of the Success of the Septennate, 7 by James Gordon Bevnett | Pants (via Havre), Feb. 95.—[New York flerald Cable—Special to the Brr.|—The German elections have eaused tremendous excitement fn Paris. Every Frenchman felt that upon the result depended the g tien ot peace and war, Almost every man, woman and child drew a breath of relict when the papers announced fhat the Bis marek septennate was safo. By an irony of fate without a parallel In the history of ¥ rance, the country rejoices in Bismarck's No one could gaze, as1did this morning, on the tens of thousands of P'aris. 1ans as they h astened to their occupations on foot, on omnibusses, on the tramways, and on the suburban railways, all reading their newspapers and exclaiming: “C'est Ia paix,” without feeling convinced that the wreat masses of the population sincerely wish for peace. 1 have talked today with over a dozen statesmen, financiers §and journalist, among whom I may cite M. Clemenceay, Baron Alpholse do Rothschild, De Frey einet, L. Hebard, a senator and editor of the Temps, and M. Alatola de la Forge. They were all aglow over Bismarck's success which, although by no means decisive, is counted upon as suflicient to save the sep tennate and to guarantee peace in the imme diate futuro. IT STEADIES PRICES, Baron de Rothschild said: “The bourse to day Is firmer than ithas been for weeks past ‘Lho result of the German eloctions Is causing a steady rise everywhere.” DO NOT WANT WAR. M. Clemenceau said: “France sincerely wishes for peace. The nation does not dream at the present of attacking Germany, and now that P rince Bismarck is suro of his sop- tennate it is safe to believe that Germany will not attack ns. The elections show that the great masses of the German people, like the great masses of the French neople, do not want war. Thisis reassuring for the mo- ment, but no observer ean fail to see that Prince Bismarck hins now upon his hands a most erave domestic contest between tho military aristocracy and the German people that must eventually lead to the destruction of one or the other.” This internal struggle which Germany is now urdergoing is the real danger, and it may before long assume an aspect in which I'rinco Bismarck can only gain his partisan ends by plunging into war. The result of the elections in Alsace-Lorraine 18 such 08 to cause the heart of every Frenchman to vibrate with pride. However, that is a subject uvon which it would bo more prudent for me not tospeak about at greater lensth. (Coyyright 1 AT LEAST TEMPORARY PEACE Another prominent statesman and an ex prime minister, who is noted for his keen diplomatic instinct and cantion, but who desired me notto mention his name, told me that the German elections meant peace for the next few months, He added: “Every week gained is a step towards permanent peace, for France has only to wait and wateh for a favorable opportunity, and she may be able to win back her lost provinces without even fighting for them. This may seem to you strange, but with the present generation much of the bit- ter hatred that renders pow any idea of compromise utterly beyond the range of practical politics will cease %o exist, and there is no reason why a republican Germany may not feel obliged to make a question of war if France were to quietly tear up the treaty of Frankfort, by which Germany holds the annexed provinces, just as Russia tore up the treaty ot Paris at a favorable moment and regained, without drawing a sword, all that she had lost in the Crieaman war. But all thatis in the distant future. What we have to congratulate all Earope uvon now is the distinet assurance given by Prince Bi marck since he has saved his septennate.” WHAT T'IE PAPERS SAY, 'he Debats s “I1t is better for the peace of Europe that the septennato should have won the victory. But it would have been still better for the tranquility of Kurope if that victory not been won by resort- ing to such measures."” The Figaro sa; “The milliards of 1571 have launched German industry upon a pros verous basis, which the nation cannot now permit to be disturbed by war. That the German nation desires peace is the inter- pretation that must be accepted from the re- sult of the elections.” ‘The Temps says: “The magnificent mani- festation of the proud, brave people of Alsace-Lorraine, after a lapse of sixteen ¥y arouses all our sentiments tosuch a degree that we are deprived of tue liberty of oxpressing any comments. Wo bow down before it, and in silence we salute it.” THE FEELING IN ROME, How the German Elections Will Af- fect the Vatican, [Copyright 1857 by James Gordon Bennett.| Rose, ¥eb. 23.—[New York Herad Cable—Special to the Bre.|—The result of the German elections is now known and the vatican—barring the sadness caused by the illness of Cardinal Jacobini—Is jubilant, Yet the politicians see less in the losses suf- fered by the center party than was expected afterthe vatican’s interference in favor of Prince Bismarck. In Roman diplomatic cir- cles the danger of a conflict in the east is be- lieved to be as great as ever and tnere is lit- tle doubt that in the event of & general war Italy will follow the lead of the central pow- ers and of England, IN CABE OF DEFEAT, From a singularly well-informed sourco 1 learned that Prince Bismarck was quite pre- pared to dissolve the reichstag once, twice or even thrice, though he might have waited a little before having resourse to the first [ dissolution, If the third dissolution did not give him a working majority he would have gone at all lengths, 60 my informant assures and war with France would then have been certain, THE TEMPORAL POWER. Recent discussions as to the possibility of an eveutual restoration of the temporal power have caused much interest among Italians, It is regarded oven at the vatican asa dream. Butls there no middio courso which would serve as a basis of reconcilia- tion between the vatican and the quirinal Most pecple would answer *no.” Yel there pguine folkis here who fancy suclia wight be found. A PLAN OF BECONCILATION, A schieme of reconeiliation is being much talked about just now at the vatican, which 1 would have reason to believe would be con- sidered by the holy see. The chief clause would be the restitution to tne pope of all the Roman area on the right bauk of tho Tiber, ineluding St. Peters and the castle of St. Angelo, with a narrow strip of Jand ex- tending from Rowe to Civieta Vecchia. 1o avoid wounding Italian sentiment the cessa- tion might be disguised as a sale of the acou- milated subsidies annually yoted for the pope under the Jaw of Gasortees but never accepted by his holiness. ‘Ihe general out- line of this plan is not entirely new, It has been advocated by many prominent ceel among others, if I am not mistaken, Mgr. Capel. Rome would still 1n.sense re- main the [talian eapital, while ina caseof foreign complications the pope could be a sured the full communication with the outer worlé. which, according to the vetican, gt any wowent be made impossible. -~ Afternoon Fi Atiout 2:30 yesterday aftornoon fire broke out in the Eureka laundr; rer of Sixteenth and Jzard streets. It was soon ot under control by the firemen. The origin_ s not kpowr, und the damage BLIOULLY (0 BbOUL 200, basis