Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 1, 1887, Page 4

' THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. APRIL 1, 1887. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSORIPTION ¢ al ;g: 8ix Months ‘Three Months . The Omaha Sunday Bee, mailed to any address, One Year. s . ATIA OPFICE, No. 914 AND 918 FARNAM STREET. W YORK OPPICE, ROOM 5, TRIBUN® BUILDING. ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 613 FOURTRENTH STREET. OORRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Evi- TOR OF THE Ber. BUSINESS LETTERSS AN business lettors and remittancos should bs Mddressed to Tnx PUBLISHING COMPANY, AWA. Drafts, checks and postoffico orders be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, EpiTor. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Bgteot Nebrask, 1y o ounty of Douglas. Geo, B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee aolemnly swear Publishing com[mny, does that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee }nh the week ending Mar. 26th 1857, was as ollows: eaday, Mar, 22, ‘ednesday, Mar, % ‘Thursday, M Friaay, Mar, 2 Average.. R0, B, 1 Z8CHUCK, Subseribed and sworn;to be fore we this 26th day of March A, D., 1887, N. P. FrIr, [SEALI Notarv Publie. Geo. B, 'I'zschuck, Mlmi first duly sworn, deposes and says that he 1s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage daily eirculation” of the Dally Bee for the month of March, 1886, 11,587 copies; for A‘Brll, 1855, 12,191 copres: for for May, 1888, 12,- 439 cople: June, 18%, 12,208 coples; for Jul‘y. 1846, 12,314 coples; for August, 1856, 19,404 copies: for September, 188, 15,05 inplul: for October, 1886, 12,980 copies; for November, 1850, 13,348 conies; for December, 1886, 15,237 copies; for January, 1587, 16,266 copies; for February, 1887, 14,198 copies. * Gro. B, Tz3cHUcK. Subscribedand sworn to before me this 9th day of March, A. D, 1857, SEAL.| P.F Notarv Publle. TnE record of the lately adjourned leg- islature is a warning to all future gene- rations, HasTINGS secures an asylum for the in- curable insane. Hastings is to be con- gratulated. A 116 railroad boom has been planted for Omaha. It will bloom with the fiow- ers of spring. ature has closed its mortal existence and over its bier the people will pray that they may ncver see 1ts like again. Tue only happy phase of the so-called sclence of evolution is that our ancesters, when monkeys, were not members of the legislature, Tue railroads, as betrayed constitu- encies will soon enough learn, succeeded in capturing the legislature. There is an end to all things Mr. AGEE in one particular is like Woolsey of old. He has served his mas- ter faithfully and from this time on will sleep in dull cold marble. Mg. BLAINE makes a hurried trip west this month and next month goes to Ire- land. He will also visit different parts of Europe, remaining abroad about one year. THE police ought to pay a little more attention to the prize-fighting element in in this city. Puglists are becoming altogether too numerous and too import- ant. They should be suppressed, CHURCE HowE has one satisfaction for belng kept on the outside of the detunct legislature. Tom Major was in it and Church 18 now ready to compare records even as a senatorial lightning rod. It is all over at Lincoln. To-day w:ll witness clerks and members carrying away furniture, baskets, stationery, etec. 1t will be two years until the solons meet again, Herein is suflicient hope for con- gratulations. Tue judiciary committee boodlers have passed in their checks—literally speak- ing. We don't know whether John Shedy's name appearson the back of each check or the name of some other son of Pharaoh At Ozark, Mo., April 19, a special term of court” will be held to try the Bald- Knobbers for murder and other criminal conspiracies. This is, indoed, a pretty ending to a company of men organized \! to deteot crimi om———— Tre American party 18 gaining a foot- hold 1n California. and old time politic- {ans are fearing its strength in the next state campaign. Knownothingism on the Pacifle slope 18 indeed a new phase in politics these tim: eEege—— Tue Wisconsin legislature has passed a bill which plades & liability for injuries sustained from a mob, upon the county to whicn the mob congregates. This was an important measure of which Colonel Calby did not think. RusseL’s vote is recorded in favor of the anti-gambling bill. This might have been expected. Russell is very cunning as the Honorable Bill Brown remarked talking about the gambling bill boodlers, “He always covers his tracks well,” EE—p—— IN Montreal the current rate of interest bas taken a sudden jump from tnree to seven per cent., while here in Nebraska it remains steady at from six to fifty per cent. The chattel mortgage bill, to do away with greedy usurers did not become alaw. — Tur main object of intercst to eastern readers in the New York papers for the 1ast week has been accounts of the race between the two yatchs Dauntless and Coronot—between Now York and Queenstown. Out here mn the west a common mud scow on the Missouri river between Omaha and Kunsas City can make faster time than either of the yatchs causing all this furrore. Tux Honorable ‘fingle from way up 16 on his way to thosa dear constituents. Wonder if he has any of that $350 in gold left tingling aund jingliug in his pookot which he exhibited about the mixth of March to his confidential friends. We happen to kaow that the coin did not come out the state treasury and that's what makes us 8o inquisitive, Rather Lukewarm, Mr. Matt Miller mado a very valuable and useful member in the legislature of two years ago. He was always on hand ready to oppose every job, fought straight from the shouldor for railway regulation at every stage of the proceed- ings and voted right on nearly every im- portant bill, This winter Mr. Miller disappointed many of his warmest admirc While keeping up a show of fight and opposing some questionable measures, he has played fast and loose on various occa- sions where ho was expected to come to the front and strike for the right in his usual vigorous and effective manner. With the most charitable disposition to overlook his soeming indifference and frequent absence, when true blue men were badly nceded on the floor of the house, his rather lukewarm actions have compelled us to doubt his sincerity on the burningissuesof the duy. His opposition to Senator Sterling's bill imposing city taxes upon the real estate of railroad companies in towns and cities, is not readily explained away. The bill in question did not 1n any way affect the present system of state appraisement for county purposes. It simply placed the railroad property in every village and city on the same basis as the property of private individuals and other corpora- tions which are compelled now to bear the entire expense of city government, If Mr. Miller can show good veason why railroad property should be practi- cally exempt from city taxation, we shall cheerfully give him a full hearing through the B An Abortive Pretext. It might have been supposed that the ingenuity of the railroad attorneys, which has been excerted to its uttermost limits m finding expedients for rendering the nterstate commerce law oppressive and obnoxious, would have stopped short of an effort to assail or invade the sovereign rights of the government. The perver- sion of the law in some respects, and the stramed construction put upon it in others, left no doubt in the minds of in- telhzent people of the purpose of such unwarrantable action, but as very gener- ally happens to those who are bent on mischief, the corporations overreached when they proposed to eripple or embar- rass the postal service of the country by applying to the employes of the govern- ment in that service on the railvoads the provision of the act construed to prohibit the granting of free passes except as specified. Not all of the roads upon which the railway mail service extends proposed to deliberately apply the pro- vision of the law, agreeably to their con- struction of it, to postal clerks, in- spectors, and other employes of the de- partment connected with this serv but there w: idently & gencral under- standing that 1t should be applied, if possible, as one of the methods, and per- haps a very potent one, of producing and aggravating popular hostility to the law. The opinion of the attorney general, who in this matter is on the side of the people aguinst the corporations, has ren- dered this interesting scheme of the rail roads abortive. His opinion 18 that the law was created to regulate commerce and not the Urited States mail service, AN thit 1t was nod tho intout of thy law- makers that it should be construed to in- clude the mail seryice. The postal ser- vice is organized in pursuance of an es- tablished governmental policy, and its operations ‘‘can only be conducted suc- cessfully by uniform and general rules.”” Inthe conduct of this service the United States, ‘‘to the exclusion of all others, exercise one of the functions of govern- mental sovereignty.” To apply the inter-state commerco law to tho mail service would be a palpable interterence with that sovereignty, since it would “materially diminish the power and rights heretofora exercised and bad under the postal laws, and modify a clearly defined policy established as the result of the experience of the whole national life.”” Among the instrumentalities necessary to the efliclent and proper conduct of the service the postoffice department is au- thorized by law to send officers, agents and clerks of the government to perform specified duties, and such persons when in the performance of such duties, orin pursuance thereof, ‘‘going to or return- ing from their places of residence,” are unaffected by the provisions of the new law. By way of increasing the disco mfor- ture of the railroads, the postmaster gen- eral holds that the transportation given postal employes is not free travel, but by the law and regulations constitutes part of the service pald for in mileage com- pensation to railroad carriers, and he instructs such employes who may be re- quired to pay fare when on official busi- ness to take a receipt for the same and reporec the facts to the department, in or- dor that the amount pald may be de- ducted from the carrier’s compensation. In this matter, the importance of which is not to be measured by the money con- sideration involved, the corporations have encountered their first experie nce in defeat of their obvious purpose to ren- der the new law unpopular. It may be the forerunner of other: Gratifying Faots. The opening at the navy department last week of the bids of American steel manufacturers for the plate with which the new cruisers authorized by congress are to be armored, and for gun forgings, disclosed the gratifying fact that there are several plants in this country which can not only produce the required armor and forgings equal to any . made elsewhere, but at a cost no greater than the govern- ment would have to pay for them if made by foreign manufacturers. This is a dis- which the great majority of the American people, including doubtless the secretary of the navy, were not prepared for, but which they will none the less re- ceive with great satisfaction., Further- more, it drew out the information that the limit of progress has not been reached. The president of the Bethlehem Steel company of Pennsylvania stated that his company will soon be able to forge steel shafts for vesscls of the largest burden. Thus, 1t appears that in every depart- ment of steel production this country is rapidiy overtaking England, tand when one reflects upon what has becn accom- plished in this direction in the past few years the time cannot be far in the tuture when the stecl manufacturers of the United States will in a position to com- pete itf all respects with those of Eng- land. There are some other facts of recent information, relative to the adyance of American manufacturing enterpriss, not less gratifying than the above. The specral consulur reports of British repre- sentatives, which are published in Great Britain as soon as received, conclusively show that the competition of American manufactured goods with those of Eng- land 18 meeting with marked success in all quarters of the globe. This has been notable in Brazil and Italy, the latter country being one of the best markets for American hardware. A recent Brit- ish consular report from southern Russia shows that a number of articles of Ameri- can manufacture are preforred to those of England, for the reason frankly ad- mitted by the London Z7%mes that they are very much superior. la Chili Ameri- can hardware has almost driven out tho English product. From other quarters the intolligence conveyed by these Brit- ish consuls, which is of course beyond suspicion, is all favorable as showing the advance .of American manufactured goods in markets hitherto controlled or wholly monopolized by English goods. It is inevitable that we shall continue to make progress in this respect. American skill and enterprise have by no means reached the limit of their possibili- ties, and the conditions essential toa cheaper and more perfoct production of everything in which we compete with other manufacturing nations are more favorable and ample now than ever be- fore. All things point {0 this country as the world's great workshop of the fu- ture. Our New Postmaster. The appointment of Mr. C. V Gallagher as psstmaster of Omaha is ofticially announced from Washington. The summary removal of Postmaster Coutant may be in the interest of civil service reform, butthe choice ot his su cessor does not squint in that direction. The Omaha postoflice has for sume time past been in need of a head competent and yigorous enough to conduct the immense and steadily increasing business more efiiciently than 1t has been admin- istered for the past year or two. The of- fice has been demoralized ever since the democratic president has occupied the white house. Mr. Coutant's head being liable to come off at any hour the subordinates in the office became unmanageable. Our new post- master brings to the discharge of his duties good business qualifications and fair executive ability. If he will devote his entire energics to the task before him he may give the patronsof the oftice prompt and eflicient service. The choice of Mr. Gallgaher will, however, not receive popular approba- tion. The citizens of Omaha as a body, have reason not to repose confi- dence in him as a public man. His con- duct as a contractor and politician has been, to put it mildly, a source of popu- lar distrust in his integrity. It will re- main for Postmaster Gallagher to show by his conduct as an oflicer, charged with the handling of the people's most confidential communications, that the high trust reposed in him 18 in safe hands. As the heaviest patton of the Omaha postofiice, tho Ber is interested only in having the mails ex- pedited promptly and impartially, If onr uew postmaster will improve the service and introduce business methods 1nto the office, he will hear no complaint from this quarter, A Strict Enforcement. Many people interested are wondering if the railroad companies will not attempt to construe the inter-state commerce law as bad, take Grant's advice on suchja law and “enforce it,” in order to make it a dead letter. The fact that all pools, com- binations, agents' commissions and the hundred other privilezes extended under the old order of things will now be en- tirely done away with, the rates advanced in most instances and rarcly lowered, goes to show that there is a determined effort on the part of cor porate powers to laugh the law out of effect and educate the people to believe t hat it is a hindrance to their own interests. The Philaaelphia Record very sensibly says upon this sub- ject: ‘The railroad companies are trying to make the inter-state commerce law as odious as possible, and they are preceeding in a way that will be likely to hurt their business. They announce a suspension of the sale of mileago tickets and an advance in their charges for commutation tickets. This action will result in a dimimished traffic after a time, and will drive into the cities those per- sons who had been induced through the low rates of the railroad companies to locate at stations along the various lines. In frelghts also there will be many changes. 1t has been announced by a prominent wool receiver that the rate of transportation on wool from San Francisco to this city 1s to be Increased from u 3¢ cent per pound to 5§ cents per vound. The rate on sugar is to be increased atsome point from19to 23 cents per 100 pounds. In the East when navigation shall have opened, thero will be to some extent an abandonment of the volicy to ‘‘freeze out” the law. In the West, however, say inNebraska, whore extortionate railroad tolls have been the bane of all farmers and shippers existence, the leveling force of competition will have no chance to bring about the long-needed reduction of rates. It is to he sincerely hoped that the new departure will be given a fair chance, change the order of things, and give some relief to the plunderea producer. ————— Tue trial of John Arensdorf, the Sioux City brewer, for the murder of the Rev. Mr. fladdock. is already o celebrated case. The te: ony for the prosecution so far is very direct and positive, and of & very dramatic character. ‘Lhe evidence of Leavitt is corroborated in every par- ticular by that of Koschniski, who tells a straightforward story., He, like Leav- itt, was an eye-witness, and was bribed to leave lowa soon after the shooting. Both Leavitt and Koschniscki were in the conspiracy to punish Haddock and con- sequently know every detail of the great crime. The network of evidence that is being woven around the accused is of such a nature that his escape from the extreme penalty of the law secms im- possible at this stage of the trial. The earnest manner in which the case is be- ing prosecuted repels the wholesale at- tacks which have been made upon Sioux City as a refuge for criminals. Tue whole country will regard with in- terest the decision of the court in the case of the state of Pennsylvania against the anthracite coal combination, which was submitted by the attorney general last week. The state rested the question wholly upon the law, which with an en- tirely fair and upright court ought to be “latent discontent exists.. ample to assure the destruction of this dangerous and damaging monopoly. The constitutiofl of Pennsylvania in most explicit langumge, a misconstruction of which woul® seem impoasible, pro- hibits transportftion companies from en- gaging fn minidg or manufacturing, and in the case of this pool the provision has been clearly violated. The ridiculous plea of the combination attorneys is that the heartless and greedy monopoly has besn a good thing for the miners, the railroad, and the people generally. Move the case before a court of almost any other state fve might with a senso of safety venture to. predict a decision favorably to the peovle, but the record of Pennsylvania courts with respect to the corporations does not warrant the ex- pectation that the monopoly will en- counter merited defeat, —_—_— BrAD SLAUGHTER has filed an applica- tion with the governor for the position of oil inspector., Why not appoint Paul Vanderbum? He was chief inspector of the oil rooms for the last sixty days. By the way, Brad would make a high-proof oil tester after the most approved stand- ard of the Standard Oil company. Tue inte e commer terpreted by trunk lines and the Central Traflic association, abolishes all com- missions heretofore allowed agents on tickets to the agents in diflerent parts of the country. This will make a differ- ence in their income of from 330 to £500 per month, Commissions have cost the railways annually $5.000,000. AccorviNG to the Washington Critic, Senator Manderson, who has just re- turned from Florida, sails for Eurove this month, where he will remain a short time. Within two years Senator Mander- son will be at home carefuily nursing an “ex’’ before his present proud title. CONGRESSMA master is not a very popular appoint- ment. THE FI D OF INDUSTRY. Less than 10,000 men struck during March, “The co-operative store at Denver has been discontinued. The Boston eight hours. The St. Louis knights propose to build a hall by 25-cent contributions. “fen New York clothing fitms Lave to employ only union men. ‘The Chicago garment cutters have organ- ized a co-operative manufacturing clothing company, Fifteen thousand iron and steel employes in Chicago and the northwest bave Lad their wages increased 9 per ecent, Hordes of Italians will land along the Atlantic and gulf coasts during the next sixty days to work on railroads, Trade organizations are strong and confi- dent, and if labor disputes can be avoided the year will bo one of phenomenal prosper- ity. English iron making interests want the government to spend the equivalent of $30,000,000 in building and equipping 7,514 miles ot railway, There are 1,510 tapestry tooms in the coun- try, of which 35 are in Philadephia, New York state has 893, The capacity per year for all is ,000 yards, T'he reductlon in postage from three to two cents has greatly inereased the demand for envelopes. and a great many establishm ents are now working night and day. Thousands of women and girls in New York who have heretofore worked in shops are now working at home manufacturers, finding the item of shop expenses equal to a fair margin of profit, The miners in the east have shared in the improvements, but in the west more or less All through the Ohio Valley the iron, coal, lumber and machinery interests are prospering. American pump-makers are crowding Eng- lish-made pumps out the Indian ot markets. They are even selling in England, and have forced English prices down. The competi- tion is both in hand and horse-power pumps. Manufacturers generally are Increasing their output and booking orders for future delivery at the same mill or factory price that has been ruling for the past three months, The upward tendency in prices has been arrested, but the upward tendency in wages continues. Labor 13 In steadily increasing demand throughout the counfry. lmuwigration will increase the supply of both skilled and un- skilled labor, and no general advance in the rate of machine shop and mill labor is re- Karded as probable. All through the New England Iron centres there 8 great activity, ‘The loom manu- tacturers have all they can do. Cotton mills are particularly active. The car shops are driven to their fullest capacity, and all the New Englaud roads are adding to their roll- ing stock, A hoslery mill is to be erected at Louls- ville. A large cotton-mill addition is bein made at Rome. The Southern textile mill capacity will be largely increased this sum- mer, Within thirty niiles of Charlotte, N, C., twelye cotton factories turn out $2,000,000 worth of goods annually, Late reports from Western cities show that great activity in bmldmmpemunnn will pre- vail. Small’houses will erected 1n large numbers, which can be rented and or sold on reasonable terms. Workingmen are exhib- iting a desire to buy and in many localities every opportunity 18 offered them to obtain homes, The textile manufactures have been greatly encouraged by the inflow of orders during the past few weeks. Prices are nifilmr .nfi the toneof the market firmer, Manufacturers are therefore ordering additional capacity. All the machinery making establishments aro very busy and no labor troubles exist or are threatened. ‘The building trades In all Iarge cities west are better organized this year than last, but but for all that more conservatisin_prevails. ‘I'ne number of strikes is triiflng. Stonema- sons and bricklayers evince a strong dislike to idleness during the building season. The plumbers and painters are more inclined to make trouble, Printers are tinding increased employment. Machinests tind work more abundantand wages better than they have been for years. At present there are 4211 looms turning out r carpets, of which or about one-hdlf are in” Philadelphia, The average output is thirty yards per aay, and the maximum yield of the country is 7,509,000 yards per anntim, or about thirteen square miles. The esthnated value Is about 52,000,000, wholesale price. There are 1142 Brussels looms in the Upited States, making fitty yurds per day on #n average, total pro- ductive capacity of 15,090,000 yards; value of product, §18,000,000, Cotton goods mnnum‘nrcrs are not meet- ing with as much success in_establishing an export trade as their mechanical appliances, cheap fuel and cheap cotton call for. Great Britain’s cotton goods exportations last year were 4,550,000,000 yards, while this country’s shipments fell below 200,000,000 yards, China takes six yaras of British cotton cloth to one from us; South America, sixteen; Central Anierica, seven. I'he East Indies take nearly one nalf ot the British prodnct, Brazil takes over 210,000,000 yards from Great Hrl'énm. while we export less than $,000,000 yards. workmen are agitating for ed AT e Muzzling the Press, Chicago News, The Nebraska legislature is considering s bill the object of whicn I8 to muzzle the press of the whole country, as far as Nebraska people are concerned, Thisseems at the first glance, to be a rather large undertaking, yet the means to be employed are as simple as they .are outrageous. ‘Fhe Snel! criminal Iibel bill, as amended by the house, provides that any editor, reporter, head-line writer, correspondent, or publisher may be indicted and imprisoned in any county in Nebraska where a libel written or published may hap- pen to clreulate, Nebraska has abolished grand furies, and under this bill, should it become a law, the county attorney of any county in the state might, for revenge or other unworthy reason, file an information for eriminal libel in his court and compel th e attendanco of, for instance, Charles A, Dana and the entire staff of the New York Sun, We understand that there Is a probability ot the passage of this measure. In such an event it will be the duty of the governor to veto It. The state of Nebraskacannot afford to guarantee its scoundrels against news- paper criticism, - The Brighter Hope, San Francisco Examiner., Dream not of the days that are passed, With their dying ambition and hopes un- tulfilled, Of castles you built too airy to last, Aud objects since found' less sublime than you willed, Do not despond that the lifo of your cholce Seems to you void and to worthless to mend, When to despond |s but to rejoice ‘That life is'a blank from beginaing to end. Bright r ot Hope! guide thee onward and on, Lenditig her licht to encourage and_cheer, For what are the shadows of days that are vone To the hopes th; coming ye row brighter with each SR —— STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, Tastings hopes for a population of 50, 000 in fifteen yes A full temperance ticket is flourishing in the field at Wymore. he prohibits are the first in the field 1 Nebraska City with a “spring” ticket. The quantity of Haddock dished up these lenten days is ample for all pious purposes. The Democrat is willing to concede that 3,000 new homies will be erccted in Lincoln this y¢ Beatrice has been invited to partake of diluted Missouri, vintage of 1857, at Plattsmouth on the 6th, Beatrice is negotiating with Hon. John Fitzgerald for the establishment of a ng house at that point I'he a attendance at the Grand Islund schools last month was 867 out of a total enrollment of 1,243, The Nebraska City News is_improving rapidly in s and quantity of conten! Steam power now sceth8 pehind its throne. Grand Island must put up the deed for the site of the soldic home to-morrow, and the circulation of the hat to-day will be lively and interesting. ‘“T'he Model Husband' was exhibited in Wymore a few nights. It was a Hoosier product of imaginative provor- tions, The original died young. Wash Cunningham, & prominent far- mer near Liberty, was found dead in the snow near that place last Monday. Heart disease 1s supposed to be the cause. Nine and one-third miles of water mains have been planted in Hastings. T'he waterworks will be in operation in a few weeks, and the town \viI]l then douse h a shower bath, T outh Omaha stock yards,” says tha Schuyler Herald, *‘are proving grand thing for the stock raiscrs of this state. A majority of the stock raised in this sta 10w marketed there.” The Nebraska City board of trade did neat thing wlen it presented Mr schlag with warranty deeds to lots on which he will erect factories forthe man- ufacture of starch, oatmeal and hominy, Mr. Beyschlag was agreeably surprised at ubstantial evidence of local appre- ciation. Tne Columbus Journal is out in a neat and natty spring suit of the latest pat- tern, The Journal has puttered along in staid bourgeoise for a dozen years or more, and the change to modera toga is especially pleasing, both as an evidence of prosperity and a determination to keep up with the procession. The Rock Island rmlroad extension in this state, known west of the Missouri river as the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska, was completed to Hebron, Thayer county, Iast Monday, The event was celebrated in a thoroughly business style. The en- terprising people of Hebron took advan- tage of a tender of a free train from the company, loaded it with corn, bunting and banners and started for Chicago. Every car had two banners on each side. On the side of the first car was ‘‘Hebron, the Queen City of the Little Blue Val- ley;" 5,000 Farmers Wanted in Thayer county.” Each side of every car was decorated in a similar manner, and every banner set forth in large letters and pro- claimed to the people all along the line the great advantages and wonderful resources of this section of Nebraska, lowa Items. The state debt amounts to $812,677.65. Dubuque’s floating debt is $833,5642.85. Kate Claxton and her orphans are doing the state, Marengo in sinking an artesian well found coa! oil at a depth of 300 feet, ‘I'he total assessed valuation of Boone is 615,000 and the total indebtedness $20,707, A vein of coal, supposed to be six or seven feet in thickness, was uncovered in a brick yard at Williamsburg. Burlington's weather prophet has broke loose again. He is howling in a wilder- ness of mild March weather for remnants of lis lost storms, Peter Miller, an unmarried man living on a farm he owned in Clay county, com- mitted suicide last Sunday by shooting himself through the head.” No cause is assigned. Lena Dipple, of Davenport, has sued Frank Haberda for $5,000 damages for breach of marriage contract, and as a shight recompense for the ridicule heaped upon her for getting the mitten, Mrs. Celia B. Thomas, of What Cheer, becoming weary of the society of Mr. Thomas, lavished stolen affections upon the nice family boarder and finally car- ried out the elopement programmo by a trip to Nebraska. As usual, scciety is astonished. The enforcement of the vrohibition law in Des Moines county, according to the Burlington Gazette, wiping out a large number of the big vineyards in that locality, Only one remains, the Dewein, from which the owner last year sold 4,500 pounds of grapes, and made 800 gallons of wine, It is en acres in extent, Dako : There are twenty-five daily papers in the territory. Natural gas has been found at a depth of 135 feet on the farm of Robert McClure in Sully county. Two hundred of the best families of New England are announced to leave for Dakota about May 1. A colony of French farmers near Quebee, Canada, are negotiating for land in Yankton county. Trudell, the man who killed Connolly at Deadwood two months ago, has been convicted of manslaughter, the penaity for which is from four years to life im- prisonment in the penitentiary. Reliable information from the Belle Fouche country states that the loss in new or through cattle may reach 50 per cent, while that in old or range cattle will not exceed 15 per cent and 15 likely to be under 10 per cent. The Milwaukee railroad company have | 100,000 bushels best quality of sced wheat ; which it is loaning out’ to the farmers | along 1ts various lines west of Aberdeen, the terms of the compact being that the farmers pay back to the road, after har- vest, ove and a half bushels for every bushel borrowed. Mont . Prairic hay is now worth, in Butte, from $25 to $30 per ton, and timothy about 35, Helena ships all her beef from Chicago. And yet almost half a million caitle are owned by residents of that city. The meat contracts for the yarious ilitary posts in Montana for the year commencing July 1 will be for an aggre- gate of 400,000 pounds in beef und mutton. About 4,000 head of cattle were wint. ered on the Crow reservation at 50 cents per head. The losses 1n that vicinity were about 25 per cent nalives and 40 per cent of pilgrim cattle, The Montana Wool Grower estimates that there will be nearly a mullion sheep sheared in the territory this year, produc- mfi at least 8,000,000 pounds” of wool-—a xll:\x*l;lon more pounds than the product in It is not surprising that so many rail- roads are aiming to reach Butte, when one considers the immensity of the froight receipts. For last week they footed over $50,000. which is equal to §200,000 per month, While making a railroad cut in the Boulder Valley branch of Sam Hauser’s road, a vein of ore was opened which by subscquent development is said to now show §200,000 worth of pay rock, D.A. Larson owns it. The Utah & Northern is commencing the work of putting in ties and making other cpreparations for widening the gauge of the road on July 1. An order was issued the other day allowing all sec- tion foremen eight men and the number will be increased as fast as ties and other material can be secured. The latost estimate of the loss of stock during the winter is fifty per cent. With sheep and horses th S8 is not near so Y 48 among the e but still the loss is great among horses and sheep, On some ranges it.is reported that one- half of the horses have died, and that sheep are still dying by the hundreds. R B A HERO'S DEATH. How Henry B. Rumsecy Lost His Life to Save that of a Cnild. The following taken from the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Gazette relates to the death and burial of the late Henry B, Rumsey, well known in this city: The remains of flenry B. Rumsey,Esq., arrived frow opuualo by the Wabash route early Sunday morning, March 20. They were met at the depot by a hearse and conveyed to the undertaking estab- lishment of James C. Pelticr, and at a later hour they were reverently removed to the residence of his father-in-law, Hon, Joseph K. Edgerton, No. 87 West Wayne street, where his heart-broken wife and child awaited them, Mrs. Rumsey is a delicate lady, and the shock of her husband’s terrible death so pros- trated her that her condition has beer source of much alarm to her family. Later the lady was somewhat improved. It may be stated that the tuneral will be held at the Trinity Episcopal church and probably on Wednesduy afternoon. Philo Rumsey esq..and wife, his parents, left their home at Santa Fe, New Mexico, for Fort Wayne at 2:30 Sunday morning and, unless they are delayed, may be ex- pected at 7:40 this evening. If they reach Fort Wayne at that time the funeral will be on Wednesday afternoon. The pall bea will be selected to-day. 'he story of the death of Lieutenant ander Rumsey as learned by a Ga- porter from an authoritative When he was awakened at half past three o'clock Friday morning he was oc- cupying a room on the fifth floor. e drew on his trousers and shoes and rushed down the stairs to the fourth floor, only to find that farther descent was ~ impossible by the staircaise, which was a mass of “flames, He ran to an open window at the end of the hall and looked out. The window was free from the tirc and he had time for deliberation. Below him, at a dis- tance not greater than ten feet, was the roof of Bunnell’s museum, which was ac- cessible by the fire ladders from the street. Escn‘]m then was easy and he prepared to drop from the window. At that moment he heard the cry of a child behind him, Re had a_little one at home and a father's love overcame thoughts of personal safety, He turned and faced the advancing flames. The child was not to be found for several precious minutes. At last he discovered the little one in aroom. It had become separated from its parents and flecing to this apartment had closed the door. Mr. Rumsey seized the child, thrust it under his night dress and ran to the win- dow. The whirling flames now_barred his course and singed his hair as he dashed blindly on. ‘There was a child to save and he did his whole duty. He reached the window, threw himself and ms living burden onto the roof below and both were picken up and_carried down to the street in the arms of the firemon. Both were torribl burned. Mr. Rumsey's injuries were all above the waist. His pantaloons and shoes vprotected his limbs and fuet. Worse than all he had inhaled the flames in his race for life through the hall way. He was taken to the Fitch hospital where he was givon the most careful attention by nurses and -surgeons. The telegraph report errs when it states that he raved about the child. He never lost his reason until ho died and could not bear to consent that a telegram be sent to his wife because he feared the shock to her. He died at 1:30 Saturday morning. She was the last of the family at home to learn of his fate and had even written a letter and addressed it to her husband, when her brother, to whom ghe gave it for mailing, knew that he was dead but could not bring himself to tell her. All ersonal effects of Mr. Rumsey that aved was his watch, which he had thrust in his trousers’ pocket. He leaves two children, a son, who is past midshipman in the United States navy and is now at the Island of Maderia on s lirst eruise, and a daughter of ten SUBJECTS: Abraham Lincoln, Kurly Douglas Debutes eto: CONTRIBUTORS: John G. Nicolay and Col. John Hay. Mrs, van Rensselaer. Jog! Chendler Harrs. " noe ltowan ) Edward Eggleston. Prof. W. D. Whitney. | Mark Twain, | General 0. H. Hill. Edward Atkinson. Canterbury Cathedral. «Little Compton."" Southern war atory Colonial Churches. The Veda. b “English as She is Taug/ " Chickamauga. Margin of Profits. “The Hundredth Man'' Hawthorne Portraits. GeorgeParsonlathrop. Dudley Buck, Tieo- International Music| e¢ Thomas and Copy-Right. others. The Reserve at Chickamauga, Gen. J. §. Ful lerton. Editorials on “Lincoin and Loweil, “The Injustice of Socialisu,” cte; Poems; Bric a-brae, ete. A $4.00 a year. 85 cents a number. Sold ev erywhere. THE CENTURY CO, N. Y. TO THE PUBLIC With the approachf spring and the increased intdest mans ifested in real estato matters, I am more than ever onsulte FOR APRIL, I Frank R. Stackton I ed by intending purchjsers as | to favorable of portunities for investment, and to all such would say: When putting any Propergi ty on the market, and ndmr tising it as desirable, I ha ' invariably confined myself a plain unvarnished statement of facts, never indulging in vague promises for the future, and the result in every caso has been that the expectations of purchasers were moyes than realized. I can refer wi pleasure to Albright's Annex and Baker Place, as sample ils lustrations. Lots in the “Annex” have quadrupled in value and are still advancing, while a street car line is alrcady building past Baker Place, adding hun- dreds of dollars to the valueof every lot. Albright's Choice was se- lected by me with the greatest care after a thorough study and with the full knowledge of its value, and I can consci~ entiously say to those seeking a safe and profitable invest. ment that Albright’s Choice offers chances not excelled in this market for a suve thing. " Early investors have already reaped large profits in CASH, and with the many important improvements contemplated, some of which are now under way, every lot in this splen: did addition will prove a bo nanza to first buyers. Further information, plats and prices, will be cheerfully furnished. Buggies ready at all times to show property. Respectfully, W.G. ALBRIGHT SOLE OWNER, 218 8. 15th Street. Branch office at South Oma- ha. N. 8. Property for sale inal) parts of the city