Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 8, 1887, Page 4

{ g THE DAILY BEE PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMB OF RUBSCRIPTION | ly (Morniag Edition) tucluding Bunday e, One Year 10000 e BOB 290 For Bix Months . @ For Throo Montha 000000 " “ The Omaha Swndny Bix, maiied to any address, Oue Year. . 14 AND 918 PARNAM STRERT, ROOM 65, TRINUNE BUILDING, (R, NO. 613 FOURTRENTH BTREET, a:uu ovpic, BEW VoRK OP ASHINGTON Of OORRESPONDEN: All communications relating to nows and ed- torial matter should be addressed Lo the Evl TOK OF THE BEY. BUSINESS LETTERST All business letters und romittances should ba addressod to THE BRE PUBLISHING COMPAN OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orc 0 be wiade payable to the order of tho compauy, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epitor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Otrculation, Btateof Nebraska, 1, County of Douglas, Geo, B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing mm’mny. does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending April 1st, 1557, was as follows: . Baturday, Mar.2., Bunday, Mar. 27, Thursdny Friaay, April 1 AVETAE. ..oiiiines « 178CHUCK, Subscribed and sworn tobefore wie this 2d dayof April A, D., 1857, N. I. FriL, ISEAL Notarv Publie. Geo, B. 'I'zschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of ‘The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage daily eirculation” of the Daily Bee for themonth of March, 1856, 11 for 1844, 12,191 copie ples: for June, 1 1880, 12;: coples; copless for Sente, ; for October, 15, November, 185, 1856, 13,237 copie Y, copies; for Fobriary, 1857, 14,103 Gro. B, T78CHUCK, 10 before me this 9th ay 12908 coples; for for August, 1856, mber, 340, 13,050 2,080 coples; for or December, 6 Subseribed and sworn day of March, A. D, 18 [SEAL.I N. Notary Publle, Tk people of uyler vindicated themselves by keeping Mr. Russell the traitor and spy out of office. gives it out ns a frozen fact that water gas crystalizes into chunks of ico during every blizzard. ' central committees of both parties will haye to follow suit and extend their city Inmts from South Omaha to Florence Inke. Ir some “great family paper” should offer a prize for the best fiction “The Story of a Boom" Kan City editors would prove the lucky competitors, Arponr day comes along inashorttime, and it should be remembered that the man who mukes two trees grow where but one grew before 18 n benefactor, We have had no rain since the last clection, and a good many of the politi- cul laboring men who hold down the An Irritable War Ministor. Theanilitary establishment of this gov- ernment is ordinarily the most peaceable department of the public servie e, o far s pophlar observation can discern. It may have its internal jars and frictions, but generally they are not permitted to become public property. When the present secretary of war was named, the selection appeared to be entirely con- sonant with the commonly conceived character of the service. Ho was repre- sented to be a quiet, retiring gentleman, eminently perfect in disposition, and of course without the slightest knowledgo of or taste for military affairs. Such a man, it was thought, was just the person to carry on smoothly the routine of the war department, The description has been verified only in part. Mr. Endicott has been in a wa retiring. He has studionsly kept him- self away from the public. According to trustworthy report a gre deal of his official work has been performed in his home, where he could be free from the intrusion of the outside. This practice has had its annoyances and embarrass- ments for those who had business with the war department which it was necessary to bring to the sceree tary’s attention. It is said the presi- dent has re d to it with displ easure, ‘I he newspapers have commented on it. But the desire of Mr. Endicott for re- serve in this respect is so strong as to have resisted all these influences. At the department, during the little time he spends there, access to him is very difli- cult. The caller must run the gauntlet of & moessenger who scems to be in full sympathy with the secretary, and who is kept on guard at the outer port doubtedly for the reason th grufl, pretentions and most uncivil erea- ture.” He1s a particularly fortunate person who gets an audicnce with the war sceretary But this quality ot reserve extends only to the protection of the person of the secretary. It doesn’t reach to his oflicial acts or deter lum from making himselt unpleasantly conspienous to those who inany way traverse what he deems to be his lines of authority. He has had sey- differences with General Sheridan, due to his interference with what the lat- ter considered his functions. One oc- curred early in the new administration, when in pursuance ot a change in the rule concerning details, which did not except even the headquarters from its operation, General Shevidan found him- self obliged to remove some mombers of his staff. Another related to the direct issue of orders from the war de- partment officers on duty over when the licutenant general considered that his position as head of the army gave him control. The recent case of Colonel Gib- son, in which that oflicer was called to account by the secretary of war for al- leged derelictions was a rather marked instance of the friction between the head of the war department and the head of the army. The most notable example of Mr. Endicott’s ability to assert himself was in designating the adjutant general instead of the licutenant general of the iron railings around Boyd's opera house are getling awful dr *ANotnERr war cloud has begun to ob- scure the sky of Europe,” says a brief cablegram. It has been noticeable for a long time past that all these war clouds have a silver linin, Tk dispatehes from Washington an- nounce that an effort will be made to suppress liquor selling in that city on Sunday. And congress has adjourned. This seems like locking the stable after the horse ie gone. Mgz, BraiNe in his St. Louis speech suggested that Missouri should erect a monument to Thomas Jefferson. What 18 the matter with Scnator George Vest, In a great many things he is monu- mental, Ex-Goveryonr St. Jouy, of Kansas, giving his opinion recently of the high- license question, said: “The whole sys- tem is a fraud and a sham.” It may be well tosay if what he thinks is true, the saintly St, John is a whole license sys- tem by himself, Ir a man publishes a libel in the state of Nebraska, without justification, his chances are good to go to tho peniten- tiary. But an army of men can circulate slanders on an honest man and as long as they only circulate them by word of mouth no penalty can be imposed. — WonaN suflrage is a success down in Kansas, A woman in n Kansas town was elected constable, She is unmarried, yot beautiful. And it is wondered if a man filled with love could pour out his soul by whispering soft nothings toa con- stable. It is feared that the fair lady has climbed the gddy heights of fame only to find them cold. — TurEe town lot booming in the south is not much different from the same busi- noss in the north. A southern paper says that when a stranger remarked to a citizen that ho saw they were plowing for corn the native exclaimed: *‘Man alive, them ain't corn furrowsover thar. They air streets and this here isa city. Youair now on the corner of Commercial and Emporium streets, and not in the check of a corn row as you mought suppose,” ‘Ihis even beats the Deertield boom. A BOY nam Joseph Johnson, aged fourteen, was arrested and taken to the New York police court, charged with stealing a small stove with a bright fire burning in 1t, from a dock watchman's hut during the latter's absence. This beats the record of any Nebraska legisla- tor. But through respect to the boy parents it is but just to say the Nebraska state house was heated by steam, and no red hot stoves were handy the day the statesmen adjourned, EX-SENATOR VANWYCK, 8 8 member of the Nebraska legisluture exposed bolter Gere's state printing steals. Ever since that tho Lincoln Journal has been relentless in its warfare against Van- Wyck. It assanlted the old soldier's re- publicanism and threatened to beat him with & democrat. E.P. Roggen made it impossiblo for Gere to continue in his ato printing steats, and as a republican oandidate for mayor of the capital eity, the Lincoln Journal elected a demoeratic ~ mayor by lampooning the ex-secretary of state. Roggen is an old soldier, but his republicanism is not good enongh for Gere. Here 13 consistent party loyalty with a vengeance, army as acting secretary of war. This exceptional and immilitary act was as nearly as possible a direct challenge to conflict. Our Washington dipatches now report the sceretary of war in another conten- tion. The sccond comptroller of the treasury, Mr. Maynard, now assistant secretary of the treasury, having dis- allowed the mileage accounts of several military officers while traveling abroad, the secretary of war demands that the accounts be referred to the court of claims. Mr. Maynard replied saying substantially that the treasury was en- tirely satisfied with its position, and if the secretary had any doubts as to the correctness of his own views an appeal to the court might bes of value to him. The result, however, could not af- fect the past-or control the future action of the treasury department on the ques- tion in issue. There is very likely to be some further interesting developments from this difference. Meanwhile the popular impression of the secretary of war is not growing more favorable. The qualities he has disclosed ave not such as the people admire or value in a publie official. The administration would not lose in popularity if it were rid of Mr., Endicott. The Anti-Gambling Law. Now that Governor Thayer has ap- proved the anti-gambling bill, it may be timely to explain its eflect. The present law against gambling simply makes the keeping of gambling houses or the business of gambling o misdemeanor, punishable at the dis- cretion of the court by fine or imprison- ment in the county jail. In Omaha there is also a city ordinance against gambling to the same effect. Arrests under these laws and ordinances have from time to time been mado and in some instances, notably thatof the late William Jones, alias Canada Bill, gam- blers have been jailed for a short time. But they have nearly always managed to escape the prison penalty under legal technicalities by appeals to the higher courts. In Omaha and in Lincoln public gambling has for years been tolerated by the authorities and treated lke the social evil. The keepers of public gambling houses eall at the police court once a month, plead guilty of a violation of the ordinance and pay a nominal fine. Gambling being illegal, the losses at the gaming table are debts which were not collectable in a court of justice under ex- isting law. Under the new law public gambling is made a felony, punlshable by fines and imprisonment in the pemitentiary. This will necessarly do awuy with the existing system. No gambler will dare go before the police court to plead guilty of a crime which would send bhim to the penitentiary. When tho city derives no revenue from this class of tolerated offenses, the police will enforce tho law against public gambling unless indeed the chief of po- lice and his subordinates should go into collusion with the gamblers. This is not atall likely to happen, except where gambling may be carried on under cover in some private room. But quite apart from the severe penalty which the new law im- poses upon professional gambling there 1s a provision in the new law which will make the carrying on of sudh business extra hazardons. This clause reads as follows: **Any person or persons who shall loss any property or money in a genabling honse or other place, either at cards or by moans of any other gambling device or game of hazard of any kind, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1887 such person, the wife or guardian of such, his heirs, legal representatives or creditors, shall have the right to recover the money or the amount thereof, or the property or the value thereof, in a civil action, and may sue each or all persons participating in the game, and may join the keeper of the gambling house or other place in the same action, who shall be jointly and severally liable for any money or property lost in any game or through any gambling device of any kind, and no title shall pass to said property or money, and in an action to recover the same no evidence shall be required as to the specific kind or denom- ination of money, but only as to the amount so lost.”” ‘With such a stringent law public gam- bling houses cannot flourish in this state even where the authorities are inclined to tolerate the practice. Something in a Name, The lamentable ignorance of some eastern newspaper men cannot be better shown than by copying the following paragraph from the Jersey City Journal, The people of the west ot course know that Nebraska was mistaken for Nevada: ‘The state of Nebraska is steadily losing its population, and its volume of business 1s de- creasing, and it is in danger of dying of dry rot. It is difficult to get money enough in taxes to carry on the state government; the legislature has just passed an act authorizing a state lottery scheme for the purpose of rais- ing cash, and saving the state from bank- ruptey. ‘This is a pratty bad showing for a sovereign state. It i3 now evident that Nebraska never could have been made a state, but everybody thought when it was done that a great future was before the zom- monwealth; which shows how greatly at fault men may be in their judgment, Itisa singular fact that thera is no constitutional or logal way provided for remanding a state back to a territorial condition. The makers of the federal constitution never thought of ch a continge: a state desiring to get rid of its stateho This 1tem going the rounds of all stern exchanges. The scissors editor of the Cleveland Leader is the last man to reproduce it as a serious mat The fact that Nebraska numbers nearly a million people, and ler population is in- creasing at the rate of 390 per day the year ‘round, and building about three miles of railroad each day of the week; that she is building new tawns and cities in every nook of what was formerly the great Ameriean desert, goes for nothing. The New Jersey editor must cith be AN Ignoramus or a very poor penman, The Salvation Nuisance. The great hue and cry raised about the persecution of the Salvation army is sentimental moonshine. The army has been allowed to go on from bad to wors in this city until it had become a public nuisance. It has reclaimed nobody from vice in this world, and whatever it may claim to have done for the salvation of the souls of the hoodlums who constitute a large body of its escort through the streets, it 1s not visible to the naked eye. Omaha is not the first city n Ameriea where the police have been compelled to disperse and arrest the so-called army of salvation. It had to be done in mnearly all the large cities, and the action of the police met the approval ot the best people of all creeds and classes, The right to worship is one thing and the right to run riot with noise and disorder 18 another. The tact that the Salvationists defied the police and r fused to obey their request to quietly d i: perse, justified the police officers in taking them to the station. Their prompt re- lease by the police courtshows that there is no disposition to persecute them. If they insist on making martyrs of them- selves, thoy are entitled to no sympathy and will reccive none. No Boodler Methods. We are informed that at least ono if not several of the architects who are competing for the proposed Douglas county hospital are resorting to methods calculated to throw a suspicion of cor- ruption upon the commissioners, Frank Walters, a notorious boodler, has, we are told, been engaged to influnce one of the commissioners, over whom he cluims to have control. Other profe:! sional boodlers are said to be very much interested in the adoption of certain plans. Now we hope that the commission will eftectually put an end to such scandal. Any architect who would employ Frank Walters or a man of that stamp to influence the action of the county board, should be barred out, even if he has the best plans. The construc- tion of public buidings concerns all tax- payers, and an effort to introduce cor- rupt methods should be promptly re- sented and stamped out. Idle Talk. ‘The railroad ragket which for the mo- ment scems to divide the Omaha news- paper combine is interesting mainly as it foreshadows the policy of the par- ties and influences by which those papers are controlled. Up to the present, there is really nothing to debate, and in the language of Old Abe, we “do not propose to attempt the crossing of Fox River until we get to it.” Whenthe Milwaukee road, or rather the Nebraska Central, comes torward with a square, business-like proposition for a sabsidy, coupled with guarantees of bridging the Missouri and constructing its proposed extension, we will be in position to say whether or not the people of Douglas county can aftord to vote the amount ot bouds asked to aid the enterprise. There is nothing before the house yet, and therefore we sce nothing to talk about. THERE is some doubt as to whom the legislature intended to compliment and immortalize by creating Chase county. The natural presumption is that Ohio's great statesman, Salmon P, Chase was the man. There aro other men by the same name vain enough to imagmne that the legisinture had them in its mind's eye. Everybody knows whom Seward county was named after, but an ex-city marshal of Omaha might, if he 18 vain enough, take it into his head that he is the man. Every fellow by the name of Brown may pride kimself on the fact that he had been hignly complimented when Brown county was carved out of Holt county. A E———— Mavor Bovnp is not a candidate for re- election in a political sense, but he is willing to accommodate Pat Ford and others of his friends who run the demo- eratio machine. Mr. Boyd is also willing to serve the ‘‘citizens"” of Umaha who beld that hurried and unanimous mass meeting at the 'gadomy of Music two years ago. | 4 TrE gambl mto ef- fect on the 4Gf of July, amid the booming of artilléry, the fizz of the fire cracker and the ascension of sky-rockets ana fire balloons, The late judiciary committee boodlers will deliver appro- priate orations explaining how they bill goes CE—1 Toe naming of counties aftor prom- nent living politicians is a questionable custom at best, but when the legislature chooses' to perpetuate the name of a & man who is connected with the crimi- nal practices of the railroad lobby, it is an insult to the moral sentiment of the people. Ounr foreign export of wheat shows a fine increase. It is a pity that, just as we have outlived the depression, the Euro- pean countries should begin to put duties on our offerings. America must adopt retalitory tactics, e——— Wio wants to be comptroller of Omaha? There will be a fine opening for a first-class accountant and business man after May 3. For further particu- lars address the respective ward bosses. It is rather suggestive that the ninety days fixed by the constitution for all bills that are passed without the emergency clause, will, asin the case of the anti-gam- bling law, expire on the 4th of July, STATE AND TERRATORY, Nebraska Jotting irmont cries out for a brick yard. Railroad passes are now a foot long. The sehool census gives Nebraska Ci ion of 11,316. Sterling Morton 18 hooked for ss at the state university on nd Boone county have issued a t pamphlet, illuminating ges of the country. Nebraska City has received the joyful assuranze that Missouri Pacific trains will stop in that town twenty minutes for dinner, Burglars in various parts of the state have combined with th ailroads in making the long and short haui odious to the vietins. A very handsome specimen of petrifac- tion is on exhibition in a show window mont. It is a fragment of the dem- ocratic ticket, lately deceased. Prohibition made fow gains in the mu- nicipal elections in the state, while a dozen towns returned to license and reg- u}nnon, preferring that to the drug store plan. The Beatrice Cultivator company, ¢ ital $40,000, has ne poration. ‘The Dempster Windmill com- puny will supply the necessary plant, which places the success of the enter- prise beyond the province of a doubt. Wymore is being boomed as the *“Un- rivailed Magic City of the state.” Pro- gress is painted on the battlements of the town, and real estate guarantecs ton per cent more in a year, ‘Lo these advant- ages may be added *‘magnificent land- scapes and lovely sunsets.” The St, Joseph & Grand Island railway has let the first contract for its Denver line, swhich will starg « from the main line of the St. Joseph Grand Island road at Fairfield, Nebraska. The con- tract let was for eighty-five miles, the dis- tance between Fairlicld and Alma, and work upon it will be commenced at once. Blue Hill comes to the front with figures to show that in business und building vitality the town has no equal in tho state, age " and population con. sidered. This is a broad claim, and must stand until controverted. The town has a population of 1,000, has three railroads and three banks, good business houses and comfortable residences, and in the miast of a rich and cultivated farming country. During the week end- ing March 81 cighty-five cars of stock and %n\m were shipped from the town. The freight charges on this amounted to #10,000. Any town anxious for the pen- nant will bring forward ‘*‘persons and papers.'’ The exposure of the Beatrice Mutual Life msurance fraud by the Beka few weeks ago, was endorsed by the state auditor . of Colorado, who investigated the concern and reported to the legis- lature that while the company in its poli- cies does not agree to pay a definite amount to the beneficiary, only what the assessment will yield, but’ the” agent of the company represents to the people that they will receive stated amounts. “*As a matter of fact,” suys the auditor, he company does not agree to give the stated amount, as represented by the zent, so that the policy holders. though they get what is normally stipuluted in the contract, do not get what they are led to expect.” Towa Items. Ottumwa coal mines are being operated on halt time. Davenport has 29,100 tons of ice laid up for the sultry days. The annual state convention of the Irish National League of lowa will be held at Ottumwa on the 27th inst. The fifth annual meeting of the Anni- versary assoclation of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of central Towa will be held at Des Moines on the 26th inst. A hitherto respectable voung girl of Keokuk was avrested on the evening of the 4th inst. for dressing male attire, She was discovered by an officer n a saloon. Gieorge Atwater, aged seventeen, and Walter Freeman, aged twelve, were tound dead drunk Saturday night in Hamilton where th reside. Young Frecman was found near the railroad track, and the liquor he drank ecame near producing death. It was necessary to use restoratives. City legislation at Missouri Valley was suddenly brought to a ciose on Luesday evening. Just after the city council had been called to order, & constable from Logan appeared and, arrested Mayor Seaton and three members of the couneil on a warrant sworn out by one Smitk a charge of falsely assuming to beoflicers under the board “of health rules. ‘I'he trouble grew out of a’, little quarrel be- tween Lwo citizens over a hog-pen, and is purely spite work. Utah and fdaho, A board of trade has'been organized in Salt Lake City, . The banks of Salt La $4,000,000 in bullion. Mareh. ‘T'he Stem Winder, one of the Bunker Hill group in Ceur d’Alene, was sold this week for 39,000 to Portland men, W. A. Douglas, a wealthy railroad con- tractor from Leadville, digd of apoplexy in the baths at Beck's hot springs last Sunday. ‘The champion boxer of Wardner, Idaho, offers to knock out any ten men in the town ono after the other without in- termission who care 1o stand before him or forfeit $50. Last weok’s local mineral lhlgmanu from Salt Lake were 16 cars bullion, 416,793 1bs.; 29 cars silver and lead ore, 802,150 1bs. ; 10 cars copper ore, 274,300.; 2 common_lead, 97,025 bs.; total 57 1,029,767 1bs. . A petition is on foot asking congress to create a new territory with northern Idaho joined to that portion of Washing- ton territory having the Snake river for o handled nearly he last half of a the southern boundry line and the Co- lumbia and Okinakane rivers on the tvest, to be called Columbia, The Pacific Const. Thirty-three hotels are being built in Los Angeles county. The completed census of San Diego shows a population of 11,307, Licorice culture is quite an industry at Florin, in Sacramento county, proving quite a profitable business, A San Francisco policeman, whose ear was chewed off by a hoodlum, was offered $500 to drop the prosecution. He actu- ally refused it. Wheeler's peak, 14,036 fect above the level of the sea, is the highest point in Nevada, There are twenty-seven peaks 1n this state over 10,000 feet in height. A rich silver ledge has been discovered in the Santa Rosa range, near Los An- cles. Itis said the ledge is five feet thick and extends cight to ten miles. An eighteen-foot shaft exposes black car- bonates. A crank threatened to visit S8an Fran- cisco with a terrible earthquake unless he was paid £40,000,000. He_cails him- self the “*Vice-Regent of the Lord,” On \\'mlnesdnY the “‘Vice-Regent” sub- mitted his last demand, written in red ink, in which he declared that he would o no longer, and if the $10,000 - s not forthcoming in twenty four hours he would shy an earthquake under the peninsula. DOUBLE D LYNCHING, Graphic Description of a Hanging in New Mexico, s Magazine Mr. A, H. Paterson tells an exciting tale of a typi- cal lynching c; in which he himself took an active part, some yearssince. He fixes the scene of action at ‘Toros City,in New Mexico, but warns us that this is fictitions, as well as those of the zens to whom e introduces us, ter 5 o'clock on a sultry July mormig, the jury, which had becn en- gaged all day'in the court house of Toros City a criminal case of consider- able interest, adjourned to a pri room in the hotel or tavern hard by for refreshments. "The foreman then pro- :ded to business, “Gentlemen of the jury, he began, “I understand you to be unanimousiy of the opinion "that Sam Cobbeit and Jim Grobe, accused by Tom murder of his brother Ed Not guilty burst simul- sly from the eleven jurymen ad- sir foreman, who was fairly directly in the Nevertheless, he majority, and into court, hc In Macmilli wto teeth of the evidence. bowed to the will of the when they got back stood up and faced the peonle boidly, giving « verdict of “Not enilty” iv a loud and emphatic tone, The foreman’s consecience told him that verdict was wrong, but it was uscless ht against his eleven colleagu I subsoquently transpired that they the jndge had been bribed by the two murdercrs—a not uncommon oceurrence s money in the hands of the nd little in thgse of the men ap- ointed to try him. Vengeance was not rnn;: in coming, The oldest inhabitant of the little town was Joseph Cartw! a man universally respected, and an inti mate friend of Edward Hanson, the vic- tim. As Mr. Paterson walked away from the court house, amazed and outraged at the verdict, he fell in with Cartwright, who had been very kind to him when he first struck Toros City, “'a raw tender- foot,”” some ten yoars before. Ir. Cartwright.” he asked, “what on carth does this thing mean? These men are guilty. The jury must be mad.” Mr. Cartwright's answer was pitehed in o very low key, but in n few moments Mr, Paterson saw him shaking hands with Mike Allison,the wildest character of the settlement, and divined that mischicf was brewing. ' As they approached Cart- wright's house, the latter invited them both to supper, and they soon found themselves seated ata longtable. Arvound it were placed Mr, drs. Cartwright, Mr. Paterson, Mike Allison, the des- perado, Tom Hanson,brother of the mur- dered man, and three other guests,ranch- men from the neighborhood. When sup- er was over and Mrs. Cartwright had eit the room, Tom Hansen rose and ad- dressed *‘the crowd.” ‘A week ago," he suid, ‘‘my brother Edward was shot. To- day two men have been tried for the murder-—and acquitted, Now, some suy this is justice: some say not. There are folks who believe Cobbet and Grobe should be hanged. Gentlemen, [ want youto fix this matter as you think right.” The speaker ended by proposing th Joseph Unrtwright bo shosen 88 judg Accepting the responsible post” w much quiet digmty, Cartwright rose viewed the evidence given that day the court house. As stated by 2 wright in his character of Judge Lynch, it told so heavily agamnt Cobbet and Grobe that no doubt of their guilt re- ned in any mind. Called upon to give a verdict of “guilty” or ‘not guilty,”” Mike Allison rose and sad: “The judge and jury who acquitted them were bribed to do it. I could get wind of the amount given to each of them if it were wanted, I say these men are guilty of murdering Ned Hanson.”” The word *‘guilty’’ was repeated by every man at the table, ana the judge iose to pass sen- ten “I do hereby decree that Sam Cobbet and Jim Grobe, being guilty of the murder of Ned Hanson, shall die by hanging at 3 o'clock to-morrow morning; and I call upon all men here present to assist me at whatever risk to themselves. This I do in virtue of my authority as Judge Lynch--so help me God!” Taking a small bible trom his pocket, Cartwright handed it to each of the lynchers, who kissed it, and then lay down in tho next roomuntil they wakened to take part in the grim which awaited them with the At 2 a. m. a lighi touch upon Mr, Paterson'’s shoulder “aroused him from sleep. In the middle of the room was a small kerosene lamp, and close to it a roll of calico, from which each lyncher cut a slip and wound it round theupper part of his fuce. This was done not as a musk, but n order that Judge Lynch's executive oflicers might know each other. Every man was armed with a long knife anda couple of revol- vers. It was arranged that Cartwriglt, Tom Hanson and dike Allison should bring out the doomed prisoners from the hotel in which they were sleeping. The rest of the party, all wearing the ominous black badge, stood f;rullpwl round the wagon drawn up to the front door. Tho er of the hotel was the man who s udge in the court-house on the 2 day and ncquiesced in the ver of “Not guilty.” He loo scared when, 1n response to twright's loud knock, he opened the door of his hotel and saw the muzzle of a revolver held close to his head. *“‘Show us up to their room,” grimly demanded Cart. wright. In a few minutes the doomed men were brought forth and placed in the wagon. By that time & considerable crowd had gathered about it, and the unmasked witnesses of the dread scene greatly outnumbered the masked. Close around the wagon, however, stood the lynching warty, shoulder to should with 5unming firearms, in grim defi- ance of interference. Slowly the wagon proceeded down the street until it reached the spot ere & gibbet had heen erected. There justice was consum mated, and a righteous punishment meted out to two murderers who would otherwise have escaped the gallows. e Exposure to rough weathoer, getting wet, living in damp loculities, are favor- able to the contraction of diseases of the kidneys and bladder. As a preventative, and for the cure of all kidney and liver trouble, use that valuable remedy, Dr. J. H. McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm. $1.00 per bottle. BEECHER WAN‘I’QB TO RUN AWAY Times When He Lost Oonfldence in Himself—His Absent-Mindedness. “There was one peculiar characteris- tic of Mr. Beecher's that I have not seen mentioned in the papers,’ d an inti- mate friend of the great preacher the other day, ‘‘and this is his occasional lack of confidence in himseli. Time and again he has told me that when before an audiense at some public meeting and while waiting his turn to speak he was almost on the point of getting up and going out. ‘As [ listened to one and an- other speaker address the meeting,’ he used to say, ‘I would think, my goodness I ean never make such speeches as those ;. I'd better leave here at once.” But when he was once on his foet all these feelings vanished, of course, and he felt complete- ly at ease. He was always subject to these times of self-depreciation both in and out ot the pulpit. When he first came to Brooklyn, he used to go around the back strects just to avoid meetin, people he might know. He combined with his wonderful vigor and boldness the shrinking timidity of a school girl.” Of Mr., Beecher's absent-mindedness Dr. Searle, his physician, told this story: carle was standing at the parlor w one day when she noti Mr. Beecher goup Mr. Raymond's stoop, over the way, aad ring the bell. Before it was answered he came down the steps and continued on his way up the street, Seeing Mrs. Searle he crossed over and with & smile said, “‘Say, can you tell me where I am going this afternoon " “Why, you are going to baptize Mr, Howaril's child to-day, ou ot *That's it, t just he replied, “but for the life of me I couldn’t recall the fact.” “Another insta tined the doctor I was th nee [ llect,” con- appened at his house. e at dinner. Major Pond, who present, spoke _about n coneert that was to be held in w York that evening. Mr. Beecher to attend it with him S Mrs . Beecher to ) ient for he rejoine ‘But you ean't go,’ im, ‘you have an to-night,” *Oh, no, 1 1w free to-n! to the coneoer ying to convince him had some other matter on hand a carriage drove up to take 0 Hoboken where he was booked for a lec- ture.” In reference to Mr. Beecher's memory, the doctor added: *It was marvellously poor. About the only thing that could remember, he used to say, w list of prepositions that govern the abia- tiv se in Latin, These he could rattle I'like sixty and did <o frequently.” - - AT THE PISTOL'S POINT, Dramatic Story of Prince Alexander's Surrender at Sofia. New York Ml « ress: The re- volution of last in Bulgaria, which resuited in kidnapping and overthrowing of Prince Alexander vou had not been chronicled by rs up to this date. They hav ated in abook published by Dr. Charles Roy, who was employed in the Bulgarian army as one of the physi- cians of the stafl, and who remuined at Sofia_for some months at the battle of Slivni at which Prince Alexander de- Servian army, ‘The most in- portion of Dr. Roy's book is the coup d'etat of August 5 o or konak, of the rul- ing Prince of Bulgaria, at the capital, Sofia, was surrounded during the night by thivec sections of the cadets’ company and by three companies of the third bat- talion of the Second regiment. Then the compuny of the cadets fived in the air three rounds with loaded catridges,erying aft each discharge: Do B berg!" (Down with Battenberg!”) A few minutes elapsed and the valet of his highness camo down the yard of the palace, stating that the prince requested one of the ofli cers to call on him. The answer was: “Let the prince come to us.” Without vaiting a_minute Major Groueift and Captams Dimitrieff and Kavaloff rushed in the court yard, with ten cadets, hold- mg revolyers in haad. A em- ploye renewed the request of the prince, to which Major Grouieff answered: **Tell him that the konak is surrounded, and that he shall be killed if he does not vre- sent himself before us within less than five minutes." A few minutes luter Alex- ander von Battenberg appeared before the conspirators. He put on his uniform and girded on his sword. Major Grouieft apvroached three steps from him, the revolver being directed ngainst the prince’s breast, while, npon a si the cadets surrounded his highness, who thus found himself a prisonc Major Grouieff then said: “Your hig are dethroned, and the leas on your part would cost your Iif prince, turning tow: the major, said: ays behaved so well toward you; I have loved you so much, and still--——"" He could not finish his bemg interrupted by Captain eff, who said: ‘‘Prince, this1s not e for discussing. You must re- fie throne for the good of the want the happiness of Bulgaria,’ answered Alexander, *‘and Bul- garian people; the ministers’ council did not tell me any- thing in regard to the matter? Before this I was roady to quit the throne, but now, after sucl an ignominious proceed- ng: 4 ‘L"l‘lmt's 80, highness; we don't know why they have not notified you. Wo love you, but we also love the Bulgari people, who will love you still mor you will vo Bulgarla as quickly as possible, We shall be very grateful to you for it. DMore than that; if you have not suflicient moeans to live upon we will graut vou a pension. Prince, the people and the armv d nd that you sign your abdieation, and you must do it on the army, too?” asked his highness. he people, too, yousay? But who he people here ," answered the ofl At this moment Dimitriefl, pointi volver at thy i raistance is “T'o the ministry of war.” “Let us go!” It was then 3 o'clock in the morning. When the party esme out from ace, th adets, setting the outed again: “Dole Ba give Boulgarin!” (Down enberg! f’,\mg life to Bulgaria?) > o wus taken to the minstry of war, where was Captain Branderefl. On secing him his ighness said to him: *“And you al captain, y z Brandereff moment for ¢ sign this paper.” acl, written by a following words: “Perfectly convineed that my person is an insurmountable obstacle to the de- volopment and welfare of the Bulgarian people, 1 renounce forever the throne of ulgarin," The prince took up the sheet of paper and wrote with a firm hand: “Let Gad protect Bulgaria!’ and, without hesita tion, he signed: “Alexunder.” ‘Then he went out without saying single word, and followed Major Grouiefl to'the riage ready to take lim awa od him to take a saat. , and Captain Kardgief Let you It was the “abilic tary student, in the In a second carringe were Py 8 Joseol, brother of his highne wptain Zafirofl, Upon a signa Major Grouieft, the convoy, composed of eight other carriages, eontaining some mficers and cadets, began to move on. At this moment, Alexander, turning back towards the officers and soldicrs, cried: ‘Shogom (Farewell, he officers and the soldiers shouteds “‘Dole Guermansk; Dole Battenburg! Dagive Boulgaria!” (Down with Gere many! Down with Batlenburg! Long live Bulgaria!) The nh chment accompanying the prince was under the command of Cap- tain Kardgiefl. The departure took vlace between 4:30 and 5 o'clock in the moraing. They drove Alexander a prisoner, to the convent of St. Archan- gel, situated ten mules distant from Sofia, in the mountain. During the trip Alex- ander von Battenburg was much cast down. He Kept repeating, *‘Mein Gott! Mein Gott!” "(My God! My God!) A short stay was made at the convent, and the \'4\_)‘r\qn toward the Danube was re- sumed. During the day ot the 221, some peasants declined to let the prince enter their houses, fearing that his presence should bring ill inek upon their homes. On the next day,the 23d of last August, the oflicers, fearing an attack from the Plewna regiment, which had not yet rallied to the new government, held & council in the forest of Wratza, and it was agreed that in case of an attack tho vrince should be killed. Ho was em- barked at Rahovo, and not lost sight of on board the boat; for the ofticers thought that in hisdesperation he might jump into the Danube. He only accepted 8,000 francs out of the 5,000 offered him, and e a receipt,taking also 2,000 francs which belonged to him, and asking that the remainder should be deposited in his name in the Bank of England. Heo wanted to be landed at Piket, a small IRoumanian port, instead of at the Rus- sian port which had been designated by the revolutionary government. In order to please his highness, the oflicers tele- graphed to Major' Grouieff, who wered from Sofia t the prince mu be taken to the Russian port of Reni, and that they must stal y. AtG:20 on the & its course { e he was beng t 3 nswer was “to Glur- gewo'' in Roumania. But he had a pre- sentiment that he would be landed in Russian territory; and covering his face, with hls hands, he cried. During the whole night the yacht ran at full speed. Its commander feared an attack and it n decided that in such a c; prince should not be su On August 25, Alexander von tenberg and his brother wero put it Reni. The whole plan of the cy had been ably prepared by Branderefl, who nccomplished the remarkable feat of Kidnapping the prince in the very midst of his capital and of taking him safely across the 150 miles of the bad country” roads %o the Danube river, PSR DIAMOND CUTTING. American Work Better Than That of Amsterdan New York Commerc vhat extent has diamon developed inthis countr, put by the writer to a leadi merchant on Maiden Lane. “Well,” was the reply, “as yet hardly be considered as an_element in immond business, It is, in facy, in ney, and its beginning dates back searcely more than fifteen years, I pre- sume there are not 200 sons, at the most, engaged in this branch of the din- and they are confined chietly and Boston. There but few :rs among them, for rge num- Amicrican boys have been educas ted to the e within recent y . An apprenticeship is served, 1 think, in _ about three years. It is not likely, however, ~ that the work of polishing and catting dia- monds will require any substantial posi- tion in this coun! for muany years to come, mainly beeauze labor is %0 mueh cheaper in Amsterdam, where whole familics are engaged in the trade. Whenever the demand for the stones is lessened, these can and do_reduce the price to a figure with which it would be utterly impossible for Americans to come ote. It would, of course, be a great ad- eif we could bring the diamond 1 its rough state in large quantities, would thercby save the duty of 10 per cent, charged on the cut stones. Bat at the preseut time the quantity of rough diamonds imported is not nearly suf- ficient to make any appreciabla differ- ence in the price, or to influence tho market in any respect. ““There is no doubt about our excell- ency in cutting stones. Wo have de- veloped yio which, to a certain ex- tent, fices material in shaping the stone, but it obtains thereby the best ef- fect, This is what is most desired. The credit of the introduction of this new style is largely due to a Boston man, who was also the first to instruct Ameri- can boys in the art of cutting and po ing. \We have aiso made some impro ments in machinery, but the best ‘laps' tor polishing diamonds are still im- od from Amsterda paid dinmond-cutters may dered high, and the more skilled workmen arc at 50 much per arat in the rough. The workmen must ve good judgment as to the form in ch the stone will ent the best. Some- times a great deal must be cut from the rough stone to get rid of imperfection, and again it is preferable to save mate- rial by leaving them. His judgment must ide whether the stone will be more valuable when small without a flaw, or when lurger with the flaw. Asa gen- cral thing there are always imperfec- tions inthe rough stone, and the man thing to be observed in buying them 1s whether the flaw cun be easily eradi- cated, Ouar city has not yet attained the dignily of being a market for rough stones, and wo still go to Amsterdam London and Paris for our supplics, i re more dinmonds sold in h ever before, but the - g has been in much larger proportion than that of the consumers. The demand at present is mostly for small inmonds for making up into orna ments, " Advertiser: “To cutting been s the query diamond it can crease Nl 4 —— — Miss Fortescue Learns 8ol P itisburg Chronic Miss must have taken back with her some queer ideas avout America if she learned a3 mnch at other places as she did at Pittshuri and Bullalo. While seated in her room_at the hotel here she gazed across the Monongahela viver at the inclined plane by which Mount Washington is reached and ob- served to n newspaper man: at this isa tobogean slide. 1, the reply. “Some one has been imposing on you. That was butlt for the benelit of the fire de- ment ' Ah! How is it useds” “You sec thoso parallel beams?" “Well, the hill is so steep that the five engines cannot get up that track, and have to be pulied by human power. The firemen walk on those paralic beams, and drag the engine up after ting," replied the fire would break out 50 like to see them take an engmne up, At Baffalo she learned soniet! about N Wednesd fternoon, and was anxious 10 804 ataract, Hor manag afrmid some unforesoen de! might oe- cur to prevent the lady's retien in time loyl‘lm evening's performance, and he Bnid “It would ba quite useless for you to go to-da, 'he falls are not visiblo on Wed nys ]lnnf:zuAl! And why not#" “They alw turn the water off on ordinary,” responded Misw 0 e, and went iway quite satisfied with the explenation,