Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 19, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1887 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF RUBSCRIPTION © orniag Edition) fneluding Sunday r . v Oune Y .. 810 . 600 260 | 200 MATIA OPFICR, NO, 014 AND 918 FARVAM STHEPT. YA YORK OPPICE, RO0M 05, TRINUNE BUILDING ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 01 FOURTSENTI STREET. B For Bix Mon 3, For Threo Montha i Tho Omahn Su mailed to any address, O X . CORRESPONDENCE: All communioations celating to news and edi- torial miatter should be addressed o the Evi- TOR OF THE BEE BUSINEAS LETTERS! All bueiness jetters and romittances should bo addressed 1o Tk BEg PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAIA. Drafts, ohocks and postoffico orders 0 be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epitor. THE DAILY BEE, Swora Statement of Circulation. secretary of The Bee does solemnly swear that the actual eir tion of the Daily Bee for the week ending April 15, 1857, was as \ April 9 Sunday, Avril 10. Mo W 2 Thursday, April 14 Friday, April 15. Average... before me th!s N. I, FEr., Notary Public. ick, being first duly sworn, deposes and y ho Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily cireulation of the Daily Bee for the month of April, 185, 12,191 copies; for May, 18%, 12,479 copie: 12208 copies; for July, 18 11 copies’ it Subseribed and sworn to 16t day of April, 1557. Geo. B. Tzs¢ for August, 186, 12,464 copies: for Septem- ber, 1856, 13,050 copies: for Oc! 12,080 copiest for for Dece Juar 1887, 1 coples, tob 1880 S T copies; for for February, ch, 1887, 14,400 Gro. B. Tzscuvek. seribed and 8w to before me this 15th l\l pril, A, D, Tue republicans of Omaha are blessed with altogether too many anxious can- didates for mayor. NEw York enjoyed a snow storm yes- terday. The toboggan was ‘‘housed’ in , weeks ago. Tne democratic city ticket is not to be made up until four days before election. That 1sn’t giving the ward bums a fair shake. PavING fifteen hundred dollars for pub- lishing Mayor Boyd's election proclama- tion in the ‘‘combine’ is a neat little printing steal, isn’t it? T wool growers of California are protesting against section four, of the inter-state law. They claim that the ailroads want to flecce them, Tue stove moulders all over the coun try are outon a strike. Those who have been moulding to make it warm for oth- ers, are now moulding to make it hot for themsolves. TiE most shocking piece of news that we have had for a long times comes from Denver. The electric cars have been taken off, for the reason that the electric- ity in the cables shocked and killed horses. Tur chemist of the internal revenue burean has discovered large quantitics of Kansas City butter to be a poor quality of oleomargarine. This shows the kind of grease they use on the wonderful statistics down there. A 8CHOOL teacher in Milwaukee pun- ished a scholar for disobedience by pounding him over the back with a ruler, It will bea giad day when all school teachers learn the diflerence between de- cent pumshment and brutality. A DEMOCRATIC contemporary nominates Will Gurley as the nextrepublican candi date for congress from this distriet. That would be nuts for the democrats, but the Church Howe campaign is too fresh in the minds of republicans of this district. OwmanA’'s future depends very much upon what kind of city government we shall have during the next two years. The coming ity election is of greater moment to our property owners and business men than the election of the next president. VITAL statistics show that in Great Britain the lives of 85,000 persons are saved yearly by:mmproved eanitation, which has reduced the death rate from “‘filth diseases’ 2.43 in every thousand of the population.”” Here is a pownter for Omaha. The streets shonld be cleansed. Tue mayor of Youngstown, Ohio, recently attended a performance ot thoe Sullivan combination in that city and “had the champion pugilist brought into his box to thank him personally for what he was doing to elevate and advance the science of boxing.” This is encouraging to true artists, i any li INFORMATION wanted as to the where- abouts of the insurance bill, which mys- teriously disappearred on or about the day the Nebraska legislature adjourned sine die. Parties who can furnish the names of the conspirators who spirited away the bill, will receive a liberal re- ward, —_— Our workingmen never had so many warm friends as they have just now. Every candidate for the council is will- ing to vote them six hours work for #5 a day with full pay for Fourth of July, Christmas, New Years and St. Patrick's day. The candidates for mayor are will- ing to do stil) better by the workingmen and promise to make every mother's son of them street commissioner, building inspector or watchman at the viaduct. —— 17T may not be the province of a party paper to interfere with the choice of can- didates, but it is certaiuly in the interest of the party that success in the campaign shall not be Imperilled by impolitic nom- lwations. In the present city campaign the republicans cannot afford to nom- inata any man for mayor whose record 42 vulnorable or whose general unpop- wlarity wonld defont the whole ticket. ‘Ihe impending contest prowmises to be wneennlortably elose. Even James E, Bergd, with all lis persona! unpoputarity, wng prove Tormidable Judge Weaver Dead. Early this morning the wires bronght the sad news of the death of Hon. A. Weaver, of Richardson county. The brief account says that his death was sudden—entirely unexpected. Though comparatively a young man Mr. Weaver great di tinction in where he has been a resident sinc 1869, As district attorney in the first ju- diciul district, and afterwards judge of the same district, Mr. Weaver displayed nsiderable ability and enjoyed an en- viavle reputation for honcsty anid integ- rity. In 1883 congress, Nebraska, Mr. Weaver elected to serving four being succeeded by Hon. ohn A, Me- Shune. In this higher oftice of trust and honor, Mr, Weaver served his con- stitaents faithfully and well. During the last two yearsas congressman he identified himself more ciosely with the leading 1ssues of the day, and did a good work for Nebraska und her people. -While he was not a man who made friends easily, being by nature seltish and predisposed to coldness, he yet had scores of admirers throughout the state, to whom the announcement of his death will be a sad surprise. In oflice and out of oflice, public] privately, Mr. Weaver enjoyed the repu- tation of being a strietly honorable and upright man, and in his death the state suflers o heavy los v and A Neat Printing Steal. When the new charter was pending before the legislature a furious howl was aised agninst the bill by the Omaha ilies in the famous combine against the Their chief object of assault was lause relating to official adyertising. Under this provision each paper was re- 1 to make oath to its carrier deliv- ation within the city and the council in uwarding the contract was re- anired to take into consideration the re- lative circulations of the competing s. ‘Lhis was denounced by the combine as a great printing steal. Cred- ulous dupes in and out of the legislature, were idiotic enough to believe that there was really a steal cont The true inwardness of th the that a sworn statement il culation would have con- the publishers of the conbine of systematic fraud on their ad vertising patrons. It would have shown that they were practicing the most out- rageous imposture by claiming two or three and cven five times more local cir- culation than they actually have. Now the shoe is on the other boot leg. A neat printing steal has just been put the honest-combine which 3 bie of doing if they only have half a chance. Last Sat- urday nighta paper was ci ated in the council chamber for signature by members of the council and smuggled through, which dircets or requests Mayor Boyd to publish his tions in all the Omul oflicial notices filling and i were } ight squaves, ne night and s life and tw as natural in the Sunday morning dailies. Now, while the city of Omaha, unde its contract with the BEE, only pays for the first publication of these procla- mations in the Bk, which reaches twice as many people in Omaha as all the other duilics combined, the cost of inscrting the proclamations in the three other Omaha duilies, at legal rates, will be $144 for the first day, and $i3 for each day after the first publication. In other words, the eity will pay just six times ns much to the combine as it does to the BEg. In the twenty days between now and election the city will run up a printing bill amounting to just $1,500 for publishing the mayor’s proclamation at legal rates in papers that do not reach 200 subseribers in Omaha that are not also on the carrier delivery lists of tho Bee, This is about one-third what the city will pay the for the whole year's advertising, including election proclamations, ordinances, registration lists and official notices of every variety. Was thefe ever such a blank steal per- paotrated on our taxnayers? ‘The Inter-Srate Commerce Liaw. A correspondent propounds the follow ing questions, in wer to unfavorable comment upon the inter-state law by an Omaha newspaper, and a: the Bee to answer them editorially: 1. Isnot the law constitutional, and so re- garded by tho best lawyers of tho country? And Jsitnot a move in the right direction toward placing in the hands of the peonle the control of public carrlers, to do their service at very reasonable ratos? 2. Are not the commissioners given full power to enforce or suspend the operation of section 4 (long and short haul), as in their judgment the people are served or injured, or railroads protected or restrained? 8 Will not the effect of section 5 (no pool- ing), be salutary and in the interests ot com- petition, and does not the law place in the hands of every competing road the power to investigate, and when necessary prosecute every other road for violating this, or any other requirement, fn the name and by au- thority of the United States 4. Is not the publication of all rates—pas- senger and freizht—a safe-guard against dis- crimination, and is not the requirement of public notice ot Increase of rates in the in- terest of stableness in traflic and commerce? With the natural ally to this law, that “no two or more lines ot railway traversing same country or states in the same direction and reaching same points shall combine, con- solidate or bo managed by syne ofticers, and in case of violation forfeit th charter,” —Is this not still further in the interests of com- petition? 6. 1f these principlesara engrafted in law and carried out, will not the people ba benetited, more than by sumptuary laws fixing rates that never can be graded to mect every case and do justice to all? 7 Should not railroad corporations,iike news- papers and other lines of business, be made to fight in the equal tield of competition, especially when the whole people are af- fected? A SUBSCRIBER, Our response to the above will be made, briefly, and in the order in which tke questions are propounded. The inter-state commerce law, has passed a scrutiny of some of the most profound;constitutional lawyers in the country, and the provisions will doubtless stand the test in the national suoreme court., The right of the people to regulate public carriersis as unqnes- tioned as is the power of congress to regulate the commerce between the states. The restrictions imposed upon public carriers are clearly in the interest of the publie. The inter-state commission has full power ‘o relieve any common carrier from the restrictions imposed by - section 4 of the act which prohibits A greater aggregato charge for a shorter than for a longer distance, but the act only authorizes the commission to suspend this provision, inspecial cases after due investigation, It is diflicult to predict the practical effect of the soction which prohibits pool- ing. Its aim is to prevent combi that do away with competition. Uniform rates will be established, and if they ve- main as high as the present schedule mukes them, the benefits of competition are not perceptible. The act grants or corporation the right to make complainty of violations of the law, and competing railroads are not barred from enforcing the provisions of the law by making complaints against roads that evade it. Publicity of rates s admitted to be an important safeguard against diserimina- tion, and has been so found in all coun tries and states where it has been en- forced. Thereisno doubtthat uniformity and stability of rates are 1n the interest of the mercantile patrons of the railways. The clause prohibiting the consolida- tion of parallel lines is doubtless intended to insure competition, but a provision to prevent the building of paralle! lines through territory which is amply served by one road would prove of greater advantage in the long run. The second parallel line seldom decreases rates, but rathertends to keep them up, when a single road would be in con- dition by reason of ereased earnings, to reduce its tolls. The law of the “'survival of the fittest” —or rather the survival of the fightest— which governs newspapers and other lines of business eannot, in our opinion, be made applicable to plie earr especially railroads, 1f a newspaper or mercantile enterprise is wrecked by mis- management, or robbed by dishonest to every individual under. But railroads, despoiled eredit-mobilier, construction or wrecked by incompetent or extr gant management, continue to isist. They subsist on the ple. who are copmelled to pat- ronize them, and levy taxes in the shape of tolls upon the products of the country they traverse, to pay principal and inter- est of the fraudulent debts created, and moneys squandered. These peculiar re- Iations between publie carrie nd the people, have made inter-state regulation an absolute necessity, The law 1s doubt- less detective, but the attempt of the rail- roads to nuliify it, by stringent and dis- torted application of its provisions, wil recotl upon them, and bring about leg lation that will not be misinterpreted. ex- peo- 1 trial of recent da country ted such widespr est and attention as that of John Arens- dorf at Sionx City, Ia., charged with the murder of Rev. George C. Haddock. This celebrated case occupied three w the hearin nd resulted in the disagr ment of the jury, the vote standing cley for acquittal and one for conviction. The trial was condueted, both on the part of the state and the defense, with great care and marked ability. The prosecution had labored industriously for months in fer- reting out the supposed criminals and se- curing evidence, so that when the indict- ment of Arensdorf was obtained there was a very general feehng that it would be found so fortitied by divect and cir- cumstantial evidence, as to fully satisfy the ends of justice. 'This fecling was strengthened by the earlier developments of the case. The defense, however, pre- sented @« much stronger position thun it was expected to do, and the Iatter developments of the trial, had unquestionably eftected a great change in public opinion favorable to the accused. T'he number of people who beiieved before the con- clusion of the trial that some other onc, than Arensdorf, of the alieged conspir tors was guilty of the shooting of Had- dock, was probably gr or than the number who believed the accused to be gulty., In order to sustamn the indictment the state was required to establish the t- ence of a conspiracy to which the ae- ensed was a party, having for its object the whipping and injury of Haddock, as well us to prove t Arensdorf fived the fatal shot. The evidence of rested wholly upon the testimony of Leavitt and Koschuiski, allezed accom- plices in the erime, and whose unsup- ported evidence was not good in law. To the charge that Arensdorf did the shooting the defense interposed an alibi. Both sides regarded the question of con- spiracy as pivotal, as did the court in its charge, which very expliciti, plained the force to be given this tion in determinigt of the accused. The weakness on this point of the prosecution was in the Insuf- ficiency before the law, and neces the minds of the juror of the alle; accomplices 3 example of the worthles of such e ry, even when ar to support it, is not sustained by reputable 1 the man aflirmative d fense, that of the alibi, 1t is not question- ile t the weight of eredible evidence in fayvor of the necused, and the con- spiracy allegation having failed, for the reason noted, thore was ecrtainly good ground for a reasonable doubt of the guilt of the defendant. The court charged that if the jury found this state of facts to exist, it was their dnty to acquit, It was this plain and simple line of duty that was followed by the cleven jurors who voted for acquittal. 11 this result is disappointing to many, it will be accented by all who desire that only exact justice shall bo done. There shonld be atonement for this crime, but it must be had only by fixing the guilt where it undoubtedly belongs. We have no doubt that all rational and unpreju- diced people will acquiesce in the view that the cleven men who voted for ae- quittal had good and reasonable grounds for their action. Meanwhile justice de- mands that the effort to find the murderer and bring him to punishment shall not halt. No crimir the circumstances where it testimony. Omaha's Clearances, The extraordinary increase of nearly 127 per cent in the clearances of the Omaha banks last weck as compared with the corresponding week of last year, will not escape attention in quarters where such evidence of advaneing pros- perity is properly understood. The city stood eightcenth in the list in the amount of clearances, leading Cleveland and Indianapolis among the important trade ions | | restc a conspiracy | Minister centers, while in per centage of increnso it was far in #dwance of all others. There could be no morg certain or safer assur- ance than thesp figures give of the re- markable matefial progress ot Omaha and the couhtey tributary toit. They show that nowhere else is the for- ward movement so vigorous, and what is more to the pairgose it is nowhere else founded uponia surer and more substan- tial basis, Every dollar that is being in- vested in Omah4 in legitimate enterprises is certain to ¢ returned with gai, and the opportunities for such investment are but in the beginning of their develop- ment. The rapid growth of Nebraska alone, to say nothing of the developing country west of it, gives assurance that the present metropolitan position of Omaha will be dwarfed by com- parison ten years hence. At pres- ent the sirides this city is taking in that dircction are apparent on every hand. The activity of building enter- prises, many of them on a very large scale, was never greater thun now. New mercantile houses are making their ap- pearance almost daily. Industrial pro- jeets are multiplying. Population is pouring in. The current year promises to be the most prosperous in the city's history, and it will fix more firmly the strong and enduring foundations of Omaha's future growth. Ir is announced that the victorious democrats of Rhode Island, probably by way of setting an example to the na- tional admiaistration, intend to make a clean sweep of the republican office holders. It is an opportunity they have not had in a number of years, and they propose showing what they understand true demoeracy to mean. A Boston Jjournal reminds them that the republican party was not unmindful of worthy dem- ocrats while it held control of the state, having appointed judicial and other ofli- cers who were democrats, and suggests that they ought now to remember th facts. There is no probability that any such appeal will be heeded, and there is no really good reason why it should be. JLhe republicans of Rhode Island were ate clection beeause the people believed them unworthy of being tonger entrusted with power. The peo- ple were doubtless right, and having pre- ferred the othe ty, they will properly expect it to fill the ofiices. It is on trinl and should not burden itself with out- siders, The republican machine and all attachments should be sent to the rear, s demanded by the vote of the people. Tue late Chief Ju Cartler, of the supreme court of the District of Colum- bia, was in some’ v s a remarkable man. He learnad the printing trade and pursted it for a nymoer of years, deriv- ing from it both knowleuge and the means that enabled him to enter the pro- fession of He alw: held the ‘‘art preservative’ in great pect, and years ago could always be depended upon to pond at a Franklin celebration. He s an excellent talker and the enter- taining character, of his addresses was not lessened by the fact of his having an impediment in his speech, but rather im- proved with those familiar with this de- tect. At the time of his appointment to the hench he was, not regarded as a learned lawyer, but ‘he grew in the judi- cial position, and came to beestcemed an exceptionally strong and able man, while his integrity was never in the slightest degree questioned. As an advo- cate he was almost savagely aggre: and when Dave Cartler was to speak [ of general popular interest, there was certain 1o be a crowded court room. Lincoln had a strong liking for Cartler, wlo was quite as unzainly of figure and homely of face as the martyr president himself, Tur appomtment ,of a minister from Austrin-Hungary to the Umted States, ana his reception by this government, was noted some days ago. On last Saturday the president responded to this evidence of good will from the Austrian govern- ment by appointing General Atexander R. Lawton, of Georgia, minister to Aus- The friendly relations between the two governments, which were supposed to have been somewhat impaired by the Kicly episode, are therefore now fully ced, neither having experienced any disadvantage from the interruption of full-diplomatic intercourse, but both in a financial way having gained something. Lawton secms to have been marked by the president for diploma work. Early in the administration he was nominated for minister to Rus. but being at thst time one of the *‘unr pentant rebels™ was not eligible. Con- gress having removed his disabilitics the president has preferred him to other m widely known democrats for the first important mission that ofiered. (ien- cra) Lawton is suid to be well equipped as a lawyer and scholar for the position, the most exacting duties of which are understood to be of a social nature. Tue Philadelphin Press, a founded by the lute John W, Forney, and for years a staunch supperter of existing systems of monopoly, concerning the attempts of the to make a farce of the inter-state com- merce law: “The rajiroads will tind they are meddling with dgnamite if their pol- icy once sets the ideg afloat that they are trying to make the ister e commerce paper eral supervision of jour great ems has come to Btay, and a w y is to make tho [best terms po: with the new partneg.” Had these timents been uttered road organs and rail about, would have scornfully prononneed its editor a “cumlm‘li!l" and ‘“‘anarch- ist.” 12 (h_v the Ber, way lawyers, here- ALL things being:equal we would ad- vise that no man employed by any rail- road corporation bg nominated for the council, It is no use talking, experience hasshown that nine out of ten railroad employes elected to the council or the legislature have been unable to with- stand the corporation pressure. When man has to choose between bread and butter for his family and his pledges before election he will go back on the pledges nearly every time. 1f the work- ingmon of Omaha want representation in the council let them choose from among the hundreds of competent and honest mechanics who are not hampered by railroad ti — EvEgy republican taxpayer should at- tond next Friday's primaries. It is much easier to defeat dishomest candidates us the primary eléction than to keep job: bers from being elected. 1f the disrepu- table and lawless elements carry the primaries of both parties the decent voter must take to the woods and surrender the city to the thugs and thieves. PROMINENT PERSONS, Wilhelmj, the violinist, is playing to en- thusiastic audlences in Hungary. Congressman Butterworth is a Quaker and uses the Quaker phrase in his family, Senator Edmunds’ pet is a highly-bred bull dog, which is constantly with him in his library. Benjamin Gregg, who died a few'days ago in Rochester, N. Y, had voted at every pres- idential election since Jackson’s day. He always elaimed, and on apparently good grounds, that he was the first man to suggest the name of General Grant for the presi- dency. Pauline Luces, the distinguished canta- trice, has received the medal for art and sci- ence from the Prince Regent of Bavaria, John A. Logan, jr., has been presented with a half interest in the extensive quarry business of his father-In-law, Mr. Andrews, a$ Youngstown, O. 1t is said that in July Schaefer,Slosson and Vignaux will hold a private billlard tourna- ment at Mine. Patti's castle at Craig-y-nos, [t is further rumored that the prince of Wales will be present at the time. * Historian Bancroft has gone to Nashville, ‘Tenn., where he will makea visit of a month orsix weeks. The principal oblects of his fourney are to see Mrs. James K. Polk and to colicet certain historical material. Justus I, Schwab, one of the most violent and virulent of the New York anarchists, pleads guilty of the ownership of $20,000 in government bonds. It is not believed that Mr. Schwab really contemplates or intends an immediate overthrow of the zovernment. Mrs. Lozan has returned to Washington and is living quietly at her mome, Calumet place, on the northern boundary of the city. Her plans for the future have not been fully decided upon. thougl it is probable that she will make Calumet place her permanent home. Her son-in-law, Major Tucker, is in the army, and he and his tamily will resido with her, ——— Something That is KEver Before the Ohioan. Cincinnati Commercial, And above all things consider well the per- suasive power of boodl — - The Kansns lixperiment. Philulelphia Record. Judging from the Kansas experiment the colored woman with a ballot in her hand is as dangerous an innovation as a cowboy at a camp weeting, The ballot has been likened to lightning in executing a freeman’s will. ‘The lightning from female thunderclonds 1s likely to strike very miscellancously. The Grand Rapids & Indiana railrond de- manded under cover of the intor-state com- merce bill, a life pass provionsly eranted to a Fort Wayne merchant, in_consideration of grantot land. The merchant gave up the pass, but he has been riding free up.and down the line ever since, vainly looking for a conductor who darcs to put him off the train, et A Face, Geo, Russeli Lewis €« American Magazine. As hurriedly along the crowded streot I pushed my way, a woman’s awfu! face ‘onfronted me, and darkened all the 1 we walked; then tafthtul | buck into the dusky past to meet eat Dante's creatures—all that direful race Of piteous souls that traversed hell's wild sDace And vainly battied with the woes that beat Against the naked And I th ‘This woman’s face aped from its dark prison, and distraught; And now it glides among the eager throngs ‘To cluteh theirsouls with terror, and restrain Nebraska Jottings, Shelton has subscribed §5,000 to start a creamery. Lincoln will saloons this yeal Columbus with a thre scrape up #%16,000 from r. ome up to the seratch e-legged chicken., n Madison, is conspicuous ce of churches. Anothe y paper threatens Norfolk. One aftletion follows another. al spirit has_broken out n Ne ,and o military company is likely to result. Mrs, EFrank Ptacek, wife of a Butler county fari fed by hanging, last week. No eause assigned. The corporation of Deadman, Dowes moving for a cemetery, where 1t will feel 130re at home. The county or precinct without a rail road surveying corps these balmy d blessed beyond ealculation, The new Masonic hall in Beatrice will be dedieated next Monday. Hon. C. K, Contunt, of Omaha, will preside at the ceremonies. The state ded to procure h commissioners have deci- ,000,0000zgs0f perch from the hatehel at Bay City, Mich., to hatch and plant in the waters of the state. Madison has just completed a large new school-house, litted the grounds up in attractive shupe and still has a balance of $725.50 on hand in the school treasury. The gamblers of kremont have been notified that their presence will no longer ba tolerated in that city, and that unless they depart they will be arrested for vagran . Seven stalwarts of the being consoled with certilicates of char- acter from democratic papers. Post mortem tributes are generally favorable to the defunct. The Odd Fellows of Nebraska City have purchased the lot on the corner of Sixth and Main streets for & which they propose to crect one’ of the finest buildings in the city. Working plans of the Nebraska City vater works have been received and the work of construction will begin within ten ds The pumping station, a hand- story building, will be equipped with two direct-acting compound pump- ing engzines, with a capacity of two mill- ion gallons of water per day. The stand pipe will be 124 feet in diameter and 100 }m-v high. The contract ecalls for six miles of mains, lowa Ite Waterloo sighs for natural gas. Audubon is to have a $10,000 louring mill and Manilla a $5,000 hotel. The treasurer of Lee county collected 110,000 of taxes during the month of farch. A beaver weighing forty-five pounds was caught near Hamourg one day re- cently. The state oratorical contest will be held at Goodwin's opera house, Waterloo, April 20, At Dubuque the outgoing city adminis- tration left a balance in the treasury of 4 6.10. 0. P. are rawford county farmers have organ- ized a mutual fire and lightming insur- ance company. It is predicted that more new land will be broken in O'Brien county this year than ever before in a single year, Over 500 tramps have been given lodg- ings ut the i police station at Marshall- town since the beginning of winter, The closing of the big distillery at Des Moines gives pceullar interest to the phrase, “With all ber faults we love ber AUlL" It is estimated that three hundred men and one thousand horses haye left Clay county this spring to engage in railvoad building. Tho Polk county grand jury, now in session at Des Moines, has indicted every drug store in the city but one, for viola- tion of the prombitory law, Frank D. Ward, for seventeen years a conductor on the Burlington road, has quit railroading, and will heveafter do the granger act near Chariton. Keokuk for the. municipal year ended Avril 5 received §16,607.45 from licenses, and of this amount $14,323.10 18 credited to ‘‘houses of entertainment, A jealous suitor attempted to batter down the bedroom door of a new-made bride at Des Moines the other night, and only ceased his eflorts when the police carried him off, An lowa paper, announcing the killing woman, stated that she was ‘‘shot in the street.” ' A jury of six exporienced men were unable to discover that por- tion of feminine anatomy and rendercd & verdict accordingly. T. Acros, of the well known book- making and publishing house of Acres, Blackman & Co., Burlington, died at his rosidence in that eity Wednesday morn- ing last. He was seventy-one years of age. Ottumwa is well supplied with arti- feial light. The electric light company has thirty-one are and 1,900 incandesi lights running, and in addition to this the gas company has eighty-six street lamps in operation. William Hawkins, a prosperous living near Altoona, Pol in a fit of insanity almost beat his wife to death with o stick of wood Wednesday morn- ing. He has been sent to the insane asy- lum at M+, Chris Reinhart, hving near Cedar Falls, is the possessor of a rather curious freak of natu 1t is the body of a colt with o forelegs, the skin where they should have been 'being perfectly smooth, and nothing to show that nature ever had the least intention of placing legs on that pert of the body. farmer Dakota. Jamestown's artesian well cost $7, ‘L wo miles of street railway will be laid in Sioux Falls this year. I'he two breweries at Fargo last year manufactured 890,400 gallons of beer. Aberdeen claims to be the ramlroad hub of the territory. It now has twelve pas- senger trains The Presbyterians at Rapid Ci making preparations to build a some church edifice. Alexandria will guarantee the milk of 900 cows to any person who will establish a cheese factory at that place. The new board of regents of the uni- versity at Vermillion was in_session last week. D, M. Inman was chosen chair- man of the bouard and E. B. Dawson sec retary. The east wing of the main bu ing and another dormitory will be erected this season. Fargo's city council has granted the Duluth, Fargo & Black Hills railway the right to enter the city over certan st The company i to comply w ant and _promises to meet all 1ts within six months. nnot be denied,” says the Black *‘that the Big Bend is rapidly developing into the colossal fraud of the century, the success of which is the more surprising by reason of the continuous and conspieiions exposition of the in- iquity of the scheme, maintained by rep- utable newspaners of the Hills, where the character of tho proporty is well known.” S T'he “*Drumm; nd Inter-State Law. New York Evening Post. The “‘drummer” has got into the su- preme court of the United States, and his vocation has become one of national consideration. The highest federal court has decided that state legislation requir- ing drummers from other states to take out licenses to ply their voeation of sell- g goods by samples, m violation of the commerce clause of the constitution, the drummer being considered as essen- tially part of the machinery of inter- state commerce, and liable to control national legislation. The court ed, as it 1 the decision of the railrond case which led to the passage of the inter- railroad law at yl' ent 80 much disc! r, Justice Bradle wrote the majority opinion, Chief Justic Waite writing a_ wigorous dissent, con- curred in by Justices Field and ( I the railroad fall, Mr. Jus genting opinion, in which the chief jns- ice o r. Justice Gray concurred. case of the drummer was floally decided only i month. A traveling sulosman of a_Cinein vaper ware house visited Memphis, Tenn., which has become what is known as the “taxing district of Shelby county.” Here he temporarily rested, with his array of sumplos, and entered on the busindss of soliciting orders from such s: the goods of his empl Iatuve of the state of T' ncted “‘that all drummers not having a licensed hous axing distriet, offering for sal or sclling goods, wares or merchandise therein b, hall be required to to the coun ees the sum of #10 week or %25 per month, for such v and no license shall be issued riod longer than three months;"’ and to exercise such occupation without first having paid the tax or taken out the Jit made n misdemeanor, pun- iable by a fine of from 5 to $50. Under this law the drummer from Cincinnati was prosccuted for mot having first taken ont & license, was conviete and sentonced to pay a of ten dollars, He appenled the supreme court of Tennessee, where the conviction was aflirmed, and from the state court the case was ied to the su- preme court of the United St i the result above stated, the ipreme court of Tennessec being re- mmer released from his free, with vocation tine t T fine and de all his brethre: ico the without islution. from state le; ess shall estab. n \g opinion, Mr. Justice es that the question “is one of great importance to the people of the United States, both us it respects their business interests and their consti- tutional rights.” ere can be no doubt but that this is so. ‘The question is not o new one, for frequen have already arisen fr n states and loealities to levy toll on the ‘“‘drummer.” In this case, as in the railroad case, the dissenting opinion points out the hardships which arise from the ruling laid down by the judgment of the court. The chief justice in his dis- senting opinion says: ‘Phis taxing distr ern boundary of To vet into another state it is only necessary to cross the Mississippi river to Arkansas. © 1t may be said to be an bistorical fact that the eharter of Memphis was abolisl id the taxing district establi-hed because of the oppressive bt of Memphis, and the rocords of this couit furnish abundant evidence of the ated on the west- probably some variation in the facty o would be true as to many locahties, and thera is little doubt that “now, when the power of the states to control the sub- ject is authoritively overthrown by the court of I rasort, the interference of congress will be sought at its next ses- sion - A Strange Contradiction, . Louis Rep blican. Some reliable prognosis that will re- veal the outcome of the trade, and labor contradictions of the day secms ealled for. All producers who can, are combin ing to limit production and keep up prices. Pooling is the universal ten deney. Manufacturers are combining to restrict production, and laboring men are combining to set an artificial and arbit limt to the supply of labor The owners of anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania meet in New York and resolve that the output for the ye! shall be only so much, and that the price shail be advanced 25 cents n ton. The dis tillers unite in a pool to Keep up the price of whisky by restricting the pro- duction to so many gallons. —‘The steel rail mills do the sume thing; the cotto nseed o1l mills, the mak the vapor stove manufactur- kers, and ers, snwiurz machine many other producers. A cu of this pooling business is that establish- ments here and there, all over the coun try, are paid a good price for closing up and remaining idle, while the others keep in operation and supply the market. It would surprise the St. Louis public to sce a list of the productive estublish ments in this city that carn & net income of £10,000 to $100,000 a year by diligently doing nothing. Bt here comes in the contradiction While we ace combining und pooling to limit produetion and keep up prices, we are importing 400,000 additional workers from abroad every year, and mventing new machines and processes to do the work of another 400,000—all with the ob- jeot of inereasing production and cheap- ening the things produced. Nay, if something were still wanted to aggravat the amuzing incons , the manufac- turers themselves tly augment- ing the producing capacity of tie coun- try by invading schools and kitchens and decoying children and women into their mills and facto 5 3 rious part Coal Will St. Paul Mr. Law, a prominent coal dcaler ot Chicago, and with one exception the most extensive shipper of coalin the country, declares that throughout the west the price of coal will be increased by the inter-state commerce law. Whether the new law will, or will not, haye an actual eflect upon the price of coal isa question that can only be deter- mined by experience. It1s ‘pretty cer- tain, however, that the coal d o that is the great mining and distributing firms, will take advantage of the excuse afforded by the interstate commerce law to raise the price of their product. I'hey have not hesitated in the past to act that way without the shadow of an exeuse, and there is little doubt that they wi!l hesitate to do so in the future. © Of all monopolists nopo are more grasping and unscrupulous than the wealthy coal corporations. Of them it may truly be that they have no souls, and the consumers, to many of whom the matter of an additional "half. h ton of coal is a serious an well appreciate that fact by wience. When a half dozen wealthy men can gather together in a sumptu- ously turnished parlor, and arbitrarily wring scores of additional thousand3 from the poekets of the people, as was heavy taxation to which property and busi- ness within the limits of * Loth the old poration and the new have been for any vears necessarily subjected. Merchants in Tennessee are by law required to pay taxes on the amount of their stock on hand and a privilege tax besides. Under these eireum- stances it s e to sce that 1if a from another state could carry on in the district by sending -his agents there with smples of his zoods #to secure orders for deliveries from his stock at howe, he would enjoy a privilege of exemption from taxation, which the local merchant would not have unless in some form he eould be subs jeeted to taxation for what he did in the lo- cality. The same course of reasouing, with the case but a year ago, it would seem thut th I producers are as discerni of legis roads. The west, opposed to all form of protection for the benefit of monopolists at the expense of the people, is certainly not opposed to _some legislativo or oth of foreing the coal dealers to keep within the bounds of reason in fixing the price of an article that isan absolute nevessity. —_—— A GREAT MAN OF IRON, History of a Mannfacturing Family Recently Alliod to the Orleans Princ There w: royaity and aristocracy at Creusot on the 19th of February in honor ot the marriage of the danghter of Mr. Henri Schneider, the proprictor_ of the world-famed iron worl Marquis de Chaponay.who is the ntative of one of the ‘The Duc de himself acted as the bride's wit ness, while the Duc de Broglie performed the snme office for the bridegroom. The men employed on the works, who num ber over on thousand, and who, like those of Mr. Krupp, at Essen, in Germany, form u township of their own, received 'two_ days' holid and sented complimentary add) young couple, in return for which th were banqueted under a series of im- mense tents, ‘The history of the Schneider family i3 and somewhat characteristic. 3 present proprietor, who founded these immense works, wa Mr. Schneider who succee 1 the D Morny on the latter's death as presi of the legislative chamber, His shaven and sallow face,with its peeuliarly sardonic and sneering smile,his shrunken wouzen aspect, together, with lis th gray locks,have always remained gr on my memory, and will be remembe by all those who have read Alphonz Daudet's novel, The Nabob. ‘The morals of the old man who, like most of the other French iron masters, was an Alsatian by bivth, were of u most i ture, and somewht in Keepi with those of the sccond empire tient and long-suffering wife was foreed by him to receive as resident visitors at her house at Paris a beantiful together with her two lov As to the relations which the fady and old Schineid forunately no doubt po constituted a public " scandal. As the paternity of the two young girls no ing positive is known on the Sibje though the fact that zh«? were benelitted to an enormous extent by the old mun's will, gives some and: for the popnlu ramors on the subject. In 1869, to the o ustonzshment of cvergbody, the rranged 4 marriige ‘ ¢ son, Henri, (by his wife) and the eldest of the two diughters of his twir, but f Even the Parisians were agh play of eynicism. As the one of the loveliest damc, 1y daughters tod betwer Wit 1 for thes 10 in 1 no marringe mense gitls made nd the took place strike took p \t L which lead to much bloodshed and precipitated the downfall of the empire During the dark 5 of the war of 187071 the Schneiders sought refuge in gland, and [ always remember meet- ing the whole clan, that is, the old man and his wife, his belleamic, with her two daughters, and his son, in one of the icture galleries at the South Kensington Museum, Iu 1571 young Henri Schneider lost his wife, and within a married her sis ter, who,nlthongh at the present moment the mother of grown-up danghters, 1s still & marvlloudly heaatiful woman, | Of i mpire the chueider family abandoned their 'nt to the Nupoleonic ty, and since 1832 the Orleans prin- 8s huve had no more enthusiastic sup- roru-rs and courtiers than Mr. and Mrs. Henri Schocider. I'he oid man has “'gone hence,"” but it would - be uncharitabla te suggest his present place of residcnce.