Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 4, 1887, Page 4

PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. ko ¥ TERNS OF SUBSORIPTION : ¥ ly (lam'u “l'llllon) ineluding Sunday F ! THE DAILY BEE. Oprice, No. 914 AND 918 FA ORK OVPICE, ROOM 6, TRII INGTON OPFICE, No. 513 FoU! OCORRESPONDENCE? ' All communioations relating to nows and edi- } torial matter should be addressed Lo the Eoi- I EOR OF THE BaR. BUSINESS LETTERST A briness lotters and romittances shou!d be Mdressod to Tuk BEg PUBLISHING COMPANY, DMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders be nado payable to tho Order of the cowpany, TAE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, EpiToR. THE DAILY BRE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Bateof Nevraska, Ly o County of Dou:las. i secretary of The Bee 0. B, 'Tzschuck, Publishing company, does solemnnly swear at the actual circuiation of the Dally Bee the week ending April 20, 1857, was as esday, A Wednexay, Inuudny. A 3 riday, April29.. Average...... GEO, 8. CITUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this ‘80th day of April, 1557, N, P. Frir, [SEAL.] Notary Public. Geo. ‘zachuck, being ftirst duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of April, 1886, 12,191 coples; for May, 1886, 12,439 copies; for June, 1584, 12.208 coples; for July, 1888, 12,314 copies: for August, 188, 1464 coples; for Septem- , 13,030 coples; for October, 1836, 12,080 copies; for Novembs 1586, 13 coples; for December, 1856, 11 -hlmu‘v. 1857, 16,268 co&! 1887, 14,195 coples; for Ma coples, Oro. B. TZ3CHUCK. Subseribed and sw?m to before me this 15th day of April, A, D., 1837, TskAL N. P. Frir, Notaty Public. 37 copie: 4 for February. rch, 1387, 14,400 Tue “‘heelers” did not forget them- selyes in the city election struggle. ‘THAT Tenth street crossing continues the most dangerous man trap inthe oountry. THERE i3 no law compelling registra- { tion in Omaha, in state and county elec- tions. Here 1s confusion. E—— THE question has been asked: Have the railrvad companies couspicuously posted a schedule of their freight rates? E—— EpwARD SOLOMON, the operatic com- r, has added wife No. 4 to his lst. ldke keeps on he will equal Solomon of " old. THE Michigan oil inspector 18 having trouble with the oil men. In Nebraska, the oil inspector has not yet been given an opportunity. 2 EEEee— THE tax-payers of the First district are plensed to think that no extra judge will be appointed. Official luxuries always t:lr]mo high, and the tax-payer foots the 1 A BEATRICE, Nebraska City, Platts- mouth, Hastfngs and Grand Island are | each claiming the largest spring boom. We are pleased to know that they are allenjoying » hearty and permanent growth, EESeS——8 Mg. ApAus has sworn bLefore the in- vestigating comnuttee that his 1,500 | miles of narrow guage road constitute a fraud. Yeu 1.500 miles of broad gauge | road would not bethe fraud that Mr. i Adams is. E————— ‘THE early closing movement has been started in many of the eastern cities, and wery generally is meeting with no oppo- sition from employers. The innovation ‘was begun only a few years ago, but has spread rapidly and is growing into a cus- tom that will in time become universal. THE uncommon course of Alexander Mitehell, 1n making béquests to both Protestant and Roman Catholic institu- tions, is commended as a noteworthy example of broad-minded liberality. Mr. Mutobell's charity was clearly not guided or restricted by religious prejudice, as obarity too often is. E—— ‘I'HE development of natural gas is ex- tending westward. The largest weli in the world has just been opened at Fair- mount, Indiana, and is flowing 12,000,000 feot a day. This find would secm to demonstrato that thereis a rich territory ' 'weat of the Onio ficlds that is not touched by the vast drainage of those ficlds. WHEN Bishop, the great mind reader, swas 1n Omaha a gentleman confidentially sasked him: “What am I thinking of at ‘the prosent time?” *You are thinking ‘that the cow-shed called u union depot is . @n unsightly structure. And,” Mr, Bishop continued, ‘‘Geuerations to fol- Jow you will doubtless think the swme thing." Tue New York World will advertise itself early in June by sending a balloon drom St. Louis to the Atlantio. The World is as enterprising as the Omaha Bxx, which some years indulged in a ‘balloon excursion. We hope, however, ithat the World's airship will come nearer reaching its destination than did that of the Bxr. Instead of landing in the ‘Black Hills, the proposed terminus of the merial Ilight, it struck in a lake four “miles from Omaha. — Tae Chieago 7ribune points out that Mr, C. £. Huntington, in his testimony before the Pacific roads commission, omitted some valuabls information. He failed to give any lucid account of how the moneys advanced to Francnat, Bherill apd other lobbyists were spent in | %explanations.” He dealt only with a .small part of the grand total, The logal . end miscellaneous expenses since 1874 “were hardly touched upon. The Tribune . sapplies a tabular statement of these, and the grand total for eleven years /mmounts to between six and seven mil- . lion dollars. Thers were some other in- . teresting and instructive facts that the _wwily Mr. Huntington overlooked, but . which the committoe wil! tind necessury ko 8 complete investigation and an ex- austive report. Jt should call Mr. .Inldn‘mnn again, and meanwhile it ~ might do well to solicit poraters in order ®aiditin quusticuing that geativmas. new councilmen. republican members now holding over, give the republicans control of the city ‘The Olty Etection. The republicans have won a substantial victory in the city election. Partial re- turns received up to midnight places be- yond doubt the election of Hon. W. J. Broatch as mayor and Louis Berka as police judge by majorities ranging from 150 to 400. as has been elected by a ity. The vote on comptroller will be The vote on treasurer so far returned indicate that Mr. Rush small major- very close. The republicans, in addition to the three first named officers, clect seven and possibly eight out of the twelve These, with the four council by a good working majority. A Military Abuse. From recent Washington correspond- ence it appears that the probable yacan- cies in the grade of second lieutenant will not be sufficient to accommodate all this year's graduates from the military academy with full commissions; that some who are low down in scholarship or deportment will have to be content with the grade of ‘‘acting” sccond lieu- tenant until additional casualities give them the real grade. [t must be under- stood, however, by anxious mama, whose charming daughter is to wed one of these newly te be fledged soldiers, that a ‘‘real” second lieutenant and an ‘‘act- ing" second lieuteuant receive the same pay and emoluments. I'his statement as to probable vacan- cies, coupled with the further in- formation that a certain Captain Pease and others are to be railroaded to the retired list to make additional places for these young graduates, suggests a doubt as to the propriety of the existing methods of the war department in ordering retirement from the act list of the army. The object in passing the act for retir- ing old, broken-down and invalii officers was not to provide places, with full rank for young graduates—this is simply an incident to the policy of these enact- ments. The first or principal object was the sconomy to result from reducing the pay of such old oflicers, and the second, to eliminate so much *'dead wood” and by so doing increase the efliciency of the army in time of war. Prior to the passage of the retirement acts, placing such invalids on three- from sottlomsnt and for fifteen years has been kept in that condition. This land is estimated to contain more than 100,000,000 acres, a territory equal in extent to that of all the New England states, New York, New Jorsey, Pennsyl- | vania and Delaware. Nothing could better illustrate the great and corrupting vower of corporations at Washington than the fact that they have been able for so many years, under the authority of the government, fo exclude the people from this vast domain which a most per- nicious policy had set apart for their con- venience and profit. The country is certainly to be congrat- ulated upon the promise that the end of this sort of practice in the interest of the corporations is at hand. The president will unquestionably not recede from his position, and there nead be no doubt that the secretary of the interior will carcy into effect its requirements, ——— The April Treasury State ment. The treasury statement for the month of April presents a satisfactory showing. The reduction of the public debt reached the large figures of over $13,000,000, bringing the total for the ten months of the present fiscal year up to $84,000,000, or $10,000,000 more than for the corres- ponding veriod of the preceding fiscal year. All that the treasury can yet do in the remaining two months of the fiscal year for reducing the bonded public debt is to call in the balance of the 8 per cents, amounting to $19,000,000, but this 1t is pretty well underatood the secretary will not do. His idea is said to be not to reserve these bonds for the sinking fund requirements of th e next fiscal year, but to withhold them for the future exigencies of the money market. He does not wish to force out the money when there is no pressing need for it, and thereby exhaust his resources wken the demand for more money comes. It is a policy of saving the powder until the fight begins, In the improbable event of a severely stringent money market be- fore July, 1t is not doubted that the treas- ury would come to the assistance of the market with a call for bonds. But there is certainly no present urgency, and there are no indications that there is likely to be before the fall trade move- ment begins. It is obviously a judicious policy of the treasury, therefore. not to unnecessarily augment the supply of cur- rency at this time, when to do so could be of no advaniage to the legitimate business of the country, and might serve fourths pay, no duty was required or ex- pected from them, and yet they received the same pay as officers actively on duty 1n the face of the enemy—in other words they were practically retired on full pay. When such oflicers as Grant, Hancock, Sheridan, Pope and others were assigned on their graduation as brevet second licutepants and had to serve as such from two to five years before reaching the full grade—and this with but half the pay these young officers will receive as ‘‘acting’’ lieutenants—-we discover no hardship in so assigning them pending logitimate vacancies to which they can be assigned with the full grade. Clearly the whole policy of retirements for disability should not be prostituted to the one’end of creating vacancies for the annual crop of West Point graduates. Officers disabled or incapacitated should be retired on the safe basis of length of time—such incapacity has existed—those longest off duty at full pay should be re- tired, and this, regardless of every other consideration. Any other rule leads to favoritism and such favoritism is always injurious to the service. The president should look into this matter and correct the abuse. It has been growing in the army administration for a number of years, and there are now officers who have had through such system of favor full pay for years with- out doing any service. They should he the first to come down to three-fourths pay, and not such oftficers as Captain Pease. We trust the president will see that it is done. In the Matter of Miller. Some doubt hus been expressed as to what action the secretary of the interior will take regarding the conilicting claims of Guilford Miller and the Northern Pa- cific railrond, notwithstanding the very plain intimation from the president in his generally commended letter of the course he desired the interior depart- ment to pursue. We do not believe the settler need give himseif any concern on this score. The secretary of the interior has been caroful not to commit himself a8 to the merits of the issue, and is there- fore entirely free to act without dispar- agement to himself. Having the clearly defined opimon and the authority of the president to guide him, with the certainty that the position taken by the executive is approved by nearly unanimous pub- lic opinion, the secretary of the in- terior will develop a quahty of charncter which he is not known to possess if he shall decline to follow the plain path marked out for him by the president. It is not improbable that without the intervention of the president the sceretary of the interior would have accepled as conclusive the opinion of the attorney general, and again overruled the land commissioner, but fortunately for Miller and ail the settlers wuose claing are like his, Mr. Cleveland's in- terest wae attracted to the matter, and undoubted!y the action of the interior de- partment will be in accord with his views. Noxt after tho president the man who will derive glory from such action is Commissioner Sparks. The importance of this matter must not be cstimated by the idea that there is but one individual interested in the result. In only one county of Washing- ton territory there are 900 settlers whose claims are similar to that of Miller. How many more there are el where has not been ascertained. To all of them, however, the position taken by tho president is an assurance that their just claims will be regarded and that they will be protected in their logal rights. Had this principle prevailed dur- ing the past twenty years what a record of corporate robbery and wrong would have been avoided. ‘The history of the outrages practiced by the land grant rail- roads upon settlers, only the merest inti- mations of which are to be found in the land eflice reports, would make a recital that would cause overy American citizen to blush for his country and its boasted guardianship of the intarests und wellare of the people. In another respect the position of the president is of very great impertance. It will probably lead to the revooation of the order by which the wast. arca only to stimulate speculation. The fact that the treasury is holding $19,000,000 1n reserve for a possible exigency will of it- self be a source of contidence to the busi- ness of the country. The statement does not show clearly to what extent the currency was affected by the treasury operatives of the north, but there was apparently an increase of the amount ot circulation. It is an in- teresting fact not generally understood that over $75,000,000 in varions kinds of money, but chiefly gold, has been adced to the currency in actual use by the peo- ple during the past ten months. No sin- gle fact could more strikingly show the increased activity within that time in the industry and trade of the country. 1t is apprehended that the treasury may in the next six months absorb an amount nearly equal to this, in excess of its dis- bursements, in which event the monetary stringency might become serious, and it is upon this possibility that an extra ses- sion of congress has been urged for the purpose of dealing with the surplus. The power of the treasury to furnish relief will be in redemption of the re- maining 8 per cent bonds and the purchase for the sinking fund of four or four and a half ver cent bonds, which it may do to the extent of $16,- 000,000, The customs receipts of the treasury for the ten months of the pres- ent fiseal year were $20,000,000 in excess of those for the corresponding period of catled indemanity lands was withdrawn | the last fiscal year, showing a considera- ble increase in the volume of importa- tions, which for this year, taking relative values into account, promises to equal, and perhans exceed, the exceptional years of 1883 and 1883, THE mission of Sir Edward Thornton to this country, evidently in the interest of the British holders of \Virginia bonds, is being made a matter of general public interest. Mr, Thornton is receiving a good deal of social attention in Virginia, but there is some uncertainty as to the feeling regarding his mission. He has not yet disclosed the nature of the de- mand he is authorized to make, or what plan of procedure for the collection of the debt is proposed. Itis certain that Virginia is not in a position to pay the debt. Ske cannot even keep up the in- terest. But Thornton may have a scheme that will put the matter ip a satisfactory situation for future payment, to the ad- vantage of both parties. Itis intimated that if he fails to accomplish anything th Virgimia, the British government will demand that the United States gov- ernment assume the portion of the debt held by British capitalists. This is ex- tremely improbable, but it gives the topic a special interest. Of course no such de- mand would be considered for a moment by this government, Mg. KeELy, of motor fame, is again in- viting public attention, and n a quite novel way that will certainly commend him toagreat many people. He has published a card 1n which he requests all persous having claims against him to present them for settlement within thirty days. The inference isthat the inventor has brought his labors to a satisfactory conelusion, and that interesting develop- menta concerning the celebrated motor are likely to be forthcoming. It is re- membered that Keely made quite a suc- cessful exhibition of his newest motor last July, but there were one or two de- fects that required to Le remedied, and for some time he has been assiduously prosecuting experiments. The supposi- tion is that he has achieved success and is ready to come forth again. As a per- haps necessary preliminary to this, he proposes to settle all claims against him. He may thereby at least secure a consid- erubly constituency who will not believe him to be altogether a erank, KINGS AND QUEENS, ‘I'ne KEwpress of Germany has conferred the Cross of the Order of Louise on three Iady presidents of the Augusta, the Cathollo | aud Jewish asylums. l ‘Tl caar of Jussia has been advised by his intimates to buy a.ranch in Texas and be- come a cowboy. 1t is a question whether he would be entirely safe even there. Thete 1s . mos the s'ightess foundatlon for THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. MAY 4. 18s the report of a marriage between Princess Victoria of Wales and Prines Kugene of Sweden, the youngest of the four sons of King Oscar, 'fhe emperor of Germany recelved 1,084 telegrams of conzrifplaffon on the occasion from Europe, % of his last birthda; from Asia, ® froi riea, 10 from Africa and 6 from Australl Her Imperlal Majgsty the Queen of Eng Innd never travels without taking her bed along with her. 14 an excellent idea which royalty has doubtless borrowed from some royal and impetial snall. King Leopold has had four children, one son and three dayghters. The [P’rincess Louise was married o the duke of Saxe-Co- boure, Princess Stephanie to Prince Rodolph of Austria, and Princess Clementine, unmar- ried. “I'he queen of Denmark will visit her daugh- ter, the I’rincess of Wales, at Marlborough House in June. She may take old Denmark along If he behaves himself, but he's a terri- ble old bore when he begins to recite *‘Ham- let” In English. The Russian empress is one of the most active of women. She rises early and goes to bed late, walks a great deal, reads enor- mously, is passionately fond of dancing and dress, and still finds time for works of char- ity, which she generously patronizes. King M'wanga of Africa would be a nota- ble accession to the society of Utah. He is eighteen years old, and at last advices credited with the possession of 1,000 wives, A family jar in his nousehold would bea very lively domestic earthquake. The king of Saxony, who is to arrive at Ems about the middle of next month for a course of the waters, is golng to England for the jubilee celebration, and will be the guest of the queen at Buckingham palace. King Frederick will remain in London only for a few days. The empress of (iermany has chosen a very beautiful jubilee present for Queen Victoria, 1t consists of a magniticent dinner service ot roval Saxe porcelain. The tint is a soft jon- quil yellow. The whole service consisis of 500 pieces—288 big plates, 120 small ones, 72 dishes, 20 sauce boats, compotiers, ete. The centrepiece consists of a beautiful flower and fruit basket, surmounted by a blue and gold statuet of the queen; the basket is further ornamented with a number of small medal- lion Fm'lnlls of the various members of the royal family. —_——— Wide of 1ts Mark. Philadelphia Record. ‘The thunderbolt with which that Jupiter of journalism, the London Thunderer,sought to transtix Parnell zig-zagged wide of its mark. It seems to have been tin-pan thunder, nlnd the accompanying electricity a false flash. DSt | A Splendid Advertisement, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, The city of St. Joseph justly boasts of the fact that it has & surplus of over $40,000 in its treasury. Such an advertisement of muni- cipal economy and efficiency is worth more to acity than anything else that could be presented for the purpose of attracting inves- tors and promoting ‘& boom in the value of vroperty and the voluwe of business, Capital goes where good government is found, and those citles are alway t likely to thrive which insist upon a w-m honest man- agement of their finapcialaffairs. LT Where Do I Belong? Ella Wheeler Wileoz, As I'look in the face that bends above, So qnmunno anditender,a strange thought Blemls with the hopeless yearning of my ove— A twofold wish which comes to me un- sought. % I wish that I were better—that, all good, I mI'K’II\ shrink trom thejthought ot losing hee ‘Who are not mine to love—vea, that 1 could Spurn }lnuzhll thdheart which Is not free. But slhri_cn I cannot, deax, sinceall earth’s i 38 1 still tind thy love, why, I deplore My two great goodnesses, which grants thee a kiss, But holds itself too high to grant thee more. SinceI have found I cannot be all strength, All weakness then 1 would be It 1 might— Nor caring for the world's loss 1f at tength 1 gnined the greater boon of love’s delight. 8o, sinful, I refuse to let thee go, But claii theo as my fond heart’s cher- ished one— 8o, good, I gnard my soul’s unsullied snow As sacredly as any cloistered nun. 0o, weak, I yield my lips for thine to feast, And gmk the love 1 ought to hide from view— So. strong, [am not tempted in the least To prove that love as many women do. Not good enouzh to do exactly right— Not bad enough to consummate a wrong— Alas! dear love, mine is the saddest Elmw— With saints or sinners, where do I belong? Sl STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Fremont takes the belt line and reaches for Omaha’s brindle top-knot. The Clarkson Enterprise by W. K. Verity, is the latest attempt to ‘‘fill a long felt want.” Ewing is putting in some town pumps for fire purposes and to furnish water for reducing the swelling in the heads of her old bums. ‘The Daily Nows has been raised from the pi-box of the Norfolk Gazette. Messrs. Norton, Sprecher & Bell are the publishers, Albert Murray, a yourg man near Ewing in Holt county was thrown from # horse onto a fence post, cutting one of his ears entirely off. ‘‘For a thoroughbred hummer Omaha captures the biscuit and reachgs for the tray,” says A. A, Judges, of Dead- wood, in the Pioneer. Mr. E. L, Call has built a large fish pond on his farm near Rising City. The bond covers an acre of ground and will hold twelve feet of water. He proposes to stock it with various kinds of tish. Elkhorn Valley railroad oflicials were at Long Pine a few days ago and within a day or so afterwards a gang of sur- veyors put in an appearance and began i_enmg grade stakes north to the Dakota ine. i Last Saturday a ou‘z man named Richardson stole thi orses, a set of harness and a saddle from the barn of J. Hartney, in Hubbard. ‘An armed and mounted party set oug il pursuit, and at 0 o'clock Saturday night. returned with the thief and the booty. Richardson was tuken to Dakota City'sud put in jail. Wyoming. Douglas has decided to bore into the earth to deterniine 1t6 ingredients. The Burlington corpahy has already invested $175,000 in real.estate in and about Cheyenne. ' ‘The death of Mrs, Ferguson from a pistol wound has caused much feeling in Laramie. It appears that sho had a quarrel with her husband. Both had pistols and the mystery is, who fired the shot? Just before death Mrs. F. declared that her husband did not shoot her ani denied having fired tne shot herself. The shortest courtship and quickest marriage on record has just taken place at Green River City. Wednesday even- ing Frank Tracy went into the U, P, taurant for supper, where he was taun- ted by one of the waitresses with being a bachelor. He ut once proposed, and within thirty minutes Miss Hannah Wil- son and Mr. Frank Tracy were man and wife. This doourred on the bridegroom’s birthday. ‘Tho prospests st the oil camp west of Douglas aro brightening up, although but little work has yet been done. o Standard mmpnn{ on Ilond:{. at & depth of 300 feet, struck s flow of tive or iz barrels per day of the very fincat quality of oll, and in whioh they will stop and pump, for aftime at loast. The Northwestsrn m&n{ went through this same strata at foet, but_at their well the strata was light. This flow which the Standard now has, will, at the present prices of the oil in the Hills, net them something {ike $150 per day, and it will not be a difficult matter to sink more of the same wells, Colorado. The new Josuit colloge at Colorado Springs will cost § and e the most imposing college bulldlng 1 the west, 1f ali the farmers in eastern Colorado who have planted this year raise a crop, the value of the state’s product will be increascd 25 per cent over last year. Ranchmen in Middle Park are all in a prosperous condition, especially the stockmen. They have fed but little this season, and those who have fed beef cat- tle will realize more profit than they ever did before. ‘The stock cattle of the park have been the range for six weeks or more, Real estate transfers in Denver last week reached $1,486,961.65, the largest in the history of the Cherry Creek settle- ment, while the figure for the month of April is $4,001,118.85. For the four months ending Saturday the total of transfers is $12,005,508.83, as against $10,- ,853.91 during all of 1886, Py BILL NYE'SBLASTED PASS, The War Between the Press and the Rallways—Buying Lots. Hupson, Wis., April 4.—I arrived here last week just a little ahead of the bitin, blasts of the I. C.B. By the L. C. B. mean to imply the inter-state commis- sion bill. Inoticed while enroute that the new law had stimulated travel to a wonder- ful degree. On my way from the south, where I was during the winter, I noticed hat the sluggish arteries of trade had al- ready Imnuu to palpitate and crowds of people filled the cars on every train. I said to myself, congress has at last solved this ‘great question of financial str ney and broken the great dam that held capital captive. On the Pied- mont Air line, people crushed each other together in a mad attempt to travel. On the Richmond & Danville, and E. T. V. & G. a8 well as the L. & N., humanity crowded day coaches and sleepers till the walls cracked. At Cincinnati I could not get a sieeping-car at all, and I had to telograph twenty-four hours ahead to pet one from Chicago. Everywhere; as ar as the eye could reach, there seemed tobe awild and restless desire to get somewhere else. Several companies have to put on extra coaches to carry the eager tourists. I arrived here just in time to witness the last momentsof a northwestern pass as its spirit took its flight. Had I postponed my journey for a single day {would have been too late. It was still young. Life was before 1t. Barely a quarter of the span of its life had been passed when it curled uv and ex- pired. 1t was a cute little thing with an olive complexion and large mournful, upper-case eyes. few weeks ago I noticed that it did not look well. It did not complain of 1llness or pain, but I thought I detected a conditon on 1ts back, and so [ hurried home in order to be here in case it should expire. As soon as the conductor looked at it and felt its pulse he said he could do vothing for it. The inter-state com- merce law is one of those things that will have to be tried befora we cnn.]mss upon it, I presume, though some claim it is going to be very diflicult to pass upon it even then, This thought occurred to me {‘ust after the gate-keeper pushed me hack yesterday and told me to go and get miy ticket. then realized what it was to be rudely ground under the heel of a cold corpora- ion that is devoid of heart, devoid of oul, devoid of noble thoughts, devoid of refined nstincts de: void of kind impulses, devoid of milk of human kindness, devoid of bowels of compassion, From force of habit I walked up to the gato with joyous nod and tho old pass word, only to be coldlv repulsed by the hired bouncer of this beartless, soulless, impulseless, milkless and bowelless cor* poration. % But the railroads will get the worst of it, for 1 know that travel on some of the lines has failer: off since April 1.~ I can see it alroady. 1 have fallen off myself since the first of the month, and others will do the same. ‘That is not all. A friend of mine who runs a paper, and whose pass got the hollow horn on Friday last, says that his columns are now open to those who wish to compiain of the management of this road. Ho states that the first hot box will be duly chronicled, and that he will no longer close his eyes to the wroufiu we have heretofore suflered at the hands of this unjust and ruthless vampire, that has been sapping the very foundation of our institutions and smearing its long, dark trail with the remains of our best milch cows, reluctantly !mying for them the price sot at the tail'of an unjust and unervating trial by a corrupt, venal and drivelling jury. 2 He says that “the time has come for the press to arise and assert itself,” and whon the train runs off the track and kills a lot of people who has led exem- plary lives, his paper will hereafter tell why and how it was done. Heretofore he has not had sufticient help in the of- fice, he clai and he frequently ran short of type, but now he s going to give all the particulars of the smash-up that occurs on the road if the paper falls into the relentless maw of a sherift’s sale on the following week. 2 1 asked a railroad ofticial of St. Paul esterday what effect the new law would KB\'C on the freight rates in the north- west, and he said he thought that they would not be much higher than the were before, This announcement will fall like healing balm on the sore place where the shipper's annual pass was ruthlessly torn from his bleeding heart last week. The real estate boom along the shores of Lake Superior still continues. It is equal to the palmy days of mining specu- Iation 1n the far” west. The boom, in fact, extends from Ashland and Wash- burn, West Superior and Duiuth, St. Paul, Omaha and Kansas City to El Paso, I considerita good time to sell, and shall dispose of my Lake Superior property by wire to-morrow. I do every- thing [ van by wire now. Last year I generally went in person and transacted m)i business. 'hree years ago, however, I bought a block by wire in a Dakota town, intend- ing to ‘sell as soon as 1 could double mfi money on it, but the agent failed to se until ‘1 got irritated and wrote him a short, crisp letter, asking him, in scath- ing terms, why he did not dispose of the lots and remit. " He replicd that he had tried todo as I instructed him, but had been unable to sell them ut any price, although the town itself was growing. He said that the town was growing in the other direction, mostly, and lots generally sold better in the direction of the growth of the town. “‘By and by,” said he, “the town will reseh the Minnosota stato line, and then it will have to grow the other way. Your lots will then rapidly advance. The worst trouble with your lots, however," continued the agent, “is the fact that in the spring, when real estate is booming, your property is under seven feet of water, and fhis water is so strongly 1m- regnated with mud that buyers “cannot metbrough it to get a good view of your ots, " 1 finally marlfilxfld the property as heavily as possible, and continued to lose iton the mortgage. I do not think I havs ever seen # better picce of J:ropurt to float a first mortgage on than thi same property referred to, 4 Bl Nyz. WRONGLY WINNING WEALTH, The Arrests Trial and Oonviction of Three Aesthetio Forgers. THE BANK OF ENGLAND DUPED, Operation of MacDonnell and the Bidwells—A Half Milllon Hanl— Death of ManDonnell—Re- covery of the Money. The death of George MacDonnell in the Pentonville penitentiary, England, as announced by cable the other day, says a correspondent of the Cincinnati En- quirer, will probably remind some read- ers of the groat forgeries perpotratod upon the Bank of England just fourteen years ago. For the audacity of its con ception, the magnitude of the fraud per- vetrated and the misdirected skill and ingenuity with which it wasattempted to be carried out, this great crime stands without parallel in criminal history. In the spring of 1872, three Americans, George Bidwell, his brother, Austin Bid- well, and George MacDonnell, arrived in London for the purpose of engaging in some scheme of fraud. but of what pre- cise nature they had not yet determined. MacDonnell had already served some time in the New Jersey penitentiary, whence he had been pardoned through the influence of some powerful relatives. All were comparatively young, Austin Bidwell and MacDonnell being not yet thirty, and George Bidwell thirty-three years of age. They were all well edu- cated, each speaking several languages, of good appearance and dress, and they had between $35,000 and $40,000 in cash, They took lodgings in one of the London suburbs under assumed names. The first object was to obtain some standing in one of the branch banks of the Bank of En;ilpnd, and this they finally suc- ceeded in doing through'a tailor with whon they had dealt liberally, and who introduced Austin Bidwell, who went by the name of Frederick Albert Warren, to the manager of the Western branch of the bank of England. Tlus was in April, 1872. Large sums were deposited from time to time, and drawn owt in a regular way, during which they studied an‘ be- came familiar with the course of business in London. The confederates now had adeposit ac- count and a signature which the bank would treat with a certain amount of re- spect. This was the thin end of the wedge, but much was to be done before they could drive it home. In the course of their dealings in stocks and bonds dur- ing thd'summer and fall they discovered that in presenting an accepted bill of ex- change to be discounted at the bank the bill was not sent to the acceptor to be O. K.ed, as is the universal custom in Amer- ica. The bank there simply waits until the bill is due and then presents it for payment. ere, then, was an opening, and they proceeded to put in operation their scheme of fraud. During the months of September and October they passed some time in the large cities of the continent, particularly at Amsterdam,to make them- selves thoroughly acquainted with the standing of various commercial houses. This done, they were ready for opera- tions. As the first move, Austin Bidwell called at the bank and gave the manager some Portuguese stock to sell for him, amounting to several thousand pounds, and informed him that he was about to introduce an improved railway brake, and to establish a manu- factory at Birmingham for Pullman's sleeping cars, which were to prove a wonderful success. He also said that he would have occasion, probably, to have bills discounted from time to'time. His manners impressed the manager very favorably. The confederates next pro- cured, by purchase, genuine bills of ex- change on various large houses, among others one for £4,500 drawn by the Roths- childs on their London house. These bills had various dates, and ran for three months. They served two purposes. They were paid into Warren's account at the bank, and they were medels for the intended forgeries. Those bills were discounted along through the months of December, 1873, and January, 1873, by Bidwell, under the name of I', War- ren, but the bank’s confidence was not completely gained until the 17th of Jan- uary, when “*Mr. F. A, Warren” called threw down the Rothchilds’ bill with somewhat of 2 flourish and said to the manager, “‘There, I suppose that is good enough for you?” This was his trump card and the game was now in the hands of the confederate. The confidence of the bank had been completely gained and a few days afterward the forgers commenced business. Mr. Warren now informed the manager that his business was so rapidly increas- ing in Birmingham that his time would be fully occupied there; that henceforth he would be obliged to remit him bills for discount through the mails. This plan being agreed upon, Austin Bidwell disappears frons England and retires to Cuba, Meanwhile he had married an English lady of good family, who accom- panied him. He had established a bank account and a respectable business signa- ture, and had secured the confidence of the bank. Th remaining operations were to be carried on by his partners, W hen the explosion should come he was to be long enough out of the country and far enough away to defy detoction. 'To enable the others to escape also, a fourth person, Edward Noyes Hill, was sum. moned by cable from New York to join George Bidwell and MacDonell in Lon- don. As he, too, would obviously be im- plicated in the erime as soon as it be- came known, he took the precaution of advertising for a place as clerk under the name of Edwin Noyes, making some ostentatious display of his action in the matter so that it would appear that he was only an innocent employe. MacDonell, under the name of Charles J. Horton, duly employed him. ‘The confederats had also secured an account at the Cou- tinental bank of London under the name of C. J. Horton, and it became Noyes’ duty to deposit the proceeds obtained from drafts or bills discounted by the western branch of the Bank of England to the Continental bank, or to get them changed into gold at the Bank of hllf— land. Bank of England notes can be readily traced by their numbers, 8o the first thing the confederates did when re- ceiving such notes was to have them ex- changed at once into gold, and then, later exchange the gold for the notes. Goerge Bidwell and MacDon: proceeded to transmit i qui sion from Birmingham, under cov letters purposting to be written by F. A, Warran, the forged bills they hadj pre- pared, and by the end of the month of February forgerics to the amount of £102,216 were actually discountea at the bank. The money was duly transferred to Horton's wccount at the Continental after first being changed 1nto gold and rechanged into other notes, as we have explained, for the purpose of ob all traces of the transaction ceeds were then invested in American securities, and large sums were sent to New York, Succoss seemed complete, and the daring forgers had sccured with apparent safety $500,000. "‘hnm is good reason to belie the lust bateh of drafts the bank received was the last the k}}xeu intended to send. It arrived on the 27th of February. The first of the forged acceptances was bot due until the 81st of March. During the mouth that intervened there would be time to muko their gpoape and seck some otl place where they would be aste from the pursuit of the English detec tives, when, suddenly, through one of those oversights by wivicathe most decply Iaid schames are brought to naught, tho whole crime was exp Two bills for £1,000 each were payable three months after sight. On these the forger had omitted to put the date of accoptanc Supposing this was a mere accident,they were sent to the acceptor’s oftice by the bank to have the slight error rectified. The forgery was at once discovered and the whole scheme collapsed, Every bill which “Mr. F. A, Warren'’ had sentatter the 17th of January was, with one excep- tion, torged, and that one had becen fraudulontly altered from £35 to £2,500, Eun( upon this mass of worthless paper 'he bank of England had advanced over £100,000. ‘ At onco the whole power of the Eng. lish detoctiye systern was put in opera- tion, and the convicts traded. Noyes was the first arrested, not being able to got out of London before the dectives found him, George Bidwell was arrested i Edinburgh, McDonnell was arrested in Now York and Austin Bidwell was trac- ed to Cuba and nrrested in Havana, whence he was taken back to London. All four were placed on trial in the cen- tral criminal court before Judge Arohi- bald. The trial lasted a week, and, al- though the forgers had covered thei tracks with consummate skill, tho whole crime was completely proved. The jury found them absence of ecarce halt an hour, Strol pleas had been made for Austin, Bald- well and Noyes for leniengy. 7The judge at once passed sentence. He said he was unable to conceive a worse case than had been made against all the prisoners. He, therefore, felt it his duty to order each of them to be kept in penal servitude for life, and that they should pay one-fourth of the expenses of the prosecution. As the words came solemnly from tho judge's lip a low, indescribable murmar ran through the court-room. It was not astonishment, not protest, not approval, but rather an expression of pervading awe. The four men lilcrall{ shrank as they heard 1t. Then, strongly guarded, lh,n,)' were conveyed to their living tomb. The bank succceded in recovering nearly all the monoy. st RN How He Helped Nebraska. Rushville (Neb.) Sun, We must all give duo credit to General Brisbin for the interest he always dis- played in Nebraska's welfare and for the many good deeds he has accomplished in her behalf. ‘Lhe general is an inde- fatigable worker in any cause ho es- pouses and he never fails to display a great deal of ingenuity in bringing about desired resnits. A good example of this is found in the modus operandi adopted by him when soliciting aid in the east for Nebraska grasshopver sufferers. Upon arriving in New York city he found that two United States senators had been working there for several weeks in the same cause, but had succeeded in rnislnfi only about $1,600, This didn't look very encouraging, bus, being a nowspaper man, the general under- stood perfectly the power of the press, and proceeded to work that valuable agent to the extent of its fullest capaoity. @ went at once to the oftice of the New York Herald and told so well the story of Nebraska suffering to James Gordon Bennett that the great newspaper man's sympathics and energies wore all en: listed in the gencral's cause, and that cause was made a specinl feature of the next day’s Herald. ‘Then everybody was terested in and taiked about it and the subscriptions for reliet rolled in volun- tarily, and nearly $40,000 was raised i ten days' time,and all through one man's rower of causing otber people to see hings as he sees them. ~———— Growthof American Cities. Iron Age: Engineer Herring, of Chi- cago, has prepared a diagram showing the compurative growth of American cities, and of Chicago in particular. It represents by curves the population since 1790, and makes up the figures of the re- spective municipalities by including ad- jacent towns and natural suburbs, which is the only method, in his opinion, by which the true growth of the great cen- ters can be computed. The New York center mcludes Brooklyn, Jersey City, Hoboken, Newark and other suburbs, and Chicago, the territory from Hyde vark to Evanston. The diagram shows that the character of growth of the differ- ent cities permit them to be divided into two distinat classes. Philadelphia, Bos- ton, St. Lows and Cincinnati_all show vo?' much the same character of increase, and represent by comparisen the more conservative communities. New York and Chicago, on the other hand, show not only a remarkable resemblance to each other as compared with the other cities, but form Tflm a contrast to them, and might be called the more pro- gressed communities. The diagram finally indicates the time when the curve, which was the lowest one prior to 1804, intersected i turn those of St. Louls, Cincinnati, Boston, and that there is a high degree of probability of itsintersect- ing the Philadelphia curve in or before 1891, The following table will give an idea of the growth, starting with Chi- cago's earliest dav: Year New York, Pl . 2N ladelphia, Chicago. INST07 45 408 3,303,595 1,012 fooe: istics are brought down only to 1880, the date of the last national cens sus. e Gormans in East Africa. London Times: According to Dr. Carl Peters, who heads the expedition about tostart from Berlin, the possessions of the Germau East African company in- cludes an area of 20,000 German, that ig rather more than 600,000 Enghsh, square miles, equal to an aggregate of France and the two empires of tral Europe, ‘Ten tlourishi stations already been established, and others are in course of formation, in this vast territo The preponderence of evidence, he says, gos to proye that it contains extensive dis- tricts among the high plateaus where the white man ean live and labor as an agri- culturist and cattle breeder. But in the hot low-lying plains the problem of how to find working hands has yet to be solved. Dr, Peters is sanguine enough to enter- tain hopes that the negroes will be grad. uatly induced either ‘to till their own lands or to work for their new masters when they see that they are secure against pillage on the part of their neigh- bors and the extortions of the petty chiefs. Count Pfeil, also a competent authority on the subject and who is al- ready on the spot, thinks on the contrary that the black man of those parts is such an inveterate idler that he will make no effort at settled habits or steady industry except under compulsion, He therefors proposes, in the interests of the colony, to secure the eo-oporation of the warlike kinglets of the country as overseers of for labor, Dr. Schweinfurth, another expert on the question, holds up to the admiration of his countrymen the example of the Boers in South Africa and recommends following in their footsteps. e Pueblo and Jay Gould have formed a mutual aduiration lucll!l(. The wall- eyed man of destiny baited a Missourf acific hook for the residents, They swal- lowed the barb as greedily as bullheads, and appear to enjoy it, e Ca:rlellon Powder 18 an ahsolute necessity ot the refined toilet in this cli mate. Pozzoni's combines eleme of beauty and purity. 0 K i uilty after an :