Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 30, 1887, Page 4

BN —— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. MAY 30, 1887 TIIE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRME O SORTPTION ¢ Dally (Moeniag Edition) fneluding Sunday Bre. One Y oar e For 8ix Months For Threo Months The Omahn Sandny Ber, address, One Y oar. . 1o m 5 o) 250 muiied to any v Ty 80 OV ATA OPPICE, N0, 014 ANn 010 FARNAM STREFY At o e T VAL ON 1 Fick No' L) FuCKTERS TH STRERT. COMRESPONDENCE: Al communioations relnting to nows and e torial | ol bo Badrossed 1o tho E ToR OF Thi BE BUSTNRSS LETTERSS tors and remittancss should ho aidros P T PUALISTING COMPANY, DAl L Drafts, ohacks and postoMeo orders 10 be made puyubie 1o the 0rder of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPAIETORS, All busine: THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Doug Geo. B. ‘l'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing eompany, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Beo for the week ending May 27, 1557, was as follows Saturday, — May Wedneada Thursday, M Friday, May 27 . P EX 3 Gro, 8. T72senvexk. Subseribed and sworn to betore me this 245t day of May, 1557, N, I’ Frir, Notary Pubile. uck, being first duly sworn, ays that he is secretary of The Publishing company, that the actual f the Daily Bes for +forJune, 14 copies; 44 copies: for Septem W0 copies: for Octoby for November, 1% ember, 1556, 15,297 coples § coples: for Febriiary, for March, 1557, 14,400 Average Geo. B. deposes and Bee the month of M; 188, 12,208 copies for August, 158, 1 ber, h, 13, : is a fine opening for a good cab- et muker in France. Masor Bes: PErLey Pooke He took his colon with him, Italian Riveria continues to have kes. We would suggest a big dose of quinine. is dead, Sror building tinder boxes and fire traps, whether of frame or brick vencering. OyAA continues to be the great relig ious center of the United States. Next on the programme is the Luthern general synod. TuERE is no indication that the real estate boom will let up. New real estate agents still continue to sprout 1 Omaha more profusely than weeds after u May shower. irance com- pateh, v liabilities of §1 worse than the old con- was a short time ago. Tue old Fargo, Dakota, in: pany, according to a recent d assets of $5,000 to 000. 'T'hisis eve corn at Beatrice Tue authorities at Helena, Arkansas, have secured requisition papers for Kis- sane, tho Sonoma millionaire of Cs fornia. William will probably getanother chance to deliver a prepared impromptu epeech to a judge and jury. WHEN the Bee stated that Senator Lininger is on record aguainst the convict labor contract bill it told the truth. Mr. McShane's chronic liar only adds insult to injury when he asserts that Mr. Lin- inger voted for the bill. Let him produce the record or stand seclf-convicted as a libeller. Proressor Wi s, by whom a long- suffering world allows itself to be hum- bugged, has had the unadulterated 1mpu- dence to venture another prediction. We had hoped there was some clause of the inter-state law which would choke off the redicting professor, but it appears that 0 yet has sway. OmanA should build more brick build- ingsand fewer frames. Brick and stone buildings create an impression of stabil- ity and solidity that frame structures no matter how costly cannot give. Brick houses are less liable to cause a disas- trous conflagration. The only drawback m Omaha to-day is the excessive cost of brick and stone. We must have cheaper brick and an extension of the fire limits over the entire area within one mile of the court hou. Wiy don’t McShane's editor produce a statement from Hon. C. J. Smyth to sustain his slanderous charge about the penitentiary conviet labor contract. Mr. Smyth is a democrat and not likely to be partial to a republican paper. He has the confidence of the workingmen 6t Omaha and is on record asa steadfast opponent of the convict labor contract bill. If McShana's editor can induce Mr. Smyth to contradict our statement in any particular we will plead guilty to the charge, otherwise the workingmen will believe him to be & slanderer and an un- mitigated fraud It is reported that the Ohio friends of Governor Foraker are again angry be- cause-of a repotition of the churges that the governor is disloyal to Senator Sher- man, ‘These sensitive persons, who are doubtless the same that came to the de- fense of the governor & couple of months ago, are more likely to dohim harm than Rgood by their excessive zeal, since such oxaggorated soheitude is apt to invite dis- trust. Doubtless the best reason there has evor been to question the loyaity of Foraker to Sherman was found in the fact that these friends of the governor manitested an almost indecent eagoer- ness, under the circumstances, to manu- facture & boom for him. It does not a pear that they ever reccived any en- couragement in this from Foraker, and itis undoubtedly unjust to suspect him of any other than the most hearty de- sire to promote the chances of Sher- wan. He 1s on record as an un- qualified supporter of the senator for the republican nomination in 1883, and a straightforward pohitical record thus far justities confidence 1n the sineerity of Governor Foraker's present professions. Wao kave no doubt Le will be safer to stand upon this record, so far as the party at large is concorned, than to depend upon the vindication of his too sensitive and fervent friends, A Few Factas, The Brr is avowedly an anti-monopoly Dape ‘The Brr 1s notoriously a paper given over to running local affairs. ‘Uhe Brr has been remar kably silent on the as monopoly question e editor of the Ber has been seon not less than four times in the last week in close sultation with the president of the gas monowoly, Ilear! hear! Hear, ol: hea A, MoShane's Sheet. few cold facts. The | BEE is no ys has been opposed | to monopoly in every shape and form where honest competition is practieable But it will never knowingly eountenance or connive blackma chemes, even under the pretense of breaking down an odious monopoly. Wiien the bogns ga< company, incorpo- rated by certain parties last year, ap- pealed to the council to take away the tranchise of the existing gas company under pretense that it would give Oma relief from cxorbitant gas bills the turned monopolist and opposed the bare- faced scheme. When Mayor Boyd vetoed the first ordinance granting a franchise to the new gas company the Bee com- mented on the veto as follows: Mayor Boyd's veto of the ordinance grant ini the right of way through our streets and alleys to a corporation which proposes to es- tablish gas works in Owmaha, i competition With the existing company, causes much un favorable comment. We have not read the mayor’s veto in full nor have we been able to procure a copy of the vetoed ordinance. On general principles it would bo unfair to grant promiscuous rights-of-way *to parties who propose to build gas works in Omaha, becanse such a grant in the hands of unprin- cipled adventurers or schemers might be used as & means to levy blackmail on the existing If, however, the ordinance ns provisions t ould prevent the misuse of the grant, coupled with reasonabi guarantees that the new company will erect works and suppl £ gas o the public, there is no valid excuse for a veto While we doubt whether Omal Is g enough to support two zas compan es, it is manifestly the interest of our eity to secure competition or suci concessions from the gas company in the matter of rates as will make competition unprofitable, The old couneil sustained M Boyd's veto and a new ordinance was m- troduced in the present council. The Bk promptly expressed its views in the following editorial: A material reduction in the price of gas is always weleomed by any community, That Owaha wants cheaper gas zoes without say- ing. The reduction of 50 cents per 1,000 feet in_ the price ot her gas supply which is promised by the new gas company is a powerful Incentive for granting a franchise. We would, however, venture some suzges tions to the council which should be em- bodied In the gas ordinanc 1. The franchise should be limited to twenty-five or thirty years, and subject to repeal in case of violations of contract by the zas company. ‘Ihe ordinance, as intro- duced, is practically perpetnal, 2. No right of way should be granted through any paved thoroughfare except at alley crossings, All gas mains should be laid in the and all connections with buildings should be made from the mains lald in the alleys. Omaba has expended sev- eral million dollars for paving and we could better atford to submit to high priced gas than allow our pa streets to be torn up and ruined by gas trenches. To dig ditches on Farnam, Douglas or Harney streets every twenty-two or thirty-three feet would simply ruin the whole pavement. The new gas company should be required to lay its mains in thefalleys, and the old company should hereafter be restricted to the alleys ‘where mains are to be laid. Provision should also be made to require gas companies to pay the cost of repairing pavewents in streets and alleys damaged by digging trenches for their wains and laterals. And now for a few golder facts. We plead guilty to the charge that the editor of the Beg has held several conferences with Mr. Frank Murphy, president of the monopoly, within the past ten days One of these confercnces was to ascer- tain whether the gas monopoly would volunteer to reduce its price of gas, so as to give Omaha cheaper gas without tear- ing up its paved streets. Mr. Murphy expressed a willingness to reduce the price of gas within a very ing yor | the chairman short period, and asserted tl the pro- jectors of the new gas company coula not furnish gas for $1.25 per 1,000 feet, but merely wanted a franchise to selt out. Unmindtul of this assurance the editor of the Bk has personally urged mem- bers of the council to reduce the price of gas and cut down by changing one-half of the city street Jamps from an all night service to a moonlight schedule. But the coldest of cold facts is the disclosure made by a certain councilman that pro- motors of the new gas company had set apart a liberal supply of gas stock for members of the city council and the editors who are clamoring for cheap gas and crying *‘Down with monopoly "' Further particulars will be made pub- lic in due time and & calcium light will ba thrown on the venal editors who are prowling around the Omaha saloons after midnight setting up jobs and boodle schomes. Hear! Hear!! Hear!!! To Replace the Caucus. The evils of the caucus system, supple- mented by the abuses which almost inva- riably mark the course of conventions that are the creation of the caucus, are well understood by all familiar with the methods of politics. Whatever muay former- Iy have becn th as now managed the expression of the caucus frequently, and perhaps as a rule, misrepresents the true sentiments of the party. It is the battle- ground of factions, it isthe pathway by which self-serving demagogues make their way to unmerited recognition, and itis the nursery of those vices by which the heelers and strikers in polities profit. So much has this system degenerated in the respect of the better class of voters, that quite gencrally the cauc ignored by them, and being thus surrendered to the worst eloments ofa party, conve ntions are composed of an irresponsible class of delegates who have only their personal advantages in view, and most of whom have their price, which may be a consil- cration in hand or the assurance of fu- ture reward. Corruption, in whatever form, that begins in the caucus isen- Iarged in the convention, and the whole machinery is manipulated chiefly by a class of politicians who would be power- less if they went directly to the whole body of voters of the party. All this has been repeatedly pointed out ana dwelt upon, but the old system still very generally prevaiis, with here and there certain restrictions and rogula- tions that may lessen, though they do not wholly remove, the evils. These will be gotten rid of probably only by abandon- ing tho system, since the attempts to re- form it have not been found as satisfac- tory in results us was hopod for. We ob- serve that the republicans of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, are proposing to do this, and to adopt what is known as the “Crawtord county plan.” This plan was put in operation several years ago | by the republicans of Crawford county, Penn and was found to work so satis y that it is now in force gen- erally throughout that state. It has been adopted in several Ohio counties, where it has given entire satisfaction This plan simply is, that before every clection, instead of holding caucuses and conventions, each party has a primary clection. All the candidates for office are before the people and are voted upon, I'he republican candidates who — re ceive the majority of the votes of that party arc made the eandidates of the party on clection day, and are then voted upon by the citizens at large as opposced to the candidates of the other parties. The course to be pur- sued 18 thus explained by of the Cuyahoga county republican committee: Shortly before the clection the committee will issue a proclamation calling upon the republican voters to assemble on a given day to vote upon the party eandidates and ex- plain the way in which the balloting is to be done. All republican candidates wili be requested to notify the committee be- fore a certwin time as to whether or not they desire to have their names go before the voters of the party at the primar) clection. The committee will then hay, two sets of tickets printed at the expens. of the candidates, one for the legislative cundidates and the other for the county candidates. On th slative ticket will be found the names of all the known re- publican candidates for legislative hon- ors and on the county ticket will be the names of all republicans who wish to compete for the county oflices, the lists being properly grouped. These tickets will be given to the ward and township comwittecmen, and will be the only oflicially correct ballots. On the day of the primary eleetion the polls will be open during a reasonable length of time, from 2 o’clock in the afternoon until 8 in the evening. A voter, on receiving the tickets, will erase all the names buat those of the candidates for whom he wishes to ast his ballot. Should be be satisfied with none of the men who have been proposed to the committee as blank lines will be provided in the tickets upon which he can wr the names of those whom he thinks should be the can- didates of the party. When the polls a closed, the judges and clerks, who will be appointed by the county central committee, will count the ballots and forward the tally sheets to the committee. The latter will as soon as i 1ss the returns in the same re now canvassed by the ns. The names of the candidates who have received the great- est number of v for the difler oftices will be placed on the republi ticket to be voted upon on eleetion day. Lhis plan would consume more time than by the old way, and bpehaps be somewhat more expensive, but experi- ence with it where it has been tried has shown that the results are more satisfac- tory. It greatly reduces, if it does not entirely destroy, the power of rings and factions to make up “'slates” and “fix things:” it cuts down to a very small margin the chances of those chronic place-hunters who have to look chiefly to the rabble in politics for wvrefer- ment; it discourages the efforts of the demagozues and the business of the volitical heelers and strikers; it shuts the door against a great deal of corruption that is common under the eaucus and convention system. It affords to every man who desires public oftice a full and fair opportunity to go before the puople and demonstrate his popularity, and on the other hand it allows every voter to indicate who he prefers for any public position, regardless of whether such por- son is named as a canaidate ornot, Cer- tuinly if under this vlan the voters do not select worthy and clean men the fault will be wholly with themselyes, since they will nave it in their power to defeat combinations to foist upon them unworthy and corrupt candidates. Light On the Deal. A New York paper throws some light on the great Chicago wheat deal, further developments in which are expected to be made on next Wednesday, which will be another delivery day. It will then be determined whether the corner is to he carcied on through June and the shorts unmercitully squeezed. Itis stated that a few days ago the clique recoived remit- tances from New York and Cincinnati, amounting to about $6,000,000, which brought the total sum now involved in the deal up to $21,000,000. The holdings of the clique in grain and options are s amount to 45,000,000 bushels, understood $1.13 is the figure aimed at, if the corner is successful, the clique will win from 9,000,000 to $9,000,000, a very handsome profit for the speculators, in which the farmers and the consumers of the country will not sharo. ‘The mystery respecting the principals in this deal is not cleared up, but it is quite certain that several Cincinnati mil- ionaires are in the pool, and also the Standard Oil crowd. The Neyada bank people are probably connected with it, and Armour 18 thought to be assisting the manipulation by turning all of his wheat away from Chicago, though he is under- stood not to be in the syndicate. New York is believed to be represented in the clique by Edward Cottrell, the henviest speculator in the produce exchange of that city. The syndicate owns to- day about all the wheat at Chicago, New York, Toledo, St. Louis and San Francisco, and probably half the stock in Liverpool, and has complete control of markets for this staple all over the world, ‘The visible sup- ply of wheat—winter and spring—in the United States is about 44,500,000 bushels, and this is decreasing at the rate of nearly 2,000,000 bushels a week. Iu one way and another the syndicate has con- trol of all this vast product. The indi- cations now are that the corner will be maintained and that the shorts will be badly hurt. But the trouble is the con- sequences will not stop with the gamblers whose misfortune it 18 to be squeezed, and for whom nobody can have any sym- pathy. If the price of June wheat is forced up 20 cents it means disaster to many merchants and failures in the grain trade everywhere. — 1T is to be feared that the record made by the late logislature of New York will not redound to the advantage of the re- publican party of that state. It was no- toriously and impudently corrupt, mfl.} in the way of taking small bribes or cash contributions of boodle, as was the case [ with the cheap boodlers of some other legislatures of ‘the present year, but in rendering service to wealthy corporations which could repay with large rowards, Al- | though openly charged in the press with corruption, no notiee whatever was taken of the allegations, which would indi- cate that pretty much the entire body was intected. Furthermore, the refusal to confirm the nomination of Colonel Fred 1t a8 quarantine commissioner made 1 the fact that the bossism of the **Me 0" Platt crowd was complete, a development that will not sit we on a great many republican stomachs in New York. Whatever may @ been the motive of Governor Hill in nomimating Colonel Grant, the fact is unguestionable that Platt has no proper claim to the oflice which he continues to hold by reason of the obstinacy of the republican senate. Just ut this time it is unfortunate for the republican party of New York that tins additional source of dissutisfaction and diseredit has been inflicted upon it, And Platt has not helped the mattar by ofler- ing to resign on the condition that Colonel Grant shall be appointed. Tue long threatencd suit against Goulll and . by bondholders of the Kansas Pacitic railroad company, prom- ises to be rich and interesting. Gould and Sage were trustees of the company s consolidated mortzage, and in the famous deal inquired into by the Pacitic railroad investigating committee they enriched themselves handsomely. When Gould and Sage were lately on the stand and were auestioned touching this trusteeship therr answers wore followed with equal attention by a committee of the bond holders, who are see proper foundations for their suit for damages They claim to have what cvidence is necessary to make uld and Sage di gorge of their fortunes. The clastic conscience and automatie memor: of Mr. Gould will here be given a field to show themselves at their best, and Mr Sazge, who possessos the happy seeret of knowing how to swallow himself, will also, no doubt, make an exhibition that will cause the triends of Ananius to that their Inmented friend did not know the elementary principles of lying. Wedonot wish to meddle with the business of the police commission, but we dcesire to impress upon them that they rcan expect to suceeed inany radi- provement of our police foree if y start out by ining all the subor officers that ha rrved under Cummings, The trouble with police force has been a slack disci- fly by the easy , A y of the ofiicers of the foree. The new chief of police cannot bring about the desired reforms unless he has competent and etlicient aids who enter into the spirit of the new departul and will take pride in the soldierly by and gentlemanly conduct of our polics men, some our zoing, ATE AND RRITORY, Nebraska Jottin The Neligh board of trade is greased for busines: Grand Island is threatenca with other daily paper. The Falls City eannery will begin op- tions this week. The Exchango hotel 1 Ashland 1s a heap of bHurnt ruins. Plattsmouth hoves to wear a new depot 1 he sweet by and by. A £10,000 block will add considerable to the shape of Columbus this ™ The city council of Grand [sland has declarved war on houses of ill-fame. Holdrege has cornered a firebug. He touched the insurance companies too often, The only genuine Indian club in the state is at Genoa. Itis a knotty peace- maker. The state institute for the feeble minded at Beatrice, opened up last week with fifty unfortunates Creto will brighten up this season with the Missouri Pacitic extension and an electric hght system. The season of hickory-nut hul is past. None smaller than goose eggs will receive mention. Captain Warren, of Wahoo, is laid up with countless sores and battered bone: the result of a ru ay. A gangof burglars m several profit- ” idents of Wahoo last an- . Edgehill, of Fairmount, was caught on horseback by a lightning flash and severely, thongh not fatally, burned. Robert Spicer, a fourteen-year Edgar boy, beeame attached to a runaway mule's halter and was dragged to death, A $25,000 hotel and mammoth foundry are among the latest additions to David City's enterprise. Both are sure things. Wahoo is ready to give a franchise to any company that will furnish the city with a direct pressure system of water works. A baud of forty gypsies are picking up dollars and clothes-lines in the neighbor- hood ot Blair by stufling the superstitious with “revelations.’! McCook has induced Cincinnati cap- italists to mery in that city. The plant will cost $7,500 and will bo completed in thirty working d: An agent of the Omaha Southern road has been feeling the pulse of Plattsmouth on the bonus question. No alarming symptoms of hberality arve reported. A mob of Wahoosiers fell upon a pair of swindling quack 'doctors, omupm\iug them to give up notes obtained from furmers, and fired them out of town in a shower of hoots. Grand Island is stiffening with pride as its starch factory advances in substantial and shapely height. It will be in runn ing order by fall and employ 100 hands. This will materially heTp” the town to polish Hastin, ‘The West Point Progress objects to the make-up, methods and opinions of the BEE in one parag Exh. and slices the next four from the theming columns of this paper. ‘Ihe Progress is a chpper from necessity. The Colorado sanmitary hoard accepted as a bluff’ the threal of tho Nebraska board to retaliate in kind, and declined to withdraw the quarantine against Ne- braska catt flu- tate board must now advance to battle or coral their heifers. The Grana Island & Wyoming Central extension of the B. & M. has stopped short at a point 163 miles west of ‘h» venna. The construction gang has been transferred to Central City, where the company has staked out another branch. Bill Stein, an impudent tramp, was kicked out of a house in Plattsmouth for demanding bread or blood. When brought into court an hour afterward he produced a certiticate that one of is ungs was affected. It was evident the hoot made him weary, The York Republican is no longer a temperance organ. The W, C. T. U, ladies have crimped its pretensions and outlawed it as an organ of sobriety and morals. With the tomperauce coiumn | peared from gone, the Republican relapses into its natural maudlin level. Churches and school honses, a happy blending of figures and futures, are mul- tipiying in the valloys and uplands of the stafe. A combination of the rod and the golden rule, properly applied, insures peace, plenty and Paradise, he talk of division of Custer county, and the unseating of Broken Bow, is ris ing in the temperatur When the scheme comes up for arbitration at the polls, Broken Bow promises to set on it with suflicient emphasis, “that the nest generation will not forget it.”” John Renter, the swindler who disap Iabie Rock several weeks ago, has left several cash reminders be- hind. One of the Pawnee city banks contributed £2,000 to s pile on a forged note, and the banks of “Humboldt and Table Rock were confidenced by the same means, The Cedar Blufts News, by E. E. San- ders, is the latest candidate for subserin tion favors and fat Cedar Blulls is m Saunders county, on the Lincoln branch of the Elkhorn Valley road. The News declares it is “earth’s choicest spot rich country and a live town contin- ally on the move.™ The Hastimgs Independent whispers into the ears of the Lincoln Democrat ‘W nhen Hastings gets the Missouri 1 cific, the Kansas City, Wyandoite & Northwoestern; the Rock Island; and one or two other roads, which are pretty sure of coming here, it will give Lincoln the go by and be next in” importance to Omaha.™ Hartington furnishes a specimen of brutality to a dumb_beast that entitles Charley Miller to a fat berth in the peni- tentiary stone pile. Miller found a neigh bor's horse on his land, Armed with the maniae und afish spear, he and butehered the animal in a horrible manner. He was arrested and bound over t district court for trial Yankton's ilrond tion to Omaha were eaught y, home- ward bound, by a Milwaukee short stop, John MeDonald, The tack-hammer car ricr pressed their hands warnm shoveled solid and tabial refreshments into them, and with nods and winks— hist! g. t—told them to keew quiet for duy or two and let the Milwaukee gt its wine Forest L, Putney of Oakdale has fallen in love with the law sinee his escape from the paternity of the Anderson child, for the murder of which he was tried and ac- quitted at Neligh, He has enlered suit for damag nounting to $2,630 aguinst I Howeli, S.C. Fairchild, B. F. Admire AL 1L Boyd. O this amount $530 will sutisfy the angwsh suffered and renew his reputition, the remainder for costs. Hastings can never be forgiven for punishing her neighbors with o map. The fliction, howeyer, did not stop It has spread to other towns and to sweep the state. Blue Springs and Wymore are out with a combination b, like a foot-print in a mud-puddie ) railroads piercing it from every point of the compass.” The twins have passed the spanking period and their con- dition is hopeful. The editor of the cently tickled the ribs of Alderman Shi ley. The latter laid in wait for him, nght him at the town postoflice, 11 upon his neck and wept with jov, sidewsnlk in the vieinity groaned and ked under the weight “and vigor of the embrace. Shirley done up | and left im o neatly turned black and tan optics. The Register enveloped in gloom, Rulo 18 a Missouri point, enjoying all the benelits of driftwood comueree Toat- ing by. Smee the work of bridging the river began, the townspeople have dofled the robes of antiquity for the toga of en- terprise, and the result has been a che ing combination of growth and. prosper- ity. Last Thursday cvening a mass me ing was held and the preliminaries ar ranged for the e on of a 000 hotel, 1 £10,000 school, a pork packery to cost %]?l”]l) 000, and also to sink a cout " prospect 10 There was a wild time in Wymore a y: nd an exhibition of an- thed the t in blushes. od disciple of Bacchus named John Ax, and a woman of similar brand, were arrested for disturbing the peace! Both showed fight with their mouths and declined berth in the cooler, The woman actually stripped for the f This nude departure filled the officer: with dismay and tightened their grip on her back-hair. A street car was chartered, blinds put up and the froth- g relic of Eve, robed in an apron string, safely jailed, The sceret of the sudden departure of the state railroad commissioners from Norfolk is out. A meddlesome my who Sutton Register chant 1d no regard for their tenderness toward Lincoln ii stunning questions to this e H it that goods from Chicago to Lineoln hauled from Fremont to that distance of fifty miles, free, ile the rate trom Fremont to Norfolk, seventy- nine miles, is 5) cents per hundred? The commissioners were knocked speechless by the shot and the kind hearted con- ductor hurried them homeward to re- cuperate. point, lowa Item: Plans for Sioux City's railroad bridge have been forwarded to Washington for approval, senator Allison isto deliver the univer- oration at lowa City in June. He will speak in the campus grounds. A small insect is attacking the straw- berry crop in Washington county and many fine beds of strawberry vines are almost destroyed. Dr. E. L. Mansfield, one of the oldest and most prominent business men of Cedar Rapids, dropped dead Thursday while riding in his buggy. Between 200 and 300 business men of Dubuque have manifested a willingne: to become members of a board of trade and such an organization will soon be ef- fected. A horrible murder was comnutted in Jofterson township, near Oskaloosa, last Wednesday. John Fall and wife were murd v robbers and their hous burned. Thursday afternoon a Dubugue man named John Krieger, employed at the saw mill of the Standard Lumber com- pany, was crushed to death by having timber fall upon him. The homwpaths of the state gathered in convention in Des Moines last week and discussed ways and means to throw the race to the graveyard. It was u nota- ble gathering and divided the honors with the convention of undertakers. Both bodies seemed licked by uncommon ties of tenderness, Millions of voracious worms are at work on the shade trees of Fort Madison, and unless something is done to satiate their greed the trees will in s short time be stripped of their verdure. The worms are from #n inch to an inch and a half in length, Dakota. Barnes county pays threo cents apicee for gopher tuils. Arrangements are being made to open the Black Hills marble deposits. They are said to be great in extent and fine iu quality. ‘The Bismarck town’council had a puri- tanic attack last Sunday, and in conse- quence the Sunday laws were vigorously enforced. Fargo's new hotel will be builtof brick, is to bo four stories high and supplied with an elevator and all modern con veniences, The cost is estumated at $100,000. The Bankers' association of Dakota closed its meoting at Watertown with a grand banquet Wednesday. Redtield was chosen ag the place for holding the nest annual meeting. Crop prospects i try are the brightest that region In consequence of th Judge Thomas wias eomp cast, and the Rapid City term of court will not be held until July The hotel Harney of Rapid City, just completed cost of £50,000, has been leased for five yoars, and will soon be thrown open to the public. The organization of the Rapid City, Wyoming & Western railroad company has been completed. The directors Eugene B, Chapman, of Rapid City; John C. Green, of Omaha; John H, Chap. man, of Hannibal, Mo.: Andrew J. Sim- mons, Adelbert Wilsie and John H. King, of Rapid City. The eapital stock of the compiny is £1,000,000, all of which is paid up, thus guaranteeing the construe- tion of the line so faras is now projected The articlos of incorporation designate the route of the company's lines as west- ward from Rapid City to the Wyomin line, with suek extensions in Cro county, in Wyoming, as may be deeme necessary, There are also” to be north and south lines run through all the Black Hills counties, he Black Hills coun- in the history of oor h - A NICKLE-PLATED CORPSE, Transforming a Dead Body Into a Beautiful Statue, New York Mereury: “*Doctor,"" a young physician recently returned from making the grand tour was asked, “‘what was the most remarkable thing you saw Europe” I have no hesitation in an- swering that question,” he rejoined. “By far the most interesting and re markable sight that came under my ob servation was a nickle-plated corpse. “A nickle-plated corpse! repeated his andience ot tive, in wide 1ke amaze- ment. “What are you giving us, doc t Ihe gronp were standingin Cable's Broadway place, and when & gencral moistening of lips lad been performed the European tourist proceeded in sub. stance a3 follows cctro or nicki plating is the Iatest and promises to be by far the most popular form of dealing with the dead. “The corpse that I saw 50 treated was that of & young man--an only son, whose doting parents had the y thus preserved. 1 had heard of the e in London, and as I am much inter- ested in the subjecet of the disposition of the body after death I obtained a lotter of infroduction and w favored with a view of the brilliant body. The method is briefly this: The body is washed with alcohol and sprinkled over with fine graphite powder to insure the perfect conduction of eleetrici It is then placed in a bath of metallic solution contuining a picce of metal—sliver, nickel or gold—to be used. To this is attached the positive pole of a strong battery, the negative pole is applied to the body, and « fine fifm of the metal at once begins to cover the body perfectly ana evenly. This may be kept up till the counting attaing any desired thickness, *I'o this process there does not appear to be any valid objection. In effeet it transforms the body into beautiful statue, in which form, featu and even expression are perfectly and startlingly preserved. The body, being hermet cally sealed within its metal anclosure, mercly dries up and assumes the aspect of a mummy. ‘This method obviates many objections which have been urged against other methods of disposing of the dead, and at the same time mects the wishes of those whose sentiment, if noth- g else, inchines them to favor the or 'y way of burial te yoting man whose corpse T saw thus treated aceidently shot himself last partri ason. He was engaged to be married v very lovi iable young lady. I was told th i regular < o his brilliant r religions enthusiast would visic a shrine Ordmarily the body is covered by a shroud of embroidered work of the young y's handiwork asitlies in its long, iron urn.” —~——— A Put-Up Job. M. Quad: We left Memphis at about 8 o'clock in tho evening, and among the deck passengers I noticed a couple. man and wife, who gazed around as if they had never seen a steamboat before, They had an old coifee sack with some cloth- ing inat, but no other bagga, moyed about 1 u timid way, scemed much i “The boat had not gone five miles down the river, and the large number of passengers i not yet settled down, when there was an unearthly shriek, fol- lowed by the cry of ‘“‘man ‘overboard!," ‘The boat was stopped and her wh and after two or three minutes arned that one of the couple [ have mentioned—the husband--had fallen d. The woman *took on’ in the wildest manner, crying and mouning and wringing her hands, and when asked how it happened. she replied: *He just dun fell over—fell over—fell over!” By that time it was uselass to think of lowering a boat. There was a swift cur- rent runving, and as the man had not cried out there could be no doubt of ms being drowned. Every one pitied the woman, of course, and when somebody took oft’ his hat and drolbpfld a tive-dollar bill into it, it was a *‘go" all around. A hundred dollars was raised for her in fif- teen minutes, and she went ashore at the first lunding made by the boat, lugging a bag of clothes with her. I went down as far as Hernando, Miss., and_stopped olf' there for two duys, ing & sccond steamer down on the third night from the above occurrence. When I went down to the levee [saw a couple with an old sack between 'em who reminded me of the pair on the boat, and 1 also saw them come aboard. The resemblance astonished me, but it had to go for a co neidence. ‘I'he steamer pulled out about 10 o'clock, and had not been under way half an hour when there was a loud shriek, followed by the ery of “Man overboard!" It was a repeution of what 1 have ed hefore, except that some of the passengers had gone to bed, and silk purse didn’t count up over §10. passed to me, but I declined . ‘T'he “‘recent and grief-stricken widow'" left the boat at the first lunding, wnd | went to bed with the fecling that curious coincilences were mighty thick on the Mississippi niver, @ left the bont at Helena, and made a three day's stay, and was ready to take another boat on the down trip, when 1 ran across that self-same couple at the levee, waiting for the same boat. 1 walked up to them and said to the u “Come, now, this is nothing away. I'v { twice, and I've ‘widow’ go ashore with a breaking heart the same number of times. Tell me how you play it and i'll give youa 'V."" “Let's see the mouey.” ded it over, and he stowed 1t away in his pocket then replied. “I've got on & rubber life preserver under my clothes, as you see, and I gen rally make shore within a couple of miles. angor, don't give it away, We are poor but lionest people I solemnly ed that I wouldn’t, but 1 think they rather mistrusted me, for they waited over to catch a boat next night. , and scen you seen this e A Dog Makes O With the Artificial Limb of His Benefactor, Pittsburg Dispatch: A most ludierous thing was witnessed on Jane strect last evening, ‘There was a fight, in which a " a little dog and @ cigar-maker with & wooden log tigared prominently, First, the little dog secured a bone. He wis munehing it in qaiet enjoyment when the big dog came along and at- tempted to secure 1t, The little feltow was not to bullied, and a lively fight fo’ lowed. Just as the row was at a most interest. ing stage, neither dog huving secured any advantage, a man with a “peg” leg came aloug and assumed the rolo of peace-maker. Standing on his dis- abled member and using his <ound himb, he gave the bone a kick and sentit whirls ng away. A sccond Inter he was lying in the muddy gutter—the big dog having yanked the wood e from its fastening: nd gazing 3 fter his insensible but ul himb “ae it disappeared around o sighboring corner, borne in the dog's mouth, (] - Narvre usually makes a gailant flfhl against discase, and when helped by Dr, JH MeLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Puritier will eradicate it from the system, - FREAKS OF A MAGPIE. 1t was Fond ot Robbing the Dogs and Performing Endless Mischiof, As soon as it saw cither of the dogy busily engaged upon a bone, Juckytivoy devoted all his intellect to the task of robbing that dog of its bone, says J. G, Wood, writing of a pet magpie in the Youth's Companion. Watching his op- portunity white the dog's attention was i;l\‘(-n to the hone, he would quictly slip hind the animal and administer a sharp peck to its tail. The aggrieved dog would naturally yelp, drop the bone, and mako a dash at its assailant. Ihe kytiboy would flutter away a fow and, " when the dog turned around to regain its proverty, would give another peck at the same place. Then the dog made another attack, and when the animal had, by « series of assaults, been decoyed to a distance, Jaeytiboy flew to the bone. seized it and made oft with its booty. The dogs, however, sometimes turned the tables on the magpie. Whenever Juckytiboy had been given, or, as was most likely the case, had stolen more meat than he could consume at the time, he was in the Labit of hiding it about the premuses. Here the dogs' noses stood them in good stead, enabling them to snufl out and devour the hidden stores When he had succeeded in robng thoe dog of its bone, his nest idea was to hide it in some secure place where he whs sure that the dog could not tind it. So he generally made his way mto one of the bedroom: ! pushed the bone eare fully under tae pillow. ©As to the mischief which he did for pure mischief's sake, there were no bounds to its extent and varicty. For example, while the coachman was looking after his horso Juekytiboy filled the whip-tube with earth ar dy little peb- bles, so that when the man tried to use his whip he found it fixed so firmly that it could not be taken out until the tube had been taken out and emptied. Watching the procecdings of a carpen- ter who was engaged on the premises Torded him the keenest gratification, Vhen the man used the center-bit Jacky- tiboy must needs help him by picking out the fi\lln shavings from thehole. Having thus proved his harmless nature, he dropped some tacks into the man's ear as he stooped over his work, and as he started up, snatehed off his spectacles and tlew away with them to the treasuro- house. On one oceasion he removed all the nns from the cushions inwhich they had heen placed. He did not, however, carry them off, but stuck them into the s, bushing them into the smal s, and foreing them com- out of sight, Vl‘m» disastrous re- sult of this freak may well be imagined. If a ier were employed on the greenhon Was necessary to captur Juckytiboy and fasten him 1n some placo where he would not suspect what was being done, as otherwise he invariabl scooped out the putty while it was soff, m;n so made the glazier's work of no effect. He always kept a sharp eye upon small cundle ends, and whenever he found one he used to drop 1t into the first mustard- potthat he couid find Soldier, Maiden and Flowor, [A piece for Little Miss ‘Irotty to speak uh school on Decoration day. | Sweetheart, take this,” a soldier said, *And bid me brave zood-by 3 It may befall we ne'er shall wed, But love can never die. “Be stendfast in thy troth to me, And then whate'er my lot, *My soul to God, my heart to thee'— Sweetheart, forsot me not!” The maiden took the tiny flow’r And fed it with Ler tears; Lo, he who left her in that hour Came not in after years. Upon the field a demon rode Mid shower of flame and shot, i in the maiden’s heart abode flow'r forget-me-not. And when he came not with the rest Krom out those vears of blood, Closely unto her widowed breast Shie pressed the withered bud, ON, thero is love, and there Is pain— ‘And there is peace, God wot; And these dear three do live again In sweet forget-me-not. s to his unmarked grave to-day at I should love to go— Whether he wore the blue or gray, What need that we should know? “He loved a woman,” let us say, And on that hallowed spot, To woman's love that lives for aye, We'll strew forget-me-not. —Eugene Field. Sell Revolving Churn Dasher iver Invooted PRICE OF DASHER, $1.23 Noedsio talking but really is the Prttist Showin: ‘Xitlola on the Market Omana, Neb,, April 24, IRS7.—This is to certify that we, the undersigned, havc this day witnessed a churning by “The Perfect” Self Revolving Churn Dashers,’ which 1esulted in producing 335 pounds of first class butter from one gallon of cream in jnst one minute and fiftecn seconds. 1. Wrikht, i Dairy 0 W P Tt ari. propriotor of. T J. 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