Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 16, 1887, Page 4

f £ % ; o THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSORIPTION ¢ Dafly Morniag Edition) including Sunday Ber, Ono Year. seseeeee .. 810 00 For 8ix Months [ 200 5 FARVAN STREPY RINUNE BOILDING. #YICE, NO. 513 FOURTEENTH STRET. W YORK OFFICE, ROOM 65, ASHINGTON ann Oryien, No. 814 AND, ¥ OORRESPONDENCR! All communications relating to news andedi- torial matter should be addressed to the Ebi- FOM OF THE BuE. BUSINESS LETTERS: All business letters and romittanoes should be @ddreasod 1o AN Bis PUBLISHING COMPANY, OmMARA. Drafts, ochecks and postoffice orders %0 be made payable to the order of the compaay. THE BEE POBLISHIFS CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, EptToR. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Ulrculation. Btate of Nehrask: t “a County of Dougzlas. |{° Geo. B. 'I'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing m"lmy' does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee 2{1 the week ending June 10, 1857, was as Baturday. June 4, Sunday, June 5. Monday, June 0. Tuesday, Jjune?. ‘Wednesday, June Thursday, June 9. Friday,June 10... veena 14,205 214,200 Average.......... 0. 8. Subscribed and sworn to befol 11th day of June, 1857. N. P, FEIL, [SEAL.] Notary Public. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Beo Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month™ of for 12,208 copes: for July, 1885, copies; for August, 155, {b‘m coples: for Sep:‘m— 344 ber, 183, 13,030 coples; for October, 12,04 copies: for November, 153, coples; for December, 1856, Januaty, 1857, 10,264 o e 1857, 14,106 coples: for March. 1887, 14,400 goples; for April, 1557, 14,31 copies; for May, 1857, 14,227 coples. ©o. B. Tz3CITUCK. Gr Subseribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of June A. D. ISEAL.| P, l;"nx. Notary Public. ‘L Herald says Seavey has shown his hand. So he has. He holds a hand that will beat three knaves every time. AND now a bill has been presented to the council for over $500 extra by the street sweeping contractor. Why can't these extra street cleaning jobs be done by the street commissioner. Ir the formal opening of the board of trade building is to be postponed until Grover Cleveland accepts or declines the invitation to be present, we are afraid the event will not take place until 1888. NEBRASKA does not get a very large share of the appropriation of con- gress for the militia of the states. The distribution will be made next month, and this state will receive $4,608. There are eight states that get less than Ne- braska, WHEN a big wheat ‘‘operator” gets *busted” by being on the wrong side of the market, his inability to pay his mar- gms1s called a ‘“failure.”” But when a country sucker sues one of these gam- bling - grain operators to recover the money he has lost, he is denounced in unmeasured torms. A “‘failure” to set- tle for margms is respeotable, but to sue for money lost through gambling grain deals Is disgraceful. eme———— THE present season at Long Branch promises to be exceptionally gay and brilliant. The usual habitues of this fa- vorite resort are all booked to be there, and the coming of some notable stran- geora is heralded, among them a Prussian countess, who is also a beauty. A visit from President Cleveland 1s also hoped for, Long Branch holds its precedence 88 & popular summer resort against all competitors, and yet there are few places ‘where one can be more uncomfortable. EEE—————— WE are informed that the bill of extras which was presented for payment to the council by the paving contractors last weok with the inspector’s certificato at- tached has been found slightly incorrect. Thero was an overcharge for about 40p yards of paving which will reduce the claim by nearly §700. That only goes to show that it is high time the fast and loose method of doing business which provailed under the old board of public ‘works should be abandoned. City ATTORNEY WEBSTLR'S views on the Yespective powers conferred by the char- ter upon the fire and police commission nnd the city council are clear, sound, and fully sustained by the highest legal au- ‘thority. Inthe main they coincide with the views heretofore expressed by the Beg ' on this subject. It is to be hoped thatthe controversy between the council and the police commission, which has sprung up from a misconcaption of the law, will now be dropped. Such confliets between courdinate branches of the municipal government only tend to demoralize the police force and oreate needless strife where harmonious cooperation is essen- tal. Mg. McSnANE's editor has opened his mouth once more and put his foot 1n it. I[n his anxiety to down Mayor Broatchand depose Sehvey from the police force he has jumped at the conclusion that the ordinance regulating the po- lice and vreseribing the powers and duties of the police commission, which Mayor Broatch has vetoed, was passed over the mayor's head by the council, when, in fact, the council did not ever attempt to pass it over the veto. The lecture to*the mayor as to his duties inthe premises which Mr. McShane's editor ventures to deliver is decidedly premature. L __ ________J] Tne BEE has taken no part in the per- sonal controversy between Messra. Con. oyer and Blackburn. The disclosures made by the investigation irto Mr. Black- burn's connection with the sale of cor- tain lots to the board of education are mot very creditable to Mr. Blackburn and reflect seriously on the whole board. The negative testimony of Mr. Blackburn’s partner leaves a natural in- ference that Mr, Blackburn had either a direct or indirect interest in the sale of school lots to the board. The fact that Blackburn's partoer in the real estate busiuess was the chief factorin the trans- fer must have been known to the other members of the board, and they ought to know onough to know that real estate wnu are not 1 the habit of working Prohibition in Massachusetts. The advocates of prohibition in Massa- chusetts have been earrying on one of the most aggressive and earnest campaigns that has ever signalized the efforts of this clement in that or any other state, and they have just encountered defeat of the cardinal purpose of their struggle. Mar- shaling all their forces and armed with ponderous petitions, they went to the legislature with a proposition submitting to the popular vote a prohibitory amend- ent to the constitution. The discussion ot this proposition has commanded a great deal of the attention of the legisla- ture, and has been conducted with great zeal and more or less marked ability. 1ts supporters pointed to the fact that the amendment was asked for by 9,000 wo men who had not laid aside the duties of home ‘“for the 1dle infatuation of the plate form," by 40,000 voters representing the virtue, intelligence, business and property of the commonwealth, by 220,000 attend- ants of the Methodist Episcopal church,its 55,000 communicants and 240 clergymen, by leading Roman Catholic priests and tomperance societies, and by representas tives of other churches. The opponents of the proposed amendment held firmly to the ground that experience had demon- strated there and clsewhere that prohibi- tion does not prohibit, and that the wi: and safest policy, alike for the state and for the cause of temperance, is a well- enforced license law. A vote was reached on Weduesday of last week, and the proposition failing to receive the required two-thirds was lost. A reconsideration was moved, however, for last Tuecsday, which was taken with the same result. Among the most earnest opponents of the amendment was Rov. Mr. Smith, member from Andover, the only clergy- man of the house. He had been a state prohibitionist, he said, and fought for it, but Massachusetts had a history on this matter, and men céuld not argue from Kansas to Massachusetts. Under the old prohibitorylaw there was u worse state of morals than he ever knew at any other time. Liquor was sold freely. He had investigated this matter in all its length and breadth, and he declared that the increase of temperance senti- ment in the state is owing to the existing liconse law, which allows each commu- nity to determine for itself the question of issuing licenses. He believed that in- temperance is not to be beaten by such legslation as the prohibitionists proposed. Its effect on the contrary would be to en- courage secret rum selling, and thus not only retard the cause of temperance, but increase the evils of the liquor traffic. The reverend gentleman might have found abundant examples with which to justify his opinion, had he cared to go beyond his own experience of what a trisl of prohibition in Massac husetts had developed, It is not to be supposed that this defeat will greatly lessen the mis- taken zeal of the prohibitionists of Mas- sachusetts. Their cause is evidently hopeless 80 far as the present legislature is concerned, but they will doubtless find in the large vote they were able to com- mand encouragement to continue the fight. Itought to be safe to predict, however, that the intelligent people of Massachusetts, taking counsel of the manifest failure.of prohibition to accom- plish its object elsowhere, will before an- other legislature can be called upon to submit & prohibitory amendment have largely concluded that they could com- mit no graver error than to insert in their organic law a principle certain to be continually violated, and thus to subject the whole instrument to popular disregard and reproach. It is astonishing that with the knowledge now attainable regarding the failures of pro- hibition there should be so numerous a body of people in Massachusetts willing to engraft this principle upon the consti- tution of the state and abandon a system which experience has amply justified, aud which there as elsewhere has con- tributed more to the growth of temper- ance than ever prohibition has done any- where. eem—————— Germany’s Sick Rulers, ‘The German people have present cause for very profound solicitude regarding the physical condition of the men who rule the affairs of that empire. The great age of the emperor makes it inevitable that he must soon surrender the sceptre of sovereignty, if not by death then from inability to longer carry the burdens aad cares of the throne, but this certainty could be awaited without serious appre- hension while the crown prince was to be his assured suceessor. He could be de- pended upon to continue the policy which has marked the course of the na- tion under the reign of his hthef and to follow the beaten path at least under “gubstantially similar circumstances and conditions,” But the crown prince may not survive the emperor. Despite the encouraging view which his physicians pretend to take of histhroat malady there is good reason to believe that it is a very serious difliculty, which 18 just as likely to be found unconquerable as it is to bo removed. The fact will be re- membered that when the cancer which killed General Grant first developed, the mtorested medical opinion that sur- rounded him professed to see nothing dangerous in tho affliction, and this view was sought to be maintained just as long as there was the least possibility of the public being deceived by it. It is more than probable that the physicians in at- tendance upon the crown prince have their reasons for taking a confident view of the case before the public, whatever their private convictions may be. But oven if the growth, whatever it may be, shall be effectually destroyed, it is thought the penalty of the operation ne- cessary to do that will be a total loss of voice, and Germany would hardly wel- come aspeechless emperor. Added to these afllictions, Bismarck is now reported to be ill, soill, in fact, that the advice of his physicians to seek rest and & change of climate cannot be carried out, A vory wide range for conjecture is opened when one comes to reflect upon the possible consequences to Germany of the removal of these three from among present and prospective rulers of the empiro. The death of the crown princo would make his son, Prince William, the heir apparent, and our cablo dispatches have described the sort of man heis. A soldier with ar ambition for glory, it seems certain that the peace of Europe would have no snch security with him on the throne, or near it, as it now has with an old man in power who has outlived ambition and deasires nothing so much as to pasi the romnantof his daysin peace. The death of Bismarck wouid be the signal, also, for most radical changes. All that he holds in his iron grasp would be released, and the political and social forces now in re- straint, being set free, might speedily change the relative position of parties and almost remodel society, There are intinite possibilities of change consequent upon the death of these rulers, not only most vital to the German empire, but which might eventuate in materially al- tering the map of Europe. There is ob- vious reason why the German people should feel gravely solicitous regarding the physical condition of their rulers, A Ba recedent. Among the various items in the monthly appropriation ordinance which the coun- cil passed last week was an allowance to Thomas Cummings for services as chief o police during the month of May, at the rate of $1,800 a year. Mayor Broatch vetoed this item on the ground that Thos. Cummings was not chief of police, never having been appointed such by the board of police and fire commissioners, but es- pecially because he only served on the Jpolice force up to May 25th. The council passed the illegal item over the mayor's veto by a two-third vote. One of the Moynihan combine editors interprets this action by the council as an official declaratiou that if there1s any city marshal or chief of police for Omaha, Mr. Thomas Cummingsis the man., The councilmen who voted to override the veto had no such idea. « They knew, as everybody else including Thomas Cum- mings knows, that the office of marshal had been abolished on the 8d of March, and Cummings ceased to be marshal trom that day. They knew also that Cummings had not been appointed chief of police by the commission, and there- fore was simply acting chief until the commission had filled the place. To vote Cummings pay for the time he was in charge of the force after the oftice of marshal had been abolished could hardly be construed as a declaration that Cummings has any right or title to an oftice which has been filled by the police commission by authority vested exclu- sively in it by the charter. Notwithstanding the two-thirds vote of the council Thomas Cummings 18 not legally entitled to pay for the full month of May. His services on the police force ceased on May 25th, The council had no right to vote him pay for services not rendered, and the mayor has no right to sign a warrant to Cummings for a full month’s pay. It would establish a dan- gerous precedent, even if it was lawful, to pay men salaries for service they have not rendered. The Wheat Corner Collapse. The great Chicago wheat corner, which for several months has commanded the undivided attention of the grain interest of the country, was on Tuesday unex- pectedly abandoned by the clique en- goged in the deal, the result of course being a panic in the market that proved disastrous to a number of dealers. It was thought after the June delivery day had passed without the clique showing any signs of weakness that it would be able to carry the corner om through this month and squeeze the bears without meroy, but the outcome shows that the task was too large. On the first of the present month the clique was understood to have control of over 40,000,000 bushels of wheat, and its ramifications were said to extend to all leading markets of this country and even to Liverpool. It then appeared to have boundless resources. This appearance now scems to have been deceptive, but there are other circumstances that have contributed to the defest of the deal. The clique was not simply confronted by the powertul bear interest, but all the conditions were unfavorable to it, among the most potent being the generous re- turns from the harvest thus far and the excellent outlook for the growing crop. Undoubtedly were the crop situation less favorable the clique would have had no difficulty in obtaining all the money required for carrying on the deal. The general public feeling will be one of gratification that tho end has come in disaster tothe promoters of the corner, but in a battle of this sort between gam- blers, honest people can have no sym- pathy or concern for either party, The bulls who have lost are entitled to no commiseration, and the bears who have won should receive no congratulation. The one class was operating to the dis- advantago of the consumers, while the policy of the othor class was hostile to the producers. The fact that fortunes have been transferred from the former to the latter helps no interest and -accom- plishes nothing for the general welfare. Meanwhile the immediate future of the market is entirely uncertain. S————— ‘THE present month will be memorable for the collapse of great corners. The events that will give it distinction are the breaking up of the coffee and wheat speculations, the former having had a duration of over a year and the latter of soveral months. Of the two the failure of the coffee deal was perhaps the more mportant. The tendency of the market for this commodity, how- ever, appears to be stronger, the fact being that there is areduced crop, and that notwithstanding the ad- vance of 200 per cent within a year on the low grades consumption was not de- creased. The coffee drinker, it is evi- dent, mmust have his beverage with stated regularity and in unrestricted amount whether it costs fifteen or thirty cents a pound. Tar Burlington proposes to make the same Chicago rates to and from Lincoln s it does to and from Omaha. The Bur- lington is a good friend of Omaha so long a8 1t can throw its arms around her and pick her pockets. ————— ACCORDING to the Herald. Seavey isnot chuef of police. Why, then, does the Her- ald pay so much attention to his orders? E— BITS OF INDUSTRY. The graln elevator capacity of Chlcago is 28,850,000 bushels. Common labor is now better paid than it has been for years. A thousand elocks a day are said to be semt from New England to Europe, Mexico, and South America. ‘There are 108 cotton milla in the sou th, of ‘which thirty-six ave in Georgia, twenty-seven in Tennesseo and twenty in Alabama. Four railroads are mow being built in (Georgia to centre at Atlauta. It will then be the greatest railroad centre in the south. Out of 1030 puddling turnaces in Pittsburg, seventy-five are idle, and the muck bar pro- duction Is estimated at at 2,400 tons per day. Flouring and grist mills employ 33 per cent of all the water power used; saw-mills 23 per cent; cottorrmills 12: paper-mills 7. and woolen-mills d44, The Pottsville s’ mill will employ from 600 to 1,000 hands, ana the building, which will be 350 feet in.length, will, including machinery, cost §300,000. The northern investors in southern pig- iron plants are greatly encouraged by the active demand in western markets for the entire product of furnaces. This will lead to further extensions of capacity. Coke Is scarce. Fort Worth, Tex., is to be made a wool and sheep depot with immense stock yards and scouring establishments. 1t now costs 8$L43 to pay the freight on 100 pounds of grease and dirt, and this is to be saved by the scour- ing establishments, A London paper says there is not one corner of Europe where American small cost hardware is not for sale. Krupp, of Germany: Armstrong, of Englana, and Hotehkiss, of France, with all their vast re- sources are unable to produce & monkey or screw-bar wrench equal to the American wrenches. New England textile manufacturers are generally improving their capacity and put- ting in better machinery to decrease cost. A New Hampshire firm has ordered a cargo ot wool from San Francisco around OCape Horn on account of high freights. The Pepperell mill, in Maine, has just divided a half mil- lion dollars in dividends and has a million dollars left. Five national labor unions have been hold- ing sessions throughout the past week—the printers at Buffalo, the shoemakers at Brockton, the iron workers at Pittsburg, and the machinery workers and miners at Cin- cinnatl. There were 200,000 shoemakers said tobe represented through 150 delegates at Brockton. The iron workers had 150 dele- gates. Racing shells and other boats are now made of paper at Lansingburgh, N. Y. One boat has been built as large as 42 feet long by 4 teet 4 inches beam, to hold forty-two per- sons; and a steam launch 19 feet long, worked by a one-horse power oil engine, boat and engine together weighing but 430" pounds, 'was last fall successfully run ata speed of about ten miles per hour on the upper Hud- son. The cost is something above that of wood. —— A Great Opening. Philadelphia North-American. Father McGlynn’s mouth has reopen ed for the summer seaso) Journ: n in Texas. Waco Advocate, All subscribers, it is hoped, will pay promptly. If there ever was a concern that needed money, that concern is the Dally Ad- vocate. Itstarted on nothing, and so far has been living on what it started on. g e A Blunt Dakota Man. Dakota Bell. A Blunt, Dak,, man pulled a tooth the other day by putting a string around it, tying the string to a 'mng in the floor and then raising himself tp by his boot-straps. ‘This summer seems té be a good one for some of the worst lies that ever disgraced civiliza- tion, 2 e New Styles in Scalp Lifting, Chicago' Herald ‘The Apaches now on the war-path in Arizona ought to show up a little better in & scientific point of view than their predeces- sors. They are led by a young savage who was educated at government expense at the Hampton school. Of course he will cut off scalps in a thoronghly civilized fashion. ————— A Vanished Boom. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Government island—a tract of about _torty acres tn the Missouri river, opposite Kansas City—was entirely washed out of sight a few nights ago by a sudden rise of the tur- bulent waters. 1t had, we presume, been sold to a New York syndicate several days before for several millions. It lived through the real estate boom, but the river boom was too much for it. ——— Gnawinga File. Bloomington Guard. The Omaha Republican continues ts un- called for and contemptable attacks on Gov- ernor Thayer. Editor Rothacker desired an apvointment that Goveruor Thayer declin ed to give him, hence the whirlwind of ea- lumny and detraction against the old hero, but his onsloughts on Governor Thayer re- mind tbe people of the viper gnawing ata fite, — Mud Batteries Silenced. Yalls City Journal. Governor Thaver has effectually sllenced the batteries of those Omaha newspapers that have been attacking him for his efforts in favor of good government in Omaba. Their slanders are manifestly absurd and their animus 8 80 apparent that they have been treated with silent contempt by the whole state. The people heartily support the governor’s position in this matter because they are all interested in an eflicient police force in Omaha. We all have to do business there and we want protection from the thugs and gamblers who have infested Omaha so lonz and who are still trying to hold their grip notwithstanding the new state laws and the determination of the governor that they must go, Governor Thayer will not be bullied or frightened by the Omaha outfit. —_ Keep Out of the Past. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Keep out of the past, for its highways Are damp with wmalarial gloow, Its gardens are serv and its forests are drear, And everywhere molders g tomb. Who seeks to regain its lost bleasures Finds only a rose turned to dust, And its storehouse of wonderful treasures Is covered and coated with rust. Keep out of the pest, it 18 haunted, He who in its avenues gropes Shall find there the ghost of a joy prized the most, And a skeleton thronz of dead hopes. In place of its beautifhl rivers Lie pools that are stavnant with slime, And those graves gleaming bright on the phosphorous light Cover dreams that were slain in their prime. Keep out of the past!'it Is lonely * And barren and bleak to the view, Its fln:sl have grown cold and its stories are old— ‘Turn, turn to tho present, the new | To-day leads you up to the bill tops ‘That are kissed by the ra diant sun, ‘To-day shows no tomb—all life’s hopes in loom— - And to-day holds afize to be won. STATE AND -;ER“ITO“Y. Nebraska Jottings. Corn is stalking now. Henry Christian, aged seventeen, was drowned in the treacherous Platte at Grand Island a few days ago. A Kansas City railroad company is skirmishing for bonds 1n Gage county. It promises ore on par with an empty purse. James C. Fificld, a Nebraska boy, gruduwd with high honors from the Johns Hopkius university in Baltimore, Tuesday. Bill Harrison, a white erook, and Harry Anderson, a colored jimmie, who held up divers and sundry residents of Benklemen, wero transported to the pen ’l‘ue!:day. to serve & three year term each. Mrs. James Martin, a Grand Island lndH gazed mlmiring‘l’y at a loaded and bril lnmly lighted window of a town dry goods store. " Mistaking 1t for the door she stepped in aud took a section of the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY. 16, 1887, rhu with het. - Her pocket book Was In- ured to the extent of $5. A flash ot lightning touched Captain James D. Head, at Glenville, Adams county, Monday, killing him _instantly and burning the clothing on his bol‘n‘ly' He was forty-six years of age and highly esteemed in the neighborhood. Beatrice suryived the first dose of Sun- day closing, The church bell and the ngle of the contribution box alone dis- turbed the cemetery silence that pre. vailed. Not even a soda fizz could be had to irrigate the solemn occasion. Conductor_Carter, of the B. & M., of- ficiated as witness at the marriage of a middle-aged couple on his train a fow days ago, The groom’s name was Mun- son, and the bride veiled her identity in o cloud of natural blushes. A car load of merry passcngers formed & unique perspective for the picture, and their congratulations and well-wishes werc unstinted. Engineer O'Connor tumbled onto the ceremony, and played a lusty waddlnf march on the whistle. The couple left the train at Ashland. lowa 1tems. Dubuque will haye a fire alarm system within thirty days. Quite a number of Atlantic people will join the communistic colony in Washing- ton ternitory. Several Iowa distilleries are looking for new locations, mellowed with bo- nuses and peuonn‘l liberty. The strike of the Des Moines oigar- makers came to an end Saturday, the men and employers meeting half way. Perry peovle are considering a propo- sition to light the town with gas,and also are making efforts to have a canning fac- tory established in the town. The proprictor of a New Hampshire boot and shoe factory,employing 200 men, contemplates removal to Gowrie in order to got lower rents and reduce the cost of living. Members of the ‘‘profesh’ in Des Moines have organized a Press club. Like their Omaha brethren they have signed the constitution and deliberated on by-laws, but the test of strength— payment of the initiation fee—is yet to come. The tax voted in aid of the Davenport, Iowa & Dakota railroad will revert to the people unless construction is commenced within o few months, and the business men of Davenport propose to subscribe suflicient stock to cominence operations. The Irish saloonkeepers of Dubuque played a match gamc of base ball on Kri- day with the Dutch dolers of drinks. The game demonstrated that the Irishmen were as handy with the bat. and the emi- rants from ‘‘der faderland” were owned. Dakota. Deadwood business men have been in- vesting heavily in real estate in anticipa- tion of a boom. Deadwood is moving energetically to sccure the establishment of reduction works in that town, The gas well near Blunt is counted upon as suflicient to furnish that town with light and fuel for the future. Small chunks of coal have come to the surface of the artesian well at Yankton, and the mute appeal to dig deeper will be heeded. The flow of the new monster artesian well at Yankton scems to increase daily, and it is now claimed to be the largest of any well 1n the world—3,000 gallons per minute, A wonderful cave has been discovered near Bakerville, in the Black Hills. It is said to be larger than the “Cave of the r_des," and abounds in natural curiosi- ies. Railroad authorities have promised a Deadwood delegation that within two weeks a surveying party will survey lines and routes from or near Sturgis to Dead- wood, after which the company would further consider matters. The ran of last weok rofreshed the soil of all of southeast Dakota and crops are responding with alacrity over that gricultural’ domain. The 8snows in the mountains are melting, the Missouri is filling its banks, evaporation is in pro- gress along the eastern slope of the range and is precipitating itself upon the plains in the form of rain. ———— MORTUARY MATTERS. Something About Those of Omaha Who are Lately Deceased. Dr. Douglas A. Joy, whose serious ill- ness from mflammation of the bowels w! mentioned in Tuesday even- ing’s Ber, died yesterday morn- ing at 4:30 o'clock, at the resi- dence, No. 2823 St. Mary's avenue. Dr, Joy came to Omaha but a short time ago from Marshull, Mich. He was con- sidered an excellent practitioner by the members of his profession. He was thirty-three years of age and was taken ill last Friday night. ‘(he relatives of the deceased physician arrived this morning and the body will be embalmed and re- turned to Marshall for interment, MARRIED. A Young Typo of Omaha Joined toa Burlington Lady. Mr. Ed Wheelan, of this city, and Miss Ella McDonough, of Burlington, were united in marriage at St. Philomena's cathedral yesterday morning during a nuptial mass by Father MeCarthy. A num ber of friends of the bride and groom wit- nassed the ceremony. Mr. Wheclan is a compositor on the Evening BeEg, andoccu- pies a high position in the estimation of his associates. The well wishos of friends, both in the oflice and without, are extended for the future happiness and success of both himself and bride. S An Iron God. Crete Vidette: For the past fifteen years the political 1dolaters of Lincoln have fallen upon their knees and rever- ently worshipped their iron god. They have beaten their breasts and sent up prayerful cadences through the smoke- stack of this same god. Their caucuses, conventions and elections have been called together and run by thissame god, whenever the voice string was pulled by Marquette. Holdredge or Perkins—aide de camps of this iron god. Now as the water is getting low in the fountain,und the griudiog bogins o grind " the rinded these idolaters are ooking around for a new mecea and another god. Their mournings can be heard above the storm, and the com- plaints of the Democrat fairly tell the story of a people who have fawningly submitted to the dictates of an iron god for over a decade. They call upon the managers of this iron Fod with the voice of David, “Help, Oh, help, or we are lost.” The ears of this gzod are deaf, his tongue is mute, and his heart is seared with thick coatings of a saline substance. The day of salvation 1s past and the idolators cannot look to this iron‘zoll as their modern panacea. If he had the voice of an angel he might speak, or if nhe haa an Angelo he might grab a scrub oak from out the banks of the Antelope and dipping it into the 2,000 foot bore, write upon the blue vault of heayen, in lotters omalty rharpness, these words: *‘Oh, Lincoln, thou hast served me well. But my promise must be broken. 1 cannot give you the machine shops, but I will 5:! [y pholozrn{\n of my shops at Hol- edge and wi the power of 1 hang them on the high. est point of the depot at Lincoln, that the idolaters may sce what they would have reccived bad I not been a decittu!, 8 ly ing and a flattering god.”’ ESCAPED IN MALE ATTIRE, Fate of Young Gitls Lured to Salt Lake from Abroad. Eleanor Paston’s Bitter Experience in the Mormon Capital=Freed by a Kind Hearted KEider ~Mormonism, New York Morning Journal: A pretty, but rather forlorn- looking young woman of twenty was found wandering in a be- wildered manner about the Pennsylyania depot in Jersey City yesterday afternoon by Ofticer Brennan. He inquired what her trouble was. She replied that she wanted to go to the hduse of Mrs. Griffin on South Eighth street, D., and that she did not know the way. The officor asked her where she came from and she replied: “From Salt Lake City.” “‘Alone?” “No, sir; not all of the way; my com- panion, a young lady, left me at Omaha.'" The ofticor became 1nterested and after somo questioning the young woman said that several months ago Elder Bascom and several other Mormons went to Eng- Iand in search of converts. Inatown near Cornwall the young woman liyed, Her name was Eleanor Paston. She and sixteen other young women became con- verts and were brought to this country by the elders und taken to Salt Lake City. Eleanor and Ameclia Clegg, another of the converts, were assignedto the home of Elder Bascom. He had three wives living with him,the eldest,Hannah,a gray-haired old woman, Hannah made it warm for the girls and warmer for her long white-whiskered, patriarchial husband, When he announced to her that he in- tended to have the two girls sealed to him she became enraged and_threatened them with violence. Ameclia fainted glad eyos have openod upon the green flolds and still waters, were none are ever weary or sickb : Whose earth-worn feet] have climbed the shining heights and entered upon the Jjourney of the new world? This mourning mousmrcf has a story to tell; why should I so dread to hear it? _Slowly I'oven the dark-bordercd mis- sive and unfold the somber sheet within, it is a fami name, albeit astran. ger writes the news It is the friend of my youth, the beloved one, who has first crossed the dark viver, the companion of kappy years that are past leaving me a mple message: ‘Meet me in the morning.'* Well, after all, death is the only crown of life! What is excollent, As God lives Is permanenant: Hearts are dust, heart’s loves remain Heart’s love will meet thee again. _To-day’s mail has boen an event of m‘ life, and not in mine alone. This sad visaged letter has carried its burden of gorrow all along the line, ike & message from the doad. It has aroused patlfetic memories in other hearts that have mourned. The sorting clerk bestows a thought of sympathy on the unknown who sor- rows, and his voice has a more kindly T, five eancelling clerk remembers the vacant chair at his own fireside and won- ders if somebody's darling had gone into the Forever, The carrier—torbidden by his eallin, to wear the outward sembiance of grief —mourns for a sweet child-hfe that has just faded out in his home, and is less gruff and more patient for het sake. Even the little maid who brings it to me has a less impetuous quality in her voice a8 she asks: “Ess it anybody you for very much care, madame?” So [come to think that fashion has not done a foolish thingin giving to the news of “Mine ain countres the livery of death, since it prepares us for the great- est of all great surprises, and draws hearts togethicr as it passes from hand to hand, even though it has been writ by the ‘*‘expert finger of ealamitie.” away when told that she must marry the ancient suitor, and Eleanor declared that they had been deceived. The girls slept together on the second floor. During the night of the day they received the news of their coming fate they eftected their escape from the house and fled through street after street until they were in sight of the tabernacle. It was daylight by this time and, fearing detection, they went into an n\luy to secrete themselves. ‘This alley led to the yard of Elder Junius F. Wells, an aged wan, who is high up in Mormonism. While the tired girls huddled them- selves together to avoid observing eyes Elder Wells came from hi3 and through the nlle‘y; He saw the girls and asked them what they were doing there. Both began to cry bitterly, and Eleator told her story truthfully. The old patriarch felt pity for them. He said if they would not betray him he would save them, He took them to Mis barn, clothed them in the male garments of farm- hands and walked with them to the depot. While standing on the plat- form waiting for the arrival of the train Elder Bascom came there. He fi:\mml from the exertion of his rapid walk. He asked Elder Wells it he had seen the two irls, and being assured that he had not ascom walked away, almost touching Eleanor as he passed. A moment later the train a . The two girls were handed tickets and placed on board, When far from the influence of Salt Lake City they made known their story to some ladies on the cars who aided them to attire themselves properly. At Umaha Amelia was told by a lady whose husband is proprietor of a hotel, that if she would like to work as u servant there she could. The friendless girl was glad of the op- portunity and availed herseif of it. Eleanor decided to tzu in search of Mrs, Griflin, whom she had known in Eng- land. She knew that she lived some- where on South Eighth strect, Brooklyn, E. D., but that was all, Officer Brennan placed her in the charge of a man going to Brooklyn, whom he knew, and who promised” to see that the girl found her friend. ittt How Big Salaries Are Earned. Davenport Domocrat: It ia said that Thomas J. Potter, vice-prosident and general manager of the Chicago, Burling- ton & Quincy railroad, has beon_receiv- ing a salary of £35,000 a year. Itis fur- ther reported that ‘as general manager of the Union Pacific railroad he has signed o contract for five ycars atan annual compensation of $30,000 a year. These figures to some may appear to be enor- mously beyond the avility of any man to return an equivalent in time or work. ‘Fo others the Iarzer of these sums will scom small when the responsibility of the posi- tion is fully considered. It is an afiair of dmly occurrence, S0 common that no at- tention is paid toit, for an employe to receive a salary of $1,000 a year for superintending the management of a business whose aggregate for a year -may fall below $20,000. There are many men who receive $2,000 a year for di- recting a business whose volume docs not in the course of a year reach $10,000, Mr, Potter, as the exccutive head of the Union Pacifie railroad, will be the direct representative of a corporation whose capital stock runs up into tho millions ot dollars. An insigniticant per cent of this enormous aggregate pays his salary of $50,000 a year. If he has the ability to handic millions of doliars in such a way that a satisfactory profit is returned to the stockholders, then his ry is small in comparison with that of another of- ficer who in controlling the samo busi- ness fails to make the receipts overbal- ance tho oxpeuses. It is from this stand- point that the servicesof the great rail- road manager must be measured. There are very few men capable of grasping the detuls of & large business, and they are therefore in a position to command large compensations. At the same time the stockholders of the corporation are lmlivi(lnnllyNImylnR no more for the services of Mr. Potter than some vastly smaller business house or factory is pay- ing its superintendent who receives a sal- ary of $2.000 a year. There are those who contend that no man can $30,000 a year by honest wor would be true if the work wa to digging ditches or to holii There are thousands who ¢ nary kinds of work and st: do it for day laborers’ wages. There are very fow men endowed by nature with confined @ a plow 2 do ordi- d ready to the genins of direeting the afiairs of an immense concern 8 Hercin lies the difference. ‘The Livery of Death. Mrs. M. L. Byme in Evil news rldes post, Detioit Free Preas. ile good news baits, Samson Agonistes. Ten o'clock! I waich unxiously from my window, for isis the hour when the gray-conted messenger of the people makes his daily appearance. He comes, and with a pleased expee- tancy I look for to-duy’ The white-winged carriers of news flutter in s hands as he tarns them over, Al! there ia one with a heavy blaek bor ill have mournful news y t 4 For me? dead ambassador of fato is laid in my hand, And I had seliishly av inward prayer of congrati- Pansing, descended, and with volee div! Whispered a word nad asound of d I hesitate to break the heavy blag ‘The superseription is that of a strange hand. Ah! what friend beloved has passed through that ever opening door, *‘whose curtain never outward swings?' Whose —~— An Omaha Sleeping Car Porter. Chicago Herald: “There is one sleep- ing car porter in this country who'll not die poor, if thrift and smartness count for anything,” said a gentleman who has just returned from a trip to California. *'Soon after we left Omaha the porter of our car began to talk base ball and to let us all know that he was a base bal crank, He grew rather familiar, too, considoring Iiis station, but nobody ob: jocted, for it is always best on cross- country trip to keep on the good side of the porter. Among the passengers were several gentlemen who take a little inter- est in base ball, and so, nlon% in the afternoon, when the porter told about the sport some passengers had had the the week before, and suggested "]_m’ to kill ime’ we imitate their example, ‘the emmen makin’ up a base ball pool at 5 a guess, de gemman guessin’ the clostist to the way the fo' league games comes out to take de pot.’ there were seven responses. After the money had been paid into the hands of one who was selected to act as stakeholder, and the subscribers had written out their guesses and signed their names to them, the porter humbly asked permission to' come in. Though we all thought the chap was dis- playing considerable freshness so long as he fu\l suggested the scheme, in which we had begun to take a good deal of in- terest, there was no one to object. So the porter put up his #5 and filed his guess with the stake-holder. The next day we got a paper at Uh"(’lm‘"e' and you can imagine how surprised we were when we discovered that only one man in the varty had named the four winners, and that man the porter, The way the fellow grinned when he put the $40 away in lus ocket made me feel suspicious, and go, ater on, when another pool of the same kind was proposed decided to stay out and keep an eye on the porter. About 8 o'clock the train stopped at a littlo station and 1 saw the porter mak- g a break for the telegraph office. When he came out he had a message. which ho was reading eagorly. He sat down 1n tne smoking car and scribled something on a piece of paper, carefully consulting his message as he did so, and then walked back to the slceping-car, remarking that he'd ‘give the gemmen a chance to git a pa't of the stuff back,’ and deposited with the stakeholder a #5 bill and the slip of paper I'd scen him writing on in the smoking-car. “Having found out what his game was I'took the stakeholder to one side and smd to him: ‘This dnrkcy is punkoing us. Itisnow after 3 o'clock. In New York and Boston it 1s after 5. Th F:um-s have been rlnyc:l. We haven' seen thinking of that, butthis darkey has, He has just recewed n message telling him which clubs won, and has named those clubs here and expects to take our money, just as he did yester- day." *'So the stakeholder and I took out all the guesses, changed them all to read the same clubs that the porter had named, and put them back. Then we posted the other fellows. Next day when the re- turns were opened and it was found that each guesser had named the four win- ners, 1t was worth five times $5 apiece to us to sce the expressions which chased each other up and down that shrewd darky’s face.”” . A Boomlet at Large. Chicago Mail: Somebody broke into Kansas City about ten days since and carried off its boom. The same miscreant 18 now supposed to be operating in the neighhorhood of Omaha. If you see any- thing in the nature of alittle boom hurry- mg around the street corners here, with its elbow out and its uppers on the ground, please pick it up and forward it to the Kansas City Times oflice. - Lt Mr. J. F. Blutt1s about to move to Pom- ora, Cal., thirty-three miles east of Los Angeles. AN’S MAGNOLIA BALW 15 exquisitely Lovely,” sald Miss Brown to her fricnds, as she outered tho drawiug room, after tant rutiet fian Sallowncse, Morrld Old ki by a Tot Nun and Dry, Ladies, MACNOLIA BALM s for Faee, Neck, Arme aud liands, b eautic Detected. 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