Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 9, 1887, Page 2

— (% | | | ' Wandered Away While Demented. Lo plightly demented, wandered away from bout $7,000; insurance $2,800 on stock— | 1,000 In the Phonix of Hartford, £1,000 in he Home of New York. On the mnlnlnf— 400 in the North Awerican and $400 in the ingara, The fire Is belieyed to be of in- cendisry origin, —— NEBRASKA Ciry, Neb, July 8—[Speeial Telegram to the Brk.]—James Greenwood, pon of Judge J. T. Greenwood, who 1s home last Tuesday and has not been heard from since. He was last seen near tie river nd it is feared walked in and was drowned lfl;“hlhar offers a large reward for any trace of him. v ——— Swedish Lutherans in Session. OAKLAND, Neb.,, July 8.—[Special to the Bre.|—The Swedish Lutheran missionary synod of Nebraska, which meets annually, eonvened to-day at the Sweaish missionary thurch eight miles southwest of h.2y. A Ereat nun{ preachers from over the state and also from fowa and Kansas are in attendahce. ot i “OLEVELAN COWAR DICE." DComments of the New York Press on His 8t. Louis Letter, New Yonrk, July 8.—|Special Telogram to the Bek.|—Following are the editoiral comments of some of tha New York papers on the letter of President Cleveland made public yesterday. The World says: *"I'he president’s chief excuse is that he can- not subject his high oflice, the dignity of which he must protect, to insalt. Most American citizens will decline to view the matter from Mr. Cleveland’s standpoint. The idea that It is necessary for a president of the Unitad States to stay away from one of the chief cities in the country to which he had been invited in & marked manuer by its oltizens for fear of insult to his oflice is not one that will be seriously entertained.” *“T'he president’s conduct will be interpreted A8 cowardly. People rapidly lose respect for 8 chief magistrate who can be turned from his path by such Insignificant, self-seeking men as these who will now exult over Mr. Cleveland. And it was not Grover Cleve- land who was invited to St. Louis by an marmy of hospitable citizens, but the lesfihnt of the United States. As president he would have been protected from insult. Cleveland does not seem to understand the spirit of the American people, Suppose Andrew Jack- n while president had accepted an invita- lon to go somewhere, how many threats ot nsult would it have taken to deter him trom I8 purrme.‘" ‘The Times says: *“The dignified, patriotie letter of the president withdrawing his ac- ceptance of the invitation to visit St. Louis during the encampment there of the Grand Army of the Republic is calculated to ake that organization ashamed of the con uct of some of its conspicnous members. hile he speaks of the organization with the tmost respect and refuses to belleve that it s responsible for the unworthy utterances hat have induced him to reconsider his in- ntion of visiting St. Louis, it is to be feared that the entire incldent will tend to lower the Grand Army in the esteem and Eupoc& of the country at large. It will not urt the president, but there is danger that it will burt an organization made up of reterans whom people have every reason to honor and every desire to honor. The Tribune says: “It will be read with nmghfll feelings of amazement and oon- mpt by friends and foes alike. The presi- dent has in truth made a bad matter ina Hinitely worse by refusing to go to St. Louis Lml by offering the sniveling excuse con- ined in this letter.” In an_intervisw In the Times Carl hurz, George W. Curtis and Generals lohn Newton, W. W. Averill and D. E. ickles, ngprovc the president’s letter to the mayor of St. Louis, ‘The Washington dispatch to the Tribune Jays the president’s withdrawal of accept- Won 18 regarded by the Grand Army men in ashington generally as a happy " deliver- nce. They are so glad that he has decided ot to attend that they are not disposed to be npllous in regard to the terms 1n which he nounces his purpose. ‘Will Stop at Utica. UTicA, July 8.—Word has been recelved )here to-night from the president that in def- :uneawlhe wishes of a larze number of itizens of Uttea he and Mrs. Claveland will Mop In this city Wednesday evening, July 13, Mter his return from the Clinton centennial pelebration, and will fl 8 _reception to the itizens. e will leave Washington for hew York on Mnndy. After his stay in tica he will zo with Mrs. Cleveland to For- tport to visit his brother, Rev. W. leveland. _ On = Tuesday he will be El Holland Patent with his sister, Rose Eliza- th Cleveland. He will spend some few at Forestport. Misreprosented. UTicA, N.Y., July 8.—The officers of Jhree of the G. A. R. posts in Utica Jay that they aro misrepresented by the re- rt that their posts have decided not to go Elhe Clinton Centennial if Presidext Cleve- ind attends. Two of the posts have not yet heted on the invitation and the third decided hot to attend for want of members who could ponveniently go. BOYCOTT TH GAMBLERS, Powderly Vigorously Denounces Grain and Produce Manipulatic PHRILADELPHIA, July 8.—[Special Tele- Ellll tothe BkE.|—General Master Work- an Powderly, In the Journal of United r, pays his respects to graln and stock ors in & vigorous wanner. Referring to recent corners in coffee and wheat, Mr. 'owderly says: *The lesson taught our embers by the experience of the past six ks I3 to keop their eyes open and to keep m turned toward the produce exchanges New York, Chicago aud other large cities, d the moment the grain or produce gam- stacks the cards and anoounces that jere i a scarcity in a certain article of food, »nd that prices go up in consequence, ever mber should resolve, and resolye out loud, at until the unhallowed hand of the specu- has been removed from the control of article in question, not a pound ner an punce more than can be avoided will be pur- L, Thi be regarded in the light yoott notice, That is exactly whal d It for, and bad I the power vested in me to wake the order imperative I would prder every member, 80 far as in him lies tha ywer, to place an eternal boycott on every in and stock gambler in the United States and Canada.” ————— Bullding Trades Trouble Over. CHICAGO, July 8.—The work of the arbi- tration committee of the master masons and pricklayers was completed to-day, and the long struggle is nearly at an end. The re- rt was presented to the meeting of the jeklayers’ union to-night and unanimously adopted. The master masons will doubtless Fln favorably upon it towmorrow. Itde- jared that the main cause of the trouble be- the contractors and employes was the fact that the organization of eachendeavored %o lay down arbitrary rules for the regulation of matters which should be regulated only by mutual action. A joint standing com- mittee, to be elected annually, is therefore nn to settle vital questions and griey- ces. Walking delegates are virtually abolished, but foremen must still be union n, and the eicht-hour day is conceded by umpire, Judge ['uley, as in accordance with the law and spirit of progress. B — Weather Indications. For Nebraska: Fair weather, northerly ‘winds, becoming variable, slight chauges in temperature, For lowa: Fair weather, westerly winds in porthern portion, northerly winds in western portion, slight chauges in tewper- tul ‘l‘m Central and Eastern Dakota: Fair weather, slight chances in tembperature, portherly winds bocoming varlable in north- ern portio B — Ald Kor the Evicted, Nxw YoRK, July 8.—A telegram was re- eslved by Eugene Kelly to-day from Parnell shanking him for the opportune rezittance of £5,000 which had bevn turned overto the evigted tenants’ relief fund. The dispatch there was more need in this direction han before, evictions have alarm- [l and are being stimulated by erimes dill. e Seven Porwons Oremated. Loxpon, July 8.—A farm house at Ardus- hoe, Buteschire, Scotland, burned Iast night thres women aud four men, servauts, cremated. HE DID IT IN SELF-DEFENSE. A Jury 8o Declares Regarding the Oele: brated Oross-McKune Tragedy. DR. CROSS FOUND NOT GUILTY, After Lying In the Shadow ~f the Gallows He is At Last Trium- phantly Acquitted—A History of the Case. Found Not Guilty. RED OAK, 1a., July 8.—[Special Telogram to the Bek.|—This morning brought toa conclusion the most celebrated criminal case that has been before the courts of lowa dur- ing the past five years, On the evening of September 24, 1883, Drs. A. B. McKune and E. D. Cross, two prom- inent physicians, met on First avenue, Coun- cil Bluffs, and an altercation ensued in which Dr. MeKune was killed by Dr. Cross. A preliminary examination was had, and Dr. Cross was held to answer for murder without bail. The first trial was at Glenwood, la., in March, 1834. He was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged June 18, 1885, While In solitary confinement in Fort Madison waiting the day of execution his case was taken to the supreme court, and a new trial granted because of erroneous ruls ings by the court thatsentenced him, There- upon the case was brought to Red Oak. Monteomery county, foranothertrial, and he vas released from' confinement by giving He putin apleaof self-defense. The case was called up for trial here June 2, and turned over to the jury last night. They promptly handed in" a'verdict of not guilty this worning. ‘The case was most persistently prosecuted by &n‘lv & Pusey and Colonel Dailey, of Council Bluffs, and R. W. Beeson and C. . Richards, of Red Oak, while the defense, as the verdict shows was most ably and eficient- 1y represented by Judge A.V.Larimer, Hon. J.Y. Stone, Hon. A.R Anderson, lon.Smith McPherson and J. M. Junkin, The conduet of the defense devolved principally upon McPherson whose success in the manipula- tion ot witnesses places him without a peer as a criminai lawyer. in the state. Stone'’s and Anderson’s addresses to the jury si tained their reputations as being the most eloquent pleaders and_advocates. The trial attracted large crowds to the and the ve ceded just. court house, ict of the jury is zenerally con- General 'l‘llltll!_ Views. DEs MoINEs, Ia., July 8.--General Tuttle, commander of the Grand Army of the Re; public for Iowa, who has been absent from the city several days returned this evening and was asked what he thought of Cleve- land’s refusal to visit the St. Louis encamp- meut. Hesaid: “Cleveland’s back down 1s 80 complete thatfwe don’t feel like exulting, but It was the wisest and best thing he could do. I seehe attempts to get sympathy by insinuating that threats of violence had been made against him. 1 can say that no threats of violence were ever made or even dreamed of. The old soldiers do notneed to throw bricks in order to show their contempt. I have had letters by the bushel from all parts of the United States, and 1 believe that 90 }:ur cent of the old soldiers were opposed to having him review them at their encamp- ment. As to the suggestions from St. Louis that the citizens wul treat the Grand Army of the Republic with ineivility 1 can say that the old soldiers ask no fayors of St i and do not go there for that erpo are not a set of politicians and th all the entertainment they want in renewing and strengthening the ties of fraternal as- sociation.” Fatal Mine Explosion. Des MoiNgs, Ia, July 8.—|Special Tele- gram to the BEE.|—An Oskaloosa special says: A fatal explosion occurred here this afternoon in shaft No. 2 of the Excelsior coal mine. One man, Henluska, was fatally injured. Gus Thompson was badly burned and had some bomes broken. Short, the ‘master mechanic, was thrown over thirty feet throuzh the air and landed in the reser- vi“vl:.' ‘The damage to property 1s not exten- s Short in His Accounts. RarID CITY, Dak., July 8,—|Special Tele- gram io the Bek.|—Traveliug Auditor Moses of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missourl Valley road, has been examining the accounts of George E. Halr, ex-agent of the company at Buffalo Gap. The result was the discovery of ashortage of $745. Hair was arrested to- dav and will have a preliminary hearing. Halr lost money trying to catch five aces, but the pack wouldn’t hold out, e The Mormon War in South Carolina. CHARLESTON, 8. C., July 8.—[Special Tel- —Mormon missionaries in the upper portion of this state for several years, where some of the whites are very ignorant and illiterate, and have made many converts. Last Sunday as a Methodist minister, Rev. William Wright, was leaving the church buillaing used in turn by varlous denominations he was assailed in n violent manner by a Mormon elder, Joseph ‘Thorp, who was soon surrounded by his new converts and sympathizers in such numbers that the situation looked alarming, Knives were drawn and flourished trul{, but no blows were passed. On Tuesday the sheriff arrested 'Thorp and five ot his converts, who were locked up on the charge of conspiracy to disturb a religious meeting. 'l‘gll is thought to be only the beginning of a relig- fous war. The Mormon eonverts threaten to reacue the prisoners, while a number of other religious denominations threaten to run the Mormons out of the country. Free TextdBooks. BURLINGTON, Vt., July 8.—To-day was the last day ot the meeting of the American Institute of Instruction. Thomas Emerson, of Newton, Mass, read a paper on “Free Text Books.” There are twenty states that have not yet made any provision for free text books, even for indigent children; in seven others there are laws allowing cities and towns at their option to furnish free text books: in Massachusetts only is there a compulsory law. Ewmerson showed the suc- cess that had attended the practical working of the system in the several states in which it was in overation. Resolutions were ado) favoring federal aid to education against trades teaching in the public schools and expressing satisfaction with the growth of public sentiment in behalf of higher pro- fessional training of school teachers. W. 8, Montgomery (colored) supervisor of schools in Washington, D. ©C., inan eloquent ad- dress, favored federal ald for public schools Auother St. Loufs Invitation. 8. Louts, July 8.—The mass meeting of citizens, called yesterday to meet at the Merchants’ exchange to-day to take public action In regard toinviting President Cleve- 1and to visit St.Louis in autumn.adopted the following: The people of 8t. Louis, assem- bled at public meeting, called for the purpose and held at the Merchants' exchange, July 8, 1897, respectfully and earnestly extend to the president of the United States and to Mrs. Cleveland an invitation to visit this city and become its guests for the week com- menecing October 2, 1887, In doing so they beg leave to urge on the president their de- sire to give him a welcome that will demon- strate the respect and love they have for him as a public ofticer and as & man.” ‘The mayor ana a committec of Lifty to be selected by him are appointed to proceed to Washington and deliver this invitation to the president. - intirely Indifferent. VIENNA, July 8.—The attitude of the gov- ernment cf Austria is one of entire indiffer- ence concerming tha election of Prince Ferdinand as prineco of Bulgaria. Count Kalnoky, the Austro-Hungarian prime min- ister, while returning from a visit to Mo- ravia, will meet Prince Ferdinand at Bur- charest. The press is a unit in congratulat- a U ing she people of Bulgal pon the election of Ferdinand. R lnspection of Vessels, Rowmg, July 8&—The government has or- dered the inspection of all vessels from Rochells, Calabria and Catania, Sieily, that way srive st ltalian ports. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. JULY 9. 1887 A FRISCO SATION. One of Henry Ward Beecher’s Sons Charged With a Big Swindle. SAN Fraxcisco, July 8.—The Chronicle devotes two pages to letters and affidavits found among the pavers of the late Abner L. Blake, formerly a deputy collector at Port Townsend, W. T, who died under mysteri- ous circumstances in Chicaco last May, while on his way to Washington. The arti- ele shows that Blake held the opinion that H. T. Beecher, a son of Henry Ward Beecher, and formerly eollector at Port Townsend, had withheld from an informer the amount due him Krnwinf out of alarge seizure of opium made. It will be remembered, Iast year, it was_shown that $16,000 should have been paid the informer instead of which a “*‘dummy” was paid $130, These and many other charges were mads by Blake to the officials at Washinzton and, no attention being paid, he started east with the documents in his possession. Several serious charges are made against Beecher in the af- fidavits, such as the misuse of government money, ete. A letter from the informer, George Rouse, charges that Blake was in- duced to sln(’ over 1n Chicago, and while there met with foul play, to prevent the proposed exposure. CHICAGO, July 8.—A. L. Blake, whose sup- posed murder under sensational cireum: stances is mentioned in to-night’s Associated Fll‘s! dispatches from San Frangisco, was ound on the morning of May 20 at the union depot in this city in an unconscious condi- tion. He was removed to the police station and afterward to_tha insane department of the county Jail. The physician who examined him said he was suffering from concussion of the brain or narcotie poisoning, The man never fully rallied and finally died at the county hospital, whence he was oved when the (‘olllllgl' physician haa examined him, Papers on his person indicated that he was on his way east to prefor charges auainst Collector Beecher. But little or no attention was paid to the matter at the time. ———— SOMETHING OF A CHESTNUT. No Fear That Powderly Will Kesign His Office. NEw York, July 8,—|Special Telegram to the Ber.)—Powderly’s reported anmounce- ment that he will resign his office of general master workman of the Knights of Labor at the next meeting of the general assembly in October, instead of waiting until 1838, when his term expires, has a familiar sound to the knights, It is not regarded seriously. John Morrison, master workman of the carpet workers expelled, district 126, said yester- day: ‘‘This resignation of General Master Workman Powderly is a time-honored, gray- haired, gray-bearded chestnut. One of the first thiugs 1 heard when I came into the order was that Powderly was going to resign, and he has been resigning upon every erit- fcal juucture since.” John Swinton said : “As long as I can re- mumber Powderly has been resigning, ‘L'he trouble is the job is too big for him, and every year he I5 made to feel it more and more. 'The yast organization of the Knights of Labor is going to pieces. But the labor movement is not dependent upon any one man or two men, It will go on without Powderly or Gnnrfi and the wrongs work- ingmen suffer will remedied, no matter whether the present leaders go by the board or not.” Mr, Swinton thought ‘that S. M. Wheat, of Iowa, was a zood man for I’ow- derly’s shoes, but there seems to be some technical objection to him. He has not been elected a delezate of the general assembly heretofore. ey Prince Ferdinand Accepts. TIERNOVA, July 8,—Prince Ferdinand, of Saxe-Coburn-Gotha, replying to the Sa- brange dispateh informing him of his elec- tion as prince of Bulgaria. accepts and says he is proud of the honor conferred upon him and grateful forit, - New York Dry Goods Market, New Yorg, July 8.—For staple, colored and cottons inquiry was of good proportion to stocks, while for prints and ginchams it was better, the forwardings ot each very full and prices very tirm. For clothing woolens there was little doing. ——r—— Doc Wilson's Mother Dead. PuTNAM, Conn., July 8,—The mother of Doc Levi Wilson, of the famous Wilson- Moen mystery, died at East Thompson, but made no confession concerning Levi's birth befure her death. e Gold Arrives From Europe. NEw YoRk, July 8.—The second importa- tion of gold from Furope this season arrived in two lots, in all about $450,000, r—— The Manchestor Ship Canal. Loxpoy, July 8.—The Manchester ship caual bill passed the lords this afternoon. B Belleof Bourbon Ten-Year-Old Whisky. Mellowed by age. kree from fusil oil. $1.25 per quart bottle at hotel bars or drug stores. Do not be imposed on by a substitute. Beware of poisonous con- coctions. e Dl 3 BROWN—At the Child’s hospital July 8, 1887, Nellie Brown. Funeral tnis (Saturday) afternoon at 2 o'clock p. m. from Burket’s undertaking rooms, 111 North Sixteenth street. Friends invited. — The advertising car of Davis & Cal- vin’s show i3 in the city. The show will not be along until Septembe No hotel in Boston can offer its guests such, large, cool, airy rooms during the summer months, us the Umted States. Its table is unsurpassed and charges are moderate, e A Threatened Craze, New York Commercial Advertiser: Tt must be hoped that the success of Mr. T. S. Baldwir, professor of ballooning, will not lead to & new craze rather more dangerous than hrldfiu jumping. At Quincy, llinois, Mr. Baldwin made the Fourth of July even more glorious than 1t naturally was, by leaping from & ballocn & mile high in the air and land- ing safe and sound on the eath, This fent he accomplished through means of a silken parachute eighteen feet in di- ameter. For the first 200 feet he fell like the sweet lark high poised in air when he hears the note of his mate in her hest in the grass, folds wing and drops at once into her nest. It was lucky for him that his big umbrella bethought herself in time that he was not a lark, and 8o unfolded her wings. Had it not been for this happy thought on the part of his umbrella, Mr. E:nldnin would have fallen to riseno more,and hi body would either have been seattered over a number of acres provor- tionate to his avoirdupois, or it would have been driven so far into the earth that his friends could never have extri- cated it. The reporter who describes Mr. Bald- win's descent says that “the aeronat and his strange apparatus floated steadil down like a bird. 1t wasa grand an. beautiful eight.” This is a reporter's gloss for what was merely an odd spoc- tacle, but the fact that a reporter act- ually did describe the dight as both grand and beautiful, renders it tolerably certain that this summer will witness a host of ambitions aeronauts dropping from balloons like caterpillars from the trees in Central park. Niagara, with its unequaled facilities for shooting rap- ids in peculiarly shaped barrels, will be neglected by the adventurous and brid, no mattor what their height, will be de- serted by their appropriate lunatics. Notning will satisfy the cravings of am- bition but a leap from_a balloon at least o mile up in the air, No valuable mem- bers of society will be lost through the coming craze, except those Eernl num- bers upon whose heads, as they walk be. low, the seronauts whose parachutes fail to work will fall with crushing force and grind to powder, On behalf of people who are content with the lowly walks of life, and do not care to have living meteors shoot down on them from be- yond the clouds, we call a halt before the upward and downward procession gets fully under way. souri Pacific train robbery is an ins OMAHA'S CHIEF OF POLICE. T The Good Work Hband His Assistants Aro Doing, A CITY HOSPIIAL 1S NEEDED. T The Oity Physiéidh Talks Briefly Upon the Subject—A Striko at an End — Geheral News of the, Oity. — Dotng Good Work. At the time of the attack upon Chief of Police Scavey, that officer and also the board of police commissioners sent com- munications to various persons in Cali- fornia inquiring into the record of the chief. The outrageous attacks in the Omaha papers whose editors were dis- appointed in not being appointed on the commission and having their heeler ap- pointed ' chief, of course reached that portion of the Golden state in which Seavey had lived. The result is that letters are now being received by both the chiet and the commission testifying to Seavey's good standing when a eitizen of Santa Barbara, Some of these epistles are in answer to inquiries, and a goodly number are unsolicited. As fast as the chief receives replies to his com- munications or unsolicited letters, he turns them over to the police comuis- sioners, Two of these epistles were re- ceived yesterday, one in answer to a communication of the chief and the other a voluntary letter from the district at- torney of Santa Barbara, Both are strong testimonials of Chief Se: s character as a citizen and a public ofti- cer. Now that the heat of the desperate onslaught on Seavey is at an end, and the schemers have been exposed, there is a growing belief that the sensational story first printed in an obscure Cali- fornia sheet was conceived in this city, and is but the diabolical effort of dis- reputable plotters to further their own ends by blackening the reputation of Seavey. But tho work of the police de- partment since the appointment of Seavey is sufficient refutation of the bold-faced accusations of ineflicicney which the morning papers have continu- ally voiced. Since Seavey has been chief of police there has been no more effective work than he has accomplished, This, too, in the tecth of the most bitter warfare by tne city council upon s department and the most strenuous efforts to cripple that protective arm of the city government. Some of the most notorious crooks in the country have been “‘turned up" under the short administration of Seavey. The arrest of the zang who planned the Mis- ance which alone proves Seavey's efliciency as the head of the police department. Under his direction the best men of the old force have been domg excellent work, and to Seavey, Captgins McDonald and Cormick, Sergeant Mostyn and Detective Harrigan belongs the credit of the capt- ure of the \\'nul&-na train robbers. ‘These desperados, again ot liverty. ley, s hf the way, are he leader, Lew Fo- a notorious ‘“strong-arm” man, He served' a seven-year term in the Illinpis penitentiary at Joliet for highway' robbery. He first came into notoriety in this city by his connection with the Dukes robbery sev- eral years ago. Shortly thereafter he disappeared and only ‘returned a few months ago. His purtner, Eddy Mea- her, alias Harrigan, is a general crook, house oreaking and highway robbery being his special lay. He, together witf\ the others, is given a very ba by the police of Des Moines and other citics. Tom Cavanaugh, whose alias is also Harrigan, is also a very bad crook, whose especial work is highwuy robbery. He is off a piece with the others, George Wilson, the fourth, is perhaps the smoothest of the quartette. He is an all- round thief, and an old timer in crooked work. These four are the principal members of a gang of hard crooks who have been doing most of the work hereabouts. An- other member of the gang was arrested and ordered out of town—Dick Gilhausen ahas Frank Howard, who hails from Peoria, Ill., and who has served several terms. It is a fact worthy of note that since these thieves have been in durance there have been no highway robberies in the city, when previously the eases of this sort averaged one nightly. It is thought that the crowd, now released from jail, have given Omaha the cold shake, and it is well for them that they have. That they have been blocked here is due to the efliciency of the heads of the police de- partment, AT WORK AGAIN, The Bricklayers’ Tenders Accept the Masters' Term The strike of the bricklayers® and plas- ters’ tenders was brought to a termina- tion yesterday afternoon. A number of the union men for the last fow days have evinced a desire to return to work, and at the meeting of the union held at Cun- ningham hall yesterday afternoon a reso- lution was adopted to accept the masters’ offer. Asmatters now stand the mortar men will receive $2.25 per day and the hod carriers $2.00 per day. A large nam- ber of the men returned to work yester- day afternoon, and no doubt ~build- ing operations will be n full swing all _ through the city this morning. Tt is understood that the contractors will not dismiss the non- union men who have been helping them out auring the strike, and consaquently a number of the strikers will be unable to find employment: STATEMENT FROM CHAIRMAN HOLDEN. OnanA, Neb., July 8.—To the Editor of the BEE: In the Omaha Herald of this date appeared a report made by one of the reportorial corps of that paper con- cerning the condition %l the painters’ strike which, in most parttculars, was un- true, did injustice to the strikers and misrepresented the undkrsigned. The Herald reporter said the painters’ strike was virtually dead, which is untrue. The painters held the largest meeting last night they have held since the strike was ordered, and all present were determined and enthusiastie. There is nodissatisfac- tion among the uniop inters worth mentioning. A few have been “'kicking" and making a noise, but this has been confined principally to those who could not hold a job if lhe%‘n!l!ld one. There ara no painters with families on the point of starvation, as all have been provided for up to this date, and we contidently expect to be able to care tor ali who are worthy. Further on in his repArt-tke Herald re- porter says that an invessgation brought out the fact that negotiations were not being made with the contractors, us a bod, Howeyer, the Herald reporter has very poor eyes and cannot see well and is not competent to judge of the direction of negotintions. Organized labor will remember the Hon. John A, McShane if he continues such misrepresentations. The paiuters are making a good fight, Out of w membership of 500, at least 200 are employed in uaoion shops, or are contracting and working for them- selves, and the remaining 100 will win by the aid of organized labor in Omaha and Nebraska. 'he master painters are not working half the men they claim they are, and are using such tools asthe Herald reporter to “'bluff” with, but it won't win, W. C. HoLbEN, ‘Glt‘uirmln State Executive Board K. of L, name by A CITY HOSPITAL NEEDED, An Increasing Need For Such an Institution. “Now you can see the need there is for a city hospital,” said City Physician Ralph as he ministered to the wants of a very sick and destitute man in one of the cells of the Central station last night. The man, friendless and ill from an at- tack of lung fever which develobed con- sumptive tendencies,had been taken up off the ®treets by the police and sent to the station because thero was no place ¢ to convey him. He was made as com- fortable as possible and will be sent to the poor farm to-d “Since I have been city physician,” continued Dr. Ralph have had a half a dozen such ea Three or four of them were able to pa their expenses. Like this man here they ded care and attention from skilled s, and o hospital is the place for them. This isa city of 90,000 inhabitants and hasn’t a place tor the sick or thedinjured. St.Joseph’s and the Child’s hospital, private institutions, are crowded. Such cases must go to the counl{ poor farm. In Minneapolis, a city of about 175,000 people, there are a number of hospitals, A city hospital is greatly needed here. Some sort of tem- porary quarters should be provided. I mentioned the matter in conversation with a councilman the other day and he said he would bring the subject before that body. I think action ecannot be taken any too soon.” Affairs of the Army, Second Lieutenant Charles G. Dwyer, ‘I'wenty-first infantry, has been detailed for duty on general recruiting service for the department of the Platte, at Fort Bridger, Wyo., in place of Second Lieu- tenant Edgar Hubert, Eighth infantry, who has been relieved Captain William 8. Starring, ordnance department, chief ordnance oflice, de- paitment of the Platte and commanding oflicer of the Cheyenne ordnance depot, has been relieved from duty in this de- partment and is suceeeded by First Lieu- tenant Charles St. J. Chubb, Seventeenth infantry. Artiticer George J. La Roe, Company H, Twenty-first infantry, now at Fort D. A. Russeil, Wyo,, and who is on tur- Jough without m s to join his station, has been furnished transyortation to Car- ter station, Wyo. A Very Bad Man. Charles Wilson was arrested last even- ing for enticing a little girl into a lum- ber yard at the foot of Douglas street. The watchman, Mulhall, arrested Wilson and locked him up at Central station. ‘The evidence does not tend to show that Wilson assaulted the child—a twelve- year-old girl named Roach, who lives on the bottoms. However, he is a very bad character. Wilson 1s the man who con- cealed the burglars’ tools under the side- walk on Howard and Eleventh streets some time ago, and has just finished a term 1n the county jail. The police give him & bad name. The Leader, Where Was He? There was no performance at the Fashion theatre last night. Yesterday was salary day at the theatre and every- body about the little temple of amuse- ment had money. The leader of the or- chest Prof. Pleiss, couldn’t stand y and he failed to materialize Rro:p No person who could be reached was forthcoming and so the performance was discontinued. A new leader will be on hand to-night. The Olympic. Another good house greeted the per- formance at the Olympic theatre last night. The Olympic has **caught on,"”’ as the ?Im\un goes, and is nightly drawing good houses. A good variety show is presented. Personal Paragraphs, _L. Genard, Columbus, Neb., is in the city. Colonel H. C. Larimer 18 in from Ft. Larimie, 8. B. Reynard, of Grand lsland, was in the city yesterday. C. D. Evans, of Columbus, took dinner at the Millard yesterday. J. C. Bush, of Sidney, Neb., was Omaha last evening. B;aware of Scrofula Serofula fs probably more general than any other discase. It 1 insidious In character, and manifests itself in running sores, pustular eruptions, bolls, swellings, enlarged joints, abscesses, soroeyes, ete, Hood's Sarsaparilla expels all traco of scrofula from the blood, leaving it pure, enriched, and healthy. T was severely afilicted with scrofula, and over a year had two running sores on my neck. Took five bottles Hood's Sarsaparilla, and am cured.” C. E. LOVEJOY, Lowell, Mass, 0. A. Arnold, Arnold, Me., had scrofulous for soven years, spring and fall, Hood's sarsaparilla cured him, Salt Rheum Tsone of the most disagrecable diseases eaused byimpureblood. Ttisreadily eured by Hood's Sarsaparilla, tho great blood purifier. William Spies, Elyria, O., suffered greatly from erysipelas and salt rheum, caused by handling tobacco. At times his hands would crack open and bleed, He tried varlous prep- aratons without aid; finally took Hood's Sar- saparilla, and now says: [am entircly well.” My son had salt rhoum on his hands and on tho calves of his legs. Tlo took Hood's Sarsaparilla and is entirely cured.” J. B, Stanton, Mt. Vernon, Olio, Hood’s Sarsaparilla Rold by all druggists. §1; six for §5. Mado only by C. 1. HOOD & CO,, Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass, 100 Doses One Dollar “ Oh, HAGAN'S MAGNOLIA BALM 18 exquisitely lovely," sald Miss Brown to her tricnds, he drawing room, after taking & long, hot, fatiguing drive over & sandy, dusty road. , Cleanly and Hefreshin Tt wit me, aud as ‘tis a £ Liquld, I can uso 1t 1n & moment aud g Tustant reliet £ the Redness, Roughnes ckles and Horrid 0ld Mk rak Winds,” Ladies, MAGNOLIA BALM 1a for Face, Neck, Arms and Ilnnde. ) ean'ibe Detected. TRY IT! Gratton & Nash’s CHEATP RESIDENGE LIST 's nd 4, Lake at.A room house, oity water | 4,500; 33 ensh, balance tosuit. | room house, well, olstern; | r month, T por cent. | room house, $10.40 Troom bouse, barn, well, | Bogks & Hill's ad. 0 cash bnlance to sulty ete, 83,500; §1.X yours mi st 4 room houso, barn, well, | Fairmont add, »om lonse, city waten h LAl to urrange. £,300; £400 cnsh, bal. easy Ambler's Add, Pruyn 8., 5 room house, well cistera barn. §2,000; §700 cash, bal | " Nalson's add, Camming nrs. use, barn, woll Omaha View, » oom house, barn, woll, Ruth's ndd, 18th s, leo house, frait ant cistern, ote. bal 1,2, 3 and 4 yoars. shnde tr Omahn Vi on west | Kountzo § slope, £2,200; §:00 cash, bal provents #,000; 31,50 cash, bal. to arrange. Walnut Hill olas st S room house, barn, frult | City, proper, Uuss at., 2houses, cor. on %d, rentaly trees, 2 lots, £,400; §1,000 cash, bal £23por month., 0 0 b, $5,0; tornis ensy. Wainut Hill, Nelson st.. 7 room house, city wator, nice location, §,400; 82000 cag b, bal in 5 yours, Walnut Hill, Nicholasst , 7 room house, ity water, |~ City,proper. Douglns st., 10 room brick house, tod d wnd sodded yard, £,500; 2,20 cash.bald years, | of hillnear 15th, $11.00); b Gash, bal. to arrango. 25 room house, well, elstern | - Ciiy,proper, ¥ r L, 9 room b noar ear bl £20 por mont A0 15 cawh bal Lo arrango. dick's add, Parknvo., & room house, large lot ro0m houso. Iarge 1t facos on 3 stroets, §5,00; £2,50dowi, bul. arrange. 300; 33 cash bal. 10 AT, Also a Large List of Acreage and Business Prop erty, at 1421 Douglas street. City, propor, Case st., 9 room houso, all modern inw provements, $15,000;14 cash. well, eistern, ruit troes., 8 JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED J. F. AHLQUIST & BRO., : HANDLE THE BEST VAPOR STOVE IN THE MARKET, . The MONARCE Also a full line of Hardware. Stoves, Tinware, Cutlery, Nails, etc. 1110 Saunders | Street, K. P. Block, Omaha, Ne —=HILL & YOUNG=— FURNITURE, CARPHETS, STOVES House Furnishing Goods. - WELTY & GUY, ——Have the largest and finest assortment of— Harness, Saddles, Whips and Turf Goods I TIIE CITY. Call and See Them at 1412 Farnam-st. DON'T FAIL TO GET CATALOGUES AND PRICES ON Pianos, Organs, Violins, Guitars and Banjos —FROM— CRAP BROS,, 219 South 15th Street OPERA HOUSE BLOCK. And don’t buy a piano until you have examined the celebrated Sohmer, which has received first prize wherever exhibited, and in the east commands a higher price than those of any other make. For a short time only we will offer these celebrated pianos at less than others are asking for a second class instrument. It will pay you to call and sce us. Pianos from $200 upwards. Organs from $20 upmards. Small instruments at correspondingly low prices. The WEST FURNITURE COMPANY We sell new and second hand FURNITURE, STOVES AND House Furnishing Goods On Weekly and MOnthly Payments. % Nos. 108 and 110 N. 14th street, Bet. Dodge and Capitol Avenue. WEST FURNITURE COMPANY C. L. ERICKSON & COMPANY, 212 North Bixteenth Street, EWELEKIRSS, e Dealers in Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry & Silverware C—e— AU goods warranted. C. L. ERICKSON & CO., 212 N. 16Gth St. Most Popular First Class Piano made, Hallet & Davis Piano Has no Equal KIMBALL PIANOS AND ORGANS. At Wholesale and Retail. AGENTS WANTED A HOSPH, TR, Art and Music, 1513 Douglas St. It stauds on its merijs, BHGEEAINIGOD OO I OV VY HS AN S H Y U XY D XUBYFUADL LN B 0 you want & Fire 't In your buseoara: 4 N R i it s e 4 §11‘1-11l1<-vurnl| wain Oiabe, and et fea sonatle prices. Repairs for Any Stove. §Stove Re B10 N, 16th Street, BU T S gnET. CUMING & air Co, l PPy rre e Tt P22 S TR AR RAR R 2T TR T RIS SAL L L 222 20 22 1 )‘