Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 14, 1887, Page 4

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Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 9th day of July, A. D, 1857. N. P. Fem, [SEA L Notary Pubile. Btate of Nebraska, | Douglas County. (%8 Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily eirculation of the Dally Bee for the month™ of July, 1586, 12,314 copies; for August, 186, 12,454 copies: for Septem- ber, 16, 15,030 coples: for October, 1855, 12,0 copies; for November, 1886, 13,345 copies; for December, 188, 13,337 copies; for Jani ‘v 1857, 16,266 coples; for February. 1847, 14,195 coples; for March. 1557, 14,400 coples; for April, 1887, 14,316 copies: for May, 1857, 14,227 copies; for June 1887, 14,147 coples. GEo. B. TZ8CHUCK, Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of July A, D)., 1587, ISEAL.| N. P. Frrw, Notary Public. © AccorviNg to the Honolulu papers King Kalakaua was heid in public cs- teem 1n his country much after that en- Joyed by Jake Sharp in New York, E—— Now THAT the school teachers are all in Chicago, it would be a splendid oppor- tunity for that city to take on a little ed- ucation. It would supply a long feit want. Tue Sixth Iowa infantry and Third cavalry will hold a reunion at Centre- ville, Iowa, on September 14 and 15. Preparations are in progress to make the affair successful in every respect. THE vote on the granting of a fran- chise to the Omaha Motor and the North- western railway yesterday was very light. Though ever so small it was car- ried, no one searcely voting against it. —_— Is Governor Martin, of Kansas, start- ing & boom for the presidency by the vro- hibition route? His letter printed clse- where would indicate that he is to become the successor of his predecessor—St. John, Our neighbors over at Council Blufls are more fortunate than most people. The gas company of that city has been detected in showing a disposition to fur- nish better facilities for the lighting of the streets. Youna Mr. Yan Phou Lee, the heathen Chince who married the American heir- ess, Miss Jerome, of New Haven, Conn., 15 said to be a great orator. In casting a hasty glance over the United States, it npvears that even the great orators have had to go. Ep CARR, the very able and talented murderer of Albion, has been sentenced by Judge Armstrong, to be hanged on the 18th of November. Carr, true to the characteristics which were so prominent during the trial, mamfested no coucern at the sentence by the judge. A Kansas City paper is very profuse in its praise of a young man who by being cool and collected prevented the possible destruction of that city a few days ago by fire. If the young man had only been warm and scattered there would be no Kansas City to-day. e——— THERE i8 no reason why Nebraska should not send a large representation to Philadelphia in September to attend the constitutional centennial. Governor Thayer has very properly accepted the invitation and will be at least one splen- did representative of the great state over whose destinies he presides, There can be no prouder event in the history of the country than the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the framing and promulgation of the constitution of the United States, in which every Ameri- oun citizen should take loyal pride. CoLONEL E. D. BANNISTER, of Inaiana, a scientitic student of national poli- tics, in conversing with a BEE reporter takes a rose colored view of the political future, and sees Cleveland stars shooting in all directions. Colonel Bannister is one of the many thousands of demo- crats who are daily expressing their pref- erence for General Stevenson to take the second place on the tic General Stevenson hus used the gullotine on more official heads than any other democrat living, It is possible, and naturally so, that in this respect General Stevenson supplies a long felt waut, which has not to any great extent been found in Mr. Cleveland—hence his superior fitness for the oftice of vice president. AMONG the favorable promises for the fall business none is more reassuring thau the prediction of Pennsylvama manufacturers that there will be a heavy trade in iron. The ground of this belief is the extensive railroad construction and the large amount of building throughout the country. - All railroad shops are re- ported to be very busy constructing va- rious descriptions of rolling stock, The makers of steel rails are so crowded with orders that they are practically out of the market, and requirements that must be met at once will have to be filled by for- eign manufacturers. The one danger to the highly favorable promise of this situation is in .the probability of labor troubles, which as to one or two very large iron wmanufactories are now threat- ened. Ohlo Republicans, Nothing in politics could be more cer- tain than that the republicans of Ohio can carry that state by a very large ma- jority next November if they will avoid dissensions in their own ranks. The only hope the democrats of Ohio have is in republican disaffection. In no other state 18 the democracy so heavily handi- capped. The record of the democratic party of Ohio for the last four years is one of corruption, lawlessness and mal- administration which it can neither palli- tate nor explain away. The depletion of the public treasury by wasteful expendi- tures, the infamous corruption of legs- lators in the election of Senator Payne, the daring frauds in the ballot at Cincin- nati, the lawless attempt to seat in the legislature the men who profited by these frauds, the prostitution of the supremoa court to partisan purposes, and other cir- cumstances evidencing the utter reck- lessness and wickedness which have con- trolled the councils and conduct of the democracy of Ohio during the past few years, make a history which ought to render 1ts defeat inevitable despite of any contingency. And there is no prob- ability of a diflerent result. But it is not suflicient that the party shall, under the circumstances, be merely defeated. The defeat should be overwhelming, so that the lesson of popular reprobation of its methods and character shall be effect- ive and far-reaching. This resnlt can be regarded as assured, if the republicans maintain their lines unbroken and preserve harmony among themselves; it will be endangered if they do not. There have been several recent statements, emanating from centres of political ac tivity 1in Onio to the effect that there is a good deal of internal strife among Ohio republicans, and that it is growing. These reports represent that the friends of Sherman and Blaine are sharply ar- rayed against each other, and charge Governor Foraker with playing into the hands of the latter. 1t is alleged, not now for the first time, that the governor is ambitious to occupy the second place on the next presiden tial ticket, and that to gratify this ambition he would not be unwilling to sacrifice Sherman. The friends of the governor vigorously deny this chargo and insist that he is farthful to Sherman and wilt be found so when the time comes to make his fidelity ef- fective. The Cleveland Leader affirm- that there is no disaffection among repub- licans, except in the minds of democratic editors and the correspondents of Blaine organs, and that Foraker will be renominated by acclamation and re- elected by an increased majority. On the other hand the Cincinnati Commer- cial-Gazelte tells the governor that if he is as ambitious as his enemies declare him to be “the way for him to move on is to promote Sherman,” clearly implying a suspicion that he may entertain a dif- ferent purpose. Allowing for more or less misrepre- sentation and exageration, there is evidently not that complete har- mony among Ohio republicans which is essential to the achievement of all the opportunity offers, and the obvious danger is that disaffection may inerease. 1f gratitude had much to do with politics, the plain duty of Foraker would be to pronounce unqualitiedly for Sherman and exert himself to lead all Ohio republicans to do likewise. This would be the straight- forward and honorable = course, and he might then safely leave the conse- quences to take care of themselves. But if Mr, Foraker is really under bondage to the ambition he is said to have he will give little heed to suggestions of grati- tude. The republican state convention willassemble at 'l'oledo on the 27th of this month, and 1t is expected that the alleged hostility of the Sherman and Blaine fac- tions will be sharply developed there it a resolution should be introduced en- dorsing the former as a presidential can- didate, a thing very likely to be done unless Sherman wills that it shall not be. Suoh an issue in the conventien might not defeat but would undoubtedly be a detriment to the republican cause in Ohio, and the democracy of the state are hovefully counting upon it. There is a way to disappoint them, and it may be wisely determined to adopt it. Petroleum Fuel. The utilization of vaporized petroleum as fuel will undoubtedly be effected in time, and all results leading in that di- rection are of interest to manufacturers who have not the advantages of natural gas or cheap coal, as well as to all house- holders with whom economy in the use of fuel is a consideration. The import- ance of this question of petroleum tuel cannot be overestimated, and the solu- tion of the problem to which many in- vestors are now devoting themselves will be the beginning of a resolution regard- ing the whole fuel question. Assuming a permanent supply of petroleum, the ultimate effect of its utilization for fuel cannot be computed. An inventor of Springfield, Mass., who has been experimenting for two years, claims to have overcome all obstacles to the successful use of crude petroleum as a fuel for steam boilers with regard to their size or power, for warming houses, for forge shops, foun- dries, and the thousand and one pur- poses, both industrial and domestic, for which heat is reguired, ncluding steam appliunces for steamships and loco- motives, According to newspaper testi- mony the results of the Springtield in- ventor's experiments have been approv- ingly passed upon by practical and skilled mechanical engineers, who have pronounced his inveation the best ex- tant. At all events it seems quite prob- able that the Springiield man has made something ot an advance, and perhaps a very cousiderable one, He has at least been enabled to attract the support of capital and a company with large means bhas been formed to manu- facture his appliances, which have just been patented. A further practical de- monstration of the value of this invention will be awaited with interest. ——— Prohibition in Texas, An interesting election is to come off in Texas next month. The Texans are to decide whether thoy will adopt a pro- hibitory amendment to the constitution, or not; and the advocales of the amend- ment and its opponents are waging s fierce and zealous campaign. Texus has long been considered the re- fuge of a freedom that did not stop at license—train robberies, the frequent use of the revolver and the rolicking hilanty of her first citizens, have been thought to be the . characteristics of Texas which would tolerate no thought of restriction. That prohibition has mustered up cour- age enough to combat the traditional conditions in Texas, is significant, even if an overwhelming defeat attends its efforts at the polls next month. That defeat will follow the final effort of pro- hibition in the contest can be presup- posed. ‘The South has shown a wonderful 1n- clination towards prohibition, it is true, but that Texas will follow her sister southern states in this new revolution 13 altogether doubtful. The population of Texas is cosmopolitan in character, and a ‘‘round up’’ there will show that the record of a great number of the voters are against the presumption of a prohibitory triumph. The cause of the foothold prohibition has gotten in gome southern states, i3 susceptible of an explanation that does not hold good in Texas, The object, as avowed in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, of adopting pro- hibition, is not so0 much to prohibit the sale of liquor as to put it in the hands, or power,of the whites to keep it away from the negroes, as in thc days of slavery. In Texas the colored popula- tion is comparatively small when its pre- ponderance in Mississippi or Alabama is considered, and therefore the reason that has animated ‘‘morality”’ in the trans- Mississippi states does not hold good 1n Texas. Morcover, as said, the white element that largely makes up the population of Texas is of that southern kind which would have been last to put any restriction upon the lig- uor traflic had it been back home in Mis- sissippi or Alabama, even though the nigger would be cut off from his dram. — Fleecing Immigrants. When one of the commissioners of emi- gration at New York made the charge against the American Emigrant company a tew days ago that it was doing an ille- gitimate business he undoubtedly did not anticipate counter charges which on their face reflect very seriously upon the board of which he is a member. The charge of the commissioner was that the emigrant company has been carryiny on a system- atic robbery of immigrants, an allegation which the president of the company not only stoutly denics, but which he pro- poses to call the commissioner to account for in the courts. Meanwhile disclos- ures are made which if true look bad for the commissioners. It is charged that for the consideration of $4,000 a year they have given the monopoly of all the emigrant business at Castle Garden to a railway pool, the members of which reap large prolits from the arrangement. Besides being clearly illegal since the adoption of the inter- state commerce law, the eftect of this pooling was to advance emigrant fares an double. Two years ago, when there was competition, the fare was $5 to Chicago, and at that rate the business was prolitable. At one time the com- vetition became so active that the Penn- sylvania road cut the rate to one dollar and continued it for about six month: ‘Then the pool was formed and the rate from New York to Chicago was fixed at #13, which 1s still muaintained. Three- fourths of this is profit. No satisfactory stimate could be made of the amount of which the immigrants have been fleeced since the pool was formed, but it is un- questionably a very large sum. What may be shown in court regarding the con- duct of the emigrant company, whlich is a financia! institution that handles the money of immigrants, may or may not be interesting, but the disclosures re- specting the robbery of immigrants by the railroad pool in collusion with the emigration commissioners cortainly is so, and it is to be hoped the matter will be fully ventilated. Humphrey Moynihan's Night Watch., Ever since Humphrey Moynihan landed in Omaha he has been scheming and plotting to obtain a foothold in our police system. His first attempt last year was to supersede Marshal Cummings. When he found that Cummings could not be ousted, he concocted a scheme to undermine him by organizing what he called “Moymhan’s Protective Night Watch.”” This project also fell through, 1 spite of the petition to which Moym- han had procured several hundred signa tures by misrepresentations. Moynihan first talked of organizing a force of 150 night watchmen, who were to be uniformed at his own expensc. when in fact Moynihan had scarcely means enough to buy a decent suit of clothes for himself. After log rolling with the council for a month or two the 150 men in buckram dwindled down to eight nightwatchmen, who Mr. Moynihan thought would cover the fieid. The council obstinately refused to become a party tothis protective enterprise, and the project was dropped. Mr. Moynihan's effort in conjunction with certain editors to capture the police commission and have himself foisted upon the community as chief of police, is an open secret, is conspiracy was foiled by Governor Had it been successful Omaha would have passed under the control of dangerous elements, It would have been very much like placing a pack of wolves n charge of a flock ot sheep. And now Mr. Moynihan comes to the front once more with his protective watch, which ostensibly, is to co-oper- ate with the police force for the vublic safety. An ordinance has been introduced in the council granting Moynihan authority to organize and maintain his so-called protective watch. This is nothing more nor less than a plot to place Moynihan in a position to work all sorts of underhanded schemes that would demoralize the police force and enable him to levy blackmail. Who is asking for this detective wateh, and what object has the council in view in giving Moynihan authority to or- gamize it? What 18 the differ- ence between the Moynihan scheme and that of the notorious Felker, who, some years ago, came to Omaha to pro- tect our merchants and rid the city of crooks. 1f the city needs a detective force, the proper parties to organize it are the mayor and police commission, and why should any professional detec- tive be sllowed to operate a police force independent of the authorities charged with the control of police affairs? Does Moynihan's conduct in this city justify any reputable councilman. in voting him special privileges as a detec- tive? Are they not aware of the fact thatour citizens have no confidence in his - tegrity? uld pot a man of his stamp placed in control of a night. watch make THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1887, it a source of constant anxiety and dan- ger? In any event we doubt whether the courteil has the rignt, under the charter, to create an independent police force under whatever name or pretext. The power to appoint the regular police force is vested exclusively in the police commission. The power to appoint gpecial policemen,in certain emergencies, can be exercised, only by the mayor in conjunction with the council, " These powers, in our ' opinion can not be declegated to anybody. It is outside of the prowince of the council and beyond its power to grant authority to anybody to exercise police functions, whether in the day time or at night. The only legal way to make Mr. Moynihan captain of the night watch, or even mght watchman, is by appointment through the police cowmission or its mayor, Rrronrrs from Washington show rather an unfortuuate and unwarranted state of affairs m the oflice of the pension bureau. The report of General Black's dismiss- ing an employe of that department be- cause he saw fit to criticise the presi- dent’s action in the flag episode will not meet with the approval of any well and fair thinking people. The persons who are the subordinates of General Black have the same right to their opinions on public or private matters that General Black has. The trouble under which the commissioner of pensions labors is that he is too inflated with his own self- importance, and wants to fly the tail end of Mr, Clevelanc 3 WieN ealled before the Pacitic railway investigating commission Senator Teller indignantly repelled an intimation that he is biased in favor of the Union Pacific. The senator is ungrateful. He was em- ployed by the company for years as its Colorado attorney, and he never would have achieved senatorial pominence but for the active interest manifested by the company in behalf of its employe. And it strikes us that Senator Teller, like Peter the avostle, has denied his maker even before the cock has had a chance to crow. EVERY county in Missouri proposes to send a petition to the president urging lnm to visit St. Lows this fall. Such unanimity on the part of Missouri will surprise Mr. Cleveland, who doubtless remembers that after claiming every of- fice in the guft of the president, Missouri oflice scokers were put off with two or three insignificant consular appoint- ments, the bureau of agriculture and de- partment of foreign mails, so-called com- missioner of statisties. Tue want of a city hospital is becom- ing more apparent every day. The city physician recommends that the council shall secure & temporary place for the nd injured until the new hospital projected by the county has been erceted and.opened. This recommendta- to Di. Leisenring's report the 113 deat ast month in Omaha were offset by 113 births. Tnis is rather too even a showing to maintain that the pop- ulation of Omaha is inereasing, but then the immigration to the city must be into account. This is exceeding births and d many hundre atiis combined by Tuere is a marked difference of opin- ion between Senator Teller, of Colorado, and ex-Senator Hill,with regard to Union Pa ailroad management. This differ- ence is not at all surprising. ‘Teller looks at everything through his rail- road spect. b Nebraska Jottings. Fairbury’s municipal expenses for the ensuing year are mated at $6,400. Broken Bow will vote on the question of xlssuiu(.: bonds for a court house, on the 16th, The B. & M. extension to Greeley Cen, ter, eeley county, will be completed and in operation in'a few d ‘The stern wheeler, Johi M. Abbott, with two barges in tow, is plowing her weary way on the Missouri from Ne- braska City to Omaha. A splendid rain at Franklin Monday night restored the drooping spirits of the farmers. Small grain is mjured by the bugs,-biit corn is Jooking well: The Pell brothers, who threaten start a tannery in Nebraska City and onerate it for ten years, picked up a bonus of §1 and skippmll the town, leaving scores of bills as monuments to vheir swindling abilities, Ren Calkins, of Hooper, has unwit- tingly provoked the hzilstone cof versy by eaptur four chunks e - ing six, seven, seven and a half and nine inches in circumference. They forced an entrance through the windows of his nouse, followed by a rattling shower of smaller ones. The Fremont Tribune glories in the prospect ol a $25,000 libel suit with N. H Michael, Senator Manderson’s protege,us plaintiff, The 'I'ribune promises ‘‘to show up enough dishonesty, corruption, skulduggery and general cussedness in connection with the scoundrel to stall a train of cars. Lay on Macdufl'!" ‘Since the acquisition of the Armour interest at Omaha,” says the Boycotter 3 ont, “the papers of that city are it the ‘porkopolis’ of Considering the natural por- cine proclivities of the general inhabi tants of Omaha, we aye not sure but th additional name of Armour, the bigge: hog in America, ought to win for them the title.” 1 A Saunders county farmer, mounted on a frisky plug, raced for a erossing with a cannon bali train on the Ashland cut-off, near the Platte river, yesterday morning. The farmer won by a:few laps, but on reeching the off’ side the plug shied as the train shot by and dumped’ the rider in five feet of mud and water. He floundering for a landing when last see by the trainmen. ‘I'he Minnie Mining company, composed of Omaha explorers, has filed urticles of incorporation in \\'iuming. The capital stock is $300,000. Thé incorporators a Daniel Burr, John Burker, Christoph Heinon, Charles Frederick, Churles F. Yates, R. G. King, J, C. Green. The ob- ject of the organlzation is to acquire and develoy land containing mica, silver and gold. " It is said that the incorporation already own several claimsin the Whalen canyon mica district, near Fairbanks, and will at once commence vperations in that locality. Prof. Blose has arrived from the east to take charge of the conservatory of music at Franklin. He holds conven- tions during the summer at McCook, Indianola, Red Cloud, and Smith Center and Kirwin, Kan, He was offered the diretorship of the Curry institute of music at Pittsburg but ‘declined it in favor of Franklin academy. It is be- lieved by those competent {0 judge that Prof. Blose is equal to. Prof. Sherwin, who had charge of the music at the 1 to Crete chautauqua. Some of the instru- ments are already purchased for the academy orchestra, Another victim of the seducer and masher, daughter of a prominent tamily in Grand Island, was found by her father on the brink of ruin and degradation in Cheyenne a few days ago, and brought home. Last winter she became infata- ated with a barkeeper named Lynch, a southron, armed with the devil's weapons of good looks and a ‘‘begad’ expression, They cloped and were married in Omaha, moved to Denver, where Lynch con- tructed a_capacity for his own™ medicine and wife beating.” After the tlush of first love ripened into sorrowful experience the young wife found herself deserted and penniless. Like scores of ‘‘well- raised” daughters she was unable to earn an honest livelihood and soon joined the fallen host. The meeting of ather and child was & joyful one in” sad surroundings. A Norfolk correspondent writes: ‘‘After a ver{' hot day a fine rain set 1n at 9 p. m., Monday. ~ This 1s a matter of rejoic- ing to all but those who have hay down. Small grain is ripe or ripening fast. No chinch bugs in this region. Corn never looked so well at this date in the season. The corn is all erect except in the narrow hail strip near Oakland, ~ Reports come in of severe drought from a streak in Holt and Brown counties, but heavy rains are reported at Valentine and further west. Some young cattle are_coming_in from the dry parts of lowa. Eastern Nebraska from Omaha to Yankton is in good shape for fair to heavy crops.” Columbus furnishes a remarkable mei- dent of progress that challenges the world for an equal. It comprised three great epochs of life—marriage birth and death celebr: ne day. On Satur- day two Pols s living near town were While the festivities were at their height the guests were stunned with the announcement that the bride had just vresented her lord with a babe. "l'rc christening which followed renewed the hilarity, which was stilled a few hours later by the death of the babe. A short time sufliiced to tinish the funcral cere- monies, when the dance went on as wild and furious as if nolhinsz had happened —and the “happy couple” are said to ve been conspicuous figures in the giddy whirl at midnight. As an evidence of modern social progress this is entitled to a patent. lowa ltems, The corner stone for a new Methodist church has been Jaid at Ames. George Baker, sr., an old man between sixty-five and seventy years of age, living four miles southeast of Ashton, was killed by a vicious bull. The number of hogs cut this season to date at the Cedar Rapids packing house 18 105,544, against 129,419 for the corre- sponding period last year. The Des Moines Press club is fitting up quarters. Correspondents will make the rooms headquartersand visiting brethren invited to call. The membership includes a few ladies. The total number of convicts in_the state penitentiaries for the month of June w which is sixteen less than for May. For the same period of 1836 there were 717 convicts, so that the past year has diminished this number by forty- four, Custodian Wright reports to the gov- ernor that the cost of the care of the cap- itol building for eighteen nths of the bicnnial year ending June , 1887, was $38,608.12, which includes the pay roll of custodian, police and janitors. The sales of odds and ends amounts to .50, A vicious bulldog attacked and horri- bly mangled a boy named Clarence Lei- part, in Burlington, last Friday. The dog mangled the limb in a frightful manner, and when people rushed to the assi ance of the poor youth, who was liter- aily being eaten alive, 1t 18 said that the brute clung to the limb with such tenac- ity as to tear away the flesh in his jaws when he was dragged away from his vie- tim. The boy was given surgical atten- tion, but the attending physicians regard his situation as serious, fearing blood poi- &oning. Dakota, Harvesting is in progress in Jerauld county. Yanktod county farmers are harvest- ing their oats. The total assessed valuation of Bur- leigh county is $3,557,748, A Catholie convent to snnrurt sixty in- mates, is to be built at Abe n. The total assessed valuation of Aber- deen is $1,700,000; of Brown county, $7.000,000. The dofs tion in the Jerauld county treasury is ed at #4,900, Nothing has been heard from the absent one. ‘Th ledonia mine, in the Hills, will add forty stamps to the sixty it now has, giving it a capacity of 10,000 tons of ore n month. Something more than $218,000 was taken out of this mine for the year ended April 30, Procecdings huve been commenced for the foreclosure of the mortgage on the Queen Bee mill property at Sioux Falls. The principal and interest amount to 142,000, yrge . Sen the heaviest bondholder, is expected "to bid in the property. Wyoming. Material for the street railway hasar- rived in Cheyenne. The burning of Cowhick & Whitcomb's big store in Cheyenne last week caused a loss of $110,000. The Cheyenne & Northern company has pu sed ground for depots and %side- tracks in Douglas, Hattie Bammond, a Cheyenne girl, re- turning from a circus, was held up by a hlmlp:l and robbed of $140 worth of jew- elry. The tax shirkers of Chey squealing against a raise of the levy and threaten to hire alawyer. ‘Theycan't hire anything else. An excursion party of eighteen Den- cerites were juiled in a_bunch in Chey- enne a few days ago. They were “gen tlemen of leisure’ in search of a grub- 2, but the goddess of Crow Creck hit 7 'for 58, They are working it out, [he case of the United States vs. Samuel E. Rodgers, of Omaha, is being tried be- fore the land ofticials in Cheyenne. The Iand involved 1s the Seminole oil placer | comprising from 3,000 to 4,000 enne are acres of land on the line of the Wyoming Central railway near the Rattiesnake mountain region of Carbon county. Lo ot A STRONG RAT, His Chinese Captor Knocked Out in One Round. Chicago Enterprise: Up at the Areade mul, » the Stton house, the lodgers have been considerably botheryt by the chipmunks and mountain rats. They have been a particular source of annoy-: ance to the Chinese cook, and he had vowed by all the gods in the Flowery Kingdom to reek a bitter vengeance on the first marauding rodent ltlllll. should fall into his clutches. Last Tuesday, while busily engaged in cooking the hash for the morning meal he heard a rustling noise, und on looking around saw what he supposed to be a rats head protruding through a break in the floor. Seizing a carving-fork and ghding stealthily up to the object he plunged it into its body, and with a yell of triumph uplifted the impailed animal,exelaiming: **Me eatchee 1at.” The mill boys hearing his cries ushed to the kitchen, but paused on the threshold, for they “‘smelta smell.”’ About this time the Chinaman smelt something too, dropped the fork and hroke from the kitchen, packed his clothes and came to Chicago on Wednesday® ] chatling was to much for him.. Th mal which he had imhaled wasone o génus known scientitfically as Mephetes 1 ericana, vulgarly termed s skunk, THE CORONER'S INQUEST, Finding of the Jury in the Case of Billy Nugent, The coroner held an inquest yesterday morning on the remains of Billy Nugent, shoi July 5 by Jack Keiloy. The testi- mony of Larry Casey diffcred materially from wiat he told the reporters at the time of the shooting. he is a de- cidedly questionable character, his testi- mony is not considered of any import- ance. New evidence, howevor, material and relinble, was introduced in the per- #on of the bartender of the Goos hotel. The following jury was sworn: Edward G. Howell, foreman; Chas. Landrock, Charles F. Daly, D. A, Davis, L. Brown and J. E. Preston. After the jury had viewed the body, Laurence Casey was sworn and in reply to Mr. Simerel, county attorney, testified that Nugent and he were driving in a buggy on Four- teenth street on the morning of the 5th inst. On reaching a house of ill-fame, known as Stella Young's, they pulled up and the prisoner, Jack Keily, called out to them from the house, ‘‘Who's there?'' to which Nugent replied, *‘Come out and I'll show you.” Keiley then went over and Nugent struck him twice with the whip, whereupon Keiley drew his revolyer and attempted to strike Nugent with 1t. The second time he struck, the revolver went off and Nugent fell over on the side of the buggy. Wit- ness then drove him down to the jail and reported the matter to the police. )r. Kaufiman was next examined and tostified that death was caused by n gun- shot wound, the bullet from which had entered under the right ear and lodged in the base of the brain, An abeess fl.l\\l also formed under the right arm and the side had become entirely paralized from the efleets of the wound. Jacob Alvers, a bartender, stated that, on the night of the shooting, he was walking on Jackson near Fourteenth when he heard some loud talking and went over to where Nugent ana Keiley wero wrangling, He heard Keiley say: “I'll shoot you!"” and afterwards fie saw the revolver fired by Keiley and Nugent fell over. Angry words had previously passed be- tween the two men, but he did not hear exactly what was said. Keiley, who was present in custoday, was asked if he wished to make any statement, and replied that he would not o so. The jury after a_short deliberation found that William Nugent come to_his death by a pistol shot maliciously fired by one Jack Keiley on the morning of July 5th, 1887, on 14th street. Keiley is a man who has been known to the police for some time as a frequenter of bawdy houses, and a confrere of near- ly all the “‘toughs’’ in the city. HOMES FOR THE DEAD. How Their Managers Are Arranging the Cost of the Same. A meeting of the directors of the Forest Lawn cemetery was held Tuesday night at which it was decided to raise the price of graves in Prospect Hill fifty per cent. Grave heretofore, have sold at $12 apiece, and they will now cost 18, There are only about adozen lotsto be had in the cemetery and the price of these will be increased in the same proportion. The rates charged for graves in Forest Lawn cemetery will range trom nothing upwards. A man unable to buy a grave will be given one in a certamn locality. The graves may be hought for $5, $10 or §15, according ~ to location. ‘I'he association has spent about #$15,- 000 in beautifying this home for the dead and have succeeded in making it one of the most beautiful resting places in this part of the country. The deeds to the right of way of the Chicago North- western to the cemetery have been made out and the road will run to the entrance,n a short time, bring- ing the cemetery within a few minutes ride of Omaha. The intention of the directors is to turn Prospect Hill cemetery over to the city, thouxh there is no intent to disturb those resting there. ANOTHER HOLD-UP. Hans Young Rellieved of $104 and His Watch, Hans Young, who runs a saloon and lunch stand on Douglas street, closed his establishment at 123 o’clock Thursday night, and started home. At the corner of Twenty-seventh and Seward streets he was confronted by two men, a negro and a white man, and before he could realize the reason tor their sudden appearance, the African thrust a gun in his face and commanded him to throw up his hands. It was about a 40-calibre and Mr. Young was gazing right down mto tho gaping muzzle, and of course his dukes went up with alacrity. Then the Caucasian proceeded to go through him, and the "job wasn't com- pleted until he had relieved him of a roll of money containing $104, some small coins and his watch, which' the foot-pad unceremoniously twistad oft the chain. life was too short to consume time in un- hooking 1t, and the chain was too heavy to carry off. It has come to such a pass in Omaha, owing to the limited police protection, that a man can hardly consider himself safe any more even on the busiest thor- oughfares, especially after night. 1t seems that the frequent hold ups, knock downs and hizhway robberies,that are being retailed duily i the city pupers would bring about sonie sort of & change, or at least awaken the authorities ac- countable for all this lamentabie and shameloss deficicncy to somo sort of a ation of just how things do stand. aha wants at least eighty good men in her police service to properly care for and protect her thousands and thousands of citizens and increasing property. HURTS, DISTRICT, Judge Wakeley was yesterday morning lll raring the contested will case of Joseph Rees: Jetter & Young filed a petition yesterday morning to recover alotof saloon tixtures instruction number 4 by the court, in which the jury were told™ that ‘“where homicide was proven, and there was no excuse or explanatory circumstances, that malice is presumed, and it i« murder in the second degree.” ‘T'he objoction to this instruction raised by counsel for the defendant was in the use of the words *'no excuse or explana- tory circumstances.” Counsel claimed first, that this instruction shifted the bur- den of proof from the state to the defend- ant; second, that, under the testimony in this case tho instruction was erroncous tor the reason that it virtually told the jury that they would be justified in find- ing that there was no excuse or explana- tory circumstances; that it was tanta- mount to an instruction that they would be justiied in finding “Vollmer guilty of murder in the second degree it they found thathe killed Dennis Quin- lan and that they could do this notwith- standing the facts or ‘‘explanatory cir- cumstances” were fully presented to them by the testimony offered by the state. It was contended by counsel for dofendant that, where ali the facts at- tending the killing of Quinlan, were fully presented to the jury by the wit- nesses for the state, 1t was the duty of the court to instruct that malice and intent were to be proven, just as any other fact in the case, And that malice and intent to kill wore to be inferred or presumed from the facts attending the killing, and that all such facts'had been fully shown to the jury by the prosecution. = Among the authorities cited n support of the position of defendant were: The Arm- strong and Wingo cases, decided by Judge Curtis, of the United States su- preme court, several Ohio cases, and the cash of Parish vs. the state, decided in the Nebraska supreme court, and finally reversed on account of an instruction and liquors, alleged tobe illegaliy held by John Kralky, 1227 South Thirteenth street. A petition for the release of Al Shaw, who is now confined in the ci filed yesterday morning in this warrant was roturnable on the sixteenth of this month, Judge Neville said yeste! four judges of this been working hard durmfg l:rewm. term, with the result that hefore th e, every case on th would hg heen called f’ to trial if the parti cases had b that next y tion would not be per cent They had goue through ali the jury cases and now %1e heaviest part of the work was being done by Judges Grofl’ and Hopewell, who were the new ecomers, and who desired to get into the business, although Juige Wakeley was still en- gaged in equity business. Judge Neville said that he was going to Duluth to take a view of the country, and would perhaps be absent about a month. As mentioned in the Bee Judge Groff refused a new trnal in the the . state against Volln man who shot and Killed Denuis Quin two months igo. ‘The defenda was ably argued by Le trict attorney, who presentes a.question which bad never: before bee argued in this county. It was bised upon court to the one complained of in this . In the afternoon at 3 o'clock Vol mer was brought into court and senten- ced by Judge Grofl to twenty years in the penitentiary. lLee Estello, attorney or Vollmer, made an eloquent plea for the mercy of the court in behalf of the defendant. Judge Groff reviewed the case briefly, and said that Vollmer had made two mistakes. One of these was the carrying of a revolver, and the other was that he did not make a reasonable effort to ge out of the way of danger. POLICE COURT, The case of the State vs. W, P. Eggles- ton, for carrying concealed weapons, continued until this morning. Tom Mitchell, for inhuman eruelty to his wife,was sent over the hill for several days' rest. Petor Johnson, for dumping garbage in the middle of the street, was linudn‘;s and costs. George Williams, William Donavan and John McGuire, all went up for the usual time for drunkenness, as did Bessie Graham and Kittie Lee. Railway Notes. Mr. C. C. Burdick, local agent of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha road has been appointed general man- ager of the Mason City & Fort Dodge coal rond. The appointment takes effect from the first of August next. Mr. C. C. Gossard, of the freight claims depart- ment, ’aul, will succeed to Mr. Bur- dick’s duties on Monday next. Mr. Potter is continuing his work of retrenchment in the management of the . P. and it is understood that several officials, now in prominent places are ex- pected to retire. There is a common rumor that among these are Messrs Dickinson and Deul, though this 18 some- what doubted beeause iv has been under- stood that Dickinson stood favorably with Mr. Potter. 1t is certain, however, that if Mr. Dickinson g he will be followed by nearly all the higher subordi- nates under him, 5 the transfer agent in the who has held that position for some time, has tendered his resignation, and already s suc r has been ap- pointed. The latter, it is understood, is one of Mr. Potter’s old Chicago, Burhing- ton & Quiney's friends, though his name has not yet been announced. The cause of Mr. Burns' resignation was thej cut. ting of his salary to $100 a month, A PRUSSIAN LIEUTENANT. A Typical Man of His Class—The Pride of the Berliners. What would Berlin be without the Prussian lieutenant? asks Bliss Perry in a letter to the Springfield Republcan, It is hard to imagine, so thoroughly in. corporated does he seem with the whole social structure around him. He and men like him have made the city what it is, and Berlin is prompt to recognize its political maker, though not otherwiso over religious. This homage is received by our licutenant with a self-conscious- ness, or he would not be rman, and an additional stiffness which comes & Prussian. Itis a fine sight to Unter den Linden, as ho jestically through the crowd, with immovable face like Von Moltke’s, with vacant eyes that nevertheless al- ways notice the hurried salutes ot the ing, and with a self-cer- tainty that is out of place in this world of confused men and women. The Berlin- ers make way for him with tenderness, for they pay his bills, and often with o 8imile, too, at his harmless aflectation. Such a one came down Uter den Linden r-su-,nlu_y afternoon, & typical man of his class, for nere was the ereot, even £ait, the inexpressive blue eyes, the rosy cheeks, waxed moustache, and shoulders broad enough notto have needed the padding under the smooth-fitting coat: here was the half seca cavalry suber, the tight trousers, exquisite boots with 'tiny spurs—in ere was a bit of that perfect ma Von Moltke de- clares to be the foundation of German culture. A part of a machine; it is curi- ous to think that this is best use to be made of a thinging mun in the heart of Europe to-day, but *'Von Moltke knows'" and we must believe him, and here was a specimen of the machinery which would have moved to its death just as it moved through the light rain that was falling— with trained indifferenc A munute before he reached the Wil- helm strasse, a droschky rounded the corner, and the horse slid “and fell upon th treacherous asphalt. The driver cur and pulled at the reins and the horse struggied powerfully to rise, but slipped with every eflort. The iver, stupidly drunk elambered down and took his whip. Allthis happens every rainy day on the Lerlin strects, and ¢ 18 nothing in it to detain for a moment the ess lounger, to say nothing of an officer whose dinncr is waiting Crack whip on the horse's , twice—"'Stop, you cursed hound” and his whip was snatched by 'a white gloved hand and tossed into the middle of the street. *'Stand back!” and the lieutenant, his eyes sl ablaze, seized the blanket from the box, spread it care fully under the horse’s fore feet to give him a better footing, took him by the b and spoke in an Kast Pruss dialeet something that the horse, though a born Berliner, understood, for stretched out his hoofs, felt the blankes under them, struggled to his feet and stood panting. “Driver,” said the hon- est young voice. ‘‘do you understand me? No. 3, " No. 3,217, scared into # sobriety beyond that of any of his 5,000 brethren, suluted, but dared not speak, and the wrathful cavalryman strode on again Has a Prussian lieutenant w heart? This i the question that runs through v play at the Deutehes B oth actors and audienc m as doubtfnl about the proper. an- atthe end as shey are when Uk curtain. rises. It you were to ask. No. 3,817 he would not understand ‘you. s horse knows, but lké & cunning beast, says nothing, and *a -Berlin ‘is. nope the wiser. s