Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 26, 1887, Page 4

4 TIHE DAIIA BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSC Edition) fnc; IPTION ¢ dum.sumu 10 500 280 200 OMATIA Orrice, No. "|0 ANII VM FARNAM STREEY v YORK OPFICE. 1) TRiNtN R LD ASHINGION UFFICE, \‘l MJ.ULNTlL) TUBTREET. OORRESPONDENCE ! All communications relating to newa andedi- torial matter should be addressod 1o the Eor TOR OF THE Brn BUSINERS LETTERS All businoss Jetters and romittances should bo addrossed to THE Bk SHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drufts, checl d postoffice orders %0 be made payable to the order of the compuny, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETCRS, E. ROSP\VATFIL Epiron. THE DAIIAY BEE, Sworn Statement of Ulrculation. Btate of Nebraski *" . County of Douzlas, {5 Geo. B. 'I'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing rmn. does solemnly swear that the a I circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending July 22 187, was as follows: Saturday.July 16, Sunday, July 17. Monday, Jul Tuesdav, July 10. Wednesiay, July Thursaay. Jul . Friday, July 24.. .“ Average....ou.ius G BT Sworn to and subscribed hl my presence this 23d day of July, A, D, 1837, B F . FrIT, Notary Pubiie. 2 |ur‘k being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he 18 secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that thie actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month™ of .l\ll)" 1856, 12,314 copie for Aux"s( \R"fl copies; for Septem- ber, 1886, 15,030 co pies; for Oetobel mm coples: for November, 158, 0P| for December, 155 57 copies: for Jnnuat 18, 16260 o fes? for February, 1887, 14,198 coples; for rch. 1887, 14,400 copfes: ‘for Anrll. 1887, 14,316 copies:: for May, 7, 14 227 copies; for June 1857, 14,147 copies. Gro. B. Tzscnuek, Subseribed and n';nw to before me thls 1st day of July A, [SEAL.| N P. FEIL, Notary Public. I713 now estimated that the world's wheat crop, although apparently not much below the average, will again be a short one. —_— TnE colored man of St. Joe who has been sleeping for three days, andis proof against being roused should be placed on the volice force. Ir there is any good reason why the council should any longer withhold its approval of the bonds of the police com- mission, the citizens of Omaha would like to know it. KANsas Crry 18 already crowing over her fall boom. The papers proclaim an “‘unparalleled activity in the real estate market,"” in black type. Isn't this forcing the season a little, or were those standing headlines dumped into the form by mistake? A PORTABLE telephone has been in- vented by two Belgians, wherewith tele- phoning may be performed on the open ground from “anywhere to anywhere." This invention in connection with Edi- son’s marine telephone, ought to make a whisper as easily audible around the world as Emerson's shot. Tur propibition people should take charge of the St. Louis committee which called upon President Cleveland yester- day. That tho members should become elated over the president’s acceptance is quite natural, but there was nothing to warrant them in getting drunk on the strength of it. We may possibly hear of their painting the white house red. THE queen zruciouslv :\llowmi W. K. Vanderbilt's yacht, Alva, to bring up the rear in her majssty’s recent maratime procession. It was a proud day for W. K. What further has he now to live for? The boy who drives the local advertising wagon in the wake of a circus parade, can not feel a ter spiritnal exaltation than must haye animated that $75,000,000 breast in those proud momen ‘T'HE opinion of the inter-state commis- sion that railroads cannot discrimimate in the sale of thousand mile tickets to commercial travelers, as that element is nota privileged class is a blow to the traveling merchants who for a great many years have enjoyed privileges and luxuries beyond the reach of ordinary people. No matter what the commission says the drummers will cling to the belief they are still a privileged class. OLp Joun llonson, of Bear Lake in New Brunswick, seems to be a second Noah. He prophesied the great floods now raging in New England and had fitted himsclf out with s canoe which is moored at his little log cabin ready for business. Mr. Hobson might find a job at Wash- ington for the next few months in the prophesy business as to the lucky candi- dates for presidontial nominations, GEORGIA, the home of wonders, has quired another mar the regious of infinite space. A smooth ball of an unknown metal came b through the air and buried wself five foet m the soil near Clayton, the other even- g, When excavated the globe was found to be engraved with a star, a rep- resentation of a bird-reptile and deserip- tions of the same in celestial short-hand. Eitner the protective tarilt against trav- ing salesmen has not kept Mr. Annanias Mulhatton from the south, or there is here a chance for the demi-profound, serio-comie Ignatius Donuelly to apply his cosmic and cypher theories to the en- lightenment of a bewildered world. It is noted that the establishment of a silver market in this country has already had its effect in London financial circles. A movement is reported to be now on foot there to introduce speculation in silver bullion certificates on a plan simi- lar to that inaugurated in New York, “If successtul,” says the New York ommercial Advyertiser, this will do nuch to take the control of the London Snllion market out of the hands of the three or four great firms who now fix the price of silver for the world, Our con- temporary dismisses as of no consequence the assumption that the silver bullion certificates, bring representatives of money, full under the prohibition of the law. At all eveénts the matter isone which the treasury suthorities will prob- ably feel called upon to test, The Alien Land Law. The opinion rendered by the attorney getieral regarding the alien land law, just made publie, agrees in all essential particulars with that given some time ago by Judge Pagson, of Illinois, the author of the law. They concur in say- ing that the act is applicable to mines, and that heneeforth mineral lands can- not be acquired by aliens, Foreigners may hold stock in American corporations to the extent of 20 per cent. of the total amount issued, without 1mpairing the right of the corporations to hold and acquire land in the territories, and aliens may lawfully advance money for the purchase and development of mining properties but this would give them no interest in the real estate of such propertics. We noted some time ago that the publication of this law in Eogland haa the immediate eof- fect of putting a stop to the sale of mining stock in the London mar- ket, and that tne opinion prevailing there was that if the construction given tho law by Judge Payson was officially sus- tained, as has now virtually been done by the attorney general, the result would be that American mining shares would become wholly unsalable in foreign mar- Undoubtedly this wiil be the case. “The probability is that a vigorous pres- sure will be made upon the next congress to secure an amendment of the law that will at least give more liberal scope and seeurity for the investment of foreign capital in American mining properties, if not to remove all restrictions impose by the law. The question is scen to be oiie of most material importance, and it is very likely that if the meaning and in- tent of the law, as now construed, had been apprehended by the interests affec- ted while it was under con- sideration it would not have passed in the form it did, So far as the law operates to exclude foreign capital, whether in the hands of single individuals or syndicates, from obserbing vast tracts of farming and grazing lands, as has here- tofore been done to an extent of millions of acres, the people will demand that it shall stand unchanged. There is not the slightest question that the very nearly universal sentiment of the county is un- alterably opposed to permitting any further investments of alien capital in the public domain, and regretfully realizes the mistake that has been made in not having passed a law years ago prohibiting such investment. So much of the law, therefore, the people will not tolerate any modification of or interfer- once with. Butwith regard to mining properties the conditions and circumstances are very different. The real estate represented by such properties is not only as a rule inconsiderable in extent, but has nearly its whole value 1 the mineral wealth it may contain. The areus covered by many of these mining properties would not subsist in agricul- tural products a score of familics, and once having been subjected to develop- ment they do not again become available for any other practical use. While therefore real estate in mining property may have for the foreign capitalist a certain coilateral value, 1ts actual value to anybody simply as realty amounts to very little. It1s very certain, however, that foreign capital cannot be drawn into this class of investment without th collateral, and it is certainly serious question whether for so little so much should be risked in imperiling, or at least greatly retard- ing, the development of the mineral re- sources of the country, for which there is not yet the surplus capital in the hands of our own people. The foreign capital that has been drawn herp for this pur- pose has been expended in labor and ma- chinery, cortributing very materially to the direct enrichment of the country. No one will pretend that without it the de- velopment of our mineral resources would be one-halt what it is, nor will any intelligent man presume to say that we have as yet reached the limit of those re- sources. This being so, is it a judicious policy to shut out needed eapital for fur- ther development when we can continue i it without injury to any st and without violence to the and vital principal underlying the alien land law. Undoubtedly this is the line of argument that will be pre- sented to the next congress in favor of a modification of the law, and it would be no surprise if it would be successful. Meanwhbile foreign capital will keep clear of mining investments in the United States. Not in Love with the Reform. A conspicious and significant fact in counection with the recent democratic convention of Ohio, which should not be lost sight of, was the very plain evidence 1t furnished that the party in that state 18 not in love with civil service reform, It did not have the courage to say so in its platform, but the convention listened without & word of dissent to the assault on the reform in the address of its chair- man, who called for a demand upon con- gress for the immediate and uncondi- tional repeal of the law, and omission of any reference to the subject in the plat- form may with absolute fairness be accepnted as a virtual endorsement of tho views of the chairman, No injustice will be done the democratic party of Ohio in aflirming that it is opposcd to civil service reform, and that could 1t be sure its demand for a repeal of the law would effect that result would not hesitate to make the demand in the mosy forcible terms, This feeling is not due to any neglect of Ohio democrats by the administration, They have been as well taken care of as the democrats of any other state except, perhaps, New York. It is simply due to that bourbonism which distingmishes the thorough democrat everywhere, and is not more pronounced in Ohio than in other states where the so-called reform elewent is so small a minority in the party as to exert no iufluence upon its counsels or its utterances. Mr. Pendleton went down in Ohio because of this bour- bouism, and no democrat in that state with political aspirations has since been brave enough to champion civil service reform. To do so is to invite political death, 80 far as the party is concerned. It is the same in most or all other states. Everywhere the evidence is conclusive that the democoratic party is hostile to civil service reform and still believes as heartily and earnestly as cver in the spoils system. Mark the evasions and declarations of all the democratic con- ventions held or to be held this year and there will be no lack of testimony as to how the party as & whole feels on this '"UESDAY. subject. What conspicuous leader is there who is an avowed and unqualifiod friend of the reform, and yet it is the only policy to which the adininistration is unmistakably committed and with which it has been able to accompli thing. In respect of other pol which it had pledged itsell was pledged by the party jts career has been utterly barren of results, and prom- ises to continue so until the end. What value, then, is to be given to endorse- ments of the administration by demo- cratic conventions which actually or virtually repudiate the only policy in which the administration has any success whatever? 1s it not manifest that such endorsements are given whollv as a mat- ter of expediency, and that there is not tho least bit of honesty or sincerity in them? Never before has a political party in this country been so helplessly in bondage to an individual as 18 the demo- lcn\t|h) party at this time to Grover Cleve- aud, Municipal Extravagance, Three years ago when Jewett was city clerk his salary was $1,200a year. Tho force in his office was a solitary clerk at $000 a year. With this assistant Jewett kept up the records of the council, pre- pared copies of official documents,* per- formed the clerical duties of the license board, audited the city’s accounts, and made out all city warrants, besides ac- commodating councilmen by copying and preparing resolutions, ordinances, ete. When Mr. Southard became city clerk, an auditor was appointed to re- heve him of the duties of city nccount- ant. The auditor received $1,500 a year. In due time the aaditor employed two clerks, and Mr. Southard increased his clerical force by two men. This spring a comptroller was chosen, who re- lieved the auditor of his duties. The comptroller now employs two clerks and the city clerk has shifted nearly all his work upon the shoulders of three so-called deputies. Councilman Man- ville's son, who has been wmade South- ard’s deputy, draws $125 per month, and the two other deputics $100 per month each. Computed in dollars and cents the city now pays’ $2,000 per year for the clerk and $3,900 for his assistants, while the comptroller and his assistants draw $5,300 a year, making a total of $11,200 a year for seryices which, three years ago, were performed for $2,100 per year. Granting that the work in the office has doubled, oreven trebled, the employment of threa deputies in the city clerk's of- fiec is & piece ot reckless extravagance. The charter nowhere mentions a deputy city clerk, and anybody who imperson- ates a deputy city clerk acts on question- able authority. But why should the council allow the clerk $3,900 a year for assistants? With relief from former duties which the comptroller and his a: sistants afford, the city clerk can readily perform all the duties of his oftice by the aid of one man and a typewriter clerk at a total outlay not to exceed what isnow paid to young Manville alone. ‘T'his is of course on the assumption that the city clerk will devote his own ume wholly to the business of the city. The same reckless waste of the city’s funds may be noted in other depart- ments. The city treasurer 1s allowed one deputy by the eharter, but last month’s payroll shows two deputy treasurers at $150 a month each. If the treas- urer needs more than one deputy he can well afford to pay for his services, as he is allowed a per- centage on his tax collections in addition to his salary of $1,400 per year. ‘These are not the only glaring instances of extravagance as shown by the city pay- roll. An analysis of .some of the bills in- curred would furnish an exhibit of even WOrso management. No More Trifling. The citizens of Omaha will tolerate no more trifling by the council with the po- lice commission, The prime object of creating the police commission was to give Umaha better police protection by divorcing the management of the police from politics. That retorm could only be achieved by taking the control of the police out of the hands of the council and placing the responsibility upon an independent board. Nearly three months have now passed away since the commission was appointed by the governor. Up to this time the com- mission has had no chance to exercise its functions unrestricted and unhampered. 1ts hands have been tied from the outset by the attempt of the council to nullify the law and ar- rogate to itself powers which the framers of the charter never pro- vosed to confer upon it. The quarrel over the chief of police has been a mere vretext. The fact that the council has absolutely refused to take action upon the bonds of the commission shows that the spoilsmen of the council are de- termined not to losen their grasp in the management of the police force. The effect of this policy has been very disastrous to the city. 1t has advertised Omaha as a city without an organized police and a resort of crooks and highwaymen. [t has had a very demoralizing effect upon the police foree i ordination within its ranks. This state ot affairs has become intol- erable. The reputable men in the coun- cil ean no longer uphold Hascall, Bechel and Ford in their conspiracy to nullify the law and freeze out the police com- mission. There is a limit to all things and public endurance has been strained to 1ts utmost, The issue is not whether Seavey 18 to remain chief of police, but whether Hascall, Bechel and Ford are to usurp the powers which were conferred upon the police commission. On this issue there should be no more trifling by the council. A PHILADELPHIA contemporary not un* wisely suggests that one effective method of breaking up monopolies in commodi- ties would be to repeal the high protec- tive duties behind which these combina- tions have been organized. For example, the envelope monopoly just established, to which we made extended reference a few days ago, could not exist but for the 25 per cent duty on envelopes which is prohibitory of foreign importation and gives American manufacturers complete control of the home market. Our con- temporary cites the repeal of the duty on quinine as an example of the effect of this method of destroying monopoly. The proposition is unquestionably sound, but from all present indications the attain- ment of the remedy will be so remote that the present genera- ion can hardly hope to derive much advantage from it. While the leg- islators who haye the welfare of the peo- ple at heart should not abate their zeal in the effort to reach the sovercign remedy, they may profitably employ a part of their time in endcavoring to find some practicable and effective way of reliliving the people from the extortion and op- pression of monopolies that can be made immediately operative. Surely the peo- ple are most unhappily situated if there is but one route of relief from the injus- tice of monopolies, and that route is ren- dered impassable by sach obstructionists as Samuel J. Randall und other sub- servant tools of the power that sustains monopoly. MastErR WorkyvaM POWDERLY is at work gathering statistics and data upon which to base a plan for dealing with the immigrant question, He thinks this will be a knotty problem for the statesmen to solve 1n the near fature. This problem will not only be a difficult one o solvs, it is already so. Last year a larger number of pauper immigrants than ever before was denied admittance to this country at Castle Garden. Bat this was not accom- plished without serious wrangling among the members of the New York board of immigrant commissioners. One faction wishes to allow nearly all who come, to land, while the other would exclude many that are now admitted. This problem 1s at present almost ex- clusively in connection with male immi- grants, Itis very diflicult for them to obtain work on ftirst landing. Not 80 with the females. Tho Castle Garden employment bureaun is thronged with idle men, while 1t is impossible to supply the demand for female help, Im- migrant women, who wish to work, find places at once, employers being glad to give them a preliminary course of in- structions to it them for their duties, THE delegation of St. Louis eitizens to invite the president to visit struck the white-house at noon yesterday. They had a big time, were successful and Mr. Cleveland’s face will shine upon the citizens of St. Louis at somo future time yet to be fixed. The president stated in his reply to the invitation speech that he did not know as it was necessary for a hundred people to come so far to give him an “invite,” but yet he was glad to seo them. His desire to visit St. Louis had increased each day. He did not sce how he could do otherwise than accept the invitation, etc., etc And so the doubt as to Cleveland's candidatey dwindles away day by day. His first refusal to come and this spectacular second invita- tion and acceptance are nothing but political dodges, pure and simple. So far, under the, present administra- tion, the democratic heads of govern- mental departments have expe nded the greatest part of their ingen vity and strength in trying to violate the spirit while seeming to conform to the letter of the civil service act. Hedden, the ex-collector of the port of New Yor came to grief in this endeavor. Magone, his successor, has become so irritable in trying to satisfy New York democracy and the civil service commission, that he has become a terror to all his associates and subordinates, and he has conclus- ively shown that he is not & big cnough man for the p SC HELLENBERGER no doubt richly mer ited the punishment of death which the law had meted out to him, but this does not justify his former neighbors in tak- ing the responsibility upon themselves of torturing him to death after the manner of thedark a; He denied his guilt to the last, supposing he is innocent, will those men, who participated in this miserable crime feel at ease in having his blood upon their heads? He was doomed to death. Why could they not wait for the law to execute its own decree? Shellen- berger was probably entitled to little sympathy, but what is this but adding another bloody deed to the dark crime already committed? Why can’t the eity come to a settlement with the gas company. Its claims are snid to ran up into the tens of thousands and are constantly increasing. Some beautifu! day the gas company will pre- sent a bill for 25,000 or #30,000, and the council will gencrously let it take jude- ment against the ity for the whole amount. This musty gas claim should be promptly taken in hand by the council, and hereafter monthly settlements should be made on the terms of the ting con- tract. 1F Secretary of State Laws has any in- fluence with the state printer, he will confer a favor upon the people of Ne- braska by urging him to hurry up with the new session laws. Possibly Mr. Laws can effect this by calling attention to the fact that the contract requires the session laws to be ready for delivery within sixty days after the legislature has adjourned. Ovw afternoon contemporary 18 mis- taken when it quotes Uity Attorney Web- ster as drawing $185 per month. The city attorney gets $250 per month, and hus assistant $125. Tuk decent and honest members of the council must separate from the bummers and boodlers. . WiiAT has become of the Council Blufls wagon bridge project? FORTUNE A\D MISFORTUNE. Peter De Lacy, of New York, has made $200,000 on the race course, bookmaking. The venerable Parke Godwin Is at Bar Harbor. He is worthover $100,000, and is still stout-looking. Chasles H. Woodruff, who bas made a for- tune in printing inks in; Philadelphia, was once a compositor, earniug 83 a week. Justforty years ago Robert Bonner was foreman of the New York Evening Mirror,at $15 a week. He is now worth $2,000,000, Stanley Brown, now a carpenter in Wash- ington city, was once the private secretary of President Garfield, on a salary of $3,500 & year. Henry Stafford Little, who is called the political godfather of Senator Rufus Blod- gett, of New Jersey, Is a bachelor and worth $1,000,000, Ex-Secretary Bristow gets an income of $20,000 from his real estate investments in New York, and his law praciice nets bim £40,000 more. Addison Cammack, having made $200,000 in the last two bear raids on Wall street, thinke he can now afford totake a fortnight's rest at New Mme. Christine Nilsson owns two build- ings 1n Boston that are assessed at $123,000, 1t must not be supposed that this property was bought for & 8Ong Jacob Seligman, of Michigan is a mlillon- JULY 26, 1887. nire, and director of nine banks and four railronds. He is less than five feet hich and went to Michigan twenty-five years ago with less than $100 in his pocket. Jonathan H. Green, once a famous lecturer tothousands as the ‘‘Reformed Gambler,” reached his seventy-fifth anniversary last Monday, His life hasbeen full of etrange vicissitudes, and for years past he has had a severe and perpetual battle with poverty. - No Coal Oil “1n His'n" Louisville Times, The old Roman declines to scent his ban- dana with coal oil. —— Will be Decided in Next Congress, Conrter-Journal. The next presidential contest will be decid- ud In congress next winter. — - Not a Very Liberal Allowance. Waterbury Amerdean, July 20. The two lawyers who defended Chamber- Iain and Taylor, the New Haven murderers, were allowed $15 each by the court. Judge Stoddard said that the state was not bound to provide two eounsel, and that the limit of authorized exvenses was $10 a day, which he divided between the two attorneys employed. - Keep An Eye On Harrison. Philadelphia Times. Ex-Senator Harrison is practleing law in Indianapolis. Though still smarting from the knotted lash of defeat in his 0wn state he,too, lopes that the fortune of politics may again force him to the front. As the possible leg- atee of Blaine, he hopes for the presidency, but in the event of the latter's renomina- tion Harrison will not turn his back on see- ond place. Like Sherman and Edmunds, he 15 his own worst enemy in_the sense that he is utterly without personal maguetism, and frequently offends his most trusted friends. Nevertheless he has a very lucrative law practice, and he would bo o rich man if he left politics alono for a decade. - Nobody Bolieves It Kansas City Times (Dem.) Nobody believes that Thomas Powell will be elected governor of Ohio, because, gener- ally speaking, Ohio is a reliably republican state, and, further, because it is not without reason supposed that the Enquirer and its faction will knite him. Powell was nomin- ated as an out-and-out administration man, while Campbell was a sort of “Gatn” demo- crat. The democratic convention of 1887, however, proves one thing, that the bulk of the Ohio democracy stands by Mr. Cleveland and applauds his course, not only in its plat- form but in 1ts nomination. g A Hammock Story. My lady dreams with unshut eves, Under the abple boughs 1 s Where on her breeze-blown (‘.oucll she lies, ‘The tairest thing beneath the skles— Ahl dare I hope she dreams of me? Her hair is like the suubeam's gold. Her face an angel’s well might be, Her forin is cast in beauty’s mold, Her loveliness cannot be told E'en by a worshipper like me. I cannot leave her musing there And go my way, when only sho My heart and life and love can share— Ab!lady fair, dear lndy fair, 1 come to thee! 1 come to thee! She heard his footfall as he came, And suddenly across her check There swept a vivid searlet flame, She trembled as he breathed her name, But not an answer did she speak. Ili‘r lace-bound hat she lightly drew se to her brows, and he-—oh he! lh-n( near to her eyes of blue, And with a look that thrilled her through, He asked her king of dreams to be. ‘There was & tender thrill of bliss From the brown nest above the two, After the silence of a kiss, As, with a look love would not miss For heaven, she said, *1 dreamed of you!” - STATE JOTTINGS, Chadron pays taxes on $440,000. Ainsworth is valued for tax purposes at §61,486. Filley has mbscnbcd a bonus of $4,000 for a flouring mill, Active work has commenced on the Burlington bridge av Nebraska City. The tide of emigration has turned to Clouds of chinch bugs passed llmore county last weck bound for that region, A round up of Hastings shows that buildings to cost #335,100 are now under way. The third city 13 keeping up with the procession in fine shape. Seven out of fourteen head of cattle be- longing to a settler in the western pal of Cheyenne county were_killed one ds ast week by a single stroke of lightning. One of the Custer county gang of , attacked by the sherifl’s posse a erawled into the brush Tne body was discovered last ‘I\\.l‘/ lm\, mounted on a pony, i number of hooting ammal was frighte pnod ider to the ground, kill- ing him instant orfolk New' kK announc i " we hm. been xpeeting to hear the Tribune man shout again, ‘we do Boon Mr. C. L. Hall, of Central City, has issued a pamphlet detailing the natural red advantages, - soil, elimate, and material interests of Mer® y. The pamphlet will prove ellent immigration agent 1f liber- ally distributed. Ired D. Wil s utters a farewell kic in the Rising (ny Independent, which has been sold to D.R. Neville. Williams proudly proclaims u at he has never been " wlile at the helm, but confesses 2 contracted a job lot of general debility in exchunge for some robust health. Self-interest is the balance wheel of opmion. A few months ago the Fremont Tribune objected to the use of three as a multiple in figuring the directory popula- tion of Omaha. Now the same paper thinks three and a half is the proper wmul- upl.- as it gives Fremont a population of “We do boom.” The Broken Bow Times “Byery bum, hoodlum and worthless whelp, young or old, 1n the city 1s supplied with his gun or other deadly’ weapon. If the oilicers would commence ral ‘pull- ing’ matinee of this class it would be a blessing 11 law loving peo AI 5, ‘T'here is no u for these two-legged ani- mals being allowed this ]nnvlh' ¢, unless it is the calculation for about half a doze of them to blow their own worthless brains out pretty soon. Doe Middleton, the notorious, is run- ning & tent saloon at Quitman, the end of the Ravenna branch of the B. & M. Recently his courage bagged at the kn as he gazed into the barrel of a revol The incident, as told by Conductor Ly man in the Nebraska City News, shows that Middleton was caught at s old tricks. He stole a consignment of liquors from a rival, who traced them to Doc’s tent. Placing a revolver under Doc's nose he said, "‘You have tive minutes to live unless you tell me where that whisky is.”" Doc denied knowing anything of the stolen property until after looking down the barrel of the gun for about three minutes, when some one said: Only two minutes to live.” At this Doc weakened ana told where the goods were, Middleton 18 said to have almost recov ered from the wounds he received while bniufi captured eight years ago for horse stealing The \(-mict of the Lincoln jury plac ing the responsibility of the Havelock wreck on Engineer Bowser is being vig orously denounced as rank injustice Dy railroad men, *'If the company and the law ofticers belicve Bowser is guilty, as the verdict declared, why is he not ar rested?” was the conundrum fired at a Bee man recently by a prominent rail- roader. “Bowser is laying mmmd Lin- coln,” continued the railroader, “‘anx- ious for a trial, which he believes will prove his innocence. In justico to a wronged man the authorities should press the case to trial and place the blame where it belongs. I don’t believe they dare do eause 1f the truth were known the \'v*pnlmlull(? might fall on the train dispatener on duty 1n Lincoln that night. He gave Bowser orders to run throvgh from Waverly to Lincoln, and discovering his 1. ke after the eust bound train had 1. .incoln, he at- tempted to correct it by ealling up the sleepy operator at Havelock, who put out the signal to stop after the engine had passed the station. Let them Bowser and bring out truth.”! In this connection, the following from the Plattsmouth Journal of Saturday will be found inter- esting: “‘Railroad men report that last night while an extra {reight was passin Havelock station—after the engine had flaney by —the operator turned on the red ght signal, which the conductor hap- pened to discover and went to setting rukes to stop the train; and when the operator saw that the train was almost ata_standstill he turned off the signal again, That fellow deserves bouncing. In the opinion of all railroad men it was such a trick as that that caused the wreck a week ago.”’ MORTUARY M I:'I’I‘]“!. Facts Abont Those Who Have De- varted this Life, MRS, CHARLES WASMER, The sad news was received 1 this city yesterday from Grand Island that Mrs Charles Wasmer, formerly Miss Lilli Sexauer, was dead. Sunday, a telegram came saying she was very ill and her mother, Mrs, William Sexauer, started at ouce for her bedside. The daughter died before the mother reached Grand 1sland, and yester morning, Mr, Sex- auer, father of the deceased, and her sis- ters, Mrs. Buck and Mrs. Myers and Mr, Myers, a brother-in-law, were called to the home of mourning. Tho deceased was born and brought up in this city, her parents being among Omaba's oldest residents, Her husband, Charles Wasmer also lived here for many years, and was for a time engaged in the grocery business on the corner of Thir- teenth and Howard, Some years ago he moved to Grand Island, and has been very successful in the grain business. It is not known as yet whether Mrs, Was- mer will be buried 1n Grand lsland or bere. FRED THOMPSON, Fred Thompson died at St.Joseph's hos- pital Sunday evening. He was a Dane,and well known in the northern part of the city having beenifor some time engaged in the saloon business on the corner of Cum- ing and Saunders streets. Reunion Supplies. E. F. Davis, chairman of the committee of the Grand Army of the Republic for supplies of wood, hay and straw, to be delivered for use in the next reunion of the soldiers of this department, 18 awaiting a meeting of the committee to piss. upon the same. The time for idding closed on Jast urday at noon, up to which time Me Bedford, Nel- son and Viers had presented bids for wood; Robinson and Sullivan and Sulli- van and Quick for st Wednesday Mr. J. Berberich, a scholastic of the Jesuit order was ined in Creighton colloge by “Hh()p O'Connor, Yes mass in Helen parents reside. ile will city in a few days where orders as to his hmm- work, —— ]\lunlu\‘t where return_to th he will await Reteor Milk, Inspector Hickstein reports that the milk nov being sold in this city averages a better quality than any similar season for some years. CHARLES STEWART PARNELL. The Parliamentary Carcer of a Great tan. Harper's Magazine for August: Mr, Parnell did not enter parliament until 1885, Few, if any, then thought of him as the coming leader of a powerful A landlord him 1f an Irishman, ions aud an training, he was 1 voecate of a m. W Lnglish uni t likely to be the ad- wrd policy in Irish na- The early fears concerni ¥ ned bry the howme rulers are quite intelligible.” But he has belied B very way. He has all the qual- ities of an opposition leader. To bim has been attached a band of spirits, young and old. He can f need be; he can - diplomatize if that be better. Cool, intrepid, with a keen mind and an uniling ing purpose, he isan enemy to be avoided. No situation scems to baflle him, and whilst others may rise to white heat of passion, he re- mains calm, And yet there is a sup- pressed passion’ in his words which powerfully appeals to the hearer aad ~ reader. In the carlier part of lus parliamentary cer these qualities were either lacking or un- developed, and he then lost many & point by his w nt of seif comu and. Yet Mr. Parnell eannot be said, rule, to bear too much the burden of his p()\illulL He rather directs; others work. He never es himself too cheap. His strange disappearance from the scene of action, which baflle the on-looker, and more than once have appeared to endanger the success of his policy, have studied meth- od in them. They lend an impressive- ness to his utterances and appearances which might not oth * be is ulways there when nceded; ry, no one ean tn ork than I Stewart Parn cend- who have won tigh position in their country's records. His father, John Henry Parnell, of Avondale,County Wicklow, nephew of Lord Congleton, who was, as Sir Henry Parnell, an ardent liberal, married Miss Stewart, daughter Rear-Admirs f the Ameri navy, “0id the hero of This Lady Parnell mother of the Irish leader en at Avondale in 1316, From he was oducitod ent rely in inally gradunting l| 18 to be ¢ ired, and, if more force interest i politics, b onalist side already scen that Mr was the origin of obstruction in the house of commons, but th an acerdent of the moyement nell must belong the e a policy. For the first two spoke very seldom in the house very acceptably. Butt's gentle tempor. izitig did not suit him, and the germs of the present Parnell party, thenin the house, determined upon a new depart ure. Hitherto the interfe of Irish members 1o British or imperial matters had b resented, whilst the proposals made by them for their own country were voted down, Parnell set himself to alter this stute of things and to in «ll the debates o The “Eag and workshob act” of 1538, ! of the same year. decipline and regulation act” 1l bear the ks of his influ But there w: Iso another move ment set on foot, namely, that of making the Irish party indeps Biggar mutiny nil the ests, he former policy was but to ful fill the duties involved in membership of the house of commons; the Iatter hag made the Irish party instrumental in the overthrow of two governments. This forward policy was hailed with acclaim in Ireland. " It led, however, to the deposition of Butt and the advent of Parnell to the leadership. The events of these Iater days of the struggle need not ', so far as they concern Mr, T'he susvensions in the house of commons, tho suppression of the land league, and the imprisonment of Parnell u}'ll- matters of recent history familiar to all, e FIRING INTO A TRAIN. Vandalia Mail and Passenger Conches Riddled with Builets, St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The passon. gers who arrived in the ocity early this morning by the Vandalia express from Indianapolis had a somewhat thrillin, experience near Greenup crossing, miles from St. Louis. There was an s cident on one of the connecting lines east of Indianavolis, which caused the Louis express to leave that city soveral hours behind time, and this, with the do- lay which occurred near ¢ k.~p| the train, which was due at m terday, from reaching the city until 12 1 this morning. After the train had left Indianopolis Conductor F. M. Pfouts dis. covered four men stealing a ride on tha front of one of the mail conches, and ha ‘»rml\ml\' ordered them to get off' at Long Point station. They pretended to do so, but instead hid behind some bushes and jumped on the rear of the engine's ten. der as the train pulled out from the sta. tion. Here they were again discovered by the conductor when Greenup erossing ached, and this time they -werd put off. They at once went inta low of some large trees near the and, as darkne: 1 just set in, they were complete h {den from yiew! RECKLESS Bt As the train left llu- station the men commenced firing into it from theit places of concealment, and a heavy fu- silade was kept up for several minutes, The bullets struck the baggage and mail cars and passed through the windows of the passenger conc hes, Railway Postal Clerks J. H. Roberts, Martin Wild and S. B. Raridon, who were in the mail car, had a narrow escape, a8 several bullets passed through the car so near them as to be mum)(urh\blo going out the oppo- site side, showing the character of the weapons used. ‘The passengoers were ter- ribly frightened, ana one old German imagimed that he had really been wound. d, the bullet whizzing so0 close to hig His fellow passengers examined him carefully after the excitement had begun to subside, but 1t was found that he was only scared and not hurt. All of the people in the coaches heard the whistling of the bullets as they flew around, and this, with the crashing of window panes, was well caleulated to frighten the average peaoceful man out of his wits. When the firing commenced everybody supposed that an attempt was being mado to robthe train, and a hasty and some- what unanimous movement was made to secrete watches, jowolry, money, and whatever valuables woro™ in sight. Tho mail clerks say that twenty or twenty- five shots were fired, and that all of the four men who had just been put off the rain lm)k a hand in the shooting. iERS, train_had just started and was moving slowly while the shooting began, and yll-lt as it ceased Conductor Plouts pulled the bell tu stop, and backed up to the station, Ie then, in company with the brakeman and flagmen, made a short rch for the men who had done the shooting, but as no one on the train had & weapon of any kind, it was thought best not to attempt any pursmt into tha darkness of the forest whither the would- be ns had fled. The entire train was unprotected, and if the men had only known this fact, they could huve robb without difliculty. It was the general belief that they had nded to rob the train when some convenient place was reached, but at the place where they did the shooting they were within sight of the telegraph oflice, and this pos- sibly prevented them from making the attempt there. From the station Con- ductor Pfouts telegraphed to all the nearest stations warning them to be on lookout for the four mea, and it is sald that & posse was organized to go in search of them. he conductor and brakeman, who only saw the men in the darkness, can not give an accurate de- seription of them, and supposed them to be tramps at the time they were put ot the tram. They were ovidently well armed, as the holes in the cars made by the bullets showed that they must haye been of very he; caliber. When the ched the eity last night, tramn alike worn ‘out and mentally y the delays and exciting iu- train re READY SCRIBNERS l() DAY. JAGH INE wind srorms,by S 8HALER, ontitied, THE INSTABIL- FTHE ATMOSPHEIE. Among tho il 18 18 00 CRRERVINE {rom A Tnstunti. b0t torumdo 1 oon June 6, 1857 ewith shows the nado on & train near Grinnell, Town, “Tie PicturEsque QuALITY or Hot LAND,” a most clever paper by Mr. George Hitcheock, delightfully illustra ted by the author The fifth installment of the UNPURLISHED Litires oF THACKERAY, with several Thack s including a humor~ ous « a e of the author. The lette L e 0 3 at Lon don exliibitio 5 y Thack p and an of a tripon ray took with | — Tue R S two daw VAL OF HANDICRART, Jo! Weir, of Yale Colleg ‘pecially timely paper, coming w the subject of is exciting so much attentio APITAL SHORT STOR1ES, by van (“The Lost Rembrandt *A Perilous ncognito,"conclud= © W. Champney (“Father Aca by Prof. an cs at a time manual training 11y YEAR'S : July conelud= ed in this n Hustrated REALISM AND THE ARt 0F Fic1ioN, by Ar o Bates, written from the ideali t's point of view; it combats the theory which Mr. Howell's has so vigorously ad- i - Edith Thomas, Mary W, arles Lotin Hildreth, M B, 1l Wi E, the s Plum- il Ly $3 a Year INER'S 256 a Gumber; CHARLES MR SONS, wdent of nil the Englishfactions, and nsing its influenc olely to the adyancement of Irish iner- T T45 Broa vay N. ¥