Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 20, 1887, Page 4

‘ THE ’ PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. A More Favorable Outlook. The discouraging indications at the first opening of bids for the sale of bonds to the sinking fund were very genorally regarded as foreshadowing the failure of this expedient of the secretary of the treasury for the double purpose of meet- ing a requirement of the law and dispos- ingof a partof the surplus. The fact that only about 2 per cent of the total issue of the bonds desired by the treasury was offered, and much the greater part of this sum at a price considerably above the market, seemed to vretty clearly demonstrate that the holders of bonds were not at all anxious to dispose of them, even with the prospect of obtain- ing a higher price than they could get in the open market at the date on which their offers were made. With regard also 1o the prepayment of interest the first indi- cations were decidedly unfavorable, though this had been expected for rea- sons that seemed conclusive. Subsequent results, however, have given the outlook a much less unfavor- able aspect, and it now seems very likely* that the treasury will get all the bonds required for the sinking fund at an aver- age price a little below that paid for the first block accepted, and that the prepay- ment of interest will amount to a gener- ous sum, though it may not reach the full amount falling due between now and the first of next January. The require- ment for the sinking fund is about $26,000,000, and nearly or quite one-third of that amount has been offered and accepted. On this the government saving of intcrest will be very considerable. The holders of the bonds having become satisfied that there DAILY BEE. TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION ! ATA OPPICE, NO. 014 AN FARNAM STREEY N PoRk rFIoR, ROoM & TRINtN K AL DL ASINGTON OFFICE, NO. 615 FOURTRENTH STRRRT. (CORRESPONDENCE! All semmunieations relating to nows and ed!- torial matter should bo adiressed 10 the Kl TOR OF THE Bax. BUSINESS LETTRRS! All bueinoss letters and remittances should be Mddressed to Tas Bas PUsLISHING COMPANY, OMARA. Drafts, checks and postoffico orders 10 be made payable t the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, EpITOR. THE DAILY BER. Sworn Statement of Olrculation. Btate of Kmniu. }s. . ‘County of Doug M‘B ‘Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Dally Bee lolrl the week ending August12, 1887, wasas lows : aturday. August 6 unday, August 7... Monday. August 8. Tuesdav, Aug Wednesday, ;vmrn-y. Augu 'riday, August 3 Average, [} CHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed in my presence thix Lith day of August, A. D, 1887, N. P. Ferr, Notary Public. [SEAL.) Btate of Nebraska, *u Douclas County. “Gm B. ’l:’zwhlw‘l;’. {mlhnxl first duly nr{}rx- ismo chance to speculate on the treasury m‘:"f-’..,',fl,,fi:‘." m‘,“p.‘.’.,' ‘2,?:‘2"",,{"“,,,,? in this matter, since I!.l necessities are t‘l:"'" %l!l,x renh;m;;&l’ltn:o[‘)llly Illee gur not such as to compel it to buy bonds at e month of August, 2, coples; for v pri pase Bontanrber. 1086.515,090. eoplen: foo oty | any price tho holders may be pleased to ask, it is not impossible thatall the bonds wanted will be secured within the next thirty days or sooner. It would not be surprising indeed if the treasury sud- denly became flooded with ofters to sell, an experience that would certainly hap- pen if during & continuance of the treas. ury proposal thcre should come a severe tightening of the money market. The probability is that the meas- ures of the secretary of the treas- ury will be successful to the extent at least of liberating $35,000,000 of the surplus before the meet- ing of congress. This sum will undoubt- edly be a material help to the money market, and something will be gained also by the confidence which the success of the treasury measures will have in- spired. If there is anything unfortunate to be feared from this it is the danger of its misleading congress into a belief that the dangers attendant upon a large sur- plus have been exaggerated, and giving the advocates of continued taxation an argument for widening the authority of the treasury for disposing of the.surplus. Nothing is more certain than that those who are hostile to any interference with the tariff will take advantage of every fact, circumstance or pretext that can be 1688, 12,989 copies; for November, 1886, 15,345 corfes 'for Deceniber, 1686, 13,337 coples; for Jlnl‘lllz 1857, 16,208 coples; for February, 1887, 14,195 coples; for March. 1587, 14 gopleas for Avril, 157, 14,10 copiess for May, 1857, 14,227 coples: for June 1887, 14,147 coples; for July, 1887, 14,098 copies, Gro. B. TZ80RUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 11th day ot Anq{ln‘ A. D., 1887, [SEAL.| N. P. Frm., Notary Public. Tur American bar meeting closed yes- terday in Syracuse, N. Y. A similar convocation enjoys perpetual session in Omaha. E— Ir costs the city from fifty cents to $1 per yard to move dirt by the street coni- missioner’s gang. No wonder the gen- eral fund will soon be exhausted. E— THERE are two Colorowdies out in the centennial state—one is a swaggering In- dian chief and the other a blustering chief exccutive by the name of Adams. Or course, Chief Seavey is responsible for the starvation policy. If this city should be stricken by small-pox or the cholera Seavey would be held responsible by the combine organs. leading paper of that state, the Denver Republican, which makes the following comment: ’ I secms to us that oar school-marms and the youngsters can see the big squash, the threo-legged calf, the dress parade, the sham battle and Colonel Ehnu in his plumed hat sll on the same ny. THE assignee of Henry S. Ives expects to have a statameat, .etc., ready in a fow days. The statement pertaining to Ives, speedily desired, is from District Attor- ney Martine in the words: *‘Gentlemen of the jury, we expect to prove that the present defendant is guilty of obtaining money under false pretenses, as chargee in the indictment." CANADIAN newspapers are doing a good deal of growling at Americans these days. Some of them want Ameri- can whalers driven from Hudson's bay; others demand that our fishermen be de- prived of their salmon fishing rights in Canadian rivers; and again others rec- commend that the Gloucester fishing sohooners be sunk. If our garrulous neighbor becomes too obstreperous we may stop sending over superfluous Na- poleons of finance, and what would Can- ada do for ready money then ? A REFERENCE to this morning's tele- graphic tidings of an anticipated expos- ure of municipal rottenness, to supple- ment the county boodle prosecutions, in Chicago, will reveal in the closing sen- tence a thinly veiled thrust at Carter H. Harrison. Chicago's great ex-mayor is en route around the world, but that he voyages as a fugitive from the impend- ing claim of justice is news indeed. It ‘was thought some time ago that he had an appointment with the democratic oconvention of next year to complete the alliteration, *'Hill and Harrison.” —— CHIEF SEAVEY is quoted as saying that he would arrest any special policeman not duly appointed by the police com- mission. Mr. Seavey may or may not have made this declaration. It is imma- terial so far as it involves the point at is- sue, namely, the course of the council in making an 1nsuflicient levy for polico purposes. We do not believe that Chief Seavey will attempt to interfere with special policemen appointed by the mayor and council under the emergency clause of the charter. If he does, it will be in order to prefer charges against him before the commission, —— COMPARATIVE statistics of the pig iron production show the United States to oc- oupy second place, with all the condi- tions favorable to attaining the lead in a wvery short time. In 1873 the pig iron pro- duction ot Great Britain was nearly three times that of this country, while last year the difference in favor of the former was only a few thousand tons, and during the first quarter of the present year until the output was checked by the coke strike, the production of the United States was abreast with that of Great Britain, Fourteen years ago the latter country produced 86 per cent as much pig iron as all other countries, while the United States produced 22 ver cent. In 1886 the ratio respectively was 58 and 43 ver cent, a material relative decline on the part of Great Britain and a nota- ble increase on that of the United States. In no other respect has thls country made a more marked progress, as com- pared with other nations, and with the increase in productive capacity now under way, which is far in excess of the efforts being made in the same line in any other part of the world, it is a ques- tion of only a little time when this country will be first in the production of pig iron. cut off or reduce duties, and 1f anythin can be found in what the treasury is doing to help their cause 1t will be made use of. Meanwhile the government is receiving from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 a month in excess of expenditures, made available to defeat any eflort to and if it should part with all the surplus hoped to be disposed of by the purchase of bonds and the prepayment of interest will still have at the close of the current year a very large sum on hand. ) Governor Adams and General Orook. Governor Adams, of Colorado, has suddenly achieved national notoriety. He has lost his head completely by the turbulence of a handful of Indians, and exhibits a wonderful capacity for bluster and stupid insolence. His telegraphic correspondence with General Crook cer- tainly caps the climax of impertinence and ignorance of the laws which every governor ought to know without con- sulting his legal advisor. Every governor ought to know enough to koow that the . power of the regular army cannot be legally invoked by the civil authorities of any state for the enforcement of law and maintenance of order until all the powers of the state have been exhausted in the effort to suppress turbulence, riot or in- surrection. And Governor Adams ought to have known that an appeal for federal troops must first be made to the president in due form, certifying to the fact that the civil oflicers and state militia are incap- able of coping with the outlaws. That provision refers to bands of Indian dep- redators just as much as it does to bands of highwaymen, oz organized rioters. The governor of Colorado blundered when he ignored the president of the United States by appealing directly to General Crook for troops. He blundered by ignoring General Merritt, who is in commard of the division, to whom he should have addressed himself if the danger was so imminent as to require troops to hold themselves in readiness on the Colorado border to await orders from the president. In response to the blundering appeal for troops, General Crook courteously informed the Colorado Bombastes that he had forwarded the same to higher authority for instruction and while holding himself and his troops ready to move at a moment's notice inci- dentally called attention to the fact that troops cannot be used to assist state au- thorities in execution of civil process without orders from the president. This ought to have been enough to set Gov- ernor Adams right, but he turns Colorowdy and pitches into Ganeral Crook as1f he was his body servant or adjutant. He ingolently lectures General Crook on his duties and recites the In- dian outbreaks of eight years ago when Colorado was a mere mining camp and the state had barely been organized. He winds up bis tirade as follows: “Your immediate intervention would induce the Indians to return to their reservation and we think you shoutd force them to £o at once and return no more." This 18 decidedly cool. How does the governor of Colorado expect General Crook to move against the Utes without orders from army headquarters at Washington? The Indians on the Ute reservation are under the control of the Indian bureau, and those that are off the reservation are marauders that can be hunted down by the Colorado militia. Why should Crook be abused for refus- ing to violate army regulations and lay himself llable to severo discipline for nterfering in the clvil affairs of a state? At this distance the great Indian war in Colorado appears to be a tempest in a teapot, and that is also the opinion of the The Republican has belleved from the first that the danger of an Indian ontbreak In western Colorado has been very much ex- aggerated. Colorow and a few of his braves have annoyed White and the Grand rivers every summer since the Utes wero removed to Utah, by re- turning to their old hunting grounds in Col- orado. serious depredations ment could have very readily forced them to return to Utah had it sent a company of troops out after them. Colorow isa bad dian, but it Is & mistake to suppose that he is the settlers between the But they have committed no very ind the general govern- In- spoiling for a fight, 1t I8 possible that there may be a protracted struggle with the Utes before they shall be finally driven back to their reservation, but we donot believe it. For this reason we are of the opinion that Governor Adams has acted hastily In ordering four companies of cavalry into the field. It would have been quite sufficient to send & company from Leadville and one from Asven to Ken- dall's assistance, if it be true that he needs assistance. As we view It there was no need of shipping troops and horses from Denver and Colorado Springs, the gxpense of which will be considerable, It would have been much more sensible to send arms and ammunition to the ranchers and cowboys, who are much more competent to use them effectively than green cavalry. PRrestpENT CLEVELAND has been de- vrived of the opportunity to act as an arbitrator in the boundary controversy between Costa Rica ana Nicaragua, those two governments having wisely con- cluded to settle the trouble in a friendly way without ealling in outside counsel. But another chance may be presented to Mr. Cleveland 1n the dispute between Venezucla and Great Britain, in which the latter claims a large slice of territory which the former does not think her entitled to. A portion of this territory has already been taken possession of by the British, and the Venezuelaun govern- ment is contemplating a hostile move- ment to recover it. The president of the South American republic has arrived n the United States, and it is inferred from his talk that his mission has reference to securing the intervention or mediation of this gov- crnment. [t is an old controversy re- cently renewed, with an evident deter- mination on the part of Great Britain to push it to a conclusion after her usual method in such matters. @1t is not clear that it is a case to which the Monroe doctrine would apply, though perhaps that doctrine is capable of any degree of expangion, and as England denies the right of arbitration this government would probably not be disposed to ex- tend its good offices beyond the limit of persuasion. — “GIvE the children and teachers a chance for recreation,’’ says one of our unthinking contempararies with reference to the postponement of the school term. Have the teachers and children not had recreation enough during two months’ vacation? Do the teachers, who are on their way home from pleasure tours in Eurove, and the American and Canadian sumuwer rerorts, want a rest from their arduous labors? Would the teachers vote to forego one week’s pay if that was the condition on which the fall term was to bo set back one week? Will not one day suffice for satisfying their anxiety to vigit the soldiers’ camp and inspect the cabbages, pumpkins and prize-pigs at the fair grounds. One would think that the poor teachers had been worked to death during the last six weeks, and were in a condition of physical and men- tal debility bordering on prostration. As for the children, everybody knows that they are in for all the fun and frolic they can get, but we doubt very much whether it is wise or prudent to allow children the freedom of the city when they are exposed to the risk of being in- jured by mingling with great crowds of people. This sentimental effort to pro- vide recreation and amusement for the children and their teachers is liable to be overdone, Some of our public works inspectors are more anxious to please the contrac- tors than to serve their employer. Other Lands Than Ours. The victory of a Gladstonian candidate in the Northwich division of Cheshire, which had been a hotbed of conserv- atism, is another conspicuous evidence of the drift of the popular tide in England. The last previous election in the district resulted in a conservative majority of 661, whereas theliberal candidate in the inte election receivad a majority of 1,120, a gain of 1,357 votes. The defeated can- didate is Lord Henry Grosvenor, son of the powerful Duke of Westminster, whose dominlon over the people of that locality is well nigh as supreme as that of a foudal baron over his subjects. The duke made every effort to secure the success of his son, but so strong 18 the undercurrent of dissatisfaction with the party in control of the gov- ernment that even the powerful influence of the richest nobleman and nost extensive landlord in the kingdom was unavailing against it. The import- ance and significance of this result are fully realized by all parties, and Mr. Gladstone has not failed to give public evidence of his great appreciation of it, both on political and personal grounds. The tide that has set in favor of the lib- eral party seems certain to grow in strength as the campaign advances. In the house of commons the announcement has been made that the government will abandon a number of projected meas- ures, among them the Irish constabulary bill. The issue between the lords and commons on the land bill is the fact of chief interest, and the unwillingness of the house to concede everything has been manitested 1n the rejection of several amendments. Those most objectionable to the Irish leaders, however, have not failed. u.l It seems evident from the latest Rus- sian advices that the career of Prince Ferdinand is not to be a peaceful one in Bulgaria, and that it 18 only a question of a very little time when the little state will again be the scene of the most inter- esting events in Europe. The Russian fecling regarding Ferdinand is that he is simply an adventurer, and that his pres- ent proceeding is an usurpation not to be tolerated. Obviously the young man has made & very serious mistake and put Bulgaria in a situation that may have very ugly consequences for her, 1t is m- credible that even Ferdinand, immature and rash though he be, can have any Idea that he will be able to make Bulgaria free and independent by force. of arms, 3. while the lnlor,);‘t: of two of the great powers are do deeply involved 1n the Balkau suptemily, even if the treaty of Berlin did not exist. 1t is incred. ible that he or those who counsel him should believe that Bulgaria, although she were joined and upheld by all her quarrelsome little npighbor states, would be able to hold her own as an independ- ent kingdom. Of cpurse Ferdinand and the Bulgarians expeot their canse will be espoused by one or more of the great powers, which is the point wherein the danger of the rest of Europe lics. But even in this event Fordinand runs a risk ot disgrace, because the other powers cannot champion him without violating the treaty, to whose provisions all hold each other to account. That treaty ex- pressly stipulates that ‘“the Prince of Bulgaria shall be freely clected by the popuiation, and confirmed by the Sub- lime Porte with the assent of the pow- ers,” Ferdinand has not been contir med by Turkey, and the other powers will not assent to his confirmation, even if Tur- key were inclined to ratify his action. O'l The progress of the Germans in East Africa is & most intere sting contribution to the enterprise of the age. For three yoars the German East African society has been quietly but vigorously prosecut- ing its work, making treaties with native chiefs, building stone stations, starting experimental farms, and conducting sci- enlific inquiries, The German flag now floats over fourteen white stations, and a district twice as large a8 Prussia to-day admits the sovereignty of Emperor Wil- liam- These Germans have in view a broadly conceived and clearly defined plan, whose practicability it is their pur- pose to test thoroughly. Itis their belief that large plantations for the culture of cotton, tobacco, rice and other products may be developed on these uplands with the aid of native labor, and that when means of communication with the coast have been perfected a large amount of capital may find profitable employment, All their stations are scenes of agricul- tural activity and training schools for native workmen. About 600 acres are in crops, practical farmers and gardeners are experimenting with all the tropical and European grains and vegetibles, fruits and nuts, the stables are filled with cattle, goats, asses, and fowls, and several hun- dreds of workmen, whose native systems of irrigation and many herds and fields show that they are not wholly lacking in skill and industry, are being trained white methods of manual labor. Thus the German East African society is striv- ing to open new fields for, home enter- prise, to instruct and elevate the natives, and it is not without hope that some por- tions of its domain may prove to be adapted to the needs of German colonists. Several weeks ago Dr. Peters left Ger- many with a small party of colonists for the East African stations. Tho experi- ment will be watched with interest, but there is uo reason: to believe thoe results will particularly encourage white im- migration. It is more probable that com- varatively a few white people are adapted to live many years in equatorial Africa, and that progress there must be largely the result of native development, wisely fostered by theintroduction of good gov- ernment and the 1nfluence of commerce and instruction, »*e The objection of France to the Anglo- Turkish convention relating to Egypt is for the same reasons that England insists upon it. England contemplates the ulti- mate possession of Egypt as the best means of protecting its canal route to India and of strengtheuing its grip on the Mediterranean. France has interests in India also, and, being a Mediterranean state, it cannot view British encroach- ments 1 that quarter without alarm. With France and Russia protesting against the Anglo-Turkish agreement and both threatening war, the solution of the trouble rests, where so many other disputes have to be carried nowadays, with Herr Bismarck. France will not trouble itself with the castern question it things are not in a good condition at home, and Russia’s bluster as to Egypt is nvothing more than an attempt to gam concessions for itself elsewhere. ‘I'he isolation of France is never 8o conspicu- ous and so humiliating as when it secks to assert itself abroad. * B Holland, left to her own defense single- handed against Germany would be easily overwhelmed, but the kingdom is not without means of resistance. Holland's home force consists of 43,879 infantry, including officers‘ and men; 14,883 ar- tillery, and 4,130 cavalry. Miscellaneous troops make up an aggregate of 65,508 for the permanent army. In the East Ind:es she has about half as many more troops, but every man of them would be needed there for defending her colonies in a war with a maritime power; besides, more than half of the East Indian troovs are natives. But what she could addi- tionally rely upon for home defense is her militia, of which the active por- tion comprises 38,188 men and the reserve 77,103, Adding these to the standing army, we get an aggregate of 180,859 eurolled forces, which is not an amount to be slighted, and creditable to vopulation, all told, January 1, 1886, of only 4,336,013, And still further addi- tions could be religd upon from the un- enrolled male population of the arms- bearing age. Holland's sea forces make a respectable show of about 146 vessels of various sorts, 'among which are 23 1ronclad monitors or gunboats, the latter being suited to hér river and canal ser- vice. Sixof her turret ships were built in England, one in France, and the re- mainder at Amdtordam or Fijenoord. She has also many unarmored guaboats and torpedo boags. In a contest, how- ever, with Gorm*y armies would decide her fate. * " The military situation of Belgium con- tinues a matter of ‘interest, which is in- creased by the more threateming aspect of European affairs. The patriotic ad- dress of the king a few days ago, on the oceasion of the unveiling of the two statues of the Flemish patriots, was re- garded as significant and has made a strong impression throughout Europe. It olearly indicated a conviction that in the threatened European ndjustments the little kingdom is in danger, and that her only hope of preserving her existence is in the possession of ample means of de- fense, It is impossible that the appeal of the king should fail of effect. It 15 safe to predict that the compulsory military bill will be passed, and then both Hel- gum and Holland, like their neighbors, will soon bristle with bayonets, And so another part of the prologue is played to the great drama which may anon shake Europe to its center as it has not been shaken since the time of the great Napo- leon. ., e Cholera is always to be found in India, where the mortality from this cause in 1855 was about 50,000, but the discase usually does its work for the most part in the district extending 200 miles on each side of Calcutta and northward to the slopes of the Himalayas. It is surprising, therefore, that 1t should have slain 70,000 persons in the northwest provinces durifig June and July. The disease ap- pears Lo have been especially virulent in the oity of Peshawur, on the fronmtier, from which the British are building a railroad into northeastern Afghanistan. The plague seems to be separated from the advancing Russians only by the Hindu-Koosh mountains, Possibly one result of Russian conquest in Central Asia will be the introduction of cholera into southern Russia by way of the trans- caspian line, ns French aggression in Tonquin brought the same terrible plague to Toulon and Marseilles, * e For some years the sufferings of the people who live on the coast of Labrador have been severe. Even when the sea- sons are favorable the struggle to sustain lite there is & hard one. The inhabitants are sufficiently intelligent and indus- trious to make their way in a more hos- pitadle climate. Why do they choose to remain in the 1co? Recent reports say that hundreds of families would now abandon that dreary coast forever if they could get away. The Dominion of Canada should supply means for their transpor- tation. And if there be others who de- sire to stay they should be convinced that it is folly to waste human effort in such a region, while millions of acres of good land in lower latitudes are open to them. — THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. ‘There are 60,000 colored Knights of Labor. In Dakota the knights and farmers com- bine. Barbed wire is in greatdemand all over the west. One life is lost for every 118,535 tons of coal mined. ., The piush industry is prospering In this country. A telephonic wire across the Atlantic is projected. The Kentucky knights will form a state assembly. ‘Lhiree vessels are In course of construction at Alexandria, V& Birmingham has thirty-three miles of street railway track. Street cars are being made on a large scale at Sherman, Tex, The Punxatawney region, Pa., will soon have 2,500 coke ovens. Large coke-oven plants will soon be estab- lished in West Virginia. An Indiana zardner proposes to utilize natural gas to raise truck. Within a month 1,400 Knights of Labor charters have been issued. A large rolling-mill and nail factory will be bullt at Birminghawm, Ala. Dr. McGlynn is a delegate to the Syracuse (N. Y.) labor convention. A new rairoad town is to be built between Neow Haven and Hartford. San Francisco is to be connected with the Crystal Springs water supply with a line taking 5,000 tons of pipe. August 81 1s to be labor day at Whoeling. Henry George will be there. Steam and hydraulic pumps of all sizes are in great demand in the south, Electrical equipment manufacturing con- cerns are springing up rapidly. A Spanish railroad company has just or- dered 20,000 tons of English rails. A new Bessemer plant Is about to be com- pleted at Belle Isle, near Richmond. The stonecutters between Detrolt and Omaha propose to form a national assembly, Boot and shoe manufacturers in Now York are held to a strict accountability of the law. The Central Labor union of New York have arranged for a celebration on Septem- ber 5. The boycott against the American Tack company, in Fairhaven, Mass., is to be con- tinued. There are three successful co-operative concerns in New York with a capital of £100,000. A Connecticut mechanic expects to soon have on the market a steam one-horse power tricycle. The South Baltimore Car company will erect 100 houses with corrugated roofs for its employes. A great deal of new textile machinery is being forwarded from factories to mills east and south. A good many northern coal miners are going south in the hopes of obtaining stead- ler employment. 1t I8 expected there will be 300 delegates at the Knights of Labor convention in Minne- apolis in October. ——— The Description Indicates That. Peoria Transeript. A wild man has been captured in Indiana whose language is unintelligible. He is probably a mugwump who has relapsed Into a state of nature, —~— Scctional Sheol. Macon Telograph, A Macon minister recently used this figure of speech: *“‘Asa tree falls so will it lie for all tine, whather it fall to the north, where hell Is, or to the south, where is heaven.” S Sl The Cyclone, William H. Hayne. A black cloud edged with saffron flame ‘Avove the hushed horizon came— A sword of lightning cut the cloud, Then burst the thunder’s trinmph loud, And mad wind forces thus set free Reveled in ruin o’er land and sea. — BTATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Leigh is soon to have a $2,500 school house. Martinsburg is threatened with an epi- demic of typhoid fever. Funk is the name of a new town lo- cated seven miles east of Holdrege. The Northwestern track-layers are ex- pected to reach York next Tuesday. The Neligh Odd Fellows talk of erect- ing an opera house and lodge rooms. The Howells creamery will be ready for business by the middle of September. The Presbyterians of York wili lay the corner stone of their new church Au- gust 28, Colfax county has purchased balls and chains, and will now make its criminals do road work. Plattsmouth counts up eighty new res- idences 8o far this year, and still there's more to follow. A sister of Judge Laws, of York county, was one of the victims of the Chatsworth horror. Johnson, Seward's colored burglar, plead guilty and was sentenced to eigh- teen months in the pen. Alex. Sullivan, of Schuyler, started in with nine hogs two years ago and the in- creaso to date shows s drove of 280, The state ‘Industrial home has been located half a milo from the Milford depot on a beautiful plat of forty acres. The Fremont foundry has been granted the contract for furnishing the iron work lord the now soldiers’ home at Grand lsl- and. Postmaster Evans, of Hastings, has ap- pointed the carriers in readiness for be- finnl(ng the frec mail delivory Septem- r 1. Cnass county's jail is full to overfiowlnf, and some of the prisoners will have to be accommodated in the Plattsmouth city bastile. Howells, Colfax county, is now a full- nodfod vil'\nge, articles of incorporation having been granted by the county com- missioners. Blair 18 being troubled with tram) sneak-thieves, but tho vigilance of resi- dents and police has so far prevented any serious robberies. Bert Smith, a fly Fremont youth, has won into the clutches of the law charged h being tho cause of a young girl's delicate condition. James Crum, of Neligh, wants $1,000 from the railroad company for timber de-tro!ed by fire last spring, caused by a spark from an engine, The West Point Republican now has a chance to deluge evor{;body with mud, The recent storm filled the basement of the office with eight inches of soft real estate, caused by the caving in of a brick water gutter. An “oceasional liar'* has furnished a Nebraska City paper with the biggest fish story of the state —a 700 pound catfish captured in a Missouri cut-oft, which re- quired two horses and a tackle to haul out of the water. A hard hat saved the life of Rev. Mr. Shoulte, of Martinsburg, by keeping that gentleman’s head from the ground when precipitated from the back of a pony on which he was endeavoring to reach West Union last Sunday. Some of the young men of Weeping Water seemed to have fallen so low as to become ‘‘keg drainers,” and the local paver 1s trying to stop the evil b{ request- ing beer drinkers to plug up the bungs tightly after emptying kegs. Tho late Charles A. Fried, whorecently died in Colorado, was one of the charter members of the iodge of the Knights of Honor of Fremont, and his is the first death which has occurred in the lodge during the nine years of its existence. Says the North Bend Flail: “It is a mustake that Superintendent Tym has ordered the bibles all out of the’ district schools of the county, simply because they praise and glorify the only being that a3 he believes, can aspire to be his rival." Edward Beck, county clerk of Saline county and formerly village treasurer of Wilber, has been arrested on a charge of embezzlement while an occupant of the latter office. He was held under $16,000 bonds for appearance at the next term of the distriot court. J. A. Brewer, landlord of the Cowl hotel at Shickley, got fighting drunk last Thursday and took out his meanness on his daughter Eve, hitting her over the head with a r bottle and inflicting dangerous injuries. The town is getting very hou for the brute. The runaway daughter of G. L, Brown, of North Bend, has turned prodigal and writesto her father from Georgia for money to come home, as the companion of her flight, **Blind Biliy," has passed to the great beyond and left her feeding on husks in a far country. The wife of John Jordan, of Blyburg, created quite a sensation in Homer last week by eloping with a man named Hale. The recreant spouse before starting on her flight purchased a lot of goods and had them charged to her husband, but the latter arrived in time to warn the storekeeper, who immediately guve chase and captured the goods. Jordan, how- ever, did not deem it worth his while to pursue and bring back his wifo. A Cass county prisoner had a very bura drunk the other night. He discov- ered a bottle of alcohol and made away with the contents, but instead of stupi- fying him it took a grip on_his inwards that was anything but intoxicating. The liquor had been *'doped” with fish berries for killing vermin, ana the only consola~- tion the imbiber has is that that the double distilled *‘pizen’’ did not end his earthly career. A horrifying story is told by the Lin- coln Democrat to the offect that one of the handsomest and most po‘;)ulnr young belles of that city was a few days ago the owner of a very aweet and very small pug dog. Last Thursday evening when the storm came up the dog was fright- ened by the noise of the elements and took refuge in the bed chamber of his mistress. She happened to be engaged in changing her dress atthe moment, but noticing the extreme agitation of the little pug, she took 1t in her arms to re- assure and comfort him. At that mo- ment a loud dash of rain attracted her attention and she drew the curtain aside to peep out. Just then came & blinding flash of lightning and the yodng lady fel to the floor, stunned and unconscious. Other inmates of the house hearing the fall, came in and found her, The little dog was killed by the shock, and 1t was hours before the "young lady recovered animation, When she did” so she was horrified to find that an image of her dog had been photographed on her bosom. There seems to be no way of removing the picture, which gives every shade, color and wrinkle of the canine form. Theyoung lady and her friends are dread- fully distressed by the occurrence. lowa. Apple trees are dying in large num- bers at Milton. Y i Marengo has organized a stock com- pany to build a §20,000 notel. Waterloo has a chartered base ball as- sooiation with a capital of $800. The Governor's Grey's at Dubuque are drilling for their Philadelphia trip. One of Haverly's minstrels was ar- rested at Cedar Rupids for burglary. Two new grand army posts have been organized at Creston to succeed the John A. Rawlins vost. ‘The little child of Arthur Elhs at Ber- wick tumbled into a tub of hot water and was sculded to death. Winland, the name of a station on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railway, has been changed to Hull, A Keokuk real estate dealer has com- mitted suicide, being tired of waiting for the fall boom to raise prices. An incendiary fire burned the barn, granary, fifteen tons of hay and oight horses of Michael Herr, at Creston. What Cheer has increased in popula- tion from 900 in 1880 to 5,000 the present time. Its coal fields are a great source of wealth. Emmet Hazel, a fourteen-year-old lad living near Creston, had both arms broken by being thrown from u wagon by a runaway team. Twenty-seven fatal accidents have oc- curred in the lowa ¢oal mines durlng the past year. Forty-eight accidents not fatal are nlso reported. General George W. Jones, of Dubuque, now eifm_'-lnree years old, is in great demand. He is in receipt dn!l{ of num- erous Invitations to attend public gather- gs in the stato. e 'he lowa Grand Lodge of Good Tem- plars gave Constable Potts, the hero of the recent shooting episode, an ovation, when they were in session nt Des Moines | this week. Two ladies were prominent candidates for county superintendent of schools at the republican convention at Grundy Center. After several ballots, a ‘‘dark horse," George Conrad, defeated them. Charles Cartwright, one of the old set-- tlers of lowa, died Sunday ut Marengo, He was a counsin of Artwrl IMmecuon n hi tory as an itinorant Methodist preacher, Miss Lizzie Dotterwineg was arrested at Muscatine, charged with arson, set- ting fire to the grain stacks of het brother-in-law., She is fifty years old, and has spent ten yoears of her life as & nun, . An O'Brien county farmer, having two women on his hands, traded one of them to another farmer for a cow. After a while the woman returned to her former home and the second farmer has entered suit for the recovery of the cow. This year's report of the coal inspect- ors shows a large increase in the number of tons of coal mined in the state, it being 2,601,274 tons. The inspectors report the mines to be in better condition, as re- gt\flll output and management than ever efore. At Mount Ayr, whilo a party of bo{: were yllying *'Josse mes and bl gang,'’ and wore armed with ** g" pis- tols, ono of the boys was acoidentally shot and instantly killed. Both fam- ilies are among the most worthy citizens, and aro prostrated with grief over the sad aflair. The biennial report of Warden Bar, of the Anamosa penitentiary, to the gov- ernor, shows that only five deaths have occurred there in the past two years, There are 338 convicts, of whom 156 are temperate and 120 intemperate; 809 are male prisoners aud ninetcen female. Seven are under life sentence and two are waiting to be hung. The system of throwing off time as & reward for good bulirlwior is found to work exccedingly well. Rev. Mr. Cliner, pastor of the Metho- dist church at Dyersville, gave the trus- tees of the church a severe “roasting” because the steeple of the church blew offin a recent storm. It fell in the yard of the parsonage, just missing the house. He blowed the trustees bocause he said It had been the talk for years that the steeple was unsafe. At the close of the sorvice two of the trustees arose and “‘talked back’ to the preacher. The dis- cuseion is represented as having been red-hot. The minister wanted to know whether the wrecking of the steevle was the work of God or the devil. The church wili dispense with the heaven- pointing steeple in the future if it is going to create such a tuss. Dakota. Dell Rapids is to have a tow mill cost- ing $3,000. The Masons of Deadwood will erect a temple costing $21,000. The t nation nk of Sturgis has become a reserve bank. Aberdeen has 444 school children, and in Brown county thore are 8,381, Dakota’s assessment for 1887 is over $150,000,000 against $133,000,000 in 1886. At Mandan the jury acquitted the In- dian boy Bighter of the charge of murder. Fred Cleveland, near Ordway, has 400 tobacco plants. Some of them are tive feet high. At Watertown there are serious appre- hensions as to the wheat in shock. "I'here has been 80 much rain that it 1s commen- cing to sprout. Central Dakota has been visited by heavy rains. By signal service measure- ment two inches of rain fell in a recent storm at Huron. 4 Yankton is deep in the mud, and as the oldest resident sinks knee decp at the street crossings he stops to exclaim that it is the worst he ever knew. It is reliably estimated that tho wheat crop of Dakota this year will exceed 4,000,000 bushels and the corn crop 80,- 000,000. Judge French, in court at Mandan, de- livered a ten minute speech in abuse of Eaitor Tuttle, of the Pioneer, and for- bade the editor to take down in short- hand what he said of him under pain of imprisonment. William Jennings, a fourteen-year-old boy, has been arrested at his father's farm near Redfield on the charge of em- bezzling funds of the Western Union Tel- egraph company in Chicago, for which he had been messenger boy. Prominent citizens of Redfield have written Governor Church to request Gen- eral Sheridan to order several detach. ments of United States troops to attend the militia encampment at Huron to give the national militia the benefit of army discipline and the manual of arms, as contemplated in the plan for the Chicago military drill, Philip Steimel, a former Yanktonian, committed suicide rccuntlfiy in Sacra- mento, Cal., by hangmg, even years ago Mr. Steimel was sent to Detroit for a term of ten years upon conviction for rape. 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