Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1887, Page 4

- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, cannot be made too vigorous and ear- nost. If the railroad companies will not seo that they are practicing false econ omy in maintaining these structures, then they must bo compelled in the interests of public safety to replace them with _AUGUST 22, 1887. September 25 o organize a local White Cross society. Two or lhree companies of the Dakota militia will engage in a sham battle at the Minneapolis exposition next mouth. The county commissioners nt Bismarck rejected the petition for a vote on local The Liabor Movement in New York. Estimates rogarding the possible effoct upon the two political parties of the labor movement in Now York must at this time be based on wholly uncertain data and received with several qualifications, democratic on the 21st of Seatember, at ‘THE DAILY PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERVE OF SUNSCRIPTY fly Morniag Editios udt BUFFALO COUNTY'S PROGRESS. One of Nobraska's Garden Spots And Its Booming City. John Stanek, a Bohemian, white ridin on a hand car near Wilber, ance and was crushod under the wheels, resulting in his death, Rushville parties have been awarded were first put on, said he felt like another fellow. was light red, or a tiory auburn, wore a delicate mustache and small “‘ear. lost his bal* young finn a chair and proceeded to da the touching act. A shave, a hair-cut, and the drops of correspondin, It is true that Henry George received last year as the labor candidate for mayor of New York city nearly seventy thousand such as will be secure, and to provide a system of frequent and thorough inspec- tion that will reduce the danger to tho to furnish the building material for the largo Indian s the Pine Ridge agency. option on the ground that it lacked suf- ficient names, There is & rumor of an effort being The Omaha .‘4-‘"415' KEARNEY'S A first round of tonsorial attention did not He was in for the whole didn't make any hog or none, and he made to consolidate all county outside of Aber to be published at Aberdeen, The annual moeting af the Johnson county Sunday-school association will be held in Sterling commencing August 80 votes, but this fact cannot bo taken as a safe basis of calculation for to-day. not at all probable that George could ob- apers in Brown The wooden bridge, as a de« oen in one paper vice of railroad convenience or economy bones about it. This Week’s Excursion Thither Krom p’ st ey On the next round tho artist dyed the No. N ! Cericn No o1 Omaha avd Lincoln—Letters fiery mustache and should bo promptly and forever aban- | and closing September 1. Mrs, Overton, charged with the murder of her husband, will ‘appear for trinl at the distriet court; which convenes at Broken Bow Mon The city council of Rapid City voted to suspend from office the city marshal, P. F. McNaily, during the time required for the investigation of the charges which have been preferred against him. From Others of Omaha's Prosperous Neighbors, the color from oung man tool n tho mirror and decided that all was not lovely yet. He was decidedly ms- CONRESPONDENCE ! All communioations relating to news and adl. hould be addressed TOR OF THE BRR. BUSINESS LETTRRS! tain so large a* vote by many thousands at this time, for the reason that there does not now exist the same unity of purpose and harmony of feeling among the ele- —— The Ofty Hall Architect. We have no defense to make of the Buffalo County and Kearney. eardrop, changing ale red to jet black. a good look at himself thetio and went heav: conduct of Architect Myers in connec- tion with the letting of the city hall con- tract. Mr. Myers should have given the board of public works a great deal more of his time and attention, and a great deal less of it to Contractor Brennan. But whon our contemporaries try to make & pomnt against Myers and his plans, by laying stress upon the fact that he give assurance that the costof the building should not exceed from $190,000 to $200,000, while now after $48,000 has been appropriated for the basement, the 1088 lotters and remittances should be THE BEs PUBLISHING COMPANY, ks and postoffice orders 0 be made payable to the order of the eompany, THE BEE POBLISHG COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. ROSEWATER, Entron. THE DAILY BEE o ment of Ulroulation. Btate of Nebras| Gounty of Donglas, |5 & Geo ‘[zschuck, secreta ) at the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee the week ending August12, 1657, wasas KEARNEY, Neb., August 20.—[Special Correspondence of covered wagons are again beginning to course their way over our roads, and in conversation with their occupants we find a large number hail from Kansas and lowa, having been forced from their farms on account of the extreme dry weather. They claim that their small grain was a completa, failure while the corn is not large enough to cut up for fodder, and that the grass is as brown as 8 gypsy, so that there is no feed at pres- ments from which ne derived support as then held them together, Lennington post, of Chadron, will hold a @. A, R, reunion during the agri- cultural fair, beginning September 22 and continuing until September 25, The young bloods of Beatrice have or- an ‘‘Anti-Biled Shirt Le and as a consequence dealers are laying 1n a big supply of flannel garments, “The Ainsworth Baptists are rustlin around to see if they oan_raise enougl money to call Rev. J. C. mont, to minmster to August Batke, 8 Germ! 62, living fourteen miles northeast of was arrosted on a charge of is wife with intent to kill. e resulted from & family quar- In all respects and peculiar. Mr. George was contingent upon the pledge of acertain number of votes, largo enough to be entirely respectable. These obtained, the effect was to inspire confi- dence in the ranks of labor and a corres- ponding fear 1n the old political parties. This, witha considerable power of attrac- tion 1n the personality of the eandidato, who seemed a leader worthy of any fol- ———— Important if True, The report that the government in- tends to institute suits both civil and criminal against the officials of the Cen- tral and Union Pacific railroads who have misused their trusts is, if true, the most important piece of news that has Lewis, of Fre- The eleven-year-old son of George Blankenbillers, of Silver Lake ww::hx‘fw His voice was Inds for the superstructure, range from $203,000 to $240,000, they exhibit unreas- oning prejudice and lack of good sense, ‘When Myers submitted his plans two years ago the building doubtless could have been contracted for by a responsible builder At that time iron beams could be hought for $28 per ton, while now they cost $44. other materials and labor have also advanced from 10 to 25 per cent. since Myers i3 not responsible for the delay caused by reason of our inabil- ity to vote city hall bonds under our old That defect was not discovered until after his plans had %een adopted and the building located. But even if Myers’ estimate had been too low at the time it was made he would not differ with the average architect. We venture Lo say that nobody in Omaba has ever put up a building that required an arch- 1tect’s plans which did not cost from 10 to 50 per cent. more than the architect's The city's contract It only allows lowing and who gave special prestige to the cause he championed, brought the la- bor vote and all sympathizers with it in- to line. There was further encourage- ment to umty and harmony in the fear that possessed the old political parties, and it naturally appeared to labor and its riends that its opportunity had come if it would make the supreme effort to was thrown from a horse while herding ent and none in prospect. They have cattle and sustained injuries resviting in been selling what stock they could and are coming into Nebraska to winter through and take back sced for next Since 1877 the peovle of Buffulo county have had reason to rejoice each succeeding season as nature has dealt bountifully with them, enough to feed all their stock and ship hundreds of cars to their less fortunate neighbors until this county has become noted throughout the state as onc of the most productive farming counties in the northwest, largely owing to the frequent rams which come with such regularity and certainty. There 1s still a large amount of old corn in the county, and every prospect of the largest crop still to be harvested that ever cality, Oats are bringing 22 cents per bushel and wheat 50 to 60 cents, with large amounts coming in each day. For some time there have been rumors of County Clerk Cutting bein, for the fees of his office, and as he has made but one report in over three years the board of supervisors thought best to check up with him, and found that he had nearly ten thousand dollars which he had failed to turn over. However, Mr, Cutting paid up the amount in full and then ten- his reeignation, which was nc- cepted. Mr. Shahan, the deputy, was appointed to fill the unexpired term. County politice are movi the probability that Captain Joseph | become the next county treasurer, For the past three months our city has been enjoying a healthy movementin real estate, and on next Thursday, August 25, 11 witneas the grandest sale of the season thus far. ‘‘Capitol Hill,”” compris- ing two hundred lots, will be sold at pub- A great deal of interest is manifested in this sale from the fact that a panoramic view can be obtained from Capitol Hill, situated on the highest point 's immediately north and within the Jimits of the cit; nearly every lot to be sol and over twenty milss of the Platte val- can be seen at a glance. entlemen of menns from abroad are daily visiting and investing some of their means with us, thus showing that our city and its enterprises are apvreciated by those wanting desirable and safe in- come from Washington since the ad- journment of congress. Facts enough have been disclosed by the World and the investigating commis- sion to justify and to demand such pre- There 18 no shadow of doubt Baturday, August 6.. Sunday, Auzust 7.. Monday, August S, Tuesdav, August ! ‘Uhe landlord of the Hamilton house at Curtis suddenly became tired of running a hotel last “week, t and turned his boarders out in the cold world on one ‘Thursaay, August for $200,000 or less. W. R. Livesy, of Hebron, thrust a knife into his leg while cutting a rope about ago. The wound was rup- esday and the great loss of blood killed the patient, e McHenry, livicg near Chadron, lled in a runaway last week b kicked in the head by a colt. was fifty-five years old, and recently came from Illinois. The annual district meetin, Christian churches of Doniphan ana Brown counties, Kansas, and Richardson county, Nebraska, will begin on the 25th and continue one Sunday. Mr. John L. Mcans has brought man- damus to compel the county commis- ,000 and secured interest {) ‘:hu wagon I Scott, of Kim- in which the government have been di- verted to purposes of bribery and core ruption. The people have been robbed and their servants corrupted with the proceeds of the robbery. ment's security for vast loans has been impaired by dishonest management. It is time that these rich and powerful rings were broken, tion will take resolute measures to this d any amount of puttering and blun- oftices will be forgotten. Terrible Rallroad Accidents. Chicago Tribune: The terrible railroad accident on Wednesday night has ocea-- sioned everywhere debate as to the com- varative fatality in previous railway dis- One hears constant mention of Ashtabula, and next perhaps the Tay bridge tragedy in Scotland seems to have taken hold of the popular imagination. Neithor of these calamities, come up to that near Chatsworth, so far fe and injury to persons ridge over 100 per- shed by drowning, burning, and in other The horror of the thin, 80 fearfully memora- ble. Few were killed outright. 1t was a mass of human beings, pinned down to watceh, in the full possession of their fac- the approach of the flames that In the case of the Tay bridge, where a passenger train was blown in a hurricane bodily into the sea, not a soul surviving to tell the tale, there isa certain awfulness that impresses us, but there is no shuddering at any agony About seventy-four aster which stands pre- in railway records orelos road, Mex- the fall of a bridee In this accident which Sworn to and subse: has a direct this 15th day of Augus! circumstances which have introduced serious disensions and divided its strength, so that the vote that George received could probably not be concentrated on any lavor candidate, and certainly not on him. there, but so split up as to be valueless for the purpose of estimating its effect upon the other parties. Two labor conventions have heen held, one of the state union labor party at Rochester a couple of weeks ago, and the other of the united labor party at Syra- cuse during the past week, of which Henry George was the leading and con- trolling spirit. The former was not of very great importance, and is understood to have been manipulated by democratic peliticians with a view to indirectly aid- ing the presidential boom of Governor THe latter has been with a good deal the party managers, and the effect of 1ts action and utterances will be watched with acute solicitude. significant things 1n refusing to give any recognition to the state union lavor party whose convention tendered an invitation for a union of forces, and in excluding the socialistic delegations. In this action it made foes which the democratic man- agers will employ to the best advantage The conyention in its declaration of prin- ciples had nothing complimentary to say of either republican or democratic par- ties, though it is rather more severe upon the latter than the former. pressions of some of the leaders indicated a strong desire 1o see the present admiun- 1stration overthrown. paign in New York will occupy a large share of the attention given to political affairs this year. ‘The Lease Sy [SEA L. Btato of Nebraska, | Douglas County. (58 Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, and says that he Is secretary of The y,, that thie actual The govern- Bee Publishing compan: average daily cireulation of the Daily Bee for themonth of Auvgust, 1858, It the administra- T 12,464 copies; for 13,030_copies; for October, for November, 1880, 13,348 18,237 copies; for essed this lo- corles; for December, 1t 95 coples: for for April, mn.' 14,316 copies for May, coples; for July, 1387, 14,003 copies, GEo. B. T2zscHUCK. sworn to before me thls 1897, Notary Publie. dering with the sioners to pay _ payment for buildin, bridge across the river at Frank and Porr; ball, were badly vlosion of powder, which they” were car- rying in a tin pan. The powder was nited by the heat of the sun reflected ‘om the bright metal. 1t is reported that one of Edgar's prominent morchants went hunting the other day and imbibed so freely of Hos- tettor bitters and beer that ha mistook mosquitoes for wild geese,and exhausted all his ammunition before he entered the field of sport. A Geneva subscriber informs the Ber that the report from Grafton concernin, the crop failure does an injustice to Fill- more county. Crops near Grafton may be destroved, but the outlook at Geneva and vicinity for a’ bouutiful harvest was never more promising. A love-stricken] youth of Ceresco was deluded in his dréams into taking the calico curtain to his window for his lady love and in endeavoring to embrace her was precipitated to the ground and was rudly awnkened to the fact that he had sustained serious injuries, The register and recciver of the Cha- oftice have given notice that all parties who made pre-em, May ana Jdne, and w een under W, original estimate. with Myers is iron-clad. him 2} per cent. on his original estimate, and ho is to get no pay before the build- ng is completed. ‘These terms are lower and more favorable than any Omaha capitalist can get from competent arch- 1tects for erecting business blocks costing $200,000 and upward ABOUT a year ago the attorney-general of Illinois petitioned the circuit court at Springfield to issue a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the Ohio and Mississippi railroad company to put its tracks in a safe condition. allowed, but the company carried the matter before the supreme court, where the decision of the lower court was re versed, the higher court deciding that a mandamus was not the proper way to compel the company to keep its road in This is not encouraging to the traveling public. To proceed by man- damus is a quick and effective way of compelling a company to keep its road in safe condition, and has been used against railroads before 1n various ways. The recent catastrophe on the Toledo, Peoria and Western ought to show the Illinois court the necessity of giving the public a means whereby the companies might be compelled to have some regard for the safety of the lives and limbs of those whe travel over their roads. much attention on sented a very rare picture, the hke of which it 18 not allotted to men to look upon more than once in a lifetime. runs the world. There’s lots of fun in Subseribed a 11th day ot Au, [SEAL.| TaE American bar meeting closed yes- terday in Syracuse, N. Y. A similar convocation enjoys perpetual session in at least as loss of pronounces the report that Charles Francis Adaws 18 at outs with Mr. Potter and his broom a baseless ca- nard. The story was not credited by the BEE either, although its reporters were led to believe that thore was more truth than poetry 1n it. made the calamit; It did two very consume them. e e, il ACCORDING to Bradstreet's, the in- e dustrial situation throughout the country for the first half of August, 18 very nearly the same us that of July. Itis generally by husiness men everywhere, that this fall will be a pros- perous one for everybody. eminent for fatal occurred on the near Cuortla, Way don’t the council take some steps to put an end to the obstruction of streets by the iron and ties of street roads that have no connection with any known line. If the horse railway, the motor lines want to use a right-of-way it should be done only under direction of the'board of public works or city engi- two hundred lives were lost. cidents have been numerous and disas- A memorable one occurred in January, 1878, to a party of excursionists returning from a Moody and Sankey meeting on the Connecticut Western road. A bridge over the Farmington river gave way, and thirteen persons rushed to death or di thirty-three others injured. trains have been frequently the victims One of the earliest calami- ties in the history of railroads took place to such a train near It was the birthday of King Louis Phil- makers were return- The labor cam- So far Omaha and Lincoln people have purchased quite heavily 1n our city, and in appreciation of this we understand ar- rangements will be made to bring a car of people from each of these cities, the most of whom will be invited by cards to be present at the sale. will leave there at 8:20 p. m. on Wednes- day evening, on regular train, and the Lincoln conch will leave Lincoln at 12:05 on Wednesday. The guests will be royal. entertained and shown the lakes, "wi power and beautiful scenes, in the best When Kearney's citi- s0 long on account of the change from the Valentine office to the new oflice here, are required to go be- fore the officer who took the testimonyl in each case and make a new pre-emp- tion affidavit. A young man at Western had a $10 bil which he put in his pocketbook, Being unused to carring money in that recep- ot where he had placed the eing able to find 1t con- cluded he had been robbed. sold the pocketbook for half a dollar and jumped the town. The purchaser found the $10 bill all safeinside after the young man had departed. While other members of the famil, were absent, a villainous whel the house of David Rutter, of last Wednesday afternoon, and, with drawn pistol, compelled his little ten- war-old girl to drink some kind of drug. o was frightened away betore he ac- complished his lustful purpose, and the girl has suffered no ill effects from the em iu Georgla The investigation of the convict-lease system in Georgia has been concluded. A comuzittee of five members of the general assembly has been engaged in the 1in- vestigation. Two of these have arrived. at the conviction that the lease systom is ‘‘damnable,”” two others are less out- spoken but are convinced that reforms are necessary. The remaining member of the committee thinks the system is the best that oan be devised under the oir- 1t is strange that any en- lightened person should come to such a conclusion, for the mass of evidence shows the system to be provocative of brutal treatment, immorality, and many The convicts were shown to be over-worked, worked when sick and whipped to death. Among the female convicts many iligitimate children were born. A system that fosters such abuses is as bad if not worse than the crimes that brought the vyictims within its Itis a blot, not only upon the It is a retrogression But it1s probable that the result of the investigation will be that the 1 ease-system in Georgia must go. ——— Rallroad Bridge DI A hand book has just made its appear- ance on the subject of railroad bridge dis- asters in this country, giving the caus and suggesting remedies. makes the estimate that not less than forty bridges fall every year in United States, and the remedy he sug- gosts is asystem of efficient inspection by thoroughly competent persons, who will examine in no perfunctory way the con- struction of every bridge, its adaption to its use, the character of its materials and its capacity to resist the peculiar strains to which it must of necessity be sub- at 13 a rather alarming statement which this author makes as tothe nnmber of bridge disasters, but it is to be sup- posed he was careful not to make an exaggerated estimate. more or less than he assumed, the num- ber is far too great, and the fearful con- sequences ot some of these disasters, which may be paralleled any day on some one of the railroads having miles of bridges and culverts, justify the seri- ous attention the press of the country is giving this matter, The truth is there is hardly a railroad in the country that has not defective bridges, either by reason of faulty con- struction, improper and inferior mate- rial, or both. A great many of these bridges constructed of wood were not in- tended to be permanent. They were de- Signed to serve only until the companies felt financially able to replace them boom in the St. The Omaha car — EVERYBODY of any promnence +n Union Pacific service has been promoted, rotired or reduced to the ranks, except John M. Thurston and his oil-room quar- How about Vanderbum, Man. chester and the bottle-scarred vetorans, who run the primaries, boss conventions and entertain legislators with fusil oil and smutty stories? Versailles, France. ippe, and holida; pE— T HERE is no difficulty in believing the P onss orent story that Senator Edmunds is still im- vlacably hostile to Mr. Blaine, but the re- port that Mr. Conkling 18 vlanning an aggressive campaign to thwart the lat- ter’'s nomination is not entitled to cre- There is no reasonable doubt that Conkling i8 entirely sincere in de- claring that he is permanently out of politics, and he would be the firat to sce that, under the circumstances, a tight made by him against Blaine would be more likely to benefit than injure the As for Edmunds, he will pro- bably not be administrative antagonism, but he will doubtless be found next year, in the event of Blaine’s nomination, in the same position he oc- cupied in the last national campaign. manner possible, zens undertake to entertain they erally please their guests. Kearney and test their hos- pitality Thursday, August 25. Hendley's Boom. HenDLEY, Neb., August 20.—[Special Correspondence was the consequence. Tk with locked doors were piled on a burn- ing mass of debris, and more than fifty persons were burned bef the spectators helplessly looking on. As many more were injured, Whole families An accident occurred Campbell station, twelve Philadelphia, which surpasses, as regards fatality, that in France. July 17, 1850, to a train carrying eleven ildren on a Sunda their teachers an were burned and sixty-four per- son sperished. The injured numbered more Here, an excursion train running against time came, on a single-track road, in collision with a The record is full of simi- iar disasters, too numerous to admit of In 1878, at Woolus- ton, Mass., a large party of excursionists, returning from a rowin, special train, got derailed. cars were either thrown wholly to one side or the other or crushed beiween the twolocomotives and the rear of the train. Nineteen persons perished and fifty were Three carriages scheme of having pE———— A DISTILLER tells the Bex's Peoria cor- respondent, as will be seen this morning, that the great whisky trust is run on much the same plan as the cotton-seed oil trust of southern capitalists. planation covers directly opposite con- ditions hereabouts. don't get the whisky trust (after consum- ing the goods) needs the cotton-seed oil to grease his runners. The figure may be mixed but the principle is correct, you desire to have news from all booming towns put us on your list. This town, which is located in the Beaver Valley near the center of Fur- nas county, is now one month old, and bids fair to soon be the best town n this beautiful valley. large business houses and looming up and more will soon incluaing a large hotel and three large brick business houses. on the new through line of the Burling- ton route to Pueblo, Colorado. laying is going on at a rapid rate, and before the ftirst of September regular trains will be runnin, The town site is & country surrounding it can't be beat in the west. The people are enterprising The corn crop promises to be fair, although somewhat damaged by the late dry weather. E Heartwell, C. C. Webster and other en- terprising men of Hastings have large in- This insures us a good The citizen who Says tho Sherman County Transcript : “‘Mr. Jackson started out the other eve ing to teach his little son the Lord’s pray- er. He had got as far as: *And if I should die before I wake,” when the little fellow objectedfand said that he did not intend die before he ‘waked.’’ evidont that either the Transcript editor or Mr, Jackson are quite ignorant in re- gard to the Lord’s prayer. Lightning struck the re. B. k. Searight who resides five miles north of Stuart, The lightning struck the north-east corner of the house and pass- ing down struck the bed post of the bed occupied by Mr. and Mrs, Searight split- ting it and smashing things in general. Mrs. Searight was stunne consciousness for some two Mrs. Searight hus a red from her head to her than one hundred. a number of dwellings aro regular train. 3 We are_ located state of Georgia. specific reference. towards slavery. S———ne— TnE man who robbed Major Bash, the United States army paymaster, has not only been captured but is locked up in To quell the alarms of those ‘who doubt the security of the county jail against this criminal’s efforts at deliver- ance and who tremble at the possibility of his liberation *'in our midst,” it 1s well to say that the prisoner 1s not the bug-a- boo he has been painted. He looks like a farm hand 1n distress and it is more than probable that the folks out west lored him and his deeds, STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Corn brings 30 cents in the Beatrice idence of Mr. into our town. Hastings has 488 electric lights in Long Piue has voted to put in a system and well to do. of waterworks. A dog poisoner has been doing up the canines of Papillion. A Woman's Relief Corps has been or- ganized at McCook. ‘The Union Pacific round house at Loup City is being rebuilt. The causes of accident on railways are, not so numerous as.might be supposed, but the most disastrous in this country are apt to oceur to bridees, the case in Great Britain, ears under the heading ot *'Failures nnels of Bridges, Viaducts and Cul- verts,”” whilstin Great Britain, twenty- nine accidents are returned, for the same period, undei heading. 165 causualties traceable to con- stant over-crowding, derailments and bridge accidents are dis- tinetly referable to the inferior construc- tion of our roadbeds. It is curious to notice, in connection with the railroads, that in some years there is comparative immunity from dis- aster, whilst in others there occur a con- stant succession of serious calamities. ‘This year the railroad companies are so far experiencing a notable illustration of the adage that it never rains but it pours streak extendin, In a period of foot about two inches in width, om Cortland. CORTLAND, Neb., August 20.—[Special Correspondence have secn 8o much about all lit- e—— THAT the government should furnish the money to corrupt its own authority is a curious but deplorable spectacle. It is literally true. The Pacific railway rob- bers have stolen millions of government money wherewith they built up a power- ful lobby at Washington, which honest legislators have hitherto been unable to break through. For the first time since ttie railroad grants were made the gov- ernment is now in a fair way to compel an secounting from the plunderers, whd 1t is to be hoped, may yet be compelled to pay the penalty for stealing, like smaller The machinery of the courts has begun to bear on Huntington and Standford, and there should be no let up until they are brought to full justice. e—— Tue British government has quite promptly called upon our government for an explanation of the soizures of British Columbia sealing vessels in the waters of Alaska, which occurred during last month, Three vessels were captured by the revenue cutter Rush and taken to Bitka, where they were turned over to the United States authorities and their oases are now being considered by the courts, They had been doing-a good ‘business 1n seal catching, one of tho ves- #ols having on board nearly five hundred The case seoms to be pretty ‘Tho waters in which the vessels were taken are pdjacent to the Aleutian fsland, which are under the jurisdiction of the United States. Qur laws prohibit she taking of seals in those waters, and there appears to be no doubt that these l1aws were being violated by the cap- It is not ympossible, how- ever, that the English government may prove to bo somewhat obtuse regarding this view, and that a more or less pro- Jonged correspondence will ensue result- _ iog1n a release of the veasels, . outcome would be quite in keeping with the present wathods of the state depart- is putting in a system of water- works, the expense to be $10,000. The Keystone Coal company at Angus has all summer employed 250 men. The Tama county republicans nomina- ted Hon. R. H. Moore for representative. _T'he third annual reunion of the Twenty- first lowa infantry will be held at Man- chester September 15 and 16. In taking out the rock wall of an old well at Fort Madison, William Smith lost his life by the caving in of the well. The school directors of Ida Grove have broken the deadlock by electing Rev. A. E. Smith, who has been eight years pas- 'lellT’l church there, ns 3 will dedicate th eir church next Sunday. . The religiously inclined at Gordon have organized a Sunday school. Ravenna wants another grain elevator for the sake of competition. McCook has now three cigar manu- facwories in active operation. The Christian church at Elk Creck completed and will be dedicated. Red Cloud expects to have the water- works in operation by October 1, p City's waterworks bonds are printed and ready for the market. Thomas Golland died in an epileptic fit while at work on a farm near Wahoo. Chester Thomas died near Fairbury on the 15th from diseases contracted in the whilst American about Cortland, so T will write a few lines about the country. lively little town of about 700 inhabi- tants. It lies on the Union Pacifio rail- road between Lincoln and Beatrice, twen- ty miles from euch. It has four dry goods stores, three drug stores, two hardware stores, two good hotels, two blacksmith machine shop, ete. been booming this summer like many Tt was started in the spring It has a good country around it. This country was settled up in 1870-71, As 1 have stated already this is a good country, but still it is so dry here now that corn is almost gone up on account of the drouth, A Wordon Trout Culture, ANAMOSA, Ia., Correspondence to the BEg.]—The be no doubt of the value and profit of fish culture 1f conducted on scientific principles. The lake trout in the ponds at the old state hatching house near this city, are home product. were hatched from the egg here and at- ta ined all their growth here. years from the egg they ounds apiece. Cortland is a e AR Complexion Powder 13 an absolute ot the refined toilet in this cli- zzoni's combines every element of beauty and purity. The number of pamis enrolled 1n 1887 at the asylum for the blind at Glenwood was 187; number admitted during bien- nial term, 84: number graduating during same period, 14, Governor Larabee has issued a procla- mation offering $300 for the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons lynching of James gL Lo A A Dining Oar Dog. Among the patrons of the Northwest- ern dining car ‘‘Delmonico” is a large, fat Gordon setter dog at Carroll, 1a. comes to the car and barks lustily and friske about until Condactor Pierce comes out with a big tin bucket full of meat and fecds him until he is full to the bursting Mr, Pierce says the dog is there, no matter how stormy it is or how late He has never missed a His good living has made an epicure of him and he turns with scorn from the piebian butchers’ bones, 80 dear to the canine heart. Boston parties have submitted a propo- sition to furnish Fairbury with water- A Knights of Labor assembly has been organized at Hanover township, Gage en| d in _the Rn-,xmds at Leon. he bricklayers at rebuilding the tow: by fire quit work in prohibitionists of that town wouldn't al- ow them to ship their daily beverage of beer from Dubuque. Valuable discoveries of iron ore have been made near Waukon, Allamakee d a company has been formed d, I, with a capital of $4,000,- 000 to operate and develop the same. rators are Henry W. Price, . Rober and John Large tracts of valuable ore are already located, with flattering prospects of most unlimited resources. first discovery of iron in lowa or in the romises to stimulate pros- is confidently expecting the orection of a creamery at that place in the near future. arlville engaged in cently destroyed body ‘because the Bertrand, lost fifteen tons of hay by an incendiary fire. Four boys under twelve yearsof age have been arrested at Aurora for stealing from railroad cars. ‘The sale of Dundy county school lands last week resulted in nearly all being sold or leased at good figu: ‘The Northwestern Sportsmen's associa- tion will hold their annu Loup City on the 30th and 31 The corner stone of the new M. E. churoh at Kitaball was laid with appro- priate ceremonies last Wednusday. The Fremont Stock Yards company will erect a hotel near the packing house for the accommodation of laborers. C. E. Barngrover, of the Marquette Neows, has taken a helpmate in the person of Miss Alpha Williawson, of Humboldt. Falls Oity lodge Knights of Pythias ng in their lodge the train may be. day for three years. But unfortunately Soarelty e tiia with most of the corporations that time ¥ el is nover felt to have arrived. The inse- cure structuros aro allowed to atand, sometimes after their dangerous condi- tion becomes apparent to the most casual inspection, as in the case of the Bussey bridge near Boston, and instead of being frequently subjected to the most careful inspection by competent persons are left to the care of some employe of the company who may be both incapable It is estimated that there are about 3,500 miles of ‘wooden railroad bridges and trestlework in the Dnited States, much the greater part ot which is as old as the roads on which these structures are built, never having been replaced, but merely patched up as from time to time became nocessary. weigh from two The cost ot car- em from the egg to their present weight, has been insignificant, and they hicago now at thirty-tive ‘T'he flavor of this fish 15 delightful, when baked, broiled or fried. They seem to have all the nutty flavor trout acquire in the cold waters of the northern lakes, where they feed as wildly a8 suits their tastes, has a spring of living water on his land can raise lake trout, and they will afford him as much pleasure and profit as any crop he can culti ——-— For fear of losing a da; persons put off takin, urday. The better 0 but take it as soon as needed, it may save you a hard spell of sickness, If you want the most benefit from the least amount of physic without causing you any incon- tite or rest, take heir action on the e thorough, they give a freshness, tone and vigor to the whole ystem and actin harmany with nature. 's work, many physic until Sat- n is not to delay can pe sold in cents a pound. Any farmer who liver and bowels and 1different. vicinity over the openin of the mines. Men are already al E Tonsorial Touching Comes High. Montgomery Advertiser: morning a young man rural districts dropped into barber-shop un Dexter avenu be wanted to be touched up. gher is absent from the city, but one of Bull will be one of the attrac- the North Dakota fair. The division campaign will be opened E ("m. Campbell at Albert Glass a colored soldier Ninth cavalry was brought in from Fort Washakie, Wyoming, is sentenced to five years imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., for insulting fresh from the have framed and hu room a very fine picture of the late Judge ilbank Septem- ‘The Custer county re “hflou conven- 19th, and the The young man gave his name as Saggers, hailed from obne of the lower apunties,and said on harmony of He thought his hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes ought to correspond with the dainty eardrops and mustache, and instruoted tho barber to make a clean sweep of 1t. Ten minutes later the y another long, loving look the glass and pronounced it a good job. He said he was going to see his sweet- heart, and didn’t want hor to know him His personal appearance was now &0 completely changed that he wouldn’t know himself at tirst blush, and he thought it would take him a day or two to establish his identigy with his best the same and his turkey-red complexion was unchanged, but ho looked very much like somebody He decided to taper off and close the “touch up” with a shine and a shower-bath o perfume of roses, after which he had a “brush oft,”’ and the work was finished. The time for a settlement came next, and that's what got away with the y man from the country. artist presented a bill for services, and it called for $8.05. The young man kicked vigorously for a little while, but finally settled up and went out, way to police headquarters and related his" experience to Chief Gerald, thought he had been imposed upon in the size of the bill, but he had paid it and the chief was powerless to get him out of oung man took at himself in atent leather He found his he was going to Florida. ¢ found that the money was gone glimmering he decided to accept the situation gracefull, He had made a * ow of himself, and his remarkable appearance attracted he steeet. —_—— the Boom. Thq real estate season must be about over,” said a friend to & real estate agent in & Dakota town which has enjoyed an unprecedented boom. *‘Yes, things will be rather quiet now till next spring.” “Did you make much out of the ¥ “Oh, yes, we did pretty well though we were to considerable expense and had some heavylosses.’” **What expenses do you refer to—office ““Yes, partly, but then tws isn't very heavy; the office only coste as $2 a month, The biggest expense was paying our share for having the thirseen railroads surveyed into the place. hundred dollars.” “But they will be surveyed for next year 50 you won't have that expense “Yes, but we're liable to have to put two or three men with teams and scrap- ers out on one of the roads 1n the spring —can't sell real estate always on suryeys Then we had to pay a hundred dollars towards That cost us a a description of the Paul and Minneapolis ers, and another hundred for livery , and fifty dollars toward paying the men we bired to drive around the streets and saw on the lines and act in an awful hurry every time any land buyers came “‘How about that street car?"’ “Yes, we had to chip in $10 toward that and I expect that next year we'll have to lay some track and hire a man to drive the car back and forth—the eastern capitalists will begin to get onto the at car stand there in “Whnu,vnre some of the losses you “Well, a tramp who happened to be pretty well-dress said he was from Chic- ago and only waiting for a remittance to buy heavily of our real estate. lived him, guaranteed his board at the hotel for a week and then he skipped.'” ‘Was that ally'’ A man from Omaha beat me out of 200 at poker and then left with- out buying n lot. Then we cashed bogus checks and lent money to men from St Louis to the extent of some three hun- dred. Then a wimsterial-a) from Milwankee bought a an orphan asylum on and managed to get the deed and skip without paying a Take 1t altogether, though, I don’t know as we can complain—I guess we cloxl,r‘ud about forty thousand for the 4 La! Girls, summer heal Neek, Avaw or oop S.MAGNOLIA BALM.” F., to her compautons, as n from a romp over the ore. MAGCNOLIA BALM 404, Pliable 8kin. nce, bocauso [ always Overcomes _Fleat, eo oT UNHOOK WHILE Be! Iy who deslzes perfection in s Ma, R a8 ‘The demand for reform in this matter 1l be held on t the colored tonsorial r 6. b Bishop Hare is expected in Yankion artists gave -the —