Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 27, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF AUBSCRIPTION ¢ ily Moeniag Edition) including Sunday ex. Qo Tear he Omaha Sunday B address, One Year. 'Alll!u‘l'vl oOrricn, ll.lfl Fouuree! OORRESPONDENCE! All communications relating to news and edi- addressed torial matter should be 10 the Epr TOR OF THE Bk BUSINESS LETTRRSS All bueiness lettors and remittances should he di THE BEgx PUBLISHING COMPANY, . Drafts, ch and postoffice orders be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epitor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Ulrculation, Btate of Nebrask County of Dotelas, |88 Geo. B. Tzschuck, secreta of The Bee blln’hlnx company, does solemnnly swear actual circulation of the Dally "1'1#3 week ending Sept.I0, 1857, was as o Sept, Tuesdayv. Sept. 13, ‘Wednesday, Sept. ‘hursaay, Sept. 15, iday, Sept. 16.. Average..... » Gro. 135, TZ8CHUCK. Sworn to and_subscribed in mywnu this 19th day of September, A. D: 1887, N, P. Frir, IBEALLI *Noiary Pubiic. Btate of Nebraska, ) Douelas County. Geo. B. Tzachuck, being first duly sworn, and says that he Is secretary of The P bllphlnlg company, that the actual average dnu,c reulation of the Daily Bee for the month of September, 1856, 13,080 es; for October, 1856, 12,089 copies; for Novem- ber, 1886, 13,348 copies; for m ber, 1! 13987 coples: for Janu 1887, '16,4 copies; for February, 1887, 14,195 coples; for March. 1887, 14,400° coples; for April, 1847, a5 g’n; for May, 1847, 14,227 copies; for June 1887, 14,147 copies; for July, 1887, 14,- 003 copies; for Aluu»hfliflfl.]}d.l.’.l copies. EO. Sworn_and subsoribed this 5th ISEA Tz8CHUCK. in_my presence day ot Sept. A, D., 1887, L.| N. P. FriL. Notary Public. ———— P SHERIDAN'S boom is on once more—in a moderate way. ————— Mr. BecHEL relieved himself of a good deal of bile at the Flks' jamboree. GrADPUALLY the people of Towa will learn that high license and local option is the best method of regulating the liquor traffic and reducing the evils of intemperance to a minimum. NEBRASKA has already made a favor- able beginning for next year’s crop of winter wheat. The farmers of the country are rapidly finding out that this state is one of the most favored in every respect for agricultural pursuits. — Tuere is a great deal of rockless driving through the streets of Omahn, and people are frequently injured. Pedestrians have the first rights to our thoroughfares. The ordinunces against fast driving should be more rigidly enforced. Nonopy is 60 weak as o suppose that the fellows who make politics a business can be trusted to deal honestly with the people if not watched. Eternal vigilance is the price of political integrity. T'he trader in politics goes to chicanery as naturally as the moth seeks light. The place to defeat the unscrupulous trick- sters is at the primaries, Tne Timmes are proverbially very modest. George, the present commis- sloner, wants to be renominated on the democratic ticket, ana Herman, who 13 masquerading as a republican, would like to be pitted against his brother on the re- vublican ticket. This would be a very nice arrangement. 1t would leave the sugar plums within the family. CAN a minister be classed a8 a laboring man? 18 the question which Collector Ma- gone of the port of New York is called upon to decide. Rev. E. Walpole War- ren, of England, has been called to the church of the Holy Trinity in New York and a representative of a labor society has domanded that he be refused admit- tance Lo this country under the provis- 10n8 of the contract labor law. If Mr, Magone tukes the good book for a guide, aad is assured that Rev. Mr. Warren has followed in the footsteps of his Master, he will be forced to admit that the rey- erend gentleman is a laborer—a laborer in the vineyard of the Lord. —— ALL over the country the republicans this year are putting forward their best men. The scheming politicians and obronic office seekers are being ignored, and men selected whose qualifications and personal worth will commend them to popular support. It is a gratfying evidence of the purpose of the party to break away from the direction and dictation of the mere politicians, and’ the more extended 1t becomes the better it will be for tha party. The republicans of Douglas county must fall into lne with this policy, Nowhere is there”a class of politicians more deserving to be sent to the rear than are the men who are seeking to run the party in this county. Wholly untrustworthy, the party is not safe while they are permitted to direct 1ts councils and action, tle consideration to the subject of coast defenses, and is not expected to make any elaborate suggestions to congress. The navy department, However, is en- gaged in considering various matters re lating to the defense of the coast cities, and will doubtless be prepared to show important results. The dynamite gun, the torpedo, the battle ships, and the floating batteries, are among the matters being considered, a separate board being ‘at work on each and pushing experi- ments with all practicable vigor. The recent experiment near New York with the Zalinski torpedo gun was entirely successful, demonstrating that this new weapon may be made terribly eflective an paval warfare, With this gun and & tem of floating batter- jes, rams and torpedo boats, naval officers claim that » much move effective means of defense would be provided than any system of land defenses that could be devised, and the cost would not ex- ceed $50,000,000 for the whole line of coast from Boston to San Francisco. The question of adequate ocoast defense isof such importance us to justify the :ouenuon the navy department is giving i, - Primary Election Fr Primary elections are to be held n this city within a few days by both re- publicans and democrats to select delo- gates to their respective conventions, For years our primary elections have been not merely shams but monstrous frauds, Reputable oitizens were barred out or distranchised by organized gangs of ward bummers and thugs. Repeat- ing, ballot box stuffing and open barter in votes was carried on without re- straint. The whole system"was rotten to the core, Nominations made under it had no binding force on honorable men. Candidatos whose nomination was brought about by fraud, bribery and coercion were not entitled to the support of decent and reputable men merely be- cause they had been placed on the regu- lar ticket by their party convention. The safeguards with which the law regulating primary clections surrounds the ballot box, and the penalties it im- poses for traud and bribery will have & powerful tendency to put an end to the disreputable practices formerly in vogue. The law is not only very stringent with regard to fraudulent voting,but specially sevore in punishing frands by judges and clerks of primary elections. It isin the interest of good government that these provisions shall be rigidly observed and enforced. Judges and clerks of electipn who change a ballot, stuff a ballot box, pur- posely make a miscountor by any de- vice falsify the roturns of a primary elec- tion should be made to suffer the fullest venalty of the law. For the information of all concerned we print the full textof the primary elec- tion law and hope that every voter wiil carefully digest its provisions, Itisa wholesome reforwm. Anotber Muddle. The new law by which Douglas county is allowed to increase the number ot her commissioners from three to five isliable to create a greater muddle than has been caused by the charter provision that cre- ated a metropolitan police commission for Omaha. The law authorizes the commissioners to divide the county into five districts, numbered respectively one, two, three, four and five, This division was made four weeks ago and cannot under the law be changed for the next’ three years. One commissioner is to be elected from each of theae districts by the voters ‘of the whole county. This year we shall elect one commissioner trom the district in which George Timme, whose term cxpires in January, now resides, and two new commissioners from the districts carved out of the bal- ance of the county. The law reads as follows as regards these new commis- sioners: That at the general election in the year 1887 one commissioner shall be elected for each of the two remaining districts. Ot the two persons elected In such districts the person receiving the highest number ot votes shall hold his office for the term of three years and the person recelving the next highest number of votes shall hold his office for the term of two years, ete. Now suppose that the man who re- ceives the highest number of votes cast in the district for which he 1s a candidate fails to receive a plurality of the votes cast in the whole county—who will be elected? ‘There may be a dozen candidates for commissioner and among those the resi- dents of the city are most likely to re- ceive a higher number of votesin the ag- gregate tham candidates residing in the country precincts. In such a case there would be a question as to who is really elected. English and American Labor. The advocates of a vrotective tariff never tire of ringing the changes on the pauper labor of Europe, and are espe- cially fond of contrasting ihe advantages enjoyed by the workingmen of America over those of England. This has been a stock argument in defense of a high tariff for a quarter of a century, but its force has been waning for a year or two past for the reason that the probe of careful and honest investigation has left it a very small basis of fact tostand on. It has been found that for some years the con- dition of the workingmen of England, above the grade of common laborers, has been improving, while that of American workingmen of a like grade or class hus been deteriorating. Unquestionably the very much higher standard of compensation that had been attained in this country ad- nutted of a considerable decline before the lower English plane was reached, but there 18 reason to believe that there is not now a material difference in the average earnings of like classes of labor in Eng- land and the United States where the relative cost of living in the two coun- tries is taken into account. It has been asserted by some that the advantage is now rather on the side of the English workingnien, A valuable contribution to information on this subject is supplied by Consul Hall, in Munchester, England. That city is the centre of the English cotton indus- try, and the consul has been especially impressed with the fact that so few ot ithe weavers and spinners migrate to America. He finds an ex- planation of the interesting fact in the remarkable condition of the English cot- ton industry, under which the laborer manages to extract a larger share of the joint earnings of labor and capital than his fellow in America. In the struggle for the neutral markets the English la- borer has been leit treer thih the Amer- ican to enjuy in an increasing degree the cheapening of the cost of living that is taking place and the increase of produc- tion due to machinery. The profits of manufacture have fallen more into the hands of the English workingman than into those of the American. In the silk industry a somewhat different state of things is observed, for the reason that the point of overproduction in the United States has not been reached, so that there is still a demand here for silk operatives which atutraets them from abroad with the promise of a somewhat better compensation. The iron and steel industries of this country also attract labor from England in periods of excep- tional activity, a considerable proportion of which, however, returns when these periods are passed, haying better assur- ance of steady employment at stable wiges at home. Mr. Hale says that of the increase in the wealth in the United Kingdom that portion of the population which lives by irades and professions has gotten the lion's share, and the employed have been es- pecially benefited. ' This class have con- sequently advanced to a degree of com- fort never known by them before, ‘‘and during periods ranging from ten to forty years, and in each of such periods, the wage earners of this country have progressed in every respect by, which the moral, intellectual and material progress of a people can be gauged.” This trust- worthy witness to the improved condi- tion of the workingmen of England is very explicit in setting forth the charac- ter of the advance they have made, which really covers the whole ground of progress, and what is his conclusion? It is that during the past generation in the aristocratic country, wealth has been passing from the few to the many, and is continually more and more equally dis- tributed, while in this democratic country during the same period the drift has been the reverse. High tariffs have deprived the laborer of the full fruits of his toil, while giving an increasing pro- portion of the profits of production to capital. While in England wealth is be- ng distributed, to the material gain of labor, here it is being concentrated in the hands of trusts and other forms of monopoly, which add their exactions upon labor to those imposed by the tariff. It thus appears that not only are the workingmen of England quite as well conditioned af this time as those of America, but that the circumstances of their situation give them a much more favorable promise for the immediate tuture. Such facts should command the attentive consideration of American labor, and will be found a much more profitable matter of stady than many of the questions with which it concerns Modern Justice, A boy in Iowa committed larceny to the exteut of $55. He was captured in the woods and nearly killed. After a trial at which he was not present or rep- resented by counsel, he was sentenced to seventeen and a half years in the pemi- tentiary. Last week this was reduced to fifteen years. T'he articles stolen were necessaries of life. Jay Gould has wrecked hundreds of families by absorbing their vproperty. The coal brigands of Pennsylvania have been the cause of misery and death of thousands. Railroad wreckers have stolen millions, but all these are respected members of society before whom veople with less money cringe. A few bank officials and men who have betrayed important trusts by appropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars belonging to others, have re- ceived sentences of a few years. Noth- ing can be more unjust than modern justice. It is a burning shame, a blot on our boasted civilization. But we are so accustomed {o its enormities that we do not realize their full significance. —_— THE most extensive pr making in Washington city for the pro- posed reception of ‘‘Boss” Shepherd, formerly governor of the District ot Columbia, and who in that capacity pro- jected improvements that saddled upon the community a debt of twenty million dotlars or more. The ex-governor, hay- ing made a fortune in Mexican mining operations since he left Washington some seven or eight years ago, has re- cently been living at a country seat near that city, an object of great social inter- est, and particularly of the attention of his old friends and associates in the dis- trict government. It is doubtless through the influence of these that the projected demounstration has been arrauged, and at the time Shepherd has tixed for re-enter— ing Washington it is provosed that he shalldo so in triumph. The district com- missioners will receive him at the gates and tender him the freedom of the city, symbolized by two golden keys, and the occasion will be otherwise signalized by ceremonies, exercises, and a popular demonstration worthy of a conqueror or one who had delivered the people from some great oppression. A statueis in contemplation. The propriety of all this may well be questioned. W hat Shepherd did in improving Washington has cer- tainly resulted in making a very beautiful city, and for this he should have credit. But he was scandalously reckless in ex- penditure, and the ring of which he was the head made a criminal waste of the people’s mouey unparalleled in this country except by the operations of Tweed. Granting that the purpose of Shepherd was commendable, his method of carry- ing it out was certainly very far from being 8o, as the report of a committee of congress clearly set forth. arations are eE——— CoMMISSIONER ATKINS of the Indian bureau intends to adhere to the order re- quiring that only the English language shall be taught to the children in the Indian schools. He states that the rule was not promulgated without due con- sideration and now it has got to stand. Regarding the opposition of the religious agents and missionaries, the commis- sioner remarked that their effort to in- cite the teachers to insubordination and the pupils to defiance of the government was %in extraordinary example for such people to set, and most people wiil agree with him, The explanatwon of their con- duct is said to be their desire to sell cer- tain educational books published by themselves or their friends, but whatever the motive 1t is not likely to receive much consideration from the present head of the Indian bureau, The weight of argu- ment is unquestionably in favor of the rule. It 1s not apparent that any bene- fit can be done the Indian children by cultivating them in the vernacular of their ancestors, but it is self-evident that if they are to be fitted for citizenship and for the requirements of civilization they must understand the language of the laws of the country and of the people they are to associate with. The farther they can be removed from all knowledge of the language of their fathers and from all the traditions of their race the more likely will they be to readily and con- tentedly nssimilate with the whites and adopt the habits and methods of civilized life. 1t was for this object mainly that the schools were instituted, and it will be most surely subserved byzeatching the youth who attend them only the lan: guage of the country. Tue democratic situation in New Jersey is such that a republican succes- sor to McPherson in the United States senate is not improbable. That gentle- man has positively declined to stand for re-election, and this has thrown the party into some confusion. There is no lack of aspirants, some of them long in |- party service and of good ability, but none of them liberally provided with the most essentinl condition to political success in New Jorspy—money. Bosides, all of them are mot$ or less handicapped by factional hostilgy. Another trouble is that in one of the counties the dem- ocrats are dominatdgd by a man who was sentenced to the state prison for embezzle- ment, and this fact1s reasonably eox- pected to alicnate a great many respect- able democratic voters. Putting all these things . together, the re. publicans are | feeling quite con- fident of their ability to carry a ma- Jonity of the candidates for the state sen- ate in November, and perhaps a sufficient number to enable them to elect a United States senator. In that event, Congress- man William Walter Phelps would expect to stop up higher, and as he has a well-filled Obarrel he will undoubtedly draw upon it liberally in the campaigan with this end in view. —_— THERE is but one way to defeat the machinations of the political schemers, and that is for the honest and responsible men of the party, who are not self-seek- ers and who desire that only capable and trustworthy men shall occupy the offices, to attend the primaries. The opportunity of the tricksters in politics is when hon- est citizens are Indifferent and derelict. E—— Tir HONORABLE PATrICK Forp whuld like to be oneof the five county commis- sioners for the next three years. There is nothing small about Pat. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Hannibal Hamlin Is golug all the way out to St. Louis to attend the G. A. R encamp- ment. Governor Gordon, of Georgia, before he entered the confederate army was a Baptist minister. Rider Haggard has a brother. Ile is consul at Tamatsue, and will soon Issue a work on Madsgascar. Pope Leo picked out himself the materials for a tine trousseau which he recently pre- sented to his niece. Major General O. 0. Howard, United States army, has two sons at the Polytechnie Institute, Troy, N. Y., studying civil engi- neering. Mrs. Mazgie Van Cott, who is said to have converted more than 30,000 people in the west, IS now waging an unequal conflict with the sinners of New York. Mr. and Mrs. GGeorge Peabody, the parents of Mrs. Secretary Eundicott, celebrated tho sixtieth anniversary of their marriage at Nahant, Mass., the other day. Thomas A. Edison will spend the winter in California, and will amuse himseif with efforts to extract gold from the black sand which abounds in the mining regions. William Dresback, of San Francisco, is the est “Nupoleon of finance.”” He the wheat in the country,and the results are: Liabilities, $7,500,000: cash assets, $278.46. Mr. Henry Georze has been finéd $100 for neglecting a jury summons. Mr. Georze's excessive modesty seems to have made him forgetiul of the privileges of citizenship, The Duke of Mariborouzh, who has been dancing attendanceon Miss Grant, once the fiancee ot Lord Garmoyle, at Newport, will follow her to Lenox, where she will ;have a rival in Miss Winslow, a bionde Bostonian. Mrs. Logan has alinost entirely retovered from the painful accident she recently sus- taned. She hopes tocomplete arrangements soon for the removal of her husband’s re- mains to Chicago. The vault in which they are now resting in Rock Creek church ceme- tery is still guarded by a detail of United States soldiers night and day. The widow Ezekiel Webster, an elder brother of Daniel Webster, was born with the century, but she reads ail the current lit- erature, hears well, and converses with great intelligence on the current topics of the day. ‘The president’s charming young wife and his very handsome mother-in-law are both busy in making stockings for him. What more felicity in life can a man want than that? Why should hecare about the civil service when his domestic service is so excel- ent. George Alfred Townsend, when in Scot- land recently, visited the estate of the Duke of Buccleuch at Dalkeith, The duke of Buc- cleuch is considered the richest man in Scot- land. In spite of this fact, however, he is somet mes hard up for money. e has an income of about $1,500,000 a year. Herr Palik, a well known Hungarian ani- mal painter, whose *portraits” of dogs and and horses comwanded very high prices among the Hungarian aristocracy, has sud- denly discovered that he is the possessor of an unusually fine tenor voice, and will soon make his debut on the Berlin staze. —— Wishes to Save His Clothes. Mitwankee Sentinel Mr. Cleveland hopes the country will not compel him to continue in the arduous serv- ice of the state. Still, rather than have his clothes torn by being dragged again to the white house, he will go along quietly. e —— Where John Philadelphia Call. John Chinaman may not be much of a stump-speaker, or warrfor, or political wire vuller, but when It vomes to flying kites, playing euchre, cleaning shirts and dealing with swindlers, he can give his Oceidental brethren pointersand hold a lone hand every time. —_—— Seasonable Rhymes. Columbus Dispatch, A FAREWELL. Fareweli to summer sun and summer breeze, To summer dissipations, summer ease; Farewell to summer pleasures, hopes cares, Temptations, promises, illusions, sua: Farewell to da f languorous indolence, That sap the energy and dull the sense; Farewell to knights thatwoo us out of doors “Po poreh and hammoek and to breezy shores ; Farewell the season when abroad we roam, Farewell the season when we know no home. and A WELCOME. . Now comes the autumn days that till “The limbs with vigor and all languor kill; ‘The vivifying days with whose return The brain awakes and new ambitions burn; Now welcome the autumnal wind and rai That homeward drives 'the wanderer again ; And welcome to the nights that colder row And hr[lmz once more the lireside’ sacred glow; Of all of summer’s pleasures none can be Compired with autumn’s domesticity. -~ STATE AND_TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. The Fremont Tribune raises a double- leaded voice for more tenement houses. Chadron expects to show at the close of the year an inprovement record of $100,000, The proposed new hotel at Chadron will cost $10,000. It is named the Daniel- son and will be completed this year. Rushville has contracted with the United States Wind Engine & Pump company to erect water works for $3,400. The grade of the Elkhorn Valley ex- tension to Hastings is completed, and track layers have taken possession 0f the dump. The town site of Loup City, valued at ?\50.000. has been dragged into court by David Furbush, who claims title to eighty acres of it. Furbusn is eighty years of age and displays monumental &rit in tackling the blind goddess av four score. ‘The Hastings News says that ‘‘Devel- opments in the _financial affairs of Emanuel Fist, wholosale druggist of this city, are not at all reassuring to that fendemnn’s friends, and it _begins to ook as if a settlement of his affairs would have to be made at a very low per oent on the dollar unless friends come to the rescue.' A local statistician figures that the av- erage young woman in Nebraska Cit: chews gum for six hours a day. He oal- culates that she moves her jaw 120 inches A day, or 4,000,000 inches ‘in ten years, This enormous waste of chin power should be controlled, but the idiot allows his strong right arm to riot among inan- imate figures while live and protty ones sigh for addition and multiplication. The B. & M. engineering corps work- ing in the vicinity of Fort Robinson have taken the residents into their confidence and displayed to their wondering gaze a comprehensive plan of railroading and veopling the northwest. The main road will strike Crawford in the bullseye, then skirt Hot creck to the Hot Springs, and along the west side of the'Black Hills to Sundance, Wyoming. The vroposed route will open up one of the richest mineral, oil and cattle countries on the continent. The hachelors’ club of Venango, Keith county, has concluded to -dissolve and saotifice themselves for the good of the county. The members gubllcl( an nounce that they are weagy of their lonely lot, and the fong winter evenings pos- sess no charm nor cold feet for them unless the eligible and anxious in the east fespond at once and secure a home and a husband with one shot. The scheme is loaded. The Venango Argus, which will take care of the correspond- ence, says: “Respond, ladies. you may catch & good husband out of this lot if you are lucky. If you don’t want to marry, don’t write.” lowa Items. A reunion of Mexican veterans is soon to be heid at Creston. L. L. Funkhouser, an Albia county farmer, rawed 106 bushels ot wheat on two acres the past season. The Bonney rapid vise company, of Philadelphia, are putting in machinery and preparing to manufacture vises at Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie, of Renwick, brated their golden woddiug Wednes- ‘The couple were seventy-four and Bf hree years of age. At the time of his death, the late John Hill, of Waverly, was the oldest member of the Masonic fraternity in Iowa, hav- ing been initiated sixty-three years ago. Prof Foster says October is a hurricane month, but uo very greatstorms are ex- pected this year. Upon the 1st, 6th, 11th, 15th, 16th and 24th will occur, he says, the storms of greatest force. The board of equalization of the city council of Dubuque have greatly changed the assessment made n the sworn returns given to the city assessor, The ety council 18 composed almost wholly of Knights of Labor, and the Herald characterizes 1t as an_attempt to tax capital out of existence in Dubuque and enthrone labor on the ruins, Dakota, Black Hills potatoes are being shipped to Peoria, Il Yankton had the first tastc of frost last Friday morning. The Duluth road has secured depot grounds at Sioux Falls. have recently done con- 4 age south of Aberdcen. Commissioner MeClure now estimates the wheat crop of Dakota at 60,000,000.” The new court house at Aberdeen to be donated to Brown county is 48x30 feet on the ground, with a cupola forty feet high, ‘I'he Milwaukee ratlroad company has reached a voint two miles west of Ver- million with its new tr. and the work 18 progressing toward Yankton as rapialy as rails and ties can be secured. MORTUARY MAITERS, Facts Absut Those W parted This Li FRED STRICKLER. This young man, a nephew of Philip Andres, aged about seventeen years, diea on Thursday last on South Tenth and was buried yesterday, the remains being interred 10 Prospect Hill. At the g Prof. Hempel, of the German-American school, delivered an eloguent and touch- ing address. o Have De- PATTERSON. Jiles Patterson, a member of the Brick- layers' and Plasterers Helpers' uaion, died Sunday of Typhoid fever at 210 South Tenth street. " The funeral will be by union this afternoon in e of the friends and relatives 51 The members will meot at their hall at 1 o'clock for the proces- sion. A Dead Attorney. At the last meeting of the Bar associa- tion, a committee consisting of T. J. Moriarity, L. D. Holmes, W. W. Keysor, J. P, reen and Isuac Adams, presented the following resolutions concerning the death of Willis . Hemenway, one of the members, which occured,on the 8th of last August. Resolved, That in his demise our bar has fost an honorable member and ourcity a worthy man and a goaod citizen. Resolved, That as a lawyer the deceased was at all times attentive to and faithful in the discharze of his dnties; and as a man he was serupuonsly upright and rxact in all his business transactions. Resolved, That we hereby tender our con- dolence tohis azed mother and to his broth- ers and sisters. whose homes have been made sorrowful by his sudden and unexpected eath, We request that these resolutions be spread at large upon the record of this court and that a copy of the samebe sent to the mother of the deceased. The residence of John W. Lauer, on Douglus street, between Twenty-fifth and ‘I'wenty-sixth streets, was sold yes« terday morning by the sheriff. The pur- chascr is John P, English, and the cons sideration $6,000. The sale was under a fory sure of mortgage, the mortgagee being John A. McShane, as trustee of the estate of the late Ed McShane. Wesuminster Church. The new church recently established in this city and known as the Park Avenue Presbyterian church has changed its charter name to that of the West- minster Presbyterian church. It isin a flourishing condition under the di tion of Rev. John Gordon, and the edi- fice, which 1s to cost about §3,000, will be finished toward the end of this month, Going for Firemen, William Crowley, one of the members of No. 2 hose company, was discharged rom the fire d epartment by the police and fire commission at their last meet- ing, for neglect of duty, For a similar offence though of u less aggravated de- gree, W. J. Raney of No. 1 was sus- pended from the force for eight days without pay. Sold the Mstor, “The Motor company at Benson placed horses on their ears yesterday and sold their dummy to the Council Bluffs Motor company. 1t will be used by the Cotter company for the purpose of hauling in from the lake to the ice houses. — ——— Bared His Arm, Yesterday morning a film of flesh was taken from the arm of Ed Rothery and grafted on the cheek of Harry Hagen by Dr. Lee. This work of grnlliu[f has been in progress for some time and 15 succeed- ing excellently. THE COURTS, ‘What Was Done Befors the Judges Yesterday. Judge Neville, of the district court, was engaged with a jury yesterday hearing the case of Gavin, Gearon & Moore against tho Wallace Bros. and Finlayson. The olaim s for $0.200 and grows out of the sale of the Times-Dispatch by the defendants to the plaintiffs, It is claimed that when this defunct news- papor was transferred the representa- tions of the seilers were not true. The jury in the Charles Smith robbery oase brought in a verdiot of grand lar- ceny ' and fixed the amount stolen .at 5 It~ scems the verdict and information did not harmon. ize and a motion will be made for a new trial to-day. The council recently refused to allow Stuht & Hamel $1,343.45 extra for grad- ing the intersections of Sixteenth, Seven- toenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twen- tieth strects on Harney and these con- tractors have consequently brought suit in the district court to recover that amount. Felix Reddy, who is charged with lar- (‘eu?’. changed his plea of not guiity to guiity before Judge Grofl'in the district court yesterday. Elien Emerson filed a petition, 1 the district court yesterday, praying for a divorce from Frank Emerson. She claims that they were married at Dakota City in November, 1885, and that since Septem- ber, 1886, he has been cruel and abusive to her. = She also asks for reasonable alimony. UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. Samuel Westhoimer, of St. Joseph, 0., filed & petition in chancery in the United States circuit court yesterday morning, against John F. Montgomery of Beatrice, Neb., for the recovery of $2,000 on a promissory note. ‘The November term of this court com- mences on the 24th of next wonth, and grand and petit juries for the same are as follows: Robert Clegg, Falls City: John N. Story, Neligh; W. 1‘; Canada, Nebraska City; 8. Rt. Brown, Omaha: Alfrea Page, Salem J. H. Franklin, Lincol David Butler, Bea- trice; L. D. Hure rvard; A. P. Giliette, North Platte; F. M. Stanfield, Blair; J. P. Johnson, Kearnev; William Parchau, Mi- rage; J. A.Wagner, Falls City; R.A.Brown, Campbel; D. Mount, Omaha; Charles Andresen, Millal . W. Dawes, Crete; Charles Childs, C. H. Judd, Henry Grabe, Omaha: George Ulrich, Falls City; S.W. Cristy, Edgar; D. H. Mercer, Omaha. ‘The petit jury for the same court is: Ralph Anderson, Falls City: John Man- ning, Pawnee City; 8, H. Klwood, Ernst; W. 13, Slogn, Nebraska City; John Wheeler, Minden: G. \V. Mayfield, Louisville; Robert Mason, Repuablican City; Henry Munson, Blue Hill; A. Boliman, "Falls City; Richard Howard, Grand Island: A. J. Robinson, W, C. Wilson, Kearney; 'I' Black, 3 Hardin Miker, Wanetta; Michael Omaha; Henry Denman, Grand Island;' Henry Bacon, Bloomington: Ed Leeder, R. D. Pieronet, J. F. Price, A. L. Wiggins, John Peterson, Omaha; _John McArdle, McArdle precinet: Falls City: Charles E. Wileox, M. P. Morrow, H. Omaha; N, Frank, Falls C MedGill, Cre POLICE COURT. At the police court yesterday morning on the docket thirty-two cases 1, the majority of which were drunks rs, and received the customary disposal. A man named Schultz, charged with peddling without a license, had his sentence suspended. Edward M. ‘Talbot, or Tabert, for attempting to beat the Paxton hotel out of a $6 board bill, got five days in jail. He was a seedy Ipoking fellow, said his ocecupation wis a hookkeeper, and could give no sutisfactory renson why he had selected a b riced hotel instead of a cheaper one, as he had no money. The clerk, in explanation of how he came to allow & man of the appearance of Tal- bot, who had no collateral, to stay there without security, said that they some- times did so, as they could not always judge a man by his clothes. The case of Chas, Barker for reckless driving, was called but continued until to-day at 2 o’clock. Barker is a teamster tor Peycke Bros., the commis- sion men, and in driving along Harney street, at a gentle trot, as he says, Mike Dermott, who was standing on the side- walk,ambled under the horse’s feet when h were within a few yards of him. The driver says Mike was arunk. The latter's appearance in court would have been a fit subject for the pencil of Hogarth. In addition to the above Martin Some, body, too drunk to tell his name when arrested, and so called Sunday—gave an unpronountexable name in the morning, when charged with threatening to shoot, and was fined $7.50. Charles Lawson, an oldstimer, got five days. Mart tover, for stabbing Lon Crounse, got fifteen days. W. Morey,aceused of horse stealing, by J. Moloney was dismissed for want of evidence. Crocker L. Meigs and J. B. Ferguson lml into a dispute about the payment of a bill. Each was tined $7.50. Joe Reed, charged with being a runner for a house of ill fame, paid a tine of $6 and_ $2.50 costs. Belle Smith, the .nost familiar face about the court, roceived three days. Hy Peal, a vag, 7.60. W, Forber, H. Windgovitch, . Techaotke and J. Jacobson, who 'nad a row over some fruit, were fined $5 each. Pat Murphy was accused by John Moran of stealing $20. Moran rofused to pros- ecute, and Murphy was dismiassed, but as both came into the court drunk when the complaint was made, they were arrested on that charge, and paid $7.50 each. AN APOSTLE OF LIBERALISM. Colonel Kikoeck, of Des Moines, Show- fug the Injury of Prohibition. A reporter for the BEE yesterday morn- ng met ColonelJoseph Eiboeck, editor of the Staats-Anzeiger, of Des Moines, who is in this city on & very important mis sion, He iein search of all the families who have recently left Iowa, because of prohibition, and secttled in this city, the intent being to show the amount of capi~ tal which sumptuary legislation has driven from that 'state. When he has collected and prepared his facts he will give them to the public by means of the ilberal press in both Towa and Nebraska. They will, no doubt, later find their way into the papers thronghout the country. It is the 1ntention to make use of these data during the fall campaign Wil Bo doubt be one o will no dou poli tical struggles which has taken place in fown. The question at_issue will be license or anti-liquor. There will ront deal of severing of party ties, an this is even now foreshadowed by the or- ganization of lndonanden't clubs in mai sootions of the state. The leaders theso societios in the main are republis cans who propose to vote with the demo- crats to -l’ e out prohibition, They argu that by so doing they benetit instond of: injuring their party becauso the prinei- plo of prohibition has been ruinous to the material prosperity of the most important sections of the state. Besides the offices are only of & local natura and can in no way effect the ptrmlnenof of the party where tru artly principles aro involved. Colon Elbmk is confident that prohibition will be stumped out in the 1mpending struge le, L} The colonel is an old soldier, a gehial and well-informed gentleman, every way qualified for the successful performance of the task which has been imposed on him. He is president of sixteen societies at home, one of which is the Des Moines Press club, which comprises attaches of nearly fihy loocal publications. SOUTH OMAHA NEWS. The new hotel on I streetis rapidly nearing completion, g The Presbyterian Aid society will hold a “pound sociable’ at the Benson house on Wednesday evening. Property holders are objecting to the deep grades on Twenty-fourth street made by the motor line. One Smith, arrested for abusing his family, was dismissed on the plea of temporary insanity. Hon. Bryan Conway, a member of the last Lllinois legislature, from Chicago, is. hero on business connected with the con- struation of Armour’s vacking house. The case of Patrick Rowley, char with fij Iulng. came up in the police cou yesterday, but on account of sever: important witnesses having left the eity, tho case was dismissed. About 10 o'clock Sunday night throe toughs used obscene language in the Errsenca of several ladies, and the hua- ande of the ladies undertook to chastise the offenders. A large crowd was at- tracted to the scene and witnessed the discomfiture of the vagabonds. 8. B. James and W. W. Mix, of Atlaata, I1l., stopped in the city while en route for New Mexico, and wil nrobnhl{ invest in property and start in business here. The school board Leld a meeting st the Exchange yesterday and considered the advisability of securing new teachers ta look after the rapidly increasing num- ber of pupils. Judge A. A. Brown who has been visite ingP. W. Hodson, has returned _home to vima, Neb. The judge will be here again in a few weeks to invest in real es- tate and business property, The new Presbyterian church onm Twenty-hfth streetis now under good headway and will soon be completed. ‘The frame work has been put up and the roof 1s ready to put on. The young couple who were married in Omaha last week at the instance of the yvoung woman's futher, have been taken under the parental roof. The young man has recovered from_ the sulks, and both he and lus young bride are as happy as two doves, Oounty Olerk's Income. There being considerable talk about the county clerk’s salary and what the income will be under the new arrange- ment whon a register of deeds is elected, Mr. Needham, the present incumbent, has called on County Attorney Simeral for an opinion. The latter says that the construction to be placed on section 43, chapter 28 of the compiled statutes re- ferring to such matters is that the county clerk is to receive $2,500 per an- num, provided the same can be made of his office. A reporter of the BEr questioned Mr. Needham regarding this matter and the income’ of office. “Why," said tLe county clerk, “if you take away the income derived from reg- istering from this oftice the income w! not amount to $600 per annum.” ‘I sen that some of the papers state that yon appointed Mr. Auchmoody reg- ister of deeds,” said the reporter. ‘“That’s nonsense," replied Mr. Need . ham. ‘“‘Everybody knows the office of register of deeds is a new one and elec- tive. I appointed Mr. Auchmoody deputy county clerk and he was assigned to the registering department.” . Under the Gate. Yesterday ovening an over-hasty farmer in his haste: to cross the Union Pacitic tracks on Thirteenth street ahead of a passing train tried to drive under one side of the air gate which was down. The collision broke the gate in two, one jart falling in the wagon and remainin n it until Mason street was reached, where the team was stopped. How the driver escaped, the muan at the crossing could not teil, — Near Laramie Peak. N. J. Edholm writes from Eagle Moun- tain ranch, at the foot of Laramie Peak that thescenery of the place is slmost in« describly grand and that bear, elle, deer, antelope and other game animals abound. He says that his brother, and Judge Dundy, and A. M, Akin are out there enjoying the season and the sport, and that the judge is an excellent marks- nlllm:‘ bringiug down his game at every shot. g 3 Djed on tne Cars. Sunday night a man died on the Union Pacific train which reached here at 7 o'clock yesterday morning. 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