Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 15, 1887, Page 4

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D, 187, NP KEIT, (SEAL.) Notary Public. ‘Kerr the judiciary pure. Boodlers, bummers, shysters and incompetents must be kept off the bench. — CADET TAYLOR'S contract to hoist O. H. Ballou into Judge Wakeley’s seat on tho bonch, is slightly beyond Cadet's fting capacity. A MAN who hired out to the gamblers last winter to manipulate the legislature would make a sweet-sconted district judge, wouldn't he? GENERAL HAWLEY, of Connecticut, had a very neat little presidential boom during the summer and fall. Now the democrats say it has collapsed because he is engaged to be married to an Eng- lish woman. This is not likely to break up the match. DEMOCRATS are already prophesying that Samuel J. Randall will be made the chairman of the committee on ap- propriations during the next session of ocongress. This is not unlikely, but the majority wing of the party does not exult much over the prospe THE furious assault of the police upon an assembly of workingmen in Union square, New York, the other day, is everywhere rightly condemned as an outrage. It wasa direct blow at per- sonal liberty as guaranteed in this coun- try and wholly without justification. THE State Grange of California ro- eently voted on a resolution declaring that the suffrage should be extonded to women. It was vedy decidedly nega- tived by a vote of forty-four to three. This vote indicates very clearly the at- titude of the level-headed California farmer to the women's rights movement. SOME practical joker has imposed on the Herald by, representing one of the republican candidates for commissioner as a boodler while he was holding the office to which he now aspires. Inasmuch as Mr. Welsh never was county com- missioner and never held any other county office, the canard contradicts itself, Tue United s grand jury in Avizona have discovered a ring of white cattle thieves who made a business of @lealing stock from the Indians. They will no doubt try to clear themselves by mttempting to show that if there were ®0 Indians they would not have been eviminals. In the language of the Qolorowdy the *‘Indian must go.” HE mercenaries who want to uunload & brace of incompetents and oil room strikers upon the republican judicial ticket of this district affect to sneer at the BEE's appeal for decency. They did the same thing last year when the BEE entored its protest against the can- didate for congress whose career and record made him obnoxious to the rank and file of the party, who above all things desive clean government. IpANO keeps up with the procession of progress. Tho governor in his an- nual report estimates the population at 100,000; the horses, cattle, sheep and hogsat over 900,000, and the taxable property at nearly $20,500,000. The value of the mineral product for the past year was $9,245,580, Ten thousand six hundred and seven pupils attend 3 schools, while the whole number of chil- dren in the school age is nearly 20,000, The territory, it will be seen, is laying a good foundation for statehood, which dignity it may attain before very loug. The governor protests against the pro- posed division of the territory. THE miners of the Lehigh region in Pennsylvania have now been out on a strike for some time and the prospects are that they will not return to work this year. The scarcity of conl is con- sequently increasing and the p steadily going up. For these evils the coal conl company is entirely to blame. A committeo of miners waited upon the president of the combination the other day, when he decided that the company would not grant the desired advance. He blamed other companies who have raised the wages of their workmen, for the present high price of coal. The Lehigh coal robbers are the worst brig- ands in the country and if they are the cause of an extended coal famino and consequent sufferings among con- sumors, they should be dealt with in a manner commesnurate with the crime. Wiseacre Counsman. . Bome years ago a member of our -city ‘council rose in his seat and moved in all soriousness that the city charter be amended by an ordinance, A counter- part of this statesman has been dis- covered in the person of Councilman Counsman. He has had the reputation of being somewhat of a crank, but no one suspected that he would develop into a full-fledged know-nothing. Mr. Counsman imagines that his mission in the council is to pull the new city hall up by the roots and move itintothe Fifth ward. Every time anything has come up relating to the city hall he has given the oracular opinion that there was no telling whether the building would be put erected upon the present site or re-located. Atthelast council meeting this eminent wiseacre introduced a resolution that the plans of the building be rejected, and that new plans be called for. Mr. Couns- man gives asareason for calling for new plans that the building, as now de- signed, will cost thirty-three per cent more than the original estimate of the architect. Now the council has just as much power to abandon the plans of Architect Myers and start out on a new basis as they would have to amend the charterby ordinance. The city hall was located upon lots six and seven, in block one hundred and six- teen by & vote of the citizens of Omaha, and in voting on that location the peo- ple also ratified the plans of Mr. E. E. Myers. At the same election the elec- tors of this school district authorized the the board of education to ex- pend twenty--five thousand dol- lars in conjunction with the city council on the city hall building. By virtue of this authority a contract was entered into between the city of Omaha and the school district, and this coutract expressly provides that one story of the city hall, as planned by E. | K. Myers, should be forever reserved for the use of the board of education. Under this contract twenty-five thousand dollars have been paid into the city hall fund. The money has been expended in the construction of the busement. The council is there- fore burred from cancelling the contract or adopting new plans, even if the Myers plans had not been submitted to and ratified by the people. Mr. Couns- man shows himself to be a demagogue as well as an ignoramus. He is a builder and ought to know enough to know that the estimate made three years years ago by Architect Myers cannot be applied to any contract made at this time. Iron colnmns and beams, which enter largely into the con- struction of the city hall, cost fifty per cent more to-day than they did three yéars ago, and labor and material are from ten to twenty per cent higher. ‘When Myers made his plans it was ex- pected that the city could issue the necessary bonds and let the contract the same season. But a defect in the old charter prevented the voting of the bouds and caused a delay of over eigh- teen months. The contract for the busement was let a year ago, but the basement still remains unfinished. Is Architect Myers to blame for the delay fn letting the city hall contract, and is he responsible for tye advance in- the cost of labor, iron and other build- ing materials? But even if the council could at this stage abandon tde Myers plans, would it be prudent or econom- ical to do 50? Mr. Counseman who has stubbornly defied public sentfmeut on other matters wants to hear from the people. The people have authorized the expenditure of $225,000 on the new city hall by direct vote. If it costs 250,000 more to complete the building the people will sanctlon it providing al- ways that there are no jobs and steals in the construction contracts. Randall Declares Himself. The Hon. Samuel J. Randall has been the honored guest of Atlanta, Ga., and right royally was he entertained. Weo doubt if there is any other public man, even the president himself, who holds a warmer place in the esteem of the peo- ple of that city than the Pennsylvania congressman. They do not seem to en- tertain the slightest question regarding the through-and-through soundness of his democracy, but their admiration and regard are due largely to the fact that Mr. Randall is a sound democratic protectionist. It was for this reason chiefly that he was selected to deliver the address at the opening of the ex- position now in progress. With the matter of dress, in part, the whole country has an interest. In a number of interviews since the last congress ad- journed, Mr. Randall has not been sat- torily explicit regarding his posi- tion. Just before leaving Washington to go south he said he did not desire to talk about matters that might be sub- jects of discussion in congress, and re- »d his interviewer to his record. Perhaps this ought to have been suffi- cient, but there are people who have nupsed the flattering unction that Mr. tandall, perhaps “for the good of the party,” would be found when the proper time came willing to depart somewhat from his pecord. Such people do not fully understand the character of the Peunsylvania congressman nor the in- fluences that are behind him. In Atanta Mr. Randall had tively symputhetic audience, expected something in his partic- ular line, and Le met that expectation by very clear and plain declarations which no one can misun- derstand. He stood up bravely and boldly for a high protective tariff, un- der which he maintained the wages of labor had been incrensed and the cost of living reduced. He did not allow a single intimation of any desire to com- promise on this subject to mar the unity and harmony of this branch of his w dress. Protection under ahigh is, in the opinion of Mr. Randall, the thing the country needs and must ad- here to. All doubts as to where Mr. Randall will be found on this question in the next congress may therefore dis- missed. It be to no purpose for the this ad- an en- which be president to invite him to a conference, if he has ever intended to do so. The revenue rveformers know what they have to encounter. The people can form their conclusions as to the chances THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1887, of relief from a reduction of the tariff. Mr. Randall has declared himself and the declaration is not reassuring to the country. ——— It is now becoming manifest that the extensive system of street railways which we have been’ constructing this season will be sufficient for the traffic of a city of 200,000 people. The question naturally occurs whether all these lines operated by rival companies, can be made to pay for the™ext two or three years, at least. Well informed parties foreshadow as the inevitable outcome a consolidation of all the lines—the horse railways, the electric motor, and the cable—under one management. Com- bination always beats competition, and it is only a question of time when these rival railroad corporations will either pool or be merged into one anaconda, So far as the citizens of Omaha are concerned, such a consolida~ tion would be no detriment. While it will create monopoly in street rail- ways, the benefits to be derived from an extension of tracks in every direction is an accomplished fact. The lines must be operated whether they pay or not. The only possible drawbacl of a consolidation would be an indifference as to speed, frequency of trips, and general accommodation to the traveling public. The charter authorizes the city council to regulate street railways, and unless the council is bodily owned by the street railway proprietors the public interest in the matter of speedy transit and commodi« ous cars would be amply protected. THAT Omaha wants a first-class fire- proof hatel located in the business cen- ter of the future, west of Fifteenth, somewhere between Howard and Capi- tal avenue, goes without saying. We are reliably informed that the noces- sary capital to embark in such an enter prise can be secured from Chicago capi- talists, who have heavy interests in South Omaha. But inasmuch as this project involves an outlay of over half a million for the building alone, a reasonable bonus will have to be raised by Omaha property owners. The BEE realizes that the time has come for placing Omaha on an equal footing with St. Paul and Minneapolis, and other western cities. Quite apart from the advantage which the city would derive from a first-class fire-proof hotel as an advertisement the under- taking would stimulate other building enterprises and keep the boom going. THE sycophancy displayed by Post- master General Vilas in his specch at Milwaukee, on the occasion of the presi- dentiul visit, has been very displeasing to the New York World, as indeed it should be to anybody who remembers that this is a republic whose president is the servant, and not the ruler, of the people. But it was quite characteristi of Mr. Vilas, who has been conspicu- ously the courtier of the administration. He is doubtless, also, filled with the idea that Cleveland has a preference for him for the second place on the ticket, and that he might improve his chances by such a manifestation of ser- vility. We give the president credit for too much common sense, however, than to suppose he would be influenced by such shallow stuff. For sublime self-assurance commend us to the late chief clerk of the govern- ment printer. That political cheap John with his readerless organ actually poses as the mainstay of republicanism in this city and state and gives himself the air of invincible leader of re- publican hosts. With more self-conceit and by far less ability than our notorious “Jedge Cooley,” this adventurer mod- estly takes upon himself the sole and exclusive championship of the repub- lican county ticket. In due time we ex- pect that he will also claim for himself and his antique organ the entire credit for electing the successful republican candidates. FRroM careful investigation, the num- ber of miles of railroad built during 1886 and 1887 will be over 20,000, at acost of ahout $420,000,000. Of this amount 860,000,000 will be expended in steel rails. The bounty on this sum paid to steel rail monopolists is esti- mated at $25,000,000. Who pays this tax to the steel rail robbers? Princi- pally the farmers and industrial classes. Every ton of rails costs the consumers $17 per ton more than it can be pro- duced for at the present rate of wages. No wonder the iron mill syndicate op- poses tariff revision. HASCALL appears to be in no great hurry to submit the controvery between the council and police commission to the supreme court. The police muddle has enabled Hascall to exert an influence in the present coun- cil which he never even hoped to wield when he entered it. It has been a bull- ring in the noses of half a dozep mem- bers who have since followed Hascall through thick and thin because they lacked courage and manhood to assert themselves. Other Lands Than Ours. Political affairs in England continue tobe very animated. A meeting of liberal leaders was held at the home of Mr. Gladstone on the 11th instant. The result of the conference has not at this writing been nmade known, but it doubt- less had rveference chiefly to anging a programme for public meetings to be held at numerous important points. A notable meeting is to be held next week at Nottingham, where Gladstone will speak at length upon the political sit- uation, and an address definitely set- ting forth the positions agreed upon by the party leaders will probably be 1 On the 17th the liberal unionis hold a meeting in London. About the close of next week it is expocted a cabi- net council will be held at which the situation will be fully discussed. Menn- while Mr. Joseph Chamberlain is in Ireland, wheve he is talking for the minority, which he thinks has not re- ceived sufficient consideration. Th all along the line the contending forces are in array and veady to engage each other with renewed zeal. The indica- tious to the far-away observer are that the strength of the liberals is growing steadily. The blundérs and failures of the government since the prorogation of parliament have boon most oarefully noted by the peaple, and the effect of their observation has undoubtedly been to carry thousands over to the liberal ranks. Some dissatisfaction is believed to exist in the tory and liberal-union lines, and altogether the conditions and influences leadiug on to the overthrow of the ministry would appear tobe stead- ily and surely increasing. It looks very much ae if the habit of Mr. Gladstone of coming out ahead in the long run would not forsake him in this supremo and perhaps final effort of his carcer. * " The scandal in France regarding tho sale of the decoration of the Legion of Honor, of which General Caffarel was proved to be guilty, would very likely have boen short lived but for the fact that Boulanger has been involved in it and placed under arrest. He invitos the most searching investigation, and will probably be able to clear himself. It is incredible that he would have al- lowed himself to be a party to any such transaction as that of trading in these decorations, and the fact that an- other general of the army did so does not mako tho allego~ tion against Boulanger less incred- ible. He is a very different person from the convicted officer. If he shall vindi- cate himself his friends will in all prob- ability ascribe the hasty action of the minister of war to a desire to prosecute Boulanger and to degrade him in popu- lar estoem, the effect of which might be to glvehim another boom in popular idolatry. His most ardent friends al- ready say that the scandal will cause the fall of the ministry. The assump- tion of titles in ¥'ranco is not uncom- mon, and is rurely checked, excopt when some real title, already belonging to others, is appropriuted. There is also an undoubted trade in some Euro- pean decorations, and some time ago an inglish paper secured a price list for sundry stars, crosses, and ribbons which one enterprising firm had established. This industry, in fact, had been so far elaborated that it was carried on upon the installment system, by weekly payments. The decoration of the Legion of Honor, tho only order left in Krance, has not been suspected hitherto of being made a mat- ter of traffic, but it is quite cortain that it has been dispensed with a freedom that would considerably reduce its mar- ket value for the purposes of General Caffarel or his associates. A world’s fair at Paris is apt' to bring out a great incroase of chevaliers, and since the decoration of the q.mgiun of Hopor can be conferred for almost any sort of dis- tinction, it is lessistrange that it has be- come the possession of an enormous number of people, It is said that there are several scoreg of thousands of mem- Dbers of the legion at present, taking all countries togethery * ' The part that Italy has been playing in European affairs has entitled her to be regarded as the- peacemaker among the nations. The, beliel is that by unit- ing with the opponents of Russian and French aggression; Ttaly hasindefinitoly postponed the threatening Furopean war. The new alliance, sustained by the moval support of England, will be too formidable to be assailed by the would-be disturbers of peace. Ttaly, however, has been moved to this course in part by selfish considerations. She wants, among other things, to extend her influence on the Mediterrancan, France literally robbed hor of Tunis. Italian capital had built railroads there and otherwise intrenched itself when the French stepped in from Al- giers and took possession. It already crops out, that this performance is ot to be repeated in Morocco, whither, on the false report of the death of the sultan, the various Eu- ropean war vessels have so greedily hastened. France and Spain are sup- posed to Dbe the chief contestants for predominance in Morocco, but the new alliance will have a powerful voice in the matter. Italy has interests in Trip- oli, where France has shown a disposi- tion to establish herself as in Tunis. There are Italian colonial enterprisesin eastern Africa to be cared for also, and should there be a Kuropean war result- ing unfavorably to France, the French Riviera and Savoy would both doubtless be ceded to Ituly. The alliance promi- ses to prove almost as obnoxious to France as it is to Russia, and Bismarck doubtless feels safer and stronger since it was made. % Tate advices do not speak hopefully concerning the health of the crown prince of Germany. It seems to be cer tain that the growth in his throat i cancerous, somewhat similar to that of General Grant, and if so the death of the prince isonly a question of a short time. He has rocently beon wasting physically and is reported much weak- ened since the last operation. Hisdeath would doubtless be regarded by the German peoplo as a great calamity. He would be succceded by his son, Fred- erick William, who was born in 1859, and is a man of quite differ ment from his. father. ‘William was murried in 1881 to Princ Vietoria of Schleswig-Holstein, whom he has already four children, s0 that there is no danger that the Ho- henzollern family will soon hecome ex- tinet. He wasa wild, reckless youth, but since his mu ge has settled down into a genuine vepresentative of the Prussian military type, dashing, reck- less and impulsiva, but without those fixed traits of character which guaran- tee much stability to his reign. He is in all respects a soldier, and probably a good and brave one, but it remains to be seen whether he has the statesman- like qualities necessary to a successful ruler of the great Gesnan empire. It may be in view of this emergency. likely to be precipitated any day, that Bismarck has been busy in perfecting the alliance between Germany, Austria apd Italy and settling the ditficulties between the court and the vatican, so that there shull be some gygrantee of European peace in the event of a sudden e Prince Ferdinand’s position in Bul- garia is rapidly becoming consolidated, and it would appear as if he were to be- come a permancuoy. The elections —— which took place throughout the coun- try on Sunday last have resulted in an overwhelming majority for the govern- mont, while the latter has won favor and consideration abroad by the steps which it has taken to pay into the sul- tan’s treasury the tribute due by Bast- orn Roumelia, and which is mortgaged to the padishah’s English, French and man creditors. Fioally it is an- nounced that thd ezar has become so disgusted with the promising turfi wiich things have taken in the Balkans that he hus decided to wash his hands en- tirely of the ungrateful Bulgars and to have nothing more to do with the plucky little nation. Asa result of this de- cigion the garrison at Odessa has been reduced to its normal strength. » ers ' ‘Whether the sultan of Morocco lives or dies there is likely to be trouble in the empire, since former insurgents are gathering again. It was not very long ngo that he was engaged in hostilities with the tribes around Tedja, his forces entering the town of Rabat, which caused the Spanish government to hurry an ironclad to the latter point with a message for him. Now Spain is making palpable preparations for a campaign in Morocco, & war ship having already been sent to Tangier and troops being concentrated at Tarifa and Algeciras, from which latter point a submarine cable is to be laid to Centa. France has sent an ironclad to Tangier, and Italy has dispatched two war ships thither, so that when the English ves- scls also arrive the harbor will prosent a noteworthy naval spectacle. *" There is somehow rather a westorn than a Russian flavor in the cable state- ment that the petroleum flowing out of the wells at Baku cannot be checked, and is seriously inundating that town. There is no doubt that the production of oil in that region is enormous, and the petroleum exhibition to be held at St. Petersburg next month will no doubt contain some wonderful illustrations and statistics on this point. The abund- ance of petroleum has had one marked effect in the substitution of liquid fuel for coal in many steam engines in Rus- sia. More than & thousand locomotive and stationary engines and two or three hundred steamers now use it, and the navy department considers it good enough for its new and powerful iron- clads. % Of all the crowned and uncrowned princely heads in the castle of Fredens- borg, Zealand, Denmark, none attracts s0 much attention as the czar of Rus The unusual extension of his sojourn in that secluded spot into the month of October is easily understood if the fact is known that it is the only placo on earth where the mighty ruler of the lavgest empire that now is or ever was feels at ease and can allow himself to go about and hehave like other human beings without the » of nihilistic attacks harrassing his mind. Although he hassurrounded his castle of Gatchiuva, near Petersburg, with walls and guards believed to be impregnable, death from amurderer’s hand has several times ready stared him in the face in his very private study in that palace. And wherever he goes within his own em- pive things are worse and more threat- ening than at Gatchina. Butat I'redens- borg his fear leaves him, and he is familiar and human like other men. The other day the whole family circle— some three dozen in number—made an excursion to Helsingoer by train. The szar invited his sister-in-law, Princess Marie of Orleans, to walk with him,and the couple actually traveled the whole distance, some nine miles, and enjoyed the walk. On their arrival they went to the public restaurant at the depot, and had their lunch by the side of a drummer, who was not at all aware of the high rank of his table companions. e The action of Dhuleep Singh in pub- licly declaring his hatred of England and his resolve to free his country from the British yoke may have an import- ant bearing on uffairs in India, espoci- ally in view of the fact that he has been admitted to all the rightsand privi- leges of a Russian subject and looks upon the czar as hissoven affection felt in India against English rule is deep-seated, and all the more dangerous in that it is fomented in se- cret and by all the machinery which a gion of mystery can bring into play. nother uprising should take place it is likely that England would find the legions of the czar behind the half- trained soldiers of India KINGS AND QUEENS. The Empress Eugenie will pass the winter at Naples. King Milan of Servia, and Queen Natalie have agreed to disagree and live apart, but neither will scek a divorce. The czar is having & high old time at Copen- hagen. He is able to sncezo without fear of exploding a dynamite mine. Queen Victoria is very methodical with ss and generally gets through vith three hours’ hard worlk a day. said that the sultan of Turkey is de- irous of personal interviews with Queen Victoria and Emperor William, and will soou t London and Berlin King Leopold is a man of marked ability, and in all probability does more hard work sonally than any other sovercign of pe. Hois beloved by his people and s among them freely. Queen Kapiolaui, of Hawaii, has conferred the order of Kapiolani upon Governor Ames of Massachusetts, Muyor O'Brien of Boston, and five aldermen. This is in recognition of her gorgeous entertainment in Boston, which cost the city $18,000. Prince Charles of Sweden, the third son of the king, is one of the handsomest men in Europe. He is a manly fellow as well, a dar- ing horseman, highly accomplished, and an author whose style is vigorous and polished. All this, and a prince, too! Queen Christina of Spain is an immense favorite with the people, and if pretty she would carry all before her; but her face is too voseate, and her hands and feet too long and sinewy. Shoe smokes cigarottes, a habit which she contracted when a girl. Princess Clotilde has just finished a mantle she has embroidered fd@the pope. The man- tle, whick is of white satin,embroidered with golden flowers, will be sent to the approach- ing exhibition to be held at the Vatican on the occasion of the pope's jubilee. Fraucis Joseph, emperor of Austria and king of Hungary, has move royal titles than any other Buropean sovereign.’ He is' king of soven countries or provinces, grand prince ot ono, prince or margrave of soveral others, and archduke, grand duke and duke of half & dozen more. He is considered tho richest monarch of Europe, with the possible excep- tion of Queen Victoria. Plusivisier- Unconsclous Heredity. Burdett o, A son of Jease James has gone to work in & real ostate office. Well, he can’t help it; the boys of that family are born robbers. ————— They Wili I"rchably Do the Latter. Somerville Journal, There are fow more disagreeable people in this world than the people who are always doing wrong and then tolling you how bad they feel about it. They ought either to do right or else get a tougher conscience. ———— A Part of the National Family. Kansas Oity Star. Mrs. Cleveland divides the honors with the president. The pleasing public attentions paid to her must bo very grateful to his ox- celiency. Her popularity has won upon the people until they kindly regard her as alarge part of the national family, —_— Depew Goes In For Brains. Recent Intervicw. The idea has been industriously circulated that we could never afford to elect t0o brainy o man president. It killed Webster and many other good men since, but I think the American poople would now like at least to try tho experiment and sce if the country would bo ruined by electing our brainiest and most talented mon to the presidency. ety Autumn Rondecau. Swinburne. From spring to fall the year makes meorry, With days to days that chant and call; With hopes towrown and fears to bury With crowns offlowers and flowers for pall; ‘With bloom and song, and bir1 and berry; ‘That fills the months with festival From spring to fall. Who knows if ever skics were dreary. With shower and cloud and watorfail? While yet, the world's good heart is cheery Who knows if rains will ever brawl The storm thinks long, the winds wax weary, Till wintor comes to wind up all From spring to fall. TWO I The Bricklayers and Stonemasons Or- ganize a Subordinate Lodge. About one hundred stonemasons met at Kessler’s hall last night for the pur- pose of being installed as a subordinate branch of the International union of bricklayers and stonemasons of America. Mr. W. A. Looker, a8 deputy of the International union, was the installing officer. He was assisted by Daniel O’Keefe and about twenty-five other bricklayers. After the installation, which was imposing, the charter was signed by tho president, John R. O'Rourke, and the other officers of the union. It was ordered framed and hung in the hall. The bricklayersand stone- masons will hereafter act as a .unit in all matters of interest to their respec- tive trades. Dan O’Keefe and several other brick- layers and stonemasons made interest- ing speeches and a number of songs brought the pleasant evening toa close. On next Monday night at 7:30 o’clock thore will be a special meeting at which every stonemason is expected to be present. Rassmussen Closed. Ernst Rassmussen wasarrested yester- day morning charged with selling liquor without a license. Ho was released on a boud of 8100, his case being continued until the 21st. Rassmussen’s saloon is near the corner of Twenty-seventh and Reese streets, and the whole neighbor- hood is up in arms about it. They de- clare it a nuisance, and remonstrate against a license being issued to Rass- mussen. His placo was closed 1n the af- ternoon, and the prayer of the peti- tioners against licensing him will be granted. e Military Voyageurs. Lieutenant Kennon, aide de camp of General Crook and Captain Ray, judge advocate of the department of the Platte, have gono on an original trip of discovery, pleasure and information, which promises to be highly appreci- ated by both the participants. They have gone to Fort Niabrara, where they will take a boat made by Captain Ray and sail down the Niobrara about one hundred and fifty miles to the Missouri, on which stream they will row and float to this ¢ The trip will be one hundred and fifty miles, and about one hundred miles will be made each day. Personal Paragraphs. Dr. W. H. Hanchett left yesterday for Weeping Water where he was called ‘to perform an important surgical operation. m Snell, the popular ongincer of #168” which draws the lightning ex- press to Lincoln every morning will e e o oAl in AT iaa HH ARt gate from No. 98, B. of L. E., to the convention to be held there next week. Colowel Robert Law, formerly general superintendent of the Union Pacific, went to Denver yesterday. Mrs. Honm, wife of Dan B. Honm, editor of the Railway Reporter, left for Denver yesterday. J M. W. Burnham, the well known en- gineer of the dummy train, is Omaha’s delegate to the Chicago conveuntion. Goorge F. Labagh and wife leave on on Wednesday next for San Diego, Cali- fornia, where they will reside for about a year. During their absence one of their children will attend Brownell hall and the other the college at Racine. E. E. Lytle, of Wahoo, is at the Mil- lard. Mrs. J. G. Bruner, mother of Hon, T. C. Brunner and Mrs. Uriah Bruner re- turned to West. Point, Neb., yosterday morning after a brief visit in this city. Mprs. Hadra and son, of Neb ka City, daughter and grandson of E. Seligson of this city, are visiting the latter at his residence, 806 South Eighteenth street. BUILDING PERMITS. The following building pérmits were issucd yesterday by Superintendent Whitlocls : Board of education, one story frame school, Ellsworth und Center, to 5 1,34 Vo' stofy car Twentieth, to o Frank ‘and Joseph K teenth, between Pier Tiams, to cost..... Three permits, Marriage Licenses. Judge McCulloch issucd the following per- mits to wed yesterday : Christian Nelson, Omaha, ‘Anna Therkelson, Omuha. Ernest J. G. Schultz, Omaha. Charlotte Ransch, Omaha . William Taylor, Omaha. ilva Welburn, Omaha Stephen Fruchaut, Kansas City, M i Bridget Burns, Kansas City, Mo, . Fifth Ward Republicans, There will be a mecting of the Fifth ward republican club at 516 North Six- teonth street this evening, at 7:80. All ave invited. .~ DAV1D T. SCOTT, Sec. AMUSEMENTS. “Bewitohed” at the Boyd Last Night, ' Before a Large Audience. “Bewitched” is Sol Smith Russel new play, for the season. Unlike which was last year inflicted on the public, it is a success. This opinion is based upon the fact that ono of Russell’s objects in life or rather, on the stage, is to make the people laugh, and that in- oludes the efforts of nearly all the mem- bors of the company who contribute, in greater or less degree, to the cachis nation with which many of the scenos ara roceived. The piece is founded upon the !muossible and supernatural oFe‘ct which ‘an Indisn amulet is sup- posed to have on everybody iiite whose possession it comes. That effect is i make every male and fomale 8801 in an instant, & lull—flcd;fi:l lunatio. The moment the Youeuor COmes 1o« lioved of the amulet, he or she regains hig or her normal good sense. Russell becomes lunatic-extraordinary and, of oourse, creates, as is to be expected, the moet of the morriment. Thero is noth- ing new in his_mannerism, however. Ho is tho same Russell ho has alwags been in songs, grimaces and contor- tions. Nevertheless, these peculiarities soem to take. So long as they do, Mr. Russell would be a lunatioc in reality to attempt to change the tiger’s spots. The company appear this afternoon and evening at tho same place. B siinicicon Hebrew Ladies' Society. The Hebrew Ladies’ Sewing socicty held its annual meeting at the syna- gogue for the election of officers. The following iadies were chosen: Mrs. M. Hellman, president; Mrs. F. Adler, vico president; Mrs. Benjamin Newman, treasurer, and Mrs. S. Katz, socretary. The first three ladies named have occu- pied their respective positions since the organization of the of the socicty two years ago by Rabbi Benson. Their good work and efficiency are demonstrated by their unanimous election. Mrs. Katz succeeded Mrs, Adolph Moyor, and tho latter lady received a vote of thanks for the work she has done since the society was organized. Mrs. Meyer stated that it was impossible for her to hold the po- sition of secretary longer, and with re- gret she gave way to a very worthy suc- cossor. 'T'he object of this association is sewing and doing other work for the needy poor of all denominations, espec- ially the Hebrews. The report of tho treasurer showed a large surplus, and when somo one hundred members who will pay their fees this week, come to time, the coffers will be in a plothoric condition. Bnai Brith. The third anniversary of Nebraska lodge 854, Independent Order of Bnai Brith, will take place at Germania hall next Wednesday, October 19. The com- mittee of arrangements are C. Brandeis, J. Bamberger, E. Wedeles, A. Hellor, 8. Reichenberg, J. Furth and 8. Coben. The floral committee will consist of 8. Oberfelder, S. Fisher, Julius Meyer, Sam Schlesinger, Dave Kaufman and Sam Livingstone. This order entails upon its subordinate lodges to have a permanent literary committoe for the urpose of disseminating knowledge to 1ts members, and the affair is given under its auspices. It will consist of the following programm 1 Oberfelder.. .Opening Address J. H. Baer.. ... Recitation J. Bamber Orphan Asylum Carl Brandeis. secture on Reason H. Rosenberg. jorman Recitation S. Blath..Benevolen Harmony. J. W. M. Weihl Mrs. Gootz and Miss Isaacs King Held For Criminal Libel. The case of J. B. King, charged by Isaac Brown with criminal libel, came up before Judge Berka in the polico court yesterday afternoon. Charles Of- futt conducted the case for the defense and Parke Godwin for the prosccution. The complainant, Brown, was the first witness placed on the stand. He testi- fied that all of the allegations set forth in the aruicle published in tho Herald of July 16 were false. Other witnesses tos- tified that King had acknowledged to them that he was the author of the arti- cle in question. Tho defense did not offer any testimony, stating that in the drawing up of the complaint the statute was misconstrued and that the defend- ant was perhaps guilty of a misdemeandr but not of a fc\uuy. The counsel claimed that the person responsible for the pub- lication of the article was guilty of a felony. Judge Berka decided to bind King over to the district court undor $800 bonds. Chautauquans at Work. The first meeting of the season for regular work of the Chautauqua circle of this city was held at the board of education rooms last evening. Tt was largely attended and quite interesting as well as instructive. Mrs. M. Mur- phy gave some excellent readings, and there was a lively debate on Chautauqua work, over which Mr. G. A. Joplin pre- sided. The president of the circle read an instructive papor on “The Education of Later Life.” BABY HUMORS And All 8kin and Scalp Diseasee Speedily Cured by Cuticura. Our little son will be four years of age on the 25h inst, In May, 186, he was attacked with & y ainful breaking out of the skin, We calied in & physician, who treated him for abouf four weeks. The child received little or no goo nt, a3 the breaking out sup- I cian to bo hives in an ag- g rger in_ blotches, and moro and more distressing. " We were fregiicnt- 1y obliged to_get up in the night and rub him With soda in water, strong liniments, ete. 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