Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 12, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUDSCRIPTION. Pty Morning Pditton) including Eunday Y enr, CORREBPONDENCE. ANl communications relating news and editorinl matter should be nddressed 1o the EOI1on OF THE BER. BUSINESS LETTRRS: 11 bisipess lotters and remfttances shonld be adtrerred o thin Drp PUWLISHING COMPANT: ONMAIIA. Dratts, checks and postoffice orders o ‘be wude payable to the order of the company. Thg Beo Publishing Company, Proprietors. E. ROSEWATER, EpiTor, THE DAILY BEE. it of Circulation. ba.s Bworn Statem e of Nebraska, ity of Doniglas G0, B, Taschick, kecretary of The Res Pub- ng company, does rolemniy swear that tlie actual cireulation of the Daily Bee for the week £nding Noy, 4. 16, was s follows Raturday, Oc Funday, Oct. 5,.nm.y, Oct. i nesdiy, Noy. 1. ay, Nov. Bworn to and subseribd in g prescrce this Bth day of November, A, D, 1857, v b N. P. FRIL, (SFAL) Notary Public Btato of Nebraskn, | o unty of Dougls. (%5 . . Tzschuck, being firet duly sworn, de- poter unid ways this Do b secretary of The ice ublishing company, that the actial average daily circulation - of the Daily Bee_for the * month of November, 3,548 for Decenber, 1886, 18,257 copi . 18T, 16200 coples; for F 10K copdes; for Murelr, 187, 14.400 pril, 1#87, 14,316 coples: fof May, 3 copien: for June, 1887, 14,147 coples} for July, 1887, 14, pies; for August, 1887, 14, 161 coples: for September, 1687, 14,549 copies: for October, 1887, 14,5, GLO. B. TZSCHUCK. £worn to and enbscribed in my presence tils 6l dny of Octover, A. D, 1887, N b, FEIT, (SEAL.) Notary Pubi IoWA has invented a new politic brand. It is the “jugwump.” The flattest object on earth is a mis- leading political straw after election. —————— EX-GOVERNOR LEON S. ABBETT must olip the wings of his ambition. New Jersey will not ask him to be her sen- ator this y CHICAGO now claims a population of 8688,000. But for a little “if,” it would have been 1,000,000 according to one of the papers of that city. SINCE the supreme court has bulled the market in railroad commissioners o position on the state board of trans- portation is worth more than a fourteen- company post-tradershi THE seventh annual session of the National Farmers’ congress is now in session at Chicago. It is principally composed of horny-handed toilers who want to farm out their influence. Tuk state board of transportation has been accorded power to reduce rates. ‘We shall presently see whether Ne- braska will continue to pay double the local freight rates which prevail in Minnesot. THE republicans did not lose every- thing in New York. The legislature remains in their hands, and the senate, which Governor Hill was especially anxious about, will have a republican majority of eight, quite sufficient for safety. A GEORGIA negro boy eleven years old stabbed a young man who annoyed him. A jury promptly found him guilty and the court promptly sentenced him to the penitentiary forlife. How nicely #fmstice works when there is no money orinfluence in the wa Tue disreputable trade-dollar is now being melted into bricks by the United States assay office. It will then be con- verted into a “buzzard” dollar of less intrinsic value, but with greater pur- chasing power. Such is the wonderful skill of tite modern statesmun acting as a financier. THE republicans apparently made a decided gain in Maryland, but it is sbsurd to cite this as holding out any @romise for next year. The revolting democrats who voted with the repub- licans this year will nearly all get back inte the party lines when the presiden- ‘zd election calls for them, regardless of whether their reform policy is thereby advenced or retarded. — THE Denver papers are urging the es- tablishment of large woolen mills and furniture manufactories. The plan is to issue stock in small shares to be taken by the peoplo of the city, Such eoncerns established on such an unnat- sural basis would only bring financial @isaster. If thereis a sufficient demand for the product and if woolen goods and furniture can be manufactured as cheap #4 it can be bought from other points, these concerns will spring up without urging. GEORGE FRANCIsTRAIN is on his way back to his bench and to silence. The brilliant epigrammatist was almost cured of his misanthropy by a week's so- journ in Omaha. His fate overtook him, however, at Chicago, and he is gone again to the hirds and the chil- dren of Madison square. His visit to this eity will live in his memory as a bright and sunny spot inhis forlorn ca- reer. Here he had nothing to fear. He said what ho pleased. He did what he pleased. The good people in the @ity listened to him and were kind to Sim, THE decisiol supreme court that fully sustains the position of Attor- ney General Leese with regard to the power conferred by the new railvoad ‘commissioner law upon the state board of trausportation is of the utmost im- portauce to the people of thisstate. But the intense interest manifested at this time in the Chicago anarchists’ execn- tions detraots popular attention from all other subjects. Our’ views us to th) eflect of the supreme court decision is therefore reserved until excitement about the anarchists has subsided. We cannot refrain, however, {rom cougrat- ulating the aitoruey gencral' upon his suceass In behalf of the peaple The Washington correspondents eon- cur in eaying that Mr. Cleveland was exceedingly pleased with the result of e election in New York. 8o was Dan Lamont, and so indeed were all the members of the administration. It s easy to understand that it was a very great relief to them, for the situation before the election had anything but a promising appearance. This it was that brought Mr. Cleveland to the rescuo with his hearty approval of everybody on the democratic ticket and his wish for the success of the entire crowd. Of course the friends of the president claim that it was he who saved the day, and unquestionably they have good grounds for the claim. It would certainly be unjust to deny to Governor Hill a measure of commendation for his ¢ fforts, but the friends of Mr. Cleveland will give the governor just as little credit as possible. They now feel secure, and they will have no divided honors. New York will send to the national democratic convention a full Cleveland delegation, with not & man in it who will not be for the president first, last and all the time. If there has ever been any question as to whether Mr. Cleveland would secure a nomination it need be entertained no longer. It is settled beyond any contingency if he live until the convention is held. But does the result of thelate election in New York remove all doubt asto whether Mr. Cleveland can carry that state next year? If so his re-clection must also be regarded as a foregone conclusion. It does not appear to bo necessary, however, to make this con- cession. The victory of the democracy in that state last Tuesday undoubtedly gives the party an advantage, yet there are several reasons why this advantage may be lost before next November. The course of the representatives of the party in congress will have an influence, and, from present indications, they do not seem likely to nccomplish anything that will commend the party to the fur- ther support of that class of people who want relief from oppressive taxation. It is also a question whether the admin- istration can hold its independent sup- porters. There arc some signs of a dis- position among this class to revolt asa The President Gratified. | rebuke to the president for his interference in the New York ana Massachusetts campaigns. This re- markable conduct of Mr. Cleveland has greatly lessened the infatuation of many of the independents, since it has shown them that the lofty appearance of unsclfishness assumod by the president was purely an affectation, as insincere as his professions of devotion to civil service reform have been shown to be whenever adherence to such professions might work any injury to the party. Nevertheless Mr. Cleveland will be the candidate of his party next year, and it would be idle to deny that he will be a strong candidate. With the knowl- edge of whom it must fight the repub- lican party can have no excuse for fail- ing to select for its standard bearer its strongest and most available lénder. Duped Directors. The story of the suspension of the Fifth National bank of St. Louis dis- closes the fact invariably developed by such occurrences, that the directors of the institution were ignorant of its af- fairs and allowed themselves to be com- pletely duped by the president and cashier. There was, of course, the most unquestioning confidence in these of- ficials, and they were allowed to conduct the business in their own way, with rarely an inquiry as to how they were doing it, and no such thing as an inves- tigation ever suggested. Being thus se- cure in the confidence of the directors, and having every reason to feel safe against any close or searching examina- tion of the bank affaivs, the president and cashier went into all sorts of speculations, loaned money freely where they were interested, and getting in deeper and more deeply all the time at last brought the bank to ruin. The government examiner found that the institution had been insolvent for four years, and he discovered a condition of rottenness that surpassed all his previ- ous experience in the examination of crooked banks. The directors of the bank are practi- cal business men of long experience, but they seem to have shown ouly the merest perfunctory interest in this branch of their investments. If they alone suffered their neglect to perform their duties it would be of little conse- quence, but 1t has brought loss to many others who hiad every reason to suppose that these men were giving the bank such supervision as it was their duty to give, and thus guarding the interests of depositors and others having dealings with the bank. Their omission to perform what was re- quired by them by virtue of their posi- tion was therefore simply criminal, although the law may not so regard it. The directors of the Fidelity bank of Cincinnati were also orant of what Harper and the cashier were doing with the funds of the bauk, and were duped just as the dircctors of th t. Louis bank have been, It is the same story in every case of a national bank failure. The Cincinnati rascals are in prison, and undoubtedly those at St. Louis will have a similar fate. It would be well if the directors who have neglected their their duty were amenable to a like pun- ishment, the justice of which no one would question. There has been a number of national bank failures within the past few months and the developments in every case have been very similar. Confidence in the managing officials was so great that they were permitted to run the affairs of the institutions as they saw proper, without check, vestriction or sense of responsibility to any one. Such liberty of action and freedom from control of- fers a temptation to most men which is very apt to become irresistible. At all events the fall of many men who by a long earcer of integrity and usefulness have won eonfidence proves that it is dangerous 10 relax a regularsupervision over those who bave the handling and the disposal of the money of others. Bank directors should direct. That is their function, and that is what the public doing business with a bank expects of them. In order to do this wisely they must keep well informed ro- 12, 1887, gnrding the affairs of the bank to the minutest detail. A man whose sense of duty is not stronger than his confidenca in anybody is not fitted to be a bank director. A REPUBLICAN senator from New Jersey, well that is an occasion for Thanksgiving. Other Lands Than Ours, Political affairs in England have de- veloped no new features during the past week, and do not appear likely to until the reassembling of parliament. Mean- while the government continues to en- force its policy in Ireland. though it would seem less aggressive, than for- merly., Just now a matter which is commanding the very earnest attention of the government is the demand of the unemployed thousands of London, who continue toclamor with increasing vigor for relief. At the recent lord mayor’s banquet Lord Salisbury made this sub- ject the main feature of his speech, thereby conspicuously showing the great importance he attached to it. The situation s undoubt- edly serious, and it is reported that London is profoundly concerned as to what may result if means are not found to satisfy the appeals of the un- employed. The London News says of the destitution among the laboring population that it is simply heart-rend- ing to investigate. Another authority says that the distress is very real and is growing in volume every day. Thero are from 100,000 to 120,000 people out of work in London, while foreign workmen are pouring in by every steamer. No fewer than 25 per cent of the board schoolchildren go to school every morn- ing without breakfast. Street benches, railway arches, bridges and the grass in the parks receive the slecping forms of thou- sands of poor wretches every night. ~Pawnshops are filling and housecs being emptied in many parts of London, especially in the east and south. And the deserted rural districts are pouring in their streams of unemployed human- ity almost every day. London is be- coming the most fearful problem which any statesman or social reformer has over had to face. And no one seems to know very well what to do. These un- fortunate people are being driven to oxasperation by the conduct of the au- thorities in suppressing their meetings and debarring them from such oppor- tunities to make known their condition and their wants. Under such circum- stances they are easily operated upon by those who counsel violence, and it the harsh measures of the authorities are continued there is every reason to oxpect & very serious state of affairs in London before the winter is passed. » - Tho attention of Lurope is centered upon San Remo, where the crown prince of Germany, attended by several disa- greeing doctors, is receiving treatment for the malady which is nol very gen- erally believed to be incurable. There appears to be no longer a reasonable ground of doubt that the growth in the prince’s throat is a cancer, and there- fore that it is only a question of a littlo time when it will have completed its deadly work. With this fact admitted and the aged emveror in feeble health, all FEurope feels that it cannot be a matter far in the future when Prince William, the eldest son of the crown prince, will become the em- peror of Germany. What might follow this change is perhaps the most inter- esting question of the day in Europe. The character of the young prince war- rants the inference that the attitude of Germany would not continue as peace- ful as it bas been, and doubtless his accession would be the signal for a gen- cral renewal of military preparations. It is bardly to be suppesed, however, that he would at once reject the ex- ample of his grandfather, or that he would fail to heed the counsel of those who have the ear and the confidence of the veteran emperor, so that it is not wholly improbable that the prince, clathed with imperial power, might establish more firmly the peace of BEurope. That, however, is not the view that prevails regarding the prob- able effect of his accession. . ' Recent utterances of Count Kalnoky, the Austrian premier, regarding the policy to be pursued with reference to Bulgaria, have caused a good deal of irritation at St. Petersburg. While the remarks of the count were concilia- tory with regard to Russia, and he ad- vised patience in dealing with the troublesome question, he made very plain his faith in the alliance of Austria, Germany and Italy as a safeguard against any coercive measures on the part of Russia. In this un- doubtedly consisted the offenses to Russian feelings, which, quite natur- ally, have been more than usually sen- sitive since the alliance was consum- mated. That arrangement appears to have grown in favor with the parties to it, and to be also regarded by England in a most friendly way. Could the counsel of some Kuropean statesmen 1 Prince Ferdinand would be rec- d at once, but the more conserva- tive viow, as entertained by Kalnoky, is that the time i8 not yet come for that action. It is a probable event, however, of the not far future. Meanwhile Fer- dinand continues to rule and apparently to grow in the favor of the people, for whose welfare he has shown an intelii- gent and generous concern. . e France is about tore-arm her military forces with small bore rifles, using im- proved powder that makes the smaller rifles as effective in vange as the larger bores. The small bores enable the sol- diers to carry more rounds of ammuni- tion and the weapons themsclves are really more effective in battle, wound- ing mare men than they kill. A wounded soldier is not only disabled from further fighting, but very often takes with him from the ficld one or two comrades who would remain in action if their friend was killed, not wounded. Besides that, wounded men cumber the trains of an army, and cripple. it as a moving force. The small bores, if they have sufficient range and penetration, and donot choke up, will be better weapons than the cumbrons and more deadly guns heteto- pressed has Ge cessity of using the smaller bores, now that it is pr: milltary weapor, that, notwithstanding the fact that the German forces wore armed with new repoaters last spring, these are to be rejected in favor of new arms of about 82-calibre. recent date military arms have usunlly been from 44 to 50-calibre, the German gun to be thrown out being a 44. o i THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER fore carrléd by tho infantry. So fm- any been with the ne- icablo to use them for Down to . The proposed conference of European powers regarding Morocco will attract attention to a region not without inter- est, but of which there is not much accurate information. oven of its population aud its cultivable area are contradictory, but it certainly has a fair extent of fertile plains, while the mountains that cover so much of its surfaco are thought to be rich with mineral products and perhaps in precious metals. country are very few, those which are prosccuted at all are famous the world over. despotism founded on plunder, yet with such' independence tolerated in many tribes as to make the fear of anarchy at tho death of the present sultan, who has now reigned fourteen means groundless, ago he was in conflict tribes holding one of ports. mercial interest in Morocco, as meas- ured by the value of her exports and imports, than all other powers combined, and while France comes next, and even surpasses England a little in her ton- nage entering Morocco's ports, Spain in many ways scems to be the power to which a protectorate would naturally be intrusted. She alone would excite no jeal- ousy among the other Buropean nations, and she already is said to have a good understanding with France on this sub- ject. her interposition to that of France or England. strategio position at Ceuta, opposite Gibraltar, and about seventeen miles from it, and a quarter of a century ago she obtained other territory in asuccess- The statistics Although the industries of the The government has long been a years, by no Only a short time with coast his leading ‘While England has more com- Italy and Germany would prefer She already holds a strong ful war against tho sultan. It is not im- probable, therefore, that if the interna- tional conference should find interven- tion in Mawocco expedient, Spain, on giving suitable guarantees, would be intrusted with the duty of making it. * ' The negotiations for a treaty of com- merce between Germany and Austria have been checked by the intention of Austria to ¢xtend her bounty system on sugar and brandy exports. The Berlin government declards that the Austrian proposals tend towards a competition dangerous for Germany in the sugarand brandy markets of the world. At the outset of the negotiations, the German government intended that the increased duty on cereal imports should balance the Austrian increase of export boun- tics. This idea has been abandoned. Germany is now disinclined to concedo to Austria a favoredsnation treaty. Py The programme of the ceremonies attending the celebration of the pope’s jubilee, just made public, shows that on December 81 tho pope will receive the members of the international commit- tee, who will present him with a gift of 1,000,000 lire; January 1 the pope will celebrate mass in St. Peter’s; January 2 he will hold a public reception at the church of San Lorenzo; on the 4th and 5th he will receive foreign deputations, on the 6th he will open the exhibition of the gifis sent to him, and on the 15th he will canonize ten saints. * s The emperor of China announces that his marriage ceremony, which was fast approaching, must be postponed because of his poverty., Things are different in this country. Aspiring bridegrooms of the present day are usually particularly anxious to hasten the marriage cere- mony for the verysame reason. But then an American lady might casily be found who would be willing toexchange a few tons of gold for the title of em- press of China. PROMINENT PERSONS. Carl Speckles, the sugar king, is worth over 830,000,000, Miss Murfree, the novelist, will spend the winter in Boston. Prof. Proctor, the astronomer, is star- gazing under Floridian skies, Walter Besant only devotes three or four hours a day to turning out copy. Colonel Lamont is very fond of horse-rac- ing, and he has been a daily attendant at the 1vy City course. Russell Sturgiss, formerly a partner in the firm of Baring Bros., bankers, is dead in London. He left a fortune of £2,000,000, Senator Jones of Nevada denies that he has had to sell 50,000 shares of mining stock to pay his debts, He doesn't owe anybody a cent. The khedive of Egypt is a strict monog- amist. He lives with his one wife and chil- dren at his palace in Ismalia, near the Nile bridge. John Wanamaker, the Philadelphia mer- chant, carries the heaviest life insurance of anyone in America. His policies aggregate §600,000. Carter H. Harrison, ex-mayor of Chicago, who is now in Japanyis writing syndicate letters to American Bewspapers deseribing Lis travels. L | Before Mmume, Patti#wpuld consent to take & recent voyago the 0wngrs of a channel line of steamers had to ropaper and paint her stateroom. ! Now that Sir Charles Dilke has been called to London, a strong effort is being made to restore him to his formér’prominent position in politics. Al Chief Justice Waite i§ the only one of the supreme sourt justices who has not availed himsclf of the act of congress giving him a private secretary. It is said that Count Mitkiewiczhas already made 1,000,000 out of his Chinese negotia- tions, aud will not be ruined if the conces- sions are recalled. ¥\ Marion Crawford, the novelist, who has taken up his permanent residence ina villa overlooking the bay of Naples, devotes his leisure to vachting and fishing. Rev. Charles A Berry, who is to succeed Mr. Beecher as pastor of Plymouth chur. Brooklyn, is only thirty-five years of ag He took Lis first charge at tle age of twenty- two. General M. M. Trumbull, author of the pamphlet that Mrs. Parsohs is selling in Chicago, was collector of internal revenue in Towa a fow yoars ago, but ¢o sign on account of a scandal. Senator aud Mrs. Stanford will not leave California for Washington until after Thanksgiving day. Itis sald that the sena- tor and his wife will entertain more fre- quently this season than heretorora. John I Blair, the richest man in New Jersey, owns thres railroads in Kansas, two in Missouri and one in Iowa. Although soventy-four years old and wortn a dozen millions, ho is still planning new money- getting projects, —— Too Often True. Philadelphia Record. It 1s too often the caso that when corpora- tions engage consel they buy the lawye the man with the same fee. iR A Resort for Politicians. Puck., “Tommy,” said the teackier, “can you tell me what obscurity isi" “Yes'm," replicd Tommy, “it's a place where a good many people go after *lection,” R r-Lind i Sugar Operations Resumed. St Paul Globe, The strike on the sugar plantations in Louisiana is over. The sugar makers have gone back to work and the shovelers are making the sand fly once more. e Peorla Transeript. Conversant With the Fish Question. The Canadian papers are calling Mr. Cham- berlaina “Jonab.” Well, Jonah perhaps made a more extensive investization of the inside of the question than any other man thut ever lived. P An Old Chestnut. Teras Siftings, ‘When a man comes out in a crowd and says he will not run for ofiice, he reminds one very much of that other man who pinned a tem- perance badge on his coat o that some one ‘would ask him to drink, under the mistaken impression that he would refuse. o b Stanley Waterloo in Chicago Tribune. Now the gorgeous Indian summer, Golden, mellow Indian summer, rowning glory of the season, Throws her filiny, hazy mantld Over all the dreamy landscape; Tempts the pent-up stifled burghor From his prison-house to wander, Out through trackless depths of forest With its leafy, rustling carpet, Out o’er wide and shimm'ring prairie Where the very ai laden ‘With the restful sigh of Nature In her dolce far niente. Little know ye, luckless dwellers In the arid regions eastward, Of the %lury of the autumn In the Mississippi valley— How its fragrance it impartoth In a measure that ye know not To her wealth of vegetation. See the ripe but humble pumpkin, How 1t yieldeth up its treasure In a creawmy, luscious richness Such as nowhere in New England Ever tempts the sated palate Of the angular, dyspeptic, Lean and hungry Oriental Doomed to wander all life's journey On the shores of the Atlantic. Come ye westward, ye unhapp, Mournful, sour, restiess pilg Come and see our Indian summer, Aud then die if you feel liko it. —_—— e BACK FROM CHICAGO. Return of George P. Bemis from There Last Night. A photograph of Mr. George P. Bemis, of this city, former private secretary and inter- preter of Citizen George Francis Train, adorns the walls of the Western Newsman in Chicago, from which city Mr. Bemis arrived last night. On Monday last Mr. Bemis left for Chicago in obedience to a dis- patch from Mr. Train, and he was tracked by three detectives from the depot on his arri- val there to the Palmer house. Mr. Bemis had an exciting and novel experience. He went to Wankegan, and was a witness to tho ill-temper of the populance at the mayor ordering all the halls of that town closed against Mr, Train, particulars of which were tolegraphed to and published in the Bem. Mr, Bemis also met and saw Otto Cottoman, the individual uncarthed by Mr. Train who claims to have cleaned out Lingg's cell the Saturday night previous to the finding of the bombs in the departed anarchist's quarters on Sunday. Cottoman was a prisoner at the 1ail, and is positive in his assertions that out- side of a few newspapers there was nothlgg in the cell. Mr. Train had intend to take Cottoman to Springfield to make a statement before Governor Oglesby, but on Wednestay ho mysteriously disappeared, and it is inferred that ho was kidnapped by detectives. Nina Van Zandt and Mrs. Parsons were among those with ‘whom Bemis formed an acquaintance. He describes Mrs. Parsons as a woman with a creole complexion, and the mother of two bright children, who are beautiful and with skin as white as wax. Nina Van Zandt is de- scribed as a woman of remarkable will power, and it is her opinion and those of the friends of the anarchists that Lingg never died of his own volition, but was assassinated. The night before his suicide tallow candles were substituted for coal oil lamps,and Nina says that the deadly cap that caused Lingg’s death was moulded with the candle. She also ex- pressed a fear that if the men were not hanged they would meet the fate of Lingg. Mr. Train departed from Chicago for New York on Thursday for his bench and the sparrows in Madison Square garden, P DANCING PARTIES. Two Enjoyable Events iix Omaha Last. Night. The Home Circle club, one of the oldest organizations in the city, gave the first party of the scason last evening at Masonio hall. About forty couple were present and all thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The com- mittee on arrangements and floor managers were: F. W. Pickens, H. A. Copley, J. H. Conrad, C. M. Champlin, W. H. Latey, W. H. Nelson, B. F. Redman, L. §. Mole, J. W. Gannon, G. W. Builey, THE SWITCHMEN, The second annual ball of Omahalodge No. 11, of the Switchmen’s Mutual Aid associa- tion was held last evening at Exposition hall, and was in every sense a grand affair. Over couples were present, among them fifty s from Council Bluffs, Twenty-eight ¢ danced, and the ball continued 3:30 a. m, An elegant supper with an elaborate bill of fare was served in the balcony, James L. ¥ f Chicago, the grand master o S0 days spe v to atter honored with moni He w nd this being made ter of cere S assisted by John T, Hurley, mastor of the Council Biuffs lodge. The committee on arrangements, whose efforts made the affair such a brilliant suce w J. P, Mulverhill, D. W. Marshall, D. M. Fer- guson, William I Hetzler, Thomas Me- Tigue, William Altwein, G. M. Palm and B. 1. Miller. The hall was handsomely dec- orated with flags kindly loaned by Max Meyer. ‘The music for the occasion was fur- nished by Julius Meyers' ore tra, consist- ing of sixtecn pieces. The ball was one of the largest social gatherings of the scason. ~ RANKINS, SHE'S AFTER YOU.™ The Mission of a Young Woman at the Court House, A comely young woman fumed and flew about the county building yesterday after- noon in a way that attracte general atten- tion, and convinced all that she was bent on business. First, she flew into the county court, and advanced to the desk occupied by the good-looking and accommodating clerk of Judge McCulloch. , Shesaid her name was Rankins, & name she became posscssor of at the shrine of Hymen two years ago in lowa, The initials of Ranking, the man whom she warried, is R. E., and by upation he is a cook. Some months ago there was a ruction in the Rankin fireside, and Mr. Rankin put an end to the turmoil by making his escape. ‘Whither he drifted at the time no oue kuew, but it was later on discovered that he had in- vaded Chicago. When that wicked city was scoured by the vigilant emissaries of Mrs. Rankins it was discovered that bher habby mpellad to re- l had made his eacape to Omiaha, and thither sho pursued him. A search revealed the fact what ho was living with another woman, who e aaimned was his wife. When approached and upbraisd for his unmanly conduct ho cruelly turned the woman aside, said that he had socured a divorce from har and assumed matrimonial relations with the female who shured his bed and board. This aroused the ire of Mrs. Rankins No. 1, and her visit to the county court was to learn if tho vows had been legally eolemnized. No rocord of it was visible on the dockets, and shic next mounted the stairs to the Mico of the district court to consult the divorca rec- ords. No minute of such a dissolution in which Mr. Rankins was Interested was ap- parent for the past two yoars, and gleefully and with firo in her ‘eyes' Mrs. Raukins skipped out swearing all kinds of vengeance. AMUSEMENTS. Mattie Vickers, the winsome little sou- brette, opened at the Grand last night to a large and appreciative audience, the bill “Jacquine,” on the whole presented by the strongest support Miss Vickers has ever had —~Charles 8. Rogers, George W. Pike, Tay- lor Carroll, Dollie Thornton and Emma Lovie, in thelr respective parts deserving special mention. Tho mporsonations of Aimie and Modjeska and the wonderful Ger- man specialities, as well as the artistio danc- ing that alone belong to this captivating little actress, are always applauded ta, the echo, and Charles Rogers ©ll, he is excruclating and original, too, in cvery feature, graphs. J. B. Foley 1go. is ut the Pax- ton. C. F. Loundon, of Chi city. ‘W. E. Peebles, Pender, Neb., isinthe city. C. T. Brown, of Liuncoln, is at the Paxton. H.J. Wyman, of Hastings, is at the Paxton. J. W. Aiken, of Des Moines, is at the Paxton. Thomas Gamble, of Kaunsas City, is at the Paxton. J. H. Pratt, of Palmer Hill, Neb., is in the city. M. Woodward, Des Moines, Ta., is at the Millard. Frank M. Northrup, Wayne, Ncb., is at the Millard. Mrs. F. B. Kelley, of Sharon, Pa., is at the Millard. CE. G. Smith and wife, of Passadina, Cal., ace at the Paxton. A. W. Kinsman,of San Francisco, is rogistered at the Paxton. L. C. Batton, of Lynchburg, Va.,is registered at the Paxton. C. C. Munson and wife, of Lincoln, were in the city yesterday. Mrs. Holcomb and daughter, of Port- land, Ore., are at the Millard. C. H. Pratt and wife, of the Abbott Opera company, are at the Paxton. Goorge M. Kendall, of Manchester, N. H.,is one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Paxton. Andrew Rosewater and wife loft last evening for Boston, Mass., for a brief visit. Eugene Noville, son of Judge Neville, of this city, was married yesterday to Miss Belle Malone, of Chester, I1l. Among the late arrivals at the Pax- ton are P. J. Hale, of Chicago, Luther Hyde, of New York, and H. L. Miller, of Peoria, 111, J Kennedy, for many years past a con- ductor on the Kansas City, St. Joe & Council Bluffs road between St. ph and Kansas City, is in the city relatives. is in tho Henry Going to Marry. Yesterday Henry Mielh, aged twenty-five years, of Omaha, was granted a liconse by Judge McCulloch to marry Miss Katie Potz, aged twenty years, also of Omalia. lisgvess O. P. Deuel Dying. C. P. Deuel, the father of Harry D. Deuel, the well known and popular Burlington agent, is dying of senility at the home of his son at 1906 Dodge street. —_— MARRIED., SESEMANN—November 10 at his residence, 8746 Hamilton street, Ernst Karl Sese- mann, aged 38 years and six months. Funeral notice hereafter. e Some Curious Fires. Fire and Water: Cotton in bales has always been supposed to be free from spon{ancous combustion until lately, when a case was discovered in a store- house in northern New Jersey. A num- ber of bales of sea island cotton stored there were found to be on fire,and when it was extinguished in one spot it would break out in another. A careful ex- amination of the cotton and itscondition showed that it was roller-gin cotton— that is, cotton which had not been run through a gang of eaws, dter the mothod of Eli Whitney, but the lint had been drawn away from the seeds by a pair of rolls, one large and one small, set at just the distance to keep the seeds from passing through, while the fiber passes on and goes into a bag. It was found in this lot of cotton that some of the seeds had passed into the rolls and been cracked, which caused the oil to exude, saturating the fiber, which was thus, by the time it arrived in the north, in the proper condition for spontaneous combustion. Careful and extensive inquiry among northern mills failed to reveal any other such case, and therefore it can hardly be taken as a strong objection against the use of roller-gins in general. Thoe ordinary roller-gin is practieally a prehistoric tool, as it has been in use since cotton was known in ancient India. It is not nearly so fast as the ordinary smv-gin’ but it is said to do its work something better and with the least possible injury to the fiber, and to be therefore pre- ferred for Sea island cotton, which 1s of long fiber, and almost double the value of the ordinary grades. Another curious fire was that which oceurred in a knife factory in Massa- chusetts, In the middle of a room a small milling machine was working on hard-wood handles of knives. The dust or small fragments of the:wood which were ground off were drawn up through a metal tube about one foot in diameter by & blower in the room above, and then forced through a wooden pipe out into the air. A spark from an emery wheel fifteen feet away from the milling machine struck a window twenty feet away, and glancing back entered the mouth of the metal tube and set the hardwood dust on fire, a streamof which twenty feet in length poured out of the wooden pipe into theair. The alarm was given by the people outside, the workmen in the room being eutirely unaware of any fire. Another peculiar instance was a fire started by some cotton waste which an engineer in cleaning up a mill put in front of a boiler where it would be con- venient for the firemen to burn in the morning. During the night the waste got on fire from spontaneous combustion and set fire to the kimdlings and suc- ceeded in raising sufficient steam to cause the boiler to blow off, very thor- oughly scaring the watehman, who nut- lly thought the boiler, which he w had been left without a fire, was going to explode, Still another singular case was that of a fire cavsed in a picker-room of & jul will by a mun driving a nail in the c ing, ~The nail glanced off and was struck by the rul.mly moving beaters, and the sparks which were caused there: by led to a serious blaze, CONFIDENCE ~ OPERATIVES ——— The Methods Confidence Men Use. to Ensnare the Unwary. —— How the Unsuspecting Farmes {a Tar ken In—~Good Soltd Bankers Often Aught—The Experionce of Jno Swanburg, of Omaha, —— Dag agter day the daily papcrs chroniclo the fact that some unsuspecting farmer hos again been swindled by the smooth and sk coule dence man. Soveral days ago we published an at of & ministeral looking chap with re- oudations, prosumably forged,” from the gustor of the Proshytorian churen, of Madison, Neb. Te was takon {n by the minster to whoni the Tetter of introduction was addressed and went 8o far as to occupy his pulpit for him When bie preached a magnificent sormon and tmprassed overy one with his learning and knuvllldr-~ of sacred history. managed t In a few days he 0 swindle the principal bank of the clty out of £1,500, using s forged draft for 86,000 to ilccomplish his onds. Day after dny the same story 1s repeatod, uud it seeins that_people will Bover learh. John Swanburg, of SUVCE LY, Jown. a young man employed £ nseist on 418 farm by Mr. J. L. McNuy, of that place, eame to Omalw sonio time ago expocting to bo kwine dled, but had a very agrecable disnppointment, ho say: “For a long time 1 huve boen aufforing with catarrh, hoad was continually aching Twould have almost unbearable paing in m head: my throat wis sore, | could scarcol swallow.” 1 would hawk and «pit, had a _cod- stant tickling in the back of my thioat. 1felt y ko whout m dutfes on the farm_ I read the advertisement of brs. Mctoy und Henry, and concluded to make a eall on them, hut with very little hope 1 can assure you, for T had taken an_enormous amount of patent medicines, nod was alout disconraged, hut 1 was very ngreeably disaj pointed, for T had not been "under thelr troa ment but & week or two until 1 was foeling very much botter, and today Tam feeling bothay than 1 have for a long time." MR, JONIN SWANBURG, resides with Mr. J. L. McNay, at Silver City, Jowa, nnd will corroborate the above to anyone Who will address or call on him, Tho following statement rogarding Drs. Mo- Goy and Henry iy made upou good autharitys Stuce theas. emnent physiciana have been i the wwest, they have treated and cured over sz thouss and eases of catarrh and_chronie throat and lung troublea, and of ticss cases 40 per, cent liad beens declared and pronounced tncurable." CATARRH DESCRIBED. The Symptoms Attending that Discase Which Lieads to Consumption. When catarrh has _existod in the head and the upper part of the throat for any length of time —the putient living in & district where people are subject to catairhal affection—and the dis- ©cnse has been left uncured, the catarrh inve ably, sometimes slowly, extends down the wind- Ppipe and into the bronchial tubes, which tubes convey the air into the differcnt parts of the lungs. e tubes. bocome affocted from tho swelling and the mucous arising from catarrh, and, fn some Instancos, bocomo plugged up, sa that the air cannot get'in as freely aa it shoiild, Shortness of breath follows, and the patient Dreathes with labor and difliculty, In efther caso there is asound of cracklt and wheeaing inside the chost. At this stago of the disease the breathing is usually more rapid than when in health, The patienf has also hot hes over his body. 16 pain which nccompanies this condition ta of a dull character, felt in the chest, behind tho ‘breast bono or under the shoulder blado, Th ain may come and go—lnsta fow days ang hen be absent for several othors, The cough that oceurs in the first_stages of bronchial cae tarrh 1s_dry, comes on at {ntervals, hacking {n character, and {8 usually most troublesome in the morning on risiny, or oing to bed at night and it may Do in the first evidence of the disoase extending into the lungs. Bometimes there are fits of coughing inducedq by the tough mucus 8o violent us ' to cause von ifing, Later on the mucus that {8 raised found o contain small particles of yellow mat- {er, which indicates that the smal tubes tn thp lunigs ure now affected. With this there are o ten streaks of blood mixed with the mucus, ? some cases the patient becomes very palo, tever, and expectorates before any cough enrs, P Some cases small masses of cheesy mul stance are spit up, which, wheh pressed betwee the fingers, emit & bad odor. In other cases pu ticles of & liard, halky naturo are spit up. g raising of clegsy or chalky lumps Indicaies soe rlous mischief at work in the lungs. In some cases catarrh will extend into the lungs in & fow weeks; in other cases it may bé months, and even years, before the disensoat. tacks the lungs I!llificn tly to cause serious ine terference with the general health. When the disease has developed to such a point tho pa. tient 18 sald to have catarrhal consumption. With bronelial catarrh there {8 more or lesy fover which differs with the difforent parts of the day—slight_in the morning, higher ih the afternoon and evening. SNEEZING CATARRH. What It Means, How It Acts, and What It Is. You sneczs when you get up fn the morning you try to sneeze your noso off every time you Jre i posed 0 tho st drut b of wir. You liwve & Tulhiess over the front of the forehond, wnd tho nose feels us If there was & plug in each nos- tril, Which you cannot dislodge. You blow your Tose il yonur ears cracke bt 1t dont do”any Fo0d, and tho only result 1s that you succesd | fetting up & very red nose, and you 80 irritate 6 L membrane of Lhit orisan that you are UnAblo to Droatho through it ut ll: This 14 core Tect and not overarawn pictire of an_neuto at Tack of catarrh, or Budezing CAtArrh,” as it18 fled, Cllow, what does this condition indicate? Firsy a cold that. causes mucus 1o be poured out B0l it R Thlimer then thous discksed Blands Wre attacked by swirms of little Bl catirrh gorm-—that float i tho air i & lo» callty whro tho Gisene 15 provalont, ‘Theso ua: {iltulne, in thotr offorts (o find & lodiment {ituta tho. ensitive membrane liniug of th oro and itiire undertukes to, rid Lerselt of \ Dy producing i fit of snoezing. Y B mosa Boconies illed with thickened diseas froduction of air nto the luuks Ihand the person so- tffacted hrongh the mouth, and throut becomes parched produced, und the catarrhal Rocess to the thront d lungs, © DOCTOR J, CRESAP M'COY, Late of Bellevue Hospital, N, Y., A mucus the natural channels for the in- in intorfered must_breathe h means the dry, snoring s Seaso Galus r AND DOCTOR COLUMBUS HENRY Have Offices 310-311 RAMGE BUILDING, Corner 1Gth and Harney Streets, Omaha, Nebraska. Where all curable cases are treated with suc- ceds, Medical diseases treatod skillfully, Con- sumption, Bright's Discase, Dyspepsia, Rhen- matism, and &l NExvous Diskases. Al dis- okses DECULIAY o the sexes b bpeclslty, CATARLY Cunep- CONSULTATION by mailor at office, 81, Ottice Hours -0 to 1. 10 £lo4p.m; Tto8p. m. Bunday include Correspohaen ‘alves prompt attention, Many diseases are treated succesatully by Dr. MeCoy through tho pils, und Jt 18 thus poystly for tiose unable Lo make & journgy to ol Buccossful hospital treatmeit at their homed, No letters answerod unloss accompanied by 46 in stamps. : ‘Address all lettors to Drs. McCoy & Henry, Rooms 10, end vl Ramge Bulldidg, um Nebraska, A e