Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 18, 1887, Page 4

e < 4 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED l"—"—l:?—l-'tf MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Datly (Morning Bdition) includiug Sunduy kg, One ¥ oar 10 0 For Rix Months i v 50 For Three Montlic R (he Omaha 8unday Bee, matied (o any ad- dres, One Year.. OMANA OFFICE, NG, 011 AND U1 FARNAM STikR NEW YORK OFFICE, ROOM 85, TRIBUSE BUtLD- No. 6ls Four ) ING. WARHINGTON TERNTH STREET. CORT A1l communications relating editorinl_matter should be addre Evrtor or 1ie i BUSINESS LETTERS: All husiness letters and remittances shonld ha addressed to THe BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAnA. Draft and postoflico orders to e miade payal prder of the commpat The Bee Publishing Company, Propritors E. ROSEWATER, EpitoR. OFFICE, news and ed 1o the THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of culation. Btateof Nebraskn, | o County of Douglhs, | Geo. 11, Tzshuck, secretary_of The Tieo Pub- lishing company, does eclemniy swenathiat the the Daily Bee for the week 11,1587, was as follow G, B, TzAcnvoR, gworn to and ubseribed in 1 this 12th day of November, A, D, 18 N 1L, (QPAL) Notary Publie Etato County Geo, B Tzschy of Nebrasga, { of Douglas, (%8 heing first duly n, de- oses wnd says thit he 15 Secretary of The Tiea Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation for the 3 monuth of 2 eEwom to and subscril IAM\ of October, A, D, 18%] N, P. 1T, IA L) Nofdry Prbiic Mg, O’BRIEN comfortably in Dublin jal, while the home rule policy i andly on. Les g Arrin Fool's day is a long ways ahead, yet the spurious bomb is found in almost every well regulated city. WE heartily concur w view that the fir tonded and the enforced. th the Horald's limit should be ex- mit laws rigidly GENERAL SPARKS declares that in at- tompting to do his duty he has lost $10.000. Here isa suggestive pointer for his su Tie latest es from Berlin show that news gatherers are having a worse time with the crown prince’s cancer than anyhody else HuMBOLD, the great Buchu man, has been sent to an inebrinte asylum. Had he drank his own exhilerating elixir, be would never huve come to this. AN antique contemporary has just discovered who were elected com- missioners in this county. Suffice it to sny that Honest George was elected—to stay at home Tue Chicago pres pected, in- sists that the national conventions of the two great parties be held in the hog center. The grunt in this instance is unmistakable. —_— THE young men’s state republican club with Blaine antecedents promises to be more of a financial boom to stock holders than a political boom for plumed knight Tae Canadians have a new want. Thoy want a portion of Maine as a com- pensation for fishing privileges. This is a kind of annexation that is not popu- lar with Americans. THe city council of Lincoln has had trouble with its police judge, and all not satisfactory with the chief of police in Omaha. This argues that the life of a couhcilman is not altogether desir- able. Tue Crow warriors were subdued without the interference of the United States navy. Considering the condition of our nuvy, this fact shows that peace hath her victories no less renowned than war. A cOUPLE of Mormon elders who have been seeking converts to their faith, have been routed in Alabama. The much married system seems to meet with but Jittle favor among thoroughly civilized people. REPORTS daily dropping into the BER ofice only go to show how comploetely J C. Crawford was snowed under in the Sevonth district. Nebraska voters seem to remember that when a thing is done it is worth doing well is reassuring to hear from the fire chief that his very efficient department is fully equipped for any demands that may bo made upon Omaha bas reason to be proud of its fire depurt- ment, and it should be maintained at the highest point of efficienc Tue Bell Telephone company is ac- cused of putting its feot on the neck of subseribers in the cast. Nothing s prising in this. Ttis the favorite atti- tude of monopolics. What is strange is that the people should so long endure being monopoly ridden. NEW YORK is now turning her atten- tion to Herr Most, with the designed intention of subduing the blatant an- archist, The dismal failure which ) York made in taking care of Sharp is evidence sufl Mr. Most to continue undaunted. S Juke nt to justify unbathed, if not A CHICAGO paper prints acut of a sec- tion of Prince Frederick Willinm's anatomy, showing his open mouth, his interior larynx, esophagus, trac) epiglottis, pharynx, hard and soft palates, and his cancer, which enables anyone to see at aglance that the cer is located in the trachea about ha gree east of the csophagus, and a little pouth of the epiglottis. This looks ex- tremely bud for the crown prince, and the news of his demise may now be fooked for ol uty woment. Lamentable A lamentable amount of ignorance exists among people who are presumed to be well informed about our election laws and the methods by which election frauds and mistakes wmade by election officers can be rectified. At every election there are people who demand thut the vote of such or such a precinet cause some irregularity or blunder was made in canvassing the vote of that particular precinct. Such was the cuse at the late election in this county. Some very prominent politiciansmado themselves ridiculous by asking that the canvassers should throw out certain precincts on account of irregularities, The law is very specific with regard to the powers and duties of county can- vassers. Their functions o simply ministerial, or, in fact, cleri have noright or power to exclude or throw out the returns from any precinct, or to pass upon the legality of the votes cast in any precinct. Their duty is to eanvass the returns as they find them, cast up the totals and certify to the ex- hibit of the total vote cast for each can- didate and upon every proposition. ‘When that is done their duty has been discharged, If any ecandidate feels himself aggrieved or any citizen desires to rectify any fraud committed in the conduct of the election he must seek redress in the courts, or in case it Tects members of the legislature they must make their con beforo that body. The demand at this time for a recount of the ballots on county com- missioner can no more be legally com- plied with than could have been the de- mand that the county board of can- vassers should throw out the vote of certain precinets, he law does not allow a recount ex- cepting by process prescribed for the conduct of contested elections. Before there can be a recount there must be a formal notice of contest, and that must be followed by depositions taken before and the usual mode of recount- lots of precincts in which rgularities or fraud in the count are sed by the complaint to exist. This has boen the law in this state relative to election contests for years, and it is remarkable that politicians of both parties exhibit such ignorance on the subject. Gratified Stockmen. The stockmen of Wyoming are ro- ported to have derived great gratifi tion from thoe controversy between Lamar and Sparks, which has resulted in the retirement of the latter from the general land office. There could hardly be a stronger compliment to the vigi- lance and fidelity with which the ex- comimissioner guarded the public do- main. The gratification of these stock-, men at the rotirement of Mr. Sparks is due wholly to the fact that under the policy he inaugurated and maintained, they lost the privilege so long theirs of taking posscssion of any public land they found convenient to their use, which they now hope to regain. They believe Mr. Lamar has been disposed to deal more liberally with them than did the official who has been driven from his position, and very likely such is the case. The general impress that the sccrotary of tho iuterior would have been more generous to everybody unlawfully occupying the public lands but for the check upon his generosity imposed by the straightforward policy of the commissioner. A number of others besides these stockmen are happy over the retire- ment of Sparks. Every individual and corporation holding a part of the public domain without any right thereto has welcomed the event with cheerful com- pl.ucnc‘,, and this notwithstanding the surance of Mr. Lamar that “Spark’s gnation will involve no deflection or cment from the poliey which Pr dent Cleveland has established with reference to the preservation of our public lands from illegal ap- propriation by corporations and land speculators.” Those peo- ple very well understand that it will be almost impossible to continue that policy exactly in the lines marked out by Sparks, and they know that any de- flcetion from those lines is pretty sure to be in their favor. No man can take up the work laid down by the ex-commis- sioner and go on with it as ho would have doue, and all the probabilitics are that whatever departure is made must be to the loss of the government and the people. : Conceding to the president the sincer- est desire to maintain the reform land policy of Lis administration, we venture to predict that that policy will not bo administered hercafter so entirely to the ion of the p\‘n)\lc as it has been A Partisan Expedient. At the late election in Dakota on the question of division there a major- ity in the affirmative. It was not a large majority, the fact being that far less interest generally was shown in the election than had been expected. But still there was a majority in favor of di- vision, as there had been more than once before. A similar result of an clection in any state would determine the fate of the question on which the votoe was given, without regard to any circumstances which may bave induced a want of interest amomy the voters, The majority vote would be decisive of the will of the people of a state, but it seems convenient to apply a differcnt principle in the case of the people of the territory of Dakota. It is now proposed to hold a ter- rvitorial convention on the 15th of next month *for the purpose of mak- ing an organized effort to present the itory's claims to congress in a di 1, proper and respectful manner. romoters of this scheme profess to ve that in this way an be induced to pass an_enabling act author- ng the holding of a constitutional convention for the whole territory, and t 4s soon as the labors of that cou- vention are ratified by the people of the whole tercitory Dakota will be admitted o stit congress is obviously a demogratic expedi live the pretext on which a ent 1o keep s democentie house of representatives has hervtofore refused legislation for the | marl THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY Ni EMBER 18, 1887, admission of Dakota, and there can be very little doubt of its success. No effort will be spared to make tho projected convention ns imposing a demonstration as possible in favor of the admission of the territory asa whole, ana this will be used to counter- act the demand for division. It is now claimed by the democrats, on the ground of the lack of interest in the lute elec- tion, that tho mass of the people of Da- kota took no stock in the division prop- osition, and if a numerously attended convention is held next month they can urge this view with greater force, and unquestionably they will find all the democrats in congress very willing to see the matter asthey present it. The projected convention is unneces- sary, however, us o means of prevent- ing legislation at the next session of congress for admitting Dakota to state- hood, whetherdivided orasa whole. The democrats can be safely trusted to keep that territory out until after the next presidential election, and they will not find very great difficulty in avoiding any action on stho subject. With the tariff, the surplus, and other questions of vital importance to strugglo with, the domocratic major- ity in the next house of representatives may easily omit the consideration of matters loss urgent and which from a party point of view it will be desirable to pass over. Revise the Building Law. The city building inspector reports nearly $10,000 receipts within ten months, These figures show conelu- sively that the present ordinance needs T on very radically with regard to puilding permits. The object of creat- ing the office of building inspector was not to create an income for the city from the tax levied on people who build new houses, The present ordinance in- flicts a penalty, almost, upon the most enterprising of our citizens and upon non idents who are willing to imvest their capital in erccting costly business blocks in this city, This tax upon en- terprise is a shameful imposition. The sooner it is done away with the better, By taxing the owner of a costly build- ing $1 for every $2,000 invested, for the mere privilege of erecting a block or building, will discourage enterprise, en- courage undervaluation and sham build- ing statistics which make & very dis- credible exhibit for the city. It is safe to assert that this year’s of- fiaal building record is fully 50 per cent below its actual outlay for build- ings constructed. This is damaging to Omaha, and on a par with the stupid policy of the prevailing method of as- sessment, There ave other features of the present building law that neced re- on, and no time should be lost by the city council in formulating a new ordinance which should, by all means, go into effect with the new year. THE people of Omaha are entitled to a better service than they are now receiving from thestreet railway com- pany. If that corporation were not making money it would have some ex- cuse for refusing the increased facili- ties and accommodations which the people ask, but it is well known that the enterprise yields a generous profit and the franchise is a most valuable one. The propositions of the council committee to the company for an ‘m- proved service arc noneof themun- reasonable or impracticable. What is asked here is provided in every city of the country with a population equal to that of Omaha. The refusal of the com- pany to improve its service in the di- rections indicated as desirablo is a mis- take which the corporation may one day regret. Itisnot wise to overtax the popular patience and to persistently disvegard reasonable public demands. The people have rights which a cor- poration is bound to respect. THE letter of the president, accepting tho resignation of ex-Commissioner Sparks, while very complimentary to that gentleman, scems to us to contain an unfortunate admission in saying that the judgment of the secretary on the legal question involved in the contro- versy would haye been relied upon by the president even had he been without, any impression regarding it. If the president intended to imply that he considers Lamar tho better lawyer it was an uncalled-for reflection upon the ability of Mr. Sparks, which may have no better w nt than the estimate of Mr. Cleyeland, whose legal attainments might suffer by comparison with either. The president may have evidence of Mr. Lamar's ability as a lawyer with which the world is not familiar. -— THERE appears to be favorable prom- ise that the sum required to be pledged for paying the expenses of the national republican convention, before the na- tional committee will consider the ap- plication from Omaha for the conven- tion, will be promptly subscribed. The soliciting committees report satisfactory pre and in a business of this sort there is much in & good beginning. It will be useless to present an application to the national committee unless the amount necessury to defray the ex- penses of the convention is pledged. The committee will meet in Washing- ton on the Sth of December, so that there is no time to be wasted. i hog trade of South Omaha is rapidly growing, and for the past few days especially has prese ..mu very marked activity. On Tue und Wednesday 17,650 hogs wer h.uu]h d by the packers, at prices which tirely satisfactory to the raisers, and the present week will doubtless compare favorably with any in the brief history of the hog industry here in the number eted. The quality of hogs coming to this market is nowhere excelled, and the indications are that the supply will be ample e en- THE recent vuling prohibiting the writing or printing of advertisements on the wrappers of third and fourth ; class mail matter has just been put in force in the Omaha . postoffice. The = | postmaster general has, however, eided to permit tho use of wrappers in stoek, provided the objectional matter | is crossed out, in order Lo prevent & loss to the purchaser, but all new wrappers must be printed in conformity to the law. — THeE latest batch of Swinburne’s in- tensity, as cabled from London, was not as passionate as many of his former efforts. However, tho telegraph edi- tor, in a vain attempt to decipher the cablogram, may have reduced the Byronic sentiment of the effusion by using one of Colonel Grigg’s poems as a substitute. Tue Choctaw Indian congress has de- creed that a white man desiring to marry a Choctaw woman must pay $100 into the nutional treasury. Otherwise he will not be regarded as a citizen in tho nation. sky bruve has evi- dently been worsted in his matrimonial competition with his white brother. THE FIF been Four more silk mills bave projected. Rolled steel car wheels will soon be made at Norristown, Coal beds are being found in Mexico 4,000 feet above the sea, Since the first of the month 10,602 men have gone on striko. A Huntingdon car-wheel foundry will soon be able to turn out 200 car wheels per day. Birmingham capitalists recently ordered twenty car loads of fire-brick from Bolivar, Pa. A large piano manufactory is to bo built at Atlanta, anda trunk factory at Dallas, Tex. The Amer! Society of Mechanical Ei gineers will meet in Philadelphia on Novem- ber 28, In a great many cases the hardware manu- facturers in New England are ruuning day and night roll in certain car works in De- s 100,000 per wmonth, There will be work all winter, Buggics and carts are exported in large numbers from Chicago to Mexico, Australia und South America, The prospects for trade in the machinery lines are very good, and there will very few idle mechanics this winter. There is a proposition among British coal producers to restrict the output to the extent of 20,000,000 tons per annum, The users of natural gas are building their furnaces so as to be able to return to coal when the gas shall have given out. Bridge building is being pushed ahead. One at Kansas City will be nearly one milo and a half long, including approaches. Car shops are to be removed from Roches- ter, Pa., to Bradford, under strong induce- ments from the Bradford authorities. The Pullmans have added a shop 800 feet square, where forty-five cars can be built at one time. The force will be increased 500 men. A new system has been devised for manu- facturing metal tubes in England. It is spoken of as a wonderful advance in that branch of industry. In certain portions of Mexico a laborer can buy a peck of corn or wheat fora day's work and a sheep for a weck's work. A mule represents a year's work. The Panama canal builders are importing negroes from Liberia, as they have been found to be proof against every discase of the canal locality. The Panama graveyard is a very large one. Labor is in great demand throughout the southwest, and in less than a month an out- flow will set in from the far north—where outside operations will be terminated by cold weather—to the southwest. Notwithstanding the possibility of less business in ironmaking a great many new mills are being talked of, and the expansion of capacity 8o far this year has been as much a8 during the two years previous. The Maine corn-packers have increased their canned coan packing 25 per cent. One Portland company packed nearly five million cans, and the product of 16,000 acres of corn is consumed in eighty-two canning establish- ments, Anyway Not a Green Checse. Buston Herald. They say over in London that Gould is little, but, like most little people, mighty. We don’t think it respectful to speak of Jay as though he were a cheese, ——— A Rapid Beginning. Springfeld Union. The Chicago Inter Ocean notes the birth of ababy en route in a Union Pacific sleeping car, and_pictures the future misery of the man as “he seeks his birthplace to cherish it, but never finds it—this mad, busy, rushing town of En Route.” But the boy who is born at tho rate of fifty miles an hour is pretty likely to find his sl,-fl.)uu in lifo. Advertising Pays. Cuthbert (Ga.) Liberal, The first issue of the Broadaxo, in Blakely, contained an advertisement: “A Boy Wanted at This Ofice.”” The next issue of the Early County News, published also in Blakely, contained the following: *Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jordan, a bouncing baby boy.” W. A. Jordan is editor of the Broad- axe. Some people pretend to beliove that advertising doesn't pay, but it does. In Bohemia. W. J. Johnson, T am righ; who says me nay? 1 have bread to eat cach day:, Water from the mountain riil, Woman's lips to kiss at will, Russett garb, and couch of inoss, Treasures free from rust or loss— Why should not my life be gayt I am rich; who says me nay! 1 am rich; who says me nay “riends have I in long ar i, and rain, and cloud, and dew, Ficlils of green and skies of blue; Pictures drawn by naturc's hand Books the soul may und And a life-long boliday— Iam rich; Whom b Crown encumbered sage Poring over the midnight page! Midas starving with his gold} r fur, a thousand fold, rmia tha Tam rich; who says me nayt usfl with me this rustic winel Equals thou and I to-day— Lam rich; who says me nay) e A TERN NEWS, Wyoming. T. F. Bock, a switchman in the Lara- mie yards, was thrown off a car Sunday and instantly killed, Bishop Burke, the newly ap- hop of the Cuatholic diocese oming, is expected in Cheyenne Sunday next. Fir attempted to start a blaze in Fort Ruasell Tuesday night. The sont- rios fired them out with lead but did not wing the The announcement of Tand Commis- parks’ resignation occasioned rojoicing among the cow men of {tory whose land grabs had been od with in the past two yoars yennese claim that oceans of water exist 1,000 below them. They have no particular vse for it on the #ur face, but novertheloss will sink o well to find out “what the durn stuff tastes like.” Utah and Idaho. There were seventy deaths in Lake C n; during October. A company has heen imu»r}u.n'nlrnl at Salt Lake City to bore wells for natural gus, Mining operations in d'Alene country are practi till spring. A large addition to the Utah peniten- tiary is projected to accommodato the increasing procession of polygamists, The mineral shipments from Salt Lake City the first two weeks of the month amounted to 133 cars, or 3,732,503 pounds. The United States assay office at Boiso City did the largest month’s business on vecord during October. There were re- ceived 110 gold deposits, weighing 6,466 ouncesand amounting to$09,213.24. Salt th, U Coour closed The largest previous October was 1850 when y there were sixty-five deposits, 1412 ounces, valued at The total deposits for the nonths of tho present fiscal July, At , September and Oc- re $46¢ being an average 07 per month. The deposits for esponding time in 1886 amounted 10 $155,000, being an average of $38,750 per month. The Pacitic Coast. Mexican oranges aro.being shipped into California. A rich strike has been made in the Sunta Rita mountains, ten miles from Prescott, Arizona. The two lucky pros pectors took out $1,300 in one day with a mortar. The Merced Falls woolen miils have orders for $100,000 more goods than they can furnish at present. The compar has bought up all the wool in Meree and Mariposa countie: ‘Wheat buyers are not anxious to make purchases in the interior of Oregon be- cause it is alleged there are not cars enough to convey the crop to market until far into next year. Governor Waterman has purchased the Taylor ranch in the Cuyamac country for $100,000. The ranch ®on- tains 16,000 a and will be traversed Dy the San Diego & Cuyamaca railroad. Tiro swept over the whole southern end of Warner valley, in southern Ore- gon last weel, burning the tule and fine grass over an area about ten miles square. Stock will suffer greatly this winter in consequence. An Towa man whohas recently visited the coast reports that most of the Cali- fornia boom is in your eye when the wind blows, and when tho wind does not blow it is scattered around promis- cuously from two to eight inclies over everything; or, in other words, he s that the dust is so thick in southern California, aud water is so scarce that it is almost impu ible for a white man to live down there. Yet he says that hun- dreds and thousands are pouring in there every day. New Englanders. A meeting of the exceutive committee, having in_charge the arrangements for the New England dinuer on December last evening at the offico of A. P. Tuke There were present W. H. Alexander, cha \ man; A. P. Tukey, J. M. Thurston, L Miner, Mrs. Benson, Mr i ken 'and Mrs. ' Da An was prepared to bo forwarded o all New Englanders in this city known to the organizers. The followi programme wiil be carriod gut at the dinne “orctathers duyy) Judio Savage: “Maine, A Pol i “New Hampshire,”” Prof. Lowi the Hon, John M. Thurston; “Massachusetts,” N. M. Brigham} ““Rhode Island,” W. C. Taylor; “‘Connecti’ cut,” Mayor Broateh; “The Literature of Netw England,” the Rev. W. E. Copeland. e Monetary Institutions, On the first of next month O. M. Carter, president of the National bank in Ashland, in this state, asalso of the loan and trust company of the same place will remove t he ltter t0 this city and_open up an_office in the basement of the United States National bank building. There are rumors of the _establishment of another saviugs bank in this city by lowa parties. For & me months back the directors of the First National bank of this city have been di: ing the feasibility of opening a sav- ings institution in connection with their reg- ular busiuess. Action on the subject, how- ever, has been deferred until the bank moves into its new building in March, Against the Law. A large number of circulars have been re- ceived at the postofice during the p the wrappers on which bear the adv cards of the firms that mailed them, and yesterday they were returned to the senders as being a violation of the law. Postmaster General Vilas recently promulgated a notice to the effect that no mail matter enclosed in newspaper wrappers with a_printed businoss card on them were to be \14'“ cred, as it was ainst the law, Al that is allowed on 4 newspaper wrapper s the name of the sender and the city in’ which he resides, but no numbers of plices of business or business cards. —— Some Healthy Legislation Desired. The Order of United American Mechanics, or the local branch of this organization, have in preparation a memorial to congress pray- ing that body to legislate against the immi- gration of foreign paupers and criminals into this country. The concentration of crooks and thieves at this point is alarming officials in all circles. The police are on the alert day and night, and some important arrests arc looked for within twenty-four hours, A New Manufactory. Major T. P. Lawrence, is in the city, work- ing among capitalists to introduce to this the manufacture of what is known as a cotta wood,” which is now beingmade in sixteen places in this country. This is the terial which is used to fire-proof the intc ior of the Merchants' National bank building and which has attracted a_great deal of at tention. A manufactory of the materiul here, the major thinks would control the western trade and is worthy of attention. S Stock Yards Company Meeting. A very important special mecting of the stockholders and directors of the South Stock Yards company was held there being present Messrs lier, Manderson, Paxton, Boyd and several others. A long session, with closed doors, was held, to put the affairs in shape in advance of the regular annual meet- Shan ing in December, when Mr. Mc 's duties compel him to be absent in cong Union Thanksgiving Service, The Congregational churches of Omaha will hold their union Thanksgiving serv on Thanksgiving morning in the Grand opera house by the courtesy of the directors. This denomination now includes in the city nine ministers activ A Notable Din Mrs. 8. . Morse gave a dinn er yesterday afternoon «t 2 o'clock st the Paxton house Covers were laid for fifty and each chair was mml by ono of the leading ladios of the city. Th »menu was superb and the tables were mag . nunl y dece ed with flowers, A Switchma A. Pagel, a switchma B & M., had his hand smashed while cou rs under the Union Pacific bridge in the early twilight yestorduy morning. There ave hopes of suv- ing the crushed member, THEIR ANNUAL Commercial Colleg, BANQUET. Tumni Review ge was held lnst evening at the St. Cloud, and was in every sense an cle gant affair, The elaborato bill of fare com- prised the most palatablo dainties of the sca son. Ou the buck of the menu was the fol lowing fitting selection from Holme: Has any “old ' got mixed tho with , take him out without making Hang the aimanac's cheat, and the spite, Old time is a liar—we're twenty to night., The occd atalogue's fon was enlivened with instru- mental music. R. M. Patterson was master of cercmonics and Isaae Adams presided as toast master, both gentlemen filling their po- sitfons in a graceful and lo manmnoer The following toasts were responded to: “T'he Philosophy of Happiness,” by the presi dvm. B. J. Scaunell; “Self Culture as a Life W. S. Paul )-s as a Mental Grindstons “Law and Ladies,” BE. K. Zimmerman; SOmaha Fifty Years Hence,” J. H. Conrad. These toasts abounded in wit and wisdom, and were loudly applanded. Next, in re: sponso to calls, GustavoKrocgor told how to manipulate llm Ppolitic machine, G. J. Fox Lon the miserics of the disappointed po- litical worker, R. M. Patterson told of a cu- rious lady customer of his, Georgo Holmes arker dilatéd on the pleas- ures of matrimony, and numerous other toasts followed. At the close of tho festivities Mr. Con- nell stepped forward, and in belalf of the alumnl_ presented the popu sccretary, Mr. L. E. Zimme with 8 handsome cbony gold-headed ¢ On the handle were engraved Mr. Zi man’s initials, the date of the ovent name of the association, The specches of Drescntation und rosponse were both happy The election of officers for tho following year resulted as follows: immerman, ]vu‘\i lent; D, Frank I v ident ) J. €. Weeth, socretary; R M. Patterson, ‘The commiittee on general Patterson, A. W. Conrad and persons w banquet: B. J. Scanncll, M. 1’uu<~-nn William P, mern Frank Parker, J M. Bt Corgs 1t Hotmies, s present at the Is Pursons, R. J. H. Conrad, J. L, \\wr \' Muurice H Patton, Oscar P ¢ son, J. C. Qr 7. Russell, E. 3 A . D. Gideon, J B Champion, J. L. Root, I, H. ftummel, J.um‘\ W. Carter, Edward Rannic, jr., Reagan, Willi mllvi"lmnn,flm\r A Good- win, Herman_Stuht, 1. B. Ward, Frank Binnall, C. A. Dunham, Phil P. Merizen, C. Frenzer, M. K. I Buftington, W. F. Chambers, H. Oulen, W. 8. Paulson, I. Adams, J. L. Worley, Licutenant_Pickering, Dr. ina and Rober . Blose, A RAlL Peculiar and Costly Wreck on the B. & M. Rai The grease from two tanks from the Thirtecnth street lroad viaduct shortly after 9 o’clock last night, besmearing the clothing of unfortunate pedestrians, clogeing the gutters and making the streets and sidewalks slippery and almost impas able. Enterprising men, women and chil- dren with the almighty dollar in view dipped up the escaping oil and couveyed it off in barrels and tin cans. About the hour stated abig train of freight cars on the B. & M. headed towards tl met_with an accident between Thir and Fourtcenth streets. In sonme mannerone the muny oil tanks became derailed, and be- fore the train could be gotten under control several of the cars had ridden over the ties with sufticient force to tear the tracks from underthem, The sudden stoppage brought two tanks together with such force as to stave a hole in both of them. Their contents, the refuse from some rendering establish- ment at South Omaha, cedom The wreck, while unatten v loss of life or damage to linb, was quite costly, and at a late hour Lad not been clearcd away. VETERAN FI ll‘hMEN ORGANIZED, Officers Elected and the Constitution and By-Laws Adopted. There was a large turnout of Omaha's vet- eran firemen at the councl chamber last night to perfect an organization of the vet- erans’ association. The constitution and by laws were adopted as vead with but few changes. Any fireman of good moral charac- ter who served five years in the volunteer companies, and was ingood standing at the time of the disbandment of his company, is admissable to membership. Exempt fire: men from cities and states outside of Ne- braska are entitled to admission, but have no voice in the proceedings of the association Thirty-cight names were attached to the con stitution and by-laws last night. The following oficers were electod : A.J. Simpson; fi THanlon; o Kennedy; recording seeret John Taumc urer, Joseph K trustees, J. H. L teberger, Max Me; Maurer, Bd, Wit M. Goldsmith ‘and Charles Fislier. lie mecting adjourned until next Wednes- day evening. Presi ident, . w. I o an A Cigar and Gasoline. u daugerous fire was nar- ¢ avoided at the Pennsylvania Oil com- any’s warchouse, corner of Fourteenth and flame, but before the latter commnnics the flor the blazing can was thrown into the street, The Water Works Plant. The work on the excavations for the new water works plant at Florence was finished yesterday, aud the preliminary workon thesu- perstructure will begin to-day. There is a very largo force of workmen employed, and the work is to_be vigorously prosecuted until completed. The building is to be very elaborote and showy, and be ready for oceu- pancy and operation o av from dute. Sent to the Reform School. Kittio Marooney and Gussio M the two young girls arrested and sentenced to imprisonment in the reforn it Kearney, were taken there Coburn. The party wa The relatives of © at the depot to se ently greatly affocted irls, however, showed the tw Coburn them off and wor by the § no particular fecling N. B. White The release of N, B, tion as cashicr in the ismissal. White from his posi ounty clerk’s oftice is not & matter of surprisc to those having *‘in side knowle on the subject. Mr. White was dism Mr. Needham for *offen sanship.” It is claimed that Mr. as exceedingly active during the. re- cent election in his endeavor to sccure the defeat of Mr. Needham Rabbi Benson's Lecture, At the this evening, Dr. Beuson will deliver his second lecture upon “The Talmud, its Ethics and Significance.” ‘Phis series of discourses consists of three lectures and offers much valuable informa synagoge tion to tho the origin and S at tached to all Ser vices at the 0guo commence at 7 o'clock collecting the taxes for 1857, the books now being open, It will be remenbered that taxpayers can pay their assessments from now until January 1. 1888, without penalty. From that time until July 1 interest wili be charged at the rate of 1 per cent per month A Boycott Circular. rday @ flaming poster Y was turing firms on the ground that “scab" labor was employed, The firm of Liggott & Myem tobacco manufacturers at St. Louis, was ¢ most prominent one meationed. No name was signed to the cireutar, Another Street Car Robbery. The street ear robber who has been prying on the money boxes of the Hanscom park cars was out again last night., Between 7 and 8 o' k, while a driver was engaged In A ludy passonger w , and before she could give an 1 the ruscal disappeared ia the woods, To Pass an Ordinance, Ten councilmen met at the c ber lnst night and were in s dent Becl id, it was the 'ssio quickest meeting ver hel The object of the mecting was to d for the third time and adopt an ordi ance for the grading street from wWest hl the city suncilman Hascall did not vote, but the or- dinance was adonted, after which the council adjourncd, limits, Stone Masons Protest. Stone masons' union No. 6 of Omaha, adopted the following resolution at their meeting last night: Rosolved, That we endorso the stone cut tors' action in protestin, st the letting of the city hall contract to Nevins & Co., which means Boss Stout. A Postofice Burned. The postoftico at Bloomington, Franklin county, was totally ‘destroyed by fire, to- gether with all its contents, 80 & telogram from that point informs Postal Inspector Brown. J. W. Dowey is the postmaster, and the loss is something like §1,000. Last Night's Pire. Tast night's alarm of fire from box 20 was caused by tho breaking out of flames in tho residence of W. A Austin, cornerof Twenty- fourth and Hamilton streets, Tho depart- ment responded promptly und the fire was extinguished without wuch damage being done, The Diamond Thicves, The preliminary hearing of Bruce, Shaw. and Eaton, the allezed diamond. thieves, has been postporied until this afternoon, when it is ex other citic ted important evidence from s Will biave been received, 1ild House. iscopal parish, of which Rev. North Omaha, i ruild house 66x20 feot which the middle of December, 500, St St. John's Mr., ' is rector, in will be finishied the cost being § Sachet Powd Colgate’s Cashmen tropo and Violet are malking up Yotiday gilts. or Xmas, Bouquet, Helio- very useful for Licensed to Wed. The following uge licenses granted by Judee MeCulloch yesterday : Name ond residence. % Nels Withner, Omaha. .. Anna 8. Nelson, Omaha { Edgar S. Bradic 1 Catherine Ream were , Omaha Omaba Internal Rev, Yesterday's i amounted to & collections Personal Parageaphs. R. K. Glover, of Cheyenue, is at the Paxton. John S. Talbot, Kansas Ci Paxton. Daniel Eatou, of Ottumwa, the Paxton. M. B. Thompson, Albion, the Paxton. H. P. Hallock, of Lincolu, N¢ at the is at In., Neb., s at b, is at the Cozzen: M. Coxlin, of Columbus, Neb., is at the Cozzen George E. Griflith, Des Moines, Ia., is at the Cozzens. C. W. Scarff, of Grand Island, is at the Paxton. G. I. Wheelock, of Missouri Valley, [a., is at the Millard. Frank P. Ircland, Nebraska City, Nt, ., i at the Paxton. ", B. Buchanan and wifo, (_'olo., are at the Paxton. ‘W. H. Harrison, of Grand Island, Neb., is at the Paxton. Mrs. G. A. Joslyn departed this after- noon on an eustern trip. ‘William Muir, Grand Is registered at the Cozzens. F. N. Houghton and wife, of Worces- ter, Mass., arc at the Paxton. John Fisher, of the Chic Island & Pacific railvoud, i Zens. C. H. Jones, cracker manufacturer at Lincoln, was in the city yesterday on his return trip from the east. Abe Brueger, of Chicago, o member of the firm of A. I3, I'reston & Co., fire department supplics, is the guest of Chief Gallagin. George A. Joslyn and wife left last mcnmg for an extensive trip in the cast. ton, their old howme in treal and Toronto. While Mr. Joslyn will scleet u $: the branch of the Great foundry, of which hie is s troug urer and gene Thy Lead- Qlsite 0 will bo in the new United MnLM National bank building, and will be open for business by December 1. Rev. J. H. I.( ier, of Mt. Vernon, Ia., the famou ighting chaplain” who stirred the **boys” up so with his songs and speeches at the state reunion last summer, was at the Millard yesters en route to Papillion and Weeping Water, where ho has engagements to entertain the gra Nob., of Deuver, nd, Neb., is Rocle Coz- 20, the neluding stops at New York, Bos- Vermont, Mon- in Chicago 30,000 stock for Wi torn typo iy, trong- op him re- W fill about & nts that will ke busy until after the holidays, IHe turns to lows Monday dozen engagements, ino of appoi Phil. Arn Chicago Mail: pastor of a small church s0 the outlying sections of the city, went 10 Armour one da wskiing for a contri- bution for a poor girl who, he said, was sick and suffering for tho necessaries of life. She was so destitute thut she had been unable to buy clothing for her new born babe, and wiis even unable to buy the medicine which akind-hearted doe- tor bad prescribed. Mr. Avmour gave him $25 and sent him on his way rejolos ing, but was much surprised a few hours later when the clergyman returned and handed him his money, saying thut he had found t¢ his regret that the ch had been born out of wedloel, und t ws therefore, unworthy of his ty. Mr, Armour was utlirst sur- sed, and then nearly lost his temper, called one of his clérks and told him to see thut the clergyman left his office and never returned. He then sent to his own hou nd directed that eve thing which a woman in thig poor wo- man’s condition needed should be sent her at once, and that the supply ghould : i be continued till she was able to loolk out for hersclf. My informintsuys that Murs. Avinour took the cise in hand npd 1aaksd afton il no further assis- tance wis tie The cdinal's Hat, posted on many of the incoming freight ears which abjured all laboring men to boyoottthe goods produced by several castern manuface Barmimonn, Nov. 17 rdinal Gibbone red hat arrived frow Home yesterdaye s