Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 25, 1888, Page 4

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Monday, Jan, ;ll " t The Bes Pub- A\\'mnv 0. 1. fworn to and subscribed in’ my 24th day of January, A. 1., 16, Btatoof Nebraska, |, Countyof Douglass, | (& 0. chuck, betng first duly sworn, de- e and says thiaf b 1s kocretary ot The Tie lishing comy hat the actual average Aadly circulation of the Datly Bee for the month of Junuary, 14, 16209 coples: for February, 187, 14,178 coples’; for March, 1847, 14,400 coples: Tor ApE, 190, 16316 copless for May, 1668, 14,27} copies: for June, 197, 14,147 coples:’ for July, IR, 1416 cople; for Aucust, 1847, 14,151 coples for Be) lh'lll?» 187, 1440 coples: for October, e, 14.s for' November, 1847, 15,228 coples; fof Femnbror, 157, 16041 copie GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Syorn and subscribed to in prosence tils 24 duy of January, A. D. 168, N, b, Fi Noflry *Puibite, i “reurnm Il! is Notary Public, Tm' school board nqunndcrcd mo on telephones last year. One hundred dollars more would have paid for anad- ditional teacher in the primary grade. ‘WHEN the democrats in congress get through with “‘downing” Sam Randall they may have time to turn their atten- tion to the important questions of the hour. The outlook is doubtful, how- ever. BELVA LOCKWOOD thinks her presi- dential campaign in 1884 blazed the way through the dense forest of popular ignorance to the white house, for the coming woman-president. It is not im- probable that she will blaze away again in 1888, E—— TULLAMORE jail will know no more the Irish patriot, William O'Brien, whose incarceration since October for addressing National league mectings bas given the English tories no end of trouble, and has strengthenéd the league tenfold throughout Ireland. —— THE superintendent of the city hall building has drawn 8500 out of the city treasury for three months’ pretended supervision, when in fact less than 01,000 worth of work was done on the building during that time and the contractor was at work about three weeks out of the three momths. Talk about tax-eaters!] A NEW idea is being discussed among the striking miners in Pennsylvania. This is that all the men who are out of ~work shall apply to the poor authorities who, under the law, must support them. Such a departure, it is thought among the strikers, will bring the rich corpor- ations to terms, a8 the expense will fall principally on the latter. Se—— THE fact should be widely dissemin- ated that it was the Andrew Jackson league of Chicago that took the first step to read Mr. Randall out'of the party. The question of precedence in this mat- ter may some day become one of contro- versy, and it is therefore well to make the record while the fact is fresh. &onor to whom honor is due. E——— THE farmers of western and north- western Canada are justly indignantover the dog-in-the-manger policy of the Dominion government in refusing to allow producers to ship their grain shrough this country to eastern Cana- dian points. The consequence is a loss of at least ten cents per bushel to the Sarmers and an increase in the earnings #f the Canadian Pacifie rond, which is $hus enabled to avoid competition with the Northern Pacifi — TuE disposition of the house of repre- sentatives regarding the Pacific rail- roads will be clearly disclosed in the ac- tion that shall be taken on the resolution of Mr.Anderson, of Towa, authorizing the Jnstitution of judicial proceedings against the various companies and di- recting the attorney general to bring suit in which Stanford, Huntington, Crocker, Dillon, Gould and others shall be included as defendants. ——— THE new postmaster general has a fine opportunity to make a record in his department by helping to create ade- quate mail facilities for the west. The officials at Washington have little knowledge of the rapid development of this section of the country or its needs for increased postal facilities. They should be thoroughly enlightened on this matter. There is no excuse for the miserable makoshifts in relation to postal matters which western cities and towns are now forced to adopt. Mr. Dickinson can do much to remedy this ovil, er——— Tue charter (Section 136) gives the mayor the superintending control of all the officers and affairs of the city except where otherwise specially provided. It makes it his duty to see that the provisions of the char- ter and ordinances of the city are complied with. Itempowers him to require any officer of the city o exhibit his accounts. It is made the duty of the mayor in section 137 to be active and vigilant in enforcing all laws and ordi- nancos, and cause all subordinate offi- cers to be dealt with promptly for any neglect or violation of duty. Itis the manifest duty of Mayor Broatch to call Superiutendent Whitlock and several other city officials to account for the im- positions they have practiced on the city, Cougressional Inefficiency. Congress has now béen in session six ‘weeks and the sum total of the work in both houses is the passage of eight bills, There has been an immense wuste of time in uncalled adjournments, dilatory work of committees and speeches for buncowbe only. The senate has done o great deal of talking, in which Mr. William E. Chandler and Mr. Eugeney Hale have been prominent, but they have accomplished little besides assist- ing to fill 630 pages of the Congressional Reeovd. Five thousand bills have been introduced and haif as many more are in process of construction. 1f the work of congress can be gauged by the bill producing power of its members, the present one dovs not seem to he behind its predecessors. But, apart from this, there has been absolutely nothing ac- complished in response to the de- mands of the country for legislation which will meet the pressing require- ments of the day. The president’s message on the tariff has heen discussed pro and con, with move or less ability on both sides, but the work of formulating ameasure for tax reduction has made no progress. The reports of the Pacific railroads commission have been r ceived and appropriately referred, but the task of passing o measure which will secure for the people of the west some relief from the exorbitant exactions of the allicd monopoly through the squeezing out of a half million of water from the Pacific rail- road stock, has not yet been taken up. Thousands of special pension bills have been introduced by senators and repre- sentatives to please anxious constitu- ents, but the problem of well considered pension legislation, which shall mevt the defects of existing laws for the re- lief of worthy persons, while at the same time not opening the doors of tho treasury in a discriminate pensioning of all applicants, yet remains umsolved. The house has discussed for several days the problem of national bank cir- culation and the future basis for u staple currency, but the final passage of a measure which is so greatly needed to reassure the public that there will beno immediate contraction in currenqy, as feared, scems yet a long way off. A dozen other problems, admitted to be pressing, have not even been taken up. It is the usual condition of affairs in a congress before a presidential election. Both parties are fencing for position in the approaching campaign, and the in- terests of the people are of much lessim- portance to their representatives than the defeat of opposing political parties. Every presidential candidate, either in person or through his friends, is talk- ing for effect, and the administration wing of the democratic party is appar- ently more anxious to consolidate rival factions of revenue reformers than to give the relief to the taxpayers of this country for which the president appealed 8o earnestly in his message. The valuable time of the session is being dribbled away day by day in a discus- sion of insignificant and trifling matters, while the great questions which effect all the people of the country are allowed to remain pigeon-holed in committe or filed away in the desks of senators and representatives. The house of representatives is of course chiefly responsible for the re- fusal to take up and press to an issue the question of tax reduction. All revenue measures must originate in that body, and, as the democratic party has a clear majority in the lower house, the public will not allow them to evade the responsibility. Both houses, how- ever, have shown a listless indifference to the wants of the people for which they deserve and are receiving, as they should, severe censure from the inde- pendent papers of both parties. Municipal Patriotism. There is an urgent demand in every city in this country for adeeper interest and solicitude on the part of its citizens respecting the character of municipal government, and the management of affairs by the executive and legislative representatives of the people. The eiti- zens of no city that we know of can be excepted from the charge of a general lack of that earnest and vigilant con- cern in their local affairs whiech they ought to have, and which is compr hended in the term municipal patri- otism. The great majority of business men, absorbed in their personal affairs, find no time to give to the egnsideration of local politics and the business of the community of which they uare a part, upon the wise and efficient conduct of which the security and prosperity of their own interests so largely depend. Very many professional men, equally devoted to their personal work, give little or no attention to the character of the municipal government under which they live or the method of its adminis- tration. For the most part these classes have a distaste or a positive dislike for local politics, which they permit to grow upon them until there supervenes a complete indifference to results. Municipal affairs are thus allowed to fall into the control of self-secking and unserupulous men, and not until their administration becomes so corrupt and demoralized as to be no longer tolerable can the indifferent and unpatriotie citi- zens be aroused Lo a serious view of the situation and induced to act. It rvequired the disclosure of far- reaching demoralization in the munic- ipal government of Chicago, through which grasping monopolies were insid- iously inereasing their power and tight- ening their hold upon the people, to arouse the careless citizens to the ne- cessity for reform. Local polities had fallen under the control of the worst el- ements, whose creatures filled public positions of trust. These men became vendily subservientto the schemos of the wealthy gas and street railway syn- dicates that saw 1n the city a great field of speculation and profit, with the vesult thut there is now a struggle tode- termine whether the people have any rights which the monopolies must re- spect. ‘The effect, however, has been to impress the hitherto indifferent citi- zens with @ sense ofdocal duty. As citizen, who has not neglected the obl gations of citizenship puts it, the “peo- ple are just bezinning to learn that there is such a thing as municipal patriotism. The country has had so much uational patriotism that a good many of us have lost sight of the fact that good citizenship has a duty quite as important to perform nearer home. There has been too much of the feeling that it is disgeaceful for n man to take an active part in local poli- tics, at the same time that local polities was the only kind of polities in which the earnest, honest citizen could be of any material service to the community in which he lived. Tt is in the city where the wisdom and patriotism of the American sovereign are moat needed.” The soundness of this will be admitted by all intelligent men. The experience of Chicago and the problem that now confronts the people of that city may be repeated in any other city whare the invitation to cor porate rapacity is strong. The syndi- cates that have planted themselves there and will ficht hard to maintain their hold are on the lookout for opportunities to practice a similar policy elsewhere. They are sleeplesa, indefatigable, un- serupulous. The safeguard of the people against their machinations is in having honest and incorruptible men in charge of the administration of muni- cipal affairs. Such officials will not be secured where local politics is in the contgol of the rabble and self-secking demagogues. The highest duty of all good citizens is to cultivate and observe all that may be implied in municipal patriotism What the Farmers Have Done. The farmers of the west being almost unanimous 1n demanding that the tariff shall be reduced, in order that they may thereby secure a share of protection in the way of lower prices for the manu- factured articles they must buy, it is in order to inquire what the farmers have done to advance the commercial pros- perity of the country and hold the bal- ance of trade. It isafact well known to ull who are familiar with the subject that the manufacturing industries of the country have contributed and are now contributing very little compar- atively to the nation’s foreign trade. The value of the exports of all domestic productsduring the year ended June 30, 1887, was $703,022,923, of which the value of the products of manufac- ture was but $136,785,105. The value of all other exports, including cotton and tobucco, was $320,687,470, and the ®al- ance of $245,600,348 was in food products contributed by the farmers of the west. It was the surplus product from the labor of the unprotected agriculturists of a dozen states that kept the international trade balance in favor of this country, sold at prices established in the free trade markets of Europe by which the value of all their product is determined. ‘What was true of last year with re- spect to the trade balance has been true of every year that the balance was in favor of this countcy. In 1876, the first year in which the exports of merchan- dise exceeded the imports, the food products constituted buat little short of one-half the entire value of the mer- chandise exported, and the memorable years of 1879, 1880 and 1881, when there was a great scarcity of food products in Europe, the contributionsof the farmers of the west were fully one-half of the merchandise exports of those years. During the eleven years since 1876 the contribution of these farmers to the export trade of the country has been of the value of three and one-half billions of dollars. All this time the western farmers have had to compete with the cheapest agricultural labor in the world, market their products at free trade prices, and pay for everything used on their farms and in theiy homes the high-tariff prices demanded by the manufacturers of their own country. Is it surprising that these laborious and patient tillers of the soil are be- ginning to find the burden they have so long carried growing intolerably op- pressive, and have concluded that the time is come to demand just and necessary relief? And in view of all they have done for the national prosperity have they not a most proper claim to a fair and candid consideration of their condition and wants? The Wage Forfeit System, Mr. Goodrich of the Cable Tramway company has given his views concern- ing the obnoxious rules of that corpora- tion to which the Knights of Labor have protested. He defends the payment of $25 as forfeit on the ground that it aids to impress a man with the feeling that his place is one of responsibility. *“We exact a bond of our cashier,” he says, “and in a minor way we expect some pecuniary showing from certain other employes.” The BEE does not dispute the right of that company to place any of its employes under a sense of respon- sibility, Placing its cashier under bonds is a usual business form of pro- ing a corporation’s pecuniary inter- sts. For conductors and gripmen to give bonds would be eminently proper. Railroads and express companies exact bouds from agents and employes who handle money or valuables. These bonds are given as a guar- antee against embezzlement, but no agent or employe is compelled to for- feit any part of his wages whether he leaves the company on long notice or abruptly. As long as the employer re- serves to himself the right to dismiss his workmen at pleasure, it is unjust and unveasonable for him to withold any part of his wages actually earned, if the workman sees fit to quit. If this forfeiture policy were applied to house- servants or day laborers, it would prae- tically leave it optional with employers to confiscate their wages on the most flimsy pretext. But we do not believe this forfeiture system would stand the test of the courts, because it is in its na- ture compulsory and one-sided so long as it gives the employer the privilege of retaining any part of the wages under pretext of recouping himself for alleged damages, — Monthly Payments in the Army. Senator Manderson has introduced a bill to secure payment to the enlisted men of the army wmonthly, instead of once in two months, as has heretofore been the custom: for making these payments, Wo understand that this bill has received the strongest endorsements from the militarv authorities, and. it should be speedily enacted into a law. There can be no good reason why the troops should not be paid as frequently as are the em- ployes of our largg railroads and manu- fucturers. In fact there are some cogent reasons why the, should be so paid which do not apply to such employes. More frequent payments, it is claimed and believed, will secure greater con- tentment, fewer courts-martials, less dissipation, ar fewer desertions— which gencrally dme from discontent. S0 far as the experiment has been tried, such has been the result. The bill propesad by Senator Mander- son, while not inerensing the number of officers as now on the Army Register, will resulf in the recirement of not less than seven of the present force, on ac- count of digability and age, and a corre- sponding 1increase from new appoint- ments, Such new appointments may be made from civil life or from officers now in other departments of the army. No new appointment has been made in the pay corps for over six years,and if this bill is enacted into a law President Cleveland will have the gratification of appointing from seven to ten paymasters during the remainder of his present term of office; and this seems to be the only chance an influential citizen can have for a commission in the army. Those who want these places should not all speak at once, but it would be as well for them to put their shoulders to the beam and help to get the act passed,and thus render some preliminary service to the enlisted men of the army before putting on t!teh' uniforms. —_— Tue board of education has referred the project to erect an additional school building on the high school grounds to Mr. Connell, the board’s attorney. What use was there of referring it to Mr. Con- nell ortoanybody else? The board has no right to violate faith with the citizens of Omaha who voted the bonds on the expressed condition that the money should be expended in the enlargement of the high school building. Whether lawful or unlawful the scheme to erect a separate building should be dropped, be- cause it is in bad faith Two of the deputies of City Clerk Southard aresons of councilmen. One of these receives $125 per month, and the other $100 per month. Southard had no authority whatever to appoint these deputies much less to fix their pay at such extravagant figures. Doos any- body imagine that Mr. Southard would have thought of picking out these partic- ular deputies if they were not the sons of Counsman and Manville? That made him solid with the council-combine in general and Mnflvsnlo and Counsman in particular, SsmsEge—— AYD QUEENS. The king of PorBigal has had an attaclk of pleurisy, which has become acuté. The Princess Waldemar, of Denmark, has been getting into a nice royal scrape through handling forged dispatches to the czar, The Austrian Crown Princess Stephanie, while curling her hair recently, ran the hot eurling tongs against her eyelid, and was laid up for a week. The Shah of Persfa isto have a brass band added to his establisment, and his subjects are going about mutfering on the sly: “Oh, Shali! On, Shah!” The Austrian court has decided to receive the Baron and Baroness Albert Rothschild after having shut the doors upon them for twenty years. The baron and his lady are now almost too faradvanced to care for court favor. ‘When Emperor William first met Von Moltke after the dawn of the present year, he asked him whether he had begun it asleep or awake. ‘“Asleep,” said Moltke. “Well, then,” said William, “I think you may sleep it out.” King Kalakaua has put all his real estate in trust to secure the payment of his debts. He owes $250,000, exclusive of $71,000 due the Chinese merchant, which was paid to the king as a bribe to secure monopoly of the opium trade. Dr. Manson, an English physician, has been summoned from Hong Kong to take medical charge of the young emperor of C this being the first occasion on which a fo eign doctor has ever attended a member of the imperial family. Prince Chun, the father of the reigning emperor of China, is not dead as was re- ported in the cable dispatches some two weeks ago, but merely suffering from a passing indisposition due to a treatment of powdered otter's liver to which he had been subjected by his native medical attendant. The dress reformers are after the Empress of Japan,who recently ordered a whole ward- robe of fashionable gowns from M. Worth and M. Felix. The same steamer that car- ried her dresses to her carried also a re- monstrance from the English Rational Dress society in the form of a letter. The society was far too cunning to send her specimens il- lustrative of their hobby to put alongside of the Parisiang’ triumphs of art. KIN il iy Now Look for Gore. Washington Critic, “You bet your life 'm an Omahoss, ox- clatmed an Omaha jawsmith during a heated political duscussion at Willard's the other evening. “Aw, come off,” suid a Kentuck- ian, quietly, “hosses don’t bray.” - Important Possibilities. New Yok Tribune. The discovery ithat a vestibule train running twenty-five miles an hour can emerge from a colligion without serious dam- ages suggests important possibilities, If the vestibule system affords such proteetion to life and limb, it ought to be adapted to gen- eneral use. Is there any serious obstacle in the way ! 15 That all You Can Do? Lineoln Journal, The Nebraska papers are booming the movement to reward Miss Minnie Freeman, the brave young school teacher who saved the lives of thirtcop of her pupils by her courage und presencedf mind. The papers in question were never engaged in a worthier business, and The Jburnal takes pleasure in congratulating thent. L T Necessity Knows No Law. Chicago Times. Train-robbery in 8 new form has como into fashion in Nebraska. The failure of the fucl supply has reduced honest people to the level of ordinary highwaymen. Several coal trains on the Union Pacific have been stopped by armed men and held until a sufficient quantity of coal could be unloaded to keep the families of farmers and yillagers from freezing. It will be dificult to apply the ordinary rules of criminal procedure cases of this character. Necessity knows 10 law, and in this particular case it doesn't seew to need L0 Know i Clev e nd Compared to Jefferson. . Louls Globe-Demoerat, said tho president to Colonel La “Dan, mont, “did you see where Ve ‘ specch, said that our free-trade message was the best public document since Jefferson's first insugural!” “Yes,” said Colonel La- mont, “I saw that, and I thought it was very fine.” ‘I should say it was very fine,” said the president. “The next time you see Voor- hees just ask him if he has any young fricnd whom he would like to send abroad ona small foreign mission—say about &3 500 or $4,000 ayear, Ithink it was worth at least that much to compare us favorably with Thowmnas Jefferson.'” Pt B~ — Plant Him Deep. Warren (0 Tribune. When you make my little gravelet, dig it vory, very decp. And tuck me is with caution for my last and anoreless sloep; For I would be free from troubling by the man_who wants to know It I think "twill soon be warmer, or if colder it will grow. The signals may be fiying for a blizzard from Mandan— “Do you think it will be warmer?" asks this aggravating man. Or the little blue triangle may be sent way up apeak, Yet he'll ask you “Will it snow soon?” if he gets a chance to speak. So tuck me in with gravel snug and cover me with loam, That the weather bore may never come and find me in my home; And, lest that be not suflicient there is yot a better plan— You may dlg a little gravelet for the weather- anxiousman, - A— STATE AND TERRITORY. The expenses of Sherman vounty for the year are estimated at %37,2 Four hundred head of sux'k per\ulmd in the blizzard in Pierce county. The Elkhorn' Valley roaa has con- tracted for 4,400 new freight cars to han- dle the business of the line. The Standard Cattle company at Ames is feceding 5,763 head of stock, and they chew up $700 worth of corn a day. Beatrice is moving to secure the an- L tournament of the State Firemen’s ation. -She is the favorite by lnrp:e odds. The Logan County Democrat flies the land office pennant, ‘‘Get there Eli.” *Proof” of its success is not wanting in thoe advertising columns, Callaway, ‘“‘the Queen of the Seven Valleys,” 'as_been incorporated as a village. It will soon taste the irritat- ing antics of a town board. A Nebraska City small boy tickled the heels of & mule, a railroad mule, in a camp near town, and was rewarded with a torn scalp and split ear. Hundreds of farmers raided the Union Pacific coal sheds in Grand Island, Saturday, and carted off enough fuel to bridge over the famine in the local market. They took the precaution to weigh the forage and are ready to pay for it at anytime, Miss Loie Boyce, the Plainview school teacher, who nearly sacrificed her life in a vain etfort to protect her charges in the storm, is slowly recovering from the effect of the cold. The generous people of Plainview have given her a purse of $122. The man who ‘‘scratched for twenty- eight years” and whose active life is published in scaly chapters in the coun- try press by a cureal, is believed to haye escaped the blizzard without a sceatch. There are some things the reader can- not be thankful for. Mrs. H. S. Elmore of Beatrice, a woman of twenty-five has again shaken her husband, who is tottering on the side of seventy, and enteved suit for divorce. June and December were never intended by nature to pull to- gether double or tandem. Two men who were lost in the storm in Holt county were saved by the thoughtful act of a woman. She had seen them pass her house and surmising that they might have trouble she heated a flat-iron and placed it close to the pane of glass to keop off the frost and set a lamp by the window. They saw the light and were saved. The authorities of Grand Island are determined that the sidewalks shall be kept free of snow and ice. A large number of business men who refused to shovel, were pulled into court and fined. The fines were suspended on condition that vhe victims clear their walks. As aresult there has been considerable outdoor activity in town lately. The Beatrice Republican reports that “Mr. O. H. Swingley, who came to this city last fall from Illinois, has been elected assistant cashier of a bank re- cently organized in Omaha. The insti- tution is known as the Mechanics and Traders bank, and starts out with a cap- tal stock of $250,000. Mr. Swingley will remove to Omaha and enter upon the duties of his new position.” The Butler County Press is trying to boom the leap market by picturing the chilling agouies of the loncsome. Here is the latest chamber sketch: ‘‘The hollowest mockery we can possibly think of is that of a marriageable maid going to bed one of these cold nights with a jug of hot water in her arms, warm flat- irons for her feet, and m stove Lft- ers for general distribution betweon the sheets, Whew! We hardly dare to give the girls nwuv but its most too fuuny keep—he, b nu Wyomin A pipe line is to be built from Lara- mie to Soda lakes to carry water. A big discovery of horn silver is re- ported within twenty miles of Lander. The people are extracting consider- able comfort from the visits of tooth doctors. Sun Dance put $75,000 into improve- ments last year. The new Crook county court house cost $30,000, k E. Akin, a druggist in Doug- las, accidentally killed bhimself by in- haling choloroform while asleep. 01t is said that another 100-mle con- tract has been let on the Northwest- 1, the grade runaning upthe Poison Spider. The Cheyenne & Northern has filed on government bond for right of waya distance of sixty miles in northern Al- bany county. W. E. Ladd, a produce dealer in Cheyenne, has gone under with §14,000 on the wrong side of the ledger, Ladd has skipped the country. Cheyenne has at last” seeured a com- ilrond and rejoices exceed- Regular passenger trains wero wurated on the B. & M. extension The pooling of the stock interests of the Sweetwater ranges is being actively pushed miomph-lum This means thut nearly all of the Sweetwater eattle will be handled next season practically as one herd, The Lander liar has broken out in a new spot. e has discovered a subter- ranean cave that outrivals Kentue mammoth hole. It is located eighteen miles from the northeast corner of Car- bon county. The Cheyenne Lea says: “‘The as- signment of the Union Cattle company is pecular fu the respeet that it is not made at the instanee of any pressing creditors, but at the request of the stockholders themselves. With a valu- able but widely seatte business on their hands their finuncial affaivs sumed such a shape that overzalous creditor by throwing the. matter into in bis .the courts and precipitating legal en- umglomonu might be the meansof frit- tering away the property without ad- vantage to any \\) those directly con- cernod. It was therefore thought best 1o hi ers appointed who would be in a position to hold the business well in hand and in the readjustment of the affairs give to all concerned what was justly due them.” The Custer Post Concert Proves a Grand Success. The concert given by George A. Custor post, No. 7, G. A. R, last night at Boyd's opera house attracted o large and fashionable audic .o, The programme comprised twelve numbers, all of which were g 1y ap- plauded, and nearly every one rcceived an encore, Those taking part in the concert were as follows: Mrs, Mary E. Latey, Elizaboth Pen- contralto; Miss Bertha Bayliss, nu- Mr. B. B. Young, baritone; Mr. vnor, tenor; Mr. H. D. F'&lubruok WMr, 'Otto Fritz, cornet soloist: Mr! Cahn, pianoist; Musical Union H. T. Irvine, leader; B. B. Young, soprano, of St. Lonis; Mi nell, Martin orchestra, musical director, The Musical Union orchestra played mag- nificently. Mr, H. D. Estabrook was never in better voice, and in both solos and quar- tettes his magnificent voice received en- thusiastic applause from every one present. ‘The cornet solo of Mr. Otto Fritz was rap- turously received. The gentleman is a thorough master of the instrument and has few equals in this country. Mr. 1. M. Traynor received a splendid wol- come. His tenor wln “The Minstrel Boy,” received a hearty encos rs. Mary E. Latey, of St. Louis, formerly of Omaha, rendered ‘‘Ah! Non Giunga® from La ““Sonnambula” in an artistic manner and received an encore. Miss Elizabeth Pennell appeared three times, twice in quartette and once alone, Miss Pennell’s rich contralto is one of marvellous sweetness and power. That she was a great favorite with her audience was shown by the uprorious applause awarded er, Miss Bertha Bayliss has a flnc soprano voice of a raro sweetness. She received a splendid welcome. Mr. B. B. Young rendered “The Old Brigade’ in an exceptionaily flnc manner, and the entertainment closed with the over- tire, “Aumorica, by the Musical Union or- chestra. ——— A DASHING WIDOW. Going Through Her Husband's Estate In Vigorous Shape. ‘The entering up of a suit yesterday by Kelly, Stiger & Co. against a recently de- posed executrix of an estate revived interest in thoe case, which was about the last that came bofore ex-Judge McCulloch during his term. A little over a year ago a man well known in business circles died leaving awife and two children. His estate scheduled something over $30,000, and the widow was appointed sole excutrix. The customary pangs of grief did not remain long with the widow, and she at once in- dulged in a life of luxury and extravagance, Costly robes and expensive millinery were bought by her, and junketing tours_over the country were of weekly and monthly occur- rences. Her credit was unlimited, ‘and she took advantago of it. She was a daily custo- mer at all the large dry guod emporiums of the city, and bougm oods ithout restraint. With 8. P. Co., she con- tracted a bill of b«twcun five and six hundred dollars, and the claim which still remains unadjusted is in the hands of the county judge. During one of her pleasure trips the widow formed the acquaintance of a western dude, and it is represented that he lived in clover and enjoyed & lifo of ease on large donations of mouey left by the dead man and furnished by the fickle female, who during all this time was neglecting her offspring and jeopurdiz- mg the estate. Finally relations of the dead man interposed, and through the neglected children made an application before ex-Judge McCulloch to compel the ex- travagant and neglectful mother to make an accounting in her capacity as exceutrix. Her figures disclosed an alarming state of affairs, and she was promptly dismissed and a suc- cessor appointed. It is estimated that she has squandercd $15,000 during her short reign, which does not include a large number of unpaid claims for which suits are being brought daily in the county court. REEVES GOES TO LAW. He Wants $25,000 Damages From Dr. McMenamy and Wife. L. Powell Reeves, the advertised ‘‘doctor and specialist,” yesterday brought suit in the district court against J. W. McMenamy and Mrs. McMenamy, of the Omaha Medical and Surgical institute, charging them with issu- ing false, malicious and defamatory libel against him for all of which he wants dam- ages in the sum of $25,000. Reeves maiu- tains that the libel complained of was printed in the Bee on the 15th day of January, and in his bill of particulars alleges that he isa physician and surgeon and has been such physician and surgeon since the year 1879, dul ing all of whichtime he has practiced h profession, and that in the month of July, 1887, he came to the city of Omaha for the purpose of practicing his profession. Imme- diately after his arrival here he was visited by McMenamy, who requested him to form a partnership with him for the practice of their profession, the defendant offering as an_inducement his having a practice estab- lished and a hospital in operation. This the plaintiff refused to do, taking upon himself the eredit of saying for such refusal “‘that the said defendant had not the cducation, knowledge and skill of this plaintiff in the profession.” Reeves then entered into the practice of his *‘profession” wholly upon his own re- sponsibility, and sets forth that the plaintiff grew jealous and threatened to drive him out of the city. In conclusion Reeves says the article published in the Bee in reference to him was the fulfillment of said threats. MUSIC AND SONG FOR THE POOR. A Grand Charity Concert Anticipated For the Suffering. Several gentlemen of the Omaha board of charities and corrections met at the board of trade yesterday afternoon, and appointed the following named egentlemen as agents and visitors to investigate and relieve all cases of destitution reported to them. They are vesteds with power to appoint assistants, they in return to report to the secretary of the main organization. The ugents arc: First ward, J. H. Lacey; Second ward, Rev. D. R. Kerr; Third ward, John S. Caulficld; Ih-v W. J. Harsha; Fifth A. Fogelstrom ; Sixth ward, Scventh ward, John Dale; William O. l’icr:nn; Ninth W. Foster. F'nu rth ward, was resolve y concert on the nigl 14, at which all the will be invited tc ternoon next at 3 will be held to consummate aritable organizations other matters, and all the ¢ are requested Lo send a representative. - AMONG THE RAILROADS, Bad Smash Up—New Line to Cheyenne —Passenger Agents M SUEEP AND OGS KILLED, Five carloads of hogsand oue of sheep were derailed at Gardner, near Columbus, on the Union Pacific railroad at an early hour yesterday morning, by o switch that had not been properly manipulated by the w of a west-bound train. The sheep sud Logs were killed, aud the wreck so com- pletely blockaded the road that passenger trafiic was considerably anuoyed. All traing from the west yesterday were several hours late. NEW LINE TO CHEYENNE. The B. & M. has insugurated & through tramn serv o Cheyenne over the recently completed extension. Connecting lix requested b; reular just issued o include Cheyenne among the important points when selling tickets over the B. & M. system. ~ But one coupon is necessary for any point on the nd should read either Omaha, Pacific ion, Nebraska City, Atchison or Kausas GENERAL PASSENGEIR AGENTS. association of geucral pas agents met at the B, & M. adquarters yesterday, and cousidered. mat ters of minor importance. ‘Thore was a faii sized representation, and an - agreement was entered into in reference to local rites for meetings held in the state. Those entin, credentials will be accorded one and ono-thi rates, PERSONAL, Assistant General Passengor agent Tomax, of the Union Pacific railroad, departod yestec: day for Burlington. General Passenger Agent Tebbotts arrived home yesterday. General Passengor Agent Eustis will ro. turn from his California outing the last of tho week, The Methodist Conference, A joint meeting of the Methodist ministers of Omaha was held in the parlors of the Mil lard hotel yesterday morning. Rev. J. W. Phelps presided and Rov. Alfred H. Hoenry acted as secrctary, The following resolution was adopted : Resolved, That we hereby invite the gen- eral conference of the Methodist Episcopal church to hold its session of 15¥2 in the city of Omaha. The general conference meets in Baltimora in May, 1888, at which session the delegates from the Nebraska conferences will presont the above resolution. The session of the general conference of the M. E. church is a nt body, composed of delogates the various conferences throughout the 'he sessions are held every four years and usually last from five to six weeks. Me body is a large one numerically, and its assemblage in Omaha would prove of vast profit to the city. The delegates from the Nebraska conference are prominent minis- ters and business men who will exert every effort to bring the session to Omaha. Dr. O'Leary's Lecture. Dr. O'Leary who 18 not altogether un known in this part of the country is now de livering a series of the most useful and at tho same time most entertaining loctures on med- ical subjects in the Exposition hall. They are largely attended by ladies and gentlemen and listencd to with the greatest attention and appreciated as are the utterances only ot a competent and at the same time honest doc- tor of medicine. Dr. O'leary has an attrac- tive appearance, an casy almost fascinating delivery, a ready wit and a very happy way of placing his subject in an intelligable man- ner before his auditors. Last night his sub- ject was the eye, the ear and the skin a Wwas treated m o most entertaining manner. There will be no lecture to-night because the hall is engaged for tho Burns banquet. Thursday night he will deliver another free lecture and on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights an admission fee will be charged. K. of P. E tion, After the usual woekly drill last night in their armory on the west side of Fourteenth street between Douglas and Dodge, tho Sec- ond regiment of the Knights of Pythias held an election to choose successors to Col- onel McManus and Major Ande Borden. The session was presided over by Colonel Thomas Burrell. The regiment was unanimous in their choice of Lieutenant James A. Brown, of Black Eagle division No. 18 for the posi- tion of licutenant colonel, and James Don- nelly, adjutant of the Second regiment, for major. Both are popular men among their fellow knights and are in every respect well qualified to fill the positions to which they have been called. ——— A Reform School Candidat~. George Still, the l14-year-old boy caught burglarizing the residence of H. Atkins, on South Tenth street, on Monday, was before the police magistrate yesterday. Although Atkins discovered that he had had §50 stolen house, he would not prosccute. e claims that he did not take the money, although he says he knows the party who did. The charge against him was_dismissed and his mother had him rearrested on the charge of vagrancy and incorrigibility. He was tried, found guilty and put imder $150 bonds to appear before the district court. He s to be seut to the reform school. Investigating An Inspector. From time to time complaints have been made to the council to the effect that Sewer Inspector McLean is neglectful in the dis- charge of his datics, and with a view of for- mally receiving and investigating complaints the sewerage committee of the council will meet at, the city hall on Friday afternoon at 20'clock. In the meantime the committeee will be pleased to hear from those with grievances, Licensed to Wed. The following licenses tomarry were issued yvesterday by Judge Shields: Name and residence. John Blakeslee, Omaha. . { Maggie Kane, Omaha, { E. P. Long, Omaha. . Josephine Allower, Or Aundrew Williams, Omabh; Betty Morton, Omaha., { Henry Botts, Omaha. { Lucy "Irue, Omaha.. .. —— Internal Revenue Collections. Yesterday's internal revenue collections amounted to 87,285.10. " SKIN SCALP JHaving been & sufferer for two years and a hall from a ¢ cansed by w bruise on the leg and having been cured by the Cu LA REMED i when all other metliods and remedies fi deem it my dur mend them. 1 visi Hot Springs avail, and tried s al doc- tors without success, and_at last our principal wdst, Mr. John P, Finlay (to whom I shull ever feel grateful), spoke to me about CUTICURA, and I consented to give them a trial with the result that 1 am p ly cured. There 15 now no sore about me. I think I can show the la est surface where my sufferings sprang from ot any one in the state. 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Her leg 18 entirely healed, and her health was n bettor, She can gd Gt every day, something she has not done fn ten years, so you see I cannot help stating tc ‘nu ab r‘vulfi TICURA l“nrhl N, y 1 lite. ot find to express my gratitude. 1 hiave adver: taed your Covicy A REMEDUEN far and ne EDWARD LUEDER, 195 Broadway, N. Y, v ., the greal skin curs, and CUTICURA SOA¥ A from it, externaily, and Cirr cui < he nw biood purifier, jnter. or ¢ form of skin wie from it plos £0 serofula. v r|4| ItA, Sle: BoAP, by th the Porren Mas nally, are and blood d 'Ricin' Diseases,’” 64 s, Wi 100 bowttinonin und olly -Mn V. Nfl RHEUIMTIZ ABOUT ME‘ IN ONE MINUTE THE CUTICUNQ ANTI-PAIN Plasiri relloves Kho o o matic, en, Sharp, i Nervous Paind, Straind and “We I m ouly pain-killing plat ks rluu_ NoT UNHOOK WHiLE BEiNg WORN. Jady who desiscs perleciion in style an for should wear them. Manufactured ‘.mkv the WORCESTER CORSET COMP, Worcester, Mass., 415 Market surest, C