Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 31, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Nnru!nu Fdluum including anvlsy hiry, ( enr T For six Mopthe, . v Three Months e Oraha Supday Il-:. maiied t6 any ad- dress, One Year, OMAHAOFFICE, ROOM 5, TR Tox OF¥iCk NO. 013 Foth CORRESPONDENCR. " All_communieations relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR OF THE BEE. RUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should be dressed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAMA. Drafts, 8 and postoffice or: Ve made payable to the order of the compuny. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors. E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. " THE DAILY B Sworn Statement of Circulation. Etate of Nebraska, | County ™ Gro, 1. I Socritary of The Diee Pub- shing company, docs soleninly swear that the nctunl :mu ation of the Daily Bee tor the week L B, 1868, was a8 mn.m Average, 4 F0. Bworn to and subscribed i Y 24h day of Junuary, A. D, 14 Btate of N T wl-wnu- i Notary Public, iraska, L Douglass, | ZACICE, bein tirst dnly sworn ways that he {5 s Dusiiehing computy that the. datly cireul for Februar. 55 tor Marchi, 1887, 14,400 4-(-1; 14,416 coples: for May, 1856, 14, 14,147 coples ugrust, 187, 14,15 . B, TZSCHUC! K o0 my presenco thils Notary Public. Sworn and snbscribed to in- 2d day of January, A. D. 1t you contributy to the BE fund in behalt of Nebraska's her school teachers? THE responses to the Hvrs appeals in behalf of Miss Shattuck, Miss Royce and Miss Freeman, are rolling in rap- idly. Let the good work continue until a handsome sum is raised. A FAVORABLE report was made in the United States senate ‘yesterday on the bill to appropriate $1,200,000 for the con- struction of a new post office building in Omaha. Thevery strong facts presented in support of the appropriation appear to have promptly convinced the com- mittee, and it is to be hoped they will be equally effective with the house com- mittee. Some paring down, however, is ended from that body, but y little reason to doubt that an appropriation will be secured. JUDGE BERKA can do the city no bet- ter service just now than to put the army of tramps and vagrants to work cleaning the gutters and streets. That Judge Berka has not exercised his au- thority in this direction before is a mat- ter of surprise. The charter expressly says that it shall be lawful to provide as vart of the judgment that a defendant be required to work out his fines and cost upon the public street, or at any other place that may be provided. Some years ago this was done, and it had a very salutary effect in decreasing the number of petty criminals. SENATOR SHERMAN appears to be gaining friends in Pennsylvania, which means u loss to Mr. Blaine. It is possi- ble, though hardly probable, that the Tollowing of the former will grow to be sufficiently formidable to prevent the Blaine forces from controlling the dele- gation to the national convention, a re- sult that would make a very material difference in tho chances of Mr. Blaine. Meanwhile the Maine statesman seems to be making progress elsewhere, nota- bly in Massachusetts, where, according to some recent expressions, the republi- can leaders seem to have determined for themselves that Blaine is the most available candidate. It is remarked as a curious coin- cidence that the severe cold of the first half of January in California—a cold which has not been equaled for thirty- four years—was followed by copious rains all over the state. The precipitation at -all poiuts where a record was kept was more than double that in the corresponding period of last year. ‘Whether any connection can be traced between the cold and the rains is a question for scientific men todetermine, and it is one they will be likely to re- gard with a good'deal of interest. This exceptional rainfall is thought to insure a good harvest this year in California, o consideration that renders it especially interesting to the popular mind. E—— Tue Ohio legislature has before it a proposition to establish two cent passen- ger faves in that state. The Michigan Central railroad, following the example of the Grand Trunk, is selling 1,000~ mile tickets for $20, These intimations that two-cents-a-mile are coming will be regarded everywhere with interest. The probability is very great that within the next five years the two-cent rate will prevail in all the more densely pop- ulated states, with the effect of course of reducing the fave in all other states. It is undoubtedly unreasonable to expect at this time a two-cent rate in states like Towa and Nebraska, buta reduction from existing rates is practicable. The railroads themselves, as in the case of the Michigan Central, are helping the movement along. — SOME of the school teachers in the lower grades have done nobly in their efforts to incrense the ‘‘Nebraska hero- ine fund,” but the superintendent of the city schools and the principals and teachers of the high school, who draw salaries ranging from $1,800 to 3,600, have not been heard from. They show a lack of public spirit and sympathy with their own profession. If a fe- male teacher, who earns from 860 to 70 per month, can afford to contribute to this fund, a male teacher, who is paid a large salary, ought to do much better. If the super- intendent had at once called a meeting of the high school teachers, headed a list with a liberal subscription, and otherwise put his shoulder to the wheel, he would have done credit to his pro- féssion, and shown himself a man, Protection of Actual Settlers. Among the various bills introduced at the present session of congress for the amendment of the public land laws, the one which Senator Paddock has drafted will probably commend itself strongly to the people of the west. It does not open the doors, as so many other propositions would do, to land jobbing and spect tion, but is intended to mw a specific want and specific complaint on the part of homestenders and pre-emptors who, by unavoidable accident, sickness or misfortune. have failed. or may fail in the future, to make their final proofs on the date advertised and set. There has been a wise tendency on the 't of the general land office for a sars past to throw all possi- tions and safoguards around ¢ and final proof of the public lands. The tendency of congress, too, edugated by the honest and unflinching administration of the general land office under Messrs. McFarland and Sparks, has been, and now is, in the line of wiping from the statute books a number of the lavish provis- ions under which jobbers and ring- sters and land grant corporations have embezzled hundreds of millions of acres of the public domain. Senator Paddock’s measure, which was intro- duced in response to many complaints from actual settlers throughout the west, provides that in certain specified cnges, and whore the necessity is clearly shown by affidavit, parties who have fuiled to make final proof upon the day sct forth may make such proof within the succeeding ten days. It has often happened, especially in unsettled portions of the west, where land offices and courts are from one to two hundred miles distant from the location of the claim, that obstructed the breaking down of stage ches and a number of other causes have conspired to delay and prevent applicants from reaching their desti- nation on the day specified. The late rulings of the department which made readvertisement and another journey at the end of thirty days necessary have often compelled homesteaders and pre-emptors to pay out more for traveling than the en- tire money value of their claim, while putting them and their witnesses to great and needless expense. It is to remedy such cases, now yearly growing less as the frontier is settling up, that Senator Paddock’s bill has been intro- duced. It will doubtless receive the en- dorsement of the land department, as it will that of honest settlers everywhere throughout this section of the country. ——— Free Trade-Protection. Has the general prosperity of the peo- ple in the United States during the past twenty-two years resulted from our war tariff as claimed by many of the high tariff advocates? The argument advanced in support of this claim may be stated in a nutshell: “We are a prosperous people—we have a high pro- tective tariff; therefore, a high protec- tive tariff makes a highly prosperous people.” As well argue: We are a highly prosperous people—we speak the English language; therefore, to become a highly prosperous people, a nation must speak the English language. Or, “We have no ‘God’ in the constitution, therefore keep God out of the - constitu- tion if you would become a prosperous people!” What are the facts? Asa nation we .are not, correctly speaking,a protective tariff people. The United States of America is, to-day, as nearly a ‘‘free trade” country asany nation in the world. Our wonderful increase in wealth and material development has resulted from the inherent energy of our people and the untrammeled freedom of trade bo- tween the different sections of our country, and this in spite of the clog imposed on our prosperity by the tariff. Had there been a more reasonable tariff our growth, increase in wealth, and in the general comforts of life, would have been much greater. Thisis clearly es- tablished by the more rapid progress we have made fin all thesé respects since the republicans reduced the tariff, and corrected some of its abuses, four years ago. Free trade involves not alone the absence of legal restrictions, or tariff on merchandise, but ‘‘something to trade™ and facilities for that something to reach a market where it can be “traded.” We have, as a nation, more “to trade” than any like population on the face of the globe, and have better and cheaper facilities for getting this ‘‘something” to a satisfactory market—our home market. The volume and value of our foreign trade sinks into comparative insignificance in eontrast with the do- mestic or inter-state trade, and, be it re- membered, this inter-state and domestic trade is absolutely free trade! Let those who are fearful of free trade think of this: We are to-day a greater free trade country than England, and the Cobden club did not contribute one cent to make us s0. In contrast with this free trade coun- try oxamine the condition of our sister republic — Mexico, a thoroughly tariff protected country—a highly protected country. The peace tariff of Mexico would laugh at the puny pigmy of a war tariff which we impose, and complain about, They have a na- tional tariff as a fringe around the bor- der, including duties on both imports and exports (formerly eight per cent on gold and silver coin exported),and inter- state tariffs—the lines cutting bias, in scallops, and straight all through the interior. There is no reason, if tariffs create prosperity, why Mexico should not to-day be the most prosperous na- tion on earth, her laboring people the best paid, best clothed, housed, and fed, and withal the most happy and content~ edofall God's creatures. And yet with all the advantages of tariffs with- in tariffs, manufacturies do not flour- ish, her working people are not well paid, clothed, housed or fed. The la- boring man in Mexico who earns seven dollars per month, and boards himself, is exceptionally prosperous. For years Japan was thoroughly well protected. Her people had nocause to complpin of . any discrimination against her infant industries. Her manufacturers had the whole field to themselves, and yot thisabsolute protec- tion the people of Japan enjoyed did not make them rich, prosperous, or happy. The Japan laborer and artisan were not well paid, elothed or fed. China enjoyed a similar protection for hundreds of years, yet labor is cheap in China, so cheap that the government had to coin a piece of money so small that it takes more than one hundred of them to be equal to our one cent coin, with which to pay them, T'he lesson from all this is that some foreign trade is better than commercial 1solation, and that absolute free trade, as shown by our extensive inter-state free trade, is not so fearful a thing as its name would imply, nor so dangerous as interested parties would like to make us believe. We cannot, even if we would, have free trade with foreign states. Our ob- ligations to certain industries long fos- tered by the tariff, forbids taking away this artificial prop before they have prepared for the change, which must be gradual. ‘We cannot have free trade with for- eign states, on account of the revenue required to defray the expenses of the general government, pensions for men disabled in the war, interest on the na- tional debt, ete. We should not have free trade or any other kind of trade with foreign nations which discriminates against Amer enterprise, or the American people in any manner whatever. But we may hope for such revision in our tariff laws as will limit, as a ma. mum, duties to fifty per cent on foreign cost, and the free importation of ar- ticles of necessity. We may also hope for such reduction in the rev- enue as to prevent the accumula- tion of a large surplus, —— Plain Comparisons. For the benefit of Mayor Broatch and the city council, the BEE will make a fow comparisons in support of its charge of reckless municipal extravagance. During the fiscal year ending July 1, 1886, the expense of the comptroller’s office aggregated $2,864.76. For the year ending July 1, 1887, the expens of the comptroller’s office aggregated $#5,604.83. For the six months ending January 1, 1888, the expenses of the comptroller’s office were $3,139.30. The expenses of the city clerk’s office during the year ending July 1, 1886, were $3,202.66, During the year fol- lowing they had increased to $4,971.13. For the six months ending with the 1st of Junuary, 1888, the city clerk’s ex- penses aggregated $3,598.79. The city treasurer’s office expenses during the year ending July 1, 1886, were $4,719.30. For the year ending July1,1887, the city treasurer’s office is charged with $6,287.46. For the six months ending December 81, 1887, the city treasurer’s office has drawn $3,961.79: The office of superintendent of build- ings for himself and all assistants re- ceived $2,448.25 during the year ending July 1,1887. Between July 1, 1887, and January 1, 1888, the superintendent of buildings has drawn out of the treasury $2,655.85. f These figures speak - for themselves. The comptroller’s. office has drawn $274.54 more out of the treasury during the last six months than was paid out of that office during the whole year of 1886, The city clerk has drawn by $300 more money out of the treasury for him- self and deputies for the last six months than was paid to him for the whole year ending July 1, 1886, and within $1,400 as much for the last six months as he drew for the whole year ending July last. The treasurer has drawn nearly 34,000 out of the treasury during the last six months, independent of delinauent taxes, when the law allows him only $800 for himself and 8700 for clerk hir As 0 the superintendent of buildings comment is unnecessary. These are four of the tax-ecating de- partments. The question is, how much longer are the tax-payers of Omaha to be snh]ccu.d to such wanton uxtrmu- gance? Tue resolutions presented house of representatives last week and referred to the committee on foreign affairs, relating to an adjustment of the fishery difficulty and the question of un-~ restricted trade between the United States and Canada, have served to re- new interest in these matters. The au- thor of the resolution, Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio, is confident that they will en- counter no serious opposition. He says there has been a vigorous growth of sentiment favorable to commercial union, one conspicuous illustration of which is in the fact that the policy re- ceived the unanimous endorsement of the national board of trade. There is no doubt of its having the sup- port of a large body of the Canadian people, among them a number of representative men of prominence both in official and pri- vate life. In fact, the evidence is that there is far more interest in behalf of commercial union among the Canadian people than there is in this country, the ultra protectionists here not regarding the matter with favor. Mr. Butter- worth, however, insists that the pro- posed poliey will subserve rather than prove inimical to protection, to which he is as fully devoted as any man., He thinks it will ba a great advantage to the protective system to extend it around Canada and open up to our people that market and that source of supply. If as expected the foreign affairs committee reports favorably on the resolutions before it, the question of commercial union with Canada will take a leading place in public attention. in the Ir all the advantages that are claimed for the proposed Nicaragua canal should be realized, its construction would be one of the most important en- terprises’of the age. It is said for it that it will make Chili, Peru and Ecua- dor commercial neighbors of our gulf ports, and a trade will be croated be- tween them which, by reason of the fa- vorable circumstances, will exclude all rivals. It will bring Callao four thous- and miles nearer to Liverpool than the routé by way of the straits of Magellan, Three-quarters of the existing com- merce between the Atlantic and Pacific ocenns is to and from the ports of the north Atlantic and north Pacific. For all this trade the eanal will shorten the water route by seven thousand miles, The already rapid development of Cali- fornia, Oregon and Washington must, from such a facility of traftic, take a wonderful inerense of impetus, particu- larly in the leading articles of wheat and lumber, now amounting to many millions annunlly. The lumper trade of Oregon and Washington presents the most notable development of any line of commerce during the past year. 1In 1886 the whole shipment wassix million feet. Last year the shipment averaged four million feet per month, or eight times the total of the previous year. The trade of the present year will probably be double that of last. The canal would quicken the commercial life of Mexico and Central America, and their wants would be supplied from our adjacent ports, while their productions would find in those ports a ready and profitable market. Such promises certainly ren- der this scheme a most interesting one, and give force to the proposition that this country ought not to permit any other nation to secure control of this voute, which it is said both England and Germany would like to do. I1 is understood that the general con- tents of the new tariff bill which the ways and means committee will report have been agreed upon and are now being talked over among revenue re- formars with a view of getting the bill into such shape that it will command the full support of the largest possible number of democrats, Tt is said that the bill, as it now stands, will put wool, salt, coal, lumber, hemp, jute and some other raw mate , including chem- icals, on the free list, and cut the daty onsugar 25 per cent and the duty on rice about the same amount. It will rear- range the duties on woolens and wor- steds so as to make them uniform, and this rather by lowering the duties on woolens than by raising the duties on worsteds. Reductions will also Dbe made on other ne- cessities. The schedules covering silks, jewelry, fine china and glass, liquors, cigars and otherluxuries have heen left practically untouched. The bill will also cut down the taxes on tobacco and fruit brandies. It will contain as well the Hewitt adi strative reforms. The total reduction in revenue to be effected by the bill,as it at present stands, would be about $70,000,000. A minority measure is also heing framed and will be brought forward by the r publican members of . the ways and means committee. It is understood that this will propose the repeal of the tobacco taxes and the reduction of the sugar duties fifty per cent, with, or without, compensatory bounties to the Louisiana sugar men, which would still further reduce thé surplus. The inten- tions of Mr. Randall have not been dis- closed, and the revenue reformers do not appear to be' greatly concerned re- garding them. —— Tuk remarks made by Chairman Bal- combe, of the board of public works, to a representative of the BER, are significant. In direct violation of the restrictions imposed by the charter, overlaps have been created in every fund and department of the city. The ex- cuse of the council is, that the demands of our rapidly growing city made it necessary to extend sewer, pav- ing and fire limits. The council knew that it was committing illegal acts in exceeding the appropris tions for the year. Still, the council went on overriding, in many cases, the veto of the mayor in pushing forward contracts for public work. As Mr. Bal- combe has well pointed out that if this reckless policy is continued the cost of any public work will be increased fully 25 por cent, as contractors will insure themselves agamst the uncertainty of payment, long interest, and losses. The time has come for a halt, and for a thor- ough investigation. A YOUNG lady, daughter of a member of the board of education, is circulating a subscription paper among the teach- ers for a present to the principal of the high school, who receives a big salary. He does not need any present, and, as a matter of principle, should not receive gifts, It strikes us that it would be much more appropriate to change that subscription paper for the benefit of the fund being raised for Miss Shattuck, Miss Royce, and Miss Freeman. PROMINENT PERSONS. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett,who is now living at Florence, Italy, expects to remain abroad two years, Josie Mansfield, who caused the deadly feud between Fisk and Stokes years ago,now lives in Baden-Baden. A Washington gossip remarks that Sena- tor Hearst, of Califordia, is not “‘a thing of beauty and a joy forever” in a dress suit. Charles Stewart Parnell is frequently seen at present in Rotten Row, Hyde Park, Lon- don,mounted on a big bay horse and wrapped in & enormous ulster overcoat. There are four men in the house who part their hair in the middle. They are Raynor and Belmont on the democratic side and Phelps and Longon the republican side. Ex-Governor Alger, of Michigan, is said to own over one hundred square miles of forest land near Alpena,. .bearing more than 500,000,000 feet of standing pine timber. In the February number cof the North American Review is an able and interesting article on “Serpent Myths,” from the pen of Varina Anne Davis, ddughter of Jefferson Davis. Samuel Spencer, the new president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, receives a rsalary of §25,000 ayear. Less than twenty years ago he was a roadman on a salary of about $600 a year. Governor Fitz Hugh Lee, of Virginia, is said to be completed spoiled by his political elevation. He is a man of only mediocre ability, and even the democrats say he has become very unpopular, Lot Flannery, the Washington sculptor, made a plaster bust of General Logan just after the war. It was the only bust ever made of the famous soldier, and was a correct and artistic likeness. Mr. Flannery is now re producing this bust in marble, and the result of his work will be presented to Mrs. Logan by a friend. Charles Arbuckle, the wealthy coffee mer- chant, against whom Miss Campbell recently obtained a verdict of $45,000 damages for breach of promises, has had a disastrous nan, but has lost a good deal of money in the last twelye months. He was largely inter- ested in M 1 house at Chey- enne, Wyo., d its doors last suin- mers, —_—— Strange Sights in the South. A gentloman at the Atlanta (Ga.) custom house suid recently: “I have been Lere five years, and I saw somethiug the other day which I have never seen before. T saw a jury in the United States —— The Champion Anti Boston Globe, The Astor family gathers wealth as it ages. The Astors are reported to own 8,000 houses in New York city, and the combined wealth of the family is estimated at 400,000,000, This is increasing at the rate of 13,000,000 annually RN E— How to Reform Train Robbers. Peoria Transeript. For the last three years the train robbing indusiey in Missouri has been laboring under serious disadvantages and is not characte:- its old-time L and sang froid. seemingly, goes to show that the right o reform a train robber is to give him a federal office. Trying on the Thermometors. ago Tribune, Fort m,u,m cun probably claim the honor of the widest range of temperature of any place on earth. On the oceasion of the great storm of last weck the thermometer marked 65 below. During the hot weather of last summer it ranged from 120to 180. This kes & range of 105 degrees within the PR — A Compliment From Philadelphia. Philadelphia Record. The Ovans Bik has published a large pic- torial sheet illustrating the growth and pros- perity of Omaha. But the Bee modestly omits all reference to its own mighty efforts. 1ts fearless criticisms and its jealous care of the best intercsts of Omaha have contributed largely to the rapid development of that ity P A A Distinction Without a Difference. Jowrnal of Education. Generally speaking, the gentleman who has just accepted a position is not a bit hap- picr about it than the man who has just got a job. SO T In the Way of Civilization. Indianapolis Jowrnal, Prohibition, as a factor in national polit holds out no prospects whatever of practical reform, and is likely to become memorable simply as an obstacle and hindrance to politi- cal und moral progres: New Every Morning. Susan Coolridge, Every day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new, You who are weary of sorrowing and sin- ning, Here is a beautiful hope for you; A hope for me and a hope for you. All the past things are past and over, The tasks are done and the tears are shed. Yesterday's errors let yesterday covers: Yesterday's wounds, which smarted and bled, Are_healed with the healing which night has shed. Yesterday now is a part of forever; Bound ‘up in a sheaf, which God holds tight, With gl day s, and bad days | n it us morc with their bloom and their blight, Their fullness'of sunshine or sorrowful right. Let them go, since we cannot relieve them, Cannot undo and cannot atone; God in his mercy receive, forgive them ! are our own, day is ours, and to-day alone. Here are the skies all burnished brightly, Here is the spent carth all reborn, Here are the tired limbs springing lightly To face the sun and to share with the morn In the chrism of dew and the cool of dawn. Every day is a fresh beginning, i ¢ soul, to the glad refrain, And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning, And puzlles forecasted, and possible pain, Take heart with the day, and begin again! STATE HRI:HT()“Y. Nebraska Jottings. Red Cloud has invested in a street railway. Grand Islanders are piety with sugar beet. The swamp angels of Florida are weaving nl:ltu"lrv wreaths for the Ne- braska editorial éxcu i terview with an alli of improved circulation. The South Sioux City in the meridian of prosperity. est number was a spotless si page number loaded with huge aad perspiring columns of news and comment, The anti-saloon element in Dakota City has closed up the last groggery in town and the municipal pump and boot- legs are booked for a flourishing trade. Relief is also expected from liberal consignments of Jackson’s fighting forty-rod. The Nebraska City board of trade has I‘lClL\‘(] the following officers for the . S. Hawley, president; Robert ]'uvm, first vlcu‘s dent; A. Heller, second vice president; H. S, Schwind, secretary; Julian Metealf, treasurer. D. P. Rolfe, J. W. Stemnhart, M. L. Hayward and'S. T. Davies, Ddard of directors. The Chadron Journal is out in a mid- winter illustrated edition in cheerful colors, coupled with “*a convincing array of facts about the resources and pros- pects of a city of destiny and a land of fatne Chadron is the capital of Daw v, is thirty-two months old, population )0, real estate valuation #971,790, and claims to be “'the queen of the western kingdom.” County wars are raging fearlessly in Sheridan Greeley and Perkins counties. Although the frost has congdaled the earth to a depth of four feet, it has no pereeptible cffeet on the quadity and quantity of mud thrown. Rival accounts agree that the rank and file of the fac- tions are knaves, imbeciles, thieves and ley A municipal campaign in Omuhais o love feast in comparison with a moderate county seat war. taking their lowa ltems. A late census gives Clinton a popula- tion of 16,000, Oskaloosu is palace. going to build a coal Coal is king down there. Congress has chartered another bridge over the river at Burlington. The Central Towa has arecord of not a single pussenger being killed in the past ten years. The people of Lee county are getting tired of their double-barrelled county seat, and are asking the legislature to abolish it. The costs in Indianola’s celebrated calf case are now over #400, exclusive of attorneys’ fees, and the ownership still undecided The lowa soldiers’ hom oresented with twenty 'l)fl' mats for front of heds by lh-- |ll4|h- of F. M. Thomas W. R. C., January 24. Judge Kinne at this January term of court in Benton county fined nine dif- ferent parties for selling liquors, to the nmuulll of $1,400. The lowest amount en any one was $400 and the highest tl,w Farmers in the vicinity of Waterloo > inma Mes we are losing a great _many cattle from a strange malady, No one seems (o know anything about it and the state vet narian has been called upon to- investi- gate, A young man named Duffy, of Towa county, took n shotgun to sehool and hid it in a brush heap, intending to shoot rabbits on the way home. He pulled the gun out of the brush by the muzzle and got a load of shot in his groin and abdomen. The wound is fatal, Prophet Foster, of Burlington, has in stock the following February weather: he month will open with mild weather, with a storm about the 1st. 1t is expectod to bo o northern storm. The subsequent storm dates for this are Februa 29, The disturbance on (Im 15th w pect to be a heavy storm with a south- erly course, and will be followed by very cold weather between the 16th and the 20th. Therve will be & warm wave pre- ceding the storm of the 2ith, followed by sudden changes.” Dakota. Sorghum is suid to be a practical erop in Dakota. he location of the North Dakota ag- Itural fair for 1888 will not be fixed until April 10, Black Hills papers deny in the most emphatic manner that there has been any serious loss of stock asa result of the storm. The treasurer of Hyde county got away with $11,059. The county expects to realize $8,000 from the trensurer's property, put up as security, The Sioux [ndians have elected twelve delegates, one from each tribe, to repre sent the nation at Washington on the opening of the reservation The artesian well at Plankinton is about the only thing in that country which the cold did not effect. It spouts as perennially &s though it were gentle springtime. There are four prisoners in the ter torial penitentiary at Sioux Falls d ing pensions from the government. One gets $25 per month, another $12 a month, and the other two $ a month each. Twenty dollars will be awarded and paid by ‘the Rapid City board of trade or the best slabof marble procured from a quarry within ten miles of Rapid City before Mareh 1. The slab must be at least four feet long, two feet wide and at least two inches in thickness. It must be polished on one side and the edges, und it is to become the property of theboard for exhibition there or else where, ASPHYXIATED. Remarkable Escape From Death By Mr. and Mrs. Penrose. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Penrose had a narrow escape from death at their home on the corner of Leavenworthland Twenty-fifth strects, Sun- dayinight. In their sleeping apartment they use a hard coal base burner. The stove stands but a few feet from the head of the bed, and last night, being rather warm, the fire was allowed to smoulder, and just before retiring Mr.Penrose shut off the draft in both stove and pipe. This action came within a hairs-breadth of costing the couple their lives. Mr. Pen- rose awoke about 6 o'clock in the morning, but he was not at all himself, his limbs ~ scemed benumbed, his brain in a _whirl and he imagined he was suffocating. He aroused his' wife or rather attempted to, and sprang from the bed, but only to fuli headlong to the fioor insensible. A few moments later a domestic, perplexed at the non-appearance of the mistress of the house, who is usually an early riser, up- pearcd at the door to summon the couple to breakfast. She knocked several times with- out receiving a response, and then, in much misgiving and alarm, opened tne’ door and looked within. She beheld Mr. Penrose out stretehed upon the floor, and jumping at the conclusion that he had been ‘murdered — she rushed frantically from the house. The true condition of things was soon made clear. The lady and genfleman were asphyxiated with the gases and fumes from the smoulder- coal, which had accumulated un- it ‘was a difficult matter for even those just from the fresh airto breath. ose and wife were carried into an- other part of the house, those present labor- ing under the idea #hat both were dead. However, a physician was called, and after a brief delay Dr. Jared Ayres arrived. Mr. Penrose was speedily aroused, but it was quite a long time beforo the physician would even give forth any hope of resuscitating Mrs. Penrose. . She was in an extremely crit- ical condition. At last, however, the labors of the doctor and his willing ussistants, were rewarded by the lady opening her eyes, and ter to her full restoration to consciousness. She was very weak, however, and unable to rise, and it will be several days before she can completely recover. QUESTION OF OVERLAPS. The Mayor Recurs to the Matter With a Few Facts, Mayor Broatch was scen yesterday by a Bie reporter, and questioned with respect to the overlap in the fire-department fund, es- pecially inconnection with the showing of the same, as made on Saturday by Comp- troller Goodrich. He said that he had no reason to change his mind, and_that the re- port which he would soon give to the public, would show that what he had first said about the overlap, and which was published in the Bee was correct. The report or statement, warding not only the fire, but also the po lice department, he said he would have ady to-morrow. The mayor also claimed that the examina- tion of the records proved conclusively what he had pointed out in August last. At that time he votoed several grading ordinauces for the reason _that the reckless manner in which they had been passed_created an over: lap. He then claimed that if more vigilance was not exercised there would be an overlap of from $40,000 1o $44,000, The mayor says that the real figures of unwarranted expend iture is greater than the last sum, so that there is nothing left for grading this year. A MIDNIGHT THI Policeman Mannell Discovers Why His Coal Bin Grows Empt, Richard Mannell, one of the new police- men, keeps his coal 1n a large box in the lot on which his residence is located. Lest thieves might carry away the fuel Mr. Man- nell has kept a padlock on the box, but in spite of this precaution the black diamonds kept disappearing night after night. Mr. Mannell determinea to watch the coal-box night. Shortly after midnight a man the yard from the rear and made straight for the coal-box. Taking a key out of his pocket he unlocked it, and then pro. ceeded to fill two large baskots that he had brought along. Mr. Mani waited until the thief had closed the box and was ready to depart before stopping him. Just as the man reached the middle of the yard the po- liceman confronted him, and to his great sur- prise found that the thief was & near neigh bor of his, and & man who stands high in the neighborhiood. Mr. Mannell contented him self with kickiug the man into the street and will not prosecute. The High S¢ ‘There are several men now atwork placing tly purchased ¢ The the fourth story, from whic nection is made with th works the hanas. The Mhon: Thoy are soven fect in diamoter and painted bluck, the number and hands being of gilt. 1t will require about week to get the clock in condition to rm, and the cost will be about 1,200, Th s were made by @ Boston manufactur Air Brake cti The “instruction ear’” of the Westinghouse Air Brake company ar over the Union Pacitic, and nearly all day at the upper duetors and brakemen v carand listened to @ was at yards. Con into th THRILLING EXPERIENGE, Of Au Herolo Engineer in His Combat With a Relentlesas Enemy Devold of Either Heart or Conscience. Plain Unvarnished Facts Which Which Clearly Demonstrato that People Sometimes Do Them- selves An lnjustice, —_— One of the happlest young men fn Omatin to- day is My ryin, who recuntly arived Steel company's w RS At Pa his countenaice beaming With sitistiod k. and inquiring the cause of the v ears, during which time s Which the tongue s inad Taving duving that time been troat promivent physicians, and nsed structor,and given practical examples of how to work the brakes. 's without stint, all of which falled to do me in fact, life hecame almost s burden, th had extended fnto the bronehiai tod blood, had nighy sWeats, and was on the roud to consuimption, e, nose all stuffed up froma constant deipping from the head fnto the throat, sometimes profuse, watery and K, (enicions mucns, puri- ;my eyes weak watery ¥ SR o Tust. DN YOATS don and coughtie to clear at; expectorations lnpll\:r withScabs from ulce A nasal twang, bre nh Yory offe taste gone, u sons ntinued Mr. Trvin, 1 was acquaint- VLl numbor of people In’ tho cast who hid £, and noticed their hiv pa 1 mude if under their caro thing for me. After nidnntion they told me the drums d that, in their opin- entirely restored; | The doctor washed my ears out with rome Kind of ofl_and warm Jater, after which L passed & prolio of some kind into m He then difuted my ears ever the divections vory minntely, and now, at the ex. plration of ivé weeks, 1w entiroly cured, and 1y thaukful for the great blexsing of health bestowed upon me by Drs. McC)y and Henry's treatment. 1 can unreservedly recom- mend them to any one troubled with chronfe atarrh. No disease,” continued Mr. Irvin, “1s 80 common, more deceptive, dangerous and less understood, or more unsuccessfully treated by Irvii 15 an exceodingly well fnformed and can be found at 1 Blice Where e Will fully cotroborate the above. Signal Dangers Which Are Mado Known Before Consumption Avpears. th of time people Teetion- and. the dix 1, the catarrh fnvari- are subjec case has heen left, uncur ably, sometimes slowly, extends down the wind- pip'and into the bronchial tubes, which tubes convey the alr into the different’purts of the The tubes become affected from the swel {og and mucus arlsing from catarrh, and msome instances become plugged up %0 that the air cannot get in a8 freely as it should. Shortness of breath follows, and the patient breathes with labor and with dithicult In other cases there is a sound of cracking and wheezing fnglde the chest, At this stage of the disease the breathing is usually more Tapid thun when ih health, The patient a1so has hot flashes over his bod The pain which accompanies this condition fs of a dull character, felt in the chest, behind tho breast bone or under the shoulder blade. The pin may come und go-last a fow duys and then absent for several others. e cough that oc- curs n the irst stuges of bronchlul catarrh s dry, comes at intel s hacking in charactor and usually most t D Dtekonte 1 the morning on arising or going to bed at night, and it may be the first evidence of the disease extending i the Tungs. At first there may be nothing brought up by the cough; then there (% a little tough, tenacious mu- cus. which the patient finds great difliculty in bringing up. Sometimes there are fits of coughing fnduced by tough mucous—so violent as to_ cause vomit: ing. Luter on the mucous that i3 raised s foun t xmall particles of o hat the small tube 1. With this thete are o xod with the mucous v Tn some caxes small masses of cl spit up, which, when pressed between the rs, emita bud Gdor, Tn other cases prticlos respitup: e euisitig iy lumis indicates serious mis chief wt work into the In_ som end into the Tungzs inn § ¢ cuses it muy b months or e CUse utticks the lungs su ) CAUSO Ko us inters ence with the general hoalth, Wien the dieasso 1 o such i polat e, ptient is suid catarrhal consumption. With hronchial catarrh there is more or less fover which differs With hie different parts of the duy —slight in the morning, higher in tie afternoon and evening. Sometimes during the day th atlent has T During the night, near the ing dry ho sweats, Such sweats are ruing, there m; n as night pulse s ust t pa mus ‘les gradually aw ' L0t radtially regatis some of s strength, only to lose it again. ‘A weak stom ich 18 a dislike for food, which seems to have 108t its taste, oauses the patient to think he has a disease of the stomach insteud of the lungs. Wit theso diarel {is some distur e aa ok lore s i hurning Dain In the throat with nmuuu, 1 swallowlng, DOCTOR J, CRESAP McCOY, Late of Bellevue Hospite!, New York, AND Dr. Columbus Henry (Late of Univers HAYV of Pennsylvania~ OFFICES No. 310 und 311 IN RAMGE BUILDING, Corner Fifteenth and I1a where all curable culiar to the CURED. NSILTATION at offic 9t 11w m ) 4.1, T 08 Py ompt attention, inswered unless secomp stters to Drs. McCoy as Addre 10 Henry ooms 310 and 31l Ramge buildiag, Neb, Omnhing