Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 16, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF RUBRCRIPTION. Daily (Morning Edition) nclud! n Y ear ¥or Three Month i W The OUmaha Sunday Bex, mailed to any ad- Aress, One Year................coccooeo... 200 OMANA OFPICE, NOSOUANDO1 FARNAM STREET. FORK OFFICR, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNK LDING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 613 FOURTEENTH BTREET. CORRESPONDENCE. Ali communications relating to news and edi- toriul matter should be addressed to the EpiTor OF Ttk DEE, " BUSINESS LETTERS. All bustness letters and remittances should bo dressed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Drafts, checks and postofiice orders t6 s piyable to the order of the company, E. ROSEWATER, E THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Etate of Nebraska, a8 County of Douglass, (%% Geo. . Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- Jishing company, does solemnly swear that the uetnal cirewation of the Dutly Bee for the week ), 1888, was us follows: . 4 Sunday, Mondiy, . Tuesday, Feb, 7. Wednesday, Feb, Thursday, Fel Friday, Féb. 10 Average. fworn to and subscribed In T b 1ith day of Fehruary, A, D,, 18 pence thils Notary Publie.” State of Nebraska, bous County of Douglass, {58 Geo. B. Taschuck, being first duly sword, de- jotes and says that he {8 secretary of ‘The Hee Fuiiishing compuny, that the actual average aily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of February, 187, 14,178 copies; for March, 1867, 14,400 coples: for April, 187, 14316 coples; for May, 166, 14527 ‘coples: for Jrne, INT. 14,147 coptis: for July, 1657, 14010 coptes? for Augist 1897, 14,161 coples; for Beptember, 1887, 14,340 coples; for October, 1887, 14,383; for November, 1867 coples; ' for 'December, 187, 15,041 copies; " for January, 18, 1206 coples: GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bwor and subscribed to in' my presence ils 20 day of Jantary, A. D, 188, N.P. FEIL, Notary Public. Ir¥ the cable and horse car companies were consolidated would there be so many collisions between the cars of the two lines? e—— THE particularly perplexed people are those who have been for Blaine “‘first, last, and all the time.” It is generally convenient to have a second choice. — THE Cleveland Leader;which has al- ways had a warm side for Blaine, now calls upon the republicans of Ohio to rally to the standard of Sherman. PETROLEUNM, it is said, has been found in paying quantities in Indian territory. This discovery will greatly facilitate the manufacture of Oklahoma corn- juice. — COUNCILMAN SNYDER very sensibly withdrew that junketing resolution. It is a wise man who knows when he has made a mistake and knows enough to correct it. Now if Cleveland will write a com- panion piece to Blaine's recent letter, Peiterating his adherence to the one- term idea, we shall have a political sit- uation that is just too interesting for Maything. LOCAL qoption has been tried with good rebults in many counties in Michi- gan. The verdict is cumulative that no better method has been devised for dealing with the liquor question than local option working in conjunction with the high license eystem. — THE general passenger agents for the various western roads have just agreed upon the tourist rates for the coming season. The fare to Chicago and return from this city will be sixteen dollars. ‘Why not make it sixteen dollars the year round for everybody that buys a round trip ticket? Tug farmers of Minnesota want a re- vision of the tariff and have asked their representatives in Washington to do all in their power to effect reform. They are not alone in this demand. Western farmers generally know whut is pinch- ing them and are daily growing more determined in theirattitude against the war tariff, SE—— THE Minneapolis Zvitune thinks the entire west shoula rally to the support of Senator Allison as its candidate for the presidency, and gives some cogent reasons for its opinion. The Iowa sena- tor is certain to have a great many com- plimentary things said about him dur- .ing the next two or three months. —— Now is the time for employers and employes to agree upon a scale of wages for the ensuing building season. The ‘avoidance of strikes is equally bene- ficial to both. Uncertainty as to whether contracts can be ecarried out paralyzes the building activity and tends to keep the workingmen idle. Both interests would be best served by coming to a definite agreement and adhering to the same throughout the season. THE late Secretary Seward subjected himself to no little adverse comment when he brought about the purchase of Alaska for seven million two hundred thousand dollars. But the sequel has proved that the investment was a profit- able one. The Alaska commercial com- pany has already paid five million dol- lars in seal rents, and last year the ter- ritory produced nearly seven million dollars in furs, gold, fish and lumber. — MAYOR BROATCH is at last beginning to show a little common business sense. Ho now thinks the clerks in the various business departments of the city are being paid salaries that are excessive. But why has he approved appropriations for clerk hire unauthorized by ordi- nance, and even prohibited by the ‘charter, as is the case with regard to deputies in the city treasurer’s office? ‘Why has he not long ago insisted that the charter provision requiring the number and salaries of employes to be . fixed by ordinance be carried into effect? The new charter has now been in force over eight months. Tax-eaters and barnacles have been put upon the city’s pay-roll by the counecil, without even protest from the mayor, and the appropriations and warrants to pay them have been sipned by him. A Cheering Promise. The announcement comes from Wash- ington that Chairman Mills of the ways and means committee has requested several members of the house who have measures entitled to early consideration to have them disposed of in order to clear the decks for tariff action, which may come on ithin a week. There is a cheering promise in this which will be received by the country with grat- ification. The indications until now have been that another month might pnss before the committee would have a bill ready for reporting, and sucha prospect was not regarded with favor. There did not seem to be any suf- ficient reason why the committee should require so great a time as three months in the preparation of a measure of tariff revision, and there certainly was none if the general interest had been considered regardless of special or local interests, Care and deliberation were certainly required, and an excuse may be found in the desire of the com- mittee to present a bill that would have a chance of the approval of all members of the house favorable to tariff reform, but time enough has been spent on the bill to meet every requirement and there will be harm to all interests in a much more prolonged delay. As we stated a few days ago the business interests of the country are waiting to learn what the policy of congress is to be respecting thisover- shadowing subject of taxation, and the suspense is depressing and damaging. All industrial enterprises and all mer- cantile operations ure under a cloud of uncertainty. The country expects that taxation will be reduced and that tariff duties will undergo a revision, but the business interests of the country cannot discount possibilities. Thusa check is placed upon enterprises and upon trade in all departments, and this will con- tinue so long as congress procrastinates with this revenue question. lief will not ensue imme- mediately on the presentation of the measure which the ways and means committee is now preparing, but that will go a long way toward determ- ining the probable outcome of legisla- tion on this qucsfinn. and the drift of discussion will speedily enable business to place itself on reasonably safe lines, which, under present conditions, it can- not do. The Mail Service West. y The efforts of democrats in the senate to find some excuse or palliation for the inefliciency of the mail service in the west cannot prove profitable to those in- dividuals or to the party. The factsare too plain in evidence of the incapacity or indifference of the postmaster general to be explained away by such a puerile claim, for example, as that of Mr. Rea- gan that the evil complained of was due to incompetent republican clerks. This is not at all a political matter, as Sena- tor Manderson said, but if democratic senators challenge a comparison of the service under Mr. Vilas and his predecessors there would doubtless be little difficulty in showing that wherever there has oc- curred notable demoralization and in- efficiency they are due to the displace- ment of experienced and faithful re- publican clerks. But the chief cause of the inadequate and faulty mail service in the west ts doubtless to be found in the inordinate desire of Mr. Vilas to make a reputation for the economical administration of the postoffice depart- ment. To accomplish this the mail service in this section was crippled, to the great inconvenience and injury of its people, and now when the senators from this section ask that an inves- tigation be made in order to ascer- tain the cause and the remedy, they are met with such contemptible charges as that of Mr. Reagan that the complaint is made for political capital. The west, however, will persist in its demand unttl the evil it justly compiains of is removed. Perhaps the present postmaster general, with less ambition to pose as a reformer and more concern for the interests and welfare of the people, will make this easy of accom- plishment. S— ‘The Sioux Reservation. The outlook for the opening to settle- ment of the Sioux reservation of Da- kota is very favorable. A bill for this purpose has been reported to the house from the committee on Indian affairs, and a measure having a similar object is on the senate caleadar. The house bill provides for the division of the reservation, by which eleven million acres would be opened to settlement. The demand for this action has been made for years, and the time has cer- tainly come when itshould be responded to. There is no disposition on any hand to do any injustice to the Indians, but to treat them with entire fairness while removing an obstruction to the growth of a great territory which has alveady been a decided drawback and must be still more so in the future. This reservation lies between the east- ern and western portions of the terri- tory, and is at once a standing barrier to emigration and a block to internal improvements. Covering an area of twenty-two million acres, larger than many flourishing states, it is largely under present conditions a waste place, No one pretends to deny that the ex- istence of ‘this great reserve has re- tarded the progress of Dakota, and no one questions that on every practical ground its opening to settlement is desirable, put opposition has been based wholly upon the plea that the government was under a cer- tain obligation to the Indians which would be violated by any interference with the reservation. Argument of this nature must stead- ily lose force with the advancing march of white population and the decreasing area of the public domain. Sentiment must inevitably give way under the ac- cumulating pressure of practical cir- cumstances. The conviction has ob- tained and will not be removed that the’ highest good of the Indians themselves demands that they shall be brought into immediate contact with the obligations and the conditions of civilized life, and taught to understand and assume them. This is what is contemplated in the severalty policy, which has commended itself to the best judgment of the Re-: THE OMAHA country as wise and beneficent. It is obviously absurd to suppose that so large and {nviting an area as'is contained in the Sioux reservation can be perpet- ually kept from settlement in the inter- est of a few thousand indians, and if it is now an obstruction retarding the growth in population and the material progress of the territory the time is already ripe foropeningit. This seems to be the view that prevails in congress and gives favorable promise that a measure for throwing one-half of this reservation open to settlement will be passed at the present session. The speech of the editor of the BEr before the board of trade has created quite a sensation at the court house and’ city hall. City Treasurer Rush attempts to contradict the general charge of ex- fravagance and reckless disregard of the charter, which is tending to bank- rupt the city treasury, and has raised our city and county taxes to over 7 per cent. Mr. Rush assures us that every- thing is going along smoothly, and stoutly declares that Mr. Rosewater has sounded a false alarm. 3 We beg todiffer with our amiable city treasurer. Let us begin with his own office. The charter provides that ‘‘the treasurer shall recelve the sum of $1,400 per annum and sych further compensation or fees as may be pro- vided by law, which shall be in full for his own services; and for the services of any deputy or assistant that may be necessary for the proper transaction of the business of his office he shall re- ceive the sum of $1,500.” The plain intent of this law is that the treasurer, who gets two per cent fees on all delinquent taxes, shall pay out of his own pocket the excess over 81,500 for any assistants he may see fit to employ. This may not be sufficient compensation, but it is the law. City Treasurer Rush has drawn over #5,000 for deputies and clerks in 1887, and ad- mits that he expects the city to vote him $7,000 for clerks and deputies in 1888. But Mr. Rush kindly assures us that the taxpayers know whether the city treasurer and his assistants earn their salaries or not. That is not the question. Nobody charges that Rush and his dep- uties are shirking work, but the ques- tion is what right he has to draw more than the charter allowshim, what right the council has to appropriate a dollar more than the law allows, and by what authority the mayor approves these il- legal appropriations? Mr. Rush tells us that our assessed valuation ought to be fifty millions. We grant that cheer- fully. But the taxpayers of Omaha cannot feel very safe when the council rushes headlong into debt and expends over one hundred thousand dollars above thelawful limit. To be sure the mayor has called attention to the over- lap way back in August, but in Febru- ary he approved the ordinances appro- priating money to pay the over- lap out of this year’s levy. How can our taxpayers feel safe in the hands of a mayor who protests but has notthe backbone to protect them? Only a week ago Monday the council voted to let Brennan out of the city basement contract, which the mayor had refused to cancel last fall because of the palpable rascality of the contractor in using in- ferior materials and doing the work so voorly that it has to be done over again. The mayor went hand in hand with the council boodlers and signed the order to let Brennan out. He did this on the spot within a few minutes after the council had passed the resolution, regardless of ‘the consequences. Now Brennan presents a elaim for 852,000 on a contract which calls for 848,000, and on which there is still over $20,000 worth of work to be done. This is but the natural outcome of tam- pering with the city hall contract, abandoning plans and discharging the architect that protested against the con- tractor’s attempt to swindle the city. ‘With a combination of contractors plun- dering the city by trumping up extras and pulling through enormous appro- priations at every sessiou, with an end- fess list of supernumeraries on the city pay roll, the fast and loose management in almost every department, with a dis- regard of charter limitations, we sub- mit to an intelligent public whether or not we have sounded a false alarm. E—— JOURNALISM has lost one of its best known and most unigue representatives in the death of D. R. Locke, editor of the Toledo, Ohio, Blade, whose nom de plume of **Petroleum V. Nasby” was fa- miliar to every newspaper reader in the country. Mr, Locke had been identi- fied with newspaper work for more than thirty years, but he owed hisfame tothe peculiar ability he developed as a politi- cal satirist, cloaking his pungent thrusts in a homely humor and a faulty orthog- raphy that gave his writings in this live great popularity with the masses. He was the editor of a coun- try weekly paper in Ohio, dur- ing the war, when he begun writing the ‘“Nasby” letters, and up to this time had won no reputation with his pen. He made several successful lecture tours, and about the close of the war became connected with the Toledo Blade, which finally became his prop- erty almost entire. Here he developed superior business ability, and the paper under his management grew to be very profitable. His one other literary achievement was as the author of the comedy ‘*“Widow Bedott,” which had a period of great success under Locke’s personal management, and which he afterwards sold for a generous sum. As his means grew his public spirit grew with it, and the city of Toledo possesses several '~ notable monu- ments of his enterprise. He was for the last two or three years an ardent advo- cate of the temperance cause and did it a good deal of service. A hard worker, with a strong practical side to his na- ture, he was genial among his friends and enjoyed the respect and confidence ofall who knew him. The peculiar productions of his pen that gave him fame had their day and their influence, and there are thousands of readersin Ohio and elsewhere who will sovely re- gret the death of **Petroleum V. Nasby.” —— Mg. FRED NYE comes to the front with a contradiction of the statement made by the editor of this paper that he BEK: THURSDAY, had tried to induce the late Mr. Rounds to use the columns of the Republican in support of the move to annul the city hall plans made by Architect Myers and geta job for Architect Hodgson. Mr. Nye lays great stress upon the fact that he had not written to Mr. Rougds, but had written to Mr. Rothacker. If Mr. Nye had been present at the board of trade meoting he would not have taken advantage of an unauthorized change of copy by the printer. The editor of the BEE made no mistake. Mr. Nye ad- mits that Mr. Hodgson procured a letter from him to Rothacker. He says that Mr. Hodgson told him (Nye) that it was probable that Mr. Myers' con- tract would be annulled, and asked his ‘“‘assistance in securing the job for himself.” Now how did Mr. Hodgson know about the scheme weeks before the council had taken anyaction? ‘What assistance could Mr. Nye render him at that stage unless it was by bol- stering up the whole gang in the coun- cil in their effort? If the move was in the interest of the city what nced was there of star-chamber scheming? COUNCILMAN COUNSMAN wants a sketch drawn of a city building to be located on Jefferson square. We move that a sketch be drawn of certain coun- cilmen with their right hand behind them reaching for a boodle job. THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. So far this month 3,300 men have gone on a strike, The cotton spinning trade in England is improving. The Kanawha coal operators talk of shut. ting down. Borrowers are borrowing little in expecta- tion of lower rates. Quite & number of silver mines in the far west have shut down. A great deal of money is flowing into east- ern banks from the west. The manufacture of odd goods is becoming an important element. A very rich vein of coal six feet thick has just been stéuck in Colfax, IlL. An European zinc syndicate has been formed to last for three years. The capital of a good many rolling mill com- panies is being increased. Quite a number of large mills areto be built in New England this year. The Missouri zinc and lead miners and manufacturers are all quite busy. Paterson rolling mill men are buying gas furnaces from Pittsburg mechanics. Nearly all investors are looking out for in- vestments rather than for speculation. Little towns all through New England are becoming shoe manufacturing centres. St. Louis parties are interested in the do- velopment of new mines in New Mexico. ‘Woolen cloths are'selling for from 5 to 10 per cent less than they were a year ago. In Philadelphia boot and shoe jobbers are beginning to stock up for the spring trade. Large deposits of copper have been dis- covered l\\'emy-fl\‘t} ‘miles west of El Paso. Fall River (Mass.), spinners have secured an advance, and New Bedford spinners are after one. All boot and shoe manufacturers are quite busy in New England. Here they are a little dull. Several new copper mining companies in the Lake Superior fegion are coming into market. | Krupp has just ordered a 4,000-ton forging press from Sheffield. It is worked by two men. New plate-glass works will be started in Butler, Pa., which will be the finest in the country. The boot and shoe manufacturers are able to report an increasing demand for all kinds of products. One hundred and eighty new English cards will be added to a cotton mill in Law- rence, Mass. Extension of steel plants is going on throughout England, and prices have gone up $2.50 per ton. Some British steel-rail makers closed a contract the other day for 20,000 tons for the Argentine Republic at a little under $20. Bostonians are talking about their new process for heating with steam, The pressure on the boilers corresponds to 400° F'. The ten per cent reduction at blast fur- nauces, steel-rail mills and a number of roll- ing mills has been very quietly accepted. There is a nervous feeling among cotton goods manufacturers and buyers in England over the extent of the American cotton crop. The largest glass tumbler ever made—nine inches and six inches across the top—was made at Rochester, Pa. It holds eighty ounces. In New York the demand for men and women's boot and shoe wear, especially for the south, is heavy, particularly for laced balmorals. During the past year textile producing ca- pacity in the south has been doubled, and the wvalue of products has been increased in light proportion. B Remarkable Case of Heredity. Minneapolis Tribune, There is a remarkable case of heredity in San Francisco. Thoe daughter of a policeman there frequently sleeps twelve days ata stretch. e oL LR g A Terrible Prophecy. Washington Critie, A New York boy, whose father was sent to the penitentiary last week, stated in court that he had never heard of God. There is the making of an alderman in that boy. e Training forthe Bills, Boston Herald. : Equestrianism is reported to be all the rage in Washington.”™ There's danger that it may develop a good fiany riders to the ap- propriation bills, [ — A Very Bad Mixture. Philadelphia Press, The capitol at Albany has so far cost the people of New York the enormous sum of $18,000,000, yet it is beginning to fall into ruin before its completion, Too much political jobbery and corruption were mixed up in the mortar, —_—— Brothers, Ella Wheeler Wilcox. ‘There lies in the center of each man's heart A longing and love,for the good and pure. And 1f but an atom or larger part, I tell you this shall endure, endure After the bvdy hll(fnne 1o decay— Yea, after the world has passed away. ‘The longer I live and the more I see Of the struggle of souls towards the heights above, The stronger this truth comes home to me, Tha{. the universe rests on the shoulders of ove— A love 80 limitless, deep and broad That men have realmed it and called it God. And notning that ever was born or evolved, Nothing created by light or force, But deep in its system there lies dissolved A shining drop from the great love source— A shining arop that will live for aye Tho' kingdoms may perish and stars may die. —_—— The Rub in the Rubber Trust, Boston Globe, The new rubber trust is reported to have a working cavital of $50,000,000 and an annval trade of $600,000,000. The latter sum is eyual to about $10 a year for man, woman, and child in tho United States. If the giant monopoly succeeds in doubling prices it will be equivalent to levying an additional tax of #10 a year on each individual. And there's the rub. o — STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. “‘C'ontiguous Bill"’ has an Nye on the Silver Williams of Nebraskans. Good & Good is the extra good name of a flourishing firm in Wahoo. The Missouri Pacific has crossed the Blue river on the way to Hastings. A family near Grant ave in a retched condition from effects of eating canned beef. The rusty bachelors of Oakland will encourage the eligible to pop at & ban- quet on the 29th. Broken Bow factions have compro- mised on the court house_question, and all hands are now pulling the one string. ‘ A jeweler fakir with a trunk load of brass rings and burnished watches, war- ranted notto run, is doing Ainsworth and Brown county. The Chase county farmer who essayed the plowing act on ground-hog day had both arms and one leg amputated to get the frost out of him. The variety, vivacity and vigor of life in Omaha is a daily godsend to the press of Lincoln. It is the one feature of news that illumes and enlivens their otherwise indigestible pages. Rev. Mallory, the “howling cyclone of Nebraska,”” isdevastating the regions of sin in Chadron. Politics and relig- jon fray his collar when in motion, but his best hold is picturing the serpen- tine and the evils of corkscrew. The B. & M. surveying party operat- ing on the propbsed line to the Black Hills, have completed the survey of a good route between Custer City and Hill City, and at last accounts were cross-sectiohing in the neighborhood of Fort Robinson. Adams county farmers say that the ground will be in excellent condition this spring and as there is good reason to believe that the chintz bugs and like insects have been killed by the rigors of winter, we may confidently look for- ward to good crops this year. Charles Spinglion, an_honored guest of the Dakota City jail, has received a touching and tender line or more from relatives in Germany, announcing the death of his father and a fortune of $30,000. This windfall will enable him to steer clear of the penitentiary. L. D. Gordon, of Custer county, while going home Wwith a chunk of beef on’his shoulders, was attacked by hungry wolves and had a lively running fight with the ‘‘varmints.” He crippled one with a_kick and the pack instantly pounced on it, giving Gordon a chance to increase his speed and reach home uninjured. He saved the beef. J. M. Shurtz, school teacher at Ra- venna, gave a ‘“‘free show” in town re- cently. The show was intended to mangle the unlaundried linen of minie- ters of the gospel. The results may be judged from the following handbill: **J. . Shurtz will preach a forty-minute sermon on the ‘Rithmetic.’ He will be girded with a remarkable sword, and expects to decapitate two Methodist preachers, who will not be shown any mercy. With the prospect of having the presiding elder z)ruscut, who is in ill health at the Phenix hotel. Also, to stab Rev. Travers under the fifth rib. Luke-warm professors may get hurt if they come toonear. A general on- slaught will be made on them who fear not God and obey not the gospel.” lowsa ltems. Jackrabbits are becoming quite plenty in Towa this winter. This is their first appeurance in the state. The Grand Army encampment at Cedar Rapids will occur April 11 and 12. The lowa Department Sons of Vet- erans and department of Women’s Re- lief corps will convene at the same time. A ne laundryman at Burlington was hn’x{:?fled thu) other day \vhcgnwn small boy entered his establishment and asked him what it would cost to do up half a dozen collars, and a few minutes later returned with a half dozen horse- collars. Stubnose Palmer, a Sioux City school teacher, has been liberally fined in court for flogging two boys. The boys in question took occasion to call Palmer “Old Stub Nose” on the street. They were not in his school, but learning that they were in the public schools, he ascertained which one, and con- struing his jurisdiction asbroad enough for the emergency, he visited their building, called them out singly and applied the birch in the old-fashioned way, and paid for the satisfaction. Two young cattle thieves, who were incarcerated in the Sioux county jail, started for Anamosa last week to serve a sentence of fourteen and one-half months, sadder and wiser men. When they were first imprfsoned they had $100 and a gold watch between them, and finding time hanging heavily on their hands they permitted themselves to be drawn into the mysteries of draw poker, and when they ieft for the pen their fellow-prisoners had th® money and they had the experience. Dakota. The citizens of Sturgis have decided that the bum element must go. The incandescent electric light sys- tem is now in operation at Jamestown. Gerald Pierce, son of the ex-governor, is going to start a creamery at Bis- marck. A bill with an appropriation of 350,000 Las been introduced for the establish- ment of a United States assay office at Deadwood, Six business men of St. Lawrence sub- scribed #3500 each toward a 85,000 cream- ery, the balance being made up in smaller subscriptions, Mitchell has a dental firm styled “Geo. P. Dix & Daughter.” Miss Dix visits several towns in the territory, and “by the use of gas extracts teeth with great pains.” The tin circle of the Harney peak has been completed. Tin has been discov- ered at Hayward. It has heretofore been supposed to form a belt around the eastern, northern and western flanks, but it is now known to form a complete circle arouud the-base of the peak. —_— The Charity Concert. The Omaha bureau of charities gave a grand concert at the Grand opera house to a fair sized audience. It was a demonstratiye audience and encored every number on the programme. The Second In- fantry band rendered three selections in ad- mirable style and was heartily applauded. Madfme Muentefermg rendered two_difi- cult piano solos with _rare ability. Mr. Treynor, of Council Blufts, sang “The Vagabond”’ in magnificent style. The St. Jecelin ladies’ quartette rendered four glees and the audience fairly went wild with en- thusiasm. Mr. B. B. Young sang “Charity” in his usually faultless sty Mrs. Bennet sang Dessauer's *To Sevilla,” and as an en- core, My Heart is " Among the others taking part were Pennell, Mrs. Cahn, all of whom were enth! tically encored. ——— No Safer Remedy can be had for Coughs and Colds, or any trouble of the Throat, than “Brown's Bronchial Troches.” Price 25 cts. Sold only in bozes. SOUTH OMAHA NEWS. T. Armitage is in from Deloit with a car of cattle. J. . Jameson, of Avoca, brought in acar of cattle, C. B. True, of Ewing, had a car of cattle on the market. T. W. McToon, of Blue Springs, is in with @ load of hogs and a load of cattle. F. E. Valentine, of Aurora, is on the market with two loads of corn-fod steers. Judge Reuther is about to take & vacation, l:n(l will leave for Philadelphia in a day or wo. The wife of Fred Nelson, one of the pack- :ng house men, died yesterday of consump- ion, J. H. Blurkhart, of Coleridge, Neb., is on the market with a load of hogs and a load of cattle. Jacob Levy wants to collect 818 from Henry Arkotter for goods sold and delivered, and has invoked the aid of Justice Wells. Ofticer Looney is on_the sick list. Just after reporting for duty yesterday he slipped and sprained his ankle badly. ~Ser- goant Dixon is also confined to his bed, and the force is short-handed. Frank Fite claims to have lost 80 worth of vegetables through a defective cellar built by Frank Pitetka. He thinks Frank No. 2 should be held respounsible, and has entered u suit for damages agaiust him in Justice Wells' court. . Exchange hotel guests y ‘ann, Kennard; Thos. Ar L. kimbree, lowa; T. 'J v were Isane Delot . T. Rickéy, Lyons, Neb.; J. K. enwood, and Miss Martin, Phila- Charles Gossling, a cousin of Sam Goss- ling, the commission , died of pneunionia yesterday, and as he was without means at the time of his dvath, Tom Rock started a sub- scription to defray funeral expenses. Tom had #47.50 collected at noon and started out again, 0 Only one casualty was reported in connee- tion with the masquerade ball, and that is where one of the Reed house boarders impersonated a female so closely that some of the irate ladics threw him down . A bruised face and a trip to the doctor was the result, and he takes na more stock in mas- querades, Mace & Ettinger sued Fred Gr #17.50, recovered judgment with costs r, did not settle up, and a_wrl ion was issued against him. itted constable followed him to o taurant and at the instigation of the atto attached a furtrimmed overcoat and a silk tile, while he was at dinner. The suit will in all probability be settled, John Smith and William Butler are em- ployed in Corrigan's sand pit, and while making their way homewards Tuesday night fell over an embankment on Twenty-sixth street. Smith broke his leg, but Butler was more fortunute, escaping with a few bruises, and being able to go for assistance. The in- jured man was removed to the City hotel, and visited by Dr. Kelly, who recommended that he be removed to the hospital, which was done. Justice Levy is trying another case from the city. Lieber Harding for the last eleven months has been running a junk shop on Cumings strect and paid &0 per month rent. HeWwas also making use of a yard in connec- tion with his shop, and a month ago his land- lord one S. Thomas, asked him for an addi- tional £10 per month for so doing. Not being willing to'pay the increase he intimated that he was willing to vacate, but found that a house in the rear of his shop had been rented and the tenant had stretched a piece of lath across the entrance so as to preven egress or ingress. He had sold some iron, and the teamsters, who called for it, removed the lath, and for this Harding was fined #1 und costs in the polico court. As he caunot move his scrap iron without again rendering himself liable to a fine, he has lost the sale of it, and brings suit for $100 damages against his landlord, who, he claims, has instigated all previous proceedings. THEY ARE NOT VAGRANTS. Some Strange Arrests Recently Made by the Police. L. C. Taylor and Myron E. Cronkhite, of Jones county, Towa, arc in town and intend to stay here for some time. They are in the map business, and since the last week of November last have been selling maps for Rand, McNally & Co. and H. C. Tunison throughout the states of Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. When they struck Omaha they struck a snag, forone Fred S¢hmid had them arrested on the charge of “‘confidencing” him outof §70. The charge, however, was not proven, and the police department entered a socond one of vagrancy, on which they were sentenced to sixty duys, with a third of the time on bread and water, Their attorneys, Mahoney, Minahan & Smith, were convinced of their innocence and furnished them with the bonds necessary to set them free until an appeal could be tuken to the district court. They made use of their freedom by goir'g over to Council Bluffs and obtaining affidavits from a pumber of well known residents with whom they had done business during the week previous to their arrest, and thus prov- ing conclusivelythat they were not by any means vagrants. Among the signatures ob- tained were those of nett, justice of the peace, H. A. Balli Miller, W. F. Henderson, C. F. Hi 'y . Spencer and a number of others. In addition to this they had some five hundred maps at the Union Pacific freight office, and carried watches and a sufticient amount of mone pay all their current expenses, so they fa see how they can by any stretch of imagina- tion be classed under thehead of ‘“‘vagrants.”” Should their appeal be sustained by the dis- trict court it is probable they will try and find out if the city is willing to pay for the time they have lost, and the money they have expended through the officiousness of some of its officials. During the week W. J. Coonch, a Tenth strect barber, and William Hennessy, an em- ploye of the Paxton & Vierling company, were also arrested on the same charge, only tobe discharged us soon as their case was heard. —— MRS. WELCH EXPLAINS, All About Her Visit to a Sixteenth Street Saloon, Mrs. W. P. Welch, who was arrested Tues- day on a charge of adultry with one E. E. Seward and the story of whose sad life was published in the Beg, sent for the reporter yesterday to explain the circumstances under which she and Seward were caught ina Sixteenth street saloon by her hus- band one day last June. She said itwas just after a stormy scene with Mr, Welch, and she left the house. Meeting Mr. Seward on the street, she asked him if he would not take her in this place and get her a glass of beer, for she felt that she needed some stimulant to sustain her. **Now,'’ she continued, “the idea of this man trying to make anything evil of my being in there, when he and | had often been there before, and with Mr Seward, too, who in variably paid for my husband’'s drinks and the lunch we ate upon such occasions. Well, he had evidently been following me, and rushed in upon us in a fictitious frenzy and threatened to knock our brains out with a club he was flourishing. 1 arose, I miud you, not Mr. Seward, and or- dered him to leave, telling him that I had not only taken care of myself from childhood. bot had supported him, too, and was fully able to take care of myself that evening. Of course he being dn arrant coward, left, and that's all there was about it.” “Is that all, Mrs. Welch?" “‘Yes, sir; lnil:sl_v wanted the public to know the truth and the whole truth concern- ing all my actions as a respectable married lady. Mr. Welch cannot produce one particle of evidence against my good name, as you will probably learn at my trial next Friday. G morning.” As Officer Cullen was passing down Fourteenth street, north of Douglas, he was attracted by the suspic- ious actions of au couple of men in an alley. On approaching them they dropped a large bundle and fled. Thoe officer gave chase a short distance, but they disappeared into some obscure re- cess. On examining the bundle the officer discovered it was a coil of lead, It is not known what they intended aoing with ‘it unless they expected to grow suddenly rich by going into the plumbing business. RUMOR GONFIRMED Aud Established to His Satisaction---All the Facts, STORY OF AN ENGINEER, The Report Was Proven True Bevond a Doubt In Every Particular by P s Principally Interested. arch of information concerning an alleged 1o event that happened in the Esmomnd norof Sixteenth and Webster sts, tho his way to that place and met the engineer, Mr. Eugene Mather, who, it had been connectod with the_event. th's door, That was moment’s 1 be willing d T, wis the thotght, he conclude togive for publication wll the facts connecte with the event, **To begin at fhe begnning —" “Well, T ean't sy Just when my trouble originated, but it was something over two years ago that 1 first noticed or le<s tmpul) of the appetite: nasucn miting w lquid containing bile and sour 1 asiness or distress were very much y tongiie was coated and T hid a und my breath Was very offensive, 1 would take cold easy and of recent years was ject to a pain in the frontal region of my ance would frequently have nd 1 felt more or less bilious W burning sensation or a_ feel: ing of heat /n the pit of my stomuch, which was SCNSRIVE 10 Jars or shocks. anellow lon did you say you were in this con: ' M a good while, seven or olgh stren nd at times wou -spirited and pondent, with no ambiticnor energy, Then my mental faculties fa , and it was with the greatest dificult could get my thougtts con- ntrated on one subject long enough to make any explanation 1 desired to impart to any other person, Take it altogether, 1 was in u bad way. Iy stomach at times was in such s condition that it would scarcely retain any food whatever, Sleap didu’t scem to do me much good,and in the morning I would feel as if I hadn't siept at all —more tired than I was when I went to bed_the night before. What sleep I did have was attens ded by some of the most horrible dreams one could Tmagine.” “Can you tell me how it began?" ENGINEER MATHER, “No, not_exactly, trouble soemed slight a first, and I think W v a cold, and T had no iden that it was go v life, bo- cause I paid no attention tothe cold. Hy and by 1 found my nose would nmi! up, first on one side, then on the other, and finally both sideswould be plugged up at the same time I began to have sudden_attacks of dizziness: espectally would this be the case when 1 would stoop down and then rise up quickly. I found that the mucus would drop from thie back part of mY‘ nose into my throat and that,I think, caused the trouble in‘my stomach. At times I would raise consid- able phlegm. 1 was sick anyway and was al- most an invalid for a time, and Suppose that the fear that my lungs were affected made me still more despondent and gloomy than ) other- wise would have bheen.” *And the remarkable event—** “Is myrecovery. That is what I am glad to tell you'about, because I think it 15 of interest to the people to know that there is & gure for such & disease, About two months azo I visited and ‘)llfl‘l‘ myself under Dr. McCoy's treatment. You can see the results for yourself, T n to improve at once, and con'inued to improve right. along until today I feel us much like a new man as the differcnce between daylight and dark- ness. can." continued Mr. Mather, “‘say thore s no doubt in my but that Dr. McCoys treat- ment is both pracitcal and scientific, and that and that every promise he mukes to his patients are fully and flaithfully carried out on his part.” Mr, Mather, as above stated, can be fonnd at the Iismond lotel, corner Sixteenh and Webstor sts, where he will corroborate the ove. The doctor respectfully invites the pub igate the truthifulness of the statements he pub- lishes from weck to week in the daily papers. 1718 NOT “WE CAN” But the Proposition i Done It.”" local dailies not long since had the t Dr.McCoy's offices are both duy ing with patients has been a matter of Kurpri: ac, Who mark the fact that although ho advertises, s advertisements are_characterised by no alluring unrantees. They hud expected, d would be similar to tha * “We Have promises or oubtless, that ursued b making n fe On the contrary, he has not promised, but per- formed. From oit of the hundreds tiat he is treating the statement of one patient has been 3 t months—a ade tiese statements have n unknown. In many cases they hay 1 well-kiiown people, stunding es- Jicially hih in the community. Thetr statoments have heen voluntary and the inquiry they elicited ws that they became matiers of general in- terest, Some time since a lady said: “I would like very much to use Dr. McCoy's treatment, but am afraid to consult for fear he would publish my name.” Now, to ull such persons let the writer here suy that D ‘oy does not publish any person s name without first asking and_obtain- ng the person's consent. Again, he does not publish one-tenth or one-hundreth part of his cuses, nor tters £eom his grateful patients whom he has treated. Dr. McCoy publishes a few statements of sas»s treated by him. He lets his work speak for itself. No one need bo afraid of the doctor’s publishing his name with- out first asking and obtaining bis consent. That Dr. McCoy and his nently loc n the Ramge is assured from the facts that their lease nn contracts are made by the year. During this cold wenther persous are wmore or less troubled with colds, which should be promptly attended to. Consultationat the oflice or un opinion by mail is only #1. The doctor furnishes all medi- cines to his patients, thus avoiding the expense ing prescriptions filled at tho drug stores, tters should be addressed to Dr. J. Cresap McCoy, Kooms 310 and 511 Ramge Block, Omuha, Nebraska, and to insure an an. swer should be accompanied by four cents in Bamps. ¥ . ‘The Plain Truth. When a person with a delica has a tendency to catarth or wheuner this tendency i3 tnlie from taking cold easfly—1t is notic that person fuvariably loses flesh and loses strength, showing that the nutiition is inter- tered with, in such & case the sufferer should at once be d under inftuences thut will restore the de- nutrition and lead to invigorate the con- nstitution . . 1t Is to be remembered that in every case the presence of catarrh s an_evidence of “predispo- itlon to e and no matter how slight the be, it should be treated and the treatment should traces of the catarrh haye tairh 1 allowed to reach the small- % in the lungs—which condition is indi- v pitting up of a yello tention to the trouble wi ‘atarrh is, nine times of ten, the cause that produces consumption, and hece no oe can afford 1o neglect @ case of catarrh, however Slight. 1t s casily cured I taken in time and treated revularly and correctly by n specialist, 1f deft to dtself 1t is rarely cured without s change of climate, but with each new cold it gets more and more troublesome, extending al: Ways & littlo deeper uto the lungs, until @ cure becomes difticult sod sometimes Lnpousibie.