Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 17, 1888, Page 4

'fHE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. “Pafly Morning Edition) including Sunday BEE, One Year .. . £10 For Kix Months . ¥or Three Months. The Omuha Sunda; dress, One Year. . OMAHA OFFICE, NORYIAND 016 FA RS NEw YORR OFFICE, ROOMS 1§ A NE UILDING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 513 'OUITEENTH BTREET, CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and edi- torinl matter should be adaressed to the EDITOR ¥ DEE. N BUSINESS LETTERS, AV business letters and remittandes should be addressed to Tue BEE PrnLisning CovMpaxy, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders to ‘be made payable to the order of the compauy, The Beg Publishing Company. Proprielors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebroska, Lo s County of Douglass, (™% Geo. I3 Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- Hahirg compiny, does solemaly wenr that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Feb. 10, 188, was as follow, Anturday, Peb. 4 gumday, Feb, b onday, Feb. 6 nesduy, Feb, Wednesday, Fhursduy, Feb. 9. day, Feb, 1 Ayerage.. Eworn to and subscribed In my prescnce tits 11th day of February, A. D,, 1888, N. P, FEIL, Notary Public. State of Nebraska, County of Douglass, %8 Geo, B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de- pses and says that he is secretary of The Beo Elhllnlllnu wmpnm{. that the actual average dadly circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of February, 1867, 14,178 copt March, 187, coples; for April, 187, A16 les; for 1680, 14,227 ‘coples: for June, 1847, 14,147 . IRNT, 14,088 coples; for Auglist, for September, 187, 14,340 7 i ! 168, 1 ; for November, 5,226 coples: ' for December, 1887, 16,041 coples; for January, 1888, 15,200 copen; . B, TZ8CHUCK, Sworn and subscribed to in' my presenca tils 2d day of January, A. D. 188, N, P. FEIL, ~ Notary Publtc, THERR is one consolation left to the taxpayers of this city. They bhave courts that will protect them from bood- ling and jobbery. Sps———— IF the managersof the gas company @0 not muzzle their fool friends, and especially Hascall, we may be under the necessity of doing some very plain talk- ing about *‘the boys.” LonnyI1sTs throughout the country are said to have passed a very hard winter. If true this is one of the most encourag- img signs of moral regeneration in poli- ti¢s that have appeared for a long time. S——— ACCORDING to Hascall, the robbers’ roost will not be located on upper Far- nam during the remainder of his term. Nobody expects that it wili, unless the courts order Hascall and the boodle gang located in Boss Stout’s hotel. . HARPER, the wrecker of the Fidelity ‘bank of Cincinnati, says there would be but few national banks in the hands of receivers if the examiners did their duty. This ex-Napoleon of finance can safely be regarded as an authority of bank examination. TE——— THE present political situation gives promise that the next national republi- can convention will be one of the most interesting in the history of the party. 18 will not meet to carry out a cut-and- dried programme, and the chances are that the best man will win. eE———— ‘THE first shipment of beet for Cali- fornia from Kansas City is now on its way. The Pacific merchant marine will soon be carrying meat from tho western states to the orientals, and the great middle west is rapidly becoming the supply station of the world. p——— ROSCOE CONKLING i8 reported to Rave written a letter in which he re- views the whole field of politics. Now Is probably as good a time as any for Mr. Conkling to speak, if ho has anything to say, and he may rest assured of receiv- Ing at least respectful attention. E——— ALL reports that Cleveland is con- templating writing aletter withdrawing his name as a candidate may safely be regarded as mere inveuntions. Grover has too easy a thing on the nomination to refuse it, and it is very questionable #f the charming influencethat is nearest tohis heart and confidence would per- mit him todoso. Mr. Cleveland, it is entirely safe to say, has no intention to emulate Mr. Blain Semr————— SENATOR BLATR, in advocating the ‘possage of his bill for prometing mendi- cancy, proclaimed himself the crank that he is. In trying to explain the op- - position of public sentiment to his edu- cation bill as voiced by the press, he charged that every great iper in the country has a Jesuit om its staft whose business it is 10 strike a blow wherever there was an opportunity at the common school sys- tem of the country. The old man was gertainly driven to a severe strait for argumnent when he made this most ridiculous assertion, and yet there were shirty-nine seimitors who by their vote virtually endorsed it. What wonder that the senate of the United States has almost lost the popular respect and con- fidence. — ¥ris gratifying to learn, on the au- thority of the Montann Live Stock Jour- fal, that the statements which have Been published of large losses of cattle in that territory due to the severe winter weather had no foundation in fact. Having ample means of informa- tion that paper states that there has - Deen no unusual loss of stock anywhere ‘within the limits of the ranges of Moa- tams. On the contrary the losses thus far have been nominal and do not ex- ceed those of the most favorable sea- sons of past years, stoek of all kinds being in excellent condition. Stock- men who have been seen by the Journal say that with a continuance of the present favorable weather or the abseuce of long and severe storms, the percent- age of stock loss for the winter will not exeeed, if it should even reach, two per cent. The same authority states, as to failures, that there has been but one re- corded in the history of the territory, snd that oecurred last summer. On tho whole the situation and outlook of the tle interest of Montana appear to be - M1 that could be reasonably desired. Do the Harmers Want War Taxes? The attempts which are being made by high protection organs to educate the farmers into a support of the contin- uance of wir taxes are decidedly enter- taining. Under the lead of the New York Tribune, which claims to be the special friend of the farmer, while it really voices the wish of plutocrats, the farmers of the east and west have been deluged with circulars calling for their opinion upon tarft reform. Sev- eral thousands of letters from farmers having been collected, a committee has been appointed to digest and publish the results. That renowned agricul- turist **Wood-pulp” Miller, of New York, has been placed in charge and the results may shortly be expected to appear in support of a widesprend de- mand on the part of American farmers for increased tariff protection. It is safe to predict that infelligent farmers of the west who buy their goods in the dearest market and are compelled to sell their products in the cheapest market will not be found bubbling over with enthusiasm at the prospect of a main- tenance of the present war taxes. With every article of domestic consumption enhanced from twenty to one hundred per cent in order to build up the for- tunes of the struggling Bessemer stecl barons, the blanket kings of New Eng- land and the agricultural machinery millionaires of the whole country, the farmers of the west, who are educated and intelligent, are not likely to swing into column behind the henchmen of the various protected monopolies. A few thousand letters from bogus farmers and truck gardeners of the manufactur- ing towns of New England and the mid- dle states will not be swaliowed by the people of the west as the views of the agricultural producers of this country. ‘Western farmers are rapidly becoming educated upon the tariff ques- tion. They have ‘learned that it is a question which affects their pocketbooks most intimately. They have "learned that a seventeen dollar per ton tariff on steel rails means something more than the upbuilding of the iron industries of Pennsylvania and of Illinois, and that the tax thus placed upon the finished product at the outset is continued in perpetual taxa- tion through increased railroad tolls. They have learned through bitter ex- perience that the enhanced cost of rail- road building means an enhanced cost of moving every pound of the products raised upon their farms and an addi- tional cost to every article which enters into domestic consumption. They have found out; moreover, that through the operations of the tariff they are forced to compete in the sale of wheat and grain with the free trade markets of the world, while they are compelled to buy in the home markets where com- petition with the markets of the world is stified through war tariffs and trusts. The demand for tariff reform and a reduction based upon a rational com- parison of the actual cost of production at American wages comes largely from the farmers of the west. They will de- cline to have their views distorted, or their honestly expressed wishes per- verted by such a showing as the New York Tribune proposes to make. They will emphatically protest against being misrepresented by a few leaders or a monopoly journal which is clamoring to-day that the taxes shall be taken off whisky and tobacco in order that thoy may be maintained upon farm ma- chinery, blankets and clothing. When the honest, unbridled expression of the farmers of the west upon tariff reform is heard it will make itself felt on a line entirely different from that which the organs of monopoly are now attempt ing to place. E—— The Blair Bill Passed the Senate. The Blair education bill passed the senate on Wednesday, receiving a ma~ jority of ten in a vote of sixty-eight. Four senators were paired, and four others, including Senator Paddock, of Nebraska, did not go on record. Sena- tor Manderson, of this state, voted for the measure. The result was not unex- pected. Despite all that has been pre- sented of arguments and facts to show that this measure is not required by the section for which it was originally and is still chiefly intended, is not asked for by the majority of the people of that section or of the country,and must have the effect if it should become a law of checking the now vigorously growing popular sentiment in the southern states in behalf of public edueation, it became evident some time ago that the bill would get through the senate, It hasdone so by a reduced majority, demonstrating that the argu- ments and facts have not been entirely without weight, but while a few of the senators who had previously committed themselves to the supportof the measure Mad the courage to change position in manly acknowledgment of the altered conditions, and in disregard of what- ever political considerations may have before prompted their action, most of them adhered to their past course and remain on record in support of thisun- justifiable and pernicious measure. The senate having disposed of this troublesome bill, doubtless to the great relief of that body, it is mow necessary that public sentiment in opposition to the measure shall be brought to bear vigorously upon the house. The likeli- hood of its passing that body is cer- tainly not very great, but it will not be well for its opponents to permit their zeal to be weakened by over-contidence. Having the strength of the argument with them, in whatever aspect the mat- ter is viewed, with new fucts coming forward almost daily to increase the supports of their position, their obvious duty is to continue the fight with added earnestness and vigor. New testimony is steadily coming forward from the south showing that the intelligent cle- mentof the populption there not only does not ask for the govern- ment aid to education provided for by the Blair bill, but believes that such aid would be ultimately damaging in its effects, The superintendent of public instruction of Texas says in a recently published letter that he helieves the bill, if it should become a law, ‘‘would impede the progress of popular educa- tion in the south.” He says further: “The southern states have never been in 80 good a condition educationally as they are at present.. The growth is normal, healthy, and strong. Interest in the education of the masses is greater than it has ever been. Opponeunts of publiec schools have been con- verted or silenced. In the meantime tho spirit of self-help hae grown apace with the rapid industrial developraent.” It is this spirit which it is most desirable to foster, strengthen and build up. “Take out the self-help,” says General Arm- strong of the Hampton school,.*‘and the rest is not worth much. Apply the Blair bill to the southern school system, and it will check the growth of the best thing in southern life, the effort of the people to edueate themselves.” We recently presented some facts from the reports of state school superintendents in the south showing conclusively that public education is making rapid pro- gress in that section, and eclearly evi- dencing that if the people there are al- lowed to manage this matter for them- selves there neced be no apprehension that they will not do so wisely and well, The house of representatives is nearer to the people than the senate, and more susceptible to the influence of popular sentiment. However great the present improbability, therefore, of this objec- tionable mbasure passing the house, there should be no abatement of the ac- tivity and zeal of those who believe that upon constitutional, educational, econ- omic and political grounds this bill is obnoxious and should not become a law. — The Bellwether's Programme. The bellwether of the council is call- ing loudly for the people to attend the taxpayers’ meeting at the board of trade rooms Saturday night. He professes to be anxious to know public opinion about the city hall job, and proclaims himself ready to do what the people de- sire. This is a new departure. When did Hascall ever pay attention to pub- lic opinion, and when has he ever heeded the wishes and protected the in- terests of the taxpayers? How was it during his first term in the council when he was engineering the infamous Holly waterworks job? At that memorable period Hascall kicked the petitions and remonstrances of his constituents of the Second ward under the table without allowing them to be read. In those days the bell- wether and his deluded followers had to go to the council meetings armed with canes, clubs, knives and revolvers, for fear of being lynched by the indignant taxpayers. He defied public opinion, and compelled citizens to seek pro- tection in the courts against him and the boodle gang which Dr. Cushing had subsidized to foist the Holly swindle on this city. Hascall was, of course, re- tired in disgrace when his term closed, by the people, who were disgusted with his villainous conduct. He lay quiet for a few years, and came back again under the pretense of favoring public improvements. No sooner had he reappeared in the council than the old mania for deviltry, rascality and lawlessness took possession of him. Again the petitions and re- -monstrances of the tax-paying citizens were ignored and injunctions had to be procured to keep the bellwether from riding rough-shod over the property- owners who were opposed to the sand- stone paving job. When that term was out, Hascall, as usual, took a rest on the political shelf. For several years he cultivated cherries, raspberries and the Knights of Labor, and spent his energies in his monument- al roadhouse. Last fall he blossomed forth again as the champion of pubhic improvements, and once more was re- turned to the council. No sooner’had he landed on the floor than rascality, jobbery and lawlessness were again rampant. The fight against the police commissioners was followed by the star- vation of the police, and the exposure of the city to thugs, thieves and crooks. Under cover of that conflict the boodle gaug operated very boldly and raided the treasury through contractors and pay roll barnacles. That was the secret of Hascall’s leadership and control of the combine. ‘When the supreme court sat down upon Hascall the combine broke to pieces, and the bellwether was stunned and paralyzed. But he recovered very quick, and took a new tack which re- united the gang that had followed him through the summer. He raised a hue and cry about the city hall foundation, started ascheme of city hall removal, adroitly engineered the scheme to let Brennan out of his obligations, and gave the contractor a chance to present » monstrous claim afainst the ecity. In all those moves Hascall never asked the taxpayers for their opinion. Did ever anybody petition for or endorse the starvation policy? Did ever anybody petition to abandon the city hall until after Has- call had tried to put it on wheels? Have the taxpayers asked to have Brennan and Regan released from their obliga- tions? But now Hascall is anxious to hear from the people and the taxpayers. Does anybody believe him to be sincere? The bellwether’s programme is to have the board of trade "hall packed with the brass band gang and the contractors’ strikers. Instead of hearing what the people and the taxpayers have to say concerning the course of the council Hascall and his mob will monopolize the meeting with abusive harangues to justify their intamous conspiracies against the taxpayers. In other words, Haeeall and his clients, the contractors, are to endorse Hascall and denounce everybody who objects to their piratieal raids upon the city treasury. If Hascall imagines he can dupeand bulldoze the cemmunity he is very much mistaken. He is very nearly at the end of his rope. He may be able to hold the dupes and rogues of the old council and he may be ablo to frustrate the needed coustruc- tion of a public building, but he will not be allowed to bankrupt this city by his boodle scheme: ey——— ‘fhe Darkey in That Woodpile. The darkey in that city hall woodpile has made his appearance on very short notice, Hascall succeeded in hiding him under his “confed” overcoat just long enough to bamboezle Mayor Broateh into signing the resolutions re- jecting Mr. Myers' plans and letting Brennan out of the city hall building contract. Now we have the truein- wardness of the boautiful scheme to en- large the city hall grounds and plant a posey garden on Governor Saunders’ lot. Hascall's client, the late contract- or, comes to the front with his little bill. And these ave the modest figures at which he wants to cancel his late very unpleasant employment. The Regan contract which Brennan assumed included the construction of the sub-basement and basement (o the top of the water table for the sum of #48,640. On this contract Rrevuan has yet over twenty thousand dollars’ worth of work to do and material to furnish, according to Architect Myers' plans and estimates. But Myers having been discharged by the council and the work | stopped by last week's resolution, Bren- nan coolly pretends that the unfinished work can be done for $3,820. Deducting this amount from the original contract price there would be $44,820 due for what Brennan has done. To. this amount Mr. Brennan mod- estly adds $7,704.24 for extras and #583.50 for interest, making $58,107.74. Brennan acknowledges that he has re- ceived $19,256.82 from the city, and claims a balance due him of $33,851.42. ‘What a barefaced imposition! What cheek for Brennan to claim over $7,000 of extras, when, according to Myers, it will take 81,600 to replace the bad work and poor materials in the basement? ‘What sublime impudence to claim #5838 interest, when it is notorious that Bren- nan was required to complete the build- ing by the 1st of July, 1887, and by his neglect has entailed on the city a loss of thousands of dollars of needless rent for city offices. Instead of $83,851 being due him, the most liberal allowance would be under $10,000. Here is the milk in the Has- call cocoanut. The contract makes the city hall architect the arbitrator between Brennan and the city. Myers refused to give Brennan any mdre esti- mates unless he complied with the plans and specifications. So Haseall gets the council to reject Myers’ plans and discharge Myers. With the plans and Myers out of the way Brennan comes up smiling with his bogus claim of 333,861, confident that if the commit- tee to whom it was referred cuts it down Hascall and the council boodlers will try to arbitrate it for him, and leave him a very big margin,even after deducting the expense of engineering this neat job through the council. —— NOTHING could be more absurd than to assume, as some democratic papers have done, that there wasa deal be- tween Blaine and Sherman. The ground for such an assumption is the report that Sherman said he had expected a declination from, Blaine, and for that reason he avowed. his own candidacy. It appears that Mr. Blaine had made known to several’parties, before his de- parture for Eurgpe, that he would not seek the nomination, and it is quite possible he did to Mr. Sherman, but his doing so and the action of Sherman based thereon would cortainly notimply ‘that there was ay deal. The only ra- tional deduction to be made from Sher- man’s statement, if true as reported, is that the withdrawal of Mr. Blaine from the list of presidential candidates issin- cere. —— It is very unlortunate for Omaha that a majority of the public servants in the city council are utterly reckless, dishonest and thoroughly demoralized. We can hope for no relief until they are either retired by the people or removed by the crim- inal courts. PROMINENT PERSONS, Henry George is said to be worth $80,000. Mrs. Celia Thaxter is giving readings in Boston. General John C. Fremont resides at Los Angeles. Mark Hopkins, son of the late president of ‘Williams college, is writing a novel. Cornelius Vanderbilt allows no liquor to be sold near arailroad station where he can prevent it. Dr. Mary Walker will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of her birth by returning to the garb of her sex. Senator Cockrell is credited with having used threo gallons of ink in his private cor- respondence last year. The truth of the - report that Labouchere ‘won £25,000 at Monte Carlo by means of a system is vouched for by the croupiers of that famous gaming resort. “As a proof that old age is rapidly 'overcom- ing Benjamin F'. mutler, it is noted by a Washinglon correspondont that the general 3o longer wears a bunch of flowers in his buttonhole. It is estimated that in order to be able to wear all his decorations and orders at one time Prince Bismarek would require a breast. thirty feet in breadth. Their weightamounts to a little over forty pounds. George Macdonald, the poet and novelist, is now living in Bordighera, an Italian town near the French frontier, enjoying,doubtless, another ““quiet neighborhood.” He is now nearly sixty-four years old. Representative Holman, who is known to fame as the “Greap Objector,” has made the lemn announcement that he is once more on guard, and that he proposes to investigate carefully all appropriation Dbills coming be- fore congress. Two brands of cigars, made by rival firms in Binghamton, N. Y., have been named “The Bill Nye.” Oneof the firms says that the cigars are named after Mr. Bill Nye of Binghamton. The other brand is named for Bill Nye, the World's humorist, and with his consent. In a letter granting permission for this use of his name the famous funny man says that “a boy [ Ohio, two in Iowa, a quick colt in Kentycky, a curly-fuced bull in Minnesota, a minc in Leadville, a town in ‘Wisconsin and a brand of chewing tobacco in South Carolina” already bear his name. ———— Should Co-Exist. Milwaukee Journal, If fashions were ever governed by common sense, the bustlo and the roller-skate would come and go together. ——— A Redeeming Feature. St. Louis Republican, It should be borne in mind by indignant citizens during the present reign of terror in Chicago that,though burglaries occur nightly and murders frequently, the situation might be worse. 'There are no loud posters on the bill boards. B A Great OCombination. Washington Critie. Mr. C. P. Huntington waters his Pacific railroad testimony with tears, and waters his Paciflo failrond_stock with the “able ef- forts” of himaelf and his fellow officers. C. P. is great and the U. S, is his profit, ——e—s En Route Toward Gottysburg. Yoot 0% ll}:mm 8. ":rmm(r. rom Colonel Aylett, who wore the We get the facts wo here nrr‘:y: Lt Lec's invaders were on their way, Passing a Pennsylvania town, Greencastle, a modest village brown, ‘Women looked out with fegr and frown, One the Old Flag as an apron wore; Waved it with pride as she stood by her door, While the soldiers in gray marched past foot- sore, Daring these men—brotliers, alas! To touch the fllm this handsome lass Tries to annoy them as they pass. Her pluck and loyalty have charms; Pickett salutes her, no one harms, . And one marching regiment carries arms, Many salute her with a sigh, Thinking of home with moistened eye, As on toward Gettysburg they hie. Sarah Smith was the namo that sho bore When Gettysburg shook with the battle's roar, On Famd's fair page put her name to the fore! — STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Fdgar will invest $20,000 in water- works. Lincoln has succeeded in shoving the “queer” on Norfolk, to the number of 100. There are 6,720 government pension- ers in Nebraska who receive $188,467.51 quarterly. The Holdrege Nuggethoists the name of General Phil Sheridan for president and Walter Q. Gresham for vice presi- dent. % The Beatrice Canning company has disposed of all its goods manufactured the past season. The total value of tho company’s output for the year wasabout $75,000. Kearney’s elegant new hotel, the Midway, is rightly named. It is as near the center of the continent as it could be placed without stretching the corpo- ration limits. The managers of the Beatrice adver- tising scheme have wisely decided to give the home gnpum orders for special cditions, whicl will be scattered throughout the country. The report of the treasurer of Furnas county for 1887 snows 879,905 collected. a total balance in cash on hand of $15,722, with delinquent taxes uncol- lected amounting to $89,903. The Lincoln Democratis again squirt- ing malice from a stale syringe at the Omaha postoffice bill in congress. For- tunately the odors of the operation are confined and disinfectod before leaving the shop. The Grand Island Independent be- lieves that “Blaine’s letter of with- drawal from the presidential ‘race is about as much of a resignation as presi- dential candidate as Bismarck’s late speech was a declaration of peace.” The articles of incorporation of the Farmers’ Co-operative association of North Bend have been filed in the office of the county clerk. The capital stock ie #8,000, in shares of $20 each—more than one-half of which is to be sub- scribed before filing, The corporation is to run for a period of twenty years. On the 12th of Januarya son of Joseph Schaaf, eight years of age and living with his parents six miles northwest of Atkinson, started to visit his married sister living one mile from home. He had traveled only one-half a mile when the storm came up and he could not see which way to go. It seems by the find- ing of his remains that he had turned about when the storm came up and started to return home again, but losin, his way drifted with the storm sout! about two_and a half miles toafarm owned by Miss Grace McFarland, where he was overcome and buried in the drifts. His mother has been nearly frantic since his loss and his father and neighbors have searched each day without success until Monday last, when the body was found on the corner of the glwe above mentioned. He was a very right, active little fellow and the loss by sickness of his brother two years older, only one week before, makes it very hard for the parents to bear. Mr. Schaaf’s people are a very thrifty, in- dustrious German family and deserve all the sympathy that can be extended by the g people of Nebraska, Towa Items. ‘A mammoth whale is on exhibition at Dubugque. Twenty-six counties in Towa have no corn for sale; seven counties are buying corn and forty-seven counties can spare an average of 13 per cent of the erop of last year. A young lady near Muscatine used a broomstiék with telling effect on a school teacher of tho opposite sex, for which he had her arrested for assault with in- tent to commit great bodily injury. A tmrty of railroad men q‘uuroled at Burlington Monday while riding on the footboard of aswitch engine. One of the rty, named James Miller, was knocked off the engine, which passed over him, crushing both legs just below the knee. The Primghar Bell says: ‘‘Our com- panion in distress stroked us under the chin afeweveningsagoaftershe learned we were carrying a life insurance polic; of 33,000. Yes, we mimed, and you will get it all, but in case I live the longest what do you leaye me? ‘Oh, I will leave you my fancy work.’” Dakota. The dog poisoner is abroad in Dead- wood, and sevoral guns are primed for him. Alexander’s new school building is to be two stories high, 65x80, and will cost ,000, There is a Catholic population in Da- kota of 80,000, 130 churches, 24 schools, 2,000 pupils and 10 industrial schools. Switch tracks have been laid to the stone quarries near Buffalo Gap, and the work of development will soon begin. The city counmcil of Aberdeen have adopted a system of sewerage, known as the ‘‘pumping system,” at a cost of ——— Brevities. Yesterday’s internal revenue collec- tions amounted to $12,982.01, The police of Preston, Minn., have written to the chief here for informa- tion about one James Patterson, wanted there on a charge of bastardy. There scems to be a great contempton the part of many people for the ordi- nance relating: to the obstruction of streets and in different parts of the city there have been for some time ob- structions and excavations without any red lights near them at night. Chief Seavey has determined to punish all violators of this ordinance, and has ovdered his officers to promptly report all violations of the law. e The Gould Larceny Case. NEw York, Feb. 16.—The charges against Jay Gould and Russell Sage, made on behalf of the stockholders of the Kansas Pacific railroad company, of appropriating to their own use §3,000,000 of the company’s bonds, ‘were laid befare the grand jury this morning. Monday ncxt witnesses will be summoned. ' SCHOOL BONDS. Thelr Sale Leads to a Squabblo at the Board Meécting. A called meoting of the board of education was held last night to consider the claims of Spitzer & Co., of Toledo, in their bids for the school bonds. Mossrs, Clark, Clarke, Mor- rison, Gray and Livesay were absent and for an hour and a half Spitzer argued with the board and no definite business was tran- sacted. The situation is something like this: A few months ago the board advertised for sale $200,000 worth of school bonds. Nonc of the bids were satisfactory and they were all rejected. The highest bid was from Spitzer & Co., of Toledo, and Treasurer Rush personally informed Spitzer that his bid was the highest and that it had been ac- cepted. In aletter to Harris & Co., Chicago, allies of Spitzer & Co., Rush said that the bid of Spitzen & Co. had been accepted. These nets on the part of Rush were with- out the consent of the board, without which he could take no offieial action in the matter. But_on this private information Spitacr took the liberty to sell £0,000 worth of the bonds. Mecanwhile the board, wishing to raise ready money, decided'to negotinte a pri sale with the Omaha Loan and Trust com- pany of £100,000 of the bonds. This was done, 1d a8 s00n a8 Spitzer learned of it, he came in hot haste to Omaha. Last night he ap- l" red before the bourd and claimed that ho had been unfairly dealt with and severely criticised the committee on finance who had the matter in chargo, The first motion made was by Mr. McCon- nell, who moved the adoption of the report of the finance committee. All voted aye exeept Sholes, and as it required o) the motion and there were only present, the single vote agains lled it. A motion was next made that the vote by which the report of the finance committee was rejected be reconsidered. After consid- erable discussion this was adopted. . Spitzer again arose to his_feet, as he had done a number of times, and commenced to comb the board down for not granting him immediate satisfaction,. He had to be called to order by the chairman, and the board, anxious to escape from the tirade, hastily put and carried a motion to adjourn. Licensed to Wed. The following marriage licenses were issued yesterday by Judge Shields: Name and Residence. i Charles Cline, Omaha Electa Simpson, Omal { Frank Young, South Omaha. .. Sallie Walling, Sonth Omaha., i William J. Davis, Omaha. Lizzie Davis, Omaha. Age. August Paul, Millard, Neb... Mary Flick, Millard, Neb. . i The latter couple were bound together by thejudge, the ceremony being performed in the German language, in which the judge is becoming quite proticient and gaining a mas- tery of. fres 3L Ay Personal Paragraphs. wC. J. Dickey, of the U. 8. A., isat the Pax- n. Pi. J. Lee, of Fremont, Neb., is at the Mil- lard. : J‘.IH, Cook, of Russell, Ta., is at the Mil- ard. J. B. Frederick, of Sutton, Neb., is at the Millard. E. C. Parkinson, of Seward, Neb., is at the Millard. Sol Levi, of Plattsmouth, Neb., is at the Paxton. C. E. Westcott, of Plattsmouth, Neb., is at the Paxton. ‘W. A.Fisher, of Red Oak, Ia., is at the Paxton. W. R. Kelly, of Lincoln, Neb., is at the Paxton. Mrs, Cooley, of Creighton, Neb., is at the Millard. A. Anderson, of Beatrice, Neb., is at the Millard. J. G. MoNair, of St. Joseph, Mo, is at the Millard. J. Harry Magee, of Kansas City, is at the Millard. J. R. Jordan, of Gordon, Neb., is at the Windsor. g F. Wilkins, of Geneva, Neb., is at the indsor. Shafe Kautzman, of Edgar, Neb., is at the ‘Windsor. H. C. Schmidt, of Plattsmouth, Neb., is at the Windsor. H, R. Chase and wife, of Geneva, Neb., are at the Millard. A. Carlton and wife, of Kearney, Neb., are at the Paxton. Prof. Edward Thomson, of Bartley, Neb,, 18 at the Paxton. C. W. Downey and wife, of Sioux Gity, Neb., are at the Windsor. i OMessrs. W. J. Dennis ana G. W. Meredith, of Ashland, Neb., are at the Millard. Messrs, W. T, Richardson and I. E. Doty, of David City, Neb., are at the Paxton. ‘William E. Shannon, of St. Joseph, Mo. tas accepted a position with the Omaha Miil and Elevator company, of Omaha. At the Hotel Barker: J. D. McElroy, Marshaltown; W. G, Roberts, Chicago; A. F. Cutter, Davonport; W. I3. Hastings, Lin® coln; C. J. Stephen, Hoone; J. W. Barnett, St. Louis, G. W. Merritt, Centreville. At the Millard: S. Dwight Eaton, Bur- lington, Paul Grubery, Kansas City; Enos F. Jones, New York: J. Q. Wisner, New York; Augum. ¥. Behunke, Adolph Plate, New York. Colonel Curtis has returned from Wash ington, where he had been some weeks visit- g his aged mother, who died some time ago Mrs. Curtis remains in New York and the colonel’s sister and children are still in ‘Washington. Mrs. J. P. Rowan, the accomplished and beautiful wife of Omaba’s famous chef, has returned from an_extended visit with rela- tives at Missouri Valley. During her sojourn at that city Mrs. Rowan was tendered a splendid reception at the residence of her sister. Chris Specht and wife and son have re- turned from a two months’ trip to Dossel in Hanover, where Mr. Specht met many of his old schoolmates and enjoyed his stay in his native place, visiting also_Ida, Elbe, Goet- tingen, Breslan, Bremen, Fraukfort, Heidol- burg aud Berlin. He brought with him his aged mother who will hereafter reside here. s Lty Local Sporting News. Tommy Miller's benefit takes place Satur- day evening atthe Graud opera house, It will bea rattling affair. Pat Killen, the champion heavy-weight of the west, tele- graphs Manager Rotbery that he will be here to-morrow morning. Accompanying him will be Harry Gilmore, of Chicago, Charlie Gleason and Danny Needham, of St. i‘aul, Prof. Hawkins, of Minneapolis, and several other illustrious prgilistic lights. Lovers of the manly art are assured of getting the full- est worth of their money, as the exhibitions of skill and muscularity on the part of these well kunown athletes will not be of that lifcless character that marks the efforts of novitiates which has been seen here so often before. There will, in addition to these fistic features, be a Gracco-Roman wrestling match, a broad sword combat, and numerous other theillingly interesting pe formances. Prof. Ed Miller settos with I Killen, and Tommy Brooks with Tommy Baooks in the wind-up. Charlie Ashinger has gone to Philadel- phia to take part in @ six-days' bycicling Joo Walsh,Omaha's shortstop, has returned from Chicago. Meecting of the Base Ball Club. The directors of the Omaha baseball club met yesterday afternoon at President M- Cormick's office, Present Messrs, McCor- mick, Worley, Hardin, Doherty, Morrison and Philbin. The first business in order was the receiving of bids for the refreshment booth and score card privilege for the season of 1588, John Rawlins, being the highest bidder, was awarded the score card privilege. His bid was #400. The booth privilege was awarded to J. J Philbin, his bid being $302. The official scorer appointment was the taken up, and after some discussion, 5. G. Griswold of the Bex was appointed. Sullivan's Reply. Omans, Feb, 16.—Sporting Editor of the Bee: In response to the card of A. H. Forbes offering James Sullivan 25 providing he will stand up before Pat Killen four rounds next Saturday night, I would, in be- half of Mr, Sullivan, say: The offer of $5 Bt d. {g& w)n!: two 3 ble, arrange & match botwoen the mmd’; Looking for Lindsay. There is another aspirant willing to meet Jimmie Lindsay in a contest for the middle weight championship of the state, and the medal. Steve Carroll is on deck, and can train down to 140 pounds, and thinks Lindsay or 1o other man of his weight in the stato can get away with him. If there isany money wanted for a side bot, Steve has friends and no doubt Jimmie can be acéommodated. Jack Larkin, who has made « name in Council Bluffs, and who met Ed Rothery in the recont athletic contest, is billed to meot Pat Kitlen at Tommy Miller's benefit Saturs day night, o —— County Commissioners. The county commissioners yesterday met and adopted the following resolutions : Resolved, That the county clerk be ine structod to advertise for bids for buildin about three \mndml feet of trestle worl north of the Waterloo bridge over the Elk- horn river, said trestle work to be in spansof y feet oach, plans and specifieations to n in the oftfce of the county clork. Resolved, Thaton and after ebruary 20, 1888, the position now occupied by John Gors man, a8 janitor, bo and is hereby abolisheds itz Tecdirired Indiana Republican Editors Meet. INpIANAroLts, Feb, 16.—The convention of of Indiana republican editors was held here to-day. The general sentiment favored mak. ing & campaign in favor of protection, a free ballot and a fair count. While no effectual expression was_given it was was plain thera was a strong feeling in favor of pushing it. Senator Harrison is Iundiana’s candidate for the presidency. Speeches were made by ex. Senator Harrison, ex-Governor Porter, Licu. tenant Governor Robertson, Hon. Richard Smith of Cincinnati and others, nn-George Split. New York, Feb. 16.—Justice Patterson, in the supreme court to-day, upon the applica. tion made by Dr. Mc n, granted an order requiring Croasdale, Post and associates, rep. resenting the Henry George side in the anti poverty society split, to show cause why they should not be restrained from being organized or incorporated as the anti-poverty society. — e Hlinots Republicane. CnicaGo, Feb, 16.—The chairman of the republican state central committee has issued a call for a meeting of the committee March 6 to fix the time for the state convention, etc, Active republicans from all parts of the state are invited to be present. gt -Gy Forty Persons Killed. Mouxicn, Feb. 16.—An explosion, which oo curred in a coal mine near Kaiser's Lantern, Bavaria, lilled forty persons, Thirty-sia men were rescued. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES. A very useful and instructive periods ical is that issued by the Co-operative Building Plan _association, architects, 63 Broadway, New York. The latest number contains sixty designs for are tistic modern houses at low cost. This is a publication which will render ma- terial aid to the builder and contractor. ' A recent 1ssue from tne publishing house of D. Lothrop Co., Boston, 18 entitled ‘‘Patience Preston, M. D. Mrs, A. F. Raffenspérger is the authoress. The story is interesting and well re- lated. bright and true you woman with a medical degree, and money enough to give her a start, apparently, by a rather taxing accident settles down in a little city and gets at first the easie est kind of practice, that of the r— for experience. She conquers societ; and society conquers her. The mutua victory brings good fortune to both,. The reader alternately sides with Pae tience and those of tho other party, so evenly is the web of the story woven. And, when the end comes, it comes without surprise: and livec the sympa- thetio reader is pleased that it ends just so. Il * e “Ihe Original Mr. Jacobs,”isa re« eentand very interesting publication fromk'.l‘hu Minerva Publishing Co., New York. * ' The Chicago Daily News has issued an almanac for 1888 which is a brief yet complete compilation of valuable hise tory. Among the contents which will rove of special beneflt are the follow- ng: Complete election veturns of 1887 from all the states by counties. Tho vote by counties on the adoption of a rohibtory amendment in Michigan lexas, Oregon and Tennessee. Th voje by counties and cities on local ope tion in Missourl. Table giving saloon statistics for all cities having a populas tion of over 10,000; number of saloons, amount of license, arrvests for drunken= ness to the total number of arrests, Political platforms of all parties adopted in 1887, ational platforms of all par- ties, and state committees of the west< tern states. The public debt statement to December 1, 1887. The civil lists of the general government, Illinois, Cook county and the city of Chicago. The government of the United States, su- preme court and congress. The army and navy—Ilists of stationt of regimedts and vessels, and names of officers. The national guard in the northwestern states. Immigration statistics for the last eleven years. Epitome of foreign and domestic events of 1887. Sporting summary for 1887. Necrology and dis- asters for 1887, ' “Shakespeare in Factand in Critie cism,” is n late work by Appleton Mor- gan, A. M., LL. B. The work consistg of ten essays under the following titles: 1—Shakespeare and His Alsthetic Crite ics; 2—Much Ado About Sonnets; 8— ‘Whose Sonnets? 4—Something Touch- ing the Lord Hamlet; 6—Sir William D’Avenant and the First Shakesperean Revival; 6—Law and Medicine in the Plays; 7—Queen Elizabeth’s Share in the Merry Wives of Windsor; 8—Tho Growth and Vicissitudes of a Shake- spearean Play; 9—Have Wea Shakes speare Among Us? 10—The Donnelly and Prior (,‘t'phors and the Furnival Verso Tests. Mr. Morgan has pad especial attention to the study of the Bardof Avon and the productions of his pen. In consequence he is amply qualified to ~deal with the very thoughtful subject in an interesting and in- structive manner, Mr. Morgan’s line of Shakespeare study being out of the beaten track of commentary and com- ment, and his “The Shakesperean Myth” or “William Shakespeare and Circumstantial Evidence,” having ats tracted unusual attention as well in England as in the United States and Germany—in which last named coun- tries two editions have been exhausted —the publisher feels that a new volume from t[rlw same pen, and embodying tho results of five years of further and riper study from Mr. Morgan’s own stand- point, but with better lights, will be welcomed with interest by students of Shakespeare. William Kvarts Benjae min is the publisher, 744 Broadway, New York. " Mrs. Mary W. Hudson of Topeka, Kas., is the author of “Esther the Gene tile.” The book is pucul(m-ky a western production, written by a Kansas lady and published by a Kansas house, Throughout the book is decidedly inters esting, The story is a sad one and the moral of the mlttxr:nd ob, ecll. of h.l: publi- cation,appears stroug and clear throughe out the well written work, &