Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 9, 1888, Page 4

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FEI Notary Publie. _— THE prohibitionists were defeated in the local election at Des Moines. The prohibition plant is dying at the roots —cause, too much water. § 10,624 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. ind subscribed in my_presence this 888, N. P. FEI arch, A. D, It A Notary Public. for It is a plain truth that California will support nobody for president who is not known to be in hearty sympathy with the Chinese immigration restriction bill, THE New York Sun suggest Jeremiah Rusk of Wisconsin for president. Add ta this, Tom Reed of Maine for second place. Wouldn’t Tom and Jerry be a drawing attraction, though? SENATOR INGALLS made the halls of congress ring with genuine oratory in his recent speech. The ' cockles of the old soldiers’ hearts were warmed as the gallant Kansas statesman poured his shells into the democratic ranks. e—— THE little tiff which the members of the Council Bluffs board of trade had with Mr. Iler will, in the end,do the Chautauqua enterprise considerable good. It has brought the project prom- inently before the public. Everybody is talking about it and public sentiment in Omaha is aroused in its favor. e———— MR. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS pre- tends to be mortally afraid that the Union Pacific road will forfeit its char- ter if it refuses tg handle and switch Burlington cars. Mr. Adams knows better. Did not the Union Pacific vio- late its charter years ago when it ree fused the B. & M. terminal traffic facilities at Kearney? Hasn’t the Union Pacific disregarded charter obligations time and again during the past fifteen years when compliance was deemed inconvenient or unprofitable ? o THE Towa state senate is struggling with a railroad bill. A day and a half -has been spent in discussing an amend- ment to insert the words “‘undue and un- reasonable” before the word ‘‘prefer- ence,” where it relatesto discrimination in the bill as reported by the committee on railroads. The senate is cutting up the committee’s report which was originally framed in the interest of the people, and perverting the bill so as to favor the railroads. In the state asin the national legislature the senate is always within easier reach of the corporation lobby than the house. Dr. MILLER, we are assured, feela very confident that the Union club will revive the Yankton project and give Omaha that much needed railway con- nection with northern Nebraska and southern Dakota. This is good news,and we hope the club will speedily redeem the doctor’s promise, There has been altogether too much blow and bluster about this project, and we fear that Dr\ Miller’s buckers will back out just as gcy have done whenever fimy were ked to plank down a liberal subserip- tion. Too be sure, Jay Gould may, when he returns from Europe, decide to build that road as an extension to the Missour{ Pacific. In that case Jay Gould, and not Dr, Miller and his club, will fur- nish the ways x\.ml means to build the e— THE course of Mr. Barbour, of Vir- ginia, senator elect to succeed Riddle- berger, in retiving from the chairman- ship of the state democravie committee for the reason that he is not in sympa- thy with the policy of the national ad- ministration, is an episode in current politics of more than ordinary interest. Mr. Barbour is very strong with his party in Virginia, and the practical re- pudiation of the administratior which - his action implies can have no other effect than to cause thousands of demo- crats in Virginia to follow his example. As the democratic chances 1n that state were not particularly brilliant before this disaffection was developed, they ave certain to become far less so now. and it can by ng means be any longer regarded as an unreasonable oxpecta- tion that with a strong presidential candidate the republicans may' carry the state. Certainly the action of Mr, Barbour ought to prove a strong' en- touragement. to republican effort - in Virginia, as undoubtedly it will. Au- * pther effect may be to lead democrats in other southern states to an .équally pourageous course, to the further wealk- ening of democratic hopes. Such cir- sumstances should have fheir valuo in . stimuldting republicans to’ thewr best and wisest efforts, .* e, Emperor Willlam's Impending Death. The impending death of Emperor William of Germany opens a fleld of almost illimitable conjecture as to what may be the effects of that event upon Germany’ and Europe. Although the world has been fully prepared for it at .any time during the past year, and especially so since the illness of the crown prince had be- come an added sonrce of wearing anx- ety to the aged emperor, yet in the present condition of European affairs it is impossible that the death of this pow- erful ruler of a great and thoroughly loyal nation could fail to have most im- portant and far-reaching consequences. Nothing has been more conspicuous in the affairs of Europe since the termina- tion of the Franco-Prussian war than the potency of the will of the German emperor. It has dominated every controversy in which the empirve he ruled had the remotest concern, and it has either given form and direction to the policy of other na- tions or restraitied them from action that would have antagonized it. Un- doubtedly very great credit is due to the wisdom, the foresight, and the cour- age of the ,reat men who have been the counsellors of the dying emperor, and who will survive him, but he has had a wisdom, foresight and courage of his own and was never merely the creature of his advisers. No one of them was more pa- triotic than he, none of them had a higher standard of national elevation and power, none believed more firmly in a great destiny for Germany. The arts of statecraft and the details of politics he could leave to others, but the objects to be achieved for strength- ening the empire and increasing its se- curity he actively concerned himself with, and therefore merits an imperial share of the honor that belongs to those who have made Germany powerful and prosperous. The world knows that it was the will of the kaiser that has maintained the peace of Europe during the past two years. ‘‘While the em- peror lives there will be peace” was a declaration made long ago, which has since done more than almost anything else to give a sense of security to those who desire peace and to curb the zeal of those who have been eager for war. The emperor believed the true policy of Germany to be one of peace, a belief not altogether due to the natural conservatism of age, and his in- fluence was steadily directed to the maintenance of this policy. There would be little reason to appre- hend any departure from this wise pol- icy if the Crown Prince Frederick ‘William were in a physical condition to assume the imperial rule. But his life hangs upon a thread, and his removal from San Remo to Berlin—rom the warm and genial climate of the Italian town to the harsh and wintry weather of the German capital—may suddenly snap that thread and place the destinies of Germany in the hands of Prince ‘William, .the grandson of the dying emperor. Whether justly or not the succession of Prince William would be regarded as a menace to the peace of Europe. He has recently in a public address disclaimed any warlike senti- ments, but it is generally believed that he has a soldier’s ambition, and that he would not be long content to simply enjoy the glory and achievements of his ancestor. While hi8 father, the crown prince, has been in full accord and sympathy with the policy of the dying emperor, Prince 'William is charged with having been in persistent opposi- tion, so much 8o as to have incurred the displeasure of both the empe- ror and the empress. For a time he would undoubtedly give heed to the advice of those who had been the counsellers of his prede- cessor, but the danger of his yielding to the military influence with which he would doubtless be surrounded would always be imminent, and the apprehen- sion of this could not be favorable to the maintenance of peace. The influ- ence of Bismarck would be potent for a time, but how long no one can foresee, Young men elevated to great power are apt to rebel against the counsels of the aged, even though it have the warrant of along record of wisdom and great achievements fo commend it. Still other questions of deep concern relate to the possible attitude that Russia may assume upon the emperor’s death, and to whether the alliance with Austria will be maintained. May not the czar see . in this impending national bereavement to Germany his opportunity to strike and promptly avail himself of it? These and other possible complications naturally suggest themselves, presenting altogether a host of contingencies that invite endless con- jecture. But there has recently been such an exhibition of patriotism and loyalty on the part of the German people as to warrant the expectation that what- over difficulties they may be called unon to encounter, as the consequence of the eniperor’s death, they will be bravely met. and successfully overcome, and that the unity of the empire will not be endangered. —e Impolitic Action. The action of the democratic majority of the committee on ways and means in refusing to permit any of the interests affected by the proposed revision of the tariff to be heard before the committee, except in the form of communications to be filed, was not generally expected, It was supposed that as a matter of policy, since the majority had framed the tariff bill without any consultation with the republican minority, they would at least accede to a proposition to allow the most important_interests affected to be heard. It was doubtless unreasonable to expect that all interests would be permitted to consume the time of the . committee in - elabor ate presentations of their objections to the preposed measure, but certain of the more importantinterests could have been allowed to do'so without fairly sub- jecting the committee to a echarge of giving undue preference. It seems, also, that it would have been especially politic to have allowed properly delo- gated representatives of labor to b heard before the committee, but a prop- sition for this was likewise rejected. This action was a’ mistake, and it will make an impression unfavorable to the democratic members of the committee and therefore’dumaging to the, purty they represent. Very likely few inter- cets, If any, will send any communica- tions to the committee, for the rea- son that they will conclude that it® would be labor lost to doso. When it was proposed that such communications should be réad by the clerk to the committeo it was voted down, thus very plainly implying that it is not the desire or intention of the majority to give any attention to com- munications from the business interests of the country., In view of this it will manifestly be a waste of time for the representatives of any industry to seek the ear of the majority of the ways and means committee. Fully satisfied as they obviously are with the result of their labors, they' evidently intend to stand or fall by it without asking or accepting any advice from other sources or seeking to gain further knowledge. There is perhaps no precedent for such arrogant as- sumption on the part of the majority of a committee of congress proposing legislation of the very highest import- ance affecting the interests of the whold people. Every act of the democratic members of the ways and means committee has plainly indicated that partisan consider- ations have been uppermost in their minds, and the effect will be damaging to the cause of revenue reform and can- not fail to count heavily against the democracy in the pelitical eampaign. The party appears to be still in the full possession of its fatal faculty for blun- dering. AT the last meeting of the council Hascall came to the front as the cham- pion of dives and dens who want to keep open all night and carry on their orgies when honest and decent people are in ‘bed. A very innocentlooking ordinance which did not express its ob- ject in the title was introduced by the bellwether and referred without com- ment. Those of the council who were in the secret made no remark, and those who did not under- stand what the ordinance con- tained naturally allowed ite reference to the committee without discussion. The ordinance in question proposes nothing more nor less than the repeal of that provision of the ordinance regu- lating the sale of liquor which requires all dealers to close their resorts at mid- night. Now, Hascall knows that com- paratively few, if any, saloon men who keep orderly places want to keep their saloons open all night. The move is in interest of the disreputable resorts which cater to the lawless element. But that is the very element to which Has- call looks to for political backing. For- tunately for good government, there is no danger that the proposed repeal of the midnight ordinance will carry. E— THREE or four days ago a brakeman on the Burlington rogd was killed while engaged in coupling freight cars at Lincoln. The fatal accident was caused by the man who handled the locomotive and backed the engine when he was di- rected to moveahead. At the coroner’s inquest it transpired that the man in charge of this locomotive had been em- ployed as brakeman on the road only a few weeks ago. In other word, the so- called engineer who was instrumental in crushing a brakeman to death was not competent to manage a locomotive. But, for all that, the coroner’s jury brought in a verdict that nobody was to blame. Coroners’ juries in this state are picked by the coroner; and the coro- ners are usually picked with great cdre by the railroad henchmen who pack conventions. Had this coroner’s jury been impartially selocted the verdict might have found somebody to blame. — BY the death of Bronson Alcott and that of his daughter, Louisa M. Alcott, America has lost two famous writers who stamped their influence on our lit- erature. Bronson Alcott was the last survivor of that brilliant group of men which numbered among its members Thoreau, Hawthorne and Emerson. His daughter has made her name a household word. She was one of the best and most entertaining writers of stories for girls and boys. Louisa Al- cott’s stories will be read and will pass down as classics in juvenile literature when the books of many a popular author of to-day will be forgotten. PROMINENT PERSONS. Miss Emma Thursby has been the guest of Mrs, Ole Bull, at Cambridge. * General Rusk, of Wisconsin, is regaining his health at Thomasville, Ga. Marshal P, Wilder, the humorist, is going to Japan to make the Mikado smile. Wilkie Collins is again afflicted with *the gout, a disease from which he has always suffered more or less. Labouchere cables to the New York World that Ira D. Sankey is about to return to Eng- land to conduct a series of rivals. Cyrus E. Dallin, a Boston sculptor, hasjust completed a bust of James Russell Lowell, which is much admired by Boston art critics. r,Citizen Train, who is lecturing up in New Brunswick, now adds to his autograph, “Omaha’s Twenty Millionairs, Self-Expatri- ated.” The citizen is doing quite well. General Greely, chief of the weather bu- reau, is hisck at his post in Washington. He will now devote his energies to keeping tho untamed month of March as quict as possi- ble. At the Spencer art sale in New York, Pot- ter Palmer purchasea Miller's “Shepherd- ess” fur #7,500; Rousseau’s ‘Sunset" for $7,300 and “‘Diaz's “The Assumption of the Virgin for §2,050. Joseph Chamberlain will be handsomely entertained in Philadelphiabefore he returns to England. He will be the guest of St. George W. Childs and will be given a dinner by the Society of St. George. There are no three men alive who, when they make a speech or write a letter, can command such worldwide attention as Blaine, Bismarck and Gladstone, it is almost a wonder that Gladstone’s name didn't “be- gin with B, ‘The birthplace of Horace Greeley, a littlo two-story farmhouse surrounded by 12 acres of rather poor land at Amberst, N, H., has been sold for taxes. The Dbirthplace of UGeneral Sheridan has apparently been lost or stolen. . J. M. Hil); the well-known theater mana- gor, had & narrow cscape when the Union ‘Square theater burned in New -York. In trying to save his papers he made ohe trip too many to the office, anj was overcome by the smoke. He was carricd out by the po: lice, who saw hum fall. Y Seth Kinman, a noted' hunter of-the Pa- cltic coast, died at l.lumbohn. Cal., receutly He: crossed: the early in the '50s3 at the age of by plains from Pem anin and had passed the greater patof his life since then in hunting and trapp 1g. He pre- sented President Buehanan with @ buckhorn chair of his own manufacture in 1857, and made a similar present to President Lincoln in 1804, President_Johnson sand President Hayes also received presents of a like nature from' him. ——t——— VanoWyok for Prosident. 1 Blatr Pilot. Nebraska has stood for James G. Blaine for president ever sihce he was first a candi- date. But now thathe has withdrawn from the contest why not. select a delegation for General C. H. Van Wyck. He is head and shoulders above many of the proposed east- ern states’ candida in ability. et otuui Questionings. Sara Jewett, Tell me, O dying day,q Before thou fadest away Kissed by the sun, Hast thou no vague regret, Now that the sun is sot, That life is done? Tell me, O rapturous night, If the ‘soft starry light' Fills thy desirve?! Hast thou no discontent ‘When the warm day is spent Without its five? Tell me, O world remote, If no light shadows float y sky?! would know If longings come and go After we diel —— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jotungs. Orleans will plant water works this spring. If winter could be induced to carry a revolver in his hip pocket, there would be a prospect of an early slide off the lap of spring. The eligible young ladies of Tecum- seh are u\kinfi copious draughts of nerve wine, and an early boom in the matrimonial market is looked for. The B. & M. organs in Lincoln have given the company such support in the strike that they expect to reap a har- vest of Missouri river rates ‘‘when the cruel war is over.” Plattsmouth is now ripe to aid and greet a rival railroad. The board of trade declares that the Missouri Pacific can get a bonus of 850,000 for building to the city. The attempt of the B. & M. to bulldoze the people against the strik- ing engine men has been resented on all sides. Hon. Richard Thompson, duke of Hastings, has sold the Hastings Demo- crat to R. B. Wahlquist, of the McCook Democrat. The jolly duke will be missed from the ranks of the profession. His future movements are not definitely known, but it is believed he will take charge of the woman suffrage bureau for Nebraska and manage a base ball club on the side. The White Cross league, of Grand Isiand, a ministerial organization, is convinced that satan has opened a bu- reau in the Independent office with the mayor in charge. The league has de- clared war on this citadel, and betweon thrilling prayers and the rattle of mud batteries the town is beaded with cold sweat. The allpged new editor has raised the temperature of the Iudepend- ent to the nineties, The battle of the giants of capital and labor and the dying groans of emperors are peaceful ripples in the current of life compared to the county seat wars now in progress in-Greeley and Perkins counties—Greeley Center and Scotia in the former, and” Grant and Madrid in the latter. Anadmirer of the state militia suggests that the best way to bring to the surface their retiring ualities, would be to quarter them on the warring counties for twenty-four hours. A profound attack of home-sick- ness is assured. The Plattsmouth Herald paints this striking picture: ‘‘The reporter wended his weary footsteps to the depot as the passenger came in from the west. It was a doleful picture. Not a passenger in the coach and but one perceptible in the sleeper. No one got off. INo one ot on. No one in the waiting reoms. No one at the lunch counter. No one on the platform, not even a railroad em- ploye. The engine whistled and de- parted like a phantom as it was watched 1n its mysterious progress by a solitary Pinkerton man and the reporter. The Pinkerton man went to the Perkins house and the reporter to sleep—‘to dream, aye, thére’s the rub, for in this (strike) what dreams may come.’ “The competent engineer,” says the Plattsmouth Journal, “‘who took west the first s€¢tion of No. 5, the west-bound passenger train yesterday morning, was a competent daisy. Being the first scc- tion, he was ordered to carry the usual signals to denote that another section of the same: train was to follow. He skirmished around and secured the flags and asked a switchman where to pub them. The latter, supposing ot course that the fellow would know bet- ter, told him to tie them to the main rods, and sure enough the competent engineer began to tie them there, until the conductor came along and saw him and directed him to the place to display signals. This was an actual occurrence and was witnessed by many people who were on the platform. And he was run- ning an engzhle at the head of a passen- ger train, ” Towa Items. Clinton, Oskaloosa and Waterloo are organizing clubs for the coming base ball season. A real live gh?gh hag been found at Muscatine. A fellow played ghost in order to steal his neighbor’s wood. Twenty-four young men were exam- ined at Burlington far the West Point cadetship vacancy. James N. Martin was the succuss(ullglgnxdidutu. The Red Oak ‘pért and buggy com- pany will put up between 5,000 and 6,000 carts this season. ‘They now have about forty hands at qut and will increase the force to fifty imd few weeks. A young Germa§}'‘named “Steinburg, st of Eldora, wagt guite seriously in- jured by a bull.8fhe vicious brute turned ‘upon the!'¥oung man in the stable and would bably have gored him to death but f@#ithe opportune ar- rival of the ownerd ! The managers offhe Iowa state uni- versity modestly he legislature to appropriate $20,000:48r the purpose of purchasing a base b4l ground for the students. The AtBitic Telegraph sug- ests the appropri@tibn of a few dollars fi)r saws and buc d let them exer- cise on the unive woodptle. Dakota, Fargo has paid 838,192,78 in taxes to the territory the past year. The Milwaukee road is to be extended from Chamberlain to the Black Hills. Hot Springs and Watertown are the leading competitors for the location of the Dakota soldiers’ home, The supreme court at its late session at Bismarck decided that a school teacher’s wages cannot be attached for debt. A company will ba incorporated at Ashton with a capital stock of $100,000 to develop the recent find of gas at that place. . Last week in the' little town of La Moyre fiye babies were born.in one day, four of them girls. Dakota . will soon .rond has been . ihcorporated, have no use for matrimonial emigration bur eau . Col 0. Greeley s the potato market of the state. Sacred concerts on Sunday are out- lawed in Denver. The Lincoln & Colorado railroad, capital $2,000,000, has been incorporated. The Pueblo, Gunnison & Pacific rail- capital £5,000,000. Denver proposes to blow in $165,000 in celebrating and entertaining the range convention, March 28. Real estate transactions in Denver last week amounted to $1,648,619, the greatest week on record. A gigantic system of swindiing and embezzling on the Rio Grande road has been broken up by the authorities. The operations of the gang netted at least $50,000. It is alleged that the division between Alamosa and Silverton hasbeen deliverately pillaged by employes for the past four years At the present time five men, heretofore regarded as trustworthy, are under arrvest, charged with the theft. THE LABOR PROBLEM. Michael J. Fanning Declares Ligquor the Root of the Evil. Every seat in the gallery and auditorium of the Swedish-Lutheran church, Nineteenth and Cass streets, was occupied last night. The number of young men and laboring men present was noticeable. Mr. John Dale, president of the Metropolitan Prohibition society, presided. When the Harmonica quartette rendered in inimitable style “Who Killed dat Snake,” the great congregation burst forth in tre- mendous applause, and President Dale was forced to renew the request of the previous night that the auditors withold their en- thusiasm. The same quartette, which has added so much to the success of these meet- ings, gave a number of vocal selections and Rev. Charles W. Savidge invoked the divine blessing. Mr. Michael J. Fanning was introduced by President Dale. Taking for his subject, “Liquor and Labor,”” Mr. Fanning said the question how to solve the labor problem was next in importance to the one devising a remedy for the evils of the liquor traftic. With one of his apt illustrations the speaker demonstrated the great difference of opinion existing between able and interested persons upon the best plan for rem- edying the wrongs of the laboring class. Up- on one occasion the speaker had asked an aged and eminent priest why it was that there wereso many different theories upon the Christian religion. The clergyman replied that the cause was duc to the fact that ever since reason became a faculty in man, peo- ple formed their theories first and then searched the scriptures here and there for evidence in sunron of that theory, instead of reading the divine law and hulnfi thewr be- liefs upon what they had read. It was the same with the solvers of the labor problem. Each had his own views of the cause and what was best to remedy it and refused to yield. If they would search the history of the past and observe the events of the present, impartially and with a desire to strike di- rectly ut the cause, they would profit by jthat study, locate the evil and begin war upon it. When the liquor question was settled he believed the labor problem would be in a fair way for solution. The speaker then read a number of reports from Vineland, N.J., Bavaria, I, Greely, Col.,, and Edwards county, Ill, ch de- scribed the situation in those prohibition localities and the benefits arising from the abolition of the traffic. He showed the con- dition of - the prohibition localities of Eng- land, Ireland and Scotland, which were maintained to be in every way an endorse- ment of the (BBI“J““{ of aboljtion. Returning to the labor problem the speaker declared that in proportion to the increase of women and ghildren employes,average wages decreased. There was no dispute as to the effect of child and female labor upon the wages of the country. In many instances women and children were forced to earn their bread through misfortune, not in the least attributable to the liquor habit; but it was a matter of record that in the great majority of cases strong drink had deprived the home of husband and father, and she who should be the queen of the home, and those who should be securing an_education were com- pelled to labor for thoir daily bread. And thus a competition which affected the wages of the workingmen 80 seriously. The speaker declared that the remedy for this was to do away with the competion of women and children by closing up the saloons, send- ing the women home and the children to school. By, this wages would be increased to their proper proportion. The speaket said that the result of the abolition of this competition would be that capital is labor’s best friend, manufacturers avould be compelled to pay fair wages, the weak would be beneritted as well as the strong, women would secure rest and happi- ness, children education for the future and the country and its affairs would be prualu_-r- ous, But then the question arose, what shall be done with the employes of the lijuor pro- ducers? It had been said that if those now nmpla,\'ufl in this line were de- prived of their situations thero would be danger of overproduction. A patriot from Ohio had once been so wrought up at the fear of overproduction by the speeches of General Gibson that he sought the white sand hills of Michigan for agriculture in the hope that he might 1ot injure the affairs of his country by e already terrible aspect of the producing world. It was overconsumption— of beer and whisky—which was ruining this country. Tn 1857 940,000,000 had been spent for strong drink, and ' during the same year 100,000 souls perished from the effects. If Uncle Sam would retire from the great whis- y trust, in which he was chiof partner, aud upon which he received a percentage of 90c, 36,000 men, it is true, would be thrown out of employment in an unholy production ; the benefits derived by that dissolution would open new and better channels for the services of those men at better wagos and greater happine To illustrate, the speaker asked the audience to imagine that the millenium had struck Omaha. That would not occur as long as there was one saloon in the t‘ily to bring tears to the wife's eyes or pain to the mother's heart. But the millenium would come on the wings of absolute prohibition. In the midst of this imaginary millenium the speaker graphically portrayed the experience of a re- formed laboring man. Three weeks after the millenium had struck Omaba, the same man who but three wecks béfore had stag- gered home, might be seen coming. ightly pale, 'ty night whisky bill to pay now, his brai free from the poison, and with love in heart and tokens in his hand, he wended his happy, to the home he had so often desecrated. What did those little sboes represent? Not much in dollars and cents, but worlds to he who gave and those who received; little tokens of a love, heretofore suppressed by poison, now re- leased and revived by the millenium. Those little shoes meant happiness to father, wife and children, What did they. repres the nation! The love d affection of 600,000 men revived by the millenium meant 1,800,000 pairs of shoes and the result was a boom all along the leather line, more con- sumption of shioes and a greater demand for labor, A few nights later this same man brings home a calico dress—*‘he has gone out of the wet goods business into the dry goods line"—and the result is a boom all along the dry goods line. The new suits of clothes and the additional necesaries of life purchased by 600,000 of these men creates a boom all along the line, and thus the abolition of the liquor trafiic created additional consumers for. that which was necessary for the happiness and health of man and woman. When on a visit to a Michigan saw mill the speaker had witnessed the removal of @ large belt which brought to @ halt the motions of an immense saw; the same power required to e that one Baw was being distributed, and was sufiicient to operate a number of other saws. This was the condition the liquor aud labor problems assumed to-day, y “Yeo mcn who favor a license: systom,” ex- claimed the speaker, “the same babe which hid with fear and trembling from its father under your rézime, will be clapping its h in inflaite bo . in its greeting to ‘papa, here,” said the speaker, “stands @ monster Ia- under ouss, iu.".conclusion, s s e P I AN s soul 3 destroying in food annually; ruining the futuro of the brightest young men of our land; Dblighting the hopes of parents, the lives of fair maidens, tm:‘ happiness of homes. 1t stonds & menaco to society, to the institu- tions of a great and prosperous nation. It combats purity and truth, God and right. 1t is the encmy of all who love home and the ten- der ties which bind us there. 1tis the nemesis of all who form its acquaintance, an injury toallin whose midst it exists. Tell me, workingmen, i8 it expedient to throw off this belt and abolish this curse! 1f so, let's work for prohibition." To-night |Mr. Fanning will speak at the Grand opera house. A cordial invitation is extended to all to be present. ot SOUTH OMAHA NEWS, C. C. Smith is here with two cars of hogs J. Garten brought in a car of cattle from Dewitt, W. H. Schufleld, of Friend, was in with a car of cattle, W. H. Lakin came in from Dorchester with a car of cattle. E. G. Nelson, of Tecumseh, had a car of cattle on the market. M. French, of Wilber, was on the market with three cars of cattle. John Bachman, of Bachman & Malny, of Lincoln, came in with a car of hogs. IKnights of Labor social club celeb Patrick's day with a dance in the evening. To- night the democrats will hold their first meeting in the Knights of Labor hall. L. E, Southwick, the banker and stock man Friend, was in looking over the market. Members of the South Omaha Loan and Building association held their regular monthly meeting. Everything was reported to be flourishing and another loan of 00 There was a rumor afloat that a stock train had been ditched somewhere in the country, inquiry showed that a B. & M. was ex- Agent Check could give no informa- chine s St Charlie Mack, general yardmaster for the Union Stockyards says the backbone of the B. & M. strike at this place is busted, the switching is all being done and all trains running on time, New steps are going down in front of Al Geaty's, in accordance with the jnstruction given to the marshal at the last council meet- ing. The owner of the building will pay for them, » There was a family shooting scrapo at about 10'clock yesterday morning, and the man that did the shooting was run'in. _No one ap- peared when the case was called, and the prisoner was discharged* Exchange hotel guests yesterday were: C. Krause, Wahoo, Neb.; C. Snistock, West Point, Neb.; M. Tngles, Codar, Creck, Neb. ; E. G. Nelson, Tecumseh, Nel Smith, Blair, Neb,, and C. C. Smith, Milf Neb. Francis Marak, jr., has invented some kind of a heat radiator, and was in town trying to sell territorial rights. He was run in for peddling without a licknse, but proved that in case he sold a single radiator he had it made by a South Omaha mechanic, and was allowed to go. Time and again the different physicians have been called in to render aid to the vie- tims of strec! or saloon fights, but in no case has the council ordered the bills thus in- curred to be paid. The physicians are be- coming tired, and think it time for some one of their number to be appointed and at least paid for the care and medicine they have hitherto been compelled to furnish grat- uitously. P et A VERY GRUSS ACT. Gifford is Defrauded at a So- Called Employment Agency. ‘Weodnesday night Thomas Gifford, a day workinan, swore out a warrant before the police judge, for the arrest of Frank Gross, who presides over a Thirteenth street employ- mentagency. Theinformation sets forth that Mrs. Gifford, wife of the complainant, went to Gross and paid him §15 on the assurance that he would get her husband @ position. The employment agent informed the woman that he had the contract for the grading of a lot on Thirteenth strect, and that he would set her husband at work there at good wages., This he failed to do, although frequently importuned to fulfill his part ‘of the bargain, and_when applied to refused to refund the $15. His place was visited by the police yesterday but Gross was not to be found,though the police say he is stillin the city and will arrosted yet. He will bo prosecuted for om.amh:g money by fraud and misrepresentation. woek or two 820 & Joune girl applied at the Gross agency, and after paying & in payment for a situation had been sentto a house of ill-fame. There are a number of thoroughly disreput- able and dishonest agencies of this kind in the city that will probably be broken up by the authorities. St. Charles in Private Life. The running of the cable tramway cars on Harney street is gradually making that thoroughfare a well-traveled one. Those of the old settlers who pass along between Twelfth and Thirteenth street will now notice that an old landmark has at length disappeared forever. It was tho St. Charles hotel, a familiar two-story frame structure of white with green blinds which linked the present with a_generation that has almost disappeared. The Bee some weeks ago an- nounced that the place had been closed up and with its sale came into notice recollec- tions of some of its hosts. Mills, Adams, Rehm, Canfield and Joslyn. At present, what is left of the old gurluslly, whose last days were spent in abandonment’ and gloom may be seen climbing the South Tenth street hill on its way to the corner of Twelfth and Harbor, where Ofticer Hinchey, who has pur- chased it, will repair and use it for dwelling purposcs: The cost of purchase and moving has been about £500. The main structure only was moved, the wings—and they were about as numerous as the yarns which were told around the structure—being broken into kindling wood. It has not yet been decided whether H. C. Cremer, who owns the lot, will build upon it. ———~— Failure at Wahoo. S. M. Gilbert, general store man of Wahoo, in this state, has been closed up and given mortgages to the following local creditors; J. T. Robinson, $25; Gilmore & Ruhl, 276,48 Kilpatrick, Koch & Co., $603.06; Wil- liam Preston & Co., $01; Sloan, Johnson & Co., # 3 Besides these there cred- tors, making total li Mrs. o itlos of #1,001.70. Chairman Balcombe, of the board of public works, yesterday sent a letter to Thomson & Delaney, the contractors of the North Omaha scwer, reminding them that they had promised to complete the job by the 14th of last October and that they had several times since repeated the pledges, notwithstanding the work was stitl about half done. The let- ter di continued that if the m«mn it au-lr daudwmuld e obl ull‘«:r uguz lo 0 work, and in he eventof their failure to finish it the eity would do the work and charge it to the ‘con- tractors, Thomson is in town, but Delaney has loft the city and it is not likely that he will ro- he plans and apecifications for the ocover over the Jones stroet sewer are on exhibition at the office of the board and_contractors ara invited to bid on the same. The bids will be opened on next Tuesday, - A SETTLEMENT AT LAST. Mrs. Nellle MoN ra Turns Over $10,000 in Real Estate. Mrs. Nellie McNamara, accompanied by her maid, put in an appearance at the county court yesterday afternoon for the purpose of making final preparations for tho settlement of claims against the estate of her decensed husband and surrendering as executrix in favor of Lawyer W. W. Koysor. Attorney Eller looked after Mrs, McNamara's inter eats, and submitted the following in addition Ui tho accounting made by his . client some days ago and which was printed in the Bee: In the matter of the estate of Mathew A. McNamara, deceased, Ellen MoNamara, oxo. cutrix of tho last' will and testament of Mathew A McNamara, deceased, herowith submits a further report, which shie asks to be made a part of her final account filed in this court March 1, . She has found vouchers showing baymonts ‘that she has made on nccount of said estato which entitles her to a further credit in the matter of w set. tlement of her account. Then follows a tabulated statement of tho new credits amounting in all to the sum of $421.25, Continuing the respondent says: I fur. ther state that at the time of filing my report March 11 was troubled to find the vouchers herewith transmitted. T further state that the item of credit claimed by me in_my re- port filed March 1 by voucher No. 17 for 8 was a mistake and should be taken from my credit. By having my statcment so con. nected,'and placing to my credit in the report the sum for which vouchers are herewith fild, accounting for all the money and prop erty received by mo on account of said es. tate, and accounting for all the rents and profits of the real estate, there is in my favor the sum of §1,207.04. The personal property belongiug to said estate will pay but a small amount of the in. debtedness of the estate and some part of the real estate will be sold to pay the indebted: ness of the estate, 1 do not ask that the court shall find that the estate is indebted to me in the sum of $1.207.04, or any sum whatover, and do not present my réport in the nature of a claim as against the estato for any sum what: ever. Task only of the court that my account s administratrix of said estato shall be set. tled and allowed in such manner that there will be no claim on the part of the estata against me or my bondsmen as such adminis: tratrix. ELLEN MONAMARA. William W. Keysor,'the new administrator, then took_exceptions'to the final report of Mrs. McNamara as follows: That there is no report of Scnate saloon accounts collected by said executrix; that there is no account of interest collected ne in cash receipts; that all accounts evidenced by vouchers bearing numbers were never proved and allowed by this court according to law, and especial exception is taken to voucher 3 as not being a part of funeral ex- penses, and to voucher No. 7, both being claims’ of gencral creditors; Aud also. t§ voucher No. 9, as it contains accounts of 115.50 cash had andused by said executrix, and §153.85, moneys expended for her own personal business, and also $10 which ap-: pears to be for her personal affairs; and also to Senate account voucher for #50 as being indefinito and not. show- ing for what expended; and also to vouchers 25 and 20 as being_general credis tors claims; and also to No. 27 as indefinito and not showing for what is _expected; and also to No 45 us containing $170 of said oxo. cutrix personal estate; that the allowance claimed for support of the family 18 excessiva and unwarranted by the circumstances of tha estate; that the account of rents received is incorrect and is about $150 less than the amount_actually collected; that vouchers “M,” “N,” “O" and “R" do not_show for what said moneys were expended; that the amount of water rates reported puid are greatly in excess of the amount actually’ paid, After the taking of the testimony of a few ‘Wwitnesses Judge Shields and the lawyers had a consultation with Mrs. McNamara which resulted in her deeding over a_lot owned b; herself worth £10,000 6 bo sold, the proceeds to be used for the hiquidation of all debts and claims against the estate. — Hunting For a Lost Daughter. Mrs. Mary Brown, of Fremont county, Towa, is in the city, looking for her daughter Katic, a girl of about fourteen, rather larga and heavy-set for her age, of brown eyes and short black hair. Mrs. Brown is a widow and had allowed her daughter to go to worl at Chris Plumer’'s, a farmer near Mineola, & fow weeks ago. Wishing to have her girl back with her again she went to Plumer's a few days ago and asked for her. The Plu- mers said she had gone to Council Bluffs, but gave no further information in regard to her. The girl had ridden to that city with the hired man to make a few purchases, and he had come back without her. Mrs. Brown hag been hunting Council Bluffs over for her daughter, and failing to find her came to Omaha. 'If also unsuccessful hero she sayvs she will swear out a warrant for the arrost of Plumer and his hired hand. The mother is greatly distressed over the affair, Tne girl referred to is undoubtediy the one mentioned in the South Omaha notes pub- lished in the Bee a few days ago. At that time she was in the care of Messrs. Christ & Lowry, of the Delmonico hotel, where she had been placed by the conductor of & Couns cil Bluffs dummy. She had apparently neither money or friends, but claimed to ba looking for an uncle, and as he did not appear, Marshal McCracken took up her case and secured her a situation with a family named Gorman, residing not far from the city. Her story at the time was that Mrs. Plummer, her former mistress, had sent her to town in caro of a hired man named Jake, but that for some reason unknown to her, he had_driven off and left her alone in the street. Being a stranger in the Bluffs, and thinking she had an uncle in Omaha, sho appealed to the station agent, who furnished her with trans. portation across the river. Mrs. Brown o no doubt find herdaughter by applying to th city marshal of South Omaha, e Frank Crow in Trouble. It is reported that Frauk Crow, a well known and disreputable charaster here and for some time bartender for (ius Shultz, hat Deen arrested for highway robbery in Kansag City. Frank was the cause of considerable trouble to the police here, and this is not thq first time he has been behind the bars, SATURDAY. On Saturday, March 10, L. 0. JONES, Am_er- ican Clothier, will sell 500 Men’s New Spring Suits, made from all wool cassimeres and wor= steds, all colors and stylish patterns, Coats either sack or four-button cutaway. . Not a suit in the line with a particle of shoddy it, and not a suit worth less than $8.00. Many of thgm are worth $10.00 and $12.00. The special price | on the entire line for Saturday will be $6.00 a « suit, and those coming early will have the best. selection of styles and does exactly as he advertises, sizes, Jones always and Jones’ special sales ‘always draw a crowd. Heed the warning and come early. 1309 FARNAM ST. s 2 3 m a0 A