Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 19, 1888, Page 2

GROVER HAS A BIRTHDAY. ' President Cleveland Colebrates His Fifty-First Anniversaty. HE PASSES THE DAY QUIETLY. ' Mhe Ways and Means Committee Begins Holding Night Ses- sions For Work on the Tarifl ¥ A Quiet Anniversary. WasniNaToN BUREAU TiE OMATA BrE, 518 FOURTERNTH STREET, WasHINGTON. D. O., March 18, The president of the United States was fifty-one years old to-day. There was no colebration of the event and the usual Sun- day routine at the ‘white house was adherod . to. He went to ohurch with his wife in the morning and Dr. Sunderland in his prayer remembered the day and asked a blessing and long life and wisdom for the chief magis- " wrate. . Then, after luncheon, the horses were ordered and tho president and his wife rode out to Red I'op, where they remained for dinner with two or three intimate friends gs guests, The president received many letters and telegrams of congratulations and a few gifts from intimate friends, one of which is a flower holder, which has been prepared with much workmanship at the Smithsonian insti- tute. 1tisaram's horn, richly mounted in silver and one of the finest pieces of work- manghip ever produced in the District. Iam not at liberty to say from whom it comes to him, MRS, CLEVELAND'S RECEPTION. Mrs, Cleveland has resumed the special afternoon audiences which she had given during the winter to persons, mainly visiting strangers, who had made previous appoint- ments with her to call, Nothing could be more pleasing to anyone wishing to see the gentle mistress of the white house at her best than the opportunities of these occasions give, Mrs, Cleveland receives in the red parlor and the callers are introduced to her by an usher when they are strangers. Grad- ually Mrs. Cleveland is seeing the interior of several more than the cabinet houses, Sho lunched on” Monday with a lady quite promi- nent, and deservedly so, in the social circle. 1f a reason is neoded why sbe accepts somo of these hospitalities when dozens of other ladies should be equally pleased to offer them, it is because she only will go to the houses of intimate friends inside of the num- bex prescribed by the official etiquette which hedges about her position. No lady can deny her this privilege, however much they may be jealous of the honor she may show to others. Mrs, Cleveland hears regularly from her mother, who 18 now in Paris. She is expected back from Kurope in a couple of months more. WAYS AND MEANS. The republicans having defeated the mo- tion of the democrats to hold meetings of the ways and means committee during the ses- sions of the house, the majority of that com- mittee decided to hold night sessions and the first of these was held last night, at which ull the members except Mr, Brown were vres- ent. The internal revenue section of the bill having been completed without any changes being made, the tanff 'schedules were taken up, beginning with the free list. The opening paragraphs are devoted to lumber. As each successive paragraph was read the republi- cans asked that they be given the reasons that prompted the action of the majority in transfering lumber and its manufactures to the free list, but no responses were made, no defense was offered to the assaults of the mi- nority and all motions to amend were voted down. After confining lumber aud salt on the free list by.a party vote, the committee adjourned. The consideration of the bill will pe resumed to-morrow, 1t is evidently the purpose of the majority 0 push the Mills bill fl}rough the committee without further delay. It is thoueht by some democrats that it can be completed with the committee and reported to the house this ‘week, but I don’t believe this can be done prior ta the close of the coming week, It is apparent that Mr. Mills and his associates on the ways and means committee have decided 0t {0 permit an amendment to be made m the committee. They. may, however, grant a few concessions in the house to *get votes and have doubtless arvranged certain para- rraphs for such a contingency. In its present form-the bill is not acceptable to the Louis- iana members and those who represent dis- tricts in which fruit spinits are distilled. If these two points of difference can be recon- sidered, the bill would receive the vote of the six Louisiana members and perhaps that of g8 many more from fruit aistilling dis- tricts. These votes, with the .aadition of six or eight republican votes the bill is likely to receive, would Show a_ very narrow margin onthe passage of the bill, and perhaps place the wajority on the afimative side, Among republicans a feeling is growing that they should present a distinctive proposition. Many of them regard the Randall bill with _favor, but tho leaders actively discourage this, 'They seem particularly opposed to the internal revenue sections of Handall's bill and talk about formulating a measyro that Wil provide for abolishing the tax on many- factured tobacco, leaving cigars as at pres- ‘ent, rewoying the tax from fruit spirits and aleobol used in arts and abolishing in whole or in part the duty on sugar, with a bounty to the sugar growers of the United States, T.dow't believe the republicans could be held together on such a programme, and it would certainly geb few, if any, votes from the democrats. The Randall bill presents the only tangible basis for sugcessfully opposing the Mills' bill. There are members on both sides who don't want to vote for the Mills Dill, and would accopt that of Randall with some changes and modifications. If not d an_opportunity to vote for suchn sure these gentlemen will vote for the * Mills bill, so that in rejecting the Randall Dill the republicans will, in a negative way, n that of ills, ott, of Pennsylvania, is confident ouse will pass the Mills bill early He is reported by the Suudui Her- ald as saying: “1f 1had consulted the in- tergsts of my own locality and not looked beyoud my district, I would have antago- nized the free wool proposition, but without free wool thero is no use in having tariff re- form. This wool question has been the bone of contention for mauy yoars, and it was thought best to malke it one of the principal features of the present tariff bill,. The re- publicans wil do everything they oan to de- ay & final vote on the tariff until after our vention in June, We, on the other hand, will try to pass the measure in sowme form s early in May as possible, so as to give the senato time to tackle it, - We will then take action in the convention on the party work on the tariff. Mr. Randall, with his republi- can protectionistswnay be able to repeat his tactics of Jast session, but Idon’t thiuk ho would dare delay final action on the bill, 1t 18 an open secret that Randall is in bad favor with Cleveland, who has regarded him with more or less suspicion for some time. The l}xfiddant says that Randall’s action in the house did not colncide with the professions he made with his tongue, I don't believe Randall would hesitate to backcap his party @t the St. Louis convention in the matier of preparing u platform and making tariff docln- rations. Heis notin line with Mp. Clove- land, and ne is the leading protectionist of his party. Qur taxiff bill enunciates the prin- ciples of our party and scts forth its plat- form, 1f we have not enough strength iy the house to pass this measure in some form and a reduction in the revenue of the gov- ernment, the only thing we can do is to do the very best we can aud then go before the country on our record, To-night I asked General Browne, of In- Jna of the leading republican mem- rs the house committee on ways and means, what he thought would be the out come of the administration tariff bill in the and the house. He said: “I we will continue to wrangle over it Y: lnut ‘Thursday, when Mr. Scott, as ho tho other day, will move thiat the Instructed to report the bill to mbt once and ask forits immediate wm a’l‘m’fhn'mll be ‘fiurnod hyl a party hy v il will go to the taken up for consideration next wi I don't seo e can o aoks. L in May. how it, ook cub off At every step in our propoesitions to m amendments in commit we to make them on the floor of the hous on't beiieve the bill will ‘be passed. oro dre very fow re- publicans who witl support it on account of its free wool and I presume the usual Ran- dall following, about forty or fifty democrats, will vote against the bill. If it should be so wmended as to et theough the house, which I think next to an impossibility, it would be amended in such @ way in the senate as to likely not be acceptable in the house when it came back. The republicans will offer a bill and it may be that their united support and gome strength from the Randall people will vass it If we should get a bill through the house 1 don't expect ‘it would be much amended in the senate and it would likely be- come & 1y, hut there is 8o muoh wrangling and there is such diversity of opinion that it hardly looks hopeful gt this time. The Ran- dall bill will never be taken up, but will rest in the committe’s pigéon holes, It is no uso for the ' administration . men in the house to talk about a bill being roported from the senate committeo on finance befare the St. Lowis convention, bo- cause the bill could not be sent to the com- mitteo fron the house earlicr than some timo late in May. e majority of the committeo on ways and means have ocgupied over three montlhis in (‘ompi)il‘tg the Dbilland tho house intends to debate it about six weeks, and it would bé ridiculous to presume that the senate committee cauld apcomplish 1o two or three weeks what the house and its com- mittee will have taken about five months to actomplish," There is a great deal of bad blood in the committee on ways and means now, Itisa regular cat and dog f:‘ghl. at every day and night meeting, The democrats, with pre- cision and readiness, vote down every propo- sition that the republicans make without even the slightest consideration, and the latter do not like it and have no hesitanay in expressing their displeasure. It is plain now that the democrats have the bit in their mouths and are guin§ to pull the vehicle just a8 far as they can and as quick as possible. BLACK GETS A’ BLAST. To-day’'s Washington Post (democratic), ‘which until recently supported the adminis- tration, hagthis under the head “A Kine ‘ase of Mother-in-law:” *““That pbysical wreck—Black—has achieved a great success as a reformer of the mother-in-law problem. The general appears to be pleased with one of the domestic scoury but he has risen to the occasion and is not willing to support the mother in-law out of the $100 a month he re- ceives for being totally disabled and requir- ing the conntn;\ attendance of another per- 801, nor out of the §i,f per annum which he gets to prove that he is not totally dis- abled. He has contrived that the govern- ment shall support his mother-in-law, ~ First, as she was unable to pass an examination, he had her appointed a laborer in the patent offices. ~ From that she was advanced to @ clerkship and then speedily promoted to a # lace. The mother-in-law in this case, it Is said, was hauled to and_from her office by goyernment, horses in a government carriage, Atl’%mruauy this family are not easily satisfied, for the mother-in-law’s son was already drawing a salary in tho Lt goitg in as a messenger an rapidly to a 81,200 clerkship.” NEBRASKA AMENDMBNTS T0 THE LAND BILL. Mr. Laird has proposed the following amendments to the public land bill, which is now pcm““i ‘before the house as ungnished business: Amends seation 18 by adding at the end thereof the following: “The time which the homestead settler has served in the army, navy or marine corps shall be de- ducted from the time heretofore required to perfect title, ov, if discharged on account of ounds received or dlsnb)fiu‘ incurred in the line of duty, then the term of enlistment shall be deducted from the time heretofore required to perfect title without reference to the length of time he may have served; but no patent shall issue to any homestead settler who has not resided upon, improved and cul- tivated his homestead for a period of at least one year after he shall have commenced his improvements; provided, that homestead en- tries can be commuted to cash entries after the actual inhabitancy of the land sought to be extended by the homesteader and has im- proved and cultivated it for a period of one year.” Add as an additional section: “That inall actions brought by any land grant company or by any person claiming title under or through such company against any actual settler occupying not to exceed 160 acres of land which he in good faith entered upon, lutending to claim the same under any of the public land laws of the United State: such settler may raise and interpose as o de fense in such action any mistake, error or mistaken construction of an act of congress by the interior or executive - departments, or any officer thereof which may have resulted in any erroneous certification or patent of such land to such land grant company-or to & state for its benefit, and such settler may also raiso and interpose as a defense in such ac- tion any question which the United States might by its attorney goneral raise by a bill in equity to set-aside such patent or certifi cate, and such defense .shall be given the same effect as if the questions so presented had been so raised by the attorney general in such suit.” The following amendment. has also been proposed to the bill by Mr. Dorsey. Add to i : “It is furtber provided that after of is made before the register and re- iver of the district in which the land is situated and a certificate is issued to the entryman, said certificate shall be considered prima facie evidence of ownership and the burden of proof to vacate said entry shall rgst upon the government.” To this Mr. Laird adds: Amend seotion 24 by adding after the provision offered by way of amendment thereto by Mr. Dorsey these words: ‘“*And no settler on the pubue do- wain under the provisions of this act shall be deprived of his title to any land based upon a receiver's final receipt except upon an open and public trial under and according to the forms of law relating to contest cases,” BX-SEOREVARY M'0ULLOUGH’S GOLDEN WEDDING Hugh McCullough of Indiana—or, rather, of the United States, for his fame has been too tzruul, his public services too valuable and his influence too far-reached to permit one state to claim him and his queenly wifo, whose noble figure and snowy hair would permit her to sit for a portrait of one of the grand dames of the empire—celebrated their golden wodding at their residence in this city Wednesday evening. The friends who have been invited to join in the celebration include every one who is worth knowing in the politi- cal, financial, social ‘and literary circles of the capitol and numbers will come from New York and the citiesof the west. Periry S, Hearn, nsion rising Horrible Story of Suffering. EvANsvILLE, Ind.,, March 18.—A horrible story of suffering and death is brought by a lumber purchaser from a remote locality of the Green river country, in Muhlenberg county, Kentucky. Sawmuel Wilson lived in a small log hut in a clearing, among the lum- ber camps, with his wife and four children, He was much bothered by wolves and killed 2 pig, & quarter of whioh he poisoned ta use for the wolves, By some mischance his wife cooked the poisoned portion and all partoak of it, dying a few hours later after suffering intense agony. Wheon found the bodies were 80 swollen as 1o be unrecognizable. —— . A Bald Knubber Confesses, Sr. Louis, March 15.—The trial of the bald knobbers at Ozark was interrupted yesterday by the breaking dewn of John Matthews. He confessed to a liberal share in the Edens-Green butchery, and told the story. The statement exeulpates Graves. Mattheows sald he was Jed into the thing and Wi 3 to confess, The state refused to receive his offer to plead guilty in the sccond degree, . — - Steamship Avrivals. New York, March 18.—[Special Telegram to the Beg.]—Awived—The City of Rich- moud, from Liverpaol; the France, from London; the Bourgoyne, from Havre; the Aller, from Bremen; the Augustin, from Para; the Mark Lane, from Palermo; the co, from Bermuda, poN, March 15,—The Arizona, from pool, sailed from Queenstown to-day ew York, e Cremated in a Tenement Cnigaco, Margh 18.—Mrs. Willlam Dalton was burned to death with her four-year-old daughter in a tenement house fire on South Clark street early this morning., Abouta dozen other persons made their um'd{le in & seminude condition. A disgolute talior who ‘was ejected from the pre ment of rent is suspec 12 on fir for nou-pay- f having set the e A $100,000 Fire. Pawrucker, March 18.—~The Gpeen dyeing fi’i“fi‘:&‘%&i“"“ burued this afternoont THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY VARIOUS BUILDING - BOOMS. Approaching Spring Awakens New Life in Nebragka Towna. LITTLE HYANNIS HEARD FROM, A Prominent Young Oity ia Grant County—What Stockholm Has Done in Threp Months—Busis ness Men Organizing. A Growing Young Town. HyAxN1s, Neb., March 15.~[Correspond- ence of the Bee,|—Range cattle are lopking fine. Ranchmen report losses light and stock fat enough for beef, . There is still 500,000 acres of splendid gov- ornment land around Hyannis that can be taken under the pre-emption: or homestead laws. Thisis o fine opportunity to get a good home near town and cloge to a railroad. Hyannis will come in forher share of the spring boom. Work will be begup in a few days on the railroad buildings. mong our worst needs at the prosent timeis a. gooil neral merchandise store, A fortune awuits his kind of an enterprise, J i Sl One of Nebraska's Wonders. SrockuoLN, Neb., March 17.—[Correspond- ence of the Ber]—As lively a young town as Stockholm deserves to be more frequently mentioned in the best paper between Chicago and San Francisco—to wit, the Omaha Bek, But even the Ber can’t watoh all the grow- ing interests of this great state without local assistance, and Omaha’s jobbers und business men must be on the alert to capture and hold this rich territory, made directly tributary by the building of this branch of the North- ‘western, a distance of 125 miles through the very garden of Nebraska, Stockholm is the most promising town on this newest and best branch of the great Northwestern road. It 1s fifteen miles from any town of consequence, surrounded by thickly-settled, well-developed and richly productiye farming lands occupied, not by now settlers and poor people, but well-to-do farmeps, with splendid farms and _comforta- ble homes, A new town on one of the great trunk railroads, with such a territory from twolve to fifteen 1files in every direction to draw from, must certainly be a fino fleld for new businéss enterprises. And o it is. This baby city, only three or four months old, is even now, in midwinter, the sceneof bust‘mg activity. 'Twenty-five or thirty new business houscs, two large new elevators and a large two-story hotel are among the buildings now in course of erection. Two new churches will be built at an early day, work to begin on oue of them within a week, The town site folks give lots to any denomination that will erect a church building. soon after the annual school meeting as possible & new and commodious school house will be erecteq to meet our growing wants, There are a number of conspicuously prom- ising openings here for business, among which may be mentioned tho following: A practical miller with a little capital can find his fortune right here. A man who knows how to make brick and runa yard can find a business ready made. For an agricultural implement desler there is no finer opening anywhere.’ b Among other things needed are: A~ mil- liner and dressmaker, a jewellor, & physt- cian and a newspaper, Persons to build houses to rent would make 20 per cent on their investment. For a stock buyer there is an unequalled opening, A creamery would pay from the start. This in a section of the country where the corn crop never fails. Besides furnishing feed for thousands of cattle from drouth- stricken Kansas, and foeding its own large supply of cattlo and hogs, this market is crowded with teams daily delivering corn at 85 to 40 cents a bushel. This season’s corn corn crop will bring half the valye of the land on which it grows. Siiibe 28 Gretoa's Growth. GrETNA, Neb., March 17.—[Correspond- ence of the Ber.] —Gretna is booming as the fine spring weather opens, and as soon as the railroad can bring lumber here building will commence, Gretna is a town hardly a year old, on the B. & M. railroad. It has an en- terprising set of men, who propose {0 make it second to 1o town in Sarpy county. It has throe large stores, two blacksmith shops, ore furniture store, one good lumber yard, two grain_dealers, one butcher shop, one first class hotel, two samplo rooms and one news- paper, the Y County Democrat, lately lo- cated, which will work for the adyancemeny of the town. The town is located in & good farming locality, and a canning factory would pay well here. The B, & M. has a good depot and yards. ———— Burwell's Boom, BurweLr, March 17.—[Correspondence of the Bee.]—Burwell is situated in the North Loup valley at the confluence of the Calamus with the North Loup river, in the southern part of Garfield county, and is at present the terminus of the Lincoln & Black Hills rail- road. Itis situated in one of the finest val- leys in Nebraska, and is surrounded by n splendid farming country, where government land can be had within ten or twelve miles, The tracklayers of the Lincoln & Black Hills railroad reached this point December 7, 1887, 4 ng the s has grown rem apidly since that time. Thirty-eight differen tbusiness enterprises are represented in the place. It has two mills— one run by water power and one steam roller, eich having a capacity of fifty barrels per day. Both are kept busy constantly. The railroad company is at work now puiting in a round house, depot and section house and will soon begin the erection of a coal house. Twao new lumber yards have recently bec putin. A new hotel is under course of c: struction apd many other buildings and im- provements of less importance are helping along the boom, Burwell will be made the county seat of Garfleld county at no distant duo, as it 1s now only threo iniles away at & place where there was a small town before the coming of the railroad. There is room in Burwell for every kind of business, profes- slon or enterprise and parties looking for a lacation should visit this point. Dayid Oity Means Business. Davin Ciry, Neb, March 15.—[Corre- spondence of the Ber]—David City, like most Nebraska towns, has had its struggles for existenge; been discriminated against by railroads, plundered by politicians, and finally visited by cyclones, but now no town in the state is making greater preparations for permanent advancement. Plans and specifications for new brick business houses and dwellings are daily being examined and accepted. Among the buildings which are to be eregted this season are: A new high school buflding, costing $18,000 or $20,000; a two-story bank building by , Leonard, 810,000; & brick business block by o Btting, costing #5,000; a brick block by B. O. Perkins and W. I Gafes, costing $1,000 t0 85,0003 @ brick implement house by Streeter & Bohman, costing about $1,000; a brick block by Mr. Tiliman, to cost about £,000, and @ brick hardware store by W, G. Birton, to cost about $3,000. Many other parties haye Omaha and Lincaln architects at work on their plans who do not wish their intentions known at present, but who will build without doubt this spring or sum- wmer, The Methodist people are at work se- curing subscriptions for a new $7,000 church, which will probably be erected before fall, 1t is also certain that many costly residences will be built here this summer. The brick work on the new hotel was completed to-day and it will be ready for occupaucy soon. The greatest drawback with which last year's builders had to contend, was inade- quate facilities for manufacturing brick, causing much delay ® workmen. Omaha and Lincoln parties, however, have arranged 10 put in new brick -yards here which will supply the demand, A canning factary, wholesale baot and shoe store, foundry and creamery are expected 1o Do added to this season’s enterprises, ‘Work on the waterworks has been going on for the past month, and the city council are now giving their attention to the subject of eleotric lights. the Fremont, Elkho on B & Missonri Valley, the B, & M. and Union Pa- cific t“hriltotdi:ywim piospects of the Union Pacific_cnt-oft from &lolumbys, and sur. rounded by one nm.pe richost agricultural districts in the st there certainly is no feason why David should not- soon_be classed among the Jiportant cities of Ne- braska, Bidney U Prospects. Sioxry, Neb., March 17.—[Correspondence of the Brk.]—Siduney if the county scat of Cheyenne county. ‘Sffuated about four hun dred and fourtoen milgy west from the “Gate City," it is the end of tho farthest western division in Nobragka’ of the Union Pacific. The remarkable growth of Sidney within the last three years entif it to @ more than passing notice: T} wih is a strong and healthy one, and is dirgctly attributable to the rapid scttlement of the farming lands by sturdy home seekers. There is no county within the &tate thathas a more promising future than Cheyenne, and there is no part of the United States or the territories that holds out more flattering inducements to land scokers than Cheyenne county. Although, until within the last three years little or no farming was done, Ghayenne ounty in 1586 took the second premitm for her agricul- tural exhibits at thé state fair. It is to the remarkable facilities for farm- ing that Sidney -~ owes its pros- Iberhg. The United States land office for fhis land district is located here and is doing a rushing business, the number of en- tries increasing daily in nearly a double ratio, and within a very short timé all' gov- ernment lands within the distriot will be en- tered’ L tracts of railroad lands are be- Inz sold daily to settlors. Sidney has, almost within its corporate limits, 8n inexhaustible supply of excollent building stone, and all bu mmgs now in process of erection are being constructed out of stone from these quarries. The Oberfel- der Brothers have just coxnphi,bed a mafinl fi- cent two-and-a-haif story business block ‘which stands as a monument attesting the quality of this stone. This enterprising firm contemplate very soon erecting another stone block on their present business site. ‘I'ho or- ganization of a stock company for the pur- pose o;:(ruuunguopenmory has just been perfocted, and this industry will soon be in operation. The sale of school lands has just been concluded and the unoccupied lands in this county are now within the reach of all. Sidney has every assurance of a promising futuro. With an excellent water power in the immediate vicnity a splendid opportu- nity is offered for a milling enterprise. (LT Business Men Organizing. Sewann, Neb., March 17.—[Correspondence of the Bee.]—At the call of the mayor a rousing meeting of the business men of this city was held for the purpose of advancing the interests of the place. Active measures were adopted to let the world know what was here and the advantages this place has over other cities of the same class. The people have great confidence in the result of their efforts. They have mnever at- tempted - to sccure any enterprise where success has not crowned their efforts. Last year Seward secured one of the largest. canning factories in tho state, the only oatmeal mill in Nebraska, and the factories of the Morris Keyless Lock company, which enablé the farmers and bus{- ness men to derive a better revenue from their investments th: ver before. Plans are now beingimade for a number of fine buildings to bewerected, among which are a block 43x120 foet 6p the horthwest cor- nerof the square, and another 24x120 on the north side of the squata, afine new church edifice for the Methodigt Episcopal society and a handsome residence for Hon. J. M. Edwards, president of the Bank of Seward County. The houses of Judge Holland and ing completion, and add at Stromsburg. ch 16.—[Corro- .Jo— The prospects growth of Stroms- STROMSBURG, spondence of the for the improvement burg this spring are $fight. It is by law now a city of the sec class, and the April election will be for mayor. and aldermen, A system of waterAvorks, for which the contract hag been let, Will “be put in this sca- son. Many residences aud Some business Dblocks are to be erected this year. The new opera house, completed in January, 1888, is un ornament and a credit to the city, and has been liberally patronized by good talent. —— Will Build Another Church. CretE, Neb., March 18.—[Special to the Bee.]—The Presbyterians are about to erect 2$1,500 headquarters on the Chautauqua as sembly grounds on-a lot donated to that church by the Sunday school assembly asso- ciation located at Crete, making the fourth permanent church headquarters erected upon the grounds, Closed By His Creditors. LixcoLy, Neb., March 18.—[Special Telo- gram to the Bre.]—a.D. Guile, a furni- ture dealer in this city, has been elosed by o chattel mortgage filed by J. L. Doty for £1,200, for the Ott Patent Lounge company. The stock of Mr. Guile is worth about $3,000 and the accounts $5,000. The liabilities will exceed $2,000. A second mortgage for £500 is held by the State National hunk. Awmong the other claims is one of $400 by the Wis- consin Furniture and Coffin company of this city. Arrangements for an equitable set- tlement with all creditors will be made. An O1d Lady Sui Benix, Neb., March 18.—[Special to the Bee, |—Mrs. Melisse Moody, wife of John Moody, an old and respected resident living near Berlin, committed suicicide last night by taking strychnme while in a tempor state of mental depression, She was slec b ings with hor daughter” who, awakening at about 2 o'clock, missed her mother, and upon soarch she was found 1 an adjoining room in great agony. Medicgl ald was_ut once sent for but 1o no avail, and she died in a few hours, Crushed to Death. NouroLk, Neb., March 18.—[Special to the Bee.]—An inquest was held here yesterday Dy Coroner Loug, of Madison, on the body of Fred May, who was crushed by the cars at the junction, and died about 3 o'clock yester- duy morning. Letters were found on him signed, “Mattie, your wife.” His parents are suid to reside in Buchanan, Mich., and a telogram was sout them. He had formerly been in the employ of the brick company and at the asylum, e W. €. T. U. Convention, Heproy, Neb, March 18.—[Correspond- ence of the Bee.]—Hebron was visited this week by ddlegates from the various Womens' Christign Temporance fmions of Thayer county. Tho conventionyield by them lasted three days and was well attended through- out. Several ladies mxfl' abroad, noted in temperance work, we¥eprosent and - deliv- ered addresses, Mrs. YWeodard on the last eveniug delivered to ¢rpwded house one of the finest addresses of [l week, e Drowning at Columbus. CoLumsus, Neb,, M?.-Q 18.— [Special Tele- gram to the Be.]—WIilig, the eight-year-old son of Paul Hoppen, \1{dru\\'nud this after- noon in the Loup fork.l He with other boys was attracted to tho rieg by the preaking up of the ice and fell in, ke body has not been recovered. { Boulanger May Jigside in Paris, Panis, March 18.—Oenbral Boulauger to- day departed unnoticed for Clermont-Fer- rand. La Liberte says the minister of war has given the general permission to reside in Parls, A N Frederick Slee SRLIN, reh 18, —Em passed & refreshing night, enjoying unbroken sleep. — ey Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was & Child, she cried for Castoris, When sho begame Miss, sho 2wy % Castoris, ‘Whieu shie bad Children. ahie gave them Costoria. THE FAVORITISM OF FIVE, [Continied From First Page.) Will éfther the labor or prohibition move- nient chunge the usual result in your district? Of the former, it is almost universally as- serted * that' vo apprehsions need be felt. The only exceptions are in New York city, where, however, it will rather help the re- publicans than otharwise and in the mining counties of the Lehigh and Hocking vallays 1o Penpyivania and OBIo respactively. OF the farind (¢ 1s hsserted that while the miners are riot cdmeeted with the labor movement that has its headquarters in New York and are not goitg 10 be controlled politically by the Knights of 'Labor, there is still a feeling of dissatisfaction against the times, which are hard and growing harder. In the east- ern Pennsylvania conl regions thero are loud complaints that the tariff has not done what was promised for it and that the men them- selves are tired of the issue. The feeling is less pronpunded in the Ohio mining region, but still exists there and some fears are ex- pressed of danger to the party in the state unless conciligted, Iy all the other sections of all'the states the labor movement and the :;m (Eroenbuck movement - are practically dead. Of the prohibition movement it is asserted of same four or five counties in western and central New York, and of nine counties in Minnesota that it is on the incregse and that something must be done if possible to win the temperance people back. In all the other districts it is emphatically asserted that the prohibition vote will not change the usual result. All agree that the temper- ance advocates are holding their own ex- cept 1!! Pennsylvania, where the high li- cense law has taken the wind from their sails to a great extent. In several New York and Indiana city wards it is admitted that the prohibitionists will gain some, but de- nied that enough will be effected to change the result, As republicans were liable to be prejudiced . in their testimopy on this question, leading democrats were consulted in all of the states, and tho_rosult of their expressions is not much different from that given by the repub- licans. Out of one hundred letters taken at random from democratic ~ correspondents, 8ixty-two say the prohibition people are ac- tive, but ths jmpossible to report muchjappar- ent headwiy. The strongest prohibition ac- tivity is roported in New York and Minne- sota, tho former the most aggressive, high license not yet being an accomplished fact and nothing, therofore, hampering their de- mand for absolute prohibition. In Dodge, Goodhue, Chippewa, Ramsey (St. Paul), Da- kota, Wabasha, St. Louis (Duluth), Anoka and Soott counlies, Minnesota, a fair propor- tion of the more conservative observers de- clare the prohibitionists are gaining, and that their strength endangers republican success, Tho consensus of the opinion of all the re- publicans residing in alinost, overy ward and township in all of the five states and of sov- eral hundred leading republicans scattered throughout them may be set down as this: that the battle in November is to be astraight fight between the two big_parties and that any third issuc now in sight will not cut any considerable figure cither in the campaign or in the result. YOR THE VICE PRESIDENCY 5 For second place on_the ticket there is little or bo concern. Nearly all the presi- dential aspirapts aro mentioned, with per- haps Hawloy, Hiscock, Harrison, Foraker and Foster, leading in the order named, Colonel Fred Grant is mentioned by several Tndiana Harrison men, and William Walter Phelps by the Ohio Blaine and Feraker peo- ple. Nearly all who say anything about it, however, desire that the second place shall g0 where it will do the most good to the head of the ticket. TARIFF IN THE NORTHWEST. Minnesota was chosen for the canvass on the question of high taviff becayse it is a representative northwestern state, and be- i been asserted that the revenne ing among_republicans there 1s stronger than in'any other so-called repub- lican state. This question was asked : Aro the republicans of your district in favor of a high protective tarif? Everyone of the eighty organized counties were heard from through their party man- agers, and in addition observantand conserv- ative’ men_were consulted in 962 wards and townships in the state. The result of these expressions is that there is a considerable clement, which a_careful estimate puts at about 15 per. cent., umong Mianesota ro- publicans who_are out and out frce traders, Another careful estimate, based upon the re- plies reccived, put the' proportion of high tariff republicans in the state at about 20 per cent. ho other. 65 per cent say they are not in favor of a high protective tariff, but are moderate tariff roformers. They répudi ate the assertion frequently made that they favor a tariff for revenuc only and declare that they want all kinds of Amcrican labor protected, farmers and all alike. 1t is assorted that the farmers of Mimnne- sota, a very large proportion of whom are well'to-do, hard-working uud honest Scandi- navigus, are cvery day becoming better ae- qainted with the Workings of the tariff and that as between protection and free trade no doubt about the result. As betw il i and o tariff somewhat re- dueed from what it is now, but which will still maintain the protection idea, capable of Deiug put into practical effeot for the benefit of all clusses of American labor, the reform- crs would probab! y the state. The puring down of tiie republican plural- ity In the state from 41,000 for Blaine in 1854 3,000 for MeGill in 1856, is re- ly declared to been due wholly to al feuds and disafl ion. Of the 962 town- ships heard from 750 asserted that on na- tional issues, and with a good ticket and the iff plank whatever the party in the other tes demand, Mir 25,000 plurality. Not one puis it figure und some go as bi ures in 1884, The free trade feeling southern and- western counties whel pcople are wholly ugricultural, and the fow Biieh protoctionists are in Hennepin, Ramsey, Winoya, Blue Earth, Dakota and Washing: ton countics, Where IanUfACtures are most plentiful. lowa Lobby. Ia., March 18,—[Special to at is the power of the lobby ! It has made itsclf conspicuously felt in this legislature in several directions, Every im- t interest that has been discussed with to possible legislation effecting it, has been represented by a lobby of greater or less force of influence, The railroad lobby, the drug store lobby, the distillery lobby, the temperance lobby, the farmers lobby, the Armour packing house lobby, the woman’s suffrage lobby, the jobbers and manufacturers lobby and the school house lobby. Their manner of conducting opera- tions varies widely, but is directed in each case tounaking the influence of the third house offset the influcuge of the first and sec- ond houses, Qne lobby works in a social way —theaters, entertainments, ecto. Aunother lobbyholds out the inducement of compen- sation and reward ; not open bribes, of course, but a sort of & quid pro quo that an. average legislator can understand. Another works through the dear women, and brings the fairest and 108t chgrming of the sex to its help. Sweet smiles and gentle persuasion win where solid argument or appeal would fail. After all the lobby that can flatter judigiously 1s the one that has most suce No body of men is 80 suscep ble to flattery as & legislature. Tho statesmen have an idea they are of con- siderable account when at home. Bup they don’t"loom up so large when brought into the larger competition of a general as- sembly. 8o it is a coustant source of grief and disappontment that they make so small an impression here and seem to be of so little account. Heuce it is that the word of praise and flattery is very welcome. The little attentions and suggestions of their greatness are very kndly received. The man who admires their speeches (or makes them think he does), the man who compli- ments them upon the great ability they dis- pluy, snd assured them that they are worthy o rank with the first statesmen of the coun- try can draw on them at sight for wost any thing, undmlqm\bo used, A little flat- tery judiciously applied Las done more to help dw lobby this winter than all the argu- munzs, appeals or threats that Laye been ut- tered. Speaking of lobbies, the school book lobb has put in i work to good advantage, al- though it has aot been very couspicuous ia its mothods, When the legislature as: sembled, there was'a very genoral demand for some necessary legislation on the subject of achool books. The people had protested against extortionate prices for school books, and had complained of the frequent changes, and the,want of uniformnity, and it really bogan 10 look as 1f something by way of re- lief should be done. There were & number of bills promptly introauced, members had theinselves interviowed on the subject, there was a great deal of talking against ‘the school book monopoly’ and a stranger would have thought that whatever eclse failed, a bill of relief from this form of monopoly would go through, - About ten weeks have passed and no bill of reliof las beem put through. What is \vorse, the men who wero expected to push this kind of legislation, soem to have logt their zesl and grown in: different to the subject. The lobhy has been etting in its work, It Tias bonsted that it had fixed certain persons and had no fear of them now. It looks very much as if it had. The recommendation of the house school book committee simmers down practically to permitting school districts to. buy their own books and furnish them to the pupils free if they want to, a privilege which they already possess. In the senaté tho committes failed to agrecon a bill and presented two. It 1o0ks very ‘much asif the lobby had been ablo to defeat all legislation of ahy im- portance on this subject, and the people may ave to suffer along for two years moro without any substantial relief. oy hdiag The Farmers Want to Adjourn. Drs Moixgs, Ia., March 18.--[Special to the Bge,]—The farmers are already begin- ning to got restloss and want to go home. The robins and blue birds are heard in the land, and every note is & summons to the members from the rural districts to return to the farmer. A resplution has been intro- duced in the house fixing April 5 as tho date for adjournment. Members say that the house could adjourn by that time, but the senate is holding it back by the slow way it disposes of its work. There is much criti- cism of the bungling way in which some of the leading committees have handled busi- ness. The result is that the senate has the largest part of its work before it. Two or three weeks have been spent on the railroad bills, and not one has yet been passed. Although not given to so much talk as the house, yet when fairly started the senate holds on as if it had all summer to stay here. Scarcity of Wila Animals. Philadelphia Times: “The time is ap- proaching when zoological gardens and wild beast shows will be numbered with the institutions that have been, but are no more,” remarked Superintendent Arthur E. Brown, out at the Zoo yester- day. He added: *“The school boy three or four generations hence, wanting to Kknow 80 much of natural history as re- lates to the structure, habits and pecu- liarities of most of the wild beasts of the forest, will be compelled to learn it from books, for living animals and specimens will be found only in the fastnesses of the distant wilds. The canses of this will be two-fold. First, the animais be- ing gradually and surely killed or driven into _smaller territory through the spread of civilized and semi-civilized man, are necessarily driven intocountry inaccessible toman in some cases, and in others they are becoming extinet. In the second place, they will die out in cn]!t\\l'-_v. ‘In our country less than twenty years ago the buffalo roamed in herds. assengers seated in luxuriously fin- ished railroad coaches leveled their rifles from the windows and shot the noble animals for the fun of the thing at their leisure. Now the wild buffalo is practically extinct. We have a fine herd here, but in time they too will die out, However finely some of the cap=- tive-born animals may appear fora time to thrive, unless they are reinforced by some of the original wild stock they dwindle down in time, and I have no doubt will eventually die out.” ‘What is true of the buffalo in North Amerien is in a great measure the fact of the antelope, the elk, the white-tailed deer, the bear, (except the grizzly], and many others. Beayers, prairie dogs, fi and other of the smaller animals > becoming scarce. The prairie dogs have been killed by millions, because they destroy the farms and therefore they must go. | The superintendont to- | lated an instance that came under his | own observation last fall, in which two beavers were caught in steel traps, placed deep under water on a_low-protected territory, in which the female had previously lost her two fore paws, and the male bad lost one of his, showing that they had been trapped before and got away, the female twice and the male once. The wild beasts of Afvica were formerly numerous, but they are becoming scarce. A few y go there were two ports in AP e they could be purchased, one in the east and one in the west, on the Somali coast, but the changed political condition of the coun- tries in the Upper Nile region now pre- vent their purchase in the east. In Asia the elephants, owing to their slaughter by the ivory hunters have almost died out, and now laws are en- forced in the countries which they in- habit which prevent their further de- struction. The advance of man has driven the lions, tigers, leopards, and other ferocious beasts into the jungles which man cunnot enter. Mvr. Brown, in illustration of the sub- ject, said that less than five weeks ago IERRAL hought girafles and cam- eleopards for #2,000 a head. To-day there ave but, few on sule, und the price is $4,600. About the time of the centen- nial in 1876 six giraffes were bought and landed at the Zoo. Most of them have since died, although carefully handled. Two polar bears died last summer and fall there. The oldest and largest Zoo in the world is that in London. Of the various species of animals there only about one- e preagtiatalin caplivity, The two baby elephants which belonged to Barnum are the only two on record that have been born in captivity in 2,000 Auntwerp’s Zoo during the past :ars has been the most successful in breeding and raising animals. ‘What is true of quadrupeds is stated to be the fact with most wild birds; more particularly birds, which are becoming comparatively scarce to what they were at one time, STRONGER THAN SWEENEY'S. The Iowa Legislature Wrestling With a New Railroad Bill. FIXING SBCHEDULES OF RATES. The Board of Kailroad Commissioners Empowered to Make Thom on All Lines in the State, A Hard Subject. Drs Morxes, Ta., March 17.—[Correspond- enco of the Brm]—After spending aweel discussing the Sweeney bill to prevent dis- crimination by railroads and to extend the provisions of the inter state commerce law to locul shipments tho senate on Tuesday throw aside this bill and substituted house file 873, o much more stringout aud olabordte measure, which covers not only these points, but empowers the board of raflroad commis- sioners to fix a schedule of rates for all the railroads In the state. The adoption by the close vote of 23 to21 of an amendment by Senator McCoy which legalized discrimination at competing pointa or locations—tho very thing the bill was'in. tended to prevent—took away the whole life of the measure, and its author and other friends deserted it in favor of the house bill, The whole week has been consumed in dis- cussing this measure and the most stringent features have been toned down. The bill provided that the rallroad commissioners could enjoin any railroad refusing to obey its decisions and tie up the entire line. This was consid- ered a greater hardship on the shippers and traveling public than on the roads, and was stricken out. Only about ono-half of the bill has been considered. It is the evident pur- pose of the railroad scnators to_ delay final action on this bill as long as possible, so tha there will be no time left for the considera- tion of the maximum tariff and the S-cent farc bills. Howover, the house will not con- sent to an adjournment until these billg acted upon. "As ono member remarked, . Wa are going to stay here until the Fourth of July if we don't get some relief from railroad extortion.” THE PHARMACY BILL, The iron-clad prolibitory law, drafted by the State Temperance alliance, which pro- vided that all iquors shall be sold by county agents limit=d in number to not more than four in a county, has been oast. aside and a mild pharmacy law, very little different from the law as 1t now stands, has passed the louse. Under the prsent law there has been @ wonderful mcrease In tho number of drug stores throughout the state, very many of which are littie bet- ter than saloons, and the prohibitionists made a determincd effort to take the sale of intoxi- ing liquors away from the druggists en- irely, but aid not succeed. They then en- deavored to restriot the number of pharma- cists handling liquors and in this they also falled. The radicals aro very much dis- pleased and somo of them will voto the third party ticket at the coming prosidentinl eleotion, TAXING MORTGAGES. ‘There is an effort being mado in the house to tax mortgages for their full face valte, and the owner of the land for his_equitable intercst only. This move has very much alarmed castern money loaners and threats are being made that if such a bill passos all foreign money wili be withdrawn from this state or the rato of interest matorially in- creased. Thore is little prospect of such a law being enacted, but it will come up in the house in a few days and lead to & thorough discussion of the question. THE STATE UNIVERSITY. Senators McCoy, of Mahaska, Knight, of Dubuque, and Reépresentatives’ Wilbur, of Floyd, Lewis, of Wayne, and Craig, of Lee, have been_appointed a joint committeo to in: vestigate the charges against the state uni- versity shat have been set afloat by Prof. Heinrichs and others. That _institution, whether justly or unjustly, is in bad oaor with the peoplo of the state, and it is to be hoped that this committee will do its duty fearlessly and honestly, and lay beforo the | legislature the exact condition of affairs. THE JURY SYSTEM, The lower house has passed a law allowing ten jurymen in civil cases to bring in a ver- et Already the wamber of grand jurors has been cut down by constitutional amend- ments from fifteen to not to exceed soven, five of whom may find an indictment. The next move will likely be to allow nine jurors in oriminal cases 1o convict, but so radical a chango in well established a custom will not be brought about without vigorous oppo- sition, espec minal lawyers. SR Bl Senator Bolter, nts the strong- est anti-monopoly district in the state, com- poscd of the counties of Harrison, Shelby awford, has got himself into hot wa- v his attitude on pending railroad legis- The senator was a member of the legislature fourteen years ago when the old “granger law” was énacted and ool a prom- drafting that bill and in se ing its adoption. The auti-monopoly sc ment of his district has incre sine that time and activ ers' alliances exist in almost overy township, yet Senator Bolton has scen fit to antagonize the maximum tarift and the 2-cent fare bill, which was ex- sressly demanded by the democratic platform. I'he Towa Homestead, the organ of the alli- ance, criticises his course soyerely this wecek, and his whole district is up in arms. Senator Bolter's name has been favorably mentioned as a candidate for congress fn the ninth dis this year, but this move on his i i stroy his chances for the yer of no mean ability, ¢ ed that he will retire from politics after this session, and accopt a lucrative position with the Northwestern, Rex, e whitewash should be used Plenty of brighter ppear- now, not only for the ance but also asa disinfectant. Hot whitewash on the inside of barns, stables, poultry-houses and pig quartors will ohll in preventing, vermin and iuns seets. B Onion sets are produced by sowing the seeds thickly in the rows, so as 10 allow them but "little room for growth, Sow the seed as soon as the ground will permit. — Pigs should be kept on all fgrms where butter is made. ~ This permits of utilizing the skim milk and saves the- labor of shipping the milk to market. Hood's Sarsaparils ladsthemostpopus lar and successful Spring Medicine. Nearly © Medicine spring medicine like Hood's pel the impurities which have J laccummulated in the blood during the winter, to lceep up strength as the warm weather comes lon, create an appetite aud promote healthy digestion, Try Hood" saparilla this spring and you will be convineed thiat it does possess superior and peeuliar merit. was dizzy in the morning, had a head. A Cood Appetite “When I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla I e, and no appetite ; but now I can hardly get enough Be Sure to Cet Hood’s ! Sarsaparilla, my child, See that they do not | glve you anything else. You remember it is | the medicine which did mama 80 much good | look bright aud healthy as possibly can be. a year ago— 0 reliable, beneficial, pleasaut | 1 10 take — my Layorite spring mediciue, ooked t treet, Worcester, Mass, Sar: cured of serofula, free from sores, and all four of my eat.” Exua Suerawp, 1 Coral “Last spring my whole family took Hood's arilla. Tho result is that all have Leon my little boy belng entircly ildren have found Hood's Barsaparilla good for ca- tarrh.” War B, Arairox, Passalo City, ‘Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by drugglsts. §1; aix for #5. Prepared only by 0.1 MOOD & CO., Apothecarios, Lowell, Mass, . 100 Doses One Dollar | Sold by wl drugglats. g by O. % ix for 85, Prepared only 100D & 00, Apatliecaries, Lowell, Mask 100 Doses One Dollar