Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 19, 1888, Page 4

4 . < LA v w THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRMS OF SUBSCR1r (TON. fly (Morning Edition) including 8u Piis. B Yake For 8ix Months ¥or Three Months. The Omaha Sunday dress, One Year......... ST 220 HA Q¥FICE, NOS.IAANDU10 FARNAM STREET. o:l‘lw }anl (-;M(‘l, Rooms 14 AxD IbTRInvN% BUILDING, WASHINGTON Or¥ice, No. 613 FOURTEENTH STREET. #; mailed to any ad- CORRESPONDENCE. Sl 1 munioations relating to news and edi- b adirotoed 10 the EDITOR Bne. OF R BRR . oiNRSS TETTERS. All business letters d remittances should be addressed to Tae BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to e made payable to the order of the company. Thg Bee Pubishing Company. Propriors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE, Sworn Statement of Circulation, Etate of Nohraska, Connty of Donglass, l"-" Goor . Tasentiok, Secretary of The Bea Pub- Mehing comipany, doss sojemily swoar that the netual gircolation of the Daily Hee or the wesk g Mareh 16, 168, was as follows: Katirdny, March 10, : 20215 March 11 10, ’l'hllnuluxi Friday, e "t'niao. nlfiécnuu?fiu and su bed in 1700 Qny OF Mareh, A, Dy 1668, ':’u. P FRIL, otary Public. Btateof Nevuask, Ly, Count uglass, 1. Tznchitok, Betng st duly do- 4 and says that he 15 secretary of Beo ublishing Company, that e actial average Qnily cireulation of the Daily Heo for the mon ;v;“ l:(‘:l;’.m A IIMM A f’o A ,{mfl, ¥ coplest a i copos; _for J 14147 coples; aly, Jul; 1897, 14,088 copiesi for Augu: 180 303kt coples: for sefm‘m, T, T4 o83 for October, 1887, 14838 for November, 187, 16,2% coples; ' for December, 1887, 16,041 iy GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bworn and subscribed to in my presence this 3d.dny of February, A. D, 188, N.P% FEI Notary Public, i for Mex1co needs a good spanking, but Uncle Sam will not take the trouble to do it. — HAS it come to f)nas that the board of public works is going to spliton a gal- lon of tar and the size of a broken stone? THERE are still a.good many tax-eat- ers at the city erib who never would be missed 1f they were struck from the city payroll, ————— Wazre did all those fellows who were introduced by Toastmaster Thurs- ton as honorables, get their honorable jug-handles? e GENERAL BADEAU now claims to have written Grant’s memoirs, and proposes. to sue Mrs. Grant, for $35,000. The authorship of “Breadwinners” will soon be determined, THE government chemist analyzed ‘a brand of lard stamped ‘‘Anchor Lard” and found that it contained 17.4 per cent cent of water. The “‘anchor” part.of it probably kept the lard from floating WAy, ST BALTDIORE has just sentenced two of ber municipal election judges who tampered with the returns. This reads as a matter of news, but it also has a moral behind it which election judges will he sure to paste in their hats, TaEnew Chinese treaty hinds this country to pay $276,000 ‘in full settle- ment of all claims against. the United States for loss and injury suffered by Chinamen here. On this basis of calcu- lation a Chinaman, after all, 15 a valu- able citizen. S r—— SOoME people never know how to let well enough alone. Jailer Miller does not seem to be satisfied with having been reinstated, but he is now fomenting trguble and making himself promi ous by meddling with the defense of persons charged with crime VENNOR, Wiggins and Tice have all come and gone. But we will not re- main without weather prophets for all that. Prof. Hicks, of St. Louis, pre- dicts a perfect succession of tornadoes, cyclones and thunderstorms during the year. We shall see what we shall see,, Mr. Hicks may be the seventh son of the sgventh daughter, or he may be only an ordinavy weather cock who crows loudly on his own dunghill erp———— WaiILE the French government ob- jects to buying American pork, no prej- udice hinders that people from eating our beef. At all events 150,000 head of cattle will be shipped annually to sup- ply the army and give French soldiers the brawn and muscle neceded to stand up against Germany. As the cattle come from the ranches of the west, this demand materially aids in stimulating the beef industyy. Vive la France! e ] THis is the way tho clerk of the weather in New York city explains the vecent blizzard: One storm stacted in the western lake region and moved slowly te the eastward and southward. The other began in Georgia and made its way to the northeust, as is proper for all well behaved storms. Moreover the Georgia storm had the right of way, but the westepn storm meeting it off Cape THatteras wouldu’t give in. So a pitched battle was fought, To the glory of the west, the blizzayd from Dukota com- pletely paralyzed the Georgia wanderer and easily did it with one hand tied to fts buck. ; E——— PaE democratio situation in Indiana Is becoming interesting." The moyement to push forward Govegnor Gray for the pecond place on the national democratic ticket, reported to be favored in admin- istration cireles, has aroused the hostil- ity of the Voorhees and McDonuald wings of the party in Iudiana,and it is said they will make a vigorous fight against Gray, It is boldly proclaimed that if the friends of Governoy Gray in- Bist upon pressing him as ‘a candidate for the vice presidengy there will be disclosures made that caunot fail to be disastrous to his chances, Indiana dem- ocracy has been for some time in a state of ‘wrbulence, and the indications are that thas will be intensiied.. Republi- pans can rogard this outlook with en- tive cheerfulness, | favor, indeed! He Doth Protest Too Much. 1 find that one newspaper has charged the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney with bribing me, and With my taling fhat bribe. Tt has also boen said that the Union Pacific has a mortgage on me. Now I will say to every- body connected with newspapers that what- ever they may say will have no influence at all on me, What I do is from the standpoint of my official daties. I do not ask any office, and 1 don’t want even the office I now hold.” This preamble to Judge Dundy’s de- cision in the Burlington 1njunction case must challenge universal attention, The court recordsof thisor anyother country will be searched in vain for a parallel where a judge has ever at- tempted to exonerate himself from the bench for a decision which he is about to render, The terse French adage, “‘He who excuses himeelf, accuses himself,” ap- plies foreibly to Judge Dundy. The honorable judge makes an accu- sation against himself which nobody else has made. He puts up a straw man and knocks him down. No paper has charged the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy with bribing the judge and his taking that bribe. No paper has as- serted that the Union Pacific has a mortgage on Judge Dundy unless the strictures on his pronounced leaning in the direction of the railroads could be 8o construed. What a pitiable spee- tacle the judge presents before the whole country when he invents crim- inal charges against himself and winds up with a declaration that he does not want the office which he now holds. Every school-boy in the land knows, that nobody can be compelled to hold on to an office which he does not wish to fill. The national supreme bench, from Chief Justice Waite down to Justice Lamar, could step down in a body if they so desired. If Judge Dundy’s preamble challenges public attention, the fulsome and fool- hardy eulogy of the paper which has a monopoly on the official patronage of his court, invites and compels criticism. This fool friend of his honor takes the preamble and Burlington injunction as its toxt and slops clean over when itsays: No man stands higher, mentally and mor- ally than he in the federal judiciary of the west. There has always beeu a curious at- traction in his court, Therc isa freshness, and a humanity, and a rugged keen sense of right in his opinions which attract those ac- customed to the conventional delivery of conventional tedium. He deep student in many respects. He is & foarless judge in all respects, He s beyond fedr and beyond favor, and his warm assertion that he would sacrifice the office which he holds rather than the respect-for the law which entitles him to the office, need not have been said. No one ever dreamed that the judge was a coward. His integrity never needed vindication. It is as clean and as strong asa wave-washed rock, * * % % % % The set jaw which is so familiar in his court came down with its old decision, and he ficed the delicate issue with his magnificent moral coyrage. But his kindliness was' there also. He taught con- spiracy to know itself and also how to avoid the jungle into which its feet might be tangled. - This is. beautifully written and would be interesting if it were only true. There is indeed a freshness manifest in this flattering portrait ot the judge which exhibits. as much ignorance as it does sublime cheek. There i§ no cari- cature about ‘“‘the familiar set jaw,” byt here the realism of the likeness comes to ap abrupt end. High moral qualities, and beygnd Integrity that never hag needed vindication]! Shades of the lamented Judge Hulll Moral stamina and no favors in a court, where favorit- ism has hbeen offensive and often has bordered on scandal. Unblemished integrity in the face of the Brass-band Smith performance which made honest business men in Omaha blush with shame, and created the most intense indignation in the whole state. The judge and his foolhardy champion protest altogether too much. A judge who goes out hunting and junketing in railvoad palace cars, and dines and wines with railroad managers and attorneys may be endowed with a high moral sense and spottless integrity, but if he has any gratitude in his make-up he will reciprocate favors, Whatever faults Judge Dundy may have, he always has been a staunch friend and an intense hater. His par- tiality to attorneys who are his personal friends has been as notorious as has been his tendency to befriend the cor- porations who have bestowed special favors upon him. Democracy and Labor, The indifference shown by the demo- cratic majority in the house of repre- sentatives to the demands of the labor interest for legislation, or at least for the privilege of making known their de- sires, is not a new cxpresssion of demao- cratic unconcern for this interest. The same spirit was manife in the last congress. Then the committee on labor met with the same sort of obstruction that it is now encountering, and only in the closing days of thesession siiceeeded in obtaining any attention for the meas- ure it had to propese. The result was that very littlo of the labor legislation sought was enacted, and an important part of this failed to become law be- cause the president could not reach it in time or did not care to. The committee on legislation of the Knights of Labor, which remained in Washing- tou during the last congress to promote such measures as labor desived, was very pronounced in its report in con- demnping the democratic majovity. of the house for the manner in which they had disregarded the appeals of the labor in- terest and the consequent trifling results in behalf of labor. The prescunt congress will probably do no better. It might be supposed that with a presidential election to take place this year the democrats would be anxious to show the labor of the country that they are in full sympathy with its wanuts and wishes, and would endeavoy to make a record upon whieh they could with a degree of fairness and plaus- ibility ask the support of the labor vote. They certainly have no just claim to it now, and it is hardly to be supposed that they ave blind to its importance. Hut they are still heed- less of its appeal for. & heaving. The chairman of the labor committee of the house has vainly tried to secure atten- tion for measures hie has ready to sub- mit. The republicans have giveu him their united help in his efforts. to have days set apart for the consideration of bills proposing legislation in behalf of labor, but the democratic vote being solidly against him his efforts thus far have failed. He will doubtless continue to urge his cause, as he did up to the last duy of the session of the last con- gress, and very likely with no better re« sults. The indications are that labor will rocerve no more consideration from the fiftieth congress than it got from the forty-ninth. Yet the demoeratic party will in the national campaign unblushingly ask the labor of the country to support it, and many thousands in the ranks of labor, with utter blindness to their interests, will do so. The democratic party goes on from year to year disregarding the claims and the wishes of labor, and still counts on its side in every election a large vote of this element. It is not creditable to the intelligence and dis- cernment of the laboring class that such is the fact, and it would seem that work- ifgmen who read and reflect would by this time have become con- vinced that their cause has noth- ing to expect from the demo- cratic party. It ought to be apparent to them that the men who are now in control of that party cannot bring them- selves into sympathy with labor. Their education and the traditions that con- trol their views and conduct do not lead them in that direction. Democratic professions of concern for the cause of labor have always been found wanting in sincerity when put to the test, and new evidence of this is seen in the course, of the democratic mojority of the present congress with respect to the demand for a hearing of measures in the interest of labor. They Cannot Afford to Do It. Republicans in congress cannot af- ford to give any support to the tariff bill of Mr. Randall. Their safe course is to have nothing to do with it, Undoubt- edly its author expected to secure some republican aid, but in this he should be disappointed. As we have heretofore said the republicans haye no concern in the democratic quarrel, and are not called upon by any considerations to give aid and comfort to either of the factions, Let them fight out their quarrel in their own way. But republicans cannot afford to sup- port the Randall bill, as it is reported some of them are disposed to do, be- cause it is a measure that would perpg- tuate monopoly and stand as a bulwark to the trust and combi- nations to control the products of the country and arbitrarily regulate the prices of most leading commodities. It proposes no reform in the fiscal policy of the government that would give the people the relief they desire from op- pressive tariff taxation. It would not enable the farmer or workingman to obtain one ounce or one inch more for his dollar. than he now gefs. It would reduce the revenue of the government without giving an equivalent benefit to the people. The trusts and combina- tions would be allowed to go on making their exactions and plundering the poo- ple without the least restraint or obsta- cle. It cannot be shown that.apy of the necessavies. of life would be reduced in price to the con- sumer under the operation of Rap- dall’s measure, It does not contemplate and would not give any beneflts to the people. Despite the pretense that it is based on sound economic principles, which 1f so would equitably distribute the advantages, it is plain that it would make stronger the oppressive system of which a majority of the people now complain, Republican representatives in con- gress cannotafford togo before the coun- try in this presidential year as having favored any such one-sided scheme of so-called revenue reform. If they can- not harmonize upon a measure of tarift revision that will come necarer than this to what the people expect, and to what 18 demanded in their interest and for the public wel- fare, it will be better for them to leave the subject entirely to democratic treatment and let that party bear the full responsibility of failure to give the country the needed reform. If the re- publicans, however, shall not succeed in uniting on a fair and just tariff measure that would commend itself to the intelligent judgment of the coun- try they will let pass a great oppor- tunity. THe misunderstanding between our government and Morocco, by reason of the seizure and imprisonment in the latter country of a person who claims American citizenship, is not expected to have any serious consequences, but it may result in diminishing American prestige in that quarter of the world. The appearance at Tangier of the alleged war-steamer Enterprise, pre- sumably to enforce a recognition of American rights, is more likely to cre- ate amusement than apprehension, and when the governmentof Morocco learns, if it does not already know, that this great government has nothing more formidable to send, the sultan will not only rest easy, but will very likely take his own time to consider whether it is desivable to surrender his prisoner. If Tangier is not as defenscless as most American seacoast cities her people may feel entirvely secure. There is a question involved in this affair, however, which requires to be settled, and that is as to how far this govel ment should go in sustaining the pro- tege business of American consuls. There should be no limit to the efforts of the government to protect its citi- zens in foreign lands who may require protection, but the extent to which it should exert itself in behalf of persons who are merely under consular guardi- anship needs to be dadinitely deter- mined. ‘The settlement of the difficuity with Moroceo may lead to this result. S —— TaE British house of lords must go. The day is not far off when hereditary peerage giving 4 man the right to sit in the upper chamber of legislation will be abolished. So faras the liberal vote is concerned, the house of comwmous is al- most a unit in bringing about this re- form. Gladstone, John Bright and La- bouchere bave from time to time set their seal on the movement. But that one of the most coaspiruous wmem- bers of the house of lords should bring forward a (scheme of reform 18 highly significant. Lord Dun- raven’s proposition is radical and com- prehensive. His fneasure proposes that peers shall be eliglble for election to the house of commons on withdrawing from the lords. He would hmitthe unumber constituting the latter assembly and that one-third of the new legisla- tive peers shall ber appointed by the crown, one-third/by the preseni peers and one-third by:the proposed new county boards. What action parlia- ment will take on. the matter will bo watched with great interest. ‘REPUBLICANS who are watehing the preliminary skirmish of the national campaign will read with interest the exhaustive roview of the presidential preferences and political outlook which we print in our telegraphic columns. While only five states are covered by the canvassers, the prevailing opinions in these are a fair index of the general sentiment of the country. The situa- tion in Nebraska is very much like that reported in Minnesota, The ma- jority of the people of this state arve farmers, and they are most emphatic- ally in favor of a revision of the tariff. —— IN the controyersy over paving speci- fications the board of public works should not lose sight of the main ques- tion in which taxpayers are interested. Our paving contractors should be held strictly to their obligations. Nobody should be employed as paving inspec- tor who is not known to be competent or whose integrity is not above suspicion. ‘While this city can truthfully boast of being the best paved city west of Chicago, we cannot overlook the fact that some of our pavements are wretchedly laid and will soon have tobe replaced. STATE AND TERBITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Auburn has secured a button factory. Beatrice is feeling for a sewing ma- chine factory. Arcadia has a national bank capital of $50,000, A creamery company has been organ- ized at Loup City. : A Red Cloud is agitating a $30,000 court house for Webster county. Falls City is already passing around the hat for a Fourth of July fund. Arapahoe has a board of trade in operation, with George W, Calvin at the helm. Twelve misfit marriage suits Einncd to the court house lines in ragka City. ) Having anchored the capital of Gree- ley county, Scotia is now reaching out, for a cannery and other profitable’ in- dustries, N Crete is skurrying along the joyless road to greatness with two juvenile bands guarding hér rear. To retreat now meaus death. The Columbus Journal affirms a well- known fact by declating that ‘the Lin- ‘coln Journal isthe subsidized mouth- piece of the B. & : The “‘Bohemian oats” swindlers are said to be operating:in the state, A number twelve hgot or a hungry bull- dog will take their measure, if promptly applied. ) he slnufi:ter of tagless dogs is going O‘E in Beatrice, and the natives called on the sfreets by pressing duties wear sheet- iron underclpthes as a prbtection from stray bullets. The Columbus Journal is forgiven. Its St. Patrick’s edition in national with a are Ne- | colors covers a multitude of political sins, The Journalis a blooming daisy in all seasons, 3 The question of license or np licensp, whether the corking of the groggries would give the town pump a chance to recover its prestige, opensupthe spring campaign 1n Friend. The North Bend Flail has raised $106 for a monument to the Westphalen orphans. The BEE has raised an equal amount. Both together will secure a lasting memorial to Dodge county’s martyrs in the blizzard of January. The board of trade of McCook has sent a loud and lengthy document to the Burlington officials declaring unwav ing fidelity to the B. & M. The town anxious to pose as the junk shop of en- gine blacksmiths. The White Cross League and the In- dependent of Grand Island are in the thick of a battle, in which jaw is the principal weapon. At last accounts tho combatants maintained a respectful dis- tuulcu with no prospect of an carly fun- eral, Senator Sam Walbach, of Grand Island, is being boomed by friends for the democratic nomination for congress in the Third district. Mr. Walbach 100 good a man to dash his hopes on o rocky republican majority. He fisami a better fate. The jury fixers of Gage county will be thoroughly salted before Judge Brady gets through with them. The cruelest cut of all was 1o chop down Wymere'’s Greenwood, with a big cele- bratipn coming on. Church Howe has been rewarded with the vice presidency of the Missouri Pa- cific extension to Hastings. His pr motion is a rather late reward for his services, and malkes up, in part, for the stings and arrows of outraged constitu- ents. General Van Wyck is humping along as o vice presidential candidate. With the support of the Nebraska City Press, the Wymore Reporter and the Wayne Herald he will storm' the citadel of re- publicanism in Chicago mnext June, ad from under. Engine 63, said to be one of the best engines on the Burlington road, has been hauled into the Plattsmouth shops, completely burned ‘out. The engine died in the hands of a.scab near South Bend for want of water. Itisa miracle that he was not blown aloft. A fool for Tuck. The commissioners of Dodge have blown in $300 in a fruitless chase for the firebug who put the torch to the nest of cockroaches in Fremont. The allege detectives tracked, with consummate skill, the appropriation into the treas- ury and clung to it tilf the last ceut dis- appeared, Mr. Keyser, a prominent citizen of Nebraska City, is believed to have joined the colony of crooks in Canada. Mr. Keyser was president, cashier and " of & private bank, and surplus funds of his friends—and it with 'him te provide incidentals on the trip. The depositors losses, us far us known, amount to $6,000, The Hon. Cowbill Owen is no slaugh on his pins. He isa Nebraska product and proved a cvelone in disguise, much to the sorrow of the sports at the Chi- eago stock yards. When Bill heard the boasts of a local sprinter, he simply re- marked that he could run a little bit himself. The Chicagoans thought they had a pronounced jay in tow and laid for his pile, ~ But Bill' and ‘his friends scooped in 8800 uetand ieft his oppoucut, BEE; MONDAY, MARCE 19, 188 in a dash of 100 yards so in the rear that the dust of his brogans fanned the Chicagoan to sleep. “Those fifty foot enow drifts down east,” remarked mn_old resident after reading the dispatches from Peunnsyl- vania, “‘are y\rcl.l.{ tall for the country, but they are ordinary and trifling com- ared with thoge of the early days. 3ack in '54-5, when Omahn was only the lnndh}fi,cf o ferry boat, we had a win- ter. ere weren't any drifts, but solid snow. It filled the valley from the Towa bluffs on a dead level to the high school hill, I freighted between St. Joe and Council Bluffs those days and many atime I dropped through the roof of deserted dobies. When the April rise of the Missouri came down we had to blast a path through the snow bank to let the water run out.” Dakota. The painters of Sioux Falls are on a strike. Mandan has sent a carload of flour to the New York blizzard sufferers, Deadwood has subscribed $32,000 toward the erection of reduction works, A syndicate has heen formed at Lead City for the purpose of locating and de- veloping oil grounds, The Pierre Bridge company has or- ganized with a capital of $30,000. The object is to construct, maintain and operate a_ pontoon bridge between Pierre and Fort Pierre for the crossing of teams and foot passengers. Work upon it will begin as soon as the ice moves out. — Republican State Conyention. The republican electors of the state of Nebraska are requested to send delegates from the several counties, to meetin con- vention, at the city of Omaha, Tuesday May 15, 1888, at 8 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of electing four delegates to the national repub- lican convention, which meets in Chicago June 19, 1858, TILE APPORTIONMENT. The several counties are entitled to repre- sentation as follows, being based upon the vote cast for Hon. Samuel Maxwell, supremo judge, in 1887, giving one delegate-at-large to each county, and one for each 150 votes and major fraction thereo: VOTES.| COUNTIES, < 3 3 |51 g .14 Jefferson .9 {earney . 2 Keya Paha, . 8 Keith. Brown..... Buftalo.. Phelps..... Richardson. {Red Witlow Valley. . Washington . Wayne, Webstel Wheeles JA4lYork.... ... WUnorg. territory.... 1t is recommended that no proxies be ad- mitted to the convention, except such as are held by persons residing in the counties from the proxies are given. b 'EORGE D. MEIKLEJOHN, ‘WaLT M. SEELY, Chairman. & Secrotary. pnSlamanbotae @ ey THE GEORGIA WRECK. A Revised List Shows Twenty-Three Killed and Thirty-Four Wounded. SAVANNAH, Ga., March 18,.—A revised list of casualties in yesterday’s accident near Blackshear shows that fwenty-three were killed and thirty-four injured. ~Of the latter ten are in a serious condition. All the wounded are receiving overy attention. The trestle of the Hurricane rjver is about cight hundred feet in length and the break includes four hundred fect at the west end, the tender and engine lodging against the abutment. The baggage car left the track on the trestle, which accounts for the acci- dent. The ties show where the trucks cut deep into them. It was this car that careened thé rear cars and by its strain dragged the tender down, the engiie having safely croszed over, Ha it not been for oS- of nd of Engincer Richard Welch a much more horrible fate would have been in store for the wounded. Hurriedly dispat ing the engine with a fireman to Blackshe: heran down to the wreck and with the as: sistance of the r of the Pullman car extinguished the fire which had broken out in the baggage car. e~ WILL HARDI The Managing Editor of the Denver . ublican” Very Low. Dexver, Colo,, March 18,—|Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—C. ¥ K. Hayward, man- aging editor of the Republican, who has been very ill for a week past with pueumonia and heart disease took a sudden relapse this morning and at this hour it is feared e can- not recoyer. - 0dd Fellows Organize. Hovyoxe, Colo, March 17.—[Correspond- ence of the Brk]—District D. D. G. M. Charles Grott, of Julesburg, has instituted a lodge at this place, of Odd Fellows, with the following office N. G., C. C. Washburn; V.G., J. S Bryan; R. S, B. A, Hoskins; treasurer, J. M. Cullis. A very pleasant time was reported. They took supper at the King botel. They start with o membership of sixteen, e Weather Indications, For Nebraska: Colder, fresh to brisk northerly winds, fair weather, For low Wirmer, southerly winds, shifting to colder, fresh to brisk northerly, light rain or snow, followed by fair weather, with cold wave. For Tastern aud Southwestern Tokota: Light local rains or snows, followed by colder, fair weather, with light cold wave, fresh northerly winds. A light cold wave is indicated for Minne- sota and Dakota. The temperature will fall dgy morning. -~ Attempted to 8ho ManysviLLe, Kan, M |Special Telegram tothe BEe e S, Moser, a cigar mgker, attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself in the right ear. The ball glanced fracturing the boue back of the ear, The ball was extracted and he will probably recover, s e The Platte Breaking Up a Freyont, Neb., March 18.— [ gram to the Bgg. ] —The Platte river is break- ing up at this point to-day. The ice has taken out three spaus of, the wagon bridge and is running freely. More of the bridge may goout. The Fremont, Elkhorn & Mis souri Valley railroad bridge west of this city is threatened. The company hasa crew of wen on the ground to protect it s Washout on the U Trains over the Union Pacific were sei 1 nours late yesterday owing to a washout of the tiestle near Fremont. The trafiic of the road was trausferred to the Frewont, kik- horn & Missouri Valley. JUSTICE WITH THE BARK ON Interesting Reminiscences Sug- gested By Bradford's Death. NEBRASKA’'S FIRST MURDER CASE How a Legislative Act Saved the Oul- prit From the Gallows—A Peéro- ration Cut Short—Pio- neer Law Practice. Territorial Days.RRecalled. Nesraska Crry, Neb., March 18,—[Cor- rospondence of the Bee.]—The death of Judge Allen A. Bradford, as announced in the Ber of Friday, which oceurred at his late home in Pueble, Colo., March 18, recalls some most intercsting reminiscences con nocted with his early life and the territorial history of Nebraska. o Allen A. Bradford came to Nebraska City in 1855, and became at once a prominent fig- ure in politics, while practicing his profes- sion as a lawyer. Ho was a brother of Henry Bradford, Nebraska City's first mayor. Judge Bradford's reputation, how- ever, was made in 1856 while acting as coun- sol in a murder case, the first that had occurred in the city. On April 23, 1856, one Simpson Hargus became involved in a quarrel with Benjamin Lacey, growing out of a species of ‘“‘squatter sovereignty,’ which resulted in Hargus shooting Lacey—a cold-blooded and deliberate murder, as it was afterwards proven. Judge Bradford was retained as attorncy for Hargus, who was immediately indicted for the murder. See- ing the hopelessness of the case, Bradford managed to secure a dehy of the trial, and meanwhile becamo a candidate for a seat in the territorial council and was elected in 1856, In June, 1857, ho introduced a bill, ‘to repeal certain acts of the terrtorial assembly of Nebraska,” and providing that certain parts of the criminal code of Iowa, and an act relative to criminal laws previously approved by the assembly be repealed. The bill ‘was crowded through both houses, the vote 1 the council being 13 to 1—Dr. George L. Miller, of Omaha, alone opposing it. In the house the vote stood 24 to 2. Governor Tzard, however, vetoed the bill, which was again considered and passed over his veto, and the act left Nebraska entirely without a criminal code. It was a heroic treatment by Bradford of a desperate case in bohalf of his client at Nebraska City. Hargus was tried and finally sentenced to ten years’ confine- ment, but the case was taken to the supreme court. which held that he must be discharged Decause of the defect in the laws. ‘The bill that caused the trouble was intro- duced about January 22, 1856, was passed soon after and was not righted until about October, 1838, at a special session of the legislature, called by CGovernor Richardson for that purpose, and for eighteen months there was no provision for the punishment of criminals in Nebraska except by the rules of the common law. Tt was undoubtedly the most extraordinary piece of legislation that cvgr ook place in this country. impson Hargus, the murderer, soon there- aftor removed to New Mexico, and was lost track of until about a year ago, when news reached here that he died from burns re- ceived while trying to save his cabin from the Hames—friendless and in abject poverty. Judge Bradfordswas born in Eriendship, Me, in 1816, and in 1841 emigrated to Mis- souri, locating in Atchison county, where he studied law and was admitted to_the ‘bar in 1845. He was elécted clerk of whe circuit court at Atchison in 1845, which position he held five years, He was married in St. Jo- seph, Mo., November 1, 1849, to Miss Kmiline Cowels, and his wife and son the issue of tho marriage, suryvive him. In 1851 he removed to Towa and the follow!nF year wasappointed judge of the Sixth judicial district of that state, which office he Yésigned in 1855and re- moved to Nebraska Clty. He served in the territorial council from Otoe county in 1856, 57 and '5%, In 1800 he located in Cenral City, Col., and in ‘fla removed to Pueblo, and was appoin' )udgg of the supreme court of that state. In 1864 he was elected delegate to congreas and sfrvcd two terms, returning to Pueblo in 1871, whero he settled down to private 1ife and followed his profes- sion. He was a remdrkable man in many respects, His memory was one of the most retentive ever known, and his fleld of knowl- edge regnrdm(f public men and general his- tory was simply inexhaustable. . An incident in the carcer of Ju(gua Brad- ford while occupying the beénch in loraao, is related by his assoclate, Judge Kennedy, now of Leadville. Court was held ina little fram shanty, on stilts, set over a placer: “I do not remember,’ said Judge Kennedy, “what the case was, but Jim Kavanaugh— heaven rest his soul—was indulging in one of his firne flights of oratory, impressing, as he thought, the court and carrying the jury with uim. He was in the midst of his peroration ‘when some one entered the rqom and whis- pered to the judge that the house was sink- ing and that he had better adjourn court and prévent a panic. The fudge turned to the eloquent lawyer and said, in his peculigr squealy volco: | Mr. IKavinangl, oo, will please it down.” Jim stobped, looked aston- ished and replied: ‘May It please the court, I am just at that part of my argument when I think it necessary to continue and conclude my speech, as I have commenced it, if’ the jury is to understand its merits and do my client the justice that he deserves. Ho tlien resumed. Mr. Kavanagh, you will please sit down! in the same squeaky voice but with conside able more emphasis than in the first inst: . Kavanaugh turned red, spluttered a minute and addressed the judge with no little he: “Tam not us, sir, that I have been guilty of any disrespect’ or contempt of the court that I should be treaten in this way. “And I want you to understand,’ said Judge Bradford, with a strong emphasis on the per- sonal pronoun, ‘that this isn’t a_questipn of politeness between the court and the attor- new, but this d—d building is sinking clear to h—1 and it is time I was getting out of it’,” e 8 a0 A Joint Attack. DunLix, March 18.—At Drumlish, County Longford, on Saturday night, a fight oc- curred between two factions, numbering in all about two hundred persons, most of whom were drunk, After fighting some time the combatants made a joint attack upen a publi house. The police™ force, consisting of f men, tried to disperse both factions and drove them toward the barrac The po- Lice force fired six rounds of buckshot, injur- ing many persons, and retired to thelr bar- racks, The stone-throwing continued until morning. rchbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, is a passcnger on the steamer Umnbzia, which sailed from Liverpool yester- day for New York. Iu an interview he s the pope had informed him he fully sy pathized with the Irish in their desire for autonomy. FIRED FROM THE CHURCH. & Waltham Theological Fraud Bounced from His Pastorate, WarLTiaM, Mass., March 18,—[Special Teélegram to the Brr.]—Lastifune Rev. T, A. Whittaker, who was a member of the First Baptist chureh of this place anda grad- uate of the Newton theological institution, was formally ordained to preach, and was to fill a pastorate in Dakota. Trouble arose be- tween himself and wifo, which led to his ar- rest by a party holding & mortgage on his household goods, which, it was alleged, had been 1llegally shipped to Dakota, This was compromised, and he and his wife started for Dakota, accompanied by their eldest child, about five years old, the baby being left in Waltham with rclatives, The wife says that ujhue in Chicago he tried to get her to give him the money the Waltham church had pre- sented to her, and, on refusing, he snatched itout of her hand and desertod her on the street. She finally got to Minnesota, where ,pn)ud relatives, taking the child with her, They suffercd from want and exposure and she had to go nursing to carn food. After- ward money was sent her by relatives here and mother and child returned to Waltham, whore the baby died. Since then she has ob- tained work in & wateh factory, but has boen serously il with tyahnhl fevor and was as- sisted by friends. = Whiltaker went on to Da- kota, sold tho furniture, left his pastorate and wandered about until he reached Santa Clara, Cala., where he now has charge of church, Soveral wooks ngo the wife made formal charges against him of extreme cruolty to his family and condnct unbecoming a chrise tian. The IMirst Baptist church directed its standing committee to investigate the charges and word was sent to Rev. Whit- taker for statements. He replied by letter, recently received, in which he assumed a de- flant attitude and expressed indifference_as to what action the church might_take. The standing committee listened fo Mrs. Whit- taker and other witnesses and made a report. at a meeting of the church last evening that ho charges wero pi 'ved and recommended ‘Whittaker’s dismi sal. The church then unanimously voted to exclude him from mem- bership and notify the church council, by which he was ordained, of their action and of the facts in the case. R Keokuk's Conscientious Mayor. Drs MoixNes, Ia., March 18.—[Special to the Bre.]—"“Governor” Irwin, of Keokulk, as he 1s called, has just issued a proclamation that is quite unique. He is the present mayor of that city, and he has come to the conolu- sion that it is his duty to enforce the prohibi- tory luw and close the saloons. He is not a prohibitionist, and a large part of the popula- tion of Keokuk is opposed to prolubition, but he says that as an officer of the law he can not stand upon his idea of what is the best method of securing temperance, but must ex- ecute the law as he finds it upon the statute books, He was elected mayor a year ago, and so far has permitted the saloons to exist under a sort of protection, The city licenses them to sell drinks mot prohibited by law, and then if the license feesarc promptly paid, dues mnot disturb them if they sell liquors that are forbidden., The city thus practically accepts a bribe to. close ita eyes to violation of the luw. Mr. Irwin is a very conseientious man, and he says that after thinking about the matter for some time he concludes that his duty requires him 1o enforce the law. So he makes proclama tion that every saloon in the city must close on and after May 1. Hetixes that dato so as to give time for all licenses that have been finid for to expire aud to allow the saloon- cepers a chance to dispose of their stock. His proclamation has created consternation -in the saloonkfoncra’ camp, but public senti- nfent gencrally indorses him and com- mends him for doing what he thinks is right. His conscientiousness was woll illustrated a few years ago. He was appointed governor of Idaho by President Arthur. But his busi- ness at home prevented him from givin much attention to his position as governo and ho was away from the territory most of the time. v holding the office for a fow months, he resigned and” turned all of his salary over to the government,claiming he had not'earned it, and 80 was not cncllleg t0 lk‘ This was the first instance of the kind on record and the treasury officials ted to ipum the money into the “consciénce fund.” He vigarously pretested, and in- sisted that it was not money that had boe embezzled or stolen, but was money to which he was legally entitled, although bt thought not. mor:és' entitled to'it. There was a good deal of tape to overcome, but the consci- entious young politician carried his point finally and landed the money back in the treasury, The Iowa Republican Convention. Des Moixes, Ia,, March 18.—[Special to the Bze.]—The ropublican state convention ‘which meets here next Monday will be one of the liveliest and most enthusiastic ever held in_the state. Thero will be abouta thousand delegates, including the strongest and most influential republicans of the state. Tt willbe an Allison convention without a word of dissent, and he will be presented to the nation in a way worthy of his distin- guished fame and the great opportanity be- fore him, In the evemmng there will bea t speoches in the state to cutertain the crowd. The republi- cans of Towa are not going to be loft in getting a good start, as next Wednesday will reveal. s llute 0 This Week of Oongress. WasHINGTON, March 18.—An attempt was made in the senate late Friday afternoon, to determine upon the “order of business” for the coming weel, but pending a_de sult, the senate adjourned. Enough was said, however, to warrant the belief that the greater part of Monday and Tuesday will be devoted to the consideration of private bills. On Wednesday Mr. Platt will try to bring forward an enabling act for South Dakota. Senator Morrell will take the first convenjent opportunity to call up for action the house bill for the inyestment of the treasury sur- plus in goverament bouds, and S Plumb will make an attempt during t) 1o get a hearing for the bill to forfeit uu- od land grants. be again called up in_the house If that moasure is not pressed, taiu of the committees will be offer motions to pass bills und of the rules. The indicati it the munittee will ‘su in sccuring y or Wednesday for the consideration of its bills. suspension S The Blizzard Reaches Paris. Pants, March 18.—A Lieavy'snow storm 13 vaging liere. The strects are in a dungerous condition, THE JONES LADIES. The lady patrons of L. O. Jones, American Clothier, 1309 Farnam street, will undoubtedly be interested in the following special bargains for Monday: In the children’s department will be on sale 100 pairs Boys’ All Wool Pants, reg- ular $1.00 rade at 74c; 100 pairs Boys’ Knee Pants, black and light check cottonade at 13 cts; 100 Boys’ blue flannel sailor suits, silk embroid’d $1.00 each; 50 broken p laited jackets, oys’ All Wool Suits. neat patterns, re day at $3.98. In furnis laid brown mixed 1.98, reduced from $3.00; 50 heviot and Cassimere Spring Suits, ular $5 suits, on Mon~- ing goods department, Men’s All Silk Brocade Handkerchiefs at 25c, worth 50c; Boys’ solid blue and red stripe Shirt Waists, 25c¢; oys’ plaited Shirt Waists, full In= digo colors, 39¢;” Boys’ Flannelite Shirt Waists, laced front, French patterns, 98c,