Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 3, 1888, Page 4

4 : . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, APRIL 3. 188 THE DAILY BEKE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally (Morning Edition) including Sunday. Bk, One ¥ oar . veee..810 00 For Bix Months /11 S50 For Three Montha. 250 The Omaha Sunday dress, One Year. ... ver 200 OMARA OFFICE, NORYIANDO10 FARNAM STREET. NEW YORK OFFIcE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUN & BUILDING, WASHINGTON OFFICR, No. b FourteRNTH BIRERT. e, mailed to any ad- CORRESPONDENCE. 1 communications relating to news and edi- torin matter should be adaressed o the EDIToR or THE BxE. AUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittances should bo addressed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, MAITA. Drafts, chocks and postoffice orders to ‘made payable 1o the order of the company. The Bee Pblishing Company. Proprietors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. "~ THE DAILY BEE. mworn Statemont of Clrculation. Btate of Nobrasks, = La.s. " Coumty of Douy < Geo. I{ zsch:rl. secretary of The Nas Pub- Yshing company, does nolnmn]{ swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Boe for the week ending March ), 1588, was as follows : Baturday, March 24 Funday, March 2 Monday, March 20 Tuesday, March 27 Wednesday, March 35 Thursday, March Friday, March 30 Average.. ceiien GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Bworn to and subscribed in my_presence this 815t day of March, A. D,, 1883, N. P, FEIL, Notary Public, Etate of Nebraska, o anty of Douglass, G Azseniek, Petng Brst duly sworn, do- ‘and says thaf he is_secretary of The Beo Pibiishing company, that the actunl average daily circulation of the Daily ee for the month coples; for April, coples; for May, 1ss, for June, 187, 14147 coplesi W copest for Auust for September, 1887, 14,349 L 1867, 1558;for November, for 'December, 1857, 16,041 v, 1688, 15,208 coples; for ., 1888, 15,962 coples, GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Eworn and subscribed to in’ my presence this 80 day of March, A. D, 188, N, P. FEIL Notary Public. Tue ruts and dugouts on the paved streets, caused by the negligence of the plumbing fraternity, should be repaired immediately. And the board of public works should see to it that the work is properly done. THE new commissioner of the land office, Mr. Stockslager, is said to be more of an apostle of Sparks than of Lamar. If this means war on the land grabbers the people will all join hands with Mr. Stockslager. OMAMA ranks third in the list of pork packing centers of the country. Chicago still leads, but Omaha packed during the month of March as much as St. Louisand Indianapolis, and four times as much as Cincinnati. S— THE Black Hills are with one voice calling for the opening of the great Sioux reservation to settlers. As the reserve lies right in the road of commu- nication with the east, the reservation s a great barrier to commercial inter- course. KNuT NELSON, the Minnesota con- gressman, surprised his republican friends in congress by making a ring- ing speech in support of radical tariff revision. And now his Minnesota con-~ stituents are so delighted that they want to run him for senator to succeed Babin. A NATIONAL convention of those who believe in Henry George’s single-tax theory is called to meet in Chicago July 4. As the majority of the sup- porters of that particular theory never paid any taxes, it appears odd that they wish to burden themselves even with a single-tax. SENATOR STANFORD may not know very much about statesmanship, but he knows cnough to swap horses with sen- atorial snobocrats. He has just sold one senator a valuable horse and he is about to sell Senator Stockbridge of Michigan an eighteen thousand dollar colt. THE south has been idly basking in the warm sunshine of indifference to im- migration, and now proposes to wake up and do something. Louisiana is about to organize an immigration bureau, and by au array of facts and figures induce people to raise cane sugar and cotton within her borders. THE furious mob which attacked the Turkish minister of finance a t Constan- tinople was composed of women. This is simply a foretaste of what may hap- pen in Washington. Elizabeth Cady Stanton threatens to join the anarchists il congress does not recognize the + women’s rights demands. ————— Mi. W. K. VANDERBILT has opened anew field for real estate speculation. He is said to have bought a fine old Dbaronial hall and a fifty acre lot in Eng- land for a meresong. Then he traded some railvoad paper for a palace in Belgium, and has now taken an option of some shooting lands in Scotlang, It is not stated when he is going to cut things up into fifty feet lots, or how much he is going to ask per frout foot. TaE Mills tarifft bill was reported to the house yesterday, and the minority of the ways and means committee also submitted a report. It will probably be several days before discussion is begun, but when the flood gates are opened congress will probably find time to give attention to little else. About half the members are primed for tariff speeches, and it is not expected that a vote can be reached before the last of May. The supporters of the Dbill will of course make every effort to reach a vote before the date of the assembling of the national democratic convention, and to prevent this there will undoubtedly be employed by the opposition all the ex- pedients known to parliamentary tac- tics. Tho republicans are reported to be making strenuous efforts to har- monize upon a policy of tariff revision, 80 as to have ready when the time comes a measure to present as a substi- tute for the Mills bill. The Randall bill seems to have dropped oufof con- sideration, and. if it be true.that its author has lost nearly all of his tallow- ing he will probably. not dttempt to get gousideration for his measure. A Necessary Provision, Inview of the extraordinary, and we believe wholly indefensible, decision of Judge Dundy, denying the right of the stote of Nobraska toexercise any author- ity over the Unien Pacific railroad, it is of the highest necessity and importance that in any new legislation by congross relating to the subsidized corporation it should be distinctly provided that every right belonging to the state for the con- trol and regulation of railroads of its own creation shall apply equally to the Union Pacifie. The decision of the federal judge for this district awakened the public to the existence of a power not before recognized and of a danger not before suspected. No one had ever doubted that the state, in giving to the Union Pacific the pro- toction and benefit of its laws, had the right to require of that corporation + within the jurisdiction ofzthe state, re- ciprocal duties and respon#bilities, No citizen of Nebraska had supposed that by virtue of a government subsidy there had been built up in this state a power which assumed to be independent of the state, privileged to disregard its laws and defy its authority: and that a federal judge would sustain this assumption. The decision that proclaimed this to be the fact was a startling revelation, which arrested the attention of the whole country, for if the Union Pacific is beyond the reach of the laws of Nebraska it is equally independent of those of other states through which its lines pass. If the legislature of Nebraska is without authority to deal with this corporation within the state then there is no authority in any state to require of it the performance of any duty or obligation. So far as the states are concerned in which the Union Pa- cific has property, does husiness, and enjoys protection and privileges in com- mon with other railroads, it is a law upto itself, if the view of Judge Dundy be correct. There is not the slig htest probability, however, that this view will be sus- tained. We have already noted the de- ion of the supreme court in a case brought from Massachusetts, involving the right of the state to collect a tax from.a corporation which had refused to pay on the ground that nearly its entire lines within the state were under or across post ronds made such by the United States, which held that as the corporation received the benefit of the laws of the state it was liable to be taxed. The principle will apply equally to the Union Pacific in Nebraska, not only with respect to the right to tax, but as to all rights which the legisla- ture may deem necessary to exercise for the general interest and welfare, Noth- ing is more certain than that the su- preme court would reverse a decision which practically sets up within a state a power independent of the state and superior to its control—a corporation with imperial prerogatives, de- manding every consideration un- dor the laws, but yielding obedi- ence to them only at its pleasure. No such vicious and danger- ous doctrine will have the ap- proval of the supreme court. Never- theless it will be wise to make assurance doubly sure by engrafting upon the pro- posed legislation regarding the Union Pacific railroad the amendment sub- mitted by Congressmou Dorsey, which provides that nothing in the extension bill, or any acts of which it is amenda- tory, ‘“shall be construed or inter- preted so as to deny the right of any state in which the Union Pacific rail- or the central branch of the Union fic road is operated, to fix rates for ing passengers or freight ov id roads, and to control and regulate such roads the same as if they were organ- ized under the state.” An explici enunciation of this character congress is desirable in order to unmis- takably define the intent of the na- tional legislature with re- gard to the general obhgations and responsibilitics of the subsidized corporations, a definition that is want- ing inthe legislation thus far relating to them. Tt would have the effect to pre- vent sueh bold and defiant procecdings to defeat state laws and contravene state authority as those of the Union Pacific in Nebraska, and to bring that and similar corporations to a sense of their duty. Publie policy and the inte ests of the people require that congr shall thus plainly indicate that it is no part of the purpose of the government in its relations with the subsidized 1- roads, to give them any priviieges or recognize their possession of any rights that will in the least degree diminish their responsibility to state authority equally with railroads deriving their existence from the states. It is bo- lieved there will be little opposition in congress, or at all events in the house, to the amendment proposed by Mr. Dorsey, which is favorably regavded by the Pacifie railroads committee and the representatives of the states through which the lines of the Union Pacific pass. Its Obvious merit ought to assure it unanimous support in both branches. Proposing Retaliation. Senator Farwell a few days ago intro- duced in the United States senate a bill proposing a policy of retaliation toward those countries which discriminate against Ami an products. It provides that whenever the chief diplomatic rep- resentative of this country to any fo cign state shall officially report the fai ure of the etforts of the United States to secure the removal of any discrimin tion by such foreign state agunst any product of the United States, the presi- dent shall by proclamation direct t such products of the foreign state as he may deem proper shall be excluded from importation to the United States. It is made a misdemeanor punish- able by fine and imprisonment for any oue to knowingly import any article prohibited by the president’s proclama~ tion, ‘The inspiration of this bill is the per- sistent manner in which for a number of years our sister republic, France, has oxcluded the products of the American Log from her markets, while allowing the pork of.other countries to enter theve. . Frauce desives that the United States shall have an exhibit in her next exposition, and a- generous appropria- tion for- this purpose is -assured. If is intended that o part of this shall be devoted to the the products hog, and this idea is cordially approved by the French cham- ber of agriculture. But the law shut- ting out these products isin the way, and it is questionable whether the French government will recede from its discrimination against American swine, even to the extentof permitting the proposed special exhibit. The French hog raisers would doubtless rise in pro- test, and as they were able to secure the law they will very likely beable to have it maintained. It is this situation that prompted the proposed retaliatory pol- icy of the Illinois senator. He thinks it high time this country resented the na- tional affront involved in the discrimi~ nating policy of KFrance against the American hog and made a case of ‘‘swine versus wine.” If the French govern- ment persists in singling out our pork for prohibitory legislation. Senator Farwell thinks self-respect demands that we should exclude French goods, and particularly their ingenious imita- tions of wine and brandy. There are a great many people who will acquiesce in this view. The course of France in this matter has certainly not been in line with her professions of friendship for the United States, and it might be well to give her to understand that we are not insensible to her un- friendly conduct. We should doubtless be quite as well off in the end if we bought less of her products, particularly in the line of liquids, and her people would certainly miss our patronage. But we are not sure that there is a good defenseo for o policy of retaliation on the score of national self-respect. We do not need to force the American hog on anybody, and it is not clear that we should have any cause of pride in denying ourselves French goods which we think we require simply because France prefers other pork to ours. If the French government will take the broad hint of our displeasure conveyed in the bill of Senator Farwell and re- move the unfriendly diserimination, well and good; if not, we shall as cer- tainly conserve our national self-re- spect by allowing Frenchmen to eat un- questioned whatever pork they will, exhibit of American special of the Arvor Day. Arbor day in Nebraska falls on April 23, and it behooves the people of the state to celebrate the occasion in the manner intended by its founder. This annual holiday is an institution de- signed to promote the planting of shade and other trees on the farm, on the highway, in the schcol yard, and in all suitable places. Illinois and Iowa ap- pear to take more genuine interest in the matter than our own state. In Illinois the governor and state officials are going to set the example by plant- ing various varicties of trees in and about the capitol grounds of that state. In Iowa the superintendent of public in- struction has issued a forestry circular, a greeting to the school children of Towa, inviting their observ- ance of a holiday in which nature shall be the open book of instruction. In order thata general observance of Arbor day in Towa shall take place, and that the planting of the trees may have a more interesting association to the school children, the trees are to be named after honored soldiers, states- men, patriots and authors of the coun- try. Nebraska can profitably accept this idea from her sister state. By envelop- ing Arbor day with a patriotic sanctity, it lifts the celebration to the higher plane of national holidays, and adds to the intorest and pleasure of tree cul- ture. Aside from any poetic or patriotic asspcintions, the planting of trees on our prai is of incalculable value. There is wealth in tree culture if the right methods are observed, and if every farmer of the state would properly use the day from year to y Our farmers by an extensive culti of tree-growing can influence the fall and temper the climate. By devot- ing a few acres to tree-culture, our farmers can grow their own fuel and fencing material. They can protect their houses from the heat of summer and the cold winds of winter by dense They can beautify their high- ately shade trees, and so add to the sightliness and the value of their farms, 1t is not too late for Governor Thayer to supplement his proclamation by ad- dressing a cireular to the granges, and by arvanging with the state superin- tendent of the schools to have printed and sent to every school in the state an Arbor day annual concerning tree- planting and the varicties adapted to Nebraska, Why Not Arbitrate? Months ago the B urged all me- chanies and workingmen employed in building construction to negotiate with the master builders and con- wactors with a view to agree- ing on a scale of wages and hours of labor for the season. We admonished workingmen to be moderate in their demands, in view of the general over- production of buildings in all American cities during the previous year, and the consequent stagnation in building oper- ations for the preseut . But our advice was not heeded, The contractors and buildin trades unions have failed to come to la mutually desivable agreementand we ave now in the midst of a general strike. Crimin- ation and recrimination are indul on all sides. the bricklayers, stonccutters, bric! moulders and other workmen have made extravagant and unreasonable de- mands for higher wages or reduced hours of labor and refuse to accept last pay and working hours which e considered liberal during a year when building operations were brisk. On the other hand the union m chanics now on a strike insist on th own scale and refuse to work more than eight hours & day. This warfare be- tween contractors and workmen is .not only very unfortunate for Omaha, but is bound fo prove -disastrous to all con- cerned. Is there no wiy to bring this conflicy toan énd? Why don’t the purties arbi- trate their respective claims and countér-claims? . Long-winded states ments and personn) abuse through the papers will not gottle the trouble, but only widens the breach. HAVING about settled the fishery question with Canada, congress wants to poke her up on the question of post- ago on seeds, W seems that Canada’s postage rates are, I(‘)wor than our own, a fact of which American sced dealers tako sdvantage in sending seeds through this country. Tt is claimed that asa consequence at least a million dollars annually have béen turned over to the Canadian government, which rightly ought to go into the treasury of our post- office. DowN in Kansas City the cedar block pavementslaid six years ago are being taken up this spring and replaced by new blocks., This isa practical ex- hibit of the durability of wooden pave- ment. It may have been necessary in Kansas City to lay wooden pavements because property owners are required to pay the entire cost of paving in one year, but under our ten year installment plan the difference between the yearly payment for cedar block and asphaltum or stone is comparatively trifling. It was a commendable act for the striking switchmen to call on Manager Holdrege, of the B. & M., to assure him that they discountenanced any lawless acts against the company’s property. S—— One Point in Common. Phitadelphia News. Ben Butler does not like Cleveland, and this is one point that the American working= men and Ben Butler have in common, st A Picce of Justice. Chicago News, Jay Gould stamps the indictment returned against him by a New York court as a piece of revenge. To a great many persons it more nearly resembles a piece of justice. g ik Greater Than the Tariff. St. Louis Globe-Demoerat. The copper trust made anout $3,5000,000 in profits last year, but as it has now extended the field of its activity 80 as to control about three-fourths of tho world's output, its prof- its this year will probably be at least $10,000,000. This is one of the ‘‘combines” which no change in the tariff could effect. Its oporations cover most of the globe where copper is produced, and its headquarters are in France. Cold Day for Stockholders. Springfield Republican. Weare again told that ‘‘the Burlington road is rapidly recovering from the strike.” First it was that of the engineoers, now of the switchmen, and to-morrow it may be that of the brakemen. Theroad has not yet even re- covered from the effécts of the rate war, and it will be a good long while ere the stock- holders recover anything from the results of these many recoveries. S The Record of Cleveland. New York Sun. The six definite enterprises which consti- tute the whole book of Mr. Cleveland’s pol- icy,s0 faras his administration has hada dis- tinctive policy, are these: The reform of theléivil service on the so- called non-partisan or mugwump plan; The suspension of the silver coinage 1m or- der to averta leiumd financial panic; The negotiation of: that extradition treaty with Great Britain; The settlement of the fishery troubles by the negotiation of B treaty with Great Britain; The reduction of the surplus by means of an extensive reduction of custom duties, re- taining the internal revenue taxes; The Pan-Electric suit to annul the Bell telephone patents. In every one of these six cases the result of the undertaking can be recoored in a sin ple word : The administration’s civil-service roform —Abandonment. The administration’s demand for the sus- pension of silver coinage—Relinquisment. The administration’s extradition treaty— Collapse, The administration fishery negotiations— Surrender, ‘The administration surplus reduction plan —Repudiation. The administration’s Pan-Electric suit— Disgrace. e — STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The Fremont Tribune insists that flat boats can distance street cars in that city. The enterprising people of Chadron have planked down a bonus of $4,000 to secure the erection of a large hotel. The republican committee of the Third congressional district favors the renomination of Congressman Dorsey. Hon. C. H. Van Wyck is announced to make an address on the labor qnes- tion at Plattsmouth to-morrow evening. J. B. Long, a Gage county sheep raiser, shipped seventecn car londs of sheep over the Union Pacific to Chi- cago, Saturday, The State Teachers’ association are to be congratulated on the vigor and spirit displayed in kicking the “*pro- fessors™ out of their councils. MeCook is promised the Burlington machine shops, to cost $200,000. The residents are now thoroughly convinced that the strike was a great mistake. A reward of $100 wiil be paid for the capture of illegal voters in Hastings to- The ballots will slip with the usual celerity and the money will re- main in the tremsury. The members of the board of public works of Nebraska € who visited Omaha last week report that Colorado sandstone is the best material for curb- ing and paving. It beats Berea stone, and granite is nowhere. An Otoe county justice of the peace has inaugurated a ra in the fees for performing His name is Smith and hi; s down to $1.50, with a moderate reduction for each bridal kiss, Apparently the harvest is his’™n § n of the Reading engineers im- ported by the Burlington, left Platts- wouth for home, Saturday. They were tired of the job, having found by exper ience that the demands of the old en- gineers for better pny were just and reasonable. The Gazette-Journal de- clary a failure. The frantic efforts of the organs to convince the Burlington that such is the case has no effect on the oftigials. They know a great deal more thin appears on the surface, “The Omaha BEE, with its usual en- terprise,” chuckles the South Sioux City Sun,” *‘places itself on record as the first paper of the season to publish the lady’s letter to the g man. In these days of floods und rumors of floods this whisker little vernal gem is gladly welcomed as the first reliable Rarbinger of spring.’ lowa Lie Real estate transactions in Sioux City last month smounted to-$700,000. The Dayenport base ball clubis look- ing for a red-headed, . loft-handed pitcher A farm in 1887 1 teen cows, The April documeont " of ' the- district r in Henry eounty ‘marketed 11 pounds,of butter from six- court at Des Moines, which begins Mon« day, contains 1,302 assignments. The Hlinois Central’s architect has about completed the drawing of plans for extensive shops at Waterloo, the di- mensions of which are to be 250x50. The heirs of Mr, E. N. Gates have been offered $1,000 an acre for the fifty acres owned by the deceased within tho corporate limits of Des Moines. 1t cost the owner 6,000 less than ten years ago. Three boys while playing marbles on a railway track west of Burlington were struck by an engine and two of them thrown down a high embankment. They were seriously burt, but may re- cover. The old settlers of Muscatine are moving for a semi-centennial celebr tion of lowa's organization as a terr tory Julyd. The plan generally favored is a reunion of the residents of Iowa at that time with appropriate exercises on the new fair grounds or some similar place. Wyoming. Cheyenne starts a modest real estate om. A creamery vnn:{mn_v. capital $10,000, has been organized in Cheyenne. Governor Moonlight proposes to issue in pamphlet form his seven vetoes. There are fair prospects that a street railway will bloom in Cheyenne this season. The horse growers of Crook have or- ganized to mutually aid in the eleva- tion of non-resident borrowers. A natural gas well has been discov- ered near Choyenne. It hasno connec- tion, as far as known, with the late legislature. Douglas’ coal mines will soon be sup- plying the Wyoming Central and the people of Ne“;rmlm, Kansas and the Black Hills with fuel. Discoveries of ore rich in silver and copper have recently been_made in the Big Horn mountains near Buffalo. For many years the belief has prevailed among prospectors that the ores were there, and their discovery is not at all surprising. The board of trade committee of Lar- amie who went to Omaha to confer with General Manager Kimball with regard to matters connected with the glass works, ete., report that their mission was satisfactorily accomplished, and they were highly pleased. The Fetterman Coal company’s new mines, west of Douglas, are coming to the front. The machinery is nearly in place,, and work on the upper works, comprising a platform 100x25 feet, is progressing. The contract for the grade, connecting the railway track by rail with the mines, about a mile in length, has been let and work com- menced. As soon as this is completed the railroad company will station an en- gine there permanently, to do the haul- ing to and from the mine. ———— ORUSHED BY THE DUMMY. Frightful Fate of a Woman Who ‘Walked on the Track. The Union Pacific crossing at Seventeenth street was the scene of a terrible accident about 5:10 p. m. yesterday. Mrs. Katrina Eche, aged fifty-five, in company with her son Erncst, a young man of about twenty- two, got off the first car of the dummy going west, which stops at this crossing, and started to their home on South Sixteenth street, near Williams. The two, in company with a number of other passengers, walked west between the tracks as the dummy from South Omaha was approaching from the west and was plainly visible. The son says ho noticed the tram coming, but prompted by some nsane or childish freak, started towards the south track on which was the approaching cars and commenced to walk tirere. He motioned to his mother to stay back with the crowd, but she failed to - notice his gesture and started to follow him upon the track. The train rapidly approached them, whiie the flagman and her fellow-passengers yelled and gestic- ulated frantically for them to get off the track. The old woman is a German ana does not understand English and paid no at- tention to their shouts of warning. Ina mo- ment the locomotive was upon her, The son had previously jumped to one side, but his poor mother saw the danger too late, and in a second was under the rushing wheels. The spectators stood frozen with horror as they saw her cruclly crushed, and when the train had passed they rushed to her assistance, They fé#nd that the wheels had passed over her rght legat the knee, crushing it horri- Dbly, and almost entirely severing it, while the left foot was completely flattencd. Both stioes were cut from her feet, and when the left one was taken off two or three toes dropped to the ground, where thy hours, the subject of morbid curiosit crushed members presented a most sickening sight. The patrol wagon was called and the unfortunate woman was taken to St. Joseph’s hospital, where Drs. Lee and Gailbraith did what they could for her. They could do but little, the woman was dying, and beforo this account is read she will have passed IVER CAME. The Looked For Bricklayers Fail to Show Up. It was rumorod about the city last night that 159 bricklayers who were to be distrib- uted among the different contractors had ar- rived in the city, together with forty-four who were to be employed by the Norcross Bros, A Bee porter started out to learn as to the truthfulness of the report, and first saw two contractors, who woere evasive in their answers and refused to be communi- cative, Lee Frost, the president of the yers’ union, next consulted, ana the reporter that the reports were overcolored, *Ouly four bricklayers,” said Mr, Frost, “have arrived in the city to-day, and everyone of them belong to the union “How do you know that!" usked the re- porter. “Because the minute they arrived they came to our hall their cary HWh did they c e ‘wo were from Alabama, and two from Indianapolis, Ind.” “What brought them in this direction!" was the next interrogation hurled at Mr. Frost, *They saw advertisements in other pap that bricklayers were wanted here, and th came on. But when they neared Omaha the) picked up the home papers, saw there was a strike and showed their loyalty by depositing their cards and refusing to go o work.” LD ALARMS, One For the Gas Works and Another | Elsewhere, The cupola from one of the retorts of the gas works presented un unusual illumination last night between the hours of 9:30 and 10 o'clock, and as the brilliancy of the flames increased some excited individual concluded to pull the fire alarm box at the corner of Thirteenth and Jackson streets, The depart- ment responded to the call and the hose quickly attached to the hydrants. The fo man of the works baving his attention at- tracted to the presence of the de- partment informed the chief that his men were not needed, as the only cause of the trouble was the lighting of th which, being idle for some days, h -y to his orders. No dam- S ANOTHER PALSE ALARM While the department was loitering around the gas was turned in from box 54, loc. rmer of Sixteanth and Webster s pparatus was hurried to the scene to discover that it originated from the burning out of a chimney A Pleasant The Emmet mouument association gave its eighteenth. anpual ball under pleasant auspices last might at.Masonic hall. . The hall was ' tastily aroamented with thé green and the American colors, .. Some of the most prowinent Irishwen. iy Omaha were present wud & delighttul tiwe was ebjoyed, STAND JUST HALF AND HALF, Board of Edueation and the Oity Hall Squabble. A TIE VOTE ON THE QUESTION, An Eight-Hour Resolution Squelched ~The Dodge School Negotia- tions Declared Oft—~Returns of the School Census. Tong and Important Session. The board of education opened last evening with an unbroken phalanx, every member being present, an unusual event in the his- tory of that body. Advantage was taken of this to introduce some very important ques: tions, and tho session, although prolonged to alate hour, was of more than usual interest. A communication from Peter L. Zileh and Mark Hansen, asking for a fonce around the Bancroft school to protect their private prop- erty from the encroachments of the school children, wns referred to tho committee on buildings and property. Another from ten families living in the neighborhood of the Eckerman school was read asking that the school house In Eckerman place be retained for school purposes. Referred to the com- mittee on teachers and text books, A communication was received from William Preston offering Iots 9, 10 and 11, block 11, Dwight & Lyman's addition, for a school site, for the sum of £4,000. Also the east half 'of blook 15, Wilcox addition, at $1,500 per lot. Referred to the committeo ou buildings and property. G. W. McKinney mado an offer to the board to remove the dirt from tho west Douglas school site for 10 cents per square yard, which was referred. Hugh Murphy offered lots 5 and 6, in block 16, Omaha, being on the northeast corner of Twenty-third and California streets, for #17,- 500. Referred. A bill of J. C. Elliott, plumber and gas fitter, amounting to #300, for work on the Webster atreot school, was referred. A communication was received from City Treasurcr Rush asking that the board_issue a warrant on the sinking fund for the follow- ing bill, presented by the city of Omaha: Ten bonds of paving district No. 07, $,000; premium 1 per cent, #75; interest, oue month, $25; total, 5,100, Referrod. The resignation of Ida Romington Natson, teacher of sixth grade, Leavenworth school, was accepted. John Latenser's bill of $153.70 for plans and specifications for the Webster streot school, was referred, Rose & Stillwell offered the following prop- erty to the board: TLot46 and west half of lot 47, Gise's addition, for §15,000; also lot 108, Gise's addition, for'$16,000. 'H. T. Leavitt offcred lot 50, Gise's addition, for $10,000. Referred to committee on new torritory. The report of John Rush, the ecity” treas- urer, showed $43,336.57 in warrants paid in February. The amount previously over- drawn was £10,598.25, making the present amount overdrawn $18,790.50. H. Franzer offered to sell shade trees to the board at_the following terms: Maple, box elder and catalpa, six o eight feet high, for 25 cents each; eight, to twelve feet high, for 85 cents. Referred to H. G. Clark with power to act, The offer of Alexander Buchanan to sell lots 5 and 6, in block 33, Credit Foncier addi- tion, for #5,500 was accepted. The committee on finance, to whom was referred the motion to dispose of the unsold $100,000 of bonds at a pricenot less than 1014 and accrued interest reported that the offer was 101 and accrued interest, and not 1011, The committee recommended the sale of the bonds o as to have ready money in the treas- ury. The report was accepted and the treas- urer was instructed to advertise for the sale of the bonds, The committee on claims reported the al- nce of §24,615.20 in bills. The bill of the ago Lumber company for material for the Webster street school, the amount being $1,777,19, was allowed. The bill of Reumping & Bolte for §600, for material, was_allowed. The balance of $165.86 due Max Meyer & Bro., for tower clock, was ordered paid. Onl motion of Dr. Saville, it was decided to allow the school census takers 3 cents for every name taken ir- respective of location. The bills for census taking were next allowed, show- ing a total of 17,657 school children and §520.- 71 for taking the census, Mr. Copeland offered the following: Resolved, That for the stone cutters and Drick layers to be_employed on the buildings about to be erected by the board of education, a day shall be understood to mean eight hours and the contracts shall be let with that understanding. This created as much consternation ns though a bomb sheil with a lighted fuse had been dropped in the midst of the honorable body. In half a second Mr, Morrison was on his feet glaring at the father of the cooking school and most vehemently opposed the in- troduction of such a resolution, He said it was_utterly out of place. The contractors, to whom the jobs were leased, had the right to use their own judgment. He didn't be- lieve in tying their hands, Mr. Livesey said every man had a right to do as he pleased when ‘he contracted for a job, and the only requirements that could and should be exicted from him was a strict compliance with the plans and specifications. He did not believe in such monkey rules with the board, Mr. Sholes moved to lay the matter on the tabie, and the motion wa: icd by a vote of 13 to 2, Copeland and Saville voting no, The s wus instructed to notify the owners of buildings situated on school pro erty at Twenty-fifth avenue and Mason street, also on the PPaul strect school site, to remove the same immediat 3 On recommendation of the committee on buildings and property, the bili of Mr. Hutch inson for €150 for the smoke consuming aj paratus at the high school, was allow The committec spoke of it as an unqualific success. The special _committe sasrs. Clark, Sholes, Gray ison, 1o whom was 1 > bid of ity council for the two lots and building ith and Dodge str imously belicved it 1o report i would be unwise tc commodate the child 1 attending the l, and recommended the rejection of the §40,000 bid, The report of the commiltec was agreed to Mr. k 0. 1ton offered a resolution, which was adopted, i g sinding the action of the be at @ previous meeting, postponing propos to construct new school buildings until the aifficulty between the master builders and plications Haggott, y, Ida B! ced, Susio M. tios Hawley ed 10 superii- for positions as te Allie M. Harr, Mary Maxwell, Edith M Maxfield, Jeonie E and Mary Wenzinger, tendent of schools, On recommendation of Mr. Felton it wi decided to petition the city council to estab- lish the prm{(' of Hamilton street west of the military bridge, to the city limits, so that the cut i ont of the Walnut Hill school site be not deeper than eight feet. A committee of three, consisting of Messre. Felton, Gray and Mor d to be present at he ofice of the city engineer on Saturday next to consult with the council's committo on grades, etc., a8 to the proper establish ment of other’ grades on Hamilton and parallel strects. A communication was referred from John Rush, the city treasurer, calling the atten- tion of the board to the fact that he was al- lowed by the state law a cent on all moneys collected by 1 thut the only recompense he now received was 1 per cent on the school tax, which has become idelinquent. Referred to the attorney of the board. The secrctary was authorized to adverti for bids for the erection of the proposed school buildings, to be located on ) T denty-fifth, Twenty-third nea Ninth near Bancroft, Hamilton ncar Eureka, and ona in Lake's addition, the same to be considered od April 21 “Pwo hundred and fifty school desks ordered for use in the schools. An additio he north side of the Izard school was ordere A two room building was ordered for the West Omaha site. he follewing was preseuted by Dr. Sa- ville: Resolved, - 'That & special comwittes of three be appainted to confer with the- cily oouncil and ascertain if that body - and this Loard, accordiug W the provisions by which were | 35,000 was to be paid by the board of éducas tion taward the conatruction of & city hall, if the city council will return the board of ed- cation such amount as has already boen paid under the provisions of said contract, Dr. Saville said in dofense of this that there were logal restrictions to provent & movemant either way with the work until it had been put to a vote of the people. Probe ably it would be a year beforo the mattor wig settled. He wanted the board t keep out of legal ‘complications. Ho was heartily ope posed to the present plans, Mr. Morrison aaid the funds of tho board money into the treasury, wanted to get the money back in any way at all, Mr. Hugh G. Clark thought it was unusual to ask for the return of the money at pres. ent. The city hall controversy had not beon decided yot, and he wanted t its hands clear of the matter, _The ayes and noes boing called the follow- ing vote resulted: srs. Copeland, Felton, Kellay, Morrison, Parmelee and Sas » board to keop nnell, Noes—Messrs, Auchmoedy, Clark, Coburn, Livesey, Pratt, Sholes and Mr. Prosidont—7. The ‘vote being a tie the motion was doe clared lost. Mr. Gray did not vote, On motion of Mr. McConnell the secretary was instructed to filo a protest with the mayor, city council and license board against the proposed erection of a saloon back of the Cass street seh BENCH AND BAR. District Conrt, WILLIAMS V8. HAMER, Judge Wakely was all morning ruling on objections mado by counsel in the cele} brated Williams-Hamer case wi consumed in the reading by counsel of th laws applicable to the casc. Judge Wakeley delivered his charge to the jury, and shorily after d o'clock they went out with directions to hand in a sealed ver- dict, which they did at 9 o'clock last night. It will be rea s morning. nE ER VS, PESTNER. The case of John H. Beuckner vs, F. C. Festner for #,100 damages, sustainod by tho loss of throe fingers and a thumb of his right hand, through the alleged carelessness of the foreman, who is said to have started the machinery at a time when the boy's hand was inside the machinery, was given to tho Jury at 12 o'clock. Shortly after 5 o'clock the jury brought in a verdict of $4,000 in favor of the plaintiff, MAT KEEFE ON TRIAL The second trial of Mat Keefe, the hack driver who is charged with stealing a watch and chain and diamond pin from R. A. Lewis, was begun before Judge Groff yesterday. On the former trial the jury disagreed. Upon the close of court the testimony was not all in, but will be resumed at the opening this morning. LABOR AND MATERIALS, William T. Whelan brought suit yesterday agamst John H. Erck to recover $171.25, due on labor and building materials. DREECH OF PROMISE SUIT, Mary C. N )0 damage: from Claus H. Libbert, who, she says, duced Lier under promise of marriage, but i stead of keeping his word with her went of and married Mary Kruse. Miss Neunhuus claims that a child born to her through her unlawful relations with Libbert has since JONN R. WEBSTER AND WIFE SUED, Joseph Crebo yesterday commencea suit against John R. Webster and wife to recover $1,600 on_a promissory note with 8 per interest added dating from March, 18 As security for its payment Crebo holds a mort- gage on certain real estate, and he petitions the court to empower him to foreclose tho mortgage and sell the premises, SORY NOTE SUIT. ned to David Jamieson and William D. Mead, jr., a certain piece of property to secure the puyment of threo promissory mnotes of §306.06 each, and as she has not done so they petition the court to sell the property tnab they may get their money. L. S. Irwin is mado a defena- ant in the sui WANTS THE DEED, Edward Clark says that he paid Zacharfah Thomason_$50 forfeit on a piece of property valued at $4,300, but before a deed could ba issued Thomason died. Now Clark brings suit against Ben B. Wood, the (xecutor of Thomason's estate, to conipel him to accept the balance of the purchase money and turn over to him a deed of the property, which is described to be the east 50 feet of lots 13 and 14, block 79, South Omaha. THE REQUEST REFUSED, John Moore and Charles Colwell, the two men arrested at South Omaha some nights ago on a charge of assault with intent to rob, petitioned Judge Groff through their attorney ssterday to give them their freedom on Writ of habeas corpus. The judge, after con- sidering the matter, concluded to deny tho application, and the prisoners were remanded 10 Jail. SULTS FILED. Edmund Paulsen yesterdayofiled a peti- tion for suit against Latey & Benson, Amos Philtips, Charles C. Spottswood, Miunfe L. Jaynes and the Lewis Investment company, praying the court to compel the firm of La & Benson, the endorsers of six notes of $250 each given by Amos Phillips to plaintiff, to pay said notes, and also praying that the Lewis Investment c and Minnie L. Jaynes, who had a prior claim on several lots given 10 secure the payment of these rotes be foreclosed and denicd of all right and that Charles C. Spotswood who also has a licn on the property be shut out until the plaintift has recov 1 theamount alleged to be due d J. H. Woehlers asks that the court ale of lots 3 and 4, Woehlers place, bought of plaintiff by A, P. Gunn_on the in d °| V30, is still h amount the de tintend 1o pay, to ments, similar block v the deferred pa ne party filed A. Beckman for lot park, upon which $225 is still duc. William T. Whelan institutes a suit against rek for £171.25 for work performed 1 furnished in the coustruction of against Gate City a house, County Court. GALNST A KAILIOAD, D. Soper & Co., a_cornoration doing bus ness in the state of Nebraska, allege in their action b ght against th Northern railroad that they C y them o hargos W : dumaged in the sum of $311.06, in which amount they ask judgment AMENDING THE RUL ceting of the Board of KFire and Police Commissioners, At the regular monthly mecting of the board of fire and police commissioners held last night, the first matter to receive con sideration was an amendment to the rules changing the rogular meetings from mouthly 0 weekly and adopting Saturday cvenings as the time, Special meetings can be called upon the written request of three commis- sioners. New rules and order of business were also adopte . It was recommended that an be submitted to the salaries of the force as follows: Chicf, $1,800 per annum ains, $100 a month, lieuten- ants, $35; sergeants, $30; pit the first three months, o The committee : Oficer B. F. Walk nation and_the same had been oy not reporting for duty, they had nothing to sy in his case § Next the board went into executive scssion and considered several subjects in secrot, - MORTUARY, O'SULLIVAN. Mrs. E. O'Sullivan, wife of Edward O'Sul- livan, who has resided herc for nearly twenty-five years, died Sunday at her late residence, corner of Twelfth and Doreas streets, at the age of fifty ycars. The hus- band of the deceased was for maLy years con- peted with the rallway mail servies, and nily with the local freight oftice of on Pacific, Mrs. O'Sullivan will be to-day, the funeral taking place s church. ‘The romaius w ordinance VITTH John N, Vitthen, March81, twenty-six years. Funeral will take place A from lis late residence, North Saunders street. Friends are luvited. By rder of Dauish Brotherhood, dodge No. 1. Haxs ELgisn, President. oril 8, at 2 p. w