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

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MAY THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRMS OF srné(‘mmnnn.d 1, orning Rdition) including Sunday D e Yeue virr ;ur Six Months ... . . 5 ot Three Montha ;" . : 2 The Omaha Sunday Tiee, matled to any ad- dress, Oue Yoar.[ o 20 Orrice, NOS SHUARD ARNAM . W YORK OrxICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNE DA, | WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 618 FOURTEENTH BTRRET, CORRESPONDENCE. ded 11 pommunications relating to news and edi- | lo?ln‘l ‘matter should be addressed to the EpiTOR W e, b DUSINESS LETTRRS. Al business letters and remittances shonld be addressed to THE BEE PUBLIRIING COMPANY, OMATA. De made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company. Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. Sworn Statement of Circulation. ate of Nebraska, B unty bf Douglass, fon (Geo. 1, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- Hshing company, does solemily swear that the wctual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending April 27, 1888, was as follows: Saturdsy, April2l Bunday, Apri] 22 Monday, April % prii 24 Wednesday, April Tuursdag, April 20 day, April 21.. Aver: EERTTRRY 1R, i GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed in my_presence this #28th day of April, A. D., 188, . P. FEIL, Notary Public. State of Nebraska, %3 “ County of Dougias, e Ocorgo B Taschuck, being first duly sworn, dloposes and says that lie s secretary of Thie Bied Publishing that the actual average Daily Bee for the month of May, 187, was 14227 copies: for June, 1887, 14,147 coples: for July, 1887, 14,008 copies: for Aiigust, 157, 14,151 coples; or Soptember, 1887, 9 coples? for October, 1887, 14,533 coples: for ovember, 187, 15,22 copied; for December, 1867, 15,041 copiés; for Jauuary, 188, 16,200 cop’ 1684, 1908 coplen. for ADL. 1%k Th748 copies. g coples; for April, \T44 coples, % kD, B, TISCHUCK. Sworn to before mo wnd’ wibacribed in ty sonce this 2d day of n 3 R £ R D, VHIL, Notary Public Mz, Boyp, this is Sterling Morton. Platform. r— 11 would seem that Minister Phelps will be sent back to England after all to serve out his term. IF the rumored consolidation of the Cable Tramway company and Dr. Mer- cer’s motor line means an early start- ing up of the latter, it will be hailed with satisfaction by our citizens. THE big French tin syndicate tried to corner that commodity and control the product of the world. The job was a little larger than the trust. The result {8 a panic in tin in which the syndicate will be knocked full of holes. MEMORIAL DAY is a celebration of such tender and patriotic remem- brances that the G. A. R. committees, who intend to malke its observance of more than ordinary interest, should be aided by our citizens with liberal con- tributions. Take flag episode in New York city is destined to become a local political is- sue of serious proportions. A call for a mass meeting to support Mayor Hewitt in his opposition to flying foreign flags on the city hall has already received over seventeen thousand signatures. TOBIAS CASTOR, the right of way man of the Burlington road, has been successful in securing his right of way to the national democratic convention. Tobe can’t always deliver the members of the legislature in Saline county to the corporation with a big B, but he never finds any trouble in getting tothe front in the democratic conventions. Tue Mexicans are going to celebrate their Fourth of Julyon May 5. The in- dependence anniversary commemorates the fall of Pueblo at the end of the Maximillianinvasion. A very patriotic celebration has been arranged, and Americans whoare inclined to join with our southern neighbors in drinking pulque willdoubtless join heaurtily in the Mexican jamboree. THE question of paying for several deputies for the city treasurer $150 a month each came up for discussion be- fore the last council meeting. he simple duty of the council is to limit the number of deputies in that depart-* ment to just one. This is the law as laid down in the charter. §1f the tr urer needs more deputies he must pay them out of his income which, by the way, is not inconsiderable, The coun- cil has no discretion in the matter so long as the present charter remains in force. Tue workingmen of Pennsylvania have arisen in the very strongholds of protection to protest against the sham cries raised by the advocates of trade restriction and monopolists. Labor will no longer have the wool drawn over its eyes when it finds itself robbed on one hand by trusts and on the other by im- ported cheap labor in those very indus- tries most highly protected. The Phila- delphia Workingmen’s Tariff Reform association adopted resolutions demand- ing that congress shall revise the tariff laws as will remove the burdens of tax- ation from the raw materialsof industry ana adjust the duties on manufactures to the differences in labor cost between this and other countrics. ——— Tne cordial reception tendered to Carl Schurz in Berlin and the official character which gave color to the re- cent dinner in his honor was intended as a token of the friendly feeling of Germany toward America. But morve than this, it was a vecognition of the abilities and character of one of Ger- many’s gifted sons, who in his adopted country achieved renown as one of the foremost upostles for the abolition of slavery, a valiaut defender of the American union, an honored member of the United States senate and member of the cabinet during a most critical period in the history of the United States. Tho presence of Prof. Gheist, who vepresonted the crown prince, Count Horbert Bismarck, and Count Arco, the ohancellor’s confidential secretary, at the banquet, had its political signifi- cance, It meant that the politisal oxile was none the less weicoms to his father- land, It was a frank avowal to the thousands of German-Americans that the land of thetr birth bore no reseut- ment agatust thom for their Joyalty to the land of thelr adoption. The Nebraska Platform. With the exception of the plank on tariff revision and its endorsement of Grover Cleveland and his administra- tion, the platform enunciated by the Nebraska democracy is a compound of stale platitudes. In reafrming alle- giance to the principles laid down by | Jefferson, pledging itself to economy | and good government, demanding the forfeiture of land grants, expreesing sympathy for the old soldier and depre- cating the reopening of sectional issucs, this platform differs not one iota from every other platform that has been | built and mounted by democrats from Drafta, checks and postoffice orders to | Texas to Orogon for years and ) Monopolies and trusts are struck at in the usual vague and bombastic way, but great care is exercised not to touch any of the monopolies that have despoiled Nebraska, nor is there any allusion to the gigantic grain elevator trust which now monopolizes all the grain traffic on the Burlington & Missouri railroad sy tem. Great stress is 1aid on sympathy for home rule in Ireland, but not a word about home rule in Nebraska — not a whisper about Pinkerton mercenarios being imported by the hundred into this state to exercise police and military powers which our constitution solely confers upon the legally constituted au- thorities of the commonwealth. No- body in this whole convention dared to grapple with the Union Pacific and de- nounce the monstrous doctrine enunci- ated by Judge Dundy that this imperial corporate monopoly, protected by the state and fed by its people, is above the state and may defy its authority. The political giants in the democratic convention have shown the most abject cowardice in the presence of Nebraska monopolies and trusts, but they gallantly struck out at unpalpable evils which the conventions of all parties make it a practice to denounce year in and year out. It was to have been expected that the Nebraska democracy would com- mend every act of the democratic na- tional administration, right or wrong, but the exhibition of political indecency in their denunciation of Grover Cleve- land’s immediate predecessors as cor- ruptionists and public plunderers is, to say the least, highly discreditable. Ingalls and Voorhees, The country was not disappointed in its anticipation of the extraordinary scene that occurred in the United States senate on Tuesday. When last week Senator Ingalls announced that he would reply to the speech of Senator Voorhees, a sharp and bitter exchange of personalities was assured. No man in the scnate has a keener tongue, a more incisive invective than the Kan- sas senator, and having a vulnerable record to attack every opportunity was given for the widest and boldest use of his peculiar talents. The Indiana sena- tor has a generous endowment of simi- lar gifts, but he is less fortunate in temper, and being on the defensive allowed himself to be irritated be- yond the pointof diseretion. The result was a scene the parallel of which has been rarely witnessed in the senate,and which was neither honorable to-that body nor creditable to the nation. The responsibility for this unworthy incident rests with Senator Voorhecs, and he will undoubtedly find it a good deal of a burden. He was not called upon to defend the memories of Han- cock and McClellan, and as Senator In- galls very fully showed was the last man who should have taken upon him- self the task. The alleged assault of the Kansas senator on the dead soldiers was sufficiently answered at the time, and the whole matter had nearly passed out of the popular thought. There were few men of Mr. Ingalls’ own party who did not think he had spoken un- wisely in what be said. He had him- self offered an explanation of the in- tended meaning of his remark designed to relieve it of the character imputed to it. With this the matter should have been allowed to drop out of memory. But Senator Voorhees, consumed it may be by an ambition to pose at this par- ticular time before the country as the dofender and eulogist of union soldiers, brought the unhappy incident again into the full light of day and Dblazed it before the country with all the elo- quence he could command. It was a mistake which the Indiana senator, if he be capable of calm judgment, must now see and regret. As we have said before, this contro- versy is absolutely to no purpose. It cannot affect the just opinion of the country or the verdict of history re- specting the merits as soldiers and pa- triots of Hancock and McCletlan, It cannot help or hurt the cause of either political party in the campaign at hand or in the future. Judicious men of both parties will turn from it with profound regret that senators, distinguished for their ability and prominent as leaders, should thus rant and wrangle and hurl coarse epithets at each other over the graves of the dead. The whole matter is one for the Amcrican citizen to be ashamed of, and it is to be hoped the country has heard theend of it. Unhappily, however, there is reason to fear that such will not be the case. The hot blood that has been made will not cool until thereis more bitter crimination and recrimi- nation, and the senate chamber muy have to witness other scencs quite us disgraceful to the senate and the country as that of Tuesday. Small Comfort For This Scction. The annual report of President Adams of the Union Pacific, for the yecar 1887, affords the stockholders of the road plenty of food for reflection. There is a rose-colored tinge to it that will leave a favorable effect upon Union Pacific sceurities in the market. During the past year the value of the Pacific wraftic inereased over 80 per cent, which is, of course, a most gratilying showing. For the businoss of the pres- ent year, a large awount of new cquip- ment, hoth motive power and cars, is necessary to accommodate the rapidly increasing traflic of the company. For this purpose Mr. Adams estimutes that three millious must be expended during the ourrent year. But while the rolling stock 15 to be improved Mr. Adams does not countemplate the building ~ of '~ mpew lines until ¢ settlement with the goverement is reached, or some general financial plan is adopted for meeting the cost of such work in advance of entering upon it. This, Mr. Adams says, will be the policy of the road during 1888. But such statements are to be taken with modifi- eations. From Mr. Adams' report it scoms that the cost of construction of new lines during 1887 has for the greater part been carried as a floating liability, which has absorbed all the company’s spare cash and involved it in debt., Of course, Mr. Adams did not intend to use the money which was falling due the governmont. But the temptations to follow the example set by Sidney Dillon and Jay Gould were too great to be resisted. Mr. Adams' promise to pay whenever the road felt able ought to satisly the most urgent creditor. Such is the outline proposed by the president of the Union Pacific. With an indul- gont congress to swallow fair promises, the professed policy of the Union Pacific is one thing, its actual programme is another. There never hes been and is not now any intention on the part of this corporation to tax the stockholders for a dollar of its enormous debt, nor is there any proposition to assess the stockholders to pay for the extensions and branch lines built out of earnings that should have been set apart to meet the bonded debt. Mr. Adams blandly tells the stockholders that the increased earnings will in due time liquidate the debt if congress gives tho company a blank permit to exact ex- orbitant tolls from its patrons for the next half a century. This programme will be very satisfactory to stockholders and stock jobbers, but there is very little comfort in it for the people who are obliged to patronize the Union Pa- cific who had a right to expect relief by this time from the burdens which they have borne since 1869, The Sioux Reservation. The bill for the opening of the Sioux reservation in Dakota is now alaw, hav- ing received the approval of the presi- dent on Tuesday. The BEE some time ago gave the general provisions of this measure, which if it shall go into effect will open to settlement about eleven million acres of as fine land foragricult- ural purposes and stock raising as there is anywhere on the continent. Another good result will be in the removal of what is now a serious barrier to the progress of settlement west of this res- ervation, The whole country contigu- ous to this fertile area will undoubtedly feel at once the benefit of the law providing for opening the reserva- tion,and preparatory to that result may be expected to experience a healthy ad- vance in population and industrial pros- perity. For o8 soon as the reservation is opened there can be no doubt that its most desirable land will be greedily taken up by the best class of settlers. 1t is to be remembered, however, that the law does not open the reservation, that result being made dependent on the will of the Indians, duly expressed, who possess the territory. Unless this is done within a year, in a way satis- factory to the president as being in conformity with the prescribed method, the law becomes null and void. There is perhaps no very great probability that a majority of the Indians will reject the terms of the law, which are just and liberal, but a pretty strong opposition will have to be overcome, and this may be a task that will fully tax the judgment and tact of the government officials whose duty it will be to carry out the provis- ions of the law, A number of chiefs are known to be opposed to giving up’ any part of their lands, the “squaw” men generally are unfavorable to the plan, and the white men who have profitable contracts with the Indigns will use their influence to have the terms of the law rejected. It will thus be seen that the opening of the Sioux reservation is still dependent on an un- certain contingency. SOME weeks ago City Attorney Web- ster presented a claim to the council for several hundred dollars paid out for office furniture. What became of this extraordinary claim we do not know. It wos without precedent and utterly indcfensible. No city attorney from George Pritchett to Charles F'. Mander- son and Manderson down to W. J. Con- nell has ever thought of such a thing as asking the city to pay for furniture for his private law office. Mr. Webster's predecessors were not as well paid as he is by fully one thousand dollars a year, Nor did any of Mr. Webster’s predeces- sors have an assistant at $1,500 a year to relieve them of the police court work. And now the council has voted Mr. Webster $100 for office rent. Why should the city payany part of Mr, Webster's office rent any more than they should pay for his oflice furniture? Doesn’t 83,000 a year com- pensate him sufliciently for the service he renders the ecity? If Mr. Webster is entitled to such an allowance the as- sistant city attorney will have a right to bring in a bill for office rent, —— BunrGLAurs have forever spoiled ‘the chances of Mr. D. R. Anthony as a pro- hibition eandidate for governor in Kan- sas. They penetratod the most sacred recesses of his home at Leayenworth and carried off his entire stoek of choice whisky and wines. This, too, on the eve of a state campaign, when the pro- hibitionists never had a better oppor- tunity for carrying the state, erre——go— VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS, The Sutton Register says Governor Thayer will have no oppositicn for re-election, The Wyoming Union says thatJ. W. Con- nell is the man 1o go to congress from the big First. C. E. Casey, of Pawnee City, who chap- eroned Church Howe some months ago, will try 10 go o the national convention. The Liberty Journa! finds that in Pawnce and Richardson counties the republicans are tallong of eending Hon. J. L. Linn to the state senate this fall. The Falls City Journai observes: ‘‘There does not seem to beany doubt but what Gov- ornor Thayer will succeed hiwself. Heis a wise, careful and able executive and well de- serves re-election.” The Northwest News thus spesks its mind: “Congresswan Dorsey either lacks the courage of bis. convictions or he was guilty of falsehood when be claimed to be in | eXpertequestrienne. favor of reducing the tariff and expressed his intention of alding Yo 1ift the burden {m- posed upon the paople by the task-masters of the east." ‘‘“There is & sentlirlent throughout thestate, says the Westérn Wave, that Attornoy Gen- eral Loese has been serving the people faith- fully and well in his efforts to rostraln tho dangerous oucroachrents of the railroads on the people and sholild be given another term. v is certainly a good thing tohold on toa faithful servant in ‘politics as woell as out of it.” The Elkhorn Vallay News says that ‘“in the state conventiom to nominate state offi- cers, Madison county'will present the name of J. F. McClary as a candidate for state treasurer. Mr, McClary has been a resident of Norfolk -since 1871, and is too well known a8 a business man and repregentative citizen to need any introduction to the people of this scction at our hands," The Central City Nonpareil looks over the ‘Third district and draws this conclusion: “In the Third Congressional district the contest for the republican momination seems to lay between Dorsey, Meiklejohn and Darnell, with the chances favoring Dorsey, unless the other candidates have strength enough to combine and prevent his nomination on the first ballot. In that case a new man may be chosen.” The Ulysses Dispatch makes this calm ob- servation: “Hon, M. V. Harlan, of York, appears to have the inside track for congress in this dirtrict at the next convention, and everything would seom to idicate that the Hastings bag of gas must go. Still there is no telling what whisky, boodle and gravel trains may do,as such B. & M. Laird strikers as Oil Room Richarason of this county are capable of using any means to gain a vic- tory.” Indissecting one Mr.Robertson, of Madison county, the Reporter has the following: ‘‘Mr. Robertson was president of the non- partisan judicial convention, hetd at Norfolk last summer at which Jim Crawford, the rankest and most irrational democrat of the North Platte country, was nowinated for dis- trict judge. That wasa convention of law- yers who sought to dictate who the, people should have to scrve them." The Humphrey Independent proposes this question: *“‘With John M. Thurston, Loran Clark, H. C. Russell and Church Howe in the ring for delegates to the national conven- tion, what is the reason that Platte county don’t bring out her thoroughbreds, such as G. G. Bowman, J. M. Macfarland orjoJohn Early, as aspairants for the same position!— Representrtive republicans, you kuow, whom the party delight to honor." The O'Ne:l Frontier says; ‘It does not secm to be the desire of Nebraska republi- cans to send an instructed delegation to the national convention. We do not want men to represent our glorious state that are so set in their individual preferences that they will oot be influenced by party considerations. We want men who are loyal workers and ‘who will labor zealously for the interests of the party and not in the interest of any par- ticnlar aspirant for the nomination.” The South Sioux City Sun renders the opinlon of the chances the republican party stands for success’in this presidential cam- paign: ‘‘Negative virtues are very good as far as they go, but for the credit of the re- publican party it is carnestly to bo hoped that they will not be. considered worthy of being rewarded with the presidential nomi- nation next June. A man who aspires to the chief magistracy should be possessed of some very positive good qualities. Let some of the ambitious men whose longing eycs are fixed upon the white house, and whose greatest merit is that they never did anything par- tioularly bad, be given to understand that it is not for them. If the republican party de: sires to go into this campaign with any hope of success it must nominate a tried states- man who combines with liberal tariff views the faculty of winning doubtful votes. Otherwise the next president will wear, as in the past four years, a number niveteen collar.” —_——— PERSONALITITIES, Secretary Whitney owns a £500 dog. Gladstone is said to have got $1,250 for a magazine article, The wife of Senator Hawley acts as her husband’s political secretary. James J. Hill, of St. Paul, fifty-one years 0ld and worth §10,000,000, is the wealthiest man in the northwest. Tim Healy, M. P., the Irish patriot, was carning ten years ago hardly enough to keep body and soul together. Sir Morell Mackenzie is really a Hebrew, assert some German papers, and his rightful name is Moro Marcowitz, Lord Leslie, a poverty-stricken Irish peer, is trying to make an honest living as travel- ing agent for a sewing machiue company. Governor David B. Hill, when a lad, bought his school books with money ob- tained by selling apples at the railroad sta- tion. General Boulanger, whom Zola calls the people's savior, has in conspicuous vositions in his office busts of Bismarck aund Von Moltke. Senator Frye, of Maine, wears his silk hat thrown carclessly back upon his head, and he has the air of a man who never wastes an opportunity. The Chinese emperor is being initiated into the mysteries of poker by three Chinese no- blemen who have studied cards and other things in this country. Emperor Frederick will be able to leave his widow a jointure of from $150,000 to §200,- 000 a year, with the use of aresidencein Ber- lin and a county seat. Walt Whitman says that “nothing is ever really lost.” But will he kindly inform a waiting world what has become of the rliymes ot the end of Lis poetry lines! The prince of Wales, it is said, bas been malking heavy bets for years past that he will not outlive his mother, the money, if he wins, to be divided between his two sons. Ross Winans, the Baltimore millionaire sportsiman,is going to giye up his 260,000 acres of deer forests in tand and gives sowe of the natives a chance to live on the land. The journalists of Log Angeles, Cal.,, have founded a colony of their own at Rawona, in the San Gabriel valley. Among them, it is id, Thomas Nast, the famous cartoouist, will make his home. ‘The late Chief Justice Waite and Judge Field, of the United States supreme court, were born within twenty miles of each other in Connecticut, in the same month of the same year. Tie emperor of Russia presented the em- press on her fortieth birthday with a diamond necklace containing forty stones—one for each year of her life, 1f all the diamond ornaments worn by the women in this coun try were constructed on this principle, it would be bad for the diamond busivess. Bismarck's wife is 8 very interesting woman. She is more than sixty years of age, very tall aud very gray. Her features are promivent and her cheek bones very high. Altogether she has a strong face. She is a woman of very determinca charac- ter, and not unhike the ‘Iron Chancellor" himself in obstinacy. She is fond of talking and speaks in a loud and decided voice Miss Amelie Rives, the young southern writer, is ‘“‘bewilderimgly handsome, "' smokes cigurets, indulges w long watks, and is un | Bke is aiso rewiss in | H. K. Hore, who repr: her social duties, having never boen known o keep an engadement at the hour named, but is invariably late at dinnor parties and lunohes, in fact oven at little gatherings given in her special honor. Nevertheless, she is a great favorite among hor friends, who overlook her eccentricities. Some one has been collecting facts about the fathers of the United States presidents, with this result: “Grover Cleveland is the only clergyman’'s son who has ever been clected president, though Arthur's father was a clergyman, He was not, however, elected president. The fathers of the Vir- ginia presidents—Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe—were planters. John Tyler's father was a lawyer and o statesman, and John Adams, the father of John Quinoy Adams, was by profession o lawyer. CGrant's father was a tanner, Hayes' father a merchant, and the fathers of Garfield, Lincoln, Pierce, Filmore, Pelk, Van Buren, and Jackson wero farmers. M. Zola, the novelist, has just completed his forty-oight year. His father, an Italian by birth and an engineer by profession, died when Emile was in his oighth year. Emile became olork to the French publisher Hach- etto, wrote verses which nobody would print, and was at_one time 8o poor that he lived during the best part of a winter on bread and oil! His first prose work, a col- lection of short tales, was published nearly n quartor of & century ago, but it was the novel, “Therese Requin,” which first brought him into note. B — STATE D TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, Superior has two parks. Pawnee City is keeping up the slack in her boom. Otoe county’s corn crop is all in, with fair prospects. A mad dog is the latest curiosity at Ne- braska City., Fromont's Masonic temple will cost from 25,000 to £30,000. The Norfalk Daily News is a year old and shows ovidence of prosperity. L. C. Roat, secretary of the state grange, is speaking at various towns in the state. Rev. Joseph Cook is lecturing throughout m state on tho quostion, “Does Deata End There is an unusual amount of blue grass making its appearance on the prairies this spring, W. J. Comloy, a mail agent, who had two ribs broken in the Alma wreck, reports that 130 letters were lost. Believing in the maxim that if she does not blow her own horn no one will blow it for her, Fairbury prints boom editions of her papers, Dr. Billings, who has just returned from the east, is getting ready to make some won- derful developments in the science of hog culture. Several Nebraska papers warn farmers of the danger of plowing u\» roads for the pur- pose of polishing their J‘ ows, and refer them 1o the law prohibiting it. With eighty-two 'gmuderud horses killed during the month of April, a paper in the southwestern part of the state insists that the diseased horses are brought over from Iowa. Mrs, Bridget Hanlon, of Fremont, has begun suit in the district court against the Union Pacific railroad to recover §1,976 for damages for t pass, which consists in the laying of their sidetracks ou her lots near the Uniou Pacific depot. Ben Albin, a popular farmer living south of Plattsmouth, appeared before the proper magistrate and charged his son with being incorrigible. After carefully listening to the evidence which went to prove the boy a worthless do-nothing, and an obstinate, self- willed “I don’t have to,” the judge sentenced him to become a prisoner in the Kearney re- form school until he had quit wanting to have his own way about everything, or, otherwise, remain till he became twenty-one years of age. A Springfield paper says: “The commer- cial travelers of Omaha intend locating in a body, with their families, in some desirable locality within easy reach of Omaha. J. D. Spearman has, through one of their repre- sentatives, made them an offer of a large lot free to each one who will locate in this place. Springfield is situated on the Missouri Pa- cific twenty miles from Omana, in_the midst of a splendid farming country. The locality is one of tho most healthy in the state. We have splendid school facilities and the trains run in such a manner that one can reach Omaha carly in the morning and roturn the same day. Besides the officials of the road will in a'short time replace their Lincoln train, thus adding to the traveling facilities. We venture to say that the commercial men will find no place with so desirable advan- tages for a location for themselves and fami- lies and where they would receive such a hearty welcome.” Towa. Scarlet fever has made its appearance in Fairfield. The Fairfield woolen mills will soon be in running order. A Knights of tuted at Fonthn On the coming Fourth of July Keokul will celebrate her fiftieth birthday as a city. The annual convention of the Roman Cath- olic Mutual Protective society will be held at ‘Waterloo June 2. Deons Dugan fell from his engine at Sioux City, ou the incoming S. C. & P, road, and will probably die. The second avnual meeting of the Iowa Bankers' association will be held at Hotel Orleans, Spirit Lake, June 26, 27 and 28, Des Moines has altogether thirteen miles of paved streets, and over eighteen miles of ing, which have cost nearly §630,000, The Natural Gas and Land company, of Herndon, will go to work at once to develop the gas fields and other interests of the city, Prof. W. R, Perkins, of Towa City, will at- tend the S00th anniversary of the university at Bologna, ftaly, as the representative of the Towa state university. The Talwage coal find has stimulated the citizens of Afton to action, and a pap is in circulation soliciting funds to sink a shaft on the land of Mr. Beebe, near the Diagonal's well. The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaba railroad company write that the corn palaee shall receive space in all the adver- tising matter hereafter sent out by the cow- vany. Friday evening a few students in attend- ance at Western college, Toledo, were out shooting at a target with a rifie, when by an accidental discharge of the gun John Kiggs, one of their number, was dangerously wounded. At Muscatine the river is four miles wide and the ferry there is doing nothing. The road in Illinois which leads to the Muscatine landing in many placgs is washed over, and worst of all, the slongh bridge is down. The Drury Landing road is also in no condition fit to be used, g‘luny estimate that it will be two months before the slough bridge will be repaired and travel can be resumed. gf»umu lodge has been inst- elld. Dakota. The Catholics are about to ercct a chureh building at Menlo, The land oftice at Buffalo, Wyomiug terri- tory, will be opened on Tucsday, May 1. A fine monument, erected to the memory of the soldiers who fell in the fate war, is (0 be unveiled at Lisbon on Decoration day. Itis feared that the proposed firemen's tournament at Spearfish in July way not be as successful as the liberality of the people of that town merits. 1t is impossible at the present time to state when the sale of the tin property of the Har- ney Peuk company to the English syndicate will be consummated. Lead City hose compauy No. 2, intends giving & grand ball on Friday eveuing. May 11, the proceeds of which will be used iv the purchase of a cart and hose. At Huron & thirty-seven inch vein of coal was struck after drilling through 157 feet of soft soapstone rock similar to that which bas been found in the waterworks well. The Briar Hill coal o City, bas struck another thiok 1,000 feet west of the first tur Linow it is fully us good, if not betier, thau that taken from the first one County Attorney Spencer obtained twenty nine injunctions restraming saloonkeepers in Walsh county from selling intoxicating liquors. The evidence was obtained by one ntéd hunselfl w be filled up every. duy new of Lead an insurance agent. He | #ud veceived §2 per day for bis tiouble. NEBRASKA BRAWN AND BRAIN. The Labor Party’s State Convention at Lincoln. ITS DELEGATES TO CINCINNATI. A Good Attendance Considering the Time of Year—An Address By Jesso Harper—The Republican Primaries—City Briofs. 1099 P Stieet, Lixcouy, May 2. The union labor state convention met st Fitzgerald’s hall in this city yesterday under the call for the purpose of selecting eight delegates to the nationti union labor conven- tion at Cincinnati. The attendance, owing 1o tho season of the year and the fact that but the election of delegates was the business hefore it, was light, only some twenty coun- tics being represented. Among the delogates present were S, M. Davis of Adams county, H. H. Wood of Cass county, William Blakely, N. D. Hubbard, J. Burrows of Gage county, L. D. Chamberlain of Polk county, C. A. Bo- cock, R. A. Tomlinson of Richardson county, I. N. Leonard of Lancaster county, C. M. Clark of Seward county, C. L. Watkins, A, C. Lead of Red Willow county, C. A. Whit- ford of Washington county and D. N. Me- Cord of Valley county. Among those from out of the state in at- tendance was Jesse Harper of Illinois, well known all over the west as a farmer's advo- cate and man of ability. Mr. Harper is en route home from Colorado, and just prior to coming to Lincoln and this conpvention he was at Wymore, where he addressed a very large audience in the opera house on the mission of the new party, Colonel Vincent,.of Kansas, is also attending the con- vention. He is engaged in the auxiliary business, and runs the only house in the west Yhat furnishes anti-monopoly patents to country publishers. Jesse Harper, shortly after the morning session opened, addressed the convention in aspeech that was earnest and_eloquent_and was cnthusiastically received by the dele- gates. He said that free trade, protection, transportation, money and corporations were the questions before the American people to- day. Prohibition and the Sunday question were entirely secondary. Of the questions citod the first five were material ones, intor- esting every man, woman and child. The last two were moral ones. These could be reached, he declared, by the solution of the reater ones, He instanced that if the bur- ens of the people are heavy and oppressive, people lose in moral force through discourage- hibata!nA 4roubla) T ighten: e butans-ot the world, he declared, and the people are wmspired to become better men and women. These topics, he declared, would be the sub- ject of his talk that would follow in the evening. The convention organized by selecting William Blakely of Gageé county as chair- man, and H. M. Goltry of Washington county as sceretary. J. Burrows of Gage county was appointed a committee on credentials, who reported the delegates by counties that were in attendance. Before adjourning to the afternoon session a delezate stated that the meeting and address of Jesse Harper was not advertised, that the public should know of his presence in the city and they would hear him, In a very short time money was raised to secure a hall for the evening and a committee was appointed to proceed yithouy delay in advertising the meeting. Adjourn- mont was then taken at noon. . At the afternoon session of the convention the discussion was protracted on the bwld- ing of a platform, a majority preferring to leave the question of a platform on state matters until the convention is held to nomi- nate o state union labor ticket. The discus- sion led to the adoption of one resolution, re- afiirming the convention’s belief in the union labor party as it stands upon the platform at Cincinnati a year ago. The resolution further favored the placing of a slate union labor ticket in the feld at an carly day, and also a mm}\lutu legislative ticket to be voted for at the fall election, The following delegates were elected to the national convention at Cincionati: At large, J. Burrows of Gage county, Allen Root of Douglas county; First district, H. H. Wood of Cass, N. D. Hubbard of (age; Second district, J. 1. Chamberlain of Polk, S. F. Miller of Rad Willow; Third district, Dr, Ballinger of Blaine, A. C. Whitford of ‘Washington. The convention then ad- journed, and in the evening a meeting was held at Bohannon’s hall, addressed by Jesse Harper. LixcoLy Bureav or Tiie Omana Ben, } REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES, The republican primaries for the county convention to be held to-day were in pro- gress yesterday afternoon. The tickets in the different wards agreed upon by the cau- cuses were meeting with apparently no op- position, and ut littlo interest was manifest, showing that a light vote was polled. Tig del o vo‘qdét_-[ wers as folls = st Ward—F. P. Roggen, W. W. Wilson, N. C. Brock, W. C. Lane, E. B, Stephenson, C. E. Waite, Charles Meyer, F. H. Waters, H. B, Vail, Joseph O'Pelt, Thomas Lanc: ter, S. H, Palmer, G. S.' Herdman, Oli Muggurd, Jacob 'Frankferter, Joseph Epps E.J.Flaherty, William Wentzel, F.M. Fowler, W. A. Johnson, Peter Kuhlman, Lawrence Curr, Charles Coyne. Second Ward—S. M. Melick, B. R. Sizer, A. G. Hastings, John Fraas, J. L. Caldwell, J.' L. Wright, D. C. Van Dyn, L. W. Billin ley, John L. Doty, H. M ine, John Aes, Frank Kokesh, S. I'. Watkins, Heory Veith, Henry Wittman, Jacob Roche, W. H. Woodiird, A, W. Scott. Third Ward—-L M. Raymond, Eagan, C. 0. Wheedon, J. C. McBride, W. H. Woodard, Frank R. Waters, R. 8. Yuag, L. L. Lindsay, W. J, Marshall, R. £. Moore, H. H. Dean, Joseph’ Burns, I'ritz Woster' man, W. H. Pritehard, H. Woltemade, John H. Fowell, L. C. Burr, L. J. Byers, A . Barnes, . M. Bushnell, Henry Logan, —W.'C. Grifiith, J. D. Knight, C. H. Gere, J. B. Archibald, J. 15. W C. L. Hall, 7. H. Harley, Phelps Painc McConnell, C. W. Moslier, Charles H. worthy, Honry Schual < Webster, W, M i Haggard, R, B, Grat .S, Humilion, J. s 1. H. Townley, J, W. McDon- ald, 8. McConiga, John Doollttle, R. H. Oak- ey, Fifth Ward—S. J. Alexander, J. H. Mc- C %, E. . L Aitken, €. J. Ernsh, 5 Cohorn, W. k. Carter, O, E. Goodell, A.D. Kitchen, Captain A. Hax, C. A. Krea mer, John dor, Joseph McGraw, A, B, Beach, L. P, Young, Lerne Meyer, Brad P, Cook. Sixth Ward—J. E. Philpot, Harry Shartz G. A. Pogue, W. W. Carder, Waiter Hoge, C. I, Swith, H. 8. Reed, S. A. Savage, H. M. Ric The convention will meet at Bohannon's hall and will be called to order at 2 p. . The work will ve short, as under the call i simply provides for the selection of twenty five delegates to the state convention at Omaha and twenty-five delegates to the dis. trict convention at Ashlaud CITY BRIEFS Attorney General Leese returned from a visit to Union Pacific records in the Douglas county court houso yesterday Senator Van Wyck was in Lincoln yester- day, returning to'his home on the morning in. Aftercorn pianting he will fill a num- ber of engagewculs, speaking at different points in the state. The election of General McBride as presi dent of the board of trade seems to be re- garded as in every way fitting and proper. The city has nomore active and earnest worker for its interests than Mr. McBride, and he will do his work well. ‘The West Lincoln packing house has been closed for several weeks undergoing exten sive improvements, allowing it to be run at its full capacity both summer aud winter. Over 850,000 have been speot in these re cont improveuonts. The delegation to the democratic state con vention weut to Oumaha yesterday Missouri Pacitlc ou & s own. Threc fellow-d feated in the county convention predicted the train, on its return trip, would be a swearivg one. "The new woolen wills located fu Yolande Rluce on the line of the rapid transit line to West Lincoln are being pushed ahead with il spoea. The foundation for oue of the buildings is already laid and the machinery Patrick 20 Shamp, Cochran, { ready for shipwent Sol Pitcher, the genial county eclerk of Sheridan county, was in Lincoln Jnm He was in the company of Sherift Rosen cranz, of his county, who brought to the pen John R. Carter, sentenced to ten years for manslaughter. W. P. P. Moore, of Seward county, has been landed in the penitentiary, haviog been sent to that reformatory for five yoars for forgery. The stonecutters' strike seems to bo fairly on and the men are determined and announge that they are in to win, Contractors are wary about taking much new work until the prospects are better for the yards to be able o fill orders for materials, Hon. J. L. Caldwell was booked to address the young men's repunlican club last even- ing, hnvlnf for his topic “The Republican Party in History.” The club scoms3to be in a prosperous condition, The state board of equalization transacted no business of importance yesterday, and ono of the members stated that the report wmll!{fl not be out of their hands for some weeks, ——ticcnce Nicknames of Prominent Men. 'St. Jerome" is Senator Edmunds’ nick name. John Shorman is known as “Honost John Sherman.” Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, goes by the name of “‘Protection Kelley." Massachusetts boasts of “Grandfather’ Hoar and “Grandmother" Hawos, Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, is known as the *“Tall Sycamor of the Wabash," “Uncle Dick” will bo recognized by evory Tllinoisan as meaning Governor Oglesby. “Our Own Evarts' is the affectionate way in which New Yorkers refer to their senior senator. *‘Coal-Oil Payno” will be recognizod as be ing quite an appropriate namo for the Ohio senator. ‘When Belford, from Colorado, was in the senate he was known as the ‘‘Red-Headed Rooster of the Rockies," Utica, N. Y., had a congressman who was known 8s “Go-and-Finish-Your-Ticket" Spriges, or Spriggs, of Utica, The late Vice-Prosident Whecler was Iknown as *“The Lone Fisherman,” but the title is now applied to Scnator Frye. Tho prefix or name “Our" scems indigan- ous to Illinois. We have “Our Carter," “Our Frank” Lawler, and “Our Dave" Littler. “Iho Old Roman” is tho way ex-Senator Thurman, of Ohio, is referred to. He has also been spoken of as “O1d Bandanna.” Weller, of lowa, got the name of “‘Calamity Weller" in congress because ho saw in every measure of which he disapproved ruin and disaster. Thomas F. Grady, the eloquent Irishman who ran against “Tim” Campbell in the con- gressional race in New York, is often called the “Silver-Tongued.” The Hon. S. S. Cox, the accomplished representative from New York, and lato minister to Turkey, was given the name of “Sunset!* because of the glowing description of a sunset which he wrote for an Ohio paper which he was editing. The Rothschilds beliove in enjoying their wealth, One of the Frankfort barons not long ago paid £160,000 for a silver cup which ho wished to use as a center piece of a table service which he was making up, and one of the Vienna barons has a stable which cost $30,000. The stable has marble floors, en- caustic tiles painted by distinguished artists, and its walls are frescoed with scenes done by well known painters. The rings, chains. and fittings of the stable are silver, and one box stall for a favorite horse cost, it is said, $12,000. —_——e Its thousands of cures are the best ad- vertisement for Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. ey Precious Baggage. Chicago Journal: A strange occur- rence happened on a suburban train on the Northwestorn road the other day. B well-dressed young man wheeled a baby carringe to the baggage car and checked it. Placing the “‘brass” in his pocket he took a seat in one of tho conches. The carringe was covered. Some of the young men who usually ride in the baggage car started to wheel and fool with the carriage. It fell over on its side, but was re- placed. One of the “boys” asked the aggageman what was in the vehicle— whether it was'‘white orblack.” Ho tore the covering off and there, sleeping the sleep of the innoceuce lay a_baby boy. Through all the Julunf and tumbling that the baby received he never awoke. The father called for the ringe and haby at Hyde Pavle: el A Word About Catarth. “It 13 the mucous membrane, that wonderfu- semi-fluld envelope surrounding the delicate tisl sues of the ajr and food pass: , that Catarrh makes its stronghold, Once blished, 1t oats into the very vitals, and renders life but s long- dArawnbreath of misery and disease, dulling the sense of hearing, trammelling the power of speech, destroying the faculty of smell, unmmfl the breath, and killing the refined pleasures taste, Insidiou: v by creeping on from n simple cold in the hend, 1f assaults the membranous lmmfi and envelops the bLones, eating through th elicate coats and causing inflammation, sloughing wnd deatls, | Nothing short, of total eradication will sscure health to the patient, and all alleviatives are simply procrastinated suffer- ings, leading to a fatal termination, SANFORD'S RADICAL CORe, by Inhalation and by Intarnal administration, has never failed; even when tho Aisease has made frightful mroads on delicato constitutions, hearing, sinell and taste have besn ed, and the disesse thoroughly driven ANFORD'S RADICAT, © consits of one bot- tleof the KADICAL CUKE, 0ne Lox OATABRHAYL SOLVENT, and one IMPROVED INHALER, neatly wrapped in one package, witn full dirootions; pric 0. 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