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

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLASHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. (Morning Rdition) including Sunday BEx, One Year . L Fnr. x Months ... . ‘ot Three Montha The Omaha Sunday Brg, mated €0 any ad- dress, One Y ear OMATIA OFriCE, NOSOIAAND 918 FARNAM STRE| NEW YOUK OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUN BUILDING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 618 FourTeEsTn STREET. CORRESPONDENCE. Al eommunications relating to news and adi- forial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR OF THE BEE. i BUSINESS LETTERS. s should be PUBLISHING COMPANY, s and postoffice orders to order of the company, Pally K 0 1 2 2 chec be made payable to the i Bee Pablishing Company. Proprictors E: ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BE Sworn Statement of Circulation. Nebraska, | f Dou 3 q x secre nryl of The Mu. tP:l; i iny, does solemnly swear A b cioratatian of the Daily Ties for the week ;ndlhv A[ll}l willf'?& ‘was as follows aturda) T . 'Aprs 2, April = sadny, April 24, ednesday Aprii £ Thursday, April ¥riday, April 27, 18,08 AVOrage. . ... Rovern to and subscribed o 1, Peposese o o and #ul In presence 25U Qay of April, A. Do, 1885, - N: . FEIL, Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, # County of Douglns, L George B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, fla]r,oln and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual avera dally circulation of the Datly Bee for the month o ) , was 14,297 c';yie)l; for June, 1857, 1147 coples; for July, 18, 140 coples; fof ust, , 14,161 coples; for September, 1887, 14,80 coples! for October, 1857, 14,438 coples; for November, 1887, 16,28 copies; for December, 1887, 16,041 coples; for January, 1888, 15,206 co) 158, 1508 Coptewy for Apith 1A, 1674 copies. ', 19,659 cople: or. ', 18,74 o o BEO! B, AR K, Bwom to before mo and’ subscribed i my presence s lay of Ma; . D, 3 R°p. T Notary Publ _filr Ioci(e;i ver;' much a limugh Chang Morrissey ran the show. It evidently gratified ‘“‘our Val” that Judge Crawford was chosen delegate to the St. Louis convention. Ture Honorable Mr. Ragan of Adams, pulled himself through the bunghole of the Second district but it was a very tight squeeze. T prohibitionists claim to hold the balance of power in New York. But they will not hold it long if burglars in- sist on breaking into prohibitionists’ cellars and carrying off their choiocest brands of liquors. COLONEL INGERSOLL’S memorial ad- dress to be delivered on the late Roscoe Conkling May 9 before the New York legislature will without doubt be one of the most pathetic eulogies ever pro- nounced in the English language on the character and career of any public man. Tue Pullmans have won their suit against the Wagner Sleeping Car com- pany, involving the right to use the “yestibule” patent. The Wagners ought to cut rates on sleeping car ac- commodations and force the Pullmans to meet the reduction. This would be sweet revenge which the traveling pub- lic would enjoy. THESE are ‘buncombe’ days in con- gress. Deluded representatives are reading long-winded manuscripts on the tariff to empty benches in order to make a favorable impression on home constituencies. In the meanwhile nine- tenths of the congressmen are betting on horse-races, attending base ball matchos and having a good time gener- ally. That is the way our law makers are taking action on the pressing ques- tion of the hour. ———— THE democrats are now ripe to com- it those blunders which will cost them dear at the presidential election. The factional quarrel between the Gray men and McDonald’s followers should give the republicans no difiiculty in carrying Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut aro in that state of ferment which augurs well for republican victory in November. With Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut, republican success would be eertain, regardless of the out- come in New York re——— Tue commereial metropolis of the gull states, Now Orleans, is reaching out to estublish closer business and #ocial relations with the people of Ne- braska, Kansas and Colorado. New Orleans in the past few years has im- proved its terminal facilitics, and its ocean service and has just established its pan-handle-route which makes a dircot connection with Kansas City and Omaha. The Creseent city is looking forward to the day not far distant when it shall be the great reservoir and dis- tributing point for grain to the Euro- pean markets, E——— Avvices from Montana regarding cattle on the ranges are not altegether favorable. The losses during the winter were light, bui the cattle came through in a rather poor condition, and the rough weather of March and a portion of April did not allow them to make much improvement. Since the preval- ence of better weather, however, they are gaining, and the territory is ex- pected to furnish its usual supply. For a couple of weeks past there has heen excellent weather, which leads the Sun River Sun to remark that “from all ap- pearances the present season will be better smited to the wants of the range men than was last season.” Sr=—e—— SHoULD the president sign the bill for the opening of the northern reser- wvation in Montana, as it is not doubtod be will do, a rush of population to that Bection is expected. It is reported that already, in anticipation of the opening, a large number of persons from KFort Benton and elsewhere in the surccund- ing country have gone to the reserva- tion "to locate ranches, mines, town #itos, ote. The valleys are pow covered with tonts, and active preparations are making by expeotant settlors to locate the mowent it shall be known that the bill to opon Lhe resorvation has become alaw, The failure of the bill would be B groat disappointment and no inconsid- erable loss to hundreds, while if it ve- ceive the president’s approval there will be lively timés in that region this unuuer, ' THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MAY linois Republicans. There are obvious reasons why the republicans of Tilinois will exert a very important influence upon the national republican convention, and therefore their expressions have peculiar interest and significance. The state conven on Wednesday was a thoroughly repre- sentative body, characterized by har- mony, enthusissm and confidence. It assembled free from any binding con- ditions, such as were, to a certain ex- tent, imposed upon the republicans of Ohio and Iowa. No ‘favorite son” awaited or expected a presidential en- dorsement. He who might have ocou- pied that position preferred to leave his constituents untrammeled by any demands. Thus the republicans of Illi- nois were in a position to indicate their presidential preference with deliberate reference to what they believe to be for the best interest of the partyas a whole. This they did unanimously for Judge Gresham, and, under the circumstances, the country will not fail to give great weight to their judgment. The dis- tinguished jurist is not an [(llinois man. So far as anybody is aware, he is not a candidate for the presidency. No one has yet ventured to say in his behalf that he desires the nomination, and at no time has he manifosted any interest or concern regarding the use that is being made of his name as an available man to head the re- publican national ticket. He is attend- ing daily to the performance of his official duties with apparently no thought of the great honor which nu- merous admirers of his ability and in- tegrity in all portions of the country are seeking to press upon him. It may be safely said that no member of the Illinois convention possessed the slight- est knowledge the regarding feelings of Judge Gresham respecting the move- ment to make him a presidential candi- date. Yet being neither a favorite son nor a confessed aspirant, a representa- tive convention of Illinois republicans declares unanimously in his favor as a presidential candidate, ‘know- ing him to be a pure man and a faivhful servant,” and confident that he can lead the party to victory. This action will place Judge Gresham where he has not actually been until now, in the list of republican leaders whose names will go before the national convention. He has a state behind him, and one whose influence will not be in- considerable. The casual or incidental attention which has hitherto been given to his claims and his availability must now become deliberate and serious. ‘He has been given a standing, a vantage ground, and has become a positive factor. The republicans of Illinois have invited the republicans of the nation to fully and candidly consider a candidate to whom the promise their hearty and faithful sup- port, with full faith in his high charac- ter and his superior availabilit, The party will cheerfully accept the invita- tion. A Promising Outlook. No commercial organization in the country is better able to forecast the future of business than the New York chamber of commerce, and merchants everywhere will learn with interest the opinion of the officers of that body, ex- pressed in the annual report recently submitted, that the outlook for the present year’s business is highly favo able. The report notes increasing firm- ness in the financial situation, and that the money market, with astrong metallic reserve, is beyond the reach of specula- tive combinations. “The outlook for trade,” says the report, “issatisfactory and beyond what is usually expected in a year of political struggle. Less fluctuations are looked for in the future, and a more secure financial rest for all the great industries of the coun- try.” It is a welcome fact to find this strong body of commercial men unqual- ifiedly condemning the formation of trusts to control the product and price of commodities. Favorable assurances from such a source, if they do not operate to stimu- late enterprise, must at least be effect- ive in strengthening confidence. Un- questionably the tendency for some time past has been in the opposite dircction, and yet it has not been possible to find an entirely satisfactory reason for it. Bome reaction from the vigorous ac- tivity of last year was to he expected, and the continued locking up of money in the treasuryis certainly something of a menace, but two su cessive years of business prospe: not unusual in this country, and there- fore it is not unreasonable to expect the present yearto be fairly prosperous, though the aggregate results will very likely nat eqtial those of last year. So far as the supply of money is concerned there seems to be no lack of it for all legitimate purposes, and the amount in the hands of the people isnow being in- creased by the bond purchases of the treasury. As we noted some days ago there is likely to be a great deal more railrond construction then was expected at the beginning of the year, and it will be done at a less ultimate cost to the people. One un- favorable feature of the situation is the unpromising eondition of wheat in most of the wheat growing states, but it i yet early to find in this fact any great discourngement. Ou the whole there is on to expect that this presidential year way prove an exception to the usual business experience of the eountry in such yeu Srmmesmsem——— By the completion and consclidation of the various ruilroad systems connect- ing the cities of Chicayo, Omuha, Kan- sus City, Denver and St. Louis with New Orleans apd Gulveston, grain for export can be shipped to Burope cheuper than via Chicago and New York by rail. This is u competition whick custern railreads fear more than the 1 route from “hicago 4o Buffal fact that better time is mudc betweon Chicago und New Orlesns than betwoeen Chicago and New York via the lakes, and at rates equally s ebeap. 3 farmor of the west the unew o 15 choaper uwnd more rapid for the ehip- ment of his grain 1e the Liveruool mar- ket. Eastern railroads sve alive to this ! turn of afiairs.” Alrvendy a commission at Chieago Los fixed arvate of freight Lrow that cizy to the Atlantic To t about twonty-five per cent lower than the present rate. The drop in freight charges is made to crush the southern earrying trade at its incipiency. But the Gould system and the recently com- pleted Fort Worth road cannot be driven from the field without a struggle. The battle has only begun. Tts final outoome cannot bo predicted. But the time has arrived when railroad transportation in so far as it effects the shipping of grain to Burope is destined to be revolutionized by the opening of these southern trunk lines. FoR several years in New York and other eastern cities it has been the practice of wholesale houses to give their employes a Saturday afternoon holiday during the summer months, The plan has been fourid to work most satisfactorily to all coneerned, and may be regarded as ponmanently established in those cities that have adopted it. A movement with asimilar object has been started in Omaha, it being proposed that the wholesale and jobbing houses shall close on Saturday afternoon from the middle of May to the middle of Oec- tober. The plan has thus far received the acquiescence of about thirty firms, and there 1s every reason tobelieve that it will go into effect here with most of the wholesale and jobbing establish- ments. There are excellent reasons in support of it, and the fact that it has been approved after several years of trial by some of the most extensive es- tablishments in the country is strong evidence in its favor. It is to be hoped our wholesale housesand jobbers gener- ally will adopt the plan. IN justice to the residents about the base ball grounds, it can not be denied that they are annoyed beyond endur- ance by the hoodlum and small boy element of thecity. At every game of ball, especially those which take place on Sunday, their grounds are overrun, their property is injured, and their peace and quiet are disturbed by the irrepressibles. It is not to be wondered at that Mr. Parmelee, whose grounds ad- join the base ball park, should ask for an injunction to restrain base ball playing when it is the cause of vandal- ism to his property. It appears to us that relief could be secured from such annoyance without resort to the courts. If the association will pay for the ser- vice of three or four special policemen to patrol the streets in the vicinity of the park whenever a ball game takes place and arrest all trespassers, the dis- orderly element will learn that resi- dents haye a right to peace and quiet even in the midst of an exciting base ball season. IF the present system of conducting national conventions be kept up a de- cade longer the number of delegates to each convention will not be less than a full regiment. There will be 822 dele- gates to the republican and democratic conventions this year. Within the next eight years all the territories will be admitted. Counting the delegates from each congressional district of these new states and the number who will be se- lected by reason of the increased popu- lation of the country, the total number of representatives to each of the conven- tions will not be less than a thousand. In an exciting political contest of warring factions it will be impossible for a chairman to control such a vast assembly. It would seem therefore that a change in the present methods of nominating prosidential candidates must be made. Mg, INGALLS asserts that Lamar was ap- pointed to the supreme bench to please Jeft Davis. Thisisona plane with the meany fool utterances of the grave robber from Kansas. If Mr. Lamar was so appointed, did he receive confirmation at the hands of a republican senate for the same reason?— Omaha Herald. The confirmation of Justice Lamgr was accomplished by the union of two republican corporation senators—sStan- ford of California, and Stewart of Ne- vada—with the democirats. With the exception of these Pacific coast monop- olists, every republican in the senate yoted against confirming Lamar. There can be no excuse for the attempt to pervert an important historical fact of such recent oceurrence as the vote of the senate on Lamar’s confirmation out of mere partisan spite. E———r— LABOR NOTES. The National Association of Plumbers will meet at Boston in June. Newport, R. I, carpenters and bricklayers have struck for nine hours, Union lasters will hold a national conven- tion at Boston, Mass., on April 25. Handsboro (Miss.) knights have struck for ten hours, with pay day every Saturday. Washington, Pa., has three glass factorios, all erected since natural gas has been in use. The Cutters’ and Polishers’ union of New York city will join the Metal Trades fodera- tion, ‘Lhe American Whéel Manufacturers’ asso- ciation has 80 per cent of the trade us mem- bers, In New York city the building trades have forty-five uuions with & membership of 05,000, Numerous canning factories are being erectod in Marylaud. Also two at Winches- ter, Va. A tobacco factory will be crected at Salis- bury, N. C,, and @ cigar factory at Tulla- howma, Tenn. Near Coburg, Germany, a whole village of people has for wany generations wade noth- iug Lut toys. An air-brake factory is being erected at Turtle Creek, near Pittsburg, by George Westinghouse, Work on u glass factory that will give em- ployment to about 300 men has begun at Chattanooga, Tenn Cotton mills will be erected at Burlington, Clarlotte, Davidson College, Davidson Col- lege, Salisbury und Shelby, N. C. The union carpenters of Paterson, N. J., will work only nine hours a day and eight on Suturday, with $2.50 for a day’s wages. More than cne hundred women and girls are employed in the factories of Seginuw, Mich., e wages being from 15 cents 1§l day ‘Pne now llis fuotary at Petersburg, Va, owned by Joubn N. Btearus, of New York, will go into operstion nesft month. It will give employment to 800 oporatives Phe exposition bullding st aou-uuion job. Country are bullding it auf re $L.75 o day, while union hozie lebor 8 walking the streets nnati isa peaters wbowtd | The only siats pensil faatory i the United States is at Castloton, V., near the hed-.[ Thirty thousand pepci)s are made daily. One man sharpens 500 u ¥§y on the emery belt. A big factory whergin table ware will be manufactured is to B put up at Pen Station, near the GrapevilleyMa.) gas fields. About two hundred mon mpd boys are to be em- ployed. ] The Fureka Stast Casting company, of Chester, Pa., has Mdde experiments favor- able to the adoption of & new process for malking castings whigh does not. require su- nealing. 1t has boen ostimateg that only 2,000 men are at present emplBydd around the mines in tho Shamokin (Pa.) district. Herotofore 6,000 have usually been at work at this time of year, Kelly & Jones, manufacturers of plumb- ing fittings, willfremove their plant at Jersey City to Greensburg, Pa., whore thoy will invest §300,000 and employ 300 mon. Tho site was given them, It.is the intention of the federal trades of New York to have all workingmen observe November 11 as a day to be devoted to show- ing respect to the memories of the executed Chicago labor agitators, The Henry Clay furnace, situated mnear Columbia, Pa., is again in operation after some months' idleness. The Shawnee fur- naces at Columbia have shut down, evidently because of a large surplus of stook. Arbitration Commissioner F. F. Donovan of New York has settled the lockout of bricklayers and hod-carriers at Newburg. The bricklayers get $3.25 a day and the hod- carriers §2.12}¢ tor nine hours a day. The Denver Labor Enquirer says that Gen- eral Secretary Litchman will be a candidate for G. W. F. at Indlanapolis, and that if he is elected General Master Workman Powderly will resign shortly after the G. A. in his favor, Assistant State Labor Statistician Congar, of Kansas, in an address to Carpenters’ and Joiners’ union, No. 158, Topeka, disapproved of manual training schools because they will overflow the various occupations and reduce wages. Engineors of Nashville, Tenn., are making preparations for the convention of the Amer- ican Society of Mechanical Engineers in that city from May -7 to 10. The society has a membership of 800, located all over the country. An authority says that 52,000 pianos were manufactured last year in the United States. The average life of this instrument is twenty years. Only a few factorics mako the piano entirely, there being about nineteen trades in the composition. The Pittsburg Steel Casting works, wherein the big 10i¢-ton government gun was cast, has just finished a big gear wheel for the Toronto Water works. The wheel measuaes nine feet in diameter outside, and weighs nearly cight tous, The Knights of Labor of Indianapolis are making preparations for the cowming general assembly. The consexvatives give it out that they will make strenuous efforts to have thew champion, Edward Gould, of district 100, placed on the executive board. Samuel R. Lowry, colored, has established a colony of negroes jn'Jefferson county, Ala., where the silk worm is cultivated with great success. From 100t 400 pounds of worth $5 a pound, can be raised on one acre. A company will be formed to manufacture the silk, Several of the national and international trades unions in this country are consider- ing the advisability of sending delegates to the International Trades Union congress to be held in London iv the fall. It is probable that there will be a large Amcrican delega- tion. A national cunvention of bookbingers will be held in Philadelphia next month for the purpose of correcting abuses which now exist in the trade. One of the principal topics to be discussed . the convention will be the establishment of a set of apprentice- ship rules. A lumber stacking machine, which takes the place of fifteen men, is in successful use. The lumber is carried on chains from the trimmer and dropped on the cars in be'ter shape than the men formerly did the work. But one man is now necessary 1o manipulate the machine. A successful experiment has been made av the Etua fron works, Pittsburg, by which the lap welding of tubesis done in one beat- ing instead of two. Less metal is required. In fact, the new way saves a great deal of labar and the cost is from 25 to 40 per cont cheaper. An employe is the inventor, An Euvglish silk mill at Macclesfield el ploys 144 hands to do less than half the work that is accomplished by eighty hands in an American mill. The American operatives earn an average of # a week aund their labor 18 twice as cheap, measured by its results, as that of the IEuglish operatives, who earn 5.25. The barb-wire industry is in a fair way of being overdone. According to the Iron Age there are forty-four manufacturers in this country who own 2,101 machines. It is csti- mated that in 200 working days, running single turns, they will make 800,000 tons of barb wire, while the consumption ranges from a hundred and thirty to a huudred and fifty tons a year. The bienunial convention of the Brother- hood of Carpenters will soon be held at De- troit. It will be the largest trade convention ever held in America, the membership now being over 50,000. Among some of the more amportant business to be disposed of will be the perfection of & benefit system, A new and better law is wreed to cover trade troubles and sivikes, From good sources it is learncd that the general vote of the United Order of Carpen- ters of New York and vicinity is overwhelm- ingly in favor of amalgamation with the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, The vote stands 18 lodges for and 4 against amalgamation, A mittee of seven has been selected by th ited Order to meet a like committee from! Brotherhood to ar- nge final details off amalgamation, The conference of these $yve committees will take place at an early date this month. The glass manufackurers of Pittsburg have attained great pers ion. The plate glass equals that of 8t. Gj in and Belgian glass houses, while the nou lime-dint press glass surpasses that €4 Kurope in whiteness, in polish and beauty.d Some of the most beautiful polished gl in the world, rival- ing in depth and ricitBges of coloring as well as in beauty of desigdl,“that from the famous works of Europe, whilg the cut flint, in bril- liaucy of metal, in Bdlity of design and in skill of cutting, equ@ls the products of the best glass houses of the Midlands of Eng- land. aska Jottings, Tt will cost $1,000 a year to sell Tecumseh this year With its beautiful make @ summer resort The mayortof Hastings has a policy and is attempting to carry it out. In a gleeful mood the Hastings papers de clare that the Santa Fe is coming Grand Island g 15 to the num ber of 25,000 frou oons of the city, On the ashes of Culbertscn’s five new and o buildings thau the old are heing liquor in lake Holdredge will It is said that the vsiversily students will wmakse their sUMMEr LUCAN MUt &L Wymere this your QA lurgo backbous of sowe Larger auimg) | was found at the depth of thirty feet at Holdredge. Edgar is to have a sorghum factory. Tt will be in running order in time for the fall campaign when tafly is most in demand. Indianola's watch factory, so long ques tioned, is at last in running order, and lends an additional charm 1o the city of the plains. And now the different towns throughout the state are talking of the Fourth of July and taking steps to appropriately observe the day. Nebraska City yearns for a new opera house and a suitable place to put a new red hose cart recently purchased for protection from fire, The State Dental association will hold their annual meeting st Grand Island, Monda; May 14. Special railroad rates and teeth e: tracted without pain. ‘The Gothenburg Independent has reached the fourth milo post on its journey, and is pleased with the rewards of the past and the prospects of the future. Jeff Long, who was convicted of murder in the first degree for killing the Bascom family near North Platte, gots a new trial July 9. He remains Longer than he really expected. The croaker is never without employment. Alreld{ his dismal wail comes from several parts of the state, crying “There is t00 much rain.” Last week the croaker feared o drought. A boy eleven years old, just from Den- mark, landed in Arapahoe Tuesday. He in- tended to go to David county, but through the mistuke of some one at the depot in Omaha he got on the wrong train. Policoman Degman, of Schuyler, amested a man for drunkenness. The feilow was not strong, and among his other attainments was a wooden leg. For these two very good rea- 8ons there was no precaution taken as to his scourity. In the morning it was discovered that the fellow had taken his wooden log, battered down the door and made good his escape. And now comes the information, in all this excitement concerning the blizzard heroine, to the effect that Miss Minnic Freeman has gone to California with her Ilurant-l. said a millionaire of the Pacific coast, sent a diamund-studded watch to the young Indy soon after she became famous, is tho cause of this trip. The lecture platform yearns for the brave and daring Minnie. who lowa Items. ‘West Burlington is to have a postoftice. Sunday base ball playing is a matter of discussion in the state. The Des Moines Belt Line railway com- panly is pushing work with commendable zeal, Alonzo Steele, of Grinnell, has endowed the chawr of mathematics 1o the lowa college with $20,000. Burlington has an indirect claim upon Chief Justice Fuller, His wife is the daugh- ter of the late W. F. Coolbaugh. The Rockford Co-operative dairy assoc tion, cum{wsud of numerous fariers, b filed articles with the sceretary of state. Sixteen registered pharmacists of Daven- port have agreed that they wil not sell or dispense any alcoholic or intoxicating liquors for any purpose whatever. Biram Davis, of Moulton, was recently bitten by a rabid calf. There were no mad dogs around that any one knew of, and how the calf became rabid no one knows. The General Association of Congregational Ministers of Towa will hold its forty-ninth annual meeting at Grinnell from May 23 to 28, inclusive. A good attondance is looked for from all points of the state. The Burlington ferry hoat, John Taylor, is still on the ways across the river at Davén- port undergoing repairs. The bill for the same is $2,000, which the people of Burling- ton must pay before they get their boat. The people of Fort Dodge are quite san- guine regarding the passage of the av- !;ruprlm.mn bill for a public byilding. The ill i8 considerably changed from the one that was vetoed, and calls for orily $75,000. The enterprising citizens of Tabor and vi- cinity have organized the Tabor & North- ern Sflilx'flnd company, the object being to build a standard gawge rajjroad from Tabor to a connection with the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney railroad at Hillsdalo, The Fort Dodge council considers that the price paid for the eleotric lights is altogethor exorbitant for the service given, and wishes either a material reduction from the present rates or an addition to the number of lights supplied at the same aggregrate cost. On Tuesday, May 8, a convention will be held in Burliugion to consider some very im- portant subjects, It will be composed of the mayol nd city solicitors of the first and second class cilics, and those with special charters, in Iowa, about thirty represent- atives in all Colorado. The cost of maintaining the police force of Pucblo for the coming ycar will be 21,000, The Denver, Texas & Fort Worth road is putting up @ second telegraph wire between Denver and Pueblo, The De Remer opera house, which burned the 18t inst at Pueblo, was a total loss and nothing was saved. ® A special grand jury was summoned Tues- day to investigate the killing of {'mm Dug- gan by Mont Youngson, at Leadville, Some of the enterprising citizens of Buena Vista have organized a jolut stock ¢ompany and will crect a fine hotel to cost between $15,000 and §20,000. There is in the little town of Silver Plume a Frenchman by the name of Phil Poirson who olaims to be the inventor of perpetual motion. He says he is willing to give one- half interest in 1t for §4,000. Some tramps tried to force an entrance into the house of Miss Mollie Davis, of Bur- lington, one night last weck. The noise awakened Miss Davis. She inquired who was there and received no reply. She then turned the business end of a Colt's 45-calibre toward the door and fired several shots. Exit tramps. The state school land board has just com- pleted the selection of 200,000 acres of gov- ernment land in Bent county for the state in licu of school lands taken from the state by the government for the Indian reservation: The selections made embrace 102,000 acres the Pucblo land district, 26,000 of which are under the contemplated Carlile aitch and the balan nder the Bob Creek diteh surv and 95,000 acres in the Bent land district under the Bob Creck diteh. Wyoming. Meiikles ave still all the vage in Evanston. The assessed valuation of the city of Sun- dance reaches about $160,000, The mayor of Buffalo has docreed thav the sidewalk ordinance shall be enforced, Dr. Wood has the plans out for the erection of a three-story brick block in Buffalo, There are now about 40,000 sheep in the immediate neighborhood of ltock Springs to be clipped. A six-foot vein of fire-clay of superior quality was discovered in aigging a ditch last week in Sundance, The Sunday law passed by the last legisla- ture is already a dead letter as far as it con- corns the city of Buffalo, Hunting parties to Lake DeSmet ave quite numerous and meet with success in bagging a large number of ducks, Luther Bell, an Evanston carpenter, had his jawbone and two ribs broken while 'tear- ing down an old building at Almy. Stockumen are compluining of the dry con- dition of the runges, and fears are entertamed that the grass crop will be exceediugly short. The people of Evanston are awaiting, with cousiderable interest, the result of a Lest cas on the validity of the Sunday-closing law, which will be brought before the district court in Green Rives Mauy oil transfers arc now being recorded in the office of the clerk of Fremont county to different oil cowpa A residont of Lander is in New York stirring thiugs upaud with flattering prospects The Blair mines a: what slack, owing to a orders with the advance They will continue developume summer and be ready for an inc uess the coming winlel nowW Funning soum crease of dome: of warm weathor t work this d busi 1ts Annual Elec . “Cammerderschaft,” a society of old Ger wau soldiers, which Las been in existence just oue year, held its aunuel election at Rosemmund's last night and elected L. Rtoseu- d prosident; Otto Siemssen, treasure M e, secretary, and Max Grub, treas urer. ‘The aunual banguet Rosenmund’s next Thursda L6SIve preparations wre U svaul, w! St RESULT OF THE PRIMARIES. Republicans Seleot Delogates to the County Convention. RAIN MAKES THE VOTE LIGHT. Spoculation as to Candidates For the Chicago Oonvention and the Prospects For Success— Many Want to Go. The Republican Primarios. Yesterday noon the republican primaries were opened in every ward of tho city and the polls did mot closo until 7 o'clock in the evening. They were called to clect deiegates to the republican county convention of Douglas which convenos in this city, in Exposition hall, to-day at 2 o'clock. This convention will eloct thirty-seven delegates of tho first con- gressional district convention which is %o be held in Ashland on the tonth of this month,and to the republican state convention which takes place in this city on the fifteenth of this month. In the Sixth ward there were evidences of @ skirmish, but in the Third ward, the most activity was displayed. In ashorttime after the opening of the polls 140 votes were polled. One Lundred and thirty-nine of these were for O. H. Rothacker, Lec Helsley, M. O. Ricketts, 8. T. Colo, Sandford Iowman, Charles Branch, P. J. Williams and Judge Peyton. This ticket was & sprinkling of almost every class, color and profession rep- resonted in the Ward, while it also contained some who resided beyond tho ward, notably Mr. Rothacker, who stops at the hotel Barker, which is sit- uated one block south of the southern limits of the ward. The 140th ballot was de- posited by Judge Cooley. It contained that gentleman’s name, and was the only one de- posited that did contain it. Bennett, atoly arrived in Omaha, was attempting to settle a score he had for Cooley, who, he claimed, knocked his name off tho ticket, as it had been adopted at the caucus. The following is the result in the various wards of the city: FIRST WARD, The primaries of the First ward were held at the southwest cornor of Tenth and Jones street. One hundred and sixteen ballots were deposil There were no scratches and the follow ing _ware elocted: Delegates—L. L. Hascall, W. A. Kelley, John Christopherson, Green, George Hoffman, 1d. O'Sullivan, E. K. Long. Alternates— Lee Estelle, Cooper, James Hoben, J. W. Lytle, R. G. Jenkinson, C. F. Gooduman, Josiah Kent, C. 3. Sohrof BECOND WARD. There was no excitement at the Second ward primarics, only one ticket being in the field, and tho following were clected by a vote of 62: Delegatos—Morris Morrison, W. C. Kelly, Anton ¥Frand, L. J. Broderick, William Alstadt, Dan O'Keefe, P. J. Barrett and Frank Dworak. Alternates—George B, Stryker, W. C. Cloud, A. Kruent, Al Seldon, Frank Walters, John Boyd, M. C. Meany and A. Masterman. TUIRD WARD. ‘When the polis closed in the Third it w: found that the following were elected del gates: O. H. Rothacker, Lee Helsley, S. T. Cole, M. O. Ricketts, Sanford Bowman, Charles Branch, Lee Frost and Walter Ben- nett, The two latter took the places of Peyton and Williams, whose names were on the ticket originaily. FOUITH WARD. Everything was quiet in the Fourth ward and the following were elected: Delegates— F. B. Moores, George M. O'Brien, D. H. Wheeler, W. ¥. Bechel, G. Anderson, R. W. Breckinridge, W. J. Connell and loy. Alternates—George Smith, Ed Haney, A. P. Nicholas, é K. Sudbourough, J. R. Webster, E. Whitetorn, D. Kinniston and F. P, Gridley. FIFTHO WARD, Tn the Fifth the following were elected: Delegates —Alvin Saunders, Joscgh Redman, C. J. Westerdahl, J. A. Smiley, 1. H. Mer- cer, Charles Chency, Henry Dunn, Dennis Keloher. Alternatés—J. N. Phillips, Charles Wedell, john Knight, Thomas Cummings, Henry Bolln, John Jenkins, James Wilson, William Butler, BIXTIL WATD. Those clected in the Sixth ward were: Delegates—Ed H. Cope, C. Specht, Frank Kammer, Joe Rowies, Wuliam Boyle, Will- iam Bell, Joe Southard, Isaasc Garr. = There were no alternates, SEVENTI WARD. The Seventh ward primaries were held at O. P, Thompson’s restaurany, No. 123) south Twenty-ninth avenue, Out of a poss- ible 22 republican votes fu the ward only twenty-six were cast at the primaries. The following _dolegates and alternates were chosen without opposition to represent the voters of the ward in the convention: Dele- 5—J. Kennedy, Charles Potter, rge Brush, J. B. Piper, C. R. Woolley, P. J. Quealy, Clement E!msc Michael « Lee. Alternatos—. Powell, C. Inskip, A. L. Wiggins, D. V, Sholes, Charles L. John LeGrand, jr., Alvin Frank, Hyde. homas, M. D EIGUTH WARD. A very light vote was polled in the Eighth ward, resulting in the clection of the follow- ing: Delogates—A. L. Strang, C. A. Collard James Allan, W. Haxthauson, C. E. Yo Henry Scroggin, J. B. West.' Alternate Johu B. Faray, A. J. Herold, Kobert Avm- strong, Silas B. Lake, Charles Peterson, Guy C. Bartou, A. W. Parker, C. L. Fritcher. : NINTU WARD, ‘there were no alternates clected in the Ninth ward, but the delegates clocted are ns follows: M. S. Lindsay, Charles . Necd- ham, D. L. McGuickin, K. 8 u, Charles Unitt, Charles J. Johuson, Charles'd. Ryan. BOUTH OMAIIA, There were sixty votes cast in South Omaha, electing J. R. Grice, A, J. Baldwin, Frod M. Smith, B. K. Wells, . A. Barrett, L. Carpenter, J. F. Erwin dnd W. 8. Cook as delegates. in DELEGATE GOSSIP, The question of delegates to the national republican convention is receiving attention from almost every vrominent republican in the city. It is of especial interest to a num- ber of republicans 1 this distr 13y themn 1t scoms to be considered an honor o repre- sent a state in the national couucils of the party, and, while there sre many who would strongly desire o go 1o the couvention ns dclegates-at-large, there arg noné who are beyond being sauisficd with a district nom ination, The method of electing these delegates differs in some respeets from that which has just been carried out by the democrats. Like them, the republicans of this state are en titled to ten delegates in the nationgl convention, and like them also, it is presumoed four delegates will be elected 6t large and two in each of the congressional districts. The delegates at large will, howevor, be elected in a district convention which will be above stated, at Ashlund, and which w entirely independent of the state couvention will be elected in the latter convention, which us also stated will be held h it inst, The most prominent candidate for district delegate is Charles Groene, the rosy hued attorney for the B, & M. Ho has a strong desirc to be heard in that august as semblage. He holds tacre is uothing certaiu in politics,but foels that there are rea- sons 1o believe that he will be elected. If per t labor in the dii wentioned be sufticient to arcuse this feeling, Mr. Greel ustified in beleving thet be will © ed. He has | obble unturne even swallowed wi ere with his prospects. He b ) making use of the late 1) i y speaking, who has just returned from a trip into the bucolic regions, wheve the trusty henciunen workud for his leader among the prospective delegates wiong tho 1. Mercer's features, from exposure to the ele ments, have assumed 3 complexion akin to thut of a Sieux, but it tonce picely witl thet C. 1. Yost, f , formerly o now of the smeltis 8, ing Woi ter ts working own good way 4 witLstaudlug iptimates, renson ive Bolegates rraach Ashland Some have thout :idin 5 Pacitic to lhu‘ 1 suggested g Platte river and then rafting that stream down to Ashland. " , however, will be d s delogatoatlarge as will also bo ‘Thurston, the ‘‘attorney-general” of the Union Pacifio. There is good reason to believe that Thurston's wire-pulling and rail- road influence will prevail, and the man of the sonorous voice will be ticketed to Chicago. Pat Egan, of Lincoln, is anxious to appoar in the big gatheting, also J.J. Hartman of Kearney, also Joseph Millard of the Omaha National bank. The latter gentleman has told a number of friends of bis, whe spoke to him about going that he did not have time to work for himself, but if he should be elocted he would be pleased to act either at large or from the district. Mayor Broatch is out of the fleld; the othors who are in are legion. Inthe matter of outside delegates, the anxious are equally numerous. Scovillo of Saunders county, Bates of Gage, Rausom of Otoe, Lambertson and Wheedon of Laucas- ter are working for the place, though the Lincoln people will have some difculty in agreeing upon a man, tho factional feeling being such as to rotire the harnessing of a sombre equine, Whatever bo the outcome of the conven- tions there is a strong feeling that both of them will be among the livelicst ever held in the state. — A Y. M. C. A. WELOOME, Secretary Dadmun Given a Pleasing Reception Last Night. On account of the unpropitious weather a rather small audionce turned out last even- ing at the new Y. M. C. A. rooms to weloome the now general secretary, Mr. E. T. Dad- mun, The opening exercise was a vooal solo by Miss Daisy Allen, after which Mr. P. C. Himebaugh, president of the association in this city, delivered a brief address of wel- come. Mr. Dadmun responded also in a short and modest speoch, asking for the hearty support of the members of the associ- ation, assuring them he would constantly pray for Divine help to successfully porform his dutics and folt that he had been callod by the Master to labor in this portion of His vineyard. His spoech was earnost and full of feeling and was hopeful for the future suc- cess of the association here, Mr. Dadmun is a man, but briug record of being a very successful worker in the Y. M. C. A. He s from Norfolk, Va. He was followed by Mr J. A. Dummitt, the _general secrctary at Lincoln, who doliv- ered the address of welcome to the state, His tatk was full of humor and very enter- taining, describing his experiences when he came to Nebraska four years ago. After a song from the Gospel Hymns, Rev. J. S. Det- weiler was announced to give an address. He was not confined to auny particular gubject, aud touched on a variety of themes. o first welcomed the new secrotary to Omaha, told him that while the devil did not welcome him here he could welcome the devil; he im- pressed on the secrotary’s mind that the Gate City was a regular hotbed of iniquity ond he had a great deal of hard work ahead of him fighting this evil. He thought the Y. M. C. A. worked too much for themselves and not enough for the churches. The association was con- fined too much to bookkeepers and clerks to the exclusion of artisans and tradesmen. Heo advocated publishing cards in the various country papers of the state inviting the young men to drop into the Y.M.C. A. rooms when they come to Omaha. At the close of Mr. Detweiler's address a a short informal reception was held and the new secretary was given a hearty handshake of welcome by all present. yo\mq looking with him ~ the WILL HANSCOM PARK REVERT? A Suit to Recover Possession Being Seriously Contemplated. And now comes the information that un less the city at once take measurcs to pro- vide for the immediate grading of the streots around Hauscom park, that the donors will institute suit to recover possession of tho property. on the grounds that the city has not fulfilled the conditions stipulated in tho document transferring the title. The deed is recorded in- book 13, page 810, in the oftice of the remister of doods, and i8 sigued by Androw J. Hanscom and wife, and J.G. Megeath and wife, The condigions of the document were that the land so donated was to be preserved as a public park; that the city was to expend a stated sum of money each year up 1876 in _improving and beautifying the same and that after the yoar 1576 the park must be kept in good conditaon. Also, that the city was to grade a qtrl o ground oighty ect Vido around and adjoining said tract conveyed as above, to be used as a stroet or highway, and that'the said city of Omaha shall keep the same in good condition; and in case of failure on the part of the said city 9 keop said property in good candition or to grade said streets, the title shall revert back to tho original owncrs, Andrew J. Hauscom and J. G.~ Megeath.” At present, Woolworth avenue on the north, '.l‘lnrtyvsuuogg on the west, and Par] enue to Hickory on onst graded, while Fd oighton street on the south and Park avenue south from Hickory on the cast are not and are generally in an impassible condition, there not being even a sidowalk for pedgstrians. Some thirteen months ago the mgtter was broucht before the council and the styéets mentioned ordered graded. The” bogrd of public works advertised for bids, which wero received and the contract awarded, the prico being $2,000. The contract was sent to the council for its approval, got into the hauds of a committee, where it slumbered for a year, and was finally reported ou unfavorably, the committee claiming there was no available Sund for the purpose, Since thut time efforts have been made to induce the council to take steps iu the muttor but in vain, and now it is probable that the courts will decido whether or not the title the land can be regaived, The case would doubtless bq of great in tercst, as Hanscom park is ho o grepn spot 1 the city where the tired Omuhan cgn retire on a dusty, sultry summor's didy and sgek & shady nook and its 10ss would be irreparable. Should the mat ter get into court, however, it is learned that then ny action on the part of the city would como tao late, as the intoresied parties’ piy tience has become exhaustod and the sull would be fought to a finish. bl MORTUARY. JEASE The earilily remains of H. P. Jesscn, late cashiter of the Bank of Omaha, were laid to rest yesterday at Prospect Hill cemetery. deceased was a native of Denmark—born and came to Omuha fifteen yoars He lived here since then. He was @ man of thorough honesty , integrity and iu- dustiy and won the love and respect of his friends and the good will of the ¢ His last position of trust was a8 the bauk above uamed. He was a mombe the Danish association and of the Secret Ovrder of Chosen Fricnds, bott of. which at- tended his funeral in body with banners and bauds of music. lis remains were con- signed to Mot arth under tho ritual of the Luthe &, which was the Laith of the doceas and thrce children in ¢ Joseph’s hospital yesterday afteruoon of cor- i, Ho is not known tw have a y inthe city and his remaius lic at s awnitingidentification. He 15 thought to be frow Shenandoab, AMUSEMENTS, Ragan'y Leet 9, the Magmif- feent,” Last Evening. Kvery scat at Boyd’s opera house was 0o cupied last niglt on the orcasion of the open ing of H. H. Rogaw's illustrated L The subject was “Paris, the Mags The imiense attendance is accounted for by the fact that there was 40 adinission charged for the jnitlal lecture. s Kugan is a pre. \¢ and osltured gentlomwan, which, s elogucut descriptive pow. @ lecturer of peculiar ut His ilustrations arg shown tographiz accuracy on @ huge e e wonders of realism and piet y production is superb, & frequently attested its del sl of applause, Gent to the Bupreme Lodge. eracd Pref. J. BB been chosen as state reprosen supreme lodge of the United Knights of Honor, soeu Q. They ivave next Suturday [