Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 7, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. M8 OF SUBSCRIPTION, Daily (Morning Edition) imcluaing SUNDAY BEE, Uno Year. .. v 3 For 8ix Months. . For Three Month Address, One Year. OVAMAOFFICENOS. l:r;‘rw YORK OFFIC Al communieations rels torinl matter should be ad¢ OF THE BEF. BUSINESS LETTERS, Al husiness lotters and remitinnces . PURLIRIT G COMPANY, s and postoilice orders to order of the company. 50d to the KEDITOR hould be be made payable to the e Bee Pablishing Compsny, Propriciors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BE Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nelraska, l' M County of Douglas, | ® 8- Geo. 11, Tzschuck, secratary of The Iiee Pub- Nshiug company, dden Kolemnly swaar that tho actuad cirentation of Thk DA week ending August 4 1888, Bre for the s a8 follow riday, August 3. ... Baturdiy, August 4. Average. 20, Bworn to hefore me_and prosenico this ith day of August, FELL, Btate of Nebraskn, | ¢ o County of Douglas, { % 5 orge B. Tz&chuck, being first duly sworn,de- oses and says that he is secretary of 'The ik Publishiug company, that the actual avera, daily cireulation of THE DAy Bek for the monthof P, IKK, goples: for Jus 14,08 coplos. Sworn to ‘before me and subs Presenco this It day of Auzust 355, . P.FEIL, Notary Public. MoRRis MorrisoN has been warmly endorsed by John H. Butler for the next legislature. It will now be in order for Mr. Morrison to endorse Juo. H. Butler. TWENTY-NINE Chicago brokers were censured for dealing in puts and ealls by the board of trade. The rest of Chi- engo’s population will come in for its censure in due time. GENERAL HARRISON is holding back his letter of acceptance until Cleveland writes one. If the president should in- sist on Mr. Harrison’s precedence in this matter, the rest of the campaign will be sparred with kid gloves. —_—— OMAITA’S bank clearings for the week ending August 4 show an increase of just five per cont as compared with the returns of last year. New York, Boston and the leading banking centers of the country all show a large decrease in clearings. Sizing up the report, Omaha under the circumstances is doing quite well. CHIEF SEAVEY'S order directing po- licemen not to leave their beats with- out permission, isa good one. It will at least give citizens a chance to know where a policeman can be found in case of necessity, and it will keep patrolmen from unconsciously straying into places where the, — Now comes the tug of war. The re- publican primaries are at hand and the machine politiclans are plotting night and day to capture the conventions. They will doubtless succeed uunless re- publicans who do not make a living out of polities shall rouse themselves to their duty and take an active hand at the club meetings and next Friday’s primaries. THE convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Enginecrs called by Chief Arthur to meet in 8t. Louis on ‘the 9th inst., will be an important gath- ering. Coming so soon after the St. Joseph meeting, the sessions of the St. Louis convention will no doubt be taken up with the plan of federation as pro- posed at St. Josoph, and with a discus- sion of the Burlington strike. e IT18 a poor rule that will not work both ways. American labor has been @émanding protection from foreign’ competition. Now comes the Typo- 4 {;aymoal unions of England, Ireland d Bootland protésting ngatnst the in- ternational copyright bill on the grounds that the passage of the Amer- ican bill foreshadows disastrous conse- quences to thousands of British artisans. e, IN the packing industry Omaha keeps her strong lead of fifty thousand more hogs packed from March to August this ear as compared with last year. Dur- g the same period Chicago has fallen behind two hundred thousand and Kan- #as City one hundred and forty thousand in the number of hogs slaughtered. ‘With such a wcord Omaha will at no distant day compete for first place in the packing induste; THE aoction of the county commission- ers in refusing to allow an item of $100 to one of the deputy registers of deeds it is hoped will have a wholesome effect. There is in the register’s, as well as in other departments of the municipal gov- ernment, too much latitude. Clerks are hired and expense incurred for which there is no authority by law or sanction by the commissioners. The register of deads, the sheriff, the county clerk, and other officials, interpret their pre- rogatives ench in his own way. The re- sult is that the county pays for services twice, and officials swell the perquisites of their office in a way not intended by law. The county commissioners are on the right track in ehoking off tax- eaters, . m—— Tue strange vequest of the British government in asking for a respite in the case of Maxwell, the St. Louis mur- derer, calls to mind the discour teous action of the English Home Office three years ngo toward Seorotary Fre- linghuysen. At that time O'Donnell, an American, who killed informer James Carey, of Pheenix Park noto- rioty, was under sentence of death in England. Secretary Frelinghuysen in- terested himsolf in the case with a petition that O'Donnell’s execution be aeferred uutil further evidence was submitted, The. English. governmeut, however, {gnored the appeal and mm ©O'Donnell without granting him THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1888 Sheridan's Successor. The president has designated Major General John M. Schofield, command- ing the military division of the Atlan- tie, to take command of the army. Schofield is the ranking major general, and his promotion is in accordance with uniform and honored military y ce, though wo believe it was within the discretion of the president to have des- jgnated either of the three major gen- eruls to command the army. It amounts in fact, to simply a detail, it being un- derstood that General Schofield will continue to command the division of the Atlantic. Ultimately, however, he will undoubtedly be regularly ap- pointed s commander of the army, both s a matter of justice and in order to maintain the military system that has so long pre There are obvious reasons why president may not desire to be troubled at present with ordering the changes that would be rendered necessary by wholly withdrawing General S hofield from his division command. General Schofield was contemporary with Sheridan at West Point, and he is registered as having en- tered the army in 1853, After a fow yenrsof service, however, during which he reached the rank of first lieu- tenant of artillery, he resigned to ac- cept professorship in the University of Missouri and was occupying this po- sition when the rebellion broke out. Within o month after President Lin- coln’s call for troops Schoficld was or of the First Missouri volunteers and before the close of the y had become a brigadier general of voi- unteers. A year later he was made a major general of volunteers. Feé was red out of the volunteer service ,and in 1869 was commissioned major general of the United States army. The military record of General Scho- field, if less brilliant than that of some other distinguished soldiersof the union army, was yot highly meritorious. He was an eminently safe, trustworthy and judicious officer. The most conspicuous examples of his ability and gallantry were given in the battle at Franklin, Tenn., where, with a much inferior force numerically, he held his ground againstnearly the whole of Flood’sarmy, and in the capture of Wilmington, N. C. In the Atlanta campaign, however, and in other service, General Scho- field was always equal to every demand upon him, and won his way to universal regard ns one of the most ¢flicient and valuable oficers in the arm Al the close of the war General Scho- field was in command of the department of North Carolina, and shortly thereaf- ter was dispatehed to France to nego- tiate with Napoleon for the withdrawal of French troovs from Mexico. Return- ing from this mission he was sent to Virginia to administer affairs there during the recoustruction period,aduty which he performed most satisfactorily. He was made secretary of war by An- d Johnson after the impeachment trial in 1868, and on leaving the cabinet the next year was made commander of the division of the Missouri. Laterhe was transferred to the division of the Paci- fic, and on the death of General Han- cock in 1886 became commander of the division of the Aflantic. From 1876 to 1881 he was superintendent of the mili- tary academy at West Point. It will thusbe seen that General Schofield has had a varied and valuable experience, which with his scholarly acquirements amply qualify him to fill acceptably the highest military position in the nation. —— A Satisfied Emperor. Emperor William has returned to the capital of his empire in a happy state of mind. So faras outward appearances go it was evident on his arrival that his mind was the seat of perfect content- ment and wholly agreeable impressions. He greeted Bismarck with the cordial- ity of an equal, éven permitting him- self, nccording to the dispatch, to be photographed with the chancellor, an imperial concession of no small signifi- cance to the man who received it. Tt denoted the highest satisfaction Wwith and confidence in the servant. In other respects the manner and coniduct of the young kaiser showod that he felt all was well with him and@ his empire. William I[ certainly had a good time duting his absence from Germany, and besides the pleasures of the royal enter- tainments accorded him he undoubtedly found great gratification in the “knowl- edge that the interest and anxiety of all Europe was cencentrated upon him. For two weeks his was the largest figure in the minds of European statesmen among the monarchs of the world. This for a young man just ascended to im- perial power could not fail to give him most pleasurable feelings. Another source of cheerfulness may have been the fact that he was to greet an heir born while he was away. “*What is to be inferred from this ex- hibition of happiness and contentment, s0 much in contrast with the general demennor of the kaiser? The mere fact of getting safely back to his capital ana finding the people unwavering in their loyalty does not explain it. As a rule, ordinary people are glad to be home after o trip, however enjoyable it may have been, but an emperor is not so easily elated, and least of all, one whose habit has been not to seem to greatly enjoy amything. The conclusion must therefore be that the kaiser was cordial to Bismarck and merry before his people because the objects of his visit to the czar, whatever they were, were fully attained. ‘Whether disarmament was the policy he went to secure, the peaceful scttle- ment of the Bulgarian question, the removal of causes of ill-feeling between Russia and Germany, the isolation of France, or all of these, it is to be in- ferred that his mission was & success, and that the greater security thereby gained for Germany, so far as its rela- tions with Russia are concerned, was the real reason of the emperor's hap- piness when he returned to Berlin. There seems every reason to believe that the monarchies of Europe are in no - immediate - danger of coming to blows, . It is tolerably elear that they have agood understanding that causes of difference are.to ba settled without an eppeal to the sword. But how s it with France? Is that republic to be compelled to acquiesce in whatever policy the emperors and kings shall de- termine upon for the government of urope? It is more than probable. If the other nations have agreed upon a policy of peace disarmament is undoubt- edly one of the conditions, and France wiil be asked to acquiesce. If she re- fuses, as she undoubtedly will, an effort will be made to force her to do so, Germany inaugurating the effort. It s very likely William would welcome a conflict with France, with all the other nations giv- ing him moral support, and those in alliance with Germany ready to give material assistance if he should need it. Doubtless the German emperor has ex- cellent reason to feel satisfied with the situation, but his happiness may be sig- nificant of no good to France, toward which he has an implacable hatred, both instinctive and because of her re- publican institutions An Expired Rank. The rank of general of the army ex- pired with the death of General Sheri- dan. It will be remembered that it was conferred upon him only about a month ago, when it was believed his life was measured by howrs, or even minutes. The bill was rapdly hurried through congress, encountering the opposition of only two or three members of both houses, and on presentation tot* o presi- dent was promptly approved by him. It was the one great ambition of the distinguished soldier to be thushonored by his country, and when his commis- sion as general was placed in his hands, although he seemed on the verge of dissolution, the effect upon him was that of an invigorating stimulant, and from that hour there was apparent improvement in his condition which gave promise of ultimate restoration. The great and generous-hearted soldier knew how to appreciate such an evi- dence of the affection and gratitude of his countrymen. Uutil the time of General Grant the highest military rank in this country was that of lieutenant general, first conferred on Washington, who held it from July 8, 1798, to his death December 14, 1799. General Winfield Scott was made brevet lioutenant general, and in 1864 the ful! rank of lieutenant general was conferred on Grant, the rank of general being given him two yeurs later. Similar honors were conferred on General Sherman. It is not im- probable that in time General Schoficld will be made a licutenant general, 1 it is not likely that the rank of gene will be revived until another war shall furnish a justification for conferring this special distinction. the very highest military rank which the republic can bestow. Tie prolucers and merchants of the northwest are not manifesting any sym- pathy with the efforts of Senator Cul- lom to interpose the authority of the government to prevent them having an independent outlet to the east at cheap rates, by the favor of the Canadian rail- roads. A few days ago a meeting of business men of St. Paul and Minneap- olis was held to protest against the pro- posed investigation by the inter-siate commerce commission of what is known as the Soo road, for the purpose of de- termining whether the rates made by this road could not be brought under the control of the commission. It was urged that nothing more serious could happen to the producers of the northwest than to have this outlet interfered with. As evi- dence of the strong feeling on this sub- ject, the Pioneer-Press warns the mer- chants and producers of the Northwest to be on the alert against the threat of Chicago and the American trunk lines to deprive that section of its advan- tages, and says: ‘‘The threat must be met at the outset by such vigorous and determined action as will tear aside the pretense that American railroads need protection from Canadian competitors, and show the true character and the real motives of the promoters of a plan for mational protection and a na- tional monopoly in the interest of Chicago. This is a subject which should be acted upon, without delay, by the joint committee charged with consideration of matters affecting both St. Paul and Minneavolis. We ‘must make this issue so clear and strong that the ‘investigation’ ordered shall be the last ever heard of the preposterous notion that the people of this country can be made to pay legal .tribute to any selected and favored city.” There is manifested in thisa spirit of warfare that is likely to render this matter one of general and conspicuous public inter- est. ON THE success of the Indian com- missioners at Standing Rock agency de- pends whether the Indians at the other agencies will sign the bill for the open- ing of the Sioux reservation. At Pine Ridge and Rose Bud agencies, where Red Clond and other chiefs are the leading spirits, the Indians are on the fence waiting to see what Sitting Bull and his followers will do. The commis- sioners are therefore in a critical posi- tion, If successful in winning the Standing k Tndians thoy may as well pack their grips for Washington, for they could never induce the Sioux at the other agencies to sign the bill. The case, however, is not yet hopeless. In spite of Sitting Bull’s apparent anx- fety not to treat with the commission, the old fellow is holding off for better terms and more subsidies. The wily chief is moreover aided by the squaw- men who are responsible for nine-tenths of the opposition to the openiwg of the reservation. If the commission is per- sistent, there can be little doubt but that a majority of the Indians will be won over. ¢ e—— THE naming of delegations by candi- dates is a practice more commenahle in the breach than in the performance. It is decidedly uunrepublican and savors altogether too much of the monarchial and dictatorial forms. It belittles the delegates in waking them mere dum- mies that are tagged to be traded away at the pleasure of one man. Inarep- resentative form of government, the men chosen to act out the wish of a constitugyey arve expected to respect the sentiment and known wishes of the nominating conventions. But when a convention delivers itself and its delogates to one man and gives him the privilege to play political dictator, it is a confession on its face that the convention has been packed by mere tools and henchmen, who are political serfs instead of free agents. It 18 sald that the recent Indian out- break in Arizona, of which but meagro accounts have been received, is due to the encroachment of bad white men on the mining lands of the Apaches. In- dian wars in Arvizona and New Mexico have been such expensive luxuries for the government that another brush with the savages to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, at the instigation of unscrupulous adventurers, oughv to be uvoided A Popular Old Game. New York World, King Christian of Denmark saluted his , the emperor of Germany, with a_kiss, > old and fascinating game of Copenhagen still continues to permeate. e — Col. Ingersoll's Funeral Sermons, Cincinnati Gazette, Colonel Tngersoll’s funeral orations do not attract as much sensational attention as for- merly, because the public have become ac- customed to their sombre beauties. They are interesting, for he is a man of genius and makes all he touches shine. His peculiarity at funerals is anintense care not to express an opinion as to a future life. He does not pass into the firmament beyond the sunset. Hs oration over the dead body of Mr. Pal- mer is & poem, =i In the Family Closet. Washington Critie, Tn the palace of the Hohenzollerns: “Mrs. Holienzollern,” remarked the Em- peror William, as he walked up and down the imperial bed chamber at midnight with the new kid squalling in his arms, “I think we had better change the family name on this youngster,” “Why, Willie,” replied the astonished Mrs. H., “what do you mean?"’ “1 mean, my dear, to call it Holler'nzol- lern, instead of Hohenzollern,” and then the baby squalled louder than ever, and the em- peror went on & trot with it, till plumb breakfast time. e b Must Come Under the English Flag. Springfield. Republican. The magnificent new steamship City of New York, which is to bring James G. Blaine across the Atlantic, affords a striking instance of what our shipping laws are doing for our merchant marine, to which the Phila- delphia Telegraph calls attention, Two citi- zens of Pennsylvania own the ship. It was buiit on the Clyde by foreign labor, of for- cign material and under forcign laws. This fact has damned the ship in the eyes of our statutes. It can neither bear the Americun try nor fly the American flag, norin any become an American ship. Along with obscene literature and counterfeit money it is prohibited from entering our ports as an American vessel, Hence it will be manned by an English crew and English ofticers, fly the Union Jack and sail under the protection of British laws. It is not a subsidized vessel, and no subsidies are needed to keep it afloat, Great Britain glories in many such products of American enterprise banished from our shores by laws partaking of the character of the middle ages. Anderson’s Blue Bottle. New York World, The only living, creature found by Path- finder Fremont when he ascended the high- est peak of the Rocky mountains was an humble bee that flew up the rocky plane and rested familiarly on the hand of the first white man who had ever put foot on the summit of the American Alps. It was a blue- bottle fly that penetrated John Anderson's dark well tomb, fifty feet below the surface of Nebraska's soil, and brought him a mes- sage from the upper iworld of light and air. Persons who have doubted the mission of the bumble and blue-bottie must see their mis- take. Had Lieutenant Fremont been freez- ing and exhausted on that icy peak the bum- ble bee's sting would have roused him to action, nerved him to new feats of emulation and reminded him to ‘‘improve the shining hour,” as it gets deadly cold in those high altitudes even in midsummer when once the sun is out of sight. The buzz of the blue- ‘ottle was sweeter to John Anderson's ears than the buzzing of his curious neighbors that came aftérwards. It had a human sound and forged a link of human sympathy, and if anybody has any doubt of the inspiring air the blue-bottle hummed Mr. Anderson, should set it at rest by promptly making his afidavit to “John Anderson, my Jo John." —— 'The Bioux Commission. Ploncer Press. Captaln Pratt, chairman of the Kioux com- mission, s a failure. He is a bulldozer, and in the art of bulldozing the Uncapappa Sioux is at home. ‘Pratt's mistakes may not be res- ponsible for the Standing Rock Indians re- fusing to sign the treaty, but they are large enough to make him the target of disap- pointed Dakota. The Indians are neither fools nor babies, and they can't be played with on that line. They have figured ont.in this case that they are getting mothing for thoir land—$1 each anuually, They smile and wonder what the whites take them for. They care nothing for the commissioners. The commissioners are only agents without authority to enforce their request for sig- natures and without authority to depart in the slightest particular from the text of the law. The Indians know that congress must modify the law if there 18 any modification, and that their refusal to sign cannot be made the pretext for a war, or even the excuse for short rations. They are compact bodies and at @ single evening session can decide what they want to do. The commissioners have no new or supplemental proposition to offer, and the Indtans imow snough not to ask them for one. Tn treating with the Indians the white commissioners have about the same influence and discretion as a clerk to a wood sawyer. A great nation is snubbed by an Indian. We admit, as far as the Stand- ing Rock incident is concerned, pohtely snubbed. STATE AND TEXKITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The first cattle ever shipped by rail from Hay Springs were sént out last week. There are 117 cases docketed for trial at the next term of thé Nuckolls county district court. ¥ It cost a young would-be bad man $6.10 to ;\wuulxt to corral the town of Bertrand last week. Josiah Coombs has retired trom the editor- ship of the Burnet Blade and been succeeded by A. N. Bohn. Mrs. O. E. qunm, a morphine eater of Sidney, became tired of life and Saturday night 1ok a fatal dose of poison. Horrible yells, frightful kicking and pitiful groans attrictea a large crowd to a doctor's ofice in Gordon, but it was only a cowboy having a tooth pulled. The state line G. A. R. reunion at Haray was a splendid success in every way except the heat, which came down in too large chunks to please the veterans. The sexton of the Clay Center cemetory keeps hogs in the burial ground, and some of the porkers scared a horse in & funeral l ro- oeu?:n last week, which resulted in & disas- trous runaway. And now the edict has gone forth that the hogs must go, as they aresan tly, malodorous an rous attach: ment to the cemetery. A cow which escaped from @ butcher terri} | number of _tha aficars.of th fled the people of Fairbury for several hours one day last week. The infuriated animal gored & horse, ran over a child, drove one man into a cellar and chased another into the second story of his house, The whole town remained indoors until the festive bovine disappeared from the stroets. John A, Creeth and Edward E. Merritt two enterprising young newspapor men of Hustings, have purchased the Hastings Ne- braskan and propose to make it as good & paper as there s in the connty. The semi weekly edition will be abandoned, and the boys will put all their efforts into one paper a week, and with their ability they ought to make it a success, ““We have it on good authori says the Edgar Times, “that a young lady from F while picnicing on the Hlue, one day lust week, lost her balance and fell in the water, When rescued, her fellow was surprised and delighted to find a ten pound catfish en- tangled in her wire bustle—fact. Her fel. low wanted to set her again, but she didn't care to repeat the experiment.” A Crawford paper calls the attention of its young lady readers to the fact that Robert MecNair, the bandsome hardware merchant, can be had for the asking. He has reached the age of thirty and now wishes that he had tuken advantage of some of the many chances he has had in days gone by. When you approach Mr. MeNair do it slyly. You necd not tell him that you are head-over- heels in love with him, but give a bright smile and he will melt. He has lots of money and a better husband could not be found. A pretty little summer story appeared in the Mead Advoeate last week about a hunter named Gus Gustafson, who started up a black-tail deer near that piace the other day. The animal was a fine specimen, of the male gender, and Gus, as might be_oxpected, was determined to bag the game if possible. Tho deer took a northerly direction at the rate of about thirty miles an hour, and soon disap- peared. But our Nimrod was plucky. It had snowed about thirteen inches the night be- fore, which enablea Gus to follow the cour: of the fleet-footed animal, although some dis tance in the rear, which lay about midway between Yutan and the Platte river, bearing stightly to the westward, After going fifteen miles the deer took the back track, for some unknown reason, and Gus before he two stood fac ment had _arrived. T raised his Winchester, took deliberate aim and fired. The buck gave a sharp snort, turned towards tie Platte, a mile distan crossed on the ice and_disappeared in a 600 acre cornfield belonging to John Johnson, He passed Peter Peterson’s wheatfield, in Sarpy county, where Carl Carlson was shocking wheat, about sundown the same day, traveling on three legs and in the direc- tion of Omaha. Gus says he don’t see how it happened that he missed that deer, unless i‘t was that he had a touch of the ‘‘buck ever.” Towa. It takes scventy-five notaries to do all the business in Scott tounty. ‘The city physician of Burlington gives the annual death rate as 7.94 per thousand. Mrs, Eliza A. Jansen, an isane Davenport woman, hanged herself last Saturday. The first trial of the electric motor cars at Davenport was made Sunday and was a suc- cess. Prof. J. W. Hayden, of Columbus, Ohio, will jump out of & balloon at the Ottumwa fair a week from Wednesday. ‘The Mississippi Valloy Spiritualists’ asso- ciation began a four weeks' convention at Clinton on July 19 and are still holding on. The Odd Fellows of Towa are arranging to visit Los Angeles, Cal., in September, to at- tend the session of the sovereign lodge. Bridget McCarty, for many years an mate of the hospital at Davenport, cumbed to the heat Friday. years old. The effects of the Keokuk Rowing club, in- cluding its fine piano, have been disposed of and the proceeds will be equally divided among the members, Jonathan and- Washington Brice, lived for many years and finally died ab Poiut, Lee county, were uncles of Calvin S, Brice, the democratic national chairman, who, & few years ago @ struggling young lawyer at Lima, Ohio, i now the fortunate possessor of several millions and a good deal of reputation. The water melons on Muscatine fsland are about ten days later in maturing than last year. The floods in May and the cut worms have reduced the acreage considerably but the vield promises to be very satisfactory and the melons will be of good quality. Nut- mogs will be abundant in a few days. Sweet potatoes are doing much better than last year and the yield will be very large. Dakota. The local land oftice at Mitchell i doing & rushing business. Since the 28th of June eighty-six arrests have been made in Sioux IFalls for sclling hiquor without a license. Some of the saloon men have been arrested from twelve to four- teen times. Deadwood is perhaps theonly city of con- séquence in the country wheré no prominent personage has forsworn former allegiance 10 one or another of the two great parties, and declared himself in favor of the principles of the other. In Butte county the deadly grey wolf is still getling in his work on horse stock, The Belle Fourche Horse company has lost six- teen head thus far tnis year. Unless some- thing can_be done to rid the country of this animal = the loss to stock next winter can hardly be calculated. The board of trade of Rapid City 1s having ,:ermd for distribution in all parts of the nited States, a pamphlet, descriptive of the advantages of location, resources, commerce and manufactures of the city. It gives sta- tistics, showing the gold output of the Hills o be §3,000,000 annually, and the total output to be 31,000,000 for thirteen years. At a dozen points throughout Traill county large farmers report the appearance of the army worm and the entiro destruction of whole flelds_of wheat, At Burlington, Blanchard, Caledonia and Hillsboro they have begun their attacks, moving from field to field about half a mile each day. Thou- sands of acres of gramn will be a total loss. e LITTLE PHIL. in- suc- She was eighty who Vest The News of His Death in Omaha and His Successor. The people of Omaha were not prepared for the announcement of the death of Gen- eral Sheridan, which is elsewhere recorded in this issue of Tur Bre. The announce- ment of his improvement in the telegraphic eolumns had led people to believe that the sturdy little leader would be able to out- general even death itself. Those, however, who read with care the bulletins of the saw that there was no hope for recovery. Among these wers a army, as also some of the leading physicians, who have steadily watched the advance of death from the time of the first attack. The flag of the headquarters of the depart- ment of the Platte was early placed at half- mast. It was followed by those of the Union Pacific, the county building and on several other institutions, but up to noon no flag had made its appearance on the govern- ment building. Postmaster Gallagher was asked for the reason of the delay, and said it was not his fanlt. The raising of the flag depended upon Mr. Jordan, who was very likely waiting for orders. AMUSEMENTS. The Prince of Magicians at Boyd's Last Night. ‘I'he prince of prestidigitateurs, Herrmann, attracted quite a large audience at Boyd's Jast evening. The audience enjoyed the per- formance immensely, and were kept in the Dbest humor, as well as a constant state of bewilderment and wonder, by the witty and clever professor. There are some new feat- ures, but, like the old ones, are as mysteri- ous as artistic, Herrmann finds an able co- laborator in the fantastic D'Alvini, whose feats of poising and balancing are miraculous in the extreme. Herrman is a mastor of the biack art, and his scencs of incantation and talismanic sorcery are sufficient to make one doubt the humanity of the man. The stereop- tical views are beautiful and d bounte- ous plaudits from the audien Herrmann again this evening. M Must Shift for Themselves. New Yorx, August 6. The car drivers and conductors in this ity will not support their striking brethern in Greenpoint. They ised and the say thatthe step was ill-advi strike utterly unwlnr for. INAND ABOUT THE CAPITAL, An Important Communication Con= cerning Froight Rates. A VERY EXPLICIT STATEMENT, Complaints Filed Against the Omaha & Southwestern and the B, & M.—Lincola News of Interest. 102 P Srreet, LixcoLy. August 6. Attorney General Loese to-day addressed his letter in reply to the questions suggested by Eric Johnson, editor of the Semi-Weekly Progress, published at Holdrege. The an- swer is yery explicit and is worthy careful reading and study. It is as follow LixcoLy, Neb., Aug, 6, 1888 Mr, I Johnson, Holdrodge, Neb. My Dear & Your letter of the ¥nd inst. is at hand, and in answer thereto I will say that your con- clusions are corroct. 1f the rates had been reduced one-third in November last, why o the railroads keep the fact paradéd before tho publict Would the people not know if the rates had been reduced! They are the ones that must pay the rates, and if there is a farmer in the state that has saved his one-third of the rates prior to last No- vember he has not been discovered thas far. The rates were put_on a uniform basis a8 to distance, and did reduce the amount charged n_some respects, but not to exceed one-thirtieth part of the earnings of the roads. The railroad companics are trying to decvive the people when they tell them of a one-third reduction. Ninety per cent of all the earnings of the roads in Nebraska is what are known as inter-state rates, and these ratws were not touched by the board. cent of the earniugs of the roads and it is this 10 per cont part that the board coutrols. whole amount of the business the local schedules was doue freo it would only affect the net earnings 10 per cent, which would still have the net carninis of the Union Pucific §,000 per mile and the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quiney over $11,000 per milo net, as the former earned $10,000 per mile net and the intter §12,283 per mile fu 185 Tho roads ¢laim that the reduction on the out and in rate makes the one-third, but the out and in rate was only partly restored to what it was on April tween Lincoln and Chicago are shown below, also the increase of rates made by the com’ panics on April 5, 1887, without any cause for doing so, and then the restoration of o of the amount that had been increased, to-day the rates out and i much higher than they were on April 1, 1857, Hard\conl per ton April 1, 1857, %3.10; raised April 5 1857, to $4.50; prosént ahd Novembor LixcoLN BUreav or Tne OMAnA Bee, } if the done on Corn and oats per 100 woight, rates April 1, 1887, 18 cents; raised April 5, 1857, to 24 cents:’ present and November rate, 23 'cents. Lumber, per 100 weight, rate’ April 1, 1887, 16_cents; raised April 5, 1557, to 26 cents; present and November rate, 20 cents, Fifth class, including sugar, coffec and canned goods, rate April 1, 1887, 25 cents, rased April 5, 1857, 10 30 conts; pres November rate, 28 conts. The above sums are the actual cash paid at the various times stated. So you that there never has beeu a_reductiof restoration of only a part of what belonged to the peop! The rates in the state were made uniform as to the distance on all the roads, and it consequently made a reduction of ubout 15 per cent of the local rates—i. e., of the 10 per cent of the gross earnings from busi ness arising and_terminating in the state, “The main lines of the roads clearcd almost enough lust year to pay for their whole line, © and thls, in my opinion, is too much. In 1886 the net earnings of the B. & M. were $11,000, 25 per mile, and last year over §12,000 per mile. The audito ort. will show these figures to be correct. And when the agents of the rail- roads tell you that weas a board, or that thoy voluntarily reduced the rates one-third, it is a campaign lie, unless they tell you that 4hey raised them 50 per cent and then lowered them in part, but the figures given you will speak for themselves. 1 have not got the old tariff rates at hand, but on fourth class in this state we pay double what Iowa pays on her lust year's rate, and Iowa says she paid too much and reduced 25 and 40 per cent on their old rate. This is what they are fight~ ing in that state to-day. You can rely upon the above statement 8s correct. The com- parison with Iowa rates is based on 100 miles. Yours very truly, WiLLAM LEese, Attorney General, MR. GWYER'S COMPLAINT, ‘Willlam A. Gyyer, of Omuha filed a eom- plaint against the Omaha & Southwestern railroad company, and their lessee, the B, & M., before the siate board of transportation to-day. He alleges that the ,Omahu & Southwestern received a land grant from the state to aid them in constructing u line from Omahato Lincoln; that the line was ox- ténded ton. rom opposite Cedar Island, and in 1875 was leased or sold to the B, M., ‘who operated the road to a point opposite complainant’s stone quarry uutil 1879, when the iron was removed and the road aban- doned, entailing upon him a heavy loss, For this divergence of the road Mr. Gwyser asks o redress, and tho matter will ‘come up be- fore the board of transportaion st their next regular meeting. FILED AND RECORDED, The Dawes County Fair association is in- corporated, Articles were filed with the sec- retary of state to-day. The recorded papers show that the objeet of the fair association is 10 buy, sell, hold and lease real estate for li{lflcnllurul fairs and all kindred_ purposes. The nssociation was organized July 1, and may live forever. Chadron is dsq‘l;md the principal place of business, and G. W. Clark, A. C. Pulman, T. F. Powers, Thomas Mad- den, W. H. Reynolds, Thomas J. Wilson, Charles Mann, B. 8. Cooley. J. Lutz ang Burr Shelton are the incorporators, Articles were also recorded incorporat- ing the Omaha Stove Repmr company, with an authorized capital of #25,000, one-half of which was paid in hand July 1, tho date the company. commenced busincas! The object of the ‘comvany is to buy, sell, job and retail stoves and repairs, Henry A osters, Charles M. Eaton, Hamilton J. Miller, B, F. Parker, L. P. Ash and George W. Harvey comprise the company. Under the present articles the company will con- tinue business for ten years. An International Transportation company was established at Sioux City, fa., and Cov- ington, Neb., on tho 1st day ‘of August and will continue business for five years, The company suthorize n gapeel of $2,000, and will move and_convey goods of every de- scription ts any point in either gtale; from the principal places of doing bLnsiness, The company promise to be governed by the laws of Nebraska and Towa in all their business transactions. The articles of the company were filed this morning, NEW NOTARIES PUBLIC, The following notaries public were com- imissioned by the state exccutive to-day : Austin E. Grifiiths, York, York county: H. V. Temple, Plum Creek, Dawson county Steplien Bates, Whitney, Cherry county; H. 3 , Greeley Center, Greeley county. CITY NEWS Partics wishing to_rent booths during the state fair will find Mr. S, M. Barker, presi- dent of the state board of agriculture, at the Windsor hotel August 8 and 9. Ernest Schmidt will go to Denver, Col,, w to prepare to remove b ina fo has veen i Lincoln during who! NOTES. st three years ing cigars and tobay frratik Patrick, retail merchant, Talmage, was In Lincoln to-day on a business visit. Heénry Grosshans, J. W. Johnson, L. D, Fowler, L. G. Hand, E.D, Davis, George Birge and W. M. Walters, Clay county poli- ticians, are doing the city’ to-day. The gen- tlemen’ accompanying Mr. Grosshans are urging him strongly for auditor of public ac- counts. Dr. J. A. Vandeburg, of Friend, was m Lincoln this morning. He left on the “fiyer’ at 4 o'clock in pursuit of his divorced wife, who kidnapped his eleven-year-old dasughter one day lust week. The girl in_question i the fruit of his m: age with this woman, whom he alleges is a bad one, having at on time committed the daughter to the merciless care of a sporting house in Council Bluffs, from whick he rescued her and took her to his home after lus second marriage. He is en route for Peoria, D1, where he understood they took passage to from this place. Tom Kwing returned to Lincoln yesterday from @ trip to some of the eastern summer resorts, stopping for u day's business at Chi- ©ago en routo home. aling and retail- Doadwood Is Teoling very hopoful over dosigns for reduction works and narrow gangro ronds to the Ruby Basin and Bald Mountain tricts. I : | /" NOW'S THE DAY | And NOW IS THE HOUR"| Our summer goods are now going at summer prices. This mark down gitimate is le-| and includes many of our best quali- ties. Men's fine all wool suits, former price §20, #22 und $25,you can take your choice at $15. Re-| [ [ | \ | member, we offer noth: ing but first class goods. DRUNKENNESS Or the Liquor Habit, Positively Cured by Administering Dr. Haines’ Golden Specifie, 1t can be given in a cup of coffee or tea with. out the knowledge ot the person taking it; abso- lutely harmless, and will étfect a permanent and speedy curo, whether the patient 18 o moderate drinker or an_alcoholle wreck, Thousands of drunkards Lave been made temperate men who have taken Golden Specitic i tieir c out their knowledge and today beliey guit drinkivg of their own free will ails, The system onco imprognated With the Bpecific, 1t bocomies, an utter {mpossibility for the ligiior appetite to exist. For &alo by Ruhn & Co,, I5th and Douglas £ts., &1d 18th and Cume ing sts., Omaha, Neb A.' D, Foster & Bro., Aouneil Blufts, owa. GRATEFUL---COMFORTING ps’s Cocoa BREAKFAST. 0 fine propertios provided one L TR bies ¥y favored bovi which may eave us many heavy doctor's bilis. 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Fach bid, to be constdered, must contain a cers titted check a local 'bank in the sum of 100, p 9 the clty of Grand faiand ua lorfelt the event thut the bidder shall fall 10 enter into a contract with good and sufficient bonds within ten diys' notice of award, o cit: propos Rids to he enclosed n a seule Propos reserves the right to refect any or all envelope with endorsement er * thereon und "hln'md 10 the pAersigned. ly order of the Mayor and Uity Councll, . W, BRININGER, Uity Clerk, Grand Island, Hall Cc ] T. E. CILPIN, FIRE |NSURANGE ROKER, Hoom 63 Traders' Bullding, CHICACO. » Rt Y5 3 ]