Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 1, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dty Morning Faition) incluaing Supar ¥ i OM AN 4 nddress, One Year, s 2 00 OMANAOFFICE,NOS. 014 AND TS FARNAM STREFT. + NEW YORK OFFICE, ROOMS TAAND 15 TRIBUNE TunnN W ASHINGTON OFFICKE, NO. 013 FYOURTEENTH BTREPT. d to any All communications torial matier should be addre: OF 1k BEE, USINESS LETTERS, All husiness Istters and remittunces should be to Tiik BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Dratts, checks and postoffice orders to be miade payable to the order of the company. 06 Beg Pablishing Compeny, Proprietors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. ed to the kit Nebraska, § ot Donglas, | 1. Tzachuck. secr company, Aoes & cirenlation of Thk DALY week ending Augus Augnst i August ary of The Ilee Pub- yiily swoar that the Brk for the \ 1888, was as follows. 18215 <07 1 18067 28 A Ahursday, August ) "riday, August 24 Baturdiy, August K5 GEO. . THUCK. Sworn to hefore me and subscribed in my presence this25th day of Angust, A. ), 188, N.'P. FEIL, Notary Public, Etate of Nebraska, 1 ounty of Douglas, { % % 1. Tzsenck, being first duly sworn,de- Average POsen and says that he by secrutary ot 'IMie iten Publixhiug company, that the actual average daily circilation of Tue DALy BER for the of August, 18, was 1,151 copies; September, 187, 139 coples: for ber, 187, 14,385 coples; for November, mber, 187, 15 coples, 30, 1, 17, 1 to before me und subsoribed in my presence this 15t day of August, A. D., 1888, . P.FEIL Notary Public. —— s Tiw indications are that Omaha will be as neat and tidy as a housewife's parlor for the opening of tair week. — WiHEN Nebraska corn-stalks grow to a height of fourtcen feet, the step- iadder business ought to be in a flourish- ing condition. CHINTZ BUGS have invaded Indiana. They are evidently after some of that ten thousand dollars contributed by Mr. Cleveland to carry the state. “GOVERNOR"” MCSHANE seems in no hurry to acknowledge his nomination. And some of the thirsty ones are sorry now that they didn’t spell it Sterling- morton. Tix removal of the division offices of the American Express company from Des Moines to this city is another evidence of the importance of Omaha s a shipp- ing and distributing center. KANsAs City is talking of consoli- dating the city and county governments into one, but as the scheme does not in- clude taking in St. Louis the cup of joy is liable to be dashed to the ground. THE auspicious opening of the new steel railroad bridge at Nebraska City, calls to mind that within a month or two Omaha and Council Bluffs will be called on to baptize a bridge of their own: Tik sugar trust has a scheme on foot to bind retailers with an agreement not tosell sugar below a certain price. Tho monopoly might next turn its attention to the consumer and compel him to eat 80 many ounces ol sugar daily. —— THE preparations for the accommoda- . tion and entertainment of the great crowd of pleasure-seekers who will throng our city next week are nearly completed. There never was a time when Omaha presented a more varied programme for the edification of her " visitors. — COLORADO is at last trying to shake off the railroad yoke. A determined effort will be made in the fall election : to defeat the railroad candidate, E. O. ‘Wolcott, who wants to go to the senate. Mr. Wolcott will be remembered as the - head of a powerful lobby which did the railroads some good service in the last legislature. Recently he gained con- siderable notoriety in trying to break Phil Daly’s faro bank at Long Branch. It is evident that Colorado does not want such a man to represent her inter- ests in congress. L __ _ _________} CRHICAGO is complaining that under the new transcontinental freight rates it will cost $1.85 per hundred weight to send soap from Chicago to San Fran- cisco, whereas the same commodity will be shipped from New York to the Pa- cific coast for $1 per hundred. Without discussing the justice or injustice done to Chicago 1n the alleged discrimina- tion, it seems a baby act for the Lake City to st up & howl when every rail- road centering there grossly discrimin- ates in her favor against every city within a radius of 500 miles. —_— I7 18 fortunate for Omaha that she is not in the latitude of Jacksonville, Fla. For the dumping of four hundred loads of garbage daily into the river, accord- ing to Councilman Alexander’s state- ment, would be visited with most seri- ous consequences. It is creditable for Mr. Alexander that he has awakened to the danger threatening the city's health from such an unsatisfactory way of disposing of garbage. Should the pres- * ent methods be longer continued, asa natural consequence, typhoid, malaria, diphtheria, and countless discases, due to the poisoning of the air we breathe, will become epidemic 1n our naturally healthful city. The committee ap- pointed to examine the different meth- ods of garbage cremation ought to be appointed immediately, in order that it may report to the council as soon as possible the result of its investigation. One or two crematories large enough to accommodate the city for the next five years, can he built at comparatively moderate cost, and should be erected early this fall. With a more eflicient service in collecting the garbage, the cost of that department would be de- frayed almost wholly by the slight tay levied on householders, and the gar- bage question would be satisfactorily -#attied ‘and economically solved, Unprepared For Wai It is not more than 8 month ago that a Missouri senator deprecated in vigor- ous language the idea that this country needed to spend any considerable sum of money for const defenses. We were at P with the world, there was nodan- ger impending, and we were not likely to haye any serious trouble for perhaps a century to come. If there were peo- ple who had any thought of danger to our peace as a nation they were nursing idle fears. The nation was on good terms with all other nations and would continue o, consequently it would be a sheer waste of money to strengthen for- tifications and add new defenses. Yet it has taken but a few weeks to demonstrate how little prescience that senator possessed, and to show also, how quickly and easily dificulties n between nations that can be aggra: into hostilitics. Nobody supposed a month ago that the United States and Canada would be so soon shaking their fists at each other and threatening a severance of all relations, But that is the situation to-day, and while it does not necessarily threaten war and no such result is probable, the possibility of such a termination will be admitted by all intelligent people. The menace of the president is regarded in Canada as exhibiting a spirit of aggressive hos- tility, and as no disposition is mani- fested by those in muthority there to placate this spirit by any change of policy, there is obviously present the conditions that might lead to hostilities. Should congress say to the president, go on in the way you think best, who can confidently assert that he might not lead the country into a war? How is the country prepared for such a contingency, granting it to be among the possibilities? Naval officers in Washington say that within three weeks after the first alarin England—and it is England we should have to fight—could sond to our shores forty modern armored ships of war. We have at the most fif- teen vessels of war, which could not be mobilized inside of two months, and when they came they would not alto- gether be a match for twoof the English- men. In the opinion of these naval offi- cers such a fleet as England could send over could occupy every one of our ports in less than a month. There is nothing to keep them out. The obvious suggoestion of the pre- vailing situation is that a nation with neighbors haying views and policies of their own shoula always be reasonably well prepared for possible conflicts which are liable to occur at any time, and that it is not wise for a great and prosperous country, having universal interests and relations, to assume that it will enjoy perpetual peace by reason of either the respect or fear of other nations. The State Issue in New York. The leading issue of the state cam- paign in Now York will be high license. The republican legislature committed the party to this policy by enacting a high license bill, against which the democratic party was committed by the veto of Governor Hill. The republican state platform condemns the action of Hill and avows the adhesion ot the purty to the high licehse principle. Warner Miller, the republican candi- date for governor, is one of the foremost advocates of this policy, and is under- stood to have been largely instrumental in having the plank affirming it in- serted in the platform. This attitude of the republicans may force the nomination of Hill. It will certainly have the effect of solidifying the saloon interest in his favor, if any- thing was necessary to do this. It has been understood, however, that the strongest and most uncompromising backing of the governor really comes from this source, and it was recently stated that the liquor men had raised a fund of a quarter of a million dollars to be used in furthering the renomination ot Hill and securing his re-election. It need hardly be said that the saloon in- terest is very powerful in New York politics, and its concentration in favor of the governor is a fact so formidable that the democracy will hesitate about rejecting its preference. There is every reason to expect that the democratic state convention, which will meet on the 12th inst. at Buffalo, will be largely dominated by this interest, andif so the result is not doubtful. With such an issue republican victory ought to be beyond all doubt. It ought to be impossible for the party favoring a fres and unregulated liquor traffie to be successful in New York in a square battle with this as the issue. But there is a doubt, due wholly to the possibili- ties of the probibition vote. It was this vote which was responsible for the elec- tion of Hill three yecars ago, when he had but eleven tho usand plurality and the prohibitionists cast over thirty thousand votes. His friends are esti- mating that this year the prohibition vote will exceed forty thousand, and the republicans being weakened to the extent of four-fifths of this num- ber Hill will again be a winner. Itis almost incredible, however, that intelli- gent men in the prohibition party can allow themselves to be used this year for the political advantage of so un- doubted a demagogue as Governor Hill. There was excuse for them three years ago in a want of knowledge of the true character of the man. There is no such excuse now. They know that the re- election of Hill means the predomi- nance of the saloon power in New York politics for the next three years and an unregulated traffic, while on the other hand the election of the republican can- didate would certainly result in rem- edying these objectionable conditions, to the moral and financial advantage of the state. It would seem that no citi- zen not fanatically wedded to a hopeless theory could hesitate as to his duty when such an issue is presented. —— Hiding Behind Subterfuge. ‘When any of my assailants are worsted in an encounter of their own seeking they always tey to play the role of the good man who has been attacked and waylald, As a matter of fact, fully borne out by the record, nearly every personal controversy in which I have been engaged was a vigorous defense against unprovoked slander and vilifi- cation. Forced into u fight, when my THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. 1888 adversariés are knocked out they cry ‘“foul,” and appeal to public sympathy. The recent attacks upon me by reason of the defeat of Mr. Yost at the state convention afford a striking instance. There was no ocecasion whatever for such warfare, There was no crowing over Yost's defeat, no comment about his barren campaign, and in fact a studious abstenance from any reference to him or his supporters. What more could e expected? In spite of this a malignant nssault was made upon me with the evident in- tent to prejudice the public and make capital against THE Brk among its pat- rons in Omaha. The attack was promptly repelled, and no standing room left for reckless slanderers. Andnow Cadet Taylor is indiscreet enough to renew the assault with a blare of trumpets. He sneakingly de- nies that the article denouncing my conduct as an outrage on decency, which was coupled with my name, had any reference to myself, He denies all knowledge of the bogus boycott circular mailed to Tie Bee advertising patrons and rounds up his tissue of falsehood by cowardly inuendo charging me with Ity during the war, while in the vy telegraph corps. It is havdly necessary o say that & man who will stenl, will not hesitate to tell a falso- hood. Mr. Cadet Taylor’s paper has admitted that the spurious boy- cott circular was printed in the Republican joboflice. The circular was a eriminal libel gotten up and cir- culated in the interest of the Republi- can. It was as infamous and criminal to print it as it was to circulate it. There were stamps furnished to mail it, and money paid for having it banded around, One of Taylor's hivelings gave the whole thing away more than two months ago to a leading Second ward republican, He told him that Cadet Taylor instigated the boycott and paid the boyeotters for their work. The charge about my alleged disloy- alty is only a repetition of a malicious libel concocted years ago by Paul Vandervoort. The predecessors of Cadet Taylor at the helm of the Republican, Caper E. Yost and Fred Nye, were arraigned, tried, and convicted of this libel in the courts of this county by a jury of their peers after a brilliant and vigorous defense by John M. Thurston. Mr. Taylor in- geniously parries the charge of his crookedness in the government printing office, as if it was a matter of no moment to the public, but I imagine that no man who sets himself up asa great party leader, can march at the head of the column in the face of the record which Mr. Taylor made while in a posi- tion of great responsibility and trust. E. ROSEWATER. MR. CLEVELAND {s evidently using the pension bureau in a most partisan manner for campaign purposes. A large force of government clerks under Commissioner Black are preparing documents in defence of Mr. Cleveland’s attitude on the pension vetoes, which are to be distributed by the wholesale in Indiana, New York and other states. No republican president ever dared to use the machin of the government in a like manner Other Lands Than Ours. The recent conference between Bismarck and Sigoor Crispi, the Italhan premier, and between the latter and Kaluoky, the Austrian prime minister, seem to signify chiefly that the German chancellor now controls the for- eign policy of three great powers, instead of one, on matters of supreme international im- portance. Even the Massowah incident ap- pears to have been subwmitted to Bismarck for his judgment as diplomatic arbiter of Europe. Austria and Itally are evidently proud of the part they play as factors in regulating the affairs of the continent, and the chauncellor 18 more than ever confident of having either peace or war to his liking. Fortunately for the people of Europe he is thus far (satisfied with peace. Italy, with Germany at her back, is capable of a bold- ness toward France which she otherwise would not assume; but France, fully alive to Bismarck's moves, is not likely to be drawn into a war on account of any such subordi- nate affair as the annexation of Massowah. Nevertheless, she must see with some cha- grin her policy toward Tripoli completely held in check. She cannut hope to advance a step there, since Italy, with the conscious- ness of German support, would make it a cause of quarrel, although she herself will probably continue to enlarge Ler foothold on the Red Sea. There could be no event con- ceivable more fortunate for Gel many than a war between Italy and France. Insuch a contest France would have but the faintest chance of victory, because, at the first sign of weakness on the part of Italy, her allies, Germany and Austria, ‘would be sure to interpose. In such circum- stauces, 100, it would be much less difficult to secure the neutrality of Russia than if the German empire were plainly the aggressor. With even athird part of the French military resources diverted toward Savoy, aGerman demonstration from the northeast might prove well nigh irresistible. Irrepressible the conflict between France and Germany unquestionably is, and of course Bismarck must wish to see the wager of battle decided before he dies. Moreover, not only for the territorial integrity of Germany, but for the stability of its monarchial institutions, he must desire to worst France during the ex- istence of her republican regime. For, hav- ing thus discredited democratic institutions and promoted the restoration of monarchy in France, he might die in the reasonable assur- ance that the imperial fabric of his fashion- ing would be safe for at least a generation. * e The reported proposition of the czar for adjusting the Bulgarian dificulty has at least the merit of conciliating two of the European powers which at the Berlin con- gress showed themselves least favorable to Russia’s pretensions. The Duke of Cumber- land, in whose behalf the northern autocrat is said to advocate the erection of Bulgaris and Eastern Roumelia into a kingdom, is, as ‘we searcely need remind the reader, a near kinsman of Queen Victoria. As, moreover, the offer of the new throne would be condi- tioned on a disavowal of the Guelph claim to Hunover, the importance of such a trans- action to Germany is obvious. The czar' plan, it seems, is not only to wmalgamate the Bulgaria defined by the Berlin treaty with the Ottoman province known as Eastern Roumelia, but, to annex also a section of Macedonia, thus giving the new kingdom ac- cess to the ASgean. As the sultan would be then cut off from land commun ication with Albania and his gew other remaining pos- sessions west of,' ica, most of these would naturally fall to the Hapsburg mon- archy, which has aiready pushed its south- ward eucroaclments to Novi Bazar. Should Salonica be included in Austria’s share of the Ottoman terntory, she could hardly fail to be salisfled with the partition, even though she might be asked to surrender to Italy a patt of the Dalmatian a coast, throughout which, as it is well known, a dialect of the Itallan language is spoken. It is not to be supposed that Turkey would submit without the most vehement re- monstrance to the loss of all the European dominions assured to her by the Berlin con- gress, except a petty tract adjoining Con- stantinople. But a threat of armed resist- ance could not be ecarried out, owing to the utter exhaustion of the porte's financial re- sources. At this time the sultan cannot place in the field an army organized and equipped in the costly modern fashion, much less sus- tain the burddbs of a protracted defensive war, He is in arrcars for the pecuniary in- demnity due to Russia under the Berlin treaty, and he can have no hope of liquidat ing that indebtedness except by a sacrifice of territory. If he could escape the necessity of further cessions in Armenia, where his frontier is already insccure, it micht be wise to acquiesce in the reconstruction of Bulgaria on the lines laid down at San Stefuno. No diplomatic obstruction on the part of the sul- tan would prove of much avail even for de- lay, provided England and Austria should aceept the candidacy of the Duke of Cumber- land for the projected kingdom. o"a The land-hungry nations of the carth seem to have abandoned Asiatic conquests in Rus- sia and Great Britain, and two have turned their attention to the seizure of such parts of Africa as may snit their fancy and opportun- ity. France, Italy, Germany and Great Brit- ain are all busying themselves with laymg the foundation of African colonies. Thoe sub. Jugation of Africa to the uses of the civilized races of the world is not so mueh a question of prowess in a contest with the present pop ulation of that dark continent us u question of ability to contend agyinst natural obsta- clos, Africa is protected by its desertwastes, its malarial jungles It is doubtful whether the conquering races of this day and gencration will be any better able to make a permanent stand in Africa than were the great nations of antiquity who successfully pushed their victorious arws southward from the Mediterranean only to be pushed back again by the repelling forces of nature. The young emperor of China amuses him self now and then by whisking around his palace grounds in Pekin on a mimture rail road, and enjoys a monopoly of the only rail road now running in his dowinious. The French government has just made a very handsome present to Li Hung Chang in the shape of a complete railroad train, but if the Chinese statesman makes the present avail- able, he will have to grade a roadbed and buy some rails, and thus, as France slyly hopes, break the ice for the introduction of railroads. The revered ancestors of these Orientals are a great obstacle in the way of railroads. The Chinese say railroads cannot dogge all over the country to avoid the mul- titudinous graveyards, and us for having this western invention plough through the last resting places of their honored sires, that is entirely out of the question. Butin spite of the dead past an era of railroad mak- ing will daww in China one of these days, NV e, * e It is nov in Kaiser Wilhelm's nature to carry out the plaus for bettcring the con- dition of Alsace and Lorraine which were so admirably outlined in a letter of his father's published upward of a month ago. The bludgeon is to be shaken over the heads of the unfortunate) French inhubitants of the imperial proviage. It scemslike reading some history of Poland in her extreme misery to find that the styfly of the Fronch language in public and private schools is to be suppressed, and thot the probable intention of the Ger- man government is to deprive the large land- holders of French extraction of their estates, cutting them up into small holdings for the occupation of thoroughly Teutonic settlers. The emperor and Bismarck should be sternly reminded that compulsory loyalty has vory rarely been a striking success. s Some ot the very districts in Africa that once furnished cargoes for American vessels, are now the hunting grounds of Arab slavers. Hundreds of peaple whose ancestors were also the fathers of many of our colored citizens are now dragged away in chains, not to the coast, but to the slave markets of Mo- rocco and the Mohammedan states in the Sou- dan. We refer particularly to the country north of Yoruba, now happily coming under French influence, and to the regions between the Cameroons aud Adamana, once a fruitful source of supply for the export slave trado, and only recently invaded by the Arab. The question whether the Arab or the white man is to rule Africa seems likely soon to force itself upon the world’s attention, Intelligent colored men in this country must watch with peculiar interest the progress of the eloquent Cardinal Lavigerie, who, by the express de- sire of the pope, is now preaching a crusade for the absolute suppression of the trafiic, * Py Among the many things Algeria is doing to make herself attractive to tourists is the exhuming of some of her ancient cities. The marvels of Pompeii are said to be nearly equalled by the city that has just been ex humed at Timga, with its streets, shops, forum, triumphal arches and flagstones worn by cart wheels. At Cherchell, on the coast, west of the city of Algiers, the luxurious baths of the ancient city of Cisaren have ro- cently been brought to light. Then Algiers has completed her railroad to Biskra, almost on the edge of Sabara, and is to extend it to the five little oases that have been created by irrigation along the Wady Rir, where 59,000 palm trees are now flourishing 1 a region that a few years ago was verdureless, The triumphant progress of railroad building is everywhere opening new routes for tourists. e e o What Gould Sald. New York World, I do not object to newspaper criticism that has about it the -semblance of fairness. In- deed, I'm not strhc but that what the papers have said againgt/me has done me more good than the praisethoy have at times bestowed. You see,” be continued, smiling pleasantly, “a mau who begomies riclr wnd is successful in life needs to bajtaken down a little occa- sionally. 1f he;;;eived ouly praise his head might get too biz=he might think himself a great man. So, on the whole, I think criti- cisms have been of more real benefit to me than praise.” Thurman. ras Orator. n is a man from way up rks the last time. He will vas like a dog onto a rabbit skin, and he'll t 'em like a wild cat in tin oven. When rman gets up and cracks his heels together and goes at it red-eyed, they’ll find that he's & humper from humper junction. In my opinion he has the cloments of success in him biggerthan a woodchuclk. The old Ro where the croel snap onto the threw the presidential bootjack at a little German band in frontof the White House because it bogan playiug “The Letter That Never Came," may be sot down as a *‘fake.” The band wes not in frout of the White House, but in the vicinity of Don M. Dickin- son's residence. P TS A Sage Tombstone. Chicago Tribune. Russell Sage has bought a new burial lot aud ordered & . mwonument—a huge block of white marble, The Inscription will read something like “First in puts and calls: first i Wall streets; first in the pockets of his couutrymen,” eto. M “Johnny, Get Your Gun." Oil ity Blizzard. President Cloveland's message to congross ou the fisheries question fs croditably warm and has considerable snap in it. In fact, it comes the next thing to saying to John Bull, *“Johnny, get you gun, get your gun.” What will be the next move remains to be scen. e ———— They Oan't Deny Globe-Democrat The democrats ‘“‘explain® the big drift from their party to the opposition, but they don't deny it. This is an immenso year for the republicans. P, A Type of Reform. Pittshwrg Dispateh Civil service reform in Chicago scems to be principally efticient in squeezing cam- paign subscriptions out of postal clerks and carviers Pacts. The | -~ STATE POLITICAL POINTERS, The Grand Islana Independent gives it out s0iid that “no railroad servants will be forced down the throats of the people of Hall county this year of our Lord, aud don't you forget it." Every republican paper in the state agrees with the Hastings Gazotte-Journal when it says “‘there is not a single good son why every candidate on the republican state ticket should not be elected., " The Boatrice Republican states a truth when it that the ropublican party favors the railroads, the great civilizers of the coun- try. “But,” adds the Republican, “at the sanie time it believes in_compelling them to obscrve the maxim: ‘Live and let live.) Says the Lincoln Call: “The story set afloat to the effect that the railway managers will attempt to beat Leese at the polls might just as well be laid away now s at any other time. There is not a railway manager in Nebraska that can hold a keg of giant pow- der when a burning fuse reaches it.” The Norfolk News knows what it is talk- ing about when it says: ““There is one plank m the republican state platform that every candidate for the legislature should be re- quired to pledgo himself to enforce, and that is the demand for a law that will prevent the importation and employment of Pinkerton detecti Nebraska is abundantly able to take care of the enforcement of her laws without the intervention of paid lnrelings of the corporatinns.” The Freo Lance fires these facts at the rulers of the “state of Beatrico: +The evorlasting political bickerings in Beatrice are about as harmful to the city’s prosperity a8 are the terrific wars that are made upon some of our citizens who put their money into manufactories to make us grow and flourish. Botharo senseless. Tho season of thorough and steadily increasing success will never come until we have in all things harmony with a big H. It will be wise to put aside our private rovenges and get down w0 substantial work, and make this city what it ought to bo—the foremost manufacturing city in the west.” e STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The brilliant meteor which was Omaha on the %ith is roported to has seen in all sections of the state. D. N. Blood, who was tried at York Wednesday for whipping a boy whom he caught stealing his melons, was acquitted of the charge of ussault and battery. A swarm of bees lighted upon the chimney o unused house at Crete the other day, worked their way down into the kitchen and died there on account of the closeness of the atmosphere. Two prisoners escaped from the Fillmore county jail last week with the assistance of friends on the outside, who cut the bars, ¢ were Eli George, a horse thief, and ik Wilson, a burgln h dently novices at the for they knocked off the dial and then gave up the job. The farmers of Dodge county are not pat- Zing the Farmers’ Elevator company as ought to, and a warning has been sent out that unless they support the concern it will fall into the hands of the greedy eleva- tor trust inside of six months, A ten-year-old son of Captain Mann, of Plattsmouth, is a great sportsman. The other day he borrowed the old man’s gun on the quiet, loaded her for bear, and then shot Dr. Schildnecht's pet dear deader than a doornail, The captain, however, does not brag of hLis boy’s ability, for the doctor val- ued the dead animal very highly. C. L. Melvin, an insane man, was given in- to the custody of Sheriff Ray at Falls City the other day to be taken to the asylum at Lincoln. While the sheriff and the father of the crazy man were transacting some busi- the prisoner made an excuse to go around the house to get a drink but instead he mounted u horse that stood near and made a break for liberty, The sheriff procured a horse and gave chase but was unable to over- take him. He followed the crazy man into 0 field north of town and found the horse tied to a fence with Melvin's boots sit- g beside it, but no Melvin in sight. One year's work at Nebraska City is sum- marized as follows by the Pres: The Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy steel railroad bridge, costing nearly a million dollars; the pontoon wagon bridge, the largest in the world: the Missouri Pacific railroad, on the main line; of which she is the umon stock yards, in the hands of a $200,000 company, as completo as any in the west. They will boin active operation withim thirty days; Bey. schlag’s mammoth cere and fine business bloc and tenement houses em of sewers, now well toward complotion; a splendid electric light system; the commencement of paving, to extend from First to Sixteenth streets on Central avenue. lowa. The industrial school at Eldora has 370 boy inmates. Cedar Rapids has a school population of over 5,000, Tears stand in the eyes of the farmers at Davenport with onions only 15 cents a bushel. The large wholesale iquor house of G. H. Prenzler, of Burlington has been closed and Mr. Prenzler is looking for anotner location. The smallest increase in the school popula- tion of Iowa of any year since its admission as a state oceurred the past year, ending June 80. The increase over last year was only 570. The Lrtheran college is to be removed from Mendota, 111, to Dubuque. Citizens of Du- buque donated what is known as tne Emer- | fully son homestead, West Dubuquo, and tho collage trusteos will expend $10,000 in im- Pproving it. “If you are a light sloepor,” says Burroll, of the Washington Press, “vou will almost evory night hour some bird's note of alarm, and soon after owls will hoot, They're up to mischiof and thero are tragedios in the nests In the ad of Wednesd night a bird's long continved shrieks of ar Ish roused us, and for seversl minites the owls kopt up s swucy clatter. They had gobbled a vird and wero glonting over the torturod vietim like In dians.” Dakota. Alloged aportsmon have beon slaughtoring prairic ol kens around Spearfish contrary 1o law, The north Dakota fair will open at Grand Forks September 18, and close the following Saturday. The average monthly salaries of male teachers in Yankton county is $31.50, and that of females §20.50. The ecelestials of Deadwood held their an- nual howl to drive away the devil last Sun- day, Half a hundred Chinamen worshipped int oss hiouse, and emitted a succession of piereing screams, accompanied with belis, trinngle, -~ drums and gongs. was neither time nor tune to it, jus! ening, horrible ear splitiing n rackot they kept up at intervals all day. A boy named Wilcox living fifteen miles northwest of Plankinton, met with u fatal dent by the caving of a well. Young who was only years old, was near the well when he became and bov-like, instead of going to the a pail, he chimbed down the wall of 1to get a drink. A stone became dis- d and the well caved in upon him, com- pletely burying him. Jack Matson, aged soventy-cight, is sald to be the oldest man in the Black Hills, His has been an eventful carcer—a career full of romance and rich with thrilling adventures, For for! ars he traveled with a circus, and he has probably trained and taken care or more elephants than any man living. At present he is employed i handling the thoroughbred horses on a ranch and he takes great pride i his work. Among the effects of a wealthy New Ei lander, now deceased, the Yankton F and Dakotaian reports, was a te valued at £15,000. The heirs of the estate ar- rapged with Dr. Ward, president of Yanikton that when the college was able and ) for the instrument it would be sent to Yankton. The faculty has succeeded in raising §1,000. The al ment is that the other $500 may be paid the pleasure of the college, and the telescope, which is in the possession 5f C. M. Brown, of Jamestown, N. Y., will be shipped within ten days. e AFTER SEV YEARS, D. W. Haynes Prescnted With a Beau- tiful Elks Badge. D. W. Haynes was presented last evening with a rich and beautiful Elks pin by his late associates m the office of the Pacific Express company. The address was delivered by T. K. Sudborough, chief clerk in the auditor's oftice, He feelingly referred to the long years Mr. Haynes had been in the com- pany’s employ, the manner in which he had endeared himself to all his associates and the deep fecling of regret the latter experienced at his retirement to enter other fields of labor. The address was a magnificent effort. 1t was not so much the result of the gentle- man’s ability as a_writer, which isof no mean order, as it_was of the inspiration of the occasion which deprived the speaker of a highly estecmed associate. It produced a visible effect upon Mr. Haynes, so much so that he was able o express little more than his heartfelt thanks. Mr. Haynes has been in the employ of the | Pacific Express company since 1551, and to- day enters upon the duties of treasurer of 's opera house, whore he will be heartily ! recognized and appreciated by many warm fricnds. The pin is of solid gold, circular in shape, with four minute shields at_intervals on the circumference, containing in cnamel the lot- P. 0. K., the initials of the name of + Benevolent and Protective Order The rim is bound in gold rope, ! while immediately inside the edge 18 a circl of cardinal enamel, which contrasts beauf with the polished gold. Within this circle, the badge 18 concave and over it spreads a beautifully engraved Elk's head with & large diamond in its branching ant- lers. Heneath are the words *‘cervus alces." The badge is an elaborate one, a fiting em- blem of (he order and a souvenir which will long be cherished of dear friends by one of the most devoted members of the order of Elks in the country. e The Federal Court, Bill. The bill for the holding of terms of United States district and circuit courts in this state has just come to this city, after having been approved on the 14th inst. It differs in many respects from that synopsized in these col- umns some time ago. It does not divide the state into districts, nor limit the filing of cases in the offices nearest the party or par- ties bringing suit. In fact, does very little except to reaffirm the holding of United States courts in Omaha and Lin- coln, and establish the holding of the = same in Mastings and Norfolk, though it gives but one term to Lincoln in- stead of two as heretofore. The terwms in the respective places are as follows: Omaba, sccond Monday in November; Lincoln, second Monday in January : Hastings, second Mon- day in March, and Norfolk, second Monday in April. In each of those terms grand and petit juries may be summoned. All writs, procedses, pleas, recognizances and bonds made or returnable to the terms of said courts as now provided by law shall be con- sidered as taken and returnable to the terms established by the act. District Attorney Pritchett told a Beg re- porter that the bill would do little good. It would not be of any convenience to the people and would not result in the bringing of half a dozen suits in the places where the new terms of the court are to be heard. But, of course, the people were glad to have the extra terms created, although it entailed greater expense upon the government. There was mileage for judges, clerks, marshal and deputies, with rent for courts, though it was likely that the local authorities would pro- vide places for the holding of the sessions. ‘The creation of the now court seats gave one to each congressionul district, and this would eventually lead to the erection of & government building in those places. Marriage Licenses. The following marriage licenses were is- sued yosterday by Judge Shiolds: Namo and residence. Alfred H. Pridham, Kansas Oity. Mrs. Mary M. Swan, Kansas City Herman Rose, Omaha. 5 { Mary Nohmko, Omaha. William N. Harris, Omaha Mrs. Mary Lot, Omaha.. ... ——— Age. o 81 . 80 . 26 .18 .48 . 85 Prairie Fires in Montana. HeLexa, Mont., August 81.—A disastrous prairic fire is raging in the ranges of northern Montana, extending from the Marias river to the Sweet Grass hills, a distance of fifty miles. The winter rango of the Benton and St. Louls cattle company has been destroyed, with @ large amount of hay. Unless Taiu comes the fire will cover immense tracts of country. LACTATED FOOD ENDORSED BY 10,000 PHYSICIANS As a perf dlarrhoea, feeble dij deprived fect food for Invallds, in dyspeps! jon, and all wasting of mother’s milk, or when weaning. el i a, fevers, sick headache, diseases, and for infants The Favorite Food in Hospitals Hahnemann Hospital. NEw York CiTY. “ We have been using Lactated Food for sever- al months past in eases of dyspepsia, afier opera- tions, and with children, and in all cases it has answered admirably. We would gladly recom- mend it as a fod easily digested, nutritious, and not disagrecable to the patient.” F. 8, Fuirox, M. D,, House Surgeon. New York Infant Asylum. Mr. Vernox, N. Y, “ We are using your Lactated Food in our in- fant asylum whenever we requirethe use of arti- ficial food, and find have ever used. 18 speclally adapted our biauch Wstiiul superior to any which wo pleasant to the taste, it to ehlldren. We bave in tion over 20 children.’ Mrs. L. M. BaThs, Chairman of Mt. Vernon Branch. The Most Palatable, Nutritious, and Digestible Food Tus Best AND MosT EcoNoMicaL Foop. 180 Meals for an Infant for $1.00. Easlly propared. At Druggista-—cts., & A valuable phiet on “The Nutrition of Infants and Iuvalids,” free on application. WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., BURLINGTON, VT, DIAMONDS Watches and Diamonds Found in Tea and Coffee---A Novel Way of In- froducing Coods. The names of all persons finding dia- monds, watches, ete., are added to this list daily. The Overland Ten company of San Franciscohave refitted the store, 220 Tith St near Farnam, Omaha. and in order to troduce theiwr goods, this compuny put for 60 days, souvenirs in eve anof teaand coffee sold such as solid gold, silver and nickel watenes, also genuine diamonds, in solid pold setting; also money, and many other articles of loss val can con= tains a souvenir, The coffee. can and contents weigh about three pounds; the tea, can and contents about one and a half pounds. This expensive and novel way of advertising will be discontinued after 60 days, and these really choico goods will be sold strictly on their mer- its but with the souvenir. Of course every purchaser must not expect to got adinmond or watch. This company claim that they have just as good a right to give away watches, diamonds or othor jewelry and money astheir com- petitors have 1o give away glassware, chromos, ete. Get up a club. Those who get upa club order most always get a handsomo presont. Ovders by mail Ymmp! ¢ forwarded to all partsof the Tnited States on receipt of cash or post- office order. Terms: Single can $1; six for #5; thirteen for $10, and twenty-sev- en for #20. Address Overland Tea Co., Omaha, Nebraska. A. L. Carpenter, Missouri Valley, gent’s hunting case gold watch in tea; Mrs. . 1. Morchouse, 15th st., silver sugar bowl; Miss L. C. Watson, 24th st., silver butter dish; Mr. M. C. Robinson, South 40th st., diamond ring in can tea; Miss Mary Whitman, 9th st., silver pickle stund; Mrs. V. H. Hamilton, Park ave., silver five-bottle castor; Mrs. B. II. Hoesntr, South 14th st., silver sugar bowly Mr. J. C. Mills. Kearney, Neb., mail order, gent's diamond stad in can tea; Mrs, C. A. Kingsley, South. Omaha, silver pickle stand: Mrs. Wm. R. Russell, 23d st.,silver water pitcher; Mrs. H. E. Potter, Twenty-first st., silver pickle stand; Miss Mamie _ Saunderson, 17th st., lady’s hunting oase zold watch in can tea; Mr. Walter Bain ebster st., silver cup; Mrs. G. C. Kee- ler, Davenport st.,silver pickle stand; Mrs. Anderson, Paul st., diamond ring in can tea: Mrs. M. C. Treadwell, Saun- ders st., silver sugar bowl; Mr. C. H. Allison, 26th st., silver pickle stand; Mrs. B, E. Fleming, 16th st.,$50 in gold coin in can tea; Mrs. Geo. Greenway, 27th st., silver butter dish; Mrs. A. R. Fields, Harney st., silver sugar bowl; Mrs. H. E. Lickman, N. 15th st., silver Eicklo stand; Miss Lou Golloway, Council lufls, Ta., money in can tea; Mrs. Thos. Sinclair, S. 19th st., silver sugar bowl; Mrs. Wm. Phillips, 20th st., silver pickle stand; Mr. Wm. Munhall, Leavenworth st., silver cup; Mrs. D. N. Burger, 18th st.. elegant solid, gold ring, diamond, ruby and sapphire seting in tea; Mrs. G. A. White, Blair, Neb., mail or- der, silver batter dish in tea; Mr. B. H. MecComb, So. 11th st., silver sugar bowl; Miss Georgie Putnam, Howard st., la- dies’ chatalaine watch in can tea; Mr. M. H. Gayner, silver five bottle castor, Mrs. P. M. Dumiston, 25th st., silver cup; Mr. Jas. I5. Reynold, Cass st., dia- mond ring in can tea: Mrs. J. C. New- ton, Cuming st., silver pickle stand; Mrs. Walter I8, Chase, lzard st., silver sugar bowl; N. k. Bridge, So. Omaha, silver butter dish; Miss Jossie Shindley, 42d and Seward sts., silver pickle stand; Albert Obie, cook at Cozzen’s hotel, 9th st., silver butter dish; J. J. Griffeth, Capital ave., diamond ring in tea. ]5. W. Petri, St. Joseph, Mo., mail order, silver cup in can tea; Mrs. Chas. Buchanan, South Thirteenth street, silver butter dish; Mr. P. Hangen, Douglas street, silver pickle stand; Miss Maude Howell, Chicago street, ladies’ hunting case gold watch in can ten; Miss A, R. Simmons, 14th st., silver sugar bowl; Mr. D. R. Trowbridge, Park avenue, silver five bottle castor; A. W. Leonard, Howard street, dia- mond ring in can tea; Mrs. C. L. Dean, 1zard st., silver butter dish; Miss L. M. Brunswick, So. Omaha, ladies’ lace scarf pin, diamond, ruby and_sapphire setting in can tea; Mr. W. R. Drummond, Davenport silver ickle stand; Miss Lillie Hawley, 17th st., silver sugar bowl; Mr. Wm. E. Kingsley, N. 18th st., ent’s diamond shirt stud 1n can tea; rs. Carl Walker, Cumings st., silver butter dish; Mr. Walter Whitmore, Council Biuffs, Ia., silver cake stand in tea; Mrs. M. . Wymore, Saunders st., can money in tea; Mrs. V. H. Hunter, Mrs. Chas. Warren, Rock Sorings, Wyo. Ter., dia- mond ring in can tea; Miss Ida Welch, S. 20th st., silver pickle stand; Mr. Geo. Snyder, 17th st.. silver sugar bowl; Mrs. M. McArthy, S. 18th st., silver butter dish; Mrs. Chas. Edwards, N. 389th st., $20 in gold coin in can ten; Mrs. L. A. Lattlefield, So. 24th st., silver sugar bowl; Mr. Wm. A. Smith, Capitol ave., gent’s hunting case gold watch in tea; Mrs. Edw. A. Moore, Nebraska City, mail order, elegant solitaire dia- mond ring and silver water pitcher in tea; Mr. John O. De Barr, South Omaha, silver sugar bowl; Miss Lou Gilmore, 9th st., ladies’ chatelaine watch in can tea; Mrs. C. D. Allen, So. 26th st., silver butter dish; L. P. Weeks, South sth st., diamond ring in can tea; Miss Bowman, North 18th st., silver pic stand; James R. Redmond, J silver five bottle castor; Mr stowe, Daven- Jort st., can money in tea; Miss Daisy B o York, Neb.. maillorderydiad moud ring and silver’ cup in ten, club order; Mrs. W. T. Revere, 5. 18th st., silver butter dish; Mr. James Phillips, Saunders st., silver pickle stand; Mrs. Philip McLean, Seward st., diamond collar button in tea: Mrs. Chas. D. Spencer, Council Bluffs, Ia., silver sugar bowl; Sam Du Bois, S. 6th st., silver butter dish. Mrs. J. B. Vian, with Electric Light Co., silver pickle stand; Mrs. A. R. Todd, North 12th street, silver butter dish; Mr. Chas. 1. Raymond, Seward street, silver five-bottle castor: Miss May Redding, California stredt, ladics chatelain watch, in can tea; W. C. Cold- ham, Center street, gent’s hunting case gold wateh, in tea; Mrs. I. S. hit- comb, Cass street, silver butter dis| Mrs. M. C. Warren, Pierce street, sil- ver cake stand; Mrs. A. C. Cunning- ham, Hamilton street, diamond ring, in can tea; T, C. Parkins, South 17th streot, mail carrier, silver fruit stand; C. B. Adams, Douglas street, silver El‘;:klo stand; Mrs. Willlam A, nd, Blair, Neb., mail order, 820 in gold coin in can tea; Honry K. Daber, 40th st., silver bugter digh; Mi Mattic E. Phelps, Dorciis st., ludies gold searf pin, solitaire dismond set- ting: Mrs. E. O. Barwick, Council Blufls, la, ver sugar bowl; Mrs, John E. Wilson, N. 16th st.. silver piekle stand; Miss Lillie Wilhelm, Capitol ave., can money in tea; Mrs. Walter od, traveling salesman from Chi- 's elegant diamond shirt stud tea; Mrs. J. B. Bensen, 8. 19th st., silver butter dish; Mrs, Aufl Ollendorf, 15th &b, silver pickle stand. : . 8t.,