Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 29, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. —_— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily (Morning Edition) including SUNDAY, By, One Year. (] 'or Six Months fm Tiree Months Tar OMANA BUNDAY Addrens, One YOAT, oot oo OMANA OFFICE NOS. UIEAND 018 FARNAM SR NEW Y ORK OFFICE, ROOMS 14 16T BUILDING, WASHINGTON OF FOURTEENTR STRERT. Tk, maiied to any CORRESPONDENCE Al communications relating to news and edis torlal matter should be addressed to the Eviton oF THE BE DUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should bo addressed to Tuk BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAIA. Dratts, checks and postoffice orders 1o be made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Pablishing Company, Prorictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. ] THE DAILY BE Sworn Statement ot Circulation. Stateof Nebraska, County of I!nuu‘]u, fotd Robert Hunter, clerk for Tha Omaha Tee, Qoes solcinnly swear that the actual circulation Pk DAILY BEe for the week ending Sep: 118, was a8 follows: Wedns Thursda; Friday, . Baturday, Set. 2. Average. . ' RODERT HU! Sworn to before me and_subscribed in my Presence this 2:d day of September, A. D, 1884 Seal. N P. FELL, Notary Public, Ftate of Nebraskn, | o o County of Douglas, | % George B. Tzscnuck, being first duly sworn,des wes and says that he is secretary of The lieo ublishiug company, that_the a aaily cirenlation of THE DALY month of September, 187, was 14,40 coples; fox October, 1587, 1433 coples; for November, 5, § for December, 15 o § for May, 16, 18151 {3 coples: for July, 188, 18, 1888, 18, 0] 1EO. B, Bworn wmbetf]m: me and subsc sence this §th day of Septomber, A. D., e N.P. FiIL Notary publi THERE is in many a man’s mind these mornings the problem whether he should invest his ten dollars in a ton of coal or an overcoat. THE international rail trust, said to have been formed between American and English iron men, must be split be- fore it goes any farther. St—— SENATOR COKE'S abuse will not pre- vent northerners from believing that & congressional witness was shot in Texas because he was a congressional witness. —— Tire “dollar-n-day” lie attributed to General Harrison has got on its legs again, but nobody has taken up the challenge to prove it and earn a two thousand dollar reward. TASCOTT has been caught again, this time 1n Denver. In all probability the original Tascott, if he is still alive, Hns put the ocoan between himself and the detectives after him. No woNDER Red Cloud and Sitting Bull reject the Sioux commissioners’ proposal to adopt the white man’s plan of living, when politics in Indian Ter- ritory have reached fever heatand a counted-out governor takes his seat by force of arms. ON authority of the New York Sun it is given out that Mr. Cleveland, his cabinet and intimate friends have chipped 1n a purse of $150,000 to the democratic campaign fund, The post- office carriers will feel cold shivers running down their backs when they are called upon to follow their leaders. EEE———— IT 18 devoutly to be wished that next season Omaha will be delivered from the curse of paving rings. With stone, block, asphaltum, brick, vulcan- ite, and other kinds of paving in the market, property owners will have a variety to choose from, and that, too, let us hope, in the face of spirited competi- tion. —— JUDGE BREWER has appointed a re- ceiver for the Missourt, Kansas & Texas road. Of course this is the natural and {nevitable end of every railroad that falls into the clutch of Jay Gould. First come reports of great increased prosperity, then there is an increased dividend, then various schemes necessi- tating the issue of mortgage bonds to the amount of many millions, then a passed dividend, and then the receiver. g—— CANADA most probably has received futo her friendly bosom the legal ad- viser of the New York produce ex- change, William R, Foster, who hasnot been seen for some days, and who it ap- penrs has been playing a similar game to Bedell, having created bogus mort- guges to the amount, so far as heard from, of $168,000. But Canada is only a refuge for the defaulter, not for the forger, and therefore this man can be brought back when found, which it is %0 be hoped will be speedily. Crimes of this special nature call for exem- plary punishment. But it is absolutely mecessary that the banks, which must % in some cases the ultimate victims, and in every case the medium through which the swindle is perpetrated, should inaugurate some system which will protect themselves and their olients. SEmmeesmp—— Tue Grant monument is not erected, nor ave there any signs that it will be 80 long as the matter is in the hands of New York City. It has become trans- parently clear that the rich men of that metropoiis are not Interested in the preparation of a fitting cenotaph for the national hero. It was felt at the time of his death that his monument should be either at West Point or in Washing- ton, but the oMciousness of New York prevented such a disposition. Last spring the committee eharged with the business issued a prospectus offering prizes for plans, but the wording of the .proposal was so sly and artful that the Avrchitectural League of New York pre- sented a removstrance, going so far as to warn leading architects not to send plavs. It was an open secret that it was the intention of the committee to com- bine various plans in order to keep all the profit and glory for themselves, and to trust the execution to a man of no standing in the profession who would be completely at their orders. There is no memory so clinging and 80 bitter as the memory of ingratitude, and in none of the relations of life does it assert itself with greater potentiality than in politics. Men will forgive almost any other form of ingratitude sooner than that which refusesfo recog- nize the services that have raised an- other to public place and honor. This memory is playing a strong part in the present democratic campaign. It is in a large measure responsible for tho lack of interest and zeal in many in- fluential quartors. Men strong in the party, who four years ago gave to Mr. Cleveland their most carnest devotion and their best efforts, only to bo repaid by having their labors for- gotten and themselves treated with dis- regard, and perhaps even contempt, have no heart to again give their time and energy to retain in power the man who has proved himself incapable of justly appreciating political devotion and service. They are not less loyal to thoir party, nor less faithful to demo- cratio principles than in the past, but they will not give of their moans or their effort for the benefit of one whom they have learned to regard as an in- grate. In a recent interview ex-Mayor Grace ol New York, one of the strongest democratic politicians in the state, said: “Cleveland ought to sce how things are going in New York city and stato, and that it behooves him at this time to heal all differences if possible. He does not scem to have any gratitude to leaders of the party or to his friends. There is a variety of evidence to show that he has been ungrateful to those who, four years ago and since, have rendered him substantial political aid.” There are scores of other democrats in New York of move or less influence who fully sym- pathize with Mr. Grace, and who, like him, while contributing something to the campaign fund for the sake of the party, will do very little beyond this for the re-election of Mr. Cleveland. No man fought harder and few gave more generously. in the late cam- paign, than Abram S. Hewitt, then a member of congress and of the national democratic committee and now mayor of New York, yet he has been conspicuously ignored by Mr. Cleveland. Lockwood, a leading law- yer and politician of Buffalo, to whom Cleveland was more indebted than to any other one man for his entrance into public life, is another who had an experience of Mr. Cleveland’s forget- fulness of political devotion and ser- vice, and even of personal friendship, though in this case, we believe, there was atonement mada. Giher men who labored to elevate Mr. Cleveland to the presidency carry with them the memory of his ingratitude, manifested gener- ally in the most offensive way, and these are not among the now active and zeal- ous workers for his re-election. It is this fact which in a measure ex- plains the unpromising situation of the New York democracy at this time and renders the outlook favorable to re- publican success. The leaders who have trusted and been deceived are not heartily in the fight. Necessarily this impairs the interest and zeal of their immediate following. There is disaffection, a notable absence of en- thusiasm, and the campaign lagsata time when it should be in full and ag- gressive vigor. Mr. Cleveland may see how things are going. It 1s hardly pos- sible that he is not kept well advised, but how shall he heal the differences which are largely the result of ‘his in- gratitude to the party leaders in his own state. How many of these leaders could be induced to again repose confi- dence in any assurances that Mr. Cleve- land might now make? Ingratitude is always a serious fault, and it is es- pecially so in the ambitious politician, as Mr. Cleveland will very likely con- clude when the votes of New York are counted. The Trusts Will Escape. There will be no legislation inimical fo the trusts at the present session of congress. There is a possibility that Mr. Sherman may get his anti-trust il through the senate, but it is very evident that there is to be no action by the house on this subject. It is said that & dozen bills are n tho hands of the ways and means committee relating to trusts, where some of them have been for months, but it is understood that none of them had recelved more than a cursory consideration. A few days ago Mr. Crain of Texas drew attention to the subject by suggesting that the bills ought to be taken away from the ways and means committee and sent to the judiciary comwittee, iron- ically intimating that the former might have too much work before it. The ways and means committee has not held a meeting for months, and most of its members, including its chairman, Mr. Mills, are absent from their post of duty. It was expected that at the last cau- cus of the democrats of the house the question of trust legislation would be considered, but the subject was not re- ferved to. Do the democrats seriously desire such legislation? Manifestly not. They point to their tarft bill as the best possible legislation against trusts the country could have, but have they not confessed their want of confidence in this by the introduction of a dozen or more anti-trust bills written within the past month? In view of the fact that the democratic national commitice is bankrupt and heavily in debt, with other obvious exigencies of the eam- paign, it is safe to say that the trusts will escape any adverse legislation at the present session of congress. — Our Solon's Abroad. Five councilmen of Omaha are hav- ing a splendid time on their tour of in- spection, and the eity is glad to hear it. At Des Moines they were most royally entertained by the garbage crematory. For their especial benefit it consumed four thousand five hundred pounds of refuse in just one hour and fifty min- utes. This remarkable exhibition has had the effect of sharpening the appe- tites of our worthy representatives to enlarge the field of their investigations. They have aceordingly exteuded their trip to Chicago and elsewhere, where they have grand opportunities to in- spect public works and contrast them with those in Omaha. When they get tiréd of looking at the waterworks, the crematories, the mayors and police- men, they oan ride through endless porks and boulevards, and wonder why it is that Jefferson square at home looks 80 seedy and lonesome. Then, too, there are the city halls of various cities to contemplate, massive piles with cloud-piercing towers and all that. And for contrast they can picture in their mind’s eye the crumbling mos: covered ruins opposite the Dougl county court-house. They can stop and inspect, if thoy so choose, the stone pavements of the citios they visit. They can slyly insert their pocket rules between the blocks, and nudge and smile as they think of tho ten-inch gauge used in Oiaha, Like Jean Vuljean, they can look through the sewers without the danger of seeing them cave and fall to piecos. They will be able to walk through magnificent market houses. Oh, this trip abroad will teach our Solons most wonderful lessons how to make a metropolitan city. Morton vs. Counell. In his speech nceepting the nomina- tion for congress Mr. J. Sterling Morton went out of his way to assail the repub- lican candidate, Mr. Connell, as a rail- road attorney. This is decidedly cool. Mr. Conuell is not and never has been in the pay of arailroad, either as an attorney, lobbyist or in any other ca- pucity. His law practice has for the most part been adverse to the railroads, and he is the only lawyer west of Chi- cago who has tacklod and de- feated o great railroad corporation as plaintiff in a damage suit. Two years ago he made an open fight in this city, and at the legislature, to compel all Nebraska railronds to pay local taxes at the same ratio as is as- sessed upon the property of the wage- worker. 1t comes with bad grace for Mr. Morton, who has notoriously been actively engaged in furthering the schemes and intevests of the Burlington road at Washington, to brand his oppo- nent as a railroad attorney. Fortu- nately the voters of this district are too well informed with regard to the rela- tions to the railroads of the rival candi- dates for congress to be in the least mis- led by Mr. Morton’s onslaught. —— THE appointment of a commissioner of Indian affairs to succeed Mr. Atkins is a matter of some public interest for the reason that reform in the Indian bureau is very much needed. Mr. At- kins has never been much better than a figurehead, and having been for a year or more past actively at work to advance his politteal fortunes, he has left the duties of his office largely to be per- formead by subordinates. As in all such casos, the result has been more or less demoralizing to the service, and there is much complaint of the way in which the Indians have been neglected and victimized. The new commissioner is Mr. John H. Oberly, who has won some national reputation during the past two years as a member of the civil service reform commission. He is a very thor- ough par n, but & man of ability, en- ergy and industry. He can hardly fail to be an improvement upon Atkins. THE house of representatives is amus- ing 1its leisure by a consideration of a trust billyin which the enormities of the Brooklyn sugar combination are not forgotten. This is good; but it is to be hoped that due attention will *be also paid to the workings of various ex- changes, particularly in New York. It is notorious that the coffee exchange of that city forced the price of Rio and Santos up from eight and nine cents to seventeen and eighteen cents, and held it there for a year. A mere con- sumer of coffee and sugar fails to see the difference between this action and that of the Brooklyn sugar trust. But then J. J. O'Donoghue, ex-president of the coffee exchange, is a devoted adherent of Grover Cleveland, and presented every one of his fellow members with a Cleveland button early in the cam- paign. This does make a difference—to democratic statesmen. E—— UP 10 date the number of cases of yellow fever in Jacksonville, Florida, has been 2,369, and the number of deaths 237, or about ten per centof those attacked, This is more favorable than is usual in such epidemics, and by no means warrants the extraordinary state of panic exhibited in many of the south- ern cities. Money is urgently required, for there are 20,000 people to be fed, and the funds at the disposal of Mayor Gerow are nearly exhausted. The peo- ple of Omaha in subseribing their quota must remember that Jacksonville is particularly unfortunate, for it has now lost its chief occupation—that ot a win- ter resort for northern individuals of delicate bhealth. What with typhoid fever at Denver, and yellow fever at Jacksonvillo the only resort left to the valetudinarian is California. But after all, this was always the best. ARrE not the sidewalkks somewhat patehy in places not far from the busi- center of the city? On the same block it is not unusual tosee a very badly paved part having on each side of it ex- cellent flagging. This is to be depre- cated because in the width of its side- walks and the general excellence of the materials of which they are composed, Omaha now stands head and shoulders above other cities of the west, and is on a par with not a few eastern cities. The sidewalks ought to be keptup to the standard of our splendidly paved strects, but this is difficult because in ofle case the city has control and in the other private individuals. Nota few of the bad patches may be ascribed to the niggardliness of wealthy men, who seem to begrudge the outlay of a dollar that does not promise an immediate return. em——— Two years ago General Miles reported to the secretary of war that the troubles along the Mexican border would cease if the United States would maintain a sufficient foree in that wild region. Our troops are in such scanty numbers that they eannot afford adequate protection, and lawles men, both of our own nation and of Mexico, are emboldened to acts that would not be Ndreamed of had the United States proper garrisons at im- portant localities. There is no economy in reducing the strength of the regular army to a point where it ceasés to be of service, for not only does our weakness invite trouble, but the expenses of transportation when trouble comes, will more than wipe out what has been gained by ill-judged saving. THE origin of the trouble on the Texas border is discovered to be a feud between an American sheriff and a Mexican editor, which isa reversal of the situation that brought about the memorable Cutting controversy. The present affair, however, has a rather more formidable aspect than the one in which the American editor and the Mexican sheriff figured, and threatens to bo less easy of scttlement. However, there need be no apprehension of the two governments getting into serious complications. This country has no warmer friend than President Diaz, and he will doubtless bo found ready to meet this government more than half way in effecting an equitable and hon- orable adjustment of the trouble. Meantime honors are easy as between the editors and sheriffs on the border, and it is to be hoped thess apparently natural enemies will be satisfied for a while. I¥ THE farmers of Nebraska are going to profit by the tremendous rise i wheat then it would be a very g thing, but there isno likelihood that this will be the case. The speculators in the wheat pit of Chicago ave simply taking advantage of the strong card of- fered for a rise in cereals by the rise in sily ‘Wheat and silver rise and fall together, liko the twins in the signs of the zodiac. Nobody knows for a cer- tainty why silver went up, and that alone was enough to demoralize the wheat bears. But the present bound in wheat is immensely in advance of the rise in silver, and therefore must be followed by a renction. RAPHAEL GREGORIO RICARDO ZIN- GARALLA isthe name of the bold Italian who roused his fellow laborers with “Garibaldi and Liberty I when the Denver & Rio Grande railway beat back the Midland attack at Aspen, Colo. Raphael is evidently a new element to deal with in the railroad problem. Other Lands ThansOurs. Things in France are in a much worse con- dition than is generally known. This is the consequence of French journalism, which is not of the outspoken, uncompromising, irre- pressible character of the journalism of America. The French have hidden their pe- cuniary troubles, deeming that it was better to hide them than to reveal them. But the time is at hand when further concealment will be impossible. There is at the present time a floating debt in France which optim- ists rate at one thousand mliiiions, and pes- simists at two thousand millions, and it is undeniably one of the bad features of the situation that the exact proportions of the indebtedness have not boen made public. Sooner or later: #t*must be capitalized, but ever cceeding admimstration has dreaded to do this because of the bad effoct it will necessarily have upon the existing gover: ment securities of the nation. But this is not all. There is a yearly deficit which no ingenuity can cotiquer. There are certain expenditures which are only necessary bo- cause the French, not knowing the truth, have insisted upon them, dcem- ing them a part of the honor and glory of France. Then again, there are various enginearing enterprises, not abroad, but in France itself, which the gov- ernment inaugurated, and into which the people put their savings under the govern- meat guarantee. These were at first success- ful, and produced the dividends which the government must pay, but have not done so for some time. It may be questioned whether these canals and these redemptions of waste land would have been undertaken by private capital. But Napoleon IIL, having found that he was emphatically the beloved of the fixed income classes, throughout his reign en- deavored to cater to them, resting the secur- ity of his throne upon their eager loyalty. In this way it is possible that France devel- oped more enterprises than it was able to support. For political economists have over- looked the fact that much of our modern civ- ilization partakes more of the character of luxury than of real helpfulness. The tele- graph, the telephone, even the railway, do not add to the productive power of a country, and ivis the latter alone which gives pros- perity. In our own land these appliances and aids of civilization.ure far more helpful than in France, because wo have to conquer vast distances. Not 80 in France, whose misfor- tune it has bean that she has been increasing exnonditures even whilst her producing forces wero steadily failing. The wine crop has diminished ycar after year, the re- gion of Beauce and the great north- west produce less and less wheat, and the beet root sugar industry is felt to be anabsurdity, now that the eul- ture of the sugar cane has been 80 generally diffused, with such a consequent diminution of the prices of refined sugar. Above all, Paris is no longer the pleasure city of the world, and the good Bostonian, when he dics, now goes to Vienna. It has long been doubted whether the real cause of the French revolution of 1793 was not finaneial bank- ruptey rather than class hatred. It has been stated that the predisposing cause was the enormous number of small land holdings by what is known as Frankish right. The equal division of property among heirs, which is popularly supposed to have originated in the code Napoleon, in fact dates back to the days of Clovis, with this difference: thatamong the Franks the estate was divided among the s6ns, and by the code Napoleon the daugh- ters were admitted to an equal share in the succession. The property of the nobles, under the old regime, went undivided to the oldest son, for this was the special feature of tho feudal system. By the code Na- poleon this was swept away, and all casses were subjected to Frankish right as modified in favor of females, In little more than soventy years time has brought back to Bratiee the very evils which precipitated the revolntion, and by the same cause—govérnment debts and infini- tesumal land hojdings. For it is obvious that where a systeth of forced division of farms prevails it i3 only a question of time when the vast majority of farms will consist of the smallest division of land which the law will rocognize. This is what has hap- pened in France. All that has preserved France from baunkruptey hitherto has been the possibility of liviag, or ruther starving, on these small holdings, by the cultivation of the vine. The high estimation in which French wine was held gave the French peasant proprietor an assured income through grape culture. But there has been amarked change of late years. The soil, exhapsted by incessant demands, has avenged itself, and French wines are fast losiog their reputation, and the production has greatly fallen off. The end is not far off. While Bismarck l.l.u-h-‘ 0 throw & doubt upon the published diary of the late emperor and catling for the prosecution of those who caused it to be published, the very general sentiment in Germany appears to be that the diary should be treasured as the touchstone of German politics in the future, and no one will be surprised at the expros- sion. The question of the day 1s, how far can it be assumod that the presont emperor coincides with his father? William began with orders and addresses which led many to regard him as a phenomenal reproduction o f the Metternich school, but latterly he has shown a better appreciation of the age in which he lives. It looks as though he was ripening and learning. It will be a happy thing for his country if the present pros- pect should be confirmed by the event, We shall be made acquainted with the tendency of his mind if we watch his negotiations with the two emperors and with France on the subject of standing armies. M. Carnot would be quite willing to commence a policy of disarmament, and there is little doubt but the government of Austria would also agree. The diMculty scoms to be to decide who shall take the initiative. Inthe four countries, France, Germany, Austria and Italy, just about 4,000,000 of men are witharawn from productive industry and supported by general taxation, and meanwhile the working class in cach of the four countries is finding it harder and harder each y to obtain work at rates which will support life. To overturn this monstrous wrong is the great work now offered to the hand of the Buropean reformor, We may count that William has resolved to grapple with it from the hour that he accepts the resignation of Prince Bismarck. When the Prussian army mvested Paris the people of that city passed through a ter- rible experience, Food and fuel, the sup- plies of which were almost exhausted, were sola at fabulous prices; the rate of mortality was frightful, and it may be said that the city virtually capitulated to cold and hunger, In order to provide against such a condition of things in the future a government com- mission has been at work for several months on the subject of providing food supplies to furnish the people of gar) n towns in the event of war. The report of the commission, which has been approved by President Car. not, shows what an extensive opera- tion the victualing of Paris would be. Independent of the supplies which the city could secure up to the time of invest- ment, it would be necessary to create a stock of food and fuel products, and with regard to meat, it has been suggested that all kinds of live stoci might ba slanghtered and stored away in refrigerating chambers. The mag- nitude of the proposed operations may be understood when it i8 considered that so far as flour is con ned over one million barrels would be needed in Paris for a sicge of six months. The transportation of food and fuel in great quantities is also @ very serious question, and to carry out all the measures recommended by the commission would in- volve as much generalship as the mobilhiza- tion of an army. P Chili's enterprise has taken a new turn in her reported seizure of Easter island, once known as Davis' Land, and famous for its collection of collossal statutes, rudaly hewn from stono and placed on enormous plat- forms of masonry. A specimen of this handiwork of an ancient race, differing, it would scem, from the present inhabitants, was recently brought by @ government vessel to Washington for tho National museum. Chili's claims upon the island rémain to be developed. To be sure, she can claim to be the noarest pomt of mainland, but a distance of two thousand milesand more is too much for establish- ing rights based on proximity. The purpose of the Chilians is said to be that of founding & penal colony on her new acquisition. This can hardly be of great advantage to the in- hubitants, although the lonely site of the island, thrust out like an advance guard at the cxtreme southeastern part of Polynesia, might seem admirably to fit it for that pur- posc. But Chili could apparently find on hor own coast among the numerous isiands strotehing down to Cape Horn onme that wouid be sufficiently remote from neighbor- ing populations for this purpose, even i it should have & harsher climate than that of Easter Island. o e Germany in her scnemes of colonization appears to be pursuing the blood and iron policy. Her recent high-handed action in Samoa was & case in point; and now, after she has receivert large concessions of terri- tory from the sultan of Zanzibar, her arbi- trary methods toward the natives are leading to serious conflicts and may endanger the safety of other European residents. The news comes that the Germans are about to add the Gilbert islands to their acquisitions in the Pacific. When the pope, who was the arbiter in the dispute between Spain and Germany as to the possession of the Caro- lines, decided in favor of the former power, Germany promptly snnexed the Marshall 1slands, putting a tax on the natives; and similar tactics will doubtless be adopted in the case of the Gilbert group. Only the Ellice islands now remain to be taken, and then Germany will have aa unbroken chain of posgessions from the Carolines to Samoa. This movement in the Pacific does not seem to have attracted much notice from our statesmen, but it 18 important, and will be- come more 8o it the Panama canal shall ever be resolved iuto ant accomplished fact. * »a The Argeutine republic is having a great boom, the salient featurcs of the situation being the reckless incurring of national, provineial, and municipal indebtedness in aid of numerous railway, manufacturing and commercial projects and an intoxicating in- flation of paper money. *“To all intents and purposes.” says a Buenos Ayres paper, “the premium is at 100 per cent and paper at 50 per cent discount, if the price of all imported mecessities be taken as the basis of compari- ison, The cost of living to-day in Buenos Ayres is simply enormous, owing to exces- sive import duties, high rates, and last, though not least, the providential caloula- tions of traders who are determined not to lose by the fluctuations of an unsettled cur- rency.” All this is very nice while the spree lasts. But the sobering up time must come soouner or later, and then the debauchee will find himself with a roaring headache and not half so rich as he imagines himself to be, An inflation carouse can not last forever, and it almost always happens that it ends in a general wreck of the currency and the in fliction of enormous evil upon the members of society who are least able to sustain losses. It was so less than a year ago in Peru, and it is pretty sure to be 80 in the Argentine republie at no very distant day. » Little Greece is bristlng up to Turkey onee more in a very belligerent way. A squad- ron which has been a month absent maneu- vering has arrived at the Piveus in hot haste, and other war ships are to be ready within two days to start for Turkish waters. The trouble is the seizurc of a Greek vessel at Chios about which the porte refuses to re- ply in a satisfactory way. Much bigger pow- ers than Greece have found the same difi- culty with the porte, which rarely, if ever, does reply in a satisfactory way. Greece is @ small country and able in a very short time to get very hot; but recent experience showed that she cannot go to war unless her big neighbors permit, and that warlike prep- arations which come to nothing are costly. Mobilizing the fleet, however, is less ex- peusive than mobilizing the army. . There is & dupomix:-.u the part of many people in Vieuna to signalize by a pan-Ger- man demonstration the coming visit of the Emperor William to that city, and the sug- gestiveness thereof is not pleasing w the Austrian court, Hence orders have been issued to prevent it. Francis Joseph is evi- dently not altogether free from nervousness in regard to the future solidity of his com. posite empire. Nor would it bo strange if the illustrious visitor should feel himself called upon to repress a spirit of covetous noss when in the country of the ten millions Germans whom he does not rule, but whom he needs if the idea of German unity Is to be fully carried out. German unity, it is to be remembered, is a very strong point with peror William, P The condition of things at Suakim is not awakening intense interest in eastern N braska, but the English equivalent of the As sociated Pre: known as Reuter's, is good enough to send daily intelligence of the sioge to the great American public. We believe that the English garrison is being besieged by the Ilerbers who were under Oswan Digma, and perhaps still are, for though Router has killed him oft repeatedly, he in variably comes to lifo acain. But no one who knows the nomad Berbors ean compre hend how they learned to form regular siege linos, or whero they obtained their siege guns, Who is with them? STATE Al Nebraska Jottings. A#5,000 grist mill will be built at] Clark- 80N, Prohibition end. A fire at Harvard destroyed the bakery of 1. I. Satroe. ndals at Ashland have been robbing the graves in the cometery of their plants, The Blue Valley association of Congre- gational churches held its sessions at Har- vard, A railroad grading outfit is camped near ‘Wymore ana the people are wondering what 18 up. The citizens of Crete are busily engaged in an effort to raise $15,000 for the benefit of Doane college. The chief of the Seward fire department has resigned because the city council would but the apparatus in a fit condition for fails to prohibit in Novth By the falling of a scaffold_on the new stock exchange building at Nebraska City ‘Thursday, two carpenters, John Place and George Watterson, were severely injured. L'wo more ladies will try newspaper work in Nebraska. Helen C. Phelps has purchased vler Herald, but she will have a man editor, while Cora 8. Holden has bought and will conduct the Buffalo County Courier. A circus came to Edgar while the Metho- dist minister was away, and the local paper attributes the success of the exhibition to the absence of the pastor. With the shep- herd away the sheep wandered to the show. The York Republican reports that two prohibitionists called on a minister the other day and asked him if he did not intend to vote as he prayed. The answer was: *Yes, Tpray every day for the success of the re- publican party.” Dr. F. R. Naultens, while on a “high lonesome” Thursday eve ing, attacked his son with a hugh sabre, but only succeeded in inflicting o slight wound. ‘The son was protecting his mother, whom the old man had tnreatened to kill. The would-be murderer was taken in charge by the police Ana bounda over to keéep the peacé. His mind is unbalanced, but he is not dan- gerous exceptt when under the influence of liquor. Rob Miner and Mike O'Laughlin escaped from the custody of the sheriff at Bonkel- man Thursday evening in & _mysterious man- ner. Miner is charged with committing two murders in Kansas recently, and O'Laughlin is charged with repeated horse stealing. Both were desperate men and will néyer be captured. They were handcuffed and shackled together, and it was impossible for them to have escaped without the aid of con- federates. Both men were captured recently in Wyoming and were being held here awaiting a requisition from the governor of Kansas. Sr., of Hastin lowa. The street cars in Des Moines will be heated this winter., [Thirty-five cars of coal are being loade 1 at the Boone mines every day. Wire fence swindlers have been working the farmers in Boone county. A twelve-foot vein of coul has been dis- covered by well diggers in Kast Des Moines, There are only thirty-four cases on the docket for the coming term of court in Story county, and none of them are criminal cases. Fry, the Kickapoo Indian doctor, was treated to a dose of back-number eggs at Scranton last Wednesday. It was the work of mischievous boys. ‘While suffering from nervous prostration, Mrs. Milton Campuoell, who lives near Co- lumbus Junctiow, committed suicide by drowning herself in the owa river. She was fifty-two years of age, I'he secretary of the state agricaltural so- ciety estimates that the crop of winter whoat in Jowa will yield 1,035,000 bushels. This at 17% bushels would show a crop of 6,000 acres. Spring wheat 1,041,000 acres at ton bushels per acre, will smount to 10,410,000 Last week the mayor of Logan gave notico that all dogs found running at large within the city limits without muzzles would be shot. All the town dogs were immediately muzzled or kept up, but the farmers at once caught onw a scheme to get rid of all their worthless curs by bringing them to town on purpose to have them killed, snd the scheme works so well that the marshal is thinking of tendering his resignation to avoid the disagreeable duty thus imposed upou him. During the wrograu of a recent storm lightning struck the steeple on the Tipton Presbyterian church, completely denuding it of all covertng leaving only the bare frame work standing. Boards were hurled across the street. On its way downm the lightning tore off the plaster and siding, de- molished one window and plowed a deep furrow in the ground where it struck. Strange to relate the only fire resulting from tho stroke was found near the ceiling, burn- ing 30 stightly as to be easily put out. Dakota. Hay brings $13 & ton in Lead City. The total indebtedness of Deadwood is $19,001.80, John Sweeney, of St. Paul, was shot in the leg at Dinkinson, Dak., by Ludwig Wiese, in # woman troublo, The Rapid City market was flooded with more deer the past week than the lovers of venison could cousume. Deadwood will vote October 15 on the question of issuing 000 in bonds for the purpose of erecting a city hall. Suit for an alleged debt of $1 has been ¢ menced in & court at Deadwood. The party suing states that it is for principle and not principal. Small boys report the snake crop at Yank- ton immense this fall. Suakes of all shapes, sizes and conditions abound there. One be two feet long massacred a bull snake fou feet and eight inches long the other day and it was not a good suake day either. While two half-breeds were trying to break acoit to saddle, near Pembina, the colt reared up striking one man with his fore foot, killing him instantly, and throwing tic other and dragging him about a wmile. When found the man was dead, his head kicked to a pulp. Mrs. Sadie Stewart committed suicido n Aberdeen by drowning in a well, About a year ago she married a man employed in ticket ofice at Wahpeton, and about thr months afterward learned that he had a other wife, 80 she left him. About tw weeks ago she gave birth to a child. She alady of good education aud pleasing man- ners. oo THE COURTS, Criminal Matters—Opticians in a Le- gal Quarrel. The easo of the state against Nellie Austin, charged with larceny from the person, was ealled for trial yesterday. The defendant 18 one of the queens of a Capitol avenue negro resort. The prosecuting witness was asoldier, pamed Michael J. Sheridan, of Kort Doug- las, Utah. The theft was committed, ac- cording to his story, the 15th day of last Au iust when he was in her room. Nellie was "’3‘:’-’{1‘{1.'.‘{‘“. arraigned on the charge of RT““I larceny and sentenced to the reform school, Charlos Goodwin was also sentenced to the reform school for the larceny of $7 and wateh from the room of Patrick Tighe, in the Creighton block. In the suit of McHugh & Robinson va, Tsaae Levi Judge Wakeley gave tho plaintifts a docree of $88, Ilomas Cunningham has brought suit against the Manhattan Building association for #3364, a balance yet dus him for the cons struction of a row of residences. The South Omaha National bank has sued Julius C. Chase and J. W. Walters to enforce yment of a note for §3135,67, given by tors to Chase and endorsed by the latter he bank. Samuel G ainst W, B. 1 a ot in lof Stovenson has brought suit Smith for £370, a balanco due Kirkwood addition purchased from ant. . . Gillotto “has 53, the price of )3 pounds of fresh beef sold the defendant during the months of May and June. Frank 13. Johnson has procecdings against J h begun foreclosure nes H. Yates on fifty each for 25, given to Larmon P. nd by him sold to Johnson. The sro covers the south thirty feot of the ixty feet of lots 7and 8 in block 7, in g 1 addition. granted an injuno- restraining Lowis Thomas from enforcing a Judgment, Forbes and Thomas have a very much involved busi- ness with each other, and each holds a judge the other of about $3,000. Forbes has borun suit to clear up their affairs, and asks that one judgment be ale lowed to oifsot the other. In April, 1877, George P. Wilkinson Charles H. Davis'and Isadore Gluck entered into partnership in the optical business under the firm name ot Wilkinson & Davis. At the same time Wilkinson & Gluck formed a partnership in the practico of medicine, Wilkinson advanced the optical firm $1,100, In August, 1887, Davis withdrew and re- coived £50. The other partners then agreed to continus both businesses under the firm name of Gluek & Wilkinson, the senior part- nor to be allowed to draw $#45 a mouth more than the othor. Gluck took charge of the business, and Wilkinson now sues for an ac- counting. He alleges that the dobts have crept up to §2,100, for a large part of which ho has given his personal notes, He charges that Gluck has appiied the receipts of the firm to his own uses, Among other things he has bought a horso and buggy, office furnituro and a parcel of 1and, all of which he claims as his own. The plaintiff avers that Gluck has secured possession of the several part- nership papers and has either destroyed or concealed them, He also charges that de- fendant has aitered and matilated the books of the firm, has made false entries and has failed to enter receipts. He also avers that ck did not have a certiicate from any ognized al college, although he duate of the College of icians and_ Surgcons of Chicago, and that he was not qualified to register for prac- tice in Nebraska. Wilkinson has begun a suit to dissolve the partuership and make Gluck disgorge. County Court. Judge Shields gave William P. Lyons a decree for $U5 in his suit against Caroline Clowry for damages for failing to give pos- session of a flat under a lease. (ieorge Robertshaw has sued Elizabeth Kuhlman for $1,000 damages. The plaintift sets forth in his petition that the defendant owns a building at 924 Douglas straet and that the sidewalk in front of the building was in such a condition the 25th of last Au- gust that he fell through the coal hoie and received serious injuries, The First National bank has brought suit against Cullum H. Brown and Milton H, Gabble to enforce the payment of a promis- sory note for £500 given by them, Storz & Tler have brought suit against M, Overg for $1,066 for payment for goods bought by the defendant. Frank B Jonnson has sued LoRoy Mayne * and John P. Shoming to enforce ‘the pay- ment of a promissory note for $200. ENGINES OF DE\ATH. Vs A Scheme to Destroy Condemncd Steam Boilers, The following lettor has boon issued and explains itsolf : Boter Ixspecton’s Orrice, Crry HALL, S¥. Lovts, Sept. 3, 1888, —~To Inspectors ot Boilers and Boards of FEngineers.~Dear Sirs You are requested to attend a conven- tion of inspectors ot boilers and examiners of engineers to be held at Pittsburg, Pa., on November 20, {888, The purpose of the con- venti the general discussion of the in- apection servico and laws, for the better pro- tection of lifeand property, and also to ar- range for a uniform system of inspaction threugheut the conntry where there is an in- spection service, and to endeavor to extend the service to cover the entire country, and 1o stop the sale of old and worthless boilers that have been condemned by inspectors and then sold to ignorant and inngerlenoed pe! soms throughout the country where there 1s no inspection service. ‘The letter is signed by William MeClellan, inspector of the city of St. Louis, Mo, ; War- dell Guthrie, inspector of the city of Chicago, Ill.; Peter P. Kagan, inspector of Denver, Col.; Washington Mullen, inspector of Now York; James W. Morse, president stato board of inspeetors, Minnesota; J. H. Stand- even, inspector of the oity of Omaha, Neb, E. D. Bateman, inspector of the city of Ci cinnati, O.. committee. Inspectors and others wishing to attand the convention will please address William McClellan, City Hall, St. Louis, Mo. Joseph Standeven, the local inspector of boilers, who has been recommended for the position by some of the highest authorities on the subject of boilers in this civy, said that such a meeting and organization was au ab- solute necessity. As it is now, each in speetor acts on his own respon- sibility, and may be of certain use wishin & certain limit but outside of that Be ean do nothing because of Iack of juris- diction as also because of the lax rules which new govern the disposition of con- demned boilers. Mr. Standeven says that every econdemned boiler snouid be evt in pleecs to prevent it from being sold again to innocent parties. If this were dome, there would be fewer explosions and consequeatly less loss of life. “Now, the explosition of Hamilton’s in Florence, the other day, would not have taken place if the proposed remody had been carried into effeet. I am informed,” says Mr. Standeven, ‘‘that the boiler was a second- hand one that had beem purchased from a Junk dealer who had painted it up after it had been coudemned. These juuk dealers make a business of buy- ing condemned boilers, which they claim they will sell as old iron, but they always sell them to be used again 'in the country. I am told now that Hamilton 18 putting m an- other boiler of the same kind," Mr. Standeven says that his report for the quarter will appear at the end of this month, It will show that during July the number of boilers examined was about 218, in August, 220, and in September, 225. The snowing for the year will be greater than that of lust ar by about forty-two, and the increase in eceipts will be correspondingly great. Lanciers Officers and Uniform. The Republican Lanciers club has elected the following officers: Captain, Lee Frost; first lieutenant, O. H. Gordon; second lieu- tenant, Frank Woolly; sergeant major, W, H. Barlow; erderly sergeant, Willlam Kelly, The uniform adopted 18 a white Norfolk jacket, blne trousers with yeliow stripes on the legs and @ rod skull cap with tassel and i 1 and blue band. The club will turn out to-night and assist in the Ninth ward pole raising. Positively cured by these Little Pills, They also reltave Dis- tress from Dyspepsia, I digestion and Too Heart, Eating. A perfect rem. edy for Dizainess, Nousea, Drowsiness, bad, Tastel in the Mouth, Coated| Tongue, Pain 1n the Side, TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE,