Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 12, 1888, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1888 DAILY BEE. IRY MORNING. THE PUBLISHED TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. yatly (Morntng Edition) including SUNDAY, D e . v 10 00 Yor 8ix Months [ ¥or Thiee Montlis 0 Tk OMAIA SCSDAY BEE, malied to any address, Ome Year [ OMANAOVFICENOS. 018 AN DO FARNAM 8710117 NEW YORKOFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRUBUND BUILDING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 0L FOUITEENTH Sy CORRESPONDENCF Al communications relating tonewsand edi- torial matier should be addressed Lo the Epiro OF THE kK, DBUSINESS L& . All bsinass letters and remittances should he addressed to TiE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAA, Drafis, checks and postofice orders (0 bemadi payable (o b er of the company. Tlie Beg Pablishing Company, Proprietors. | the former section has no interc common with the latte ROSEWATE Editor. —————————————— THE DAILY BEE Sworn State ot Circulation, Btats of Nebraska, [ County of Douglas, (™7 George B, Tzschuck, se Hshini company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of Tik DATLY Br week ending October 6, 1588, was as follow apt. 3 et 1 Tuesdwy, Oc Wednesday, Oct Thursday, Oct. & Friday, Oct.6 Baturday, Oct. 6 tary of the fee Pub. Average Sworn 10 before me au presence this 6th day of ( 1885, seal. N. P, FEIL, Notary Public. State of Nebraska, | = County of Deuglas, { eorge B, Tzschuck, bein Pones and says that hé 1 sec Publishing y circulati it of (ctober, 188 ; for No- 1ber, 1447, 19,2 Coples: for December, 1887, ples; for January, 1889, 15,20 copies ruary, 184 15,07 copies: for March, 1484 80 coples Tor A : fo My, 189, IR, 181 1485, 19, : for Aug # duly sworn, de- ry of The liea actual average for the Bworn to before and subscribed in my pres- ence, this uth day of October, A. 1, 1885, . P. FElL, Notary Publie. ACCORDING to the report of the tionai burcau of agriculturo Nebraska's crop of corn has never heen excelled and cqualled only threc times in the past ten years. ayer awaiting to hear the exposures of the paving frauds, Certain officinls and ex-oflicials have promised to make startling rev lations. Let the tax be kept no longer in suspens Out with it, THE money ovler department of the Omaha postoftice did a local business for the last fiscal year of over five million dollars. This of itself shows the growth of the postal business in the city and the necessity of new and enlarged quarters, Tue additional powers asked for by the board of health in order to improve the sanitary condition of the city should be granted by the council without delay. An carnest effort to make Omaha the cleancst and best kept city in the country should be encouraged. Tre Swedish voters of Omaha can not be hoodwinked and mustered blindfold- ed into the democratic ranks. The attempt of local democratic politicians to make capital for their party out of an anti-prohibition meeting of our Scan- dinavian citizens proved a dismal fail- ure. THE county committee has fixed the dates for holding the republican prim- aries ou the 15th inst., and the conven- tion the next day. This is very short notice to the rank and file, but it may have been proper tactics in view of the action of the democratic county com- mittee. THE unprovoked warfare which no- torious blackmailers and boodlers who prostitute Omaha journalism are wag- ing on Mr. Kierstead is beneath con- tempt. Because Mr. Kicrstead had manhood enough while in the council to resent the importunities of these bloodsuckers w lend himself to their nefarious schemes, he is subjected to the most vile abuse. Tue shocking disaster which oc- curred on the Lehigh Valley railroad near Wilkesbarre, Pa., adds another chapter of horrors to the list of railroad collisions that could have been avoided. It is cortain that a lack of proper pre- caution on the part of railroad officials in runniny several sections of crowded excursion trains close together was the cause of the terrible accident. ——— As A result of the Hutchinson wheat corner at Chicago and the efforts made by those caught in the rise to pull the market down, eight hundred thousand bushels of wheat on an average arriyed daily in Chicago during the past few days. But very little was reshipped. Under this pressure prices weakened and may go lower if this unprecedented shipment of wheat to Chicago is kept up. INDIANA is being talked to death, Tt Is literally flooded with orato! Twenty-five hundred campaign spes ers are going from farm house to farm house to drum up recruits. There is no state in the union where political can- vassing is reduced to such a nicety, and there is no state in the country where the two parties are making such perate eforts to win its vote. des- THE number of business failures for the year 1888 so far is about four per cent greater than during the corr sponding time last year. As compared with the same period of 1886 it is loss, and it is about fifteen per cent less than the corresponding periods of 1885 or 1884, The busine situation, as measured by these comparisons, is by no means as unfavorable as it has been painted, Docror WILLIAM PErreR, of Phila- delphia, who attended General Sheri- dan during his long sickness, refuses to nocept any pay for his services. Ina letter to Colonel Sheridan who re- quested him to render his bill, Doctor Pepper replied that he wished his ser- vices to be regarded only as an cx- pression of the deep and lasting obliga- tion which he, in common with others, owed to Ceneral Sheridan, This is in marked contrast to the extortionate foes charged by the physicians who at- tended President Garfield and Genera! Grant during their last days. Cabinet Politicians. It s about time for the Hon. Don Dickinson, postmaster general, to make his promised reappearance in Michigan to discuss the relations between the t and New England, and to vindi- cate, if he ean do so, his assumption that in we But as w gosted some time gince in reforence this extraordinary attitude of the Michi- gan statesman, he has prol been ad- vised not to make the proposed speech, or if advised he may h cluded from a careful r what Mr. Blaine has said whject that it will be wise to omit it from any future efforts he may make to convert the people of Michigan to democracy, There has been i dent of this campaign where uous leader of either party was so com- pletely annihilated as Mr. Don <on has been by Mr. Blaine. tement and assumption of the forme rding New England, so far as re- lates to the commercial relationsof that section with other portions of the coun- try, is shown by Mr. Blaine to have no authority or foundation in the facts. Mr. Dickinson made his statements wholly without knowl- edge, and as an exhibition of malicious partisan zeal there has been nothing more reprehensible in our political history for the past quar- ter of a century. It supplied an oppor- tunity, however, of which Mr. Blaine has made excellent use in Michigan, and the effect of which canuot fail to have a much wider scope. The politicians of the cabinet not covered themselves with glory in the part they have thus far taken in the gn, and Mr. Cleveland must be greatly disappointed in the political value of his immediate licutenants. The tour of Secretary Vilas in Wisconsin failed to arouse any democratic enthusiam in that state, and if reports can be trusted left the situation there for his party worse than he found it. Mr. Whitney's visit to New York for the purpose of reconciling the warring factions in that state, was a complete failure, although he had the able as ance of Colonel Lamont. Secretary Bayard has made a brave effort to vindi cate the foreign volicy of the adminis- tration with no other effect than to strengthen the popular convietion that the policy has been a failure. It is al- together a very unprofitable work that the cabinet politicians have done for their party, and if the campaign man- agers are wise these gentlemen will not be called upon to again leave their posts of duty, where they should have unin- terruptedly remained, to contribute further to the canvass from their rather limited stock of political wisdom. Nevada's Stake. Nevada has but three electoral votes, yet the democratic party would very much like to capture themand its man- agers profess to be hopeful of doing so. ¢ can hardly have seriously consid- , however, the stake which that state has in the question of the re-clec: tion of Cleveland. The people of Ne- vada are not likely to forget that the president has been the persistent enemy of its chief industry, silver mining, for the evidences of what that hostility has accomplished to the injury of their wel- fare is steadily before them. Mr. Cleveland declared his hostility to silver before he en- tered upon his duties as peesident, and at no time since has he shown that his views have undergone any change. The recommendations of his first and present secretary of the treasury re- flected the opinion of the executive as to the policy that should be pursued re- garding silver, and they were unquali- fiedly hostile. Obstacles of every kind have been thrown in the way of tho free use of silver through the agency of the treasury department,and every pos- sible device has been resorted to to re- strict the use of silver as money. The interests of Wall street have steadily dominated at Washington, and as far as possible the great silver-mining indus- try of the country has been neglected and discredited by the administration and the democratic house at its dicta- tion. A striking instance of this was the defeat of the vroposition of a demo- cratic senator, Beck, to increase the coinage of silver in order to prevent a contraction of the currency in couse- quence of a retirement of bank uotes following the surrender of bonds. Other instances of the undoubted hos- tility of silver might easily be cited, and they are all familiar to the peoplo of Nevada, and most naturally they ascribe the decline of the silver-mining industry in that state largely to this cause. They know, also, that while the democratic platform says not aword about silver the republican platform declares dis- tinetly in its favor. It is necessary to suppose that the people of Nevada have not the intelligence to understand their most vital interests in order to beli that they will vote to coutinue in power an executive who has been the most persistent and persevering enemy of those interests. $0 ve con- ading of on this conspic- have st Not a Good Witness. The Hon. Hugh McCulloch has an- nounced his intention to vote for Cleve- land if he is physically able on the da, of election to get to the polls. The fact that Mr, MeCulloch was secretary of the treasury in three republican adminis- trations causes his conversion at this time to be huailed with a great deal of satisfaction by the democrats, and un- der some circumstanees the ac ion might be regarded as important. It is possible that it may exert a slight in- fluence in certain capitalistic circles in the east, but it can have ro extended effect upou public sentiment anywl though the attempt will be made to give it potency. Mzr. MeCulloch professes to regard the administeation of Mr. Cleveland as hav- ing been particularly able and upright, and he finds nothing in the record for disapproval, not even the fact of its having permitted the banks to make the profits on sixty millions of the surplus doposited with them without paying anything for the privilege, He, also, sees nothing in the Mills bill to fnd fault with, the manifestly sectional character of this measure having wade no impression on him. Ts the veteran financlar a good witness for Mr. Cleveland against the party with which he has hitherto acted? A negative answer will the circumstances of Mr. business relations for & number of years past. He has been an eastern banker with London conne and the ten- deney of this has not been tostrengthen his concern for American interests, It is true that for some yoars he has ad- vocated tariff reform, but not on the democratic lines, and the fact that he is now willing to follow those lines shows that he has become strongly imbued with the sentiments meral in Wall street, 1d to which this administration has heen peeulinrly The hope that Mr. Cleve- land has of carrying New York is in no small measure formed upon the service which the national treasury has ren- dered to the bankers of the metropolis, and whether or not Mr. MeCulloch shared in the benefits he is naturally in sympathy with the element of which he has been, if he be not still, a p: An- other attraction possessed by t i dent for the ex-secre his well-known hostility to silver, of which Mr. McCulloch has always hbeen a persistent op- ponent. There may be other reasons why the ex-secre of the treasury, after being repeatedly honored by the vepubli , now renounces it, but these are sufficient to materially weaken, if not to destroy, the value of his testi- mony in behalf of the present adminis- tration. Had Mr. McCulloch remained a western banker he would not have changed his political affiliation. found TeCul tions, subservient., The Yerkes Syndicate. Tt now appe that Mr. Yerkes rep- resents the interests in Chicago of a syndicate owning transit franchises also in Pittsburg, Philadelphia and New York. This fact shows that combina- tions are being formed which menace the individual welfare of localities. That the affairs of a horse car line in Chi- cago should be controlled by capitalists living in Philadelphia and New York was something which was not foreseen when Chicago gave it its charter. Tt is obvious that power must be given to the local authorities to deal with ques- tions of o certain kind, because mani- festly the tendency is for securities to drift away from local holders, and to be- come concentrated in one or two great eastern cities that have no interest or sympathy with western citiap save the dividends that can be wrung out of them. Inthe homely proverh of the Scotch, “every herring must hang by its own tail,” Chicago must manage its transit companies. As the case stands at pres- ent, the city of Chicago in transit mat- ters is virtually controlled by New York or Philadelphia. If an amendment is added to the constitution of Illinois giv- ing mayors power to arrange all contro- versies between franchise companie and theiv employes, this very danger- ous state of things will cease. Virtu- ally, the strikers represent the interests of Chicago, and Mr. Yerkes represents the interests of individuals in Philadel- phiaand New York, who contribute nothing to the prosperity of Chicago save the taxes paid upon their ronds. NATOR ST ART, of Nevada, has introduced a resolution in congress of importance to the mining interests of the west. It provides that the commit- tee on mines and mining shall ascertain the number of aliens and foreign cor- porations owning mines in the terri- tories and the effect that such owner- ship has had upon the growth of the territories. This resolution is not brought forward with any hostile in- tention toward alien ownership. On the contrary, it is supplementary to the bill of Senator Hearst, of California, passed some months ago in the senate, but still pending in the house, amend- ing the alien land law, which permits the purchase of mines by foreigners in the territories. A report from the com- mittee on mines and mining favorable to the foreign ownership of mines, it is thought, will have a good effect in in- ducing the house to pass the Hearst bill. THe death rate in Omaha for the month of September was less than ten pev cont of each thousand of the popu- lation, a rate not paralleled, it is safe to say, by a dozen other cities in the country. The healthfuluess of this city is proverbial among those of its citizens who bave given the matter anyjattention, but it is not as well understood asit should ba by the outside world. In this respect the record of Omaha is well toward the head of the list of the most healthful cities, and with the progress provements in paving and sewage it is cortuin to rise higher, With a pop- ulation of one hundred thousand, a monthly deaih rate of eighty-nine is a record that may safely challenge com- parison. —_— VARIOUS correspondents in Jackson- ville send the curious news that the death average has been increased by the attempt to cure yellow fever by an tropoise machine, introduced during the epidemic with most unsatisfacto result It appeavs timt it was operated by the patentees or their agents. It is vprising that such witlessand disgust- ing quackery should have been per- mitted by the Jacksounville board of heaith. There is in most states alaw covering such cases, and making the of- fense mauslaughter wherever death en- sues, whether the paticnt dies of the disense or of the vreatment. It is to be hoped that Florida has such a law, and that it will be enforced. I¥ 1T be true, as Charles Francis Adaws states, that the president of the Burlington road rofuses to join the Union Pacific in the proposcd union depot, Omaha is in position to induce Mr. Perkies to withdreaw his opposition. It is & matter of fact that the grounds now oecupied by the B. & M. road for passenger station and travster was donated by this city to the Union Pas fie railvoad company for a unior depot, and this ground was to vevert to the city whenever it was used for any other purpose, The Union Pacific had no right tosell this ground toany other rond, and unless Mr. Perkins recedes from his position it may bocome neces- sary for our citizens lo take steps for in | the recovefy of these also other ways and means within legit- imate reach of this community to com- pel fair treatmint at the hands of rail- road compa an enormous revenue from the patronage of Omaha. that & that deriv AcconpiNa to Charles Francls Adams our wretched transfer facilitics and the failure to construct the great union depot at Omaha is due entirely to the refu f Mr. Hewitt of the N Perkins of the B lington road, to join the Union Pacifie and pay their shave towards building the union depot. According to Hewitt and Perkins the responsibility for the miserable depot and transfer accommo- dations at Omaha {s with the Union Pacifie, whose policy has been to ge enormous income from bridge tolls, 0w, who 15 deceiving us, and who 18 prevaricating? In plain English, who is the liar? ALL who have taken an interest in the beneficent movement of the So- ciety of the Home of the Friendless will be glad to learn that their assist- ance has been fruittul of the most grat- ifying results, The reports submitte to the convention of the society, in ses- sion at Lincoln, show steady progress in the excellent work and much good accomplished, The labor in which the society is engaged appeals strongly to the philanthrophie, and the response should be generous. There is no better cause to which the charitable may de- vote a portion of their benefactions. IT 18 refreshing to learn from Mr. Andrew Carnegie’s own lips that trusts are bound to go to pieces sooner or later, and that they mvolve in their ruin those who are so foolish as to embark in them. While all this may be true, it is nevertheless a fact that the people of this country are to-day paying enhanced prices for commoditics owing to the formation of combinations amoug manu- facturers. That stage in the evolution of trusts has yet to sct in when they shall become so top-heavy as to go to picees by their own weight. THE live-stock shippers met at South Omahe, sterday. The association numbers nearly one hundred and fifty members, and one of its objects is to de- mand just treatment by railroads. A complaint was made of discrimination against South Omaha by the Fremont & Elkhorn road, and another against the Burlington growing out of late trains. In these days of close competition it is safe to predict that these busy shippers will get the relief they ask IF ANY one should ask Governor Swineford, of Alaska, for whose benefit the United States purchased that terri- from Russia, he would reply em- phatically, “For the Alaska Commer- cial company, beyond a doubt,” In his last year’s report he declared that wherever it had obtained a foot-hold neither white man nor native could live in peace, except.by its sufferance. DespITE the vigilence of the police in enforcing Mayor Broatch’s order for the suppression of the social evil, the vice has scattered itself in several respecta- ble neighborhoods. That was to be ex- pected. The flames of a tank of burn- ing oil cannot be stamped out by pouring on it a dipperful of water. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. ‘Tho burglar with the fish pole for his tool is operating at Beatrice. Johnson county is short on school teachers and is advertising for a few. An enormous amount of hay has been put up by the farmers of Kearney county this year. The Gothenburg canal project 18 moving along smoothly and the town is preparing for @ boom. A little boy living near Macon, Franklin county, took a_drink of whisky' the other duy and in a short time was a corpse. 0. G. Bailey, candidate for the legislature, has been elected president of the Franklin County Soldiers' and Sallors' association. Tecumseh has a resident who takes delight fn going around nights and spitting tobacco juice on the windows of the business houses. The Minden church authorities are going to “put the law on” the ycung men who stand around the sanctuaries on Sunday and raise disturbances. Tho young ladics of Minden are about to give a leap year hugging varty, the proceeds 1o be devoted to the purchaseof a winter's supply of chewing gum. The board of supervisors of Platte county has employed counsel to test the validity of the $100,000 bonds voted in 1579 to aid the Lincoln & Northwestern railroad and has in- structed the county treasurer to pay no more interost coupons until the matter has beeu decided, A young man named Adams, working on a farm near Ponca, has mysteriously disap- peared. About three weeks ago he was sent out to the hay fleld alone to work. Since that time he has not Yeen seen or heard of, & diligent search and 1nquiry revealing nothing a8 to his whereabouts. He left at the houso a good suit of clothes, & month's wages and about §20 In cash. Dr. E. D. Barrett, of Boatrice, was ar- rested at Burwell last week on complaint of Charles Hennich for obtaining money under false preten Some time ago the *‘doctor" came along and offered to cure a child of Mr. Hennich’s for the sum of $100. He took Mr. Hennich's note for the amount, left somo medicine and went to the bank and sold the note. That was the last heard of the Sigoctor” until he ‘made his appearance Loup couaty, when Mr. Hennich had him ar- rested. He was acquitted on 1 grounds, but narrowly escaged an “egging” from an indignant populace. The Scotia Herald announces that there will be a wrestling match at the Presby- terian church next Sabbath morning botween the pastor and satan, cateh-as-catch-can, best three falls out of five. Other novelti will follow in quick succession. This announce- et is made on the suggestion of the Ladies’ Sewing society, who fully discussed the subjects of methods 6f inducing the ma population of Scotia taf attend church at v last meeting, and finally concluded to r mend wrestling matches, base ball, foot races and other popular amusements. L A Schaller man make 47, cabbage into sauer t this fall During the past two weoks 960 acres of school lands in Webster county have been sold at #12 and $13 per acre. In the Marshall county district court the Bowmans were each fined 5 for selling liquor in the original packages. The case will be appealed. Blue vitrol was thrown into Haskell's spring at Fort Dodge, from which the Rock Island depot, gas works, and many families are sup plied. 1t was discovered in time to prevent har The saloonists of Lyous are reported to be hedging, alarmed at the public sentiment arousad against them. The word is that they hiad a meeting and pledged themseives under #0 forfeit to observe the city ordinance rela tive to closing nights and Sundays, A few day ago while G. W. Ellis was en gaged in digqng & we | for J. M. Dean, in Cass, after going uninety feet through dry earth the drfil suddenly dropped nine feet The pump was put in and water perfectly 2 heads of nds. There aro | clear drawn. - Also some*pebbles rosembling those found in river beds, It is supposed that an underground reservoir or lake has been struck, Ibert I 1 suit in the 1a £000 damage court at Ko 1k aeainst B. B. Hinma: of that city. petition states that the plaintiff, who isth 1 years old, on October 19, 18 B, fell into o lune pit negligently placed near the street by the de. fondant, and that the lime entered one oye and dostroyed tho sight and also damaged the other eye, making Lim substantially biind. Dakota. The total expense to ( county for its clerk of the court during the two years bhas been #150, or about §5 per yoar. Isaac Daffer has resigned his office as sheriff of Charles Mix county and ~ Dan Walters has been appointed to fill the va cancy. Information has reached Fargo of the death in Houduras of J. W. Milligan, & prominent citizen of that city, and o part- per in an extensive gold mine in that coun- try Duplicate chary Church have been mailed These are in addition to the sp sent the president some time sine g will probably be laid away with the original batch. 1. Coacher, for many ycars a thrifty farmor resid it of Yankton county, has sold his farm near Utica and will move’ to south ern Nebraska. Mr. Coacher's object in making the change is to secure the benefits of a milder climate, Nine of the heayiest creditors of the de- funct Bank of Hitchcock, having become wearied of waiting for something to turu up, have sworn out writs of attachment, and have attached the whole property of the de- funct firm, and will test the validity of the assignment. A man giving his name as John Cain while intoxicated made an unprovoked attack upon Virgil Ruthburn, one of Groton’s best citi zens, and, being worsted in the encounter, afterward’ approached Ruthburn from bo hind and stabbed him in the side. Ruthburn Lies in a critical condition. There is still in Dakota government land open to settlement under the homestead and pre-emption laws over 20,000,000 acres of land or a district about the size of Maine or Indi ana, and larger than half a dozen small states combined. In addition to the public land area there yet remains nearly 27,000,000 acres of Indian reservation not yetopen to settle- ment and se: million acres of railroad land which is sold on long time atalow figure, AMUS| The Recital for the Benefit of the Omaha Guards. Agood humored audience of about two hundred greeted Mr. A. Gordon Robinow Iast evening in dramatic recital given at the armory of the Omaha guards. Aside from the numbers furnished by Mr. Robinosw, Mr. A. C. McMahon impersovated Henry K. Dixey in “It's English, You Know.” Mr. . Boyi took the part of Cassius to Robinow's Brutus in a scene from *“Julius Caesar,” and in another scene, taken from “Henry VIIL," Mr. Boyd represented Cromwoll. The musi- calpart of the programme consisted of a number of vocal 8olos by Mrs, Martin Cahn, also a number of solos rendered by Mr. W, C. Long, and a number of selections by the orchestr: Mr. Robinow recited the **Dream of Eugene Aram,” “NotOn the Programme and appeared as Brutus and Cardinal Wolsey in a number of Shakspearean selections, His renditions were all heartily encored, and indeed the entire programme met with much favor. The Boyd. A change of bill for the performance of the Madison Square Theater company Sat- urday evening, from “Jim the Penman” to “Saints and Sinuers'” has been announced. The play was produced at the Boyd two years ago by the Madison Square Theater company, and is one of the strongest plays ever presented on the American stage. In the hauds of Mr. Palmer's company it has 10 better interpreters either in England_or America. J. H. Stoddart, the venerablo actor, does not appear in “Jim, the Penman, and Mr, Boyd was desirous that the patrons of his house might be permitted to see Mr. Stoddart once more in the splendid cha acter of Rey. Jacob Fletcher, minister of Bethel chapel. It is one of hismost effective parts, and when once scen will never be forgotten. The Grand. “Two Old Cronies," in which Wills and Henshaw and May Ten Broeck, well-known favorites, sustain the principal parts, will be the fun-making attraction at the New Grand this evening. The box office is now open. THE ADAMS EXPRESS. It Secures Admission to Omaha Over the C., M. & St. P. A telegram from New York announces that the Adams express company has con- cluded & contract for a term of years for the express facilitics over the Chicago, Milwau- kee & St Paul railroad. It s claimed that the move is in pur- suance of @ policy of the Adams ex- press company to extend its service to the extreme northwest and California. The ex- press service on theroad in question between Chicago and Omaha has heretofore been supplied by the United States company, whose agent here is Mr. S. A. Huntoon, who 18 also agent for the Pacific express company. This gentieman stated that he had heard nothing of the change, and knew mnothing about it until the telegram referred to was brought to his notice. ~ He did not know how the change was brought about, whether by cancellation or expiration of the express company’s contract with the road in ques- tion. Mr. E. M. Morseman, president of the Pa- cific Express company '8aid that he had not heard of the change and could not tell what had brought it about. It could have been oc- casioned by the expiration_or cancellation of contract oF by the receipt of o more favorable offer for the business by the Adams. A gen- eral offer of railroads for the privilege of do- ing thoir express business was forty per cent of the receipts. The Adams company might have increased this bonus. “This change leaves the Rock Island road to the United States but will in no man ner effect the employes of the company at this point. It also displaces the American company from the St. Paul road’s business in the northwest It gives the United States an entrance to the south of lowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ne. braska, and will result in the establishment of an oftice in tnis city. In the event of the company stretching still farther toward the west, it may lead to the establishment of a divislon headquarters at this point. Just how it hopes o go further west cannot now be explained, because it i understood the Wells, Fargo' Express compaoy have a hold upon the 13, & M. and the Pacific, Mr. Morse n claims, has a contract for years with the Union Pacific. Distressing Case. As farback as the 25th of August last Mrs. Richard Brown strayed away from her home on the corner of Twentieth and Clark streots, this city, and since that time noth ing authentic has been heard from her. Mr. Richard Brown 1s, and has been for years, foreman of the tin and sheet iron shops of the Union Pacific railway here, and Mr, and Mrs. Brown are old residents of the city Mrs. Brown has been long and widely known bere for her many fine traits of character For over a year now she has been the vietim of fits of despondency and unsound mind Every possible means has veen used to find her in the city and vicinity, but all search up to this date hus been unavailing. This search has been so thorough and has been made by such numbers, that it is now feared that she has left the city. When she left home she wasattired in a gray woolen dress and black straw hat. She has dark brow bair aud blue eyes, and somewhat over the average height, and forty-eight years of age. The lttle fine ger of her left hand is crooked. Any information from uny portion of the country that would load to her discovery will be gratefully received by her griel stricken family aud hushand Angostura Bittersare the best remedy for removing indigestion. Ask your druggist for the genvine, prepared by Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sous CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS Continuation of the Debate on the New Tariff Moasure. CULLOM ANALYZES THE BILL, The Tnevitab! Result of Trade Policy of the Der Party — Carl the Free ocratic sle's Course WasHINGTON, Oct. 11.—In the senate to day the house bill appropriating $0,000 for the enforcement of the exclusion act was re ported by Mr. Allison and passed Mr. Mitchell then proceeded to addross the senate in advocacy of the bill to reduce let ter postag The bill was referred to the postoftices The senate then resumed consideration of ;l\u tarift bill, and was addressed by Mr. Cul- om. The question before the senate and before the country, Mr. Cullom said, was whether the American system of protection to Amerl- can_industries ‘and American labor should be maintained, or whether the policy of froe trado or, which was the same thing in effect, a *‘tariff for revenue only," should be adopted. His remarks were not confined to a discus. sion of items, either in the house bill or in the sonate bill, because ne had but little time to consider those bilis and for further reasons that in his judgment it was_ utterly impracticable to have those bills cou- sidered item by item at the ent session of congress. There his remarks would "be somew general. - The people would decide the ques. tion at the polis in November, whether the ate did so or not, and he believed that the sion would be in favor of the republican party and its policy. The republican party had always believed in the doctrine of prote tion. The democratic party did not. T\ party did not believe in a protective tariff, although since the issue had been made its leaders —Mills, Carlislo and _others —talked about the amount of protection which the bantling, the Mills bill, gave to the various industrics of the country. The adoption of the Cleveland-Mills-free-trade policy would not for a time, in his opinion, reduce tho rev- enues. It would put more money into the treasury from import duties, but” it would finally reduce the revenues by bankrupting the people, so that they could not buy either imported or_domestic goods. The surplus would then disappear, and the nation would commence a system of borrowing monoey-a business in which the democratic admin- istration was engaged before the late war, when it sold its bonds at a discount in order to pay the current expenses of the government. " After a comparison of the plat- forms of the two parties of 1334 and 1585, he declured that the demaeratic party was a free trade party, if it was anything, and had been for fifty yea Ho criticised the speeches of Carlisle and Thurman, complaining that the taxes wore too hugh, ahd asked whoso fault that was, Why had a reduction not been made! The demooratic party had control of the house for sixteen years, most of the time under Carlisle’'s speakership. The demo- cratic party was _rosponsible for the high taxes, and not the revublican party. The republican party would, however, revise the tariff, would reduce the surplus, and would, atthe same time, protect the labor and in- dustries of the country, He referred to thy house of representatives as having a south- ern man for speaker and a southern man for cnairman of the most important committees, and said that he did not believe in_a Texas statesman. He believed that if the polic expressed in the Mills bill, and expressed by the Texas senator, were to prevail it would result in ruin to the bus ness of the country. The proposed tariff legislation of which the gentleman from Texas was the reputed author, would be, if enacted, worse than Texas fever among cattle. It would be a Texas fever among tho business interests of the country, paralyzin, them, and would be followed by poverty an distre Mr. Cullom went on to iilustrate the effec of & protective tariff in_ stimulating competi- tion and cheapening products, and instanced, among other cases, that of watches. It was not many years, he said, since the manufac- ture of watches was commenced in the United States. There had been a small duty levied on imported watches, and the efforts made to manufacture in this country failed, but when the duty was increased thé manufacture of watches was established, and now fifty or sixty establishments in the United States aro engaged in that business, giving employment 10 nny thousands of skillod. workien and to many women, giris and boys at good wages, and American watches—as good watches as wade anywhere—were so cheap that everybody had one now, whereas, thirty years ago, it was a rare article in a country community. I the courseof his remarks he made reference to Mr. Vest's letter, hereto- fore frequently referred to as a struggle, being a fight to the death. Mr. Vest said that he wanted to make a statement as to that letter. It was a private letter, written in the senate during a debate, and afterwards type-written by his secre- tary. If he had the shightest suspicion that 1t would have been made public he would certainly have been more particular in fram- ingits sentences and in the verbiage used, but to any fair minded man the letter was plain and unequivocal. Mr. Vest added that any man who did not appreciate the differ- ence between a letter written under circum- stances under which this letter was written, and one written to be submitted to the fierce criticism of political opponents, would have no further information from him. What_he wanted, and what the letter, fair- ly construed, did say, was that the issue between the ' principle of absolute and unlmited protection, which he understood the republicans to advocate, and the position of the democratic party, which was the raising of a_revenue of taxcs, R{operly djusted, was a fight to the death. r. Vest also complained of a small hand bill misropresenting his letter. The man or men who did this—who took two entirely distinct and separate portions of the letter and put them together, leaving out the intermediate and_explanatory sentence—would disgrace the striped clothes of a penitentiary. Mr. Cullom remarlkced that the explanation made the matter no better. There was no mistaking the fact that the scnator from Missouri had said that the president had chal- lenged the protected industrics to fight for extermination. Mr. Chace next addressed the scuate, di recting his remarks to the contrast between the republican and democratic administra tions in the management of the postal servico of the country. Without concluding his re- marks, Mr. Chace yielded the floor and the senate adjourncd till to-morrow. - R TERRIBLE ACCIDE committee on AN( Five Hundred People Injured by the Fall of an Amphitheater. Quixoy, 1L, Oct. 11.—Five huudred peo ple were injured, half of them seriously, lakt nigiit, by the collapse of the amphitheater erected to assist in the bigannual celebration of Quincy. A seating capacity of 5,000 had been provided for those wishing to witness the pyrotechnic display. At $o'clock, when the first rocket v fired, the supports at the west end gave way, aud the entive struc ture, 600 feet long, wavered and foll to the ground, car with it its mass of liv freight. ‘The night was very durk, and through it all arose the groans and cries of the imprisoned multitude, ‘Ihose who had presence of mind at once set about extricat ing those who were sccured by the debris, aud strotehers wore procured a8 guickly as possible, aud the wounded conveyed from the scene to the adjucent houses, which were changed into impromptu hospitals. As fur as could be learned there were not less than 500 injured, nd balf of that num- ber recoived gerious wounds. ‘The ouly fatal jury réported was that of Albort V. Wells, an attorney of this city aud ndidate for the legisiature. No hope i ained of lus recovery. The excitement was $0 great all night that the strects re wained crowded, and newspaper ofices were besicged by anxious people who sought the nawmes of friends or relatives who might have becn injured. There is no doubt that a num- ber of those injured will dle The casualties from the falllog amphithea- ter at the fireworks display are more numer- ous than at first reported, but &0 far none nave proved fatal. Reports wre still being veceived of injurics. Im the ex cltement following the crash of those hurt were earriod many names have not yot been reported, About three hundred are moro or less in jured. Among the most seriously hurt are A W. Wells, vib fractured and_ ankls sprained; ' Charles King, leg broken; Dr. Wilson, apine injured; D. Woodruff, leg broken; Magis is, log broken; A. Brown, hand mashod; Theodore Herr, leg broken; kd, Wheeler', ankle broken; Mrs. J. 13. Vandor- boom, leg brokeny Superintendent Lovy of Long Pine, foot mashed; Mrs. W. L. Distin, foot mashod; Mrs. Horring, log broken; John Morrill, log broken; Mrs, J, N. Wellman, log broken; Dr. Bowman, eol lr bone dislocated and_loft lung ruptired; Charles Bauman, noso broken; I T. Bowen, loy brokon: Mrs! 1. O. Reod, log broken} Mrs. Zoke Clowes, arm broken, most away and BARRY A CKS POWDERLY, The General Master Wor an Charged With Gross Mismanagement. New Yonk, Oct. 11,—|Special Telogram to Tur Bee.| ~Thomas Barry, until recently a member of the exccutive board of the Knights of Labor, addressed a throng at Cooper's union last night. Referring to Mr. Powderly he saia: “We pay $16 a day to a man studying law and languages.” Barry said he was sent down to Massachusetts to help the strikers in Salem and Peabody, 3,200 in number, who were starving. At that time there was $137,000 1n_the general treasury. Barry begged for $10,000 to hely the strikers, but could’ not get it until just before the Richmond convention. Then it was done to make votes for the administra tion. Mr. Barry divectly charged Mr. Pow. derly with ordering the 25,000 pork packers of Chicago to go back to work after Barry had secured an_agreement from the omployers granting the demands of the men, The speaker said that Mr. Powderly was jealous of him and feared that if successful Barry would supplant him. Mr. Barry said Knights of Labor hiad been discharged in the general oftices at Philadelphia and their places filled by “scab” help, two of which were young and pretty girls, who sat around all day aud read novels, During the last four years the board had spent $450,00. “How' and for what, you do not know nor dare ask,” added the speaker. Mr. Barry said that while the head of the order had ad od temperance, wine formed an important item in the year's bill. In conclusion the speaker said the labor movement of the last two years had been a miserable farce. The order that two years ago had 702,000 members had but 200,000 in it now. - Nebraska and lowa Pensions. Wasnixaroy, Oct. 11.—[Special Telegram to Tirk Bee.]--Pensions granted Nebraskans Original invalid-—Lucius C. Gould, Hastings; Jerome G. Graver, Wayne, Increase—Loren W. Hastings, Aurora; Thomas Herrin, Stock ville; James R. Kads, York. Reissue -Harris J. Curtis, Tecumseh. Original widows Elizabeth Oldham, former widow of William J. Breeding, Perdun. Pensions for Towans: Original invalid— Edward D. Roberts, Des Moines; 0. O. Pat- terson, Webster City; Isracl Potts, Storm Andrew J. Abbott, Plum Hollow; Winslow, Panora; Aaron Lowis, lo; Burton 'S. Dawson, Fayotto; Lean der Keever, Prescott; Elisha McEvers, River Sioux. Increase—Hower Matthows, Tools. boro: (old war) Nelson Demick, Gravity; Charles J. Harrington, Cedar Falls; Samuel Webber, Summit Hill; George W. Baird, Bloomficld; Reuben . Poole, Holt; Ernest Zimmerman, Burlington; John H.' Linder man, Wapetlo: Jacob Rosser, Conrad Grove, William H. Burnham, Kingsley; Peter H Vanslyck, Des Moines. Reissue—Clark H Robinson, Towa City. Original widows Mabala, mother of Georgo W. Adums, Wel ster City; Ada, widow of Judson W, Barden, Fayette. 'Mexican survivors—Henry Hatson pilier, Des Moin S Big Fire In New York. NEW Yok, Oct.11.—A fire broke out early this morning on voard the steamer Havis, lying at the wharf of the Pennsylvania aud cranton coal company, at the foot of North Tenth street. The flames cxtonded to other vesscls, communicating from the vos sels to the pierand frowm there to tho ship ping department and buildings of the Stan- dard Oil works, which cover a whole block. As soom as the fire reached the oil it was beyond the control of the firemen. The Dutchland, Ellavose, Leo pold Hall, and the steamer Havis were par tially destroyed. The explosion of an_oil tank injured six fir who were conveyed to the hospital. The loss is thought to be two hundred thousand dollars, and it is believed there was very lit- tlo insurance on the propert iyl Postal Changes. WasuiNaToN, Oct. 11.—[Special Telogram —Blias S, Hunter was to-day postmaster at Colomas, Valley Nebraska, vice Issac M. Huff, re- signed. A postofiice has been established at Pearl, Chaso county, with Houry H. Waggner as postmaster. The postoffice at Elkton, Nuckolls county,will be discontinued from October 20. Kvan M. Ward was to-day_appointed post: master at Page, Page county, Iowa, vica John Sloops, rosigned. A postoftice was es tablished at Rake, Winncbago county, with Arent A. Rake as postmaster. The Baptists Elect Ofticers. Neunaska Crrr, Neb, Oct. 11.—|Spectal to Tnr Ber.| -The Nebraska Baptist associa- tion, now in scssion in this city, elected tho following ofticers for the casuing year: Rev. E. D. Bennick, of Paliyra, moderator; Rov. Thomas Stephenson, Weeping Water, secre- ed G. Davis, Nebraska City, treas- The attendance at the convention is large and the sessions decidedly intoresting. The meeting will adjourn to-morrow, GraxpIsLAND, Neb., Oct, 11.—[Special Tel- egram to Tug Bre]-J. Pearson, who was arrested for enticing young girls away from home and using them for immoral purposes, had his prelunivary examination befors Squire Smith and was bound over to the dis- trict court in the sum of 1,000, w dofault of which be went o jail. Minus His Pocketbook. NEnkaska Civy, Neb., Oct. 11.—[Speocial to Tur Bek.]—Last evening about 9 o'clock, J. B. Northoutt, a grocer, left 3150 lying on the top of his safe. While he waited on a customer in anothor part of the store it was taken by some sueak thief. Float Representative, Baxcrorr, Neb, Oct. 11 Brie. | —Atb the democratic foat rop tive convention for the counties of Cumin and Dakota held here yesterday, O'Sullivan, of West Poiut, was by acclanation Laird and Laws at McCOook. McCook, Neb, Oct. 11.—(Special to Tre Bee.|—Hon, James Laird and S, L. Laws will address the people of McCook at the hall Saturday evening, October 13 Preparations are being made for a monster demonstration, an White, pecial Telegram ite, the brakeman on Tuesday night, died Upon investigation it was found that th contained 150 cans of blasting powder al oil in barrels. Cor. oner Birney is now holding an inquest. Millionaire Flood Dangerously i1, SAN FraNcisco, Oct. 11— Cablegrams wero d from Heidelberg, Germany, yester oung Jumes Flood, giving accounts erous relapse suffered by his {ather, nza milliozaire, at that place, - Pythian Brigade Encampment. W. L. Dayten, brigadier geueral of the uniform rank of the Knights of Pytbiasio this city, was in town Wednasday night and cony ferred with loeal members of theorder with respect to the bolding of a hrlfldn eucamp- ment. The project was warmly supported and determined upon, butno dute was sot. It is not likely that the encampment will be held before next spriy, Death of Brak vy, Neb, Oct, 11 to Tuz Bek. | —George W injured in the fi early this morning the boni o Jurvis wedical brandy the be