Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 23, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE:, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Morning Eaition) “K'l\llllln, BUNDAY ¥k, One Y ear &m Six Months <410 00 o Months y s % A RiA maiiad 10 aay 2 00 DT 2 00 14 AND P10 FARNAM STRERT. CHICAGO OFFICE 07 ROOKERRY BUTLDIN REW YORK OFFICE, ROOMS 18 AND 16 TRIBUNE BUILDING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. bl FOURTRENTH BTREET. PE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE, address, One Y ear WERKLY [er, One OMANAOFFICE NOS CORRBSPON DE Allcommunications relating to news and edi- Sorinl matter should b addressed to the EDITOR OF ThE HEE, " TTHRS, Al busin nittances should be nddressed to NG COMPANY, OzAnA. Dragls, chi fice orders 1o bemade payable to of the company. I ROSEWATER, Lditor. —_—— T™H Y BEE, Sworn Statement ot Circalation. Btateof Nebrask: tyof Do George 1.7, , secretary of The Bes Pub. lighing Compa solemnnly swear that the sctal circulation of Tk DALY BEE for the wesh ending January gnnday, Jan. 13 Monday, Jan, 16, Tuesday, Jan. 15 Wednewday, Jun, hursan 7 Friduy. Eaturday, Jun Averago. and subs uth day of N.P. hed i my L A. D, 1880, prescuce this L, Notary Public. Seal Etate of Nebras ‘a, N County of Dougins, ( George I3, Tzachuck, being duly sworn, de. an( suys that 1o |y seerotary of the Bee hiing compniy, that the actial average tionof THE DALy Bee for month of 1888, 15 oples; for o ruary, 164 Spies: for March, 188X, 10,059 or /\]wlll 1854, 1K, 744 copres; for May, 1858, une, Ik, 14,243 conles: for July, August, 1535, 5,183 coples ; For Septemb, i coplas; for October, JER8, was 1R084 copies: for vember, 188, I8,0% coptes: for December, 1885, 18,223 copies, Bworn to before me and subscribea in my Dresence thisSrd day of January 1550, N. P. FEIL Notary Public. WitLE the poor taxpayer is crying 1o heaven for cconomy, the various branches of the city’s government are usking for larger appropriations. I1 is rumored that “Jack the Ripper” 18 now operating in Jamaica. At least some fiend is there attempting to ro- form society by slashing its scum with a sharp kuife. the IR, 18,05 coples: Ty promptness with which the South Omaha stock yards have taken in hand the com- plaints coming from shippers and patrons, is to be commended. T managers of the YEsTERDAY in Philadeiphia a man was sentenced to twenty-nine years’ fmprisonment for assault upon a little girl. There have been times recently when simiiar sentences were needed in Nebraska, A WOMAN attired in man’s clothing, but accompanicd by her husband, was yesterday fined in the police court. 1t would be interesting to know by what ptatute the raiment of either sex is pre- ibed in this free count JUDGE BREWER'S decision in an im- portant case is given this morning in the news columns. Judge Brewer holds that action against a railroad for defy- jug the law 1s criminal, not civil. Monopolists do find any occasional thorn among their roses. JUDGE Apvoc NERAL SWATM gave promise of dying so hard, that the process has been indefinitely postponed. Pension Commissioner Black was pre- paring to step into Swaim’s shoes, but he may now prepare to step in some other direction. A COMPROMISE is said to have been effected between the advocates of the Gifford Sioux bill and the Indian de- fenso assoeiation to effect the opening of the Sioux reservation. What the ““honest Injun” will say to the deal if it be carried into cffect is still to be de- termined. YESTERDAY the senfle by a strict party vote passed the tariff bill with which it has been struggling. An analysis of the measure, as well as its ultimate fate will have to be taken into consideration before it cun be deter- mined what the present congress really wants to do about tariff reform, I¢ 171 is not the business of the street commissioner to sce that the iron- aprons at the street corners arve free from ice, whose business is it? ‘'he city will have abig damage suit on its Thands some of these days for injurios recoived asa result of the numerous falls sustained by pedestrians on these treacherous aprous. NEW YORK judges continue to sen- tence men to death hy hanging, not- withstanding that method of punish- ment has been legally abolished. Protty soon some murderer will raise a question s to the constitutionalty of being sentenced a second time. Yet unless so sentenced he will be likely to die of old age. ————— W COINCIDE for once with Mr. Mor- vison, that it is not advisable to com- plicate the school bond proposition with the city hall and other propositions sub- mitted at the eloction on February 5th, Unless double polling lists were kept by the judges and clerks the validity of the school bonds might finally be called in question. There have been several docisions on that point recently which show that duplex elections are not sufo where any issue of bonds is authori —— GOVERNOR SWINEFORD, of Alaska, still reiterates before congress that the charges made by him of the cruel and unjust treatment of the natives by the Alaska Commercial company and its agonts, are literally true. The recent investigation committee appointed by congross is likuly to arrive at adifferent conclusion) judging from the testimony of the witnesses appearing before it. But this is to be expected in view of the fact that the majority of the witnesses have been recipients of the Alaska company’s favors. For that reason Governor Swineford’s plga should have more welght in determining whatever action congress may take upon the subject. - PROHIBIT AND PUNISH USURY The present logislature should enact astringent law prohibiting and punish- ing usury. The importance of this mat- ter to our people cannot easily be ov estimfuted. They are annually being plundered to the extent of tens of thou- sands of dollars by soulless and merci- less mortgage sharks who take every adyantage of those whose necessities compel them to become borrowors. The usurer is without sympathy or sense of justice. He goes about his business with the most cold-blooded calculation and the most merciless purpose. His heart is stecled against every kindly or gencrous impulse, his ears are deaf to appeal. He lives only to feed his insatiable greed, and no influence but that of the law can check or restrain him. The whole country swarms with o cormorants. We do not know that Nebraska is worse off than many other states, but that is not a renson why wo should tolerate the usurer and him free scope to plunder the u fortunate and fatten upon the necossi- ties of the farmers and others whom ad- verse circumstances from time to time compel to become horrowers. The stato has no higher duty than to protect the people from the heartloss groed of usurious money lenders, Thoese people have been under the ban of the lnw in all and 1 all countries where there was sufficient enlighten- ment to undorstand the unrighteous and unjust character of th exactions, and there is no reason why they should be given toleration now. In some of the states there are strong anti-usar laws, and so far as we know their eff: has never been found other than vantageous. But in any event Ne- braska should try the periment of a stringent law prohibiting and punish- ing usary. A bill for this purpose has been introduced in the legislature, and that or some 1 mensure should be pussed. Doubtless any attempt at legis- lation of this kind will encounter the covert and active opposition of the class of money lenders whom it would affect, but if the farmers in the legisla- ture, who represent the element of our people which suffers most from usury, and who know of the wrong and ruin that result from the extortion of the usurors, will be vigilant and earnest slation ean bo secured. give agos THE BILL SIGNED. Yesterday the president signed the bill providing a government building for Omaha. It had bheen supposed by some t Mr. Cleveland would either neglect or refuse to do this. But he could not have disapproved the measure without showing a prejudiee against this state and city, as other bills of a similar nature had already received his signature. Nevertheless Omaha will appreciate this graciou act of Mr. Cleveland’s. There had boen so much talk and so much delay that the general patience was becoming exhausted. A very liberal slice of the appropria- tion is for the purchase of the site. If the selection shall not be hampered by any sharkish efforts to unload real es- tate, the sum isample for the purchase of eligible ground and plenty of it. Hap- pily the selection is beyond the reach of ordir schemers. It will be made by impartial representatiyes of the gov- ernment and the choice must be tioned by officials who have no possible local interests. Asa matten of cou the ‘‘best site in Omaha” will be as abundant as blackberries. Nebraska’s forces at Washington merit congratulations for the action they have taken in relation to this measurc from the first. Senators Manderson and Paddock and Congressman McShane worked in unison to secure the appro- priation. There was no partisan flavor in the efforts of any of them. In the boginning they worked against many difficulties, and as they progressed battled with opposition from more than one source. They made a sturdy fight, and won. sane- NEBRASKA AT PARIS. The determination of the Omaha bourd of trade to refer the proposition of crecting a triumphal arch in Ne- braska grain at the Paris exposition to e board of agriculture was per- s the proper course to follow. The erprise is to be the work of the state brasku and not of any one locality. For that reason it might excite the joalousy of some cities and districts if any one city should undertake the pro- ject. Thore can therofore be no objec- tions raised to placing the whole matter in the hands of the state board of ugvi- culture which made so groat a success of the Nobraska exhibit at New Orleans. If the stato board looks favorable upon the proposition no time should be lost in bringing the schemie immediately before the hoards of trade, the agricultural socicties and other bodies interested in the movement through the state who will co-operate with the state board of agriculture in raising the necessary funds, As the exposition opens in May, immediate action is necessary. ‘The board should malko in- quiries as to the estimatoed cost of erect- ing the structure and the expeuses con- nected with its proper maintenance. The permission of the exposition authorities av Paris should be obtained for the novel exhibit of Nebraska's products, and steps should be taken to raise the necessary funds, The enter- prise,.if curvied out properly, will un- doubtedly excite curiosity, as well as comment favorable to our state. Every newspaper in America and in Europoe will speak of the novel exhibit made by Nobraska. The millions oi visitors at- tracted to the exposition will give more than a passing glance to the arc de triomphe built of corn. And as an ad- vertisement to Nebraka the enterprise will be of incalculable value and cannot fail to benefit our state in more ways than one. ——————— NCE ON THE INDIAN QRES- LION. The interesting fact was developed at the last meeting in Washington of the board of Indian commissioners that the eastern philanthropists and sentiment- alists have imbibed some advanced views regarding the policy to be pur- sued in order to improve the condition of the Indians, Hitherto the attitude of these people, in demanding that the government should go to the farthest ADvVA extreme of paternalism in dealing with the Indians, has proven the greatest obstacle in the way of the settlement of the vexed question. Fow a great many years toeir theories have been kept in practice, but the results are far short of what they promised. Certain Indians have in- deed made progress, but much the largor number still remain without im- provement-—an idle, immoral,ignorant, unambitious, and altogether worthless mass of humanity, surrounded by the grandest and most aspiring civilization in the world. The unquestionable failure of the policy of the past to achieve all that was expected of it, and the obvious fact that national progress demands a change, appear to have had an effect the castern philanthropists. They ‘oming to see their mistake, and the addresses delivered at the last meeting of the board show a notable ad- vance in the sentiments of these people in the direction of more practical and sgtalwart mothods for civilizing the Tn- dian. They virtually confess the hope- lessness of waiting for the red man to develop a self-respoct that would lead him to push forward in the race of eivil ization, and have accentod the conclu- sion which experience compels, that whatever is done to improve the con- dition of the Indians and subject them to the laws and s of civilization must be done without waiting for their consent. Huving veached this change of attitude, it is understood that any fair and just litigation which congress m adopt for the In- dians will have the approval of these eastern influences. They are prepared to concede that this great government, with the intorests of sixty million p2o- ple to care for, may properly determine what policy it shall pursue with respect to a few thousand Indians, Bverybody desires that the Indian shall be tyeated justly. The belief that has prevailod in the east that the peo- ple of the west would justify the harsh- est and most unfair policy toward the Indians has been wholly unwarranted. But they have learned from abundant experience what was necessary to be done w order to improve and elevate the Indian, and thercfore could not sympathize with the theories of the eustorn sentimentalists. They know the Indian nature and disposition as these are exhibited in daily life, rather than as they are portrayed in romance, and they fall far short of being admira- able. Now that the eyes of the enstern influences are opening to the facts, and opinion there is coming into undison with that of the west regarding an In- diau policy, the prospect for the ment of the perplexing question and its final removal from the field of contro- versy has very greatly improved. The fact will be heartily welcomed by the people of the west. gos ANXIOUS OFFICESEEKERS. Washington is said to be rapidly fill- ingup with officeseckers. A majority of these are of the chronic class, man) of them being men who lost positions after the present administration came in, but there is also a considerable nuni- ber of new aspirants for the patriotic privilege of serving their covntry in some public ofiice or clerkship. These people are an almost insufTerable noyance to members of congress, and particularly the old officeholders, who are the most versistent in urging their claims to consideration on the ground that they sulfered for the party in being turned out of office by an oppasition ad- ministration. [t is said of these men that the officenolding passion has taken such strong hold on them that they are unable to shake it off. Some of them have a plausible excuse in the fact that, having long held public office, they have found it very aifficult to recover a foothold in their former vocations, for it is a fact that public office unfits most men for other eullings. Having become thoroughly accustomed to the routine mothods of department work, the aver- age mau cannot thoreafter readily ad- just himself to dutios which require him to think for himsell and to arrange his practices chunging circumstances. aside self-reliar and become a mere machine, it is with no small difficulty that most men ean resume satisfactorily the relations they gave up for publie oftice. But this excuso serves only a small minority of officesc far the larger number are attr 1 toward public office by a glamour of their own creation, It is not only that they look upon it as an easy life, they rogard it ulso as giving a certain distinetion. To bo in the service of the government is asource of pride to most men, and par- ticularly those who are n the s vice, entirely out of proportion to the emoluments or the advantages, the fact being that the government is by no means generous Lo those who serve it while as already observed ofliccholding tends generally to the doteriovation rather than the improvement of the oftficeholder. It is necessarily most monotonous, and until a man acquires a liking for oas; '-«rmu r routine, no life duller or less in ing than that in a public office, But the business of the government must be done, and the men who are willing to do it should not be contemned for what to those at all familiar with officcholding ap- pears a rather pitiful ambition. The greater the number secking office the better will be the opportunity to select thoroughly capable ofiicials. There ap- pears to be no doubt that the next ad- ministration will not. have to invite applications. It may be remarked that Nebraska and Iowa appear to be well represented among the anxious officeseckers now at the national capital, and it can also be sad that no other states deserve more generous consideration from a republi- can administration. Having cast Mi. SIDNEY SMITH has furnished a certificate to Jim Creighton that the city hall foundation will not support u five-story building. This is an opinion as is an opinion. Mr. Sidney Smith has never made a critical examination of those basement walls, but simply comes to that couclusion from driving by in a carriage. We concede that Mr. Smith isan expert on tumble-down founda- tions. A fairgsample is Dr. Graddy block on St Mary's avenue, which had to be taken down after more than twenty thousand dollars had been expended in its construction. As against the opinion of this wonderful architect we have the opinions of S. S, Beeman, architect of the Pullman building in Chicago and half a dozen structures costing from half a million dollars upward; and K. . Myers, whose ability nobody dare call in question. We have also the opinions of architects and builders of Omaha who are known to be fully as competent as Mr. Smith, and more & COUNTY TREASURER BOLLN is said to have subscribed two thousand dollars to Jim Creighton’s Jefforson squars boodle fund. In other words, County Treasurer Bolln is contributing fifteen or twenty per cent of the income he will get this year out of loaning the public funds of this county for the purpose of promoting & scheme of downright re- pudiation and bare faced imposition on citizens of Omaha and nonresident property owners, who have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars for lands ond improvements near upper rnam street on the faith that tho city hiad located the city 1 and voted two hundred thousand dol in bonds for its construction. Tt is bad enough for private citizens to countenance the repudiation of publie obligations, but it comes with very bad grace for a public officer to lend himself to such work. Jio CrEGITON is willing to sacrifice all his relavions for the public Food. Ho is very bitter on John A. MeShane and actually tells h 1-law that he and every democr out of the postoflice just as soon as Grover Cleve- land retives. We are not prepared to announce definitely whether Postmas- ter Gallagher will resign and retire on the d4th of March, without waiting for the appointment of his successor. That probably will depend upon the out- come of the Jefferson square boodle campaign. ThHe hn u«l of education ostimates the fund wry for maintaining the publi ihoolsYahd repairing and fur- nishing school houses for the current year at over three hundred thousand dollars. 'The board can not t weeused of modesty in making its estimates, cts ON the first page ) Nebraska concerning Davenport, legislators should read it. Powell Clayton's Follow Atlanta Constitution. The henroost clement of Arkansas insist that Powell Clayton would make an intercst ing member of the cabinet. e A Real Service to the Country. Globe-Democrat, The congressman who sc s conntry best at the present'session is the one who malkes the most motions to adjonrn, —_— Robert Elsme Rock. Atlanta Constitution, Perhaps the papers will give us a rest in the matter of Robert Elsmere. That ne got in m Indianapolis the other day. was sent up for a plain druuk. Sol (s rlerry Returning Sanity. New York Graphic, George Francis Train is the only man in town who can afford to wear a $200 ulster over a$4.80 suit. And there are those who regard this as an indication of s ro- turning sani ng. He One Opinion Atlania Constitution. Colonel Elliot Shepard denies that Van- derbilt was alluding to him when e said he “had a son-in-law that was more linds of n d—d fool than any man living.” The denial won't stand. The internal evidence wipes it out, tor Shepard. ———m—— Need Not Be Kept in the Cold. Philadelphia Record, One territory in, all territories in, seems to be the motto of the democratic members of the house of representatives, All right. But Dakota need not be kept out, in the cold while the fatted calf of statehood is being cooked for the other Do You Toboz? Now York Herald. A toboggan slide affords tho grandest, the most exciting and the most laborious as well as hilarious sport 1n the world, You get on your ih'd start, wink three times, and then wall a mite up hill. “This is a rapid ag® as She iy Spoko. St. Louis Republic, A motion to print the g in a foreipn language was souri senate, and very projpe sourian is the official langu and it is no part of th logisla teach other languages through papers. hor's message lost in the Mis Plain Mis- of tho state, ture's duty to its state : e The ratriotic South, Philadelphta Press, south a full quota of candidates for cabinct positions and the returns are still pouring in. The south didu't tura in a sin- gle clectorial vote for General Harrison, but she is willing to male amends by taking the whole burden of his administration upon her shoulders. The Trusts on All th(w New York Herald, The public is betyveen the devil and the deep sea. No soonor does a balmy winter reliove us from tha clutehes of the tyrannous coal barons than we fall right into the jaws of a crocodile of an ice trust, Verily, the sun may come, the sun may go, but the trust goes on forevor. L rench Oritie. cwYorlk World, The criticism of Brother Jonathan's dress, his manners, his newspapers, his humor and his lovely daughters in this book will arouse sowe resentment, no doubt. But iv will all be read with interest. There is nothing which does a conceited people so much good a8 to be criticised by even a prejudiced for- eigner. Our faults need to be shown to us occasionally. While' Max O'Rell has only seen us casually and has pictured us super ficially, it must be admitted that he has told considerable truth, and has, upon the whole, rendered us a serv. Thanks. e I Public Office is a — Washington Critic. “Daniel,” remarked the president this morning as he gazed out upon the dull gray sky, which hung its leadon canopy down on the dusky distant Virginia hills and gave a sewi-tone of suduess to all the world, “Dan- el “Yas, sire,” responded Daniel quietly, “I understand you were tho first man to say ‘Public Oftice is a Public Trust.,’ " “Yes sire, replicd Daniel, apologetically; “Idid it in @ mowent of thoughtlcssness sey - eral years ago in Albany. But D'l not do it again, sire,” “No, Daniel,” said the president kindly, Our T dori't think you will. And fur- thermore, Daniel, lot me impress this upon you, before we part forever: Inthe future, when- ever you have anything to say that is loaded, don't say it. Label it, Daniel, and lay it away carefully, o that, when we are dcad and gone, it may appear in your posthumons papers, where, if it doos go off, it wont hurt anybody. In my opinion, Danicl, public office isa d “Sire (" exclaimed Daniel, throwing up his hands in horrified interruption, and the pres- ident, startled into silence, strode up and down the room, a fetterod monarch, crown- less upon a tottering throne. - T SAWS, tist has suicided. SALL A Pennsylvania de Doubtiess because of extracting teoth with out payin'.—Cincinnati Enquirer. It was a moan editor that hoaded the count of a doath from delirium trem: ted Away."' —Binghamton Republi ally plenty of undesirable life egislative branch of a city govern- when there is a deadlock.—Boston The in the ment Courier. A New England schoolboy defines a vol cano as a “burning mountain which vomits forth fire, smoke and red lavend, Bos vollor. baby in Kansas has been named “Rainbow.” In about sixteen years there will be lots of rambow chasers in her neigh borhood.—San Francisco Alta. We want building inspectors who are just a little too eunning to be “deceived by con tractors who put up ten buildings on five permits,—Philadelphia Inquirer 1t 18 reported that the Galena got stuck in the mud oft the Haytien coast. ~ kvidently everything aone by the Haytiens to ke Admiral Luce feel at home.—Rochester Post- lixpress. A religious contempe that pugilists are ‘‘aimost who are without any religious inst ets that they are all devoted musc Philadelphia Ledger. Alittle girl who wouldn't leave the white house one day last week until the president Ikissed her eame from Boston. It is evidently a rare event in the life of a Boston girl to be kissed by a man.—Norristown Herald. Hercaftor no man can throw a tub to a wh without paying tribute to the ne organized wb trast. The people may, indeed, consider themselves lucky that the washer on don't get up a trust on soapsuds and lean shirts.—Philadelphia Record - Looks at It Favorably. Osainy, Jan, 2. ~To the Bditor of la od to sce that this coun ol the but I espec vor the exclusive cora pal- ace that hus heen suggested for Nebraska, I think this would do more to advertise our all the attention of Europe to Ne wska, than auytiting else we could do at the exposition. ~The legislature ought to graut suficient money to pay all exponses. 1 trust this matter will be advocated, and the wisdom of the ihing seon by the citizens of Nebraska. | would be giad to subscribe, as aras [Lam able, to the adva ient and completion of the paluce. re all in- debted to you for advocating, as you have, the project. J. L Mives, - Jse Angostura Bitters to s the appetite and keep the di sansin order. Dr. J. G. | Sons, sole mannfacturers. is us y which points out exclusively men t," for- 1en. Tue v is tion, imulate sstive o Siegert & A SERIOUS QU 10N, Legality of the Equalization Boards' Work Doubted. ““What is your opinion rogarding the point out in Tux Bree with ref- o the poard of equalization!” asked this morning as Hon. W. a Bk reporter, queried the con The J. Connell joined I “What point is that?" man, s to the right of the city council to dele- gate the powers of the board of equalization 10 a committee of three?" “Well," responded tho ex-city attorney, “like doctors, Inwyers sometimes disagree. City Attorney Webster, [ sce, is quoted as saying the action is perfectly legal. 1 don’t agi vith him. 1 doubt the right of the council toso delesate its powers, and, as a consequence, question the legality of the > proce ] ow did you get along with the city clerk Low: asked the reporter. was harmonious during the ponded the councilman. Tur Bee itative at the of B the discovered that Councilman Burnham was the only member of the com- mittee presont. C. W, Hamilton and J. J. Brown, two of Omaba's heaviest property owners, were in consultation with him. “Que ling, isn't1t¢" remarked an- other rty owner. I recel notice to appear before the board at a cer- tain hour. 1 came and found nobody but Mr. Hahn, the clerk, present. I can't sce why 1 should transuct any business with Mr, Hahn when the charter distinctly states that the city council shail hold sessions as a board of equalization.” ince you called my attention to the state- ment that the city clerk had informed a tax- payer that the toard of equalization was in session and he could not sec them, T ve heard other complaints of the same character," 1 a city oficial occupying ofi- ces in the county building. “What an ab- surdity. The board of equalization has no more right to hold a seerct session than have the county commissioners,’ The «d board of equalization is holding sossions daily. Sometimes one’of the com mittee is prosont, sometimes two. Council- man Bailey is ill, and has not attended a ses- sion for somo tin A BIG ADVANOE IN RATI Rates Will Take an Enor- mous Jump Upwards in the West, Another big advance in froight rates w take effect on the following lines Iebruary Union Pacifie, Burlington, Atchison, Topol & Santa e, Denver & Rio Grand, Denver, Texns & Fort Worth, Kansns City, St. Josoph & Council BlufTs, Missouri Pacific, St. Joseph & Grand Island, and Utah Contral. The new rutes will take tho place of the old rate, west to the const, from the following points: Conneil Bluffs, Omaha, Pacific Junction, Plattsmouth, Nebraska City, Rulo, Boswell, St. Josoph, Atchison, Leavenworth, Kansas City and ail points in IKansas and Nobraslkn cast of the 103d meridian; Ogden and Spanish Fork, Utah, arc intermediate points between the Missouri river and the Pacific coast. Commodities will by as follows ou the sealeof 100 pounds: First- cluss from 22,05 o 82,501 sccond, from $1.50 10 £2.15; third, from 8155 to & fourth from 130 to $L.45; Aifth, 115 to &1.25; cluss A, from §1.0: i o chinge will be made in fre 5513, C, D and K, the rato ranging onts ns bofore, The ol lmlm ome time ago ) the North- and Manito cutting rites to Helena. Now the matter has been ad justed, and the Northern Pacific and Mani- toba ha reed to institute a new tarifl to correspond with the one to take o hoere Feb. 1. It is an advance of about 46 per cent on general freignt, looked the Wi Iwu Kreight from Young Married Folks' Club, On Thursday evening of this weok the se- lect party to be given by the Young Married Folks' Social club will take place at Good rich hall, on Suunders street. This being an “extra” aside from the regular series of parties given by this club, the uninitiated friends of the members will be given an op- portunity to enjoy themsclves. Excellent music will be furnished and alljpreparations DEATH ON THE ROAD, Accident at the Twentioth Street Crossing. A wreck occurred at the intersection of Twentieth street, on the Union Pacific, about 7 o'clock yesterda death of John Connors, the shaking-up of passengers, und the wracking of one coach, an engine and seven freight cars. The train Known as the “‘work train,” which conveys the employes of the stockyards and packing A Serions | houses to South Omaha each morning, started out on its usual trip in charge of Conductor Wright and Engineer Stevenson, At the crossing of Twontieth stroet the train stopped totako passengers, Shortly after it loft the Union Pacific dopot, freight train No. 25, drawn by two engines and bound for Columbus, pulled out. It was in charge of Conductor George Bull, while Enzineers John Shea and Doolittle guided the cngines | She was - the engineer assig | to the train and Doolittle was in the I lielping him over the grade at Summit, the time of the aceident an intense fug vailed and it was impossible for the ‘ondition of the track t distance ahead. But to make u more complic the dummy train ap proached from an opposite direction, passing the froight train_ within & short ' distance from the scene of the wreck, The steam from the dummy engine curled over the main track in h s, making it im wssible to discern un object, it is stated, ton t 1 advance of the moving train. As the steam cleared away Engineer Doolittlo was confronted with the roar end of the work train - but a few yards in advance of him. He sounded an alarm and en avored 1o cheek the train, but without suc s and his engine crashed with great foree to the L which was crowded with passengers. The latter were badiy shaken up, but cseaped without any serious inj he forward conch of the work train was forced upon the tender of the engine, he fatality John of the f , took up ngineer Shea resulted froma source least Connors was head brakes zht train, an as 18 the rters in tho cab along He was standing in tho anig-way of the onging, belwvoen Whio Jocomotive proper and the tendor, and._ shon the two objects came together he was caught bot vof tho tender and that of the eab, and « od 80 badly that he dicd within twenty minutes, man about thirty-nine y v widow and five ehildren in London, Canada, He eame. hera last An gust and’ was given odd jobs braking in view of his financial condition, and was on a al trip at the time of his death Droxel notitied and tool clarge of the They will be for warded o € e interment. Connors’ family is be in destitute cireum stances. Aninquest over the u ek to remains of Connors sterday afternoon dict to the effect that his death was caused by the irregularitics of running trains, overal raiiroad the jury and firemen sses, and tho wed that there was zeace on the part of ecment in dispatching its trains. important witness was John , engineer of the locomotive of the freight whicn collided with the **butche train. Sheely deseribed the eircumstanc of Conuor's death. He heard a_moan from tho man, and upon looking around discovered what had happened. He immediately reversed the engine and backed up in such a manner that the body fell to the roadbed. The wit- ness stated that it was custor for brake the “cab” while going up_the in_cold weather, According v the “butchers' ™ train for South On ard und no special time card was made out for it. ‘The train upon which the witness is engineer was twenty minutes lat He made the assertion that whenever he went out. on the track to make a run he was supposed to watch out for othe his freizht had when the track was not oceupiced by others.” IFor this reason his train was never off on time, and on ac count of being late and for the reason that he did not know the time that the butchers left, the collision occurred AIMED AT HIS HEAD. engineers How a Cool Head Saved Mre. Shank- er's Life. Monday evening a very exciting episode oc- curred in Barr's dry goods store, at the cor- ner of Sixwenth and Douglas streets. As s customary the employes of the institution were paid off. and among the euvelopes was one add ed to J, 1. Franklin. As it was for a jolly good time have been made. Dur. ing iuterinission supper will be served in the banquet room. As this party promises to be one of the pleasantest events of the season, & complete account will appear in the socicty columns of Sunday morning’s BEg. An Electric Institution. Mr. C. D. Covell, the manager of the newly organized Nebraska Electric light and Motor company, bas just returned from Hoston where he has completed arrangements for beginning work in Omaha. When mn run qu‘{xL)\rder, the works will give employment ut one hundred men. The business will be the manufacture of individual elec iric light plants aud storage batteries for the runuing of street motors. An exhibibi tion will be given in a week or so. handed him, he was informed b, Shanker, the manager, that his s were no longer required. Mr. Shanker then returned to his desk, and a short time afte wards was followed by Franklin, who aske for a reason for his summary dismissal. Mr. Shanker stated that they had made some changes in the different departments of the store and that it wa desired to make some in the parccl department with which Franklin was employed, and that for that reason nis services we. 0 longer required. Franklin took exception to this explanation, and_ applied offensive epi- thets to Mr. Shauker, who was seated within railed-office. The abuse became violent, d Mr. Shanker walked out into the cloak room to try to placate Franklin, when still more offensive epithets were applicd, Mr. Shanker offered no resisteuce, but Franklin moved back and drew a revolver from his vocket und swo going Lo shoot Mr, Shanker, ho nained composed, and Jooked squarc 25 with tho eff hun from raismg his olver; but it was for a wmoment only, because 1ranklin jumped a fow feet away toa pi which 8tood near by, and raising the weapon, aimed 1t at M Shauk e Shanker was unarmed,but stoadily continuc to look Franklin in the eye with the doter mination that {f the latter should fire he would grab and disurm him. His coolness unnerved FPrankling who put up s weapon and made a basty vetreat from tho cloak room to the streat, and suoceeded in eluding some of the clerks that started in pursuit, Word was sent to the contral station and acouple of ofcers were dispatehed 10 investigate the civcumstun but they found that Franklin had_disappesred. [t was known that he was in the Blufls last uight but it 18 thought he will not remain there, and in the event of his returning to Omaha _he will_be recognized immediately and made to suffer for his erime. Oppose the Inauguration Ball. The following resolutions were unani mously adopted yestosday by the Methodist ministers of this city Whereas, The dance, as a modern institu tion, is unscriptural, and anti-christian and demoralizing in its tendency ; und, Whereas, We believe the inaugural bhall given quadrennially at Washington in con nection with the inaugural ceremonics of the president of this nation is contrary to the ohristian sentiment anu civilization of this republic, and, therefore, detrimental to the moral elovation of society and the highest good of the nation; and, Whereas, This demoralizing Institution hus been flaunted bofore the people of this city in all of it tinseled drapery undoer the namo of charity : therefore, That the Inaugural ball should d by all who love good morals or tho dignity of this great republic and should be relogated to slumber with its s of the dark ages und cor rupt courts of Europe Resolved, That we sincerely demur against the effort that is being made by a few de votees at the shrine of solfishncss and vauity to bolster this demoralizing institution into respectability under th nauie of chiar- ity and a pretense of benevolenco. Father-in-Law and Son-in-Law, John Silber sued his son-in-law, Cieorge W. Spurrier in Justice Krueger's court Mon- day for 83 for a job of work and got judgment. Yesterday Spurrier got even by inducing his wife to get some quilts in her father's possession rople 1. All the trouble appears to arise over Mrs. Spurric refusing to leave her husband at the u request of her father an. as they claim Spureier claiming he was wealthy when he is not. dewelry Stolen, J. Petorson, @ jeweler on South Thirteenth y morning, resulting in the | street ncar Joues, is acoustomed to display | ing tus ornaments by placing them in & por pendicular glass case on the sidewalk in front of his establishment. Aboutt o'clock Monday night somo unknown individual smashed the glass and grabbing & auantity of Id chains and watches, to the value of $150, made of with them, This matter was at once re. | ported to the police, but 1o clue to the prop erty or the thief has yet been obtained, COUNTY JAIL STATISTICS. The Unofoial Record of thy Institu tion for Fifteen Months, “Let not Your floart be Troubled,” is the motto that hangs over tho irou door of tho and yot statistios show that up wards of 8,000 prisoners have been troubled to a groater or less extent since October 16, 1887, Doc Borghoff has kent tho records sinco that date, and the books show that 8,150 prisoners have been admitted. Of theso to the penitentiary and en to tho m school. Thirty-four dis «l by the order of physician, ved out thoir sentences, and ninety re now doing the same thing. Eleven m woere triod for murder, and ten of them were acquitted, the only one convicted being sentenced for [ife. Among the other prisoners sont to the pen, one went up for twenty years, and taree for fifteen years. Only one death has occurred during e ff teen months, and that was Tommy O'Boyle, who died from alc slism a little more than A yoar ago. Yesterduy tho county nished additional comforts for the ninety four v ers now behind the bars. Six suits of heavy clothing for outside work, six pair of rubber boots, six pair of shoes, six light duck suits, sixty denim_ suits, sixty pair of four pound bluikets and 100 bags to hold the elothing of the prisoncrs, wero in spected and aecopted by Jailer Millor, Board of Trade Committees. Yesterday morning the following list of board of trabe committaes was obtainod Arbitration—H. H. W. . Conmell, M. Hiteheock, 1% W, Gray, and R, Pitterson, Auditine D, 1. Wheeler, Max Meyer, and A, Burcan—C, Bruce, county jail, soventy-one went commissioners fur o, Nattinger, S, White. Livo stock Tohn 1. Boyd, W o, and Edivar Goodman, uttle, Bdwin Manufactu Otto Lobeck, Thowas 1%, Davis, . C. Branuor. Mombership—Max Buclia Marti Memorials—C. S M. Woolworth, A wate Moteorology ker and J. € Property W. N. Nuson. ovision—H. H . 1, Troxoll, Meyer, P. B. Tler, and *hass John By, Gibbon, and k ns, J TRose- Johu Evauns, George IS, Bar- Mills. Juclid Martin, Max Meyer and Meday, W.o W, Bdward A, Brigham and Transportation—J. A, Wakefield, Josoph Garnc au, A 1) Itector, Benjamin: Gallaghor md T, ! Rogers, .umm' Means and A. P. Hopkins. Wants to cture. C. Bennett write Tne Bee that he is confine 1’8 hospital and is in indigent circumstances. He has been par- I »d for twenty-seven years, but ¢d to support himself up to the time. He was a resident of the islands for sixteen s, und has ared a lecture dealing with lifo thero, uling a his of the Hawaiian Major Benuett wishes to deliver this lecture in Omaha before some churck or benevolent associavion, churging a small adimission fee in order to gain means of support. He claims to be alone in the woi'd, his relatives having died, some of them having been killed in the war, and makes a fervent appeal especially to the journalistic profession, IL 8. Clark, H. Kountze Major C. The Flying Wheel, Jack Prince said yesterday that Read- ing, the “Unknown,” would not enter the thrce hour six-day b > race which begins at the Colosseum on the 4th of Febru; Iteading 1s very anxious to go in and thinks he could win, but Prince and his other back- ers seem to be of the opinion that the paco will be too fast for KReading. Prince will enter himself and as_the receipts to the win ner will be about $2,000, judging from the iht-hour race, he will ride hard to win. Bad with Eczema. Hair all gone. Scalp covered with eraputions. Thought his hair would uever grow. Cured by Cuticura Remedios, Hair splendid and not a pimple on him, 1 canuot suy enough in praise of the CoTIOTRA REMEDIES, My boy, when one year of age, was 50 bad with eczema that he lost all of his hair, His scalp was covered wilh eruptions, which the doctor said was scald head, and that his hatr would n grow ngain. 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